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  1. Re:Still waiting for a real Linux virus on MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users · · Score: 1

    Since I'm not one to voluntarily open up security holes, I'll stick to an educated guess.

  2. Re:Still waiting for a real Linux virus on MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users · · Score: 1

    The concept of self-propagation is lost on you, eh?

  3. Re:Still waiting for a real Linux virus on MacControl Trojan Being Used In Targeted Attacks Against OS X Users · · Score: 1

    Considering the sheer stupidly large amount of hits I get from compromised machines trying to SSH into my server, I'd say that there are linux viruses out there.

  4. Re:But now... on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Unless the interview is recorded (by you), or you have corroborative evidence of some other form, it's going to be your word against theirs...and as everyone knows, HR is there to protect the company, not the employees.

    For a state with zero employee protections (AR), at least we have the whole one party consent going on.

  5. Not too terribly novel. on Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM · · Score: 2

    These are fairly common, actually.

    Well, at least in the first steps of the malware - load a payload into memory that disables antivirus. Then you do the filesystem changes after the antivirus can no longer stop you.

    Thus why antivirus isn't nearly as important as due diligence in using your computer. This means browsing without all of the fancy addons, generally. Or, at least, if you must have them, keep them up to date.

  6. Re:Persistence? on Java Web Attack Installs Malware In RAM · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't necessarily need to, if it's an infostealer type malware. It's already gotten what it needs to, doesn't matter if it gets rebooted - your passwords belong to the guy on the other end already.

  7. Re:Hard drives? on A Look At One of Blizzard's Retired World of Warcraft Servers · · Score: 1

    The article writer probably made assumptions.

    More likely, the hard drives had basic 'get connected, and this is what you do' kind of code - all of the actual data would have been on DB servers.

    Though, this could have been a DB node...

  8. Re:For the...! on A Look At One of Blizzard's Retired World of Warcraft Servers · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you've taken care of children for any reasonable amount of time, you don't recognize a difference in those two words.

    Well, at least I can't.

  9. All that money... on Apple to Buy Back $10bn of Its Shares and Pay Dividend · · Score: 1

    How about lowering your profit margins by 50% to only a 75% markup and enter into more markets?

  10. Re:Limits to feasibility: remember TeGenero case on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    Misled by the misnomer. Gotcha. Still, the answer isn't "mice", and it is *called* a lemur. Though, not properly so.

  11. Re:water from a toilet... on Google Cools Data Center With Bathroom Water · · Score: 2

    You missed the Idiocracy reference. For background, the idiots of the future were trying to grow plants with Brawndo (an in-universe ripoff of Gatorade/other sports drinks), because it has replaced water in people's diets, and they can't think of using water for anything but flushing a toilet.

    Plants didn't take to it much better than your pipes would.

  12. Re:Limits to feasibility: remember TeGenero case on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    The lab mouse is the closest non-primate relative on the evolutionary tree (I believe).

    Not exactly. As I understand it, the closest non-primate relative to humans is a type of lemur.

  13. Informed Consent? on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    Exactly how can you have informed consent when you're brain dead?

    Sounds like they're complaining that brain dead is brain dead.

  14. Re:What does it mean by joining the Linux Foundati on NVIDIA Is Joining the Linux Foundation · · Score: 1

    You also have Oracle

    Which has their own linux distribution.

  15. Re:This is why you drop to impulse in a solar syst on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    Something about requiring absurd amounts of exotic matter (for example, things that somehow have negative mass) - to the tune of orders of magnitudes more than there is matter in the universe.

  16. Re:Implications for the administration? on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that the intended effect (fast track approval) didn't happen.

  17. Re:Substantial improvements? on Remastered Star Trek: the Next Generation Blu-ray a Huge Leap Forward · · Score: 1

    Didn't season 1 give us Q, though?

    Encounter at fairpoint was decent.

  18. Re:Only when they don't already know? on US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption · · Score: 1

    No... a properly encrypted hard drive *without* the truecrypt bootloader is indistinguishable from a hard drive that has been wiped using a boot and nuke utility with pseudo random data.

  19. Re:Ya well on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    In my state, the 'legal distance' is something to the tune of a mile. If it was able to take down the drone with bird shot, I'm sure it was pretty close.

  20. Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage on Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see some potential issues here.

    Fedora isn't exactly known for being lightweight in the memory area. Nor are some of the programs they're demonstrating - firefox, etc.

    I don't feel like a full blown desktop OS like Fedora is a good fit for the Pi. Maybe one of the more lightweight UIs like Xfce or Lxde, but definitely not Gnome or KDE.

    I am looking, and don't see much indication from the article on exactly how stripped down Fedora is in order to work with it. If you take out most things that aren't necessary, recompile the kernel w/o unnecessary stuff (PCMCIA drivers on an ARM board without expansion options?), it could work well. Just don't expect Gnome or KDE. Think more like puppylinux or damnsmalllinux.

  21. Re:Ya well on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Regardless of how harmless bird shot is (I know, you can fire it straight up and it doesn't hurt at all)...

    The same laws apply to the shotgun no matter what is loaded in it. Firing towards a highway is probably against the law.

  22. Re:If they hadn't brought their drone on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    The 'retard' with the drone was on public property.

  23. Re:adult stem cells on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It's soylent green.

  24. Re:Using this technique on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It's still the same species, though. Not saying that you couldn't talk yourself into it using 'logic', like anything pertaining to religion.

  25. Re:Using this technique on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I doubt that the pork restriction would be lifted for artificial pork.

    It's still, biologically, pork. While a silly rule, that's how they believe, and that it is artificial won't change it.