Slashdot Mirror


User: CaptainDork

CaptainDork's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
5,561
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 5,561

  1. Well done.

  2. Re:From the people... on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This.

    The first thing people do is go for the old Windows 7 desktop look and feel.

  3. Re:Future of Windows 10 is iOS and Android on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And home desktops.

  4. ... the context an Edge tab provided ... on Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... when the fuck did that ever happen?

  5. We're beat, anyway ... on HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... look at these Android apps that either track shit or have extraordinary permissions.

    For Instagram: android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS

    find accounts on the device
            Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the phone. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.

  6. Re:Wear sunglasses on Google Can Tell if Someone Is Looking at Your Phone Over Your Shoulder (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    People wearing sunglasses still look like intruders, so the alarm will still go off.

  7. Re:Voice prints seem kind of doable on Should Brokers Use 'Voice Prints' For Stock Transactions? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Understood and appreciated.

    I was addressing the point about reliability.

    It's a very mature process. I was in the Navy ca. Moby Dick Was A Minnow (1965-1974).

    We analyzed all manner of sound waves (and radio as well).

    For example, we captured the sound signatures of all submarines we could, especially Russian.

    Each vessel had characteristic audio that came from cavitation, reefers, bad bearings, pumps, etc.

    Sound recognition has come a long way since then.

  8. Re:Voice prints seem kind of doable on Should Brokers Use 'Voice Prints' For Stock Transactions? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Retired electronic technician here.

    Voice patterning calls for clipping the amplitude of the signal and analyzing the frequencies along the baseline.

    Further filtering eliminates the constant, repetitive, background noise.

    It's a sophisticated technique that's been around for many tears.

    When I was in the Navy (US), we listened for submarines using aircraft and sonobouys, eliminating sounds from schools of fish and shrimp, and even our own carrier.

    Regarding TFS, the answer is:

    Brokers should do whatever it takes to run their business, as long as it works.

  9. Re: BitTorrent vs. Guns on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't see BitTorrent.

  10. Re:BitTorrent vs. Guns on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    One is addressed in the US Constitution?

  11. Glad you asked ... on Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? · · Score: 1

    ... because I know the answer.

    I got my first computer in 1978 (TRS-80) and I've been doing digital shit ever since.

    Appreciate that computers were standalone devices and like every other innovation (think cars and seat belts), people, including me, were very poor at predicting the future where every goddam computer in the world touch every other goddam computer in the world.

    Going back to 1978, the OS had no need to self-protect because the only method of input was the keyboard and the only output was the monitor.

    That "air gap" beginning set us up for failure in the future.

    Once floppies hit and computers first got "social," the tech-savvy lulz peeps feasted on the vulnerable core of the OS.

    Hobbyists launched the PC, and that culture exists today where the user is expected to be knowledgeable regarding consumer electronics.

    From the business side, it's damned near impossible to retrofit OS for security and even harder to roll out a completely new, secure OS.

    Security is expensive, even when it comes to keeping up with patches, and consumers want inexpensive stuff.

    The next step is litigation against the vendors and gatekeepers of the data.

  12. Reading TFA, it's not an adult job.

  13. ... quit.

  14. And for orphans?

  15. Re:I used RDP ... on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it be clever if it pointed somewhere else?

    That does not get me in.

    And, foreign (and even domestic) intruders don't bother looking for misdirected ports.

    There are enough easy targets on 3389.

  16. Re:I used RDP ... on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Your points are well taken.

    The RDP attacks, however, were simple (back then) and scripted.

    It's sorta like having burglar bars.

    Crooks will pass those up and look for easier targets.

  17. Re:I used RDP ... on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I have noted down that you are gullible.

    --your friendly network neighbourhood administrator.

  18. Sorry I'm late today ... on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ... but my ISP is Spectrum.

  19. Re: Apple likes this ... on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    You way overestimate the existence of the word, "warrant," in my post.

  20. I used RDP ... on 'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and the firewall logs showed everybody and their uncle, from all over the world, trying to get in.

    What I did was go to the registry and change the standard port from 3389 to the last 4 digits of our front office telephone and block 3389 inbound/outbound at the firewall.

    Those with remote desktop privileges had to append the new port to the RDP request:

    173.234.22.16:9182

    That stopped that shit.

  21. Re:Apple likes this ... on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Your ? implies that Apple is the one and only secure device?

  22. ... because it sells Apple stuff.

    Consumers want secure devices and Apple knows damn well that if they provide access, buyers will move on to the company that says they won't.

  23. Re:San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's modded up now, as it should be.

    Had I been carrying points, I certainly would have tried to make it visible to the casual reader.

  24. Re:San Bernadino all over again on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why is this modded down?

    Every mother fucker on /. knows it to be the case.

  25. Instead of ... on Tech Companies Try Apprenticeships To Fill The Tech Skills Gap (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    ... America concentrating on education from elementary and middle school through high school.

    That's the track that fails.

    Students don't know the difference between bullshit and wild honey as it is.