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  1. Re:Business-minded criminals on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    They sold her the decryption key and got yet another satisfied customer... next up is them rebating her some money back for their "Victim get a Victim" refferal program.

  2. Re:What the fuck is this shit? on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    It's Version 2.0 of an ages old scam... it's back, and it's spotted in the wild. Everybody check their mom's antivirus software we gave them....

  3. Re:Joshua on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 0

    There's a reason why we don't use cash on the Internet, and BitCoin's re-popularization seems to cause these issues to spring up again. Can we cause a BitCoin contango yet?

  4. What's the new hole? on Writer: How My Mom Got Hacked · · Score: 1

    Take your average computer worm, add this profitable payload, and this makes the bad guys rich. How does this work? What exploit are they using to install the payload?

  5. Re:Netflix says "nothing has changed on our end" on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    Next gen netfilx players to require GPS?

  6. Re:Netflix says "nothing has changed on our end" on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 0

    NetFlix should be able to implement end-to-end security that makes sure the target device belongs to a USA IP address, even when a VPN is deployed.

    DBS companies didn't mind Canadian users in border regions subscribing to them at first, it took a similar move by Hollywood to block them. Netflix is in the same situation, they have paying subscribers who aren't paying the right price, or paying for something NetFlix can't legally offer there. Worldwide content simply doesn't exist yet.

  7. They're late in passing this law, and want to make sure the remaining pirates are bankrupt.

  8. Re:Don't be afraid on New Canadian Copyright Laws Require ISPs To Retain, Share Illegal Download Info · · Score: 1

    $5000 x 10000 MP3s = Bankruptcy to the average person.

  9. Re:Sony blaming everything on hackers.... on Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is that downtime from too much bandwidth on Christmas is most likely due to users with free time and newly opened boxes. Too many paying customers looks like a DDoS but isn't exactly one.

  10. That's an attack! on Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy · · Score: 1

    Radar is based on radiation. This, if there are people in the house, would give them cancer. Go back to infrared.

  11. Re:Tiny Antennas!?! on Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets · · Score: 1

    I need some funny points for the post I made above... Anything smaller than rabbit ears or that thing you put on the roof is too small for TV to work.

  12. Tiny Antennas!?! on Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets · · Score: 1

    According to their explanation, Aereo used "tiny antennas" to connect each customer with their content. Wonder if those are going to be sold off...

  13. Sony blaming bad news on N. Korea again? on Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie · · Score: 1

    The Interview movie was determined to be a flop... straight to download it goes.
    Sony has some bad talent contracts that drag down the stock value... "published by hackers" instead of "published by PR."
    Now, lawsuit wins that can't be collected on... might as well let the "hackers" publish the bad news.

    Is Sony really being hacked, or has their PR guy moved to N. Korea for a few months?

  14. Most Fox stations show their main newscast at 10pm, and other CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates do as well. The 10pm drama appears to be going out of style.

  15. Sony blaming everything on hackers.... on Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly · · Score: 1

    DDoS have been pretty much solved by now... haven't Sony learned the difference between too many legit users and a hack?

  16. Re:Uhm, this place is peer reviewed... on Does Journal Peer Review Miss Best and Brightest? · · Score: 1

    Incumbent posts deserve a bias in favor of them... it's how Slashdot works.

  17. Re:Prediction: on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The reporting on the hacking seems to be missing something... what hole did they use, or was this just a password leak? What were the other movies (We know about "The Interview"...) that were affected by this hack?

  18. Re:Release all the data you didn't on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 1

    Yep, until more hacked releases of Sony Pictures movies show up, this starts to smell like a publicity stunt.

  19. While you were out... on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 0

    Hey, North Korea, while you were down the USA accused you of hacking into Sony Pictures, and causing trouble for the movie "The Interview" that makes fun of you. Is this why you think we pulled the plug on you?

  20. Outsourcing agreements... on Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data · · Score: 2

    Remember when writing outsourcing agreements that law changes could happen, and should allow you to void the agreement.

  21. Re:Bogus algorithm on The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing · · Score: 1

    This is a great dilemma that database engines deal with. With all of the sorting programs possible, which is the one that will solve it the fastest? There's not much of a chance for figuring it out on the first pass... you'd have to sort the database using all the sorts to get times, and that's wasted work. Database engines have some logic to say which they should guess is right the first time, and then if the query is asked for again it can rely on cache or place only the new records into the list.

    This is why a database programmer should recalc his test data frequently, it's going to help the live system know where to start.

  22. Re:Bogus algorithm on The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing · · Score: 1

    MS Access.

    It's not always the best program for databases, but it has the easiest to use UI. Visual Basic 6 and VBA are almost interchangeable.

  23. Re:Screen Limit: 1080p on Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review · · Score: 1

    4K is out in release, but there's nothing to watch on it yet. TV is limited to 1080i simply because nobody is providing higher. Blu-Ray discs go to 1080p, the disc is ready for 4K but no movie has been put on that kind of disc yet.

  24. Re:Uhm, this place is peer reviewed... on Does Journal Peer Review Miss Best and Brightest? · · Score: 1

    You start as 0 here. Registering a username with an e-mail address promotes you to a 1. Getting enough positive mod points with negative ones (that survive M2) subtracted gets you a 2.

    Yep, there is a bias to having been here before, but it can be overcome.

  25. Re:Screen Limit: 1080p on Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review · · Score: 1

    I guess I forgot to account for 300-600 dpi printers... but the point is, most photos are being shown on displays, not paper.