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  1. Judging by GSoC, perhaps they deserve it? on Aging Linux Kernel Community Is Looking For Younger Participants · · Score: 2

    Don't get me wrong, I'd have hard time living without The Linux Foundation's products, but when this year I wanted to work for The Linux Foundation in Google Summer of Code, I gave up after reading their proposals. I wanted to learn some kernel development stuff and couldn't find a single suggestion related to that. Instead, there were some higher-level projects like OpenPrinting, which I personally find totally uninteresting.

  2. Re:HTTP RFC - Section 9.1 Safe and Idempotent Meth on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 2

    The trick is that retrieval can be dangerous by itself if you're using the database and forgot to sanitize your SQL. Being a moron can't be solved by an RFC.

  3. How is that news? on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 2

    How is that news? Zalewski wrote a book on that years ago ("Silence on the wire")

  4. Re:Yawn. on OpenBSD 5.4 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    You actually woke up just to see the article?

  5. Re:Why is HP suing, and not the consumer? on HP Sues Seven Optical Drive Makers Over Price-Fixing · · Score: 2

    Because they ship, for example, laptops with these optical drives?

  6. Re:Bah on NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't worry about security too much, do you? As far as I know, 2.4 is not supported anymore.

  7. Re:Now, also make it understandable on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it's really that simple design. Don't you think it really takes a lot of imagination to actually visualise the inner state of the cube?

  8. Re:Now, also make it understandable on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    DIdn't mean that. Complexity is usually a sign of bad design. Actually, most of concepts in CS are pretty straightforward and if you get stuff complicated, it's more prone to bugs and thus, security problems. For example, take ECDSA and RSA. Modular exponentation is a pretty simple concept while the whole elliptic-curve thing was complicated enough for guys smarter than us to insert a backdoor into the equations. We should definitely go for simple and transparent designs.

  9. Now, also make it understandable on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next obvious step is not to use it unless you can understand it.

  10. Re:I like it. on Rapid7 Launches Crowdsourced Security Research Project · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry, link's dead, here's a copy: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/

  11. I like it. on Rapid7 Launches Crowdsourced Security Research Project · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of http://internetcensus2012.github.io/. I hope they'll publish all the data sets and I hope they won't have legal problems because of some sensitive data there, though I don't really believe it's possible. That's why the original author of IC2K12 published it anonymously.

  12. Re:And what's the algorithm complexity? on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    (I meant O(n^2) memory complexity.)

  13. And what's the algorithm complexity? on Automatic Translation Without Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    Well, that sounds quite cool, but also makes me wonder how does the algorithm tell wrong associations from the good ones. These things can easily go up to n^2 complexity.

  14. And what percentage of the overall information did they actually include in the 2% of requests?

  15. Cute fellow on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Well, that's a cute fellow. Definitely making the world a safer place.

  16. Re:Of course they're not illegal! on Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" · · Score: 1

    The trick is that if the laws are made in secret, you have no legal way to oppose. Actually, it's a joke at the very beginning. You assumed "a functioning democracy".

  17. Of course they're not illegal! on Letter to "Extended Family" Assures That NSA Will "Weather This Storm" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course they're not "engaged in illegal activity". They control the law.

  18. Very difficult. on Security Company Says NASDAQ Waited Two Weeks To Fix XSS Flaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are you laughing at, it's clearly very difficult to fix one XSS vulnerability.

  19. Re:Technophobia on He Fixed 300,000+ Machines - America's Oldest Typewriter Repairman Dies At 96 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or so it lets you think.

  20. Re:Locks? on New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption · · Score: 1

    If the NSA can get through a Backdoor, how do you know if a competitor or enemy is not getting in though the same backdoor?

    Authentication comes to my mind. If the backdoor only works if you supply some credentials, or the command is signed by some kind of asymetric key... Well, I guess that could work as some sort of "protection".

  21. Re:And the survival-selection hypothesis would be. on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it was just easier for the nature to do it that way, instead of introducing the concept of identity integrated into the body? Also, notice that our bodies keep changing during the life. We get mature, then grow older, some of us get multilated or something. It could just be the simplest way to implement the tolerance for the changes. I see nothing spiritual there.

  22. Nooooooo!!!!!! on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 4, Funny
  23. Re:Oh really on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1

    Do you have any sources on these revelations?

  24. Would that improve hashing speeds in, say, Bitcoin on Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps · · Score: 1

    Would that improve hashing speeds in, say, Bitcoin?

  25. Re:Seriously? on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...oh wait, he won't be able to.