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  1. Good Grief ! on Support Forums Reveal SCADA Infections · · Score: 1

    'First I got infected by "malware protection designed to protect" and "windows xp recovery" I used rkill to fix this. But now any google search gets redirected and I hear commercials even with no browser open. The TDSSKiller won't run even when is renamed. And SAS or malware bytes won't detect anything.' link

  2. Republican tech-based voter monitoring? on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    If the Democrats did this then they would be accused of violating your privacy .. link

  3. Is this the real slashdot on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 1

    A totally ludicrous computer plot The entire computer "hacking" bits were totally ludicrous in the extreme. The head of Q Branch finds the villians laptop and plugs it into the MI5 network where it promptly takes control and blows up the gas boiler amoung other things. As for Stuxnet, only a f*****g moron would use Windows to power a nuclear centrefuge or plug a USB device into it.

    "The new film, released on the 50th anniversary of the storied franchise, presents a gadget-free Bond fighting with both brains and brawn against a high-tech villain with computer prowess Bill Gates would be envious of"

    Is this the real slashdot, since when has Bill Gates ever been seriously considered a computer genius

  4. System of paying for votes is wrong on Actual Final Third Party Debate Tonight · · Score: 1

    But then the point is, the 2 party system isn't the real problem. It's our system of voting that is wrong. So by focusing on breaking out of the 2 party system, we're focusing on the wrong problem (treating the symptoms rather than the disease).

    It's the system of financing the voting system is what's wrong. Influence and Lobbying

  5. Built-in apps usage on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    "After taking into account Windows RT, Microsoft Office, built-in apps, and Windows recovery tools, nearly 13 GB of the available space is eliminated from user accessible storage"

    I have a 4GB usb device with the full system taking up 712kb storage ... Ubuntu usb-creator

  6. It's about five years on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    It's about five years, after that (s)he should be promoted into project management. There's no substitute for real-life experience.

  7. Windows safer says Microsoft partner .. on Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Microsoft products no longer feature among the Top 10 products with vulnerabilities"

    "Kaspersky Lab is a Microsoft Gold Certified Security Solutions Partner and is currently working on several joint projects with Microsoft". link

  8. Georgia outs bad Russia-based hacker on Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker · · Score: 1

    "This guy had high-class skills", Gurgenidze said

    I don't think so ...
    --

    'The accounts are encrypted with a 1024 bit cipher. Even I can't break through the fire wall', Swordfish

  9. Religion as a system of control .. on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 1

    "In the middle of the summer Moses the raven suddenly reappeared on the farm, after an absence of several years. He was quite unchanged, still did no work, and talked in the same strain as ever about Sugarcandy Mountain. He would perch on a stump, flap his black wings, and talk by the hour to anyone who would listen."

    "'Up there, comrades,' he would say solemnly, pointing to the sky with his large beak -- 'up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see .. there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest for ever from our labours!'."

    "He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges. Many of the animals believed him. Their lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and just that a better world should exist somewhere else?."

    "A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day. link

  10. Opposition To Drone Strikes on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1

    "Imran Khan is .. a vehement critic of US drone attacks on his country, vowing to order them shot down if he is Prime Minister", link

    Will he also be shutting down the al-Qaeda and Taliban secure bases that are allowed to freely operate in northern Pakistan, under the protection of the military and security services (ISI), the same people that provided accomodation to Bin Laden?

  11. Tightly integrated systems? on The Past, Present, and Future of OSS · · Score: 1

    "The issue is that it is not really economical to put together a computer from scratch, adding OS later, even if the OS if basically free".

    The OEMs get huge discounts compared to the smaller box assemblers. Microsoft also gets to 'certify' the hawdware that it'll allow Windows to run on. This is equivilent to BP certifying what cars can be built and run on the (BP?) highways.

    "For a short time, after Compaq reversed engineered the IBM BIOS and cheap components because available, it was cheap to buidl your own, but that was only because the markup on IBM and Compaq machines were very high and MS liscensing was very liberal".

    Purely as an accident of history, IBM neglected to get an exclusive license for DOS so when later on Columbia Data Products were the first to clean-room the BIOS, Microsoft were more than willing to license DOS to third party companies like Compaq. "Which is to say we are not going to see a fully open source desktop anytime soon. Consumers want a unified experience that can only come form a corporate design"

    Because MS leans on the OEMS to not put one out, they are only allowed to sell servers or hide the desktop version on their website ...

    Best Linux distro 2012

  12. Anonymous Open Source advocates ;) on The Past, Present, and Future of OSS · · Score: -1, Troll

    > What he means, you deliberately obtuse dipshit, is .. :0

  13. Re:seems a tad optimistic. on The Past, Present, and Future of OSS · · Score: 1

    "It's heavy on positive spin, but as lacking in authenticity as a corporate press release."

    Which of the following are lacking in authenticity?

    ref: 386BSD, Academia, Android operating system, Apache Project, AT&T , Bell Labs Unix, Bill Joy, Bruce Perens, BSD, Emacs , Eric S. Raymond, France, FreeBSD, FSF, GNU C Compiler, GNU Public License, Google, GPL, hardware, Internet., Jordan, kernel, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Linux kernel, Microsoft, MIT , NCSA, NetBSD, Netscape , One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Open Handset Alliance,, Open Source , Open Source Initiative (OSI) , OSI, Public Domain Software, Red Hat, Inc., Richard Stallman , Samba project., Source Code, SourceForge, Windows Azure, XFree86 ...
    --

    psychogenetic fallacy+straw man fallacy

  14. Useless "report" on Cash-Strapped States Burdened By Expensive Data Security Breaches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "As budgets are pinched by reduced tax collection, many U.S. states are facing a possibility of not being able to handle the ever-increasing number of data breaches."

    Use a computer that don't get viruses merely by, browsing the web or opening an email attachment ...

  15. NT had to be backwards compatible? on Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime · · Score: 2

    .. "The problem isn't that NT-based operating systems are inherently insecure. The problem is that .. NT had to be backwards compatible with existing applications" ..

    Why didn't they run older apps inside a virtual DOS machine like on OS 2?

  16. Windows not network-aware? on Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    "Windows (and MS-DOS before it) was not originally designed to be network-aware, much less network-safe

    Windows has been 'network-aware' since at least Windows for Workgroups 3.11

  17. Meanwhile in a parallel universe .. on Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    Wayback in 2003, Microsoft achieved dominance in the mobile consumer electronics market with TRON, the real-time OS, or they would have if they didn't perceive it (and everything else) as a threat to the Windows platform.

    Microsoft v. Tron

  18. Re: mall security cameras footage on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Myself, I would like to see the mall security cameras footage (if available) ..

    Inexplicably, the cameras were not working on the day ...

  19. Re: the Challenger Disaster? on Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Did professional engineers prevent the Challenger Disaster?"

    No, nor did they cause it, what did cause the disaster was political interference, such as the decision to manufacture the solid booster rockets in another state, necessitating them being made from segments bonded together with O-rings .. ref

  20. Linux not a drop in replacement for Windows? on EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement · · Score: 2

    "As much as we like to think that Linux is a good OS, it's not a drop in replacement for Windows"

    Web browsing, E-mail, Word Processing and Media Player, what's not good enough ?

    Windows 7 Vs Ubuntu 9.04, Sep 2009

  21. Java on Windows zero-day vulnerability .. on Researcher Develops Patch For Java Zero Day In 30 Minutes · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't this vuln run on OS X or Linux, why is Oracle discriminating against these?

  22. Scientists didn't gave false statements .. on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    'The prosecution has focused on a statement made at the press conference by accused committee member Bernardo De Bernardinis, who was then deputy technical head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency.

    "The scientific community tells me there is no danger," he said at the time, "because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favourable."' link

  23. Move to a Windows Phone .. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? · · Score: 2

    Stop using these defective and unlicensed products and immediatly move to a Windows Phone ...

    Insert Innovation Here :o

  24. AWS not so sucessfull? on NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    'AWS seems like the real key to the success here, not the use of open source software'

    Not so sucessfull, as compared to that socialist software written in someones bedroom ...

  25. Open Source and Mars Rover on NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    "Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a free, open source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy .. Railo is an open source content management system (CMS) .. GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system", link