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  1. Re:Does it have an API for NoScript yet? 5 years? on Chrome 35 Launches With New APIs and JavaScript Features · · Score: 2

    > Been waiting for that 5 years now

    The myth, It still go on... There:
    Blocking javascript execution reliably in Chromium based browsers

  2. Re:more downgrades on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    > Giorgio (the NoScript guy) knows what he is talking about on this subject, so I suspect despite your screenshot there is still a problem Screenshot is from 2012, for another blocker. HTTP Switchboard doesn't use the problematic API, which doesn't work reliably because it is asynchronous. It injects Content Security Policy header synchronously: it is rock solid in preventing JS from executing. Reputation is something to respect, but hard technical facts come first for me.

  3. Re:more downgrades on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1
  4. Re:more downgrades on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    Try HTTP Switchboard. https://github.com/gorhill/htt... Hard to beat,

  5. HTTP Switchboard: NoScript + Request Policy on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    It's not because you didn't find it that the browser is not up to standards for secure browsing.

  6. Does Chrome have a proper NoScript equivalent? on Yahoo Advertising Serves Up Malware For Thousands · · Score: 1

    HTTP Switchboard. This puts to rest all the false claims out there that Chrome doesn't have the proper API to block scripts. This thing does what NoScript, Request Policy and AdBlock do all together, plus it has nice privacy enhancing options.

  7. Re:Single Stepping... on Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload · · Score: 2

    Of course they figured the bootstrap, now they need help to figure the key to decrypt the real payload. Very simply stated: create key from environment -> if key == 'hard coded key' then decrypt payload -> run payload

  8. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    I don't mind the stock question, I use a password generator to create the answers, which I store in my local password agent.

  9. Re:J. K. Rowling on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    L. Ron Hubbard!

  10. Re:What's missing? on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 1

    Never mind, I am a confused old man I suppose.

  11. Re:What's missing? on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I checked a few days ago, and the label was "Arabian Sea". Gone now.

  12. Re:what exactly do they want done... on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whatever bad scenario you cast in your mind when you contemplate doing something about climate change, keep in mind that doing nothing will cause things to get much, much worst. History shows that humans are able to engage in large collective projects if they have the collective will for it. Also, economy thrives and economic opportunities are plentiful in times of great changes, and the reverse in times of great stagnation. I actually think economy would get a huge boost by steering our societies away from the abyss we are now headed, I see it as a win-win.

  13. It led to crash because... on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    The Black-Scholes formula leads to crash because it misses components which account for: a) looking at the formula, b) using the formula.

  14. Hmmm... on Microsoft Passed On iPhone-Like Device In 1991 · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Leak poisoning on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks is not just passing on, but also checking and cleaning material. Otherwise it would be Openleaks. Nobody doubted that the Stratfor leak was a fake.

    Huh? "Cleaning material"? "Openleaks", the guys who papershred the leaked materials they had? "Nobody doubted that the Stratfor leak was a fake"... "Nobody"? Wait, how exactly do you know it is indeed "fake"? "The trouble with Wikileaks is selection bias"... Hum yes, an organisation dedicated to transparency will usually publish materials which document wrongdoings, that's the bias.

  16. Re:Leak poisoning on Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would Wikileaks' credibility be undermined? Wikileaks' primary purpose is to publish what is leaked to them, and they did just that in this case:

    WikiLeaks believes that best way to truly determine if a story is authentic, is not just our expertise, but to provide the full source document to the broader community - and particularly the community of interest around the document ... Journalists and governments are often duped by forged documents. It is hard for most reporters to outsmart the skill of intelligence agency frauds. WikiLeaks, by bringing the collective wisdoms and experiences of thousands to politically important documents will unmask frauds like never before ... How does WikiLeaks test document authenticity?

  17. Re:Analysis on 30K WordPress Blogs Infected With the Latest Malware Scam · · Score: 4, Informative

    For what it's worth, looking at the recent 404 errors on my site, I've notice many (failed fortunately) requests related to Ajax File And Image Manager 1.0 Final Code Execution

  18. Re:cool, but...? on AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon · · Score: 2

    I suppose to be sure he is not confused with the other Matt Dillon.

  19. Re:Zappy zappy on Mild Electric Shock To Brain May Boost Spatial Memory · · Score: 1

    My stepfather learned 1) to not trust me, and 2) to stop assuming nobody touched that switch he flipped earlier before grabbing the (live) wire

  20. Whistle-blower ostracization on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the 1987 LA Times article:

    And for that, there was an additional private cost: resentment on the part of those who had been hoping to avoid, at least in part, official blame. It came from corporate executives, and from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Morton Thiokol's biggest customer. And it came from colleagues fearful that too much exposure of truth might hurt business and cost them their jobs.

    "If you wreck this company, I'm gonna put my kids on your doorstep," grumbled one. Someone finally dubbed the engineers "the five lepers."

    This is the sad reality: Whistle-blowers are often the target of ostracism from their contemporaries, while usually unanimously admired later in historical context. It's still not easy to be a whistle-blower, if anything, it's harder than ever.

  21. Re:There is no Microsoft Tax on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Wait, if they were doing it, maybe what's needed is a citation that they are no longer doing it.

  22. Re:This is a bit bollocks... on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has to do with their stated primary purpose: Increase shareholders' equity. Anything else is secondary. Hence you can't really expect a corporation to be "ethical". If for a corporation being "right, ethical and lawful" are the best options to increase shareholders' equity, then it will be forced to behave.

    However if it can get away with, say, throwing toxic waste directly in a river regardless of the danger to population and irreversible destruction to the environment, it will readily do it, because it serves the primary purpose. Where there are strong public institutions to force them to behave, their best bet is to subvert these public institutions.

    Examples are countless, but one I found particularly telling, in CBC's documentary "Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands," in which at one point a representative of a native nations who are suffering the oil sands exploitation addresses directly Statoil shareholders in Norway. They could not have been less bothered.

  23. Just usual FP propaganda on Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says · · Score: 1
    Heh. Financial Post is a cheerleader for the telecom industry. Try Michael Geist instead to have the facts when it comes to the Canadian telecom industry, intellectual property and copyright laws in Canada. Example of one of his latest tweet:

    Is 15 of 32 "among world's fastest"? RT @gregobr: Canadian Internet speeds among world’s fastest: report http://natpo.st/yARz0G

  24. Collateral Murder on Oklahoma Politician Wants To Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    The people playing that "Collateral Murder" game are not going to be happy.

  25. Nice on Indian Site Offers Reward For Googler Vandal · · Score: 1

    Whatever the merit of this "reward", I just learned about the existence of http://openstreetmap.org/#, "free geographic data", nice project!