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  1. MITM on Hacker vs. Counter-Hacker — a Legal Debate · · Score: 1

    The one in the middle with no clue on security will be used by the bad ones and destroyed by the good ones? Odds are high that you will hit an innocent (or at least, clueless) bystander. From his point of view, both sides are evil ones.

    In the other hand, **AA may not hack, but instead sue those people serving as proxy, maybe attacking them will prevent far bigger economical damages if they get sued (and that, without going to the "intelligence" agencies that could attribute to such proxies as originators of cyberterrorism in a near future).

  2. Meaning of education on How Free Speech Died On Campus · · Score: 1

    Students should learn what they will face later in the real world. Knowing how things are going, i'd say that it complies with that mission.

  3. Good idea on Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? · · Score: 1

    Is jut easier to do it the attack and blame whoever in the world, as it all digital and at the reach of any owned computer anywhere. Even to build up the vulnerability to get attacked and be sure that it affects something in a visible way, if wasn't available before.

    Its time for the TSA to extend its reach to go from just the people that board planes in US, to the entire world. They already proved how trustable are.

  4. Re:Bug? on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 2

    Is a meatware bug, not a software one

  5. Re:Still going on The Empire In Decline? · · Score: 2

    The problem with inertia is of using a familiar product. Once Microsoft forces you to use a different, unfamiliar product, that could even not fit in your way to use your computer, then alternatives start to play in the same field, Native desktop apps don't have the same prevalence than before, and the look and feel will change anyway, why not try something else?

  6. Re:imagine if tcp/ip was patented? on Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue · · Score: 1

    Essential shit like cellphones is even more burdened with patents.

  7. Re:Google Proxy War on Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean that Microsoft company that taxes each android device with their FAT patent?

  8. Re:Best predictor is not race, but parental educ. on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    Is correlated, but not set in stone. The parents live in a culture too, social programs, promotions, actions from special people, events outside the circle , all could influence parents, and/or child education, and so performance. Culture is just a big bag of things that could have an effect there, even if in a good number it just is parent education

  9. Re:Best predictor is not race, but parental educ. on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    "Culture", taken in a broad way, is the determining factor. Is not race, don't need to be the neighborhood you are from. Is more about motivation than about your gene pool, how you been educated since you born from your environment, not just your parents.

    And after all, education is not about getting a grade, is about getting prepared to work and live in today's world. This is worse than discrimination, is to force everyone else to discriminate because the education system refused to adequately prepare people because how they look.

  10. Battery on Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market · · Score: 1

    Probably it don't mean to be a netbook or a tablet, but, still... looks short for a portable device mainly meant to be connected to internet anywhere you are.

  11. Interesting times on Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL · · Score: 1

    It don't need to be bad, just an opportunity to change things. Why not sue not big/small internet companies, but politicians, government and associated consultants, lobbyists and so on? If they can't use encrypted communication, will force the government to be truly transparent. Or abolish that kind of patents (that will be less costly for them, they can break all the international laws for chasing someone that hints that could disclose a small portion of what they really do). In either case, we win.

  12. Re:They lost me when they mentioned KDE... on Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Comparing the desktop KDE with the meant-for-tablets plasma active is not exactly fair. Can't assure for KDE plasma active (not tried it yet), but pure linux running tablet interfaces (maemo, meego, webos) in the past had good user experience (at least for me), specially with up to date hardware. And you don't have so far away the rest that comes with linux, from the system or shell to compiling or adapting for it things for other devices or environments, or, well, have plenty of user interfaces to play with if you don't like one in particular (even Sugar could be a valid one)

  13. OT irony on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 1

    US was about to ban Hawei because they could had chinese government planted backdoors. Now (yes, im slow) a side note in an unrelated article say that Cisco VP was a CIA operations officer.

  14. Re:Blame them! on What To Do After You Fire a Bad Sysadmin Or Developer · · Score: 1

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There are no such thing as objectively good, there is always subjectivity and then that is good or bad depends on which side are you. So from outside the company could do evil, arbitrary things while people do reasonable, obligatory, or good things from their own point of view.

  15. As maths know... on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    don't drink and derive.

  16. Wrong science on New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron · · Score: 2

    Now the next dinosaur movie/documentary about South African dinosaurs will be filmed in New Zealand.

  17. No matter who won on Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million · · Score: 1

    What matters is that we all lost.

  18. Re:GWB 2.0 on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    And this time US citizens also gave their full consent and approval to a lot of new things that did this government. So they could enhance and extend those laws knowing that is something wanted by the population. Fasten your seat belt.

  19. Re:/check_calendar on Microsoft Sponsors Linux Foundation Event · · Score: 4, Funny

    After betting all the company on Windows 8, I'd say that the common enemy is Microsoft

  20. N900 on OpenSUSE ARM Final Less Than a Week Away; RC2 Out Now · · Score: 2

    Killed by Nokia, dismissed as a failure, and ... still is the reference board for a lot of hacking projects, still showing how adaptable is it, still somewhat relevant in some circles. Why no company got a hint of it and tried to push something comparable, maybe more up to date, maybe even more open?

  21. Re:The lawyers themselves are just soldiers for hi on Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents · · Score: 2

    Stop blaming the lawyers is the first step on the road to hell. They are guilty of something, by definition, if there is a law that could be twisted or corrupted for their profit, they will, no matter what comes after, they got their pay. And politicians, of course, that because malice or idiocy do those laws (also, some are lawyers or take lawyers advice, see previous point). In your example, is the difference between designing a gun and using it, the lawyers in this case are the ones using guns, and actively killing people with ideas.

    And all of this without even going to the point of patents. The whole concept that thinking and solving problems by your own is potentially a minefield is wrong. Our very civilization and culture is built taking ideas from others, and using/copying/adapting/improving them, we wouldn't be even in caves without that.

  22. Re:That is just mental on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Remember, we are talking about porn. Doing immoral and wrong (at least, according to some people criteria) is their business. Anyway, is not just that. If for some chance something you buy ends shared in internet, and you risk getting a 1.5M lawsuit, then their message is stop buying, and they are doing retard too.

  23. Re:Not the kind of technology you are used to on Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" · · Score: 0

    Clarke's 3rd Law probably explain it. Anyway, if you magic is powerful enough you could be considered God in some myths.

  24. Re:GOD ADS? on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Slashdot believes in profits, not god. You surely click on the ad just to see if it was a joke and, thats it, they got profit.

  25. Re:I think the most important part about all of th on New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages · · Score: 1

    The war of the previous ones that attacked New York gave Bush another mandate. Now Obama to get reelected must declare war on weather, explain that they have weapons of mass destruction, and nuke clouds, that will teach them who they are dealing with.