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  1. Re:No surprise on In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes · · Score: 1
    Okay... a car stereo got stolen in your neighborhood. do you want the police busting into your home (and everyone elses) to look for it. We are not talking about a friendly knock and ask.. we are talking kick in doors and rifle through everything.

    That is what you propose here. I really try to not engage in ad hominem, but either you are a troll or an idiot.

  2. Re:Not surprised at all on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 1

    Tort is now largely circumvented by EULAs and other implicit agreements wherein potential plaintiffs give up their right to class action suits, so as an additional check on negligent or abusive corporate behavior it is failing.

  3. Not surprised at all on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 4, Insightful
    At its core, capitalism, raw and unregulated is a sociopathic economic structure. That this manifests itself this way in the automobile industry is just one facet of it.

    There are arguments that can be made that state the stakes are higher now (due to the interconnectedness of systems), and it is plain that the attack surface of just about anything is larger, but those still are symptoms, not causes.

    On the flip side of that, those with power and money have amassed more, and that interconnectedness plays to their advantage, resulting in the psuedo-regulated oligarchy we see across most industries and governments today.

    The invisible hand of the free market is a hand that will push all to wrack and ruin if allowed to be completely free.

  4. Re:Its a dumb feature on Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops · · Score: 1

    And guess what... The preloaded in flash driver for our USB 3 controller includes.....ad blaster rootkit 2.0a

  5. Re:Its a dumb feature on Yet Another Compromising Preinstalled "Glitch" In Lenovo Laptops · · Score: 1

    There were and maybe stillbare, enthusiast mobos with two BIOS chips. Fry one you could flash the other. Could also open up easy BIOS hacking or alt replacements.

  6. Onr Raging Asshole.... on UK Government Signs New Deal With Oracle · · Score: 1

    The enhanced MoU will deliver (apparent) savings across government and allow easier and more effective funneling of tax payer funds to Oracle. It lays the foundation of a more co-dependent relationship between government and Oracle.

    FTFY

  7. This belongs here... on Former Russian Troll Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda "Factory" · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Important number missing on HTV-5 On Its Way To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Here is a link that puts it at 2500. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...

  9. Re:Important number missing on HTV-5 On Its Way To the ISS · · Score: 1
  10. Important number missing on HTV-5 On Its Way To the ISS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That the amount of cargo transported is higher in less launches is irrelevant. The falcon heavy achieves a Les than 1k dollars per pound to Leo cost. I have been unable to easily find a similar number for the koutonori. Anyone here know how it stacks up? That's a more critical number.

  11. Re: ... using the name and e-mail address of other on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 1

    However legit accounts may have other identifying info. CC numbers, profile pics and text with personal info. I think for many there will be enough data points to ID if not in a court of law then in a court of spouse.

  12. Re:So what ingredient has all that cadmium? on Health Watchdog To Bring Legal Action Against Soylent Over Lead, Cadmium Levels · · Score: 2

    It seems to be a lot from the spreadsheet so I wonder how it gets in. What ingredient has all that cadmium?

    People?

  13. Re:More stupid CONservative posts on The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Replublican Party: n. A political party opposed to overbearing government regulation, except when dealing with gay marriage, abortion, free speech, or whatever is found offensive by the mystical sky being its constituents follow.

  14. Re:Details missing... on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1
    It is windows doing during windows boot. The BIOS puts a binary into RAM at a set address, Windows reads it and injects it into the boot sequence. This is normal windows behavior (however stupid or needed it is).

    Scarier to me is that instead of basic driver/ACPI junk Lenovo is apparently using it to download and install MORE executables onto the PC. This is rootkit behavior.

  15. Standard shite on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When are we collectively going to stand up and say that the real pirates are the ones who steal our culture from us piece by piece? People who then have the audacity to push out drivel like 'pixels' and call it culture?

  16. Easy on Ask Slashdot: Patch Management For Offline Customer Systems? · · Score: 1

    And if not, how do you distribute patches to air-gapped machines?

    Sneakernet + authorized tech + calendar/ticket tracking

  17. Re:contraband cellphones are persistant problem on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Many prisons are starting to use stingray type devices. If they cannot jam, they will track. Enough data points from called persons will easily track down the potential owners of a phone.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/new-tec...

    I was never a gang member, but due to my background I was the 'fix-it' guy. See if you can make a soldering gun out of pencil and an AC adapter. Then use it to desolder parts from devices to fix others...

    I was a fair hand at this trade, and because it was pretty harmless, most of the guards ignored it. I was however trusted, and often phones came to me to either fix a busted charger/charge port, or for flip phones with a hard to conceal charging base, wire in a different charging mechanism. Those were fun jobs. Far better than replacing the thermal fuse in a fan coil.

  18. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1
    With the right systems, this is fixable. Simply have a button that says send back for cleaning. Make it no extra charge (work the cost into the base rate) so the person that messed up the cab has no disincentive to press the button. If they fail to press the button the next rider can and immediately get sent another This cab should be close by if not terribly under-provisioned for the load at that time.

    The system should be able to identify riders for billing purposes and could easily blacklist or apply sanctions to those who abuse they system in some way.

  19. Re:Hmmm on Drone Drops Drugs Onto Ohio Prison Yard · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have been to prison. The payment occurs other ways. Could be mailed.. could be visiting room hand off. Could be a guard taking the money out for a cut. Very rare is extortion of someone on the outside. This ain't hollywood.

  20. Re:Tizen? Don't make me laugh on Samsung Woos Developers As It Eyes Tizen Expansion Beyond Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Actually fakefuck, I do not believe you should be logged in to everything and monitored all the time. I was only pointing out the fact that an AC will likely never see your response, so it is a futile task. I firmly believe in the power of anonymity, but yelling back at someone who is truly anonymous is about as useful as farting in the breeze.

  21. Re:Tizen? Don't make me laugh on Samsung Woos Developers As It Eyes Tizen Expansion Beyond Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Dude.. you are responding to an AC. That sounds about as useful as asking for a code review from a Samsung developer.

  22. Re:What? on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1
    Lasers are not just used for cutting you insensitive clod.

    For instance, they can be attached to sharks instead.

    I came into this thread looking for sharks. I was disappointed and decided to remedy the situation.

  23. Doing it wrong on Chrome Extension Thwarts User Profiling Based On Typing Behavior · · Score: 1
    If you have scripts running inside Tor so that something can profile how you access the DOM (keystrokes or otherwise) you are doing it wrong.

    Am I surprised that this can be done? No. But DO-NOT-ALLOW-SCRIPTS in your browser if you are truly attempting to be secure.

  24. Everyone is missing the easier fix... on 'Stagefright' Flaw: Compromise Android With Just a Text · · Score: 1

    At least for hangouts (not the built-in messaging app), Google could release an update that does not rely on stagefright.

  25. Re:Mod reversal on Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support · · Score: 3, Funny

    No.. let him be stuck in a black pride party eternity..