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  1. Re:Hopefully lots of stuff of value was lost on Facebook Malware Goes Viral · · Score: 0

    Email is free for inner city black men with Library Cards.

  2. Re:Hopefully lots of stuff of value was lost on Facebook Malware Goes Viral · · Score: 1

    Isn't it odd that sending emails is free, yet wire-transfers cost a fee? I think email communications are more processor intensive than the latter. Tally Ho Old Chaps!

  3. Aviation on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he went thru too much trouble. All he had to was tell pilots to pull down.

  4. Re:What about security? on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 1

    What would Ernest Borg9 do?

  5. Re:By extraordinary coincidence... on Lake Vostok Reached · · Score: 1

    So we're talking about compromises and holes in the ground. Do compromises happen first, then holes are made in the ground? Help me out here.

  6. Re:Adobe worship much? on German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Google Chrome is the only browser than can take care of Flash Cookies and (the many) Flash Vulnerabilities in a secure manner. Good thing flash is free. I'd never pay to install a security hole in my computer.

  7. Re:What about security? on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 0

    If it didn't work then nobody would be selling it.

  8. What about security? on Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System · · Score: 1

    I wonder about the security of the networks holding all of the images of license plates and the databases of violators. What codecs are used and what streaming data type.

    It's interesting how such an expensive system is thwarted with petroleum distillates and other natural minerals:

    http://www.phantomplate.com/

    A quick five second spray on each plate. Some people don't bother to take the plates of the vehicle and just spray. I've seen this and it did not alter the appearance of the vehicle. Some undoubtedly have thought of spraying the plates of random vehicles. Some have mailed photos of the cash to pay the fines as a reply to the photo of their vehicle being mailed with a ticket.

  9. Right on Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    " ...a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious..."

    The FBI is 100% correct. HTTPS encryption is used by every single bank.

  10. Maybe they are Syrians? on The Gang Behind the World's Largest Spam Botnet · · Score: 2

    "Syrian" hackers on a U.N. Peacekeeping Mission:

    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/syria-cyber-war-opens-new-front-in-russia/452200.html

    Syria Cyber War Opens New Front In Russia

    02 February 2012

    By Jonathan Earle

    The cyber front of Syria's year-old civil war spread to Russia this week as pro- and anti-government bots splashed criticism and expressions of gratitude across the Russian Internet, and Syrian hackers attempted to commandeer the website of a Russian embassy.

    The attacks are a response to Russia's ongoing resistance to proposed UN sanctions against Damascus and willingness to sell weapons to the Syrian government, which has been accused of killing thousands of civilians to stem a popular uprising that began in March.

    On Sunday, the Syrian National Council, the main opposition coalition, called on Syrian expatriates to stage protests at Russian embassies and consulates and "exert pressure" on Russia.

    Syrian electronic activists appear to have heeded the call, as Dozhd television said its website started receiving three to four comments per hour beginning Monday night.

    Thousands of Syria-related comments have since appeared on Russian news websites and Facebook pages. Most comments are sharply critical of Russia's defense of President Bashar Assad. "Russia sold its humanity when it sold weapons to a criminal regime" user Abu Mujahid al-Hamwi wrote on President Dmitry Medvedev's Facebook page Tuesday morning.

    A small percentage of the comments — which appeared in Arabic, Russian and English — expressed gratitude to Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, such as one from user Hamoud Youssef: "A heartfelt thank you to Russia. Thank you for the veto."

    The comments were ostensibly posted by users with Syrian-sounding names, but the high number of identical entries suggests that the effort is largely automated. Several comments appeared dozens of times from multiple users on Facebook pages belonging to Slon.ru, Afisha, and Lenta.ru.

    Meanwhile, a senior official at the Russian Embassy in New Delhi said Syrian hackers tried and failed to commandeer the embassy's website, Vesti.ru reported Monday. The official denied earlier reports that hackers had posted photographs of children allegedly killed by Syrian security forces.

    For months, Russia and its allies have resisted growing pressure from Western governments and much of the Arab world to take a harder line against the Syrian government, which opponents say is using tanks and heavy weapons to slaughter opponents. The UN estimates that more than 5,000 have died in the crackdown.

    The Syrian government says it is battling terrorist groups, and Russia has called on both sides to reject violence and come to the negotiating table. In October, Russia and China blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for sanctions against Syria within 30 days if the government did not stop attacks on protesters.

    In December, Russia agreed to sell 36 Yak-130 trainer-fighter airplanes to the Syrian government in a $550 million contract, Kommersant reported this week. Last month, a Russian-owned ship laden with munitions arrived in Syria after being temporarily detained in Cyprus.

    Analysts have speculated that Russia is eager to hold on to a longtime ally and prevent a repeat of NATO's intervention in Libya. Also at play are billions of dollars worth of arms contracts and a naval base in the Mediterranean city of Tartus, Russia's only military base outside the former Soviet Union.

  11. Re:Coffee shop? on Ask Slashdot: Choosing Anonymous Proxies? · · Score: 1

    who even really needs a cell phone to begin with?

  12. Re:"I'm a legitimate businessman." on MediaFire CEO: We Don't Depend On Piracy · · Score: 1

    "Similarly, different kinds of alarms that go off when some one says, "I'm not a slut."

    Yeah, that would be bad for business if you were her pimp. I totally understand.

  13. Re:For what on The Pirate Bay To Stop Serving Torrent Files · · Score: 1

    "If you use https ... you have full privacy"

    I wouldn't assume that. But they wouldn't want to admit they can read your https encrypted traffic in court. So yeah, it would work.

  14. Wow, such a great business model on US Report Sees Perils To America's Tech Future · · Score: 1

    1. Replace Government Research Funding With PDF's Posted Online
    2. Use cool, hip lingo like "call to arms" to be cool like Warcraft
    3. Make sure ad for CIA Intelligence Degree appears on discussion of said PDF
    4. Make people pay you (tuition) to steal their ideas in college !!!
    5. Profit* !!!
    6. Use profits to control the world's oil !!!

    *No profits are actually made in this sequence, just more national debt

  15. Oversized R/C Hobby Planes. on Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon · · Score: 1

    "These unpowered gliders slip past radar undetected..."

    There is no radar ever created that can detect these as they are gliding. I'm sure there is. Also a big baloon floating around with all this stuff dangling from it is probably going to show up on a radar system.

    "...slip past radar undetected and start sending back information"

    I'm pretty sure that can be detected.

  16. Re:Good Fun on French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches · · Score: 1

    Instead of sending them spam, why don't you tell them that there is something on their site which you don't like and that they better remove it. Let's see if it works both ways. I doubt it.

  17. Re:Yahoo = toast. on Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO · · Score: 1

    Yeah it was. Yahoo was on top before google came around. I remember the yahoo directory and their rule of "pay $199 for -possible- inclusion of your website into our directory". So you'd have to pay $199 for them to look at your site and decide for themselves if your site was high enough calibur to be afforded the grace of being listed in their directory. Boy have things certainly changed for them since then (2001). I wonder what they'd do for you these days if you paid them $199....

    Go ahead and talk about shorting yahoo's stock on their own stock message boards for their own company: http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/yhoo

  18. Not enough free wifi hotspots on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't all wifi hotspots be free? I used to go to starbucks with my laptop and my sprint 4g overdrive and give everyone free access. Paying starbucks for a few minutes of wireless use is insane, plus they have not only your personal information but your billing information as well so they have your address and everything plus your surfing history.

  19. Irrelevant at least for me on New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing · · Score: 1

    Please hack my unsecured wifi network with default router login credentials. I don't live in an apartment building full of teenagers, so I can get away with it. Using passwords is really a pain for guests. Plus, my next door neighbors secretly think I'm the man for giving them free wifi. It's kind of the Google mindset applied to running my wifi network although it is just a mere byproduct of my carefree nature towards it. I think everyone should have their own broadband plus an open wifi network, that would really help out with the mesh-networks of the future.

  20. Re:Yeah, right. on Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers · · Score: 1

    I'm going to operate my own fleet of drones and shoot at whales with them.

  21. Re:Probably not a trademark violation on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 0

    You're not legally allowed to make advertisements for counterfeit products even if it's not your counterfeit product.

    Unless you're a communist.

    Vist warez-bb.org today !!!

    There's my advertisment for counterfeit products.
    Guess I broke some silly american law.
    Thanks SOPA creators for pointing be to that site. I always wanted free YouTube comment bot software. What a Christmas gift from the U.S. guhmit.

  22. Re:How can they tell? on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 5, Funny

    We just got back from a week in LA; you'd be surprised how many of those bags even in Beverly Hills aren't real...

    The fun-bags aren't real there either.

  23. Re:No, not really on The Looming Library Lending Battle · · Score: 1

    Limitless free library ebooks are the death of them.

    And good riddance.

    Cmon man, cut the libraries some slack. Aren't you going to miss their Windows XP internet computers with the timing software? Extra points if they use "Frozen State" and set your usage priveledges so low that you cannot even open the programs they've installed and chosen for you to use. Oh I think I'll use word 2003 and you get: "Sorry, you do not have the priveleges neccessary to access this feature."

    Seriously. Windows XP and Word 2003. Are they kidding.

    Brought to you by the Troy Public Library in Troy, NY. (Don't waste your time there)

    Yes, good riddance, indeed. Unless you happen to get a kick out of how almost every inner city black man on library computers ends up watching some video with a overweight black womans behind shaking too-close in the camera on some unheard of youtube clone site.

    Libraries are the new club-med for homeless people.

  24. Re:No, not really on The Looming Library Lending Battle · · Score: 2

    It's where you end up once you start down that route.

    If I could get a 'living income' for just sitting around the house doing nothing, why would I do anything else? Who's going to do the work to generate that 'living income'?

    Ben Bernanke.

  25. Re:Finally on U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 1

    Isn't it about time for this shit to stop? Or are you all a bunch of communist sympathizers?

    Naw, Communists don't want sympathy from americans since they have a better quality of life than we do. That just "wierds them out" a little.
    ---
    Sent from my Soviet-Era Tandy