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  1. Re:Microsoft to Google... on Microsoft Security Products Flag Google Chrome As a Virus · · Score: 1

    Real men pick up the phone and talk 33600 baud into the horn.

  2. Re:Why? on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll bite.

    1. Hardly an advantage over about:memory in FF, definitely not something I'd move over to Chrome for.
    2. This eats up a lot more memory and those processes are probably doing a lot of RPC all the time. (And besides, you shouldn't NEED to kill them in the first place.)
    3. So do FF add-ons written with the mozilla add-on SDK. Updates are done on startup and you can always opt out of a restart. So in practise, this isn't a concern.
    4. Good for you but I still prefer Firebug over Safaris/Webkits/Chromes view-source: any day.
    5. This is fixed as of 8.0a2 (possibly earlier). Tab switches are instantaneous now.
    6. I've never needed this. If you want it, install the Google Toolbar. That is, "google.com/toolbar". Wow! That was SO hard to find!
    7. I *HATE* flash (a pox on Adobe and Apple, hate them both) and FF is already bloated enough. No need for a built-in PDF reader when Evince does the job Just FineTM and quickly at that. Built-in flash would just be the first thing to rm -rf after install.
    8. FF doesn't update and doesn't need to update. There's apt for that. Chrome is updated exactly the same way.
    9. Not running MS-Windows so no need for MSI or GPO. rpm and dpkg are far superior to msi, especially with yum and apt.

    So this basically boils down to... NOTHING except Chrome is more hipster. Yup, sounds like a good reason to switch.

  3. Re:Watch the video on the page, informative on Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    That's odd, I was able to view the video in perfect webm just fine without having anything Adobe installed.

    http://www.youtube.com/html5

    Also, if you're on MS-Windows and using Oracle Java JRE, you can remove webstart and the netscape/msie plugins after install. To check, visit about:plugins or Plugincheck Make sure jnlp files are opened with notepad and jar files with an archiver (or anything except "java.exe -jar"). Any programs written in Java you've installed will still work.

  4. Re:Why? on Is ARM Ever Coming To the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Of course you can program a tablet (of any architecture) from itself, Apple isn't the only vendor in the tablet market but they are the only vendor who forbids their customers to do so. It's just that when the OS fails to boot, it's impossible to flash new firmware without tethering it to a host device.

  5. Re:Can't Be Everything To Everyone on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    You don't know what you're talking about. More people should learn Ada, especially those who already know C or PL/SQL.

    OS-like features and vice-verse

    a new language that's a better fit for "deep guts" programming

    You just lost your geek card.

  6. Re:Not really. on DigiNotar Goes Bankrupt After Hack · · Score: 1

    Example, how much does it cost you to have a decent password instead of Password1?

    Hey! How did you get my password?

  7. Can I has? on Ask Slashdot: 802.11n Bake-Off Test Plans? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I will gladly accept all cookies created in the process.

  8. Re:There's a patch on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office · · Score: 1

    Wow, the point is that it doesn't use Metro and that despite its name is not just a library. You mad?

  9. There's a patch on Ballmer Hints At 'Metro-ization' of Office · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Luckily, there is a patch and you can download it here. (It's not really a library, btw.)

  10. Web Workers on River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript · · Score: 1

    We already have Web Workers, they just can't access the DOM. Why can't they just try to improve the existing framework instead of inventing their own?

  11. Legalise drug trade on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Legal trade causes far less trouble, clearly the best way forward is to legalise the trade and use the extra tax income to police and jail those who still engage in crime.

  12. Re:Isolated networks are A Good Thing on Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks · · Score: 1

    You aggregate the required statistics on a box inside the SCADA network and use a one way ethernet cable to send the data in a defined format at regular intervals to a server which generates the reports. You then let this server rsync the files to your fileserver or whatever and there you go. It's physically impossible to hack your way across a unidirectional link. Of course, no one should come anywhere near the SCADA systems with a storage medium such as a USB flash drive. IIRC this is what allowed Stuxnet to cross the air gap.

  13. Re:Clocks/corporotes/updates/crash dumps on New BIOS Exploiting Rootkit Discovered · · Score: 1

    That's not in the BIOS Flash but on the CMOS RAM.

    NVRAM, to be exact. It'd be useless if it were volatile.

    Such an update can be done on the BIOS level. The operating system itself doesn't use the BIOS for this anyway (unless you are running DOS, of course).

    This doesn't make any sense. On many levels.

    As for saving a crash dump, you use IEEE1394 for that. On-board flash is going to be ridiculously expensive (a typical ATX motherboard can easily have 32GiB of RAM) both in terms of cost and in time. And what are you going to do when you're out of P/E cycles?

  14. UEFI, anyone? on New BIOS Exploiting Rootkit Discovered · · Score: 1

    So what about UEFI, will it make this type of threat more difficult or (much) easier? Also, it seems all my servers are safe from this even if they'd be running MS-Windows, because they use a cheap RAID card to detect the hard drives and then boots from one of them. Another mitigation is an encrypted root filesystem because hook.com won't be able to find a login program. Until they modify it to infect the encryption software, of course. Best way to defend against this would be to use TPM with a signed kernel, which is virtually non-existent today.

  15. Well... on Cisco Emerges From Restructuring 13,000 Employees Lighter · · Score: 1

    I hope they got rid of Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.

  16. Re:Bye, Bye Meego on Intel, Google Team To Optimize Android For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It's sad to see the superior OS go the way of the dodo.

  17. Re:Installer improved? on PostgreSQL 9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    apt-get install -y libreadline5-dev
    apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
    apt-get install -y zlibc
    ln -s /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake

    gunzip /usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-9.0.4.tar.gz
    tar xvf /usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-9.0.4.tar

    su postgres
    gmake check
    exit

    echo >> /etc/sysctl.conf

    # in postgresql.conf

    chmod aguo+wx /etc/init.d/postgres

    ln -s /etc/init.d/postgres /etc/rc1.d/K02postgresql
    ln -s /etc/init.d/postgres /etc/rc2.d/S98postgresql
    ...

    For god sake read the manual of your OS and use the packages!

  18. Re:SSH keys? on Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are correct. Nothing wrong with the same public key on 100+ servers.

    Though I can also relate to having a separate key pair for internal servers and another for customer servers. That way, when you use an agent and unlock a key you don't unlock every server you ever have to manage anywhere. Especially when you have a multitude (say, 5 at max) of key pairs for that purpose.

  19. Re:SSH keys? on Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach · · Score: 1

    I once had a co-worker who was as stupid to do that, so I immediately blacklisted his key on every machine on the corporate network and told him to generate a new one and keep the private part to himself. I sincerely hope any sane IT dept. will do the same in that event.

    It's almost as stupid as emailing the root password in the clear for the new dedicated server you've ordered. Mail me the host key fingerprint, I'll mail you my public key. How hard can it be?

  20. Re:Nice summary, but... on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    You are just as ignorant as the next American. The US is really doing their damnest not to get any sympathy from Islamic countries. Hell if my country just got bombed by the US, I'd be among the cheering crowd myself that day. No human being on the planet is born with hatred towards any tribe anywhere in the world, you have to really invest in it.

    Don't be so quick to judge anyone without knowing their background.

  21. Re:The terrorists won, beyond their wildest dreams on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    The utter disrespect of foreign-to-you nations sits in yourself as well, not just your previous and present presidents. But what can one honestly expect when you and your fellow Americans are living in a fascist society, fostered by a nation so bolstered with greed and corruption that it wreaks havoc on humanity all around the globe.

    Those who you belittle as "assholes" had witnessed their country being bombed by the US. Ask an Arab if they care about the 3000 deaths that day and he won't care at all, the US continuously gives them every reason not to. In the name of what, "War on Terror"? That slogan when uttered by any American media is more insulting then 10 Jesuses fucking Christ on a stick of Jew gold. "In God we trust"? Well then God and Allah are exactly the same deities.

    And it's not just bombs, the US is also directly funding just about every oppressing regime with a pumpjack in the world. Yet at the same time can hardly manage to finance their own executive branch or a decent health care system for starters.

    "Land of the free" really means "Land of the freedom to carry a gun", which is probably the most useless civil right in the history of mankind.