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  1. Re:New Attack? 0 Day? on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft, Apple, and even our dear Linux all have had issues with previewing malcrafted images. If seeing this on a patch notes shocks you I'll assume you haven't read many patch notes. TIFF is surprising as that hasn't been a huge attack vector, but I've seen in the hundreds of notes I've read as an IT peon where formats have been an issue. More often it is PDF, EMF, WMF, but TIFF isn't out of the question
    It is a file format that is pretty low on the level of requiring correct formatting and is more or less abandoned by its owner, Adobe. I bet their is a grip of EPS exploits out there for Microsoft's viewer, but very few people would open those. Everyone know EPS is "an Adobe" and forward them on to the graphics department.

  2. Re:Hmm... Source Code... on Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code · · Score: 2

    Any decent output device will have to mean an EFI or APPE device, because pretty much everything else is balls at converting, including the bulk of rips which are old JAWS Short of it is if you don't have a $3000+ RIP upgrade you are going to get garbage if you don't normalize first.

  3. Re:Seriously. on Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code · · Score: 2

    High cost and stagnant development weren't enough?

  4. Re:We can always hope on Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now that we have no more perpetual licensing the issue of having to pay for a next release is a non-issue. They still haven't pushed out a compelling feature for my licenses to merit upgrading, however.

  5. Re:Not a Dick Move on Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions · · Score: 1

    You don't have to worry about Aperature trial being venerable in Mavericks. The trial flat out won't even launch. That's the ultimate form of security there.

  6. Re:I can argue about the price on LG Launches Its Firefox OS Phone Fireweb for $200 · · Score: 2

    $299 you mean.

  7. Re:I think they plan to compete on the premium end on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 3, Informative

    [ as modifier ] relating to or denoting a commodity or product of superior quality and therefore a higher price: premium beers.

    When you say you knew that Neo-Geo was expensive I feel as though you were being coy about what premium meant. Neo-Geo was arcade quality games in your home.

  8. Re:Its happening again! on Linux 3.12 Merge Window Closes With Release of Linux 3.12-rc1 · · Score: 1

    I particularly don't like Linus stories that don't portray him as swearing tyrant who is out of touch and preventing Linux from widespread adoption.

  9. Re:Hopefully VoLTE will make this even bigger on Mobile Virtual Networks Are Booming Again · · Score: 1

    Verizon doesn't allow 4G LTE on MVNOs so it doesn't really matter for the purpose of this discussion.

  10. Re:Self Driving on Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action · · Score: 2

    That story was a hoax and a sort of late April Fool's joke. The article was even dated a decade into the future.

  11. Re:Dear god, how many times can you post this? on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 2

    Are you saying that because we've seen this for the last two years that this is somehow not news?

  12. Re:Apple just buy out Intel on Why Bob Mansfield Was Cut From Apple's Executive Team · · Score: 1

    Some companies like BP have more far assets than their market cap. It's not always a good indication of a company's value.

  13. Re:Ads aren't the problem Re:Adblock + on Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone To Facebook: Start a Premium Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Though I don't personally use Facebook it sounds as though your content issue is that you have annoying friends. If Facebook could crack the code on that one and charge $10/month I'd sign up for it.

  14. Re:Reward the artist on Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always heard that Tom Waits was Big in Japan.

  15. Re:a few comments on The Trajectory of Television: A Big History of the Small Screen. · · Score: 1

    It was a pretty good article. I didn't get any impression content was the motivation so much as protocol. Mentioning the court business did eat up a grip of the article, but it pretty noteworthy in terms of the scope of relevance it bears to us today. The anecdotes about pappy running three VCRs felt more filler than the court business. Appreciate the retronyms for the other standards. 5/5 comment. Would read again.