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  1. Re:I can't understand how companies can be so stup on Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Protection money" doesn't cover protection from other criminals, it only means "nice business you got there, shame if something were to happen to it".

  2. Re:Difference between ActiveX and web APIs on Google Developers Create API For Direct USB Access Via Web Pages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Well-known use-after-free bugs in webkit hacked the 3DS and PS4.

  3. Re:So, its like x86 already is? on Variable Instruction Computing: What Is Old Is New Again (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So that wouldn't stop pure return-oriented-programming, or if anyone knew that you were doing something like that, exploits that can read the code memory.

  4. Re:This cannot happen accidentally on Socat Weak Crypto Draws Suspicions Of a Backdoor (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once in computer security class, and my miller-rabin primality test ended up calling an even number prime. I can totally see these failures happening.

  5. Doesn't matter on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    While being an active user of Ashley Madison may indicate an intent to cheat, a vanishingly small amount of men are successfully cheating with women who use the site.

    The site only sells the fantasy of cheating with their bots.

  6. Re:Missed the boat on Building a Laptop Enclosure To Last (makezine.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the core 2 duo, processor speed hasn't gotten much faster. Just the GPUs from that era are really old, so GPUs are more likely to go obsolete than CPUs at this point.

    But yeah, take a Sandy Bridge and a Skylake and you couldn't tell them apart.

  7. Re:A UNIX like system? on Hackers Get Linux Running On a PlayStation 4 (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a UNIX system, I know this!

  8. Re:I don't see nuthin' in the video on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 2

    Compare the first frame and the last frame, the white things got smaller.

  9. Re:Another explanation - waterproof on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought you just had to update to IOS 7 to become waterproof.

  10. Unavailable for comment on Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Mrs. Brisby unavailable for comment.

  11. Re:Let's Play Whack-A-Mole! on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 1

    The first advertiser to sue someone for blocking ads will open up a huge can of worms - Increased awareness of the existence of ad blocking.

  12. Doritos Dew It Right (TM) on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 1

    Please drink a verification can to continue.

  13. Before Videos, there was Vector Animations on A Farewell To Flash · · Score: 2

    I was a big fan and user of flash LONG before it did anything video related. Flash for videos? Let it die, it's awful for that purpose. Flash for anything else? I don't think it's going away any time soon.

    People have been making vector animations in Flash long before anyone thought of ruining web video by using Flash to play it, and Flash excels at that purpose better than anything else.

  14. Re:Not in a long time... on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    What? I have a CD sitting on my desk that says "Windows 95 with USB support" on it...

  15. Re:Vector animation on The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player · · Score: 1

    Then lament as good ol' slow bloated Flash Player beats the pants off your web browser in performance.

  16. Re:Image hash too simple to bypass... on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, people are idiots and often don't alter the files in any way before re-sharing them. Sometimes even the EXIF tags are intact.

  17. Re:Is a false DMCA claim an act of Perjury? on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    In a DMCA claim, the only part that is possibly under perjury is the part where you claim you are acting on behalf of the copyright holder. It doesn't matter what you make your claim against.

  18. Re:Hasn't this been done before (read P3P) on EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    That's all good and everything, until the first party sites start colluding with the third party sites to tell them what they've missed.

  19. Re:Will Drive Sites To Use VP9 on HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles · · Score: 1

    VP9 is not at all ready for prime time. It is super-slow to encode and decode, and often looks worse than VP8 at the same bitrate.

  20. Visual C++ 6.0 on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Still using Visual C++ 6.0 to this day. It just works really well at generating code without bloat.

  21. uBlock Origin on Adblock Plus Reduces University's Network Traffic By 25 Percent · · Score: 1

    Adblock Plus is old and busted, uBlock Origin is the new hotness.

  22. Use the diffs on 'Severe Bug' To Be Patched In OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    I guess you could use the diffs to find the hole.

  23. Palemoon on Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I already abandoned ship for Palemoon after they changed the search bar.

  24. Rival controversy on AMAgeddon: Reddit Mods Are Locking Up the Site's Most Popular Pages In Protest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, Slashdot quickly reporting on Reddit drama, while simultaneously suppressing the Sourceforge drama. How lovely.

  25. Re:First Post? on Surveillance Court: NSA Can Resume Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Leave Frederico Caldeira Knabben out of this.