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  1. Re:"Security researchers" on Microsoft's IE Is the Most Targeted Application By Security Researchers · · Score: 2

    Yup, if they are trying to sell the vulnerabilities then they are not researchers at all, but scum.

    Calling them researchers is Slashdots way of making them out to be the good guys.

  2. Re:"seemingly bulletproof" ? on Pwn2own 2014 Set To Hunt Unicorns · · Score: 1

    Of course they dont guarantee, as that would be an issue if it were exploited.

  3. Re:Town planning - lack of. on Rome Police Use Twitter To Battle Illegal Parking · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But the issue with Rome is the people that live there and the cars they drive - I highly doubt they would be interested in out of town park and rides.

  4. More reprsentative stats please on IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share · · Score: 5, Informative

    W3Schools has a very skewed demographic, I wouldn't take their figures to be a true representative across the board.

    My companies websites (Insurance) have an IE share of about 40%.

  5. Re:Samzenpus headline on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    Actually the engines must last for three to four races, as they only had five engines for a race season anywhere between 18 and 20 races.

  6. Re:Ain't it beautiful ? on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you need to actually read up on just what the situation is here and stop trying to make smart arse comments which just make you look stupid.

  7. Re:Ain't it beautiful ? on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 1

    The contract did violate the law in that theres a legal requirement to do sperm donation the way the state requires it to be done.

  8. Re:In other news... on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In more accurate news, Formula One car proves sucky at handling the monthly grocery shop...

  9. Re:Not a registrar problem. on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 5, Informative

    The story is a but more than that - they took the website almost as-is, forked the codebase and are portraying themselves as the original project with a new developer base, insisting the original developers are the fork.

    If they had switched the domain to a brand new website and started from scratch, that would be your non-story...

  10. Re:similar on Nagios-Plugins Web Site Taken Over By Nagios · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like Nagios Plugins was a community project to provide plugins for Nagios, with little to no input by Nagios themselves. At some point in the past, the website name was transferred to Nagios to avoid trademark issues but the project continued to be community driven and led. Now, Nagios has redirected the DNS to its own plugins website, forked the community codebase, setup an entirely new developer base and taken the company line that "monitoring plugins (the name chosen by the original nagios-plugins project leads) is the fork, not us".

    Reading the propaganda by the Nagios rep on the bugzilla thread is highly amusing, smacks of Eurasia and East Asia from 1984.

    If all of this is even mildly true, its quite an evil thing by Nagios to do.

  11. Re:America Cannot Compete on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 1

    Why is Obamacare unconstitutional?

  12. Re:They should allow it on SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police · · Score: 1

    Honest question - do they need a warrant to open your wallet and look inside it if you had it on you at time of arrest?

  13. Re:FCC Shouldn't Ban It, But Airlines Should on Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I also don't see how a US government organisation can ban the act of speech for a non-safety related reason - surely that would violate freedom of speech?

    Once the FCC and FAA concluded it was no longer a safety concern, their remit for control of it expired and the only entities that could ban it on "annoyance" grounds would be the airlines that operate the aircraft.

  14. Re:So the USA is all libertard? on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is no such thing as a natural or god given right, they are all rights we grant each other.

  15. Re:Isn't this the ultimate goal? on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 2

    It was done in 2005 by Eurocopter in a AS350 B3.

  16. Re:A field of Two on Orbital Becomes Second Private Firm To Send Cargo Craft To ISS · · Score: 1

    Boeing directly receives as a benefactor a reduction in taxation by the state of Washington, and also the wings for its 787 are produced at well below cost due to funds its Japanese contractors received to design and build them.

  17. Re:New Altitude record? on SpaceShipTwo Sets a New Altitude Record · · Score: 1

    So, more of an accomplishment than a record then...

    Why do people overrate things these days?

  18. Re:bfd on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 2

    Except it can't guarantee a continuous base load, so there goes its suitability.

  19. Re:these guys pushed the 4 digit pin on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK its practically impossible to use the magnetic strip anymore, ever since we switched over to chip and pin several years ago.

  20. Re:again? on Oracle Promises Patches Next Week For 36 Exploits In Latest Java · · Score: 2

    Its amazing how Java went from being the favoured child here on Slashdot to something generally reviled and hated over the past decade.

  21. Re:Thanks EasyDNS. on It's Official: Registrars Cannot Hold Domains Hostage Without a Court Order · · Score: 1

    Its a pity they didn't fix their DNS record management system until after I had to bitch about them on twitter. Other than that, happy with them for over a decade.

  22. Re:Also, on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twas the Octospiders in Clarkes Rama series - any member that voted for or was involved in the war itself had an immediate sentence of death after the hostilities ended.

  23. Re:geostationary GPS satellites on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: 5, Informative

    No GPS Satellites are geostationary, sure they all orbit in very predictable paths but they are not geostationary.

  24. Re:The parts were not a secret on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 1

    Do you think we gave the chinese compromising technical knowledge of the plane by sourcing some magnets from chinese companies?

    I never said the US were giving any technical knowledge away, I was merely pointing out that the F-35 program is well past just "testing" airframes at this point, so your assertion that "they are only doing this for the test phase... the main production will be all US parts" is completely false.

  25. Re:The parts were not a secret on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 4, Informative

    The F-35 is already in production and has been for several years - its in a phase called Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and the aircraft produced under is are indeed final production examples (barring any rework needed) rather than test aircraft.

    100 production standard aircraft have been produced to date.