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  1. FUD on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In fact, contactless cards do offer one security feature traditional cards don’t: Along with the card’s 16-digit number and expiration date, the cards are set to offer up a one-time CVV code with every scan. Those codes can only be used for one transaction, and have to used in the order they’re generated. If a payment processor that detects multiple transactions with the same code or codes being used to make transactions in the wrong order, it will disable the card. So a contactless card scammer can only use each stolen number for one transaction, and if the victim of a the scam uses the card again before the thief has time to make a fraudulent payment, all transactions on the card will be blocked.

    You should be more worried about waiters and cashiers then somebody in a crowd grabbing your data.

  2. Re:Oracle matters less thank you'd think on Oracle and the Java Ecosystem · · Score: 3, Informative

    But even if this were not the case the Java 'world' has a lot of alterantives: the IBM JDK, GNU GCJ, Apache Harmony. [...] This is one beauty (for end-users/developers) with the Java ecosystem.

    Until what you wrote for for one doesn't work on the other. Java likes to say it's cross platform, but there's still lots of implementation specific hangups in the various JREs.

  3. Re:Google Health on Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands · · Score: 2

    Why was Google not able to make this successful?

    Nobody knew it existed.

  4. Re:Before April 2009 on Chinese Developer Forum Leaks 6 Million User Credentials · · Score: 4, Informative

    So you have to check in your code if an account has been created before and after 04/2009, and do different actions to check their credentials upon that? Yuuuck.

    Mediawiki is (re: was) like that. When it changes password schemes it detects which version the pw is stored in, authenticates using that (older) method and then upgrades you to the new format.

  5. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large "height" attribute viewed using the Apple Safari browser.

    No matter what Safari does, it shouldn't cause a crash in win32k.sys, so I'd go with Windows error via Safari error since there's probably other vectors that can also cause a crash in the same place.

  6. What about it? on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    So what about all the cars today that come with built-in computers, navigation, internet capabilities, and cell phones?

    Every non-aftermarket in-car display for the driver I've seen, when you start the car up spouts a warning about how you shouldn't drive and operate it at the same time. So I have no clue what you're asking.

  7. Seriously? on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 2

    This was my first thought when seeing the pictures. It looks like a giant test pattern used for cameras, given the size, likely satellite photography.

  8. Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Valve gets hacked, account details likely stolen, account information hashed and salted, Gabe still praised.
    Sony gets hacked, accounts details stolen, account information hashed and salted, Sony ran through the ringer.

    Love to see the hivemind at work.

  9. Seriously? on How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works · · Score: 4, Informative

    A fucking podcast? All the summary was a copy paste hatchet job from the linked article where I'd have to listen to the whole podcast to get any information.

    Thanks, but no thanks. How much did they pay you to post this crap?

  10. Re:You wish you were this guy on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 4, Informative

    > What does a citizen have to do to get this kind of personalized attention from the government?

    In this guy's case? Buy the SUV of your drug dealer cousin who fled the country and then visit Tijuana

  11. Useless on Four CAs Have Been Compromised Since June · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This post is useless without naming them

  12. What? on Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More · · Score: 2

    The colon is hard to type? It's two pinkies

  13. Pretty Sure on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That if this happened, after the next earthquake or hurricane demolishes a few large metropolitan areas people would be wondering why we had no warning.

  14. Re:Editor Fail on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    Yea but who is he? Some random jackoff, somebody in EPIC? the EFF?

  15. Editor Fail on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    Instead of accepting bad copy paste jobs directly from the articles you're linking to, how about doing some editing. Like, who the hell is Soghoian? That'd be something to establish in your blurb.

  16. Non-story on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The next abstract part:

    and an evaluation unit connected down-line of the camera that detects and counts the passengers of the vehicle in the image recording.

    Sounds like a company that makes toll devices, are patenting a toll device that can enforce HOV Tolls by detecting if you actually have more then one person in the vehicle . . . . imagine that.

    which informs them of a dead battery by sending a ticket in the mail.

    Nothing in that first page had *anything* to do with a battery, it had to do with their billing system and having invalid license plate data.

    This uninformed answer made me research the device.

    And come up with the completely wrong conclusion.

    Jesus christ I know /. isn't what it used to be, but seriously is this the Daily Mail now?

  17. God damn Republicans on NY Senators Want To Make Free Speech A Privilege · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those god damn Republicans continuing to erode our rights like this, first Bush and the Patriot Act and now . . . what? They're Democrats? Oh, well then, carry on.

  18. Profit on Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Buy cheap US VPS
    2) Set it up yourself so you know exactly what is being logged
    3) Profit.

  19. Re:The Alarmism misses a key detail on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 1

    I'll just point out the corresponding lack of sea level rise. I'm going to have to put this in the same category as the atlas maker that said 15 percent of Greenland's ice melted.

    15% could have melted and someplace else grew by 15%

  20. Bad phrasing on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'The real significance of this, in my view, is that this ice has reportedly been there for thousands of years. The same is true of glaciers that have recently disappeared in the Andes. These observations should dispel in one fell swoop any notion that recent global warming could be natural.'"

    How's that saying go, past performance is no guarantee of future results. The Andes used to be under water for thousands of years; the continents used to all be one big land mass. If we lived back then I'm sure we'd be hearing about Anthropogenic Tectonic Drift.

    Dont jump from "There used to be ice, now there isn't." to "We did it"

    These unique and massive geographical features that we consider to be a part of the map of Canada are disappearing and they won’t come back

    Alarmist.

    The researchers say their disappearance suggests a possible return to conditions unseen in the Arctic for thousands of years.

    So there used to be conditions where they would have melted anyways, climate changed and they appeared, now they're disappearing again and you say we'll never see them again?

  21. Any reliable coverage? on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there any reliable coverage outside of these first person blogs?

  22. Re:wrong calculation on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    s/E/F/;

  23. Re:wrong calculation on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    What about those people who cannot afford the $60 inhalers? They're just SOL because Pharma convinced the FDA to ban a trivial source of CFCs?

  24. Re:Bleh on Mozilla Lightning Calendar Nears 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you'd have to do two events. You can't have the same event trigger on two custom options.

  25. Bleh on Mozilla Lightning Calendar Nears 1.0 · · Score: 0

    Until it can do basic repeating intervals I can't recommend it.