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  1. Re:Sure on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 1

    "Occupant means you live there as a legal resident. It does not include strangers and "persons that have no habitation rights of the residence they are in"."

    Citation needed.

  2. Re:Sure on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, he could have protected himself with, "B*TCH! Get out of my house!" If she isn't on the lease, then she is staying as a guest. If the permission for a guest to stay is rescinded and she stays, she is now a trespasser. Trespassers cannot give consent to a search.

  3. Enjoy your Death March on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Big $$$ on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: -1

    Maybe if the state of California read the First Amendment, there wouldn't be a need to fine code bootcamp operators.

    (Hint: Commercial speech is still speech.)

  5. Re: Target just couldn't handle this any worse on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 1

    The card brands call the shots when this much sh!t hits the fan, but, yeah.

  6. Re: Really? on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 2

    Not here. Target's pos pos is homebrew.

  7. Useless effort on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If by "don't want to compromise the investigation" they mean "don't want to let the crooks know what we know", they have already failed. Any action to remove material now is simply playing to politics.

    Personally, I think the value of publishing the data is higher than not tipping your cards to crooks. They know what they left behind.

  8. Re:Meltdown... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 2

    Proper forensics protocols state that you NEVER work with the original media, only copies.

  9. Re:Gun control on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Lightning Link: http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html

    $20? You're paying too much.

  10. Re:"News for nerds??" on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Please enumerate for me the rights "granted" by the Bill of Rights.

    (Hint: None. The Bill of Rights hinders actions of the government, not the people.)

  11. Re: 3des on Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach · · Score: 1

    Yes, the key is needed to encrypt, but the encrypted PIN block is already encrypted by the card embosser on behalf of the bank. If the merchant passes along the encrypted PIN block as sensitive authentication data to the processor for authorization, the merchant has no need to decrypt.

    This, unfortunately, makes the encrypted PIN block more of a password than encrypted data. Cloning cards is still quite possible.

  12. Re:It's a very sad day on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Snowden has made no such claims. The claim originated from a leaked document. He provided the document to journalists. The document speaks for itself.

    Is the document genuine? That is an entirely different question. I suspect that it is, though no one at the NSA will say. How do you confirm the authenticity of the document? Well, a simple initial approach may be to consider the accuracy of previous document releases. By that standard, it's genuine.

  13. Re:Pfff. Not really free. on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 1

    You mean like Arduino? Or OpenSPARC? As you wish!

  14. Privacy? on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your privacy can be compromised with open hardware, just as easily as with closed.

    Freedom I see, however.

  15. Re: three responses on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    But the cops, like everyone else, are free to sample public air however they want. They just can't use it as evidence against you. Still bloody rude.

  16. Re: three responses on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    And grow lights put off infrared. Judge said no.

  17. Re:three responses on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    Know.YOUR.rights.

    A dog sniff is not a search. The dog "signal" is now reasonable suspicion, which now allows them to search you for realsie. Of course, the dog is "signaling" to what the cop wants so he can get his search. Catch 22.

  18. Re:three responses on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting. Warrant requirements generally do not apply to evidence in "plain sight", but if you need a breathalyzer, it's not exactly plain sight, now, is it?

    Best I can compare it to would be the use of an infrared camera in search of "grow lights" for basement cannabis farms. A federal judge said, no-baby-no, so I'd have to side with you on this one.

  19. Re:Um.... on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The overwhelming majority of police are, frankly, pretty good folk who actually enjoy serving the public."

    Ah, no. Good cops cover for bad cops, and that makes them bad cops. No such thing as a good cop.

  20. Re:Really, Slashdot? on Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    Almost right. The host header is encrypted. The target IP address is in-the-clear for obvious reasons. Your IP stack does not connect to DNS names. It connects to IP addresses. DNS resolves the DNS name, then the stack connects to the address.

    Now the DNS name might be unencrypted during the SSL negotiation, but that's not the HTTP header, as your browser has to decide if it likes the SSL cert before it negotiates. Part of that check is "does the host name match the cert?". I'd look up SSL negotiation details, but I'm lazy.

  21. Re: smart on After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information · · Score: 1

    Nope. This is a clear FDA overreach. They were not involved in any process designed to diagnose, treat, or prevent illness. They were involved only in protected speech. And because of the FDA, we now have prior restraint on protected speech. 23andme should have released the lawyers on the FDA.

  22. Re:Bull hockey on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 2

    And you missed "(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

  23. Re:If they get this reversed, it will shut them do on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can copyright an implementation of a language, but you cannot copyright the language itself. This view is more completely settled in EU law, but there are US cases that have reached the same conclusion.

    http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/lectures/11-10-11_Zimmeck_ProtectPL.pdf
    http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2013/01/sas-v-wpl-programming-languages-not.html
    http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/computer-programming-languages-should-not-be-viewed-as-copyrightable-says-high-court-judge/

  24. Re:If they get this reversed, it will shut them do on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 1

    "... claiming that assorted parts of Linux violate MS copyrights."

    PLEASE stop confusing patents and copyrights. Microsoft has NEVER accused Linux of violating copyrights. (Perhaps you were thinking of SCO? ;)

    Side note, I miss PJ...

  25. Re:Bull hockey on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 1

    "If someone attempts to prove prior art that's a different factor"

    Yes, and a factor that does not influence copyrightability in the slightest. Perhaps you are thinking of patents? Oracle's patent claims died in the first trial, and they are not appealing that part of the decision. All that remains is copyright. And APIs are purely functional, not creative.