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  1. Re:This will drive pay down on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    VB is actually alive and well as a first-class .NET language. It's not click and drag, of course, but it's a usable language with a solid API behind it.

  2. Re:This will drive pay down on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with you. My original comment was a joke about the perception that these tools are product of something other than unseen developers.

  3. Re:This will drive pay down on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Excellent point. As more tools like this appear from the aether, the value of developers will decline.

  4. More expensive? Sure. Almost impossible? No.

  5. Re: Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 1

    Something to say? Of course! Go away.

  6. Re:Good on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How's this for context: this article is about the Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, not mass surveillance, unjustified wars, or previous administrations. Hillary's server is especially relevant.

  7. Re:Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 1

    Pointless semantic games. That aside, bigotry is a natural property of mankind and will exist as long as people do. Get over it.

  8. Re: Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 1

    It's not a hate crime, idiot. That's what you're missing here.

  9. Re:Oh No! All those Yoga Routines Stolen! on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's ignore the emails about rigging the election and instead focus on how these hackers are trying to rig the election.

  10. Re:Good on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, who cares if one of the most powerful people in the world violated federal law and put national security at risk. Stop obsessing about it.

  11. Huh on RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If Trump's campaign fuels attacks, then why haven't they been owned as thoroughly as the DNC? Guccifer 2.0, whoever that might be, has leaked numerous DNCs docs at this point, and I believe more are in the pipeline. At the time of this writing, nothing comparable has happened to the RNC.

  12. Re:Too Bad They Used Linux on Ubuntu Linux Forums Hacked -- IP Address, Username, Email of 2M Accounts Compromised (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The right sentiment, but not entirely true, actually. Some SQL injection bugs are only exploitable when a specific dialect of SQL is used under the hood. Some support query stacking (MSSQL), while others don't by default. Some allow for easy creation of files on the server's filesystem (MySQL), some don't. It's not exactly the norm, but also not uncommon for the behavior of a SQL dialect to mitigate a vulnerability. Not that one should rely on such behaviors for security, but it can assist. That's not to say this is a case where a different version of SQL would have helped, of course. I haven't looked at the details.

  13. Re:Well, now we know... on Stuxnet/Cyberwar Documentary Reviewer: 'The U.S. Has Pwned Iran' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, wrong post. Regardless, GP went on to describe defense in depth, touching on many proven technologies.

  14. Re:Well, now we know... on Stuxnet/Cyberwar Documentary Reviewer: 'The U.S. Has Pwned Iran' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If that sounds like gibberish, you don't actually work in security. Seriously, ASLR is a buzz word? Fuck off before someone accidentally believes you.

  15. Re:Finally. on European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Your misuse of the word "exploit" ("vulnerability" was what you were looking for) shows how much you know about the topic. If companies output low quality code, they should be punished for putting their users at risk. It doesn't matter if they are "just trying to get stuff done".

  16. Finally. on European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This has been a long time coming. Companies should be held accountable for their negligence.

  17. If you want hands-free, that can easily be had without a bot. What value does "Alexa" add?

  18. Keyboard and mouse work just fine.

  19. Re:Bull-fucking-shit. on New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Wait a second, you're suggesting people use an unpatched and out of date browser to protect themselves? Good luck with that.

  20. How is this an Oscars for black hats? It's almost exclusively white hat stuff.

  21. Sounds like bullshit on Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He automated his entire workload and ignored development to such an extent that, over a period of 6 years, he forgot how to program? Sounds like bullshit. Things come up. People ask questions. Problems change. This is probably fake.

  22. This isn't really news, Wordpress plugins are notoriously insecure. It would be more surprising if someone found one that wasn't rife with vulnerabilities. Fortunately, 10,000 sites is a tiny user base compared to a lot of plugins.

  23. Re:Its not over priced on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The first two points are valid. That last, not so much. A vulnerability can be patched at any moment, intentionally or not. This is especially true if live 'spoits are in play.

  24. On what grounds? Are you encountering problems that you believe a woman or minority would be better equipped to solve? Further, why do people like you see it fit to drive women and minorities? By the way, you say you're "in tech." What do you do? So many questions, AC. So many questions.

  25. I'm talking about Chrome OS as a whole. It is most certainly a powergrab in the form of driving users to Google's services using cheap hardware and a locked down OS that they know will only be replaced by a small minority of users. Introducing the Android ecosystem is just more shit stirred into the same soup.