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  1. Re:Scan the security cameras... on Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives · · Score: 2

    I don't think that it was embedded there (or we'd have a different story we'd be commenting on...)- it was just infecting the tech's USB thumb drive. Something that Windows actually excels at.

  2. Re:Don't DEAL with problems, SOLVE them... on Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives · · Score: 1

    MAC filtering keeps the absolutely low pikers out. When I can sniff your MACs OTA and can spoof them trivially it means nothing. WiFi isn't a good answer for anything involved with SCADA- it's a disaster waiting to happen.

  3. Re:Tizen? on Samsung Won't Release Windows RT Tablet In US · · Score: 1

    Depends on what they're actually doing with Tizen. Tizen's the backup/low-end plan from what I understand. And it's aiming for a slightly different market segment. Anyone that thinks that Android's going to be great for everything is making the same mistakes Microsoft's currently making with Metro right now.

  4. Re:Ass Backwards on Samsung Won't Release Windows RT Tablet In US · · Score: 1

    It's actually worse than that.

    Why should I even bother with either Win8 or WinRT if the apps are not compatible with the old stuff? If I'm going to be buying new stuff, why not go with an established product that actually does most of this stuff better? Because it's got the "Windows" name on it or that Microsoft made it? Really?

    The low numbers are due to the fact that Metro's a bad idea for anything other than a touch device and there's nothing that gives a real advantage to it over Android 3/4 or iOS 3/4. Seriously.

  5. Re:interesting... on Samsung Won't Release Windows RT Tablet In US · · Score: 1

    Oh, the confusion's due to a tool allright...

  6. Re:interesting... on Samsung Won't Release Windows RT Tablet In US · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean the licenses move over or that you can run X86 apps on ARM or vice-versa. Just because they use the same source base means little- just like you're not going to get native ARM libraries for Android to run right at the moment on AndroidX86. Same source base. If you're talking Dalvik code and only Dalvik code, you can even run the app on AndroidX86, but it's not going to run a wide range of applications because they rely on NDK generated libraries.

  7. Doesn't have to tie to apocalypse myths of any religion.

    The First Amendment is explicit.

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    Prohibitions to the free exercise thereof include the following:

    Wisconsin v. Yoder
    Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District
    Rosenberger v. University of Virginia

    There's quite a bit more. Quite simply anything that impinges upon the free practice of religion (actual religion, not cults...) is barred to the Government in whole and the Supreme Court has consistently held this position- it's actually a bit of a non-starter if you have something along these lines going on. Might as well let it go, type thing. Thjs would be a solid example thereof.

  8. Re:Read the PDF on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: 1

    If you're agreeing, you're being a tool. The tags don't magically fail to work off campus. If I figure out what brand/model of reader or what protocol the tags use, I can read them OFF campus. If I'm not caring about FCC regs, I can greatly extend the range of the reader.

    They're pathetically stupid, lying, or worse, both.

    To think that it's an empty inflamatory remark without basis is being ignorant.

  9. To whit, the tags can be used outside of the school to locate the children. So...they lied. Seriously. If it can read attendance the way you're describing, it can be used elsewhere. RFID doesn't magically turn itself completely off and not work outside of their schools.

  10. Re:This is a rare breed of human. on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 2

    Known to not cause any problems? Seriously?

    http://ccr.ucdavis.edu/biot/new/StarLinkCorn_new.html

    There's more. Quite simply, your statements are quite inaccurate. This is not to say we shouldn't be contemplating doing this sort of stuff- but there is no wisdom applied to what's being done, along with people with your mistaken attitude about there being no problems whatsoever.

  11. Re:So... Question, on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    If they had done an involuntary commit of Adam because he was clearly not safe to be on the streets, instead of changing the laws up so he couldn't be- that might've prevented the shooting as well. Keep in mind...McVey didn't use firearms. If the Columbine massacre boys had been better bomb makers, they'd have done that instead.

    If you're inclined to do these sorts of things, it matters LITTLE what you have at your disposal, you'll come up with something to do the deed...

  12. Re:So... Question, on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Actually, in the case of Newtown, the guns were legally acquired by Lanza's mother, but illegally obtained by Adam as he took them without her permission (well, kind of hard when he MURDERED her for them to begin with...).

    In the case of Columbine, they were also illegally obtained by the boys in that shooting (Pistol ownership is prohibited to those under 21...shotgun ownership is prohibited to those under the age of 18...)

    Sorry, you're quite wrong on that score- they were, under the context of the usage, illegally obtained...about like most other criminals.

  13. Re:Flatter form factor, please on Mobile Raspberry Pi Computer: Build Your Own Pi-to-Go · · Score: 1

    Wired Ethernet causes a problem. The cheap connector's tall. A pop-up/pop-out connector that would satisfy your "slimmer" requirement would make the boards nearly half again to double the cost.

  14. Re:Batteries on Mobile Raspberry Pi Computer: Build Your Own Pi-to-Go · · Score: 1

    And the author could've done a bit more research on SDHC cards and wear levelling. While he's right that SD's are slower than a USB to SATA and an SSD, the concern about lifespan on the SSD, especially the one shown in his pictures, has no basis in reality. It's true that it's not in the spec and that early CF's and SD's didn't have wear levelling, all but the cheapest of both types fail to provide it in their designs. SanDisk hasn't shipped anything of theirs without wear levelling in YEARS.

  15. Re:Isn't the Internet . . . on Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Friend Citizen, what is your security clearance?

  16. Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And they're still missing the real problem.

    Adam was very clearly mentally ill. All this BS that they've got going about is just really trying to find something else to blame than the real truth of things.

  17. Re:scratching an itch that may not exist on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 2

    USB won't do things the same way as two hard Ethernet devices would. It'd be close for light-duty things, but at 100Mbit speeds things start faltering because the devices can only sort-of keep up because of USB overheads, etc.

    You honestly want both a handful of USB's and two hard NICs if you can get them.

  18. Re:Remove the obvious structural weaknesses on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 1

    More moving parts... More to crap out on you more often... So, it's a six of one, half dozen of another for you there.

  19. Re:You lost me at "depressed hipster" on Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm most definitely NOT a depressed hipster- and the UI he's defending with the notion he just espoused is more of a "hipster" type situation.

    It's different for merely the sake of it- and it's a usable UI for a touchscreen, not for a desktop in and of itself. I've little problems with "different" so long as it's not a productivity sink. XFCE4's closer to usable than the others so I use it and I've seen a few things where KDE wasn't bad (but had other notions not so hot...social media/networking tie-ins are NOT what I'd consider a good idea...) so I've kind of settled on Xubuntu for now. If KDE didn't have a few problematic things to it, I'd probably use it since it's handing out the "cool" that Shuttleworth's aiming for, without being stupid about it (GNOME and Ubuntu, sadly went down this road...).

  20. Re:One OS to rule them all on Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    If this were the case, why are they "innovating" with Unity, which is more suited to touchpads and touchscreens than a traditional usable Desktop UI?

  21. Re:Hoax? on Nintendo Puts a Bedtime On Wii U Content In Europe · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the store's open 24-7. This is more analogous to a Wal-Mart not being able to sell beer and wine in a municipality before and after a certain time because of local liquor laws...save that there's no laws involved with what Nintendo's doing there. So, you're not even close to analogous there.

  22. Re:Why would you want to game on Linux on Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam · · Score: 1

    It would be time to re-evaluate that statement... Trust me on that one (Do keep in mind I port titles... ;-D).

  23. Re:Spoiler: on Nearby Solar System Looks Like Home · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we're around a yellow dwarf...not a red one- just for starters.

  24. Re:What? on SEC Investigates Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Over Facebook Posting · · Score: 1

    Is it? Making it available to a PR service doesn't assure that it is making it available to the public either. If a news source doesn't pick it up from there or you're not subscribed to the service (hint...hint...) you're never going to see a press release.

    Connect the dots here, folks...this isn't hard.

  25. Re:What? on SEC Investigates Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Over Facebook Posting · · Score: 2

    You'd have to have some newsie cover the press release from the central service or be a subscriber to see the press release.

    Sorry, like someone else on the linked article...your line doesn't work very well.