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  1. Re:Contradictory information on IRS: Personal Info of 100,000 Taxpayers Accessed Illegally · · Score: 2

    I believe they meant:
    After the page where you fill in security questions, they ask for the email and send you the report and the addresses the reports were sent to were suspicious.

  2. Re:DoB, SSN & Filing Status?? on IRS: Personal Info of 100,000 Taxpayers Accessed Illegally · · Score: 1

    well and does it let you try a second time with single if the other doesn't work?

  3. Re:Or... on Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem · · Score: 1

    I think that paper ballots that are machine read but human verifiable take the best of both worlds.

  4. Agile Oxymoron on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I always find it funny for something named Agile and aimed at being responsive to needs that people are so "by the book" about it. I find it oxymoronic that there's "one true way" to do something called Agile.

    Some employers are so by the book that they have to have a physical whiteboard with postits even though they also have to have jira and keep both those in sync. The purist agile says no remoting- face to face only, which I think is incorrect- I think "some kind of verbal or visual chat" is sufficient, but the key is communication beyond say hipchat and jira and email.

    Some employers claim to be really purist about it and yet depart in significant ways. I think a lot of employers also use Agile as a way to squeeze long hours out of devs at the end of every sprint even though "purist" agile says 40 hour work week.

    I generally like agile and it took a while for me to understand that MVP doesn't mean do the bare minimum for the sake of doing the bare minimum but with the idea you get it to the customer for feedback sooner and you iterate.

  5. Proposal on FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones · · Score: 1

    What if NSI phones when dialing 911 need to listen to a 2 second message indicating they're about to be put in touch with emergency services and to hang up if they do not need emergency services and otherwise to press 1 to continue. It's 1 extra button push and might filter out butt dials and other mistakes.

  6. Re:Renewing the domain name? No on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 1

    Would have to set up an LLC or a Trust or something?

  7. Re:Except they just turn the power off on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 2
  8. Re:Except they just turn the power off on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 4, Informative

    usually they do everything they can to keep the power on including splicing into the power cables or pulling the socket from the wall and hooking it up to a phase locking UPS so they can take the computer still powered on. This is usually combined with a mouse wiggler to keep screensavers and sleep from kicking in.

  9. Re:Is banishment legal? on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    Isn't that an unconstitutional ruling that is against his right to redress his government?

  10. New Switzerland on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    I guess Ireland is the new Switzerland of the digital era.

  11. Some? Who? on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 1

    Most commercial developers (meaning those of us who do it for our jobs, meaning most of us I think) would never do this because of confidentiality and intellectual property rights.

  12. Re:XOR is useless on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    XOR isn't useless if properly used with a one time pad, but as with anything, implementation is everything!

  13. Re:Beware Rust, Go, and D. on Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    You can't say there is no reason for other languages, ASM and C still have their use in very lowlevel code. VHDL/Verilog are relevant to FPGAs which may or may not hold a very important part in the evolution of computers- dynamic chips that can become anything you want and implement a hardware parallelized version of a software algorithm.

    While I agree C# and C++ will start to cover a large percentage of the spectrum, the others are not without purpose.

  14. Re:Should be simple on Arduino Dispute Reaches Out To Distributors · · Score: 1

    Use in commerce matters too.

    From: http://www.uspto.gov/sites/def...

    Is federal registration of my mark required?
    No. In the United States, parties are not required to register their marks to obtain protectable rights.
    You can establish “common law” rights in a mark based solely on use of the mark in commerce,
    without a registration. However, owning a federal trademark registration on the Principal Register
    provides a number of significant advantages over common law rights alone, including:
      A legal presumption of your ownership of the mark and your exclusive right to use the mark
    nationwide on or in connection with the goods/services listed in the registration (whereas a
    state registration only provides rights within the borders of that one state, and common law
    rights exist only for the specific area where the mark is used);
      Public notice of your claim of ownership of the mark;
      Listing in the USPTO’s online databases;
    10
    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
      The ability to record the U.S. registration with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service
    to prevent importation of infringing foreign goods;
      The right to use the federal registration symbol “®
    ”;
      The ability to bring an action concerning the mark in federal court; and
      The use of the U.S. registration as a basis to obtain registration in foreign countries

  15. Same T1 service used to cost $3k/mo in the 90s. But 1.5Mbps isn't all that great anymore. Even a T3 isn't very impressive at 44Mbps.

    I have more bandwidth at my home than the internet service provider I used to run ever did.

  16. Re:NOT "network timekeeping", just timekeeping on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 1

    moreover the cars GPS is probably a more accurate source anyway, relative to mobile data network variability.

  17. Even FOIAs were subject to denial and redaction on White House Office of Administration Not Subject to FOIA, Says White House · · Score: 1

    This was a bad move. They can just deny FOIA requests anyway, or otherwise redact the everloving out of them. Why go through the big public thing of saying no and getting all the bad "nice transparency" fluff.

  18. How to kill a Human Being on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    They should use nitrogen asphyxiation. You never would even know.

  19. Re:Which explains the ATV. on Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV · · Score: 1

    Ugly lady bumps?

  20. Neural? on Ask Slashdot: Mouse/Pointer For a Person With Poor Motor Control · · Score: 1

    How about something like the NIA?

    http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-OCZM...

  21. Re:FAKE on Watch an Original NES Run Netflix · · Score: 1

    You could in theory with a custom cart and reading a couple special memory addresses as serial data or something.

  22. Re:Funny thing... on Listen To a Microsoft Support Scam As It Happened · · Score: 1

    "Do you think I've been living under a rock? Either I have and I don't know what this Windows thing is, or I haven't and I know you're scamming me"

  23. Re:Chrome on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    The video driver i really separate from the windowing system. The video driver is what allows us to draw pixels on the screen, hopefully while taking advantage of video card resources. X11 / Freon is the Window system which helps organize applications and provide humans with a way to manipulate and switch between applications / workspaces.

  24. Not just foreign interests on It's Official: NSA Spying Is Hurting the US Tech Economy · · Score: 1

    I don't want to buy from most tech companies anymore either. interdiction, hard drive malware, you name it.

  25. Re:Ummmm.... on Java Vs. Node.js: Epic Battle For Dev Mindshare · · Score: 1

    Very true. I sort of skipped over the security aspects to avoid any fights ;)

    Java is pretty powerful, but that same power leads to both unnecessary weight and risks.

    Although I'm not much of a Java fan- if someone told me to pick between javascript and java to live with forever and nothing else, I'd have to pick java though, but that's just it- trying to fit pegs in the wrong shape hole. Either way you don't get a good fit and I feel like in either case you're kind of just "trying to make it work for you" when you really should be using something else.