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  1. Re:Requires things he said he couldn't do on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 2

    If I start an X server on display :1 it runs along the :0 instance. No need to do anything to the OS. And if that X server has ctrl-alt-F disabled, well then that's quite well locked up.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776098
    combined with
    startx -config your-kiosk-xorg.conf -- :1

    yeah, I didn't test it, don't want to lock up my office PC :-)

  2. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    if those PCs have an USB or DVD drive, simply install a complete OS on an external media, and boot the PCs on thet. Original OS not changed. And you have complete control.
    Disadvantage: you need to distribute the media or even walk to each PC to boot it (if the bios isn't locked down)

  3. Fast zapping to wade through the crap on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    I want faster zapping.
    E.g. with dual tuners.
    I usually push P+ when I want to see something else.
    So put 2 tuners in, the inactive one always tunes to the next channel.
    Or even 3 tuners, if I decide to backtrack.

    And also an intelligent zap, if there are ads on the next channel, skip it

  4. they already do in the finance market and fail on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    Today's stock market is mainly ruled by automatic trading in the milliseconds.
    So that's robots too.
    And when the market starts to move, suddenly all silly automatic trading machines fire off, at the same time, running the stock market against the wall.

    But we don't learn.
    First we kill our finance system with computers
    What's next? Public transport?
    Or maybe health care.
    Very probably the army. Hello Skynet!

  5. you can not breed the same bug again on How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming · · Score: 1

    you can breed rats, and they are rats. If you would get paid for a grey rat only once and not for every one, then you need to turn in brown, striped, checkered, white, blue, greeN, yellow rats. that would make the farming task way more complicated. Especially as there are other rat farmers out there doing the same.
    And once all colors of rats have been done, it's over. no more rats...

  6. so the rootkit stays alive on Windows 8 To Feature 'Fast Startup Mode' · · Score: 0

    best to have the rootkit reside inside the kernel so it's there forever. Clever system.

  7. Re:dvd case on MakerBot Gets $10 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    I think a non transparent one with the title picture in some crappy looking relief would be possible. The inlet you print on your newspaper replicator.
    All cases would look the same, like those lightscribe CDs also look the same.

  8. Re:Regression tests are for wimps! on Serious Crypto Bug Found In PHP 5.3.7 · · Score: 1
  9. Re:An Appropriate Facebook Screen Name... on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    upload the inciminating video to facebook and tag him :-)

  10. Atari ST emulators! on A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator · · Score: 1

    Just check the Atari ST emulators which are capable of doing overscan. This is so timing dependent that the CPU has to be emulated cycle precise.
    Most do it scanline by scanline, only one, AFAIK does the real job: SainT (windows only)

  11. typical users lack the expertise to follow laws on Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    e.g. copyright law

  12. Re:The EFF's argument makes sense. on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    I store my password in clear inside the crypted filesystem
    So if I type it in, it will be revealed anyway. Now what?

  13. Re:Unfortunately.... on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    what is whith this analogy:
    there is a safe with a physical key, but I have hidden the key in the woods. Am I required to show the investigators the hiding place?

    or this one:
    there is a safe with a combination lock, am I required to reveal the combination?

  14. NTLM is 4 times easier to crack then unix on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    And I talk about the old style 8 chars max unix hashes.
    See some stats here:
    http://openwall.info/wiki/john/benchmarks#Collected-john-test-benchmarks-for-one-CPU-core

    and cracking the newest sha512 takes how long?

  15. Arial Illiness on Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills · · Score: 1

    How can people like Arial as font?
    It's quite unreadable to see a bunch of vertical bars and have to guess what "Ill" means!
    Come on, that's not a font, that's a horror
    Or maybe a barcode?

  16. Re:Untraceable? on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    ah aaahhh....
    I think I got it.
    The system uses PKI with a twist. It keeps the public key also secret. And bingo, you have a coin!
    You can sign your coin, send it out in the wild and the only one able to verify the signature is yourself. So that makes it anonymous.
    Now comes the part where other people should trust the produced coin. No idea how that is accomplished.

  17. Re:A lesson for companies on Sony Breach Gets Worse: 24.6 Million Compromised Accounts At SOE · · Score: 1

    that's the reason it's often the hacker who gets slammed with lawsuits whereas the cracker goes on unnoticed.

  18. cross platform virus scanner for linux and mac on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 5, Funny

    #!/bin/sh
    echo "stating scan..."
    n=`find / -type f | wc -l`
    echo "scan completed of $n files"
    exit 0

  19. Re:Because.... on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    sorry for the late reply... but Star Trek is metric. At least TNG.

  20. Re:First post on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    especially as the GUI does not have a history you could search through to look up how you did it last time!

  21. I can't even login anymore! Cookie problem? on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 1

    Since some months, after logging in successfully, my session seems to get lost and I have to login again.
    So the site is quite unusable for me.
    I don't have any fancy stuff installed in firefox. adblock plus, that's all.
    Solution: well facebook does not have that problem, so I'll go and use that one...

  22. I don't even know what groupon is! on Groupon Could Challenge Google's Record IPO · · Score: 1

    How can you give so many billions if the market share is so small that I don't know about groupon.
    It's maybe only USA centric? Well google is a worldwide company. Did people know google before the IPO?

  23. How does the livestream come through on Cracks Showing in the Libyan Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Since quite some time a livestream from Benghazi is available. How is this possible if the internet was blocked?
    http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb

  24. Re:Wow, who wrote this summary? on UK Government Wants to Spring Ahead Two Hours · · Score: 1

    In 2010, thousands of terminals and credit cards malfunctioned because the Y2K bug was fixed in a hurry "we will do that properly next year" or "we will have new devices in 3 years anyway". But the cludge was only working for 10 years, and then failed miserably.
    There were more Y2010 bugs crashing important infrastructure than there were in 2000.
    If the Y2K corrections would not have been done, A LOT of stuff would have crashed.

    Note that I already seen my first Y2038 problem...

  25. ****malicious*** on The Seven Types of Hackers · · Score: 2

    It says "Your guide to the seven types of malicious hackers"
    Please note the word malicious

    There are many more types of hackers, which are not malicious at all.