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  1. Re:No anti-virus? on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Why aren't they running off of livecds? Then every time they reboot, yay fresh system.

    Unless the system that is making the CDs is infected, but then you've just got one system to clean.

  2. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    snowraver1 (1052510) writes: 6) Delete all accounts numbered 2,000,000+. Remove signup. Invite only.

    Agreed, except that we should start at 1,000,000.

    Agreed, except that we should start at 100,000.

    Agreed, except that we should start at 10,000.

    No, wait#+++ATH0

    NO CARRIER

  3. Re:So, what can you NOT do with this? on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Plus, if more phones come with wifi hotspot ability, why pay for two data plans?

  4. Re:Petition to ignorance on Australian Users Petitioning Against Windows 8 Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he'd use a linux liveCD?

  5. Re:Explain on Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet · · Score: 1

    They used it as a cluster for cross-compiling ARM linux distros.

  6. Re:Argh on SCADA Problems Too Big To Call 'Bugs,' Says DHS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For example, you cannot "infect" a PLC. Why? They don't run Java (or script), or any language recognizable by the Internet community. They don't even run executables, in the sense that PCs do. Their programming is done in a specialized, proprietary language that requires a specialized IDE to manipulate.

    PLC IDEs are pirated in the industry all the time(several on TPB right now), so don't expect that to stop anyone outside the industry from writing malicious PLC code, let alone a disgruntled employee who has legitimate access. And anyone who is willing to decompile code taken from a decapped ROM is more than able to buy a broken PLC on ebay and fix it into a testbed.

    Everyone else will just download the exploit from that guy.

  7. Re:How nice on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    Indeed, neither nitrogen, oxygen, nor helium is a greenhouse gas. Sulfur hexaflouride, which I also mentioned, is. But then you clearly didn't read past "greenhouse gas".

    If you had read a little further down the list of greenhouse gasses, you'd have seen that while SF6 only makes up about 7 ppt, its unit effect is some 20,000 times that of carbon dioxide(it is worse than most CFCs). But I rather doubt you've even read this far.

    Relatively little SF6 is released, so it isn't a big deal, I just threw that out to prevent greenies from getting on my case. Didn't expect to troll with it.

  8. Re:How nice on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    Or a tent with a nitrogen/oxygen feed that gradually turns to all nitrogen.

    If you don't mind the waste of a scarce resource or releasing a potent greenhouse gas, you may substitute helium or sulfur hexafluoride for a cheap laugh.

  9. Re:sweet? on Arduino Goes ARM · · Score: 2

    Um, this ARM chip is replacing an AVR microcontroller. No x86 here.

  10. Re:Marketing on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering that many of the apps in the Google android store are ad-supported or just free instead of paid, I'd say store sales are a lousy way to measure success of the platform.

  11. Re:Asus RT-N16 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Including WAN, but it doesn't do 5GHz on N, only 2.4GHz.

  12. Re:Lserver attack on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    What would be the trusted source here, and how would they obtain a guaranteed non-tampered OS install image, if all Internet connections are potentially MITM'ed?

    Have you ever heard of sneakernet?

  13. Re:On /. by the end of the day on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    It is more likely that Alibaba would buy Yahoo, or at least buy back the 40something% of itself that Yahoo owns.

  14. Re:I am all for it. on .XXX Domain Registrations Begins · · Score: 1

    Actually, the biggest issue is why any of them would switch all their domains to a registrar that charges 6 times as much?

    If you have a few hundred XdoesY or FooXXXparody.com addresses, that is a lot of money.

    If they really wanted porn sites to switch, they should've made it cheaper than .coms

  15. Re:well managed self-signed certs are safer on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    True, but the internet banks have some channel to deliver your account credentials to you initially. Piggybacking the cert delivery onto that method would be as secure as your account is. Which isn't necessarily very secure, but you've already trusted it, so why not the cert delivered at the same time.

  16. Re:well managed self-signed certs are safer on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    How did your ATM card reach you? Transmit the cert at the same time.

  17. Re:Letter sized... on E Ink Demos New Displays, Gadgets At IFA 2011 · · Score: 1

    True, you'd only need like 40k transistors but the connector would be ridiculous.

  18. Re:flick through on E Ink Demos New Displays, Gadgets At IFA 2011 · · Score: 1

    By the time I get to them I want to look back and reread the passage they refer to - easy in a real book, but very laborious in an e-book.

    Hrm, if only there were some way to join two pieces of text in an ebook. Some sort of instantaneous "link".

  19. Re:well managed self-signed certs are safer on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I could pick up the cert from a local branch or by taking a picture of a barcode on the screen of an ATM, probably.

  20. Re:The new Arduino on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    Except for the 16 GPIOs. No analog, but you can always buy an ADC for a few dollars.

    And considering the vast amounts of ram and storage it can have, in comparison, it could be quite fun.

  21. Re:Virtual Reality anyone? on Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display · · Score: 1

    And unless it does 800x600 or better, the gear from Vuzix is cheaper and better looking.

  22. Re:don't let your stuff be used for criminal stuff on The EFF Reflects On ICE Seizing a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 2

    Hardware is so inexpensive now a days; a participatory, community-building point of view suggests you should be running two sets of hardware. One set for your open WiFi and Tor exit node, and the other for your personal use.

    Except they won't bother to check, they'll just take everything you own. Although I suppose you could go the "True Names" route and bury your personal equipment.

  23. Re:Simple on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Indeed, while /. might not always be the freshest on every topic, most of the important stuff comes through. Hope that keeps up.

  24. The technology comes from Neurosky, on Car Makers Explore EEG Headrests · · Score: 2

    who is desperately trying to find a market for mediocre, overpriced EEG units, since the gamers didn't bite.

  25. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    The 2 year. Because, unless its owner drove it 11+ hours a day at 65 mph every day of the year, it must be completely invisible to cops.