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  1. Re:Ooo! I can solve that one! on US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age · · Score: 1

    That's getting more and more difficult by the day.

    There are other ways to get viruses onto a network.

    They are ways to get viruses onto secure networks that are, shall we say, unique.

  2. Re:A real shame on Paul Allen's Lawsuit Patents To Be Reexamined · · Score: 1

    He's doing it to affect his investments. It's about manipulating stock values, he doesn't give a crap if the patents survive a challenge.

  3. Need a foot? on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    A single monitor is survivable, but would you mind if we cut off your left foot?

    I use my laptop a lot for developing, and I don't generally use it with a second monitor, but the screen real-estate is a problem. I've used dual monitor setups before and they can be superior setups in many environments.

    Add in the fact it's downright rude to take equipment from an employees work area without consultation.

  4. Fools on Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome · · Score: 1

    You integrated Flash into the god-damn browser, that makes it a browser vulnerability.

  5. Re:But how did it become widespread in Flash? on Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x · · Score: 1

    Simply became common practice as Flash apps were developed.

    Moving Flash to mobile touch devices didn't cause developers to go back and re-write existing Flash apps. So we're stuck with the crap that doesn't work on touch devices, or idiotic solutions that add button crap to the screen to work around it.

    Had Adobe created a Mobile Flash compatibility standard and only allowed Mobile Flash to load it, but otherwise supported the whole Flash environment it could have been possible to pressure developers to migrate.

  6. Re:Flash vs. HTML as opposed to hover vs. not on Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x · · Score: 1

    Difference is most websites use hover to create a visual effect, while Flash often uses it to perform an action.

    It doesn't matter if a link doesn't highlight when I touch it, it does matter if I have to hover over it to trigger it.

  7. Does this fix all the Flash apps on Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.2 For Android 3.x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this fix all the Flash apps that don't work well with touch?

  8. Re:It's Surprising on Computer Opens Unmanned Store For Holiday · · Score: 2

    Right at opening the staff of various stores are often occupied with opening duties. Putting out new signs, fresh food in the deli, etc. I could easily see walking in, picking up a few items and going through the self-checkout without knowing the stores was otherwise empty. I mean, sure, I might clue in something is wrong when going through the checkout and seeing no cashiers, but hey the self-checkout is working so why worry about it...

  9. Compensation? on Sony Blames 'External Intrusion' For Lengthy PSN Outage · · Score: 0

    Compensation?

    Remember, if there is any level of compensation that Sony has every right to expect that if the hackers are caught the cost of this down time can be taken out of their ass.

    Don't come back here and bitch when Sony wants a few million from them.

  10. Re:Wait, what? on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Doctors privileges can be revoked for violating hospital policies. It's done routinely.

  11. Provide Root, or get stuffer on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    If it were my network you would either provide IT with root access, or it would be physically removed from the network permanently.
    If you were to do such again and firing you was not an option I would revoke your access to all network resources.

    Rogue users in a hospital environment (where privacy regulations have teeth) are not to be tolerated.

  12. Ironically on Students Claim New Paper Folding Record · · Score: 1

    Ironically they won't be this productive again once they hit industry for at least 5 years.

  13. Re:Worst Formatting Ever on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 0

    For plagiarism... as defined in the educational context, not copyright context. Leaving the blogger with nothing.

  14. Re:You can never sanitize inputs enough. on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 1

    The trick to handling specialized, user configurable sort and column selection isn't all that hard; if you can't do it any other way you use a Table to translate a string like "SERIAL NUMBER" to the fieldname "SERIAL_NUMBER". The data actually used from the table is created and maintained by the developer and is therefor trusted. The field displayed, or even entered by the user is used for selecting the appropriate field to build the query. The users input is NEVER used directly to build a query.

    This means you can build the initial query using bind variables, and use the results of the query to build whatever dynamic queries you need.

  15. You can never sanitize inputs enough. on MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection · · Score: 1

    You can never sanitize inputs enough.
    Repeat that to yourself 1,000 times. It's impossible(*).
    Parameterized queries / bind variables are the only valid solution.

    If you keep convincing yourself you don't need to use bind variables, and that you can sanitize your inputs enough you've already failed.

    * - Of course it's mathematically possible to sanitize inputs enough; because theory, and reality don't have a damn thing to do with each other. Reality says you will fuck it up and the hackers will find it in less time than it takes you to read the code.

  16. Obama's been in for 6 years? on US Justice Department Dug Up Reporter's Phone, Bank Records · · Score: 1

    really? Now that IS news.

  17. I fucking hate summaries like this on Keys Leaking Through the Air At RSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I fucking hate summaries with a half dozen links that don't seem to link to an article actually discussing the issue in the summary.

    Why approved this shit?

  18. Re:Ummm... no. on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 2

    Some modems would report the link speed as 115000bps. This was the speed the computer talked to the modem at, not the speed at which the modem talked to the other computer. Some modems would only report 115000bps if the connection had certain data compression functions enabled.

    The effective rate for transmitting data on a 56Kbps link could exceed 115Kbps when compression was used, but if the modem used a standard serial interface then 115000bps is the maximum rate it could support.

    Non-compressed data would never exceed 56Kbps on such a link.

  19. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 3, Insightful

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    Seriously way too much white space.

  20. Re:Hell of a unit test on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    The centrifuges in question are hard to acquire, difficult to maintain and impossible to rebuild from the scrap left over after a significant failure.

  21. Better Article describing the system on French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,723162,00.html

    Much better article. The sensors detect a vehicle parked immediately above it, not 900ft away.

  22. Nothing ironic about it on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 0

    Nothing ironic about it; but it's so amazingly impersonal.

    Walmart has lines like that at a location near me; it's always filled with trailer trash rednecks.

  23. Cut YouCut on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 3, Informative

    The smart move is to cut YouCut, because your Congressman should already be cutting the crap you dislike,

  24. Re:Assange gets arrested. on OpenLeaks — 'A New WikiLeaks' · · Score: 1

    Being information brokers will likely mean their public funds would disappear; a charging for leaked documents would find them dead in a short period of time.

    WikiLeaks has the right approach, for good or bad. You want to run with the big boys you can't do it in the shadows.

  25. Sounds like bullshit on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like a completely bullshit reason.

    Get a military ordinance disposal team in place and demolish it if you really have to, but burning it? That's just looking to create a disaster.