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  1. As far as I can tell, guns are not actually banned in Australia. They're just harder to get than in the US.

  2. (2) four urban gang violence hotspots account for the overwhelming majority of the rest of it.

    Which hot spots? (serious question). I'm guessing Chicago, Detroit, NY, and LA.

  3. Re:Security? watev dude on Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage · · Score: 1

    Execution doesn't seem to deter a whole lot.......

  4. Re:Security? watev dude on Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage · · Score: 1
    They are right though, when they say:

    'If cyber security really has existed. Then what we do should not be possible.'

    It's the lack of basic security principles that makes this stuff possible.

  5. You're such a pleasant chap. I'm still quite sure you understand.

  6. Re:Signed authentication cookies on Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure (exfiltrated.com) · · Score: 1

    If I were doing a test of an application for an organization I did not have a defined client relationship and I saw something like this (I actually have done this) I would generally have injected something like `nslookup somewildlonguniquestring@mydomian.com` and watched DNS server to see if it gets such a request....... The web server should log requests hopefully even things like cookies, so if you don't go shell it should be EASY for forensics to confirm you did what you said you did and no more.

    That's a good idea.

  7. Re:you have to question... on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    wow, you know a lot about Scotland.

  8. Signed authentication cookies on Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure (exfiltrated.com) · · Score: 1

    Does signing an authentication cookie actually accomplish anything? Couldn't the cookie just be copied byte-for-byte and used as is? What is the point of signing it?

  9. Warning, do not try at home on Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure (exfiltrated.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    access source code for recent versions of Instagram, SSL certificates and private keys for Instagram.com, keys used to sign authentication cookies, email server credentials, and keys for more than a half-dozen critical other functions, including iOS and Android app signing keys and iOS push notification keys. Wineberg also accessed employee accounts and passwords, some of which he cracked

    Warning: if you are going do security research, don't access all that stuff (without permission from the company), it can be completely illegal.
    People have literally gone to jail for accessing less than this guy did. Whether you think it should be illegal or not, it is illegal and you should be more careful than he was.

  10. You are able to determine that.

  11. Re:double dipping much... on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    tbh I'll bet the AirBnB tenant takes better care of the place than an average tenant who just lives there.

  12. Re:Before you think this is some sort of joke on Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not entirely unreasonable. Paul Volcker himself thinks the banks that took government money should be broken up. And he is not the only one. If something is too big to fail, then it is also too big to exist.

  13. Maybe you need a different approach to your point, because your current approach sounds conspiratorial.

    Maybe you should try to make the point clear that, "nuclear power requires constant, careful supervision (unlike wind or coal), and the government is not reliable enough to provide that over time."

  14. Re:double dipping much... on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    That is how AirBnB characterizes it, but it's not always like that. There are people who are renting out apartments, then posting them on AirBnB. They don't live in them, they get enough "visitors" to cover rent and more. In some cases they don't even see the visitor.

    I like AirBnB, but it has to be legal.

  15. Re:Changed my paradigm on Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) · · Score: 1

    Like the NSA gives a shit about your data... Unless you are doing some really bad shit.

    Or you're the girlfriend of an NSA employee. Or you're a senator who's been critical of the NSA policies.

    Seriously, the NSA has shown that it's not trustworthy. We don't even need another whistleblower to show us that, it's out there in the open.

  16. Re:Ultimate spoiler on Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But seriously, do spoilers *really* ruin a movie?

    It depends on the movie.....6th Sense was kind of a shock for me, and it wouldn't have been if I had known the ending. Same with A Beautiful Mind.
    On the other hand, most movies I can guess the ending before it happens.

    The new Star Wars movie will probably be on the predictable side. The "surprises" will probably be something like a double-ended light saber, or similar fan-service. For episode 1,2 and 3 we already knew how the trilogy would end, and I still enjoyed watching them.

  17. Re:some people think they're an eyesore on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you really wait that long to have a belief about the shape of the world?

    Hard to say, it was a long time ago. I remember my parents had a globe as I was growing up, and that was the first time I remember really thinking about the shape of the world. But who knows.

  18. Re:How can we trust providers? on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't trust them. Reports are that their billing code (and that of most telecom companies) is horrific. This is not surprising considering the billing code I've been able to look at myself.

    In other words, make sure you look at your telephone bill and make sure it's correct, because often it won't be.

  19. Re:some people think they're an eyesore on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's true, the libtards vs the hicks

  20. Maybe the USA today reporters were corrupt, too. Maybe we're stuck in the Truman Show?

  21. From your article:

    the report said a review of modeling reports and notebooks didn't turn up evidence that information actually was falsified or modified as the e-mails suggested.

  22. [Citation Needed]. The biggest complaints on Wikipedia are NIMBY.

  23. How do you incentivize enough CPU power & players into a "semi-private in operation" system?

    To get the CPU power, make each 'coin' so valuable that the CPU power is relatively trivial.
    To get the players, show them how to use it to get tax breaks and avoid transaction fees.

  24. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think so, it was just fluttering around, and that's what destroyed it.

    (Although beforehand, when it was just swaying, it was probably at its natural frequency).

  25. Re:Bacon sales down? on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1