Slashdot Mirror


User: halivar

halivar's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,962
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,962

  1. Re:Probably not on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Continue that there's probably never a time when their service isn't under some kind of attack in one way or another.

    But this statement goes to prove that their security is better tested than yours. You're just hoping no black hats notice you, because if they do, you're toast.

  2. Re:Cloud is less secure in one critical way on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    But you encrypted your sensitive cloud^H^H^H^H^H data because you care about regulatory compliance and best practices, right?

  3. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it? That's 3 layers of armed security, the each one under 24/7 surveillance. You have to get through each one. You would define worth rather by a risk/reward ratio, which makes that rinky-dink server closet a lot more tempting. Criminals seek low-risk opportunity targets.

  4. Re:No on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 2

    Here's the next question: which room do I have a better shot at breaking into: your server closet, or Amazon's data center?

  5. Re: Irony on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 2

    As long as you don't get hot under the collar...

  6. Re: Irony on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    the ironing is delicious

    I feel this comment left me a little flat.

  7. Re:Not the case. on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I bet assembly gives you an aneurysm.

  8. Re:School Lunch on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words, Republicans were protecting the sacred, time-honored tradition of shitty cafeteria pizza. You can have my cardboard pizza when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

  9. Re: Here come the anti-American twits on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    Never had Mexican fruit-flavored soda? I'm pretty sure you could dunk a string of twine in one and pull out rock candy.

  10. Re:Here come the anti-American twits on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    Mexico, for one. But on a more serious note, during the Thirty Years War in the early 17th century, when all the great powers of Europe were carving up Germany like a Christmas goose, and many of the foreigners not used to the so-called "German diet" blew up like houses. Most notable was Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, who grew so fat in just a few years that his horse couldn't outrun Catholic cavalry, and was killed. Today, mid-western Americans of Swedish descent carry on the proud tradition of dying of bratwurst.

  11. Re:Leave it to idiots.. on Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Who, the junkyard guy that considers the stuff in his junkyard to be... you know... junk? Or the NASA administrator that considered a historic relic under his care to be junk?

  12. Re:Dumb title and summary on When Does School Life Begin? Zuckerberg's New School To Admit Fetuses · · Score: 1, Funny

    and the mothers can receive aids.

    So you're saying they're literally dying to get their kids educated?

  13. Re:And this is why war can never be automated on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    You read very much from very little.

  14. Only if some of yours in the first volley miss.

  15. And this is why war can never be automated on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing can replace the wisdom or common sense of a discerning and skeptical human being.

  16. Re:Does anyone care? on RIP: Prolific Amazon Customer Reviewer Harriet Klausner (1952-2015) (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    If my wife has a free day, she absolutely can and does read three trashy pulp novels in a day. She browses 2nd & Charles and picks out their whole inventory of Eagle publishing books on a Friday and has them finished by the end of the weekend. Not saying this is proof, just that it's believable.

  17. Re:"Community groups are using social media, blogs on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably sure they didn't check to make sure their Facebook posts used "well-situated" data centers before posting them.

  18. Re:Authenticated NTP? on Researchers Warn Computer Clocks Can Be Easily Scrambled Via NTP Flaws (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once an RFC is adopted by IETF (as the linked RFC is), it becomes a standard. Bro, do you even internet?

  19. "Community groups are using social media, blogs" on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In other words, they are using data centers in someone else's backyard. I find the hypocrisy of an activist is often proportional to their level of outrage.

  20. That will be a day of great internal struggle for most /.'ers.

  21. Re:What the response says on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    is that people loved Ahmed, but when he leaves the U.S he's suddenly a traitor

    Of all the people that give a crap about Ahmed, whether they be fans or detractors, this particular point of view is expressed absolutely none of them. It's a complete non sequitur.

  22. Re:GOTOs in C on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to examine the return codes, you're quickly stuck in parentheses hell.
    If your chain has more than this trivial example, you're going to perform my favorite exercise, figuring out where in hell I'm going to put line breaks, indents, and closing paren's in my conditionals and still make it readable.

    In general, these are the sorts of shortcuts that are wonderful to write, but I end up unpacking anyways during debugging or maintenance..

  23. Re:GOTOs in C on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So far we have 3 comments with the "right" way to do it that do nothing but add complexity and loss of readability for strict adherence to dogmatism imparted by our CS professors (few of whom had real-world programming experience).

    This is a straightforward problem. The suggested use of goto is a straightforward solution, and cleaner by far than the suggested alternatives. But most importantly, no one can demonstrate how it is wrong.

  24. Re:GOTOs in C on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Comp Sci professors teach "goto = bad" because the wisdom necessary to use it competently comes only with experience. It's like jazz; you have to know the rules and follow them before you can break them and not sound like a jack-ass.

  25. And yet these same candidates, once elected, simply meld into the establishment. There was a so-called "wave" of tea party candidates, and yet not a single piece of their supposed agenda has surfaced in the house and senate.

    It's not fringe; it's theater.