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  1. Re:Why does Win8 get WinRT's hate? on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Metro apps need to come from a store. Desktop apps do not. Win 8 on x86 has a desktop anyone can use. WinRT does not (it has a desktop, but it's only available to Office). So WinRT is restricted to store delivered applications.

  2. Re:Why 1024? on Microsoft: As of October, 1024-Bit Certs Are the New Minimum · · Score: 1

    A bunch of hardware (think Cisco routers, load balancers, etc.) only generate CSRs with 1024bit keys.

  3. CNN Censored it. on MSFT Reaches Out To Hackers: 'Do Epic $#!+' · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not censored in the pictures of the slogan that neowin has or SCM Magazine.

    It wasn't that hard to search for either. However it was probably harder than the knee jerk reaction shown above.

  4. Re:Microsoft and Law Enforcement Agencies on Microsoft Backs Away From CISPA Support, Citing Privacy · · Score: 1

    Of course Apple and Google do the same things for their phone OSes. And then there's those god damn open source commies who want an authoritarian government - they must do, there are rather a lot of Linux based forensics tools. Microsoft is giving away technology at no cost to help law enforcement gather data from computers? So is open source. Get over your bad self.

  5. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 0

    Other OSs achieve better security by DESIGN

    Then perhaps you ought to look at the Windows Phone design. Aside from the limited ability to do stuff that each app is constrained by (and the checking of those permissions by the marketplace publishing process) applications are isolated from each other, both in terms of memory access and file system access. What it does lack is full device encryption.

    MS Whitepaper on Phone Security

  6. So ... on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    We can expect to see the same news story every day for three days? (Then a correction entitled Dupe?)

  7. Re:It's not forced on her on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    For setting it's run time parameters. I have a friend with a brain implant (from the same company). It sits on a nerve bundle and shocks it in order to stop cluster headaches. However it needs adjusting, both under his control and then it also needs proper recalibration every couple of years. He has a remote control, and the doctors can recalibrate without having to open up the back of his skull again.

    However it's not wifi (and I'd be surprised if the pacemakers were either), but it does have remote connections with, ummm, yea, seemingly no authentication whatsoever,

  8. Re:Simplicity on Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID · · Score: 0, Troll

    Client side authentication? Funny, there already was a standard for that with SAML, Microsoft's CardSpace. Now Mozilla are trying to force their own tech down? At least MS, at the time, opened CardSpace (and SAML) to a full blown standardisation process, and it was usable (with a plug-in) in both IE and Firefox.

  9. Re:It would be good to have optional GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    Or you use remote administration tools. This isn't exactly new anyway, Windows 2008 has had "Server Core" installations which haven't installed a UI layer at all. Those tend to be used for AD boxes, or Hyper-V hosts or IIS servers.

  10. Listened to reason? on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reason? Caved into public humiliation more like. Reason had nothing to do with it, bad publicity, losing customers and losing money was what caused it - and remember GoDaddy had a clause where SOPA wouldn't apply to them anyway.

  11. But is it kosher? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Serious question - if you clone pig meat, without the animal ever being grown, it won't have hooves - so is it kosher? What if you clone human meat from a volunteer? Is that cannibalism?

  12. Re:It was a smashing success. on 60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops · · Score: 1

    Actually, being a brit in the US I can answer this. English cucumbers are different, it's down to variety. The US cucumbers tend to be more knobbly and thicker skinned, and need peeling. The English cucumbers are what we'd get in the UK, sold sealed in plastic, thin skinned and go in my gin and tonics.

    Don't get me started on bacon.

  13. Re:I doubt that Microsoft would try this on No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux · · Score: 1

    Add to that it's doubtful you'd want to protect a server like this. Lets take bitlocker as an example, as that's an existing Microsoft security technology. It requires a TPM chip, and those aren't common on server boards. Plus, if you reconfigure and reboot you get a BIOS prompt, and you can't easily deal with those remotely. I really doubt this would be rolled out in data centers.

  14. Re:Parrots? on The RMS Tour Rider · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the pattern for the parrot must be open and free so others can compile their own parrots from scraps of material and discarded belly button lint.

  15. Re:Or simple copy all newly issued certificates? on GlobalSign Web Server Hacked, But Not CA · · Score: 1

    And that's meaningless. When you submit a certificate signing request to a CA you are sending the public key of the certificate you want validated. The CA performs their checks, then signs that public key and sends it back to you, where you pair it with your private key that has never left your possession and you have a full certificate.

    So copying the certificates wouldn't be a problem, heck that part of the certificate is viewable to any browser.

  16. Re:Notaries' public keys on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 1

    Someone already did - the Comodo CA hack issued a cert for addons.mozilla.org

  17. Re:Untrust Diginotar on Dutch Government Revokes Diginotar Certificates · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the automatic untrusting in Windows doesn't affect browsers with their own CRLs which ignore the OS, like, err, Chrome and Mozilla, those needed to be updated separately.

  18. Re:Good for me? on EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents · · Score: 1

    it's basically impossible to get out of debt by declaring bankruptcy, the way you can in the US.

    Not true at all. I'll use the UK as an example because that's what I know. When starting in business you simply create a Limited company And Limited means limited liability. So the company can be sued for debt, but your exposure as a director is limited to the amount initially invested (most typical), or the amount you guarantee when you take on directorship.

    Personal bankruptcy works much like the US with a credit history ding for six years, and debts written off after a year.

  19. Re:Do what the Federal Government does on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    our agency simply couldn't hire interns and pay them nothing anymore. So no we hire Externs. Change one letter and now their work is Free

    Interns -> Externs is two letters. No wonder the patent office is fucked.

  20. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is only attacking WebGL because it competes with their interest.

    Does it compete with John Carmack's interests? Doubtful, but he agrees

    I agree with Microsoft's assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security.

    .

  21. Re:the love of cloud on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 1

    My employer uses Iron Mountain and their onsite shredding servers. What happens is a truck comes out with what looks like a huge vacuum cleaner pipe and hooks it up to the bins. The paper gets sucked up and is shredded at that point on premises (each bin takes about 10 minutes to process) before making it into the general container in the truck, and then is taken back and shredded some more. So, for paper, the authorities would need to get the materials before it's collected.

  22. Re:Let me guess on White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan · · Score: 1

    It sounds familiar, it's almost based on Kim Cameron's seven laws of identity and claims based authentication.

    His list was

    • User Control and Consent - where the user can stop information flowing from the identity provider to the system asking for it.
    • Minimal Disclosure for a Constrained Use - if a system needs to know if a user is over 21 then send true or false, not a date of birth
    • Justifiable Parties
    • Directed Identity
    • Pluralism of Operators and Technologies - standardise it, and let everyone play
    • Human Integration
    • Consistent Experience Across Contexts - a client side app, no more changing login pages depending on where you are

    It's interesting reading, but CardSpace, the sole implementation of this, isn't being pushed any more.

  23. Re:Pathetic on Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe · · Score: 1

    Who says it has to be the banks own software? Have a standard way of reporting PC health, and then prompt to let it report to the bank. It could be signed so known signatures of software the bank trusts could be validated, but you couldn't fake it out with software of your own.

    This is already built into Windows, kind of. Network Access Protection won't assign IPs until the results of a health check is sent. If the health check fails machines can be switched to a segment which only allows access to the corporate update servers, so users can update the OS/AntiVirus and then resubmit.

  24. We're not in fixed width fonts any more on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    My final concern: how will my word processor know the difference between an abbr. and the end of a sentence (so it can stretch the sentence for me)?

    Given that we're not on typewriters any more, where two spaces after a sentence terminator came from, why does it matter? Proportional fonts, automatic full justification will vary the spaces between words to make the margings align.

  25. Re:WHAT app? on Android Data Stealing App Downloaded By Millions · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are multiple wallpaper apps from that developer; 75 in fact if the doubletwist search is to be believed.