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  1. Re:Yet another non-new wrinkle on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Now, check the addressing schemes for IPv6. You'll find out that one of the mechanisms to create an IPv6 address, extender EUI-64, is _precisely_ building it from a MAC address, which indeed is fully readable in the reslting IPv6 address.

    The scope for these addresses is local, so they won't be routed off-net. Imagine a routing table with an IPv6 route for every single MAC address.

  2. Re:home noexec on Ask Slashdot: Chromeless Cross-Platform Browser? · · Score: 0

    Heaven forbid the superuser have any say in what's going on.

  3. Re:Fully Informed Jury Association on Jury Acquits Citizens of Illegally Filming Police · · Score: 1

    That's not really being funny, it's just watering down the intelligence of the argument and surmising what an ignorant person would say. Just stick with "Your fly is down. Ha, made you look!" please.

  4. Re:Law Enforcement Tools on Law Enforcement Still Wants Mandatory ISP Log Retention · · Score: 1

    ^ Meth. Not even once.

  5. Re:Words can't describe... on DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    If you were able to remember more than one sentence, his post would make sense to you.

  6. Re:not just autorun! on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1
    As another helpful poster educated me further up the page, a good practice might be
    1. Shut down X, and ensure all virtual terminals are logged out. Essentially, the system should be as inaccessible as possible from the console.
    2. ssh into the the machine, and watch the system log as you...
    3. insert the suspect USB device.

    Keyboard activity would be visible at the login: prompt, likely inconsequential but immediately revealing.

    Like yourselves, I admit I was completely ignorant to this attack previously.

  7. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Then there's the managers that need admin privileges. Don't ask why if you want to keep your job.

    And don't keep your job if you can't ask why

    With just a little tact on top of some good results early into the job, I had no trouble convincing my CIO that that's actually *MY* notebook computer on his desk, not his. If I'm to take a large amount of responsibilty for something, I require control and full "ownership" of my domain.

  8. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1
    But WHY? In terms of
    1. Cost
    2. Criminal Liability
    3. Time Invested

    you might as well punch a random stranger in the face, key their car, throw a brick in a window, whatever.

  9. Re:Rybka ... Or Skynet? on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    Czech, mate?

  10. Re:duh on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    I somehow doubt a nuclear blast is in the PCI spec.

  11. Re:Good idea, just ignore the problem on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    You must be fun at parties!

  12. Re:Next step, eavesdropping in the audio path on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a fun project for someone with much more skill than myself.

    YEP.

  13. Re:I thought that was the iPhone on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 0

    And their head engineer 'resigned' and they offered everyone free bumpers and the white iPhone 4 'took longer to make'

  14. Re:I thought that was the iPhone on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand. Even when manufacturers do use underhand tricks to get you to upgrade, the inability to actually move your projects to the new version is not one of those tactics.

  15. Re:Apple never makes mistakes on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    Because opening a project created by a previous version is Windows-esqe.

  16. Only passing laws on Dutch Legislature Accidentally Votes For Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Stop taking it so seriously.

  17. Re:Virus checker bloat on After 7 Years, MyDoom Worm Is Still Spreading · · Score: 1
    I see what you did there!

    You're bitter about capitalism, therefore any and all hairbrained analogies are valid. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

  18. Re:FRANKENSTEIN! on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 1

    Wow, never seen two anonymous people wager $10,000 on the internet before.

  19. Re:Virus checker bloat on After 7 Years, MyDoom Worm Is Still Spreading · · Score: 1

    Ok, but I'm a safe and careful driver,

    That may be true, but you're a careless analogy-maker. Vehicle restraint systems and anitvirus software are utterly dissimilar.

    But let's play your game: How many human lives have been saved as a direct result of antivirus software?

  20. Re:Other uses IBM found for its technology on IBM Turns 100 · · Score: 1

    Quite a fine analogy, I must say.

  21. Re:Wouldn't it be easier on Apple Patents Tech to Stop iPhones Filming in Venues · · Score: 1

    Given the quality of cinema captures I've seen, I can't see this making an appreciable difference.

  22. Re:Not very effective on World IPv6 Day On June 8 · · Score: 2

    Hrmph. Good thing I didn't skimp on the dollars and got myself a Cisco ADSL router. Oh, what's this? It doesn't support IPv6 either.

  23. Re:Security has improved on Malware Scanner Finds 5% of Windows PCs Infected · · Score: 1

    Believe me, some people really hate NAT. I was going to provide a list of the common arguments against it, but it's pointing-fingers-and-yelling-"Strawman" day here on /. today, so I'm actually going to have to wait for one of them to come along.

  24. Re:Security has improved on Malware Scanner Finds 5% of Windows PCs Infected · · Score: 1

    Firewalling routers really don't get enough love for their role in reducing the internet's trash density.

    They do, but the minute someone makes the connection between NAT and security the dead rise and chant repeatedly "NAT is not security".

  25. Re:Must...control...credit card... on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 1
    Plenty of NZ Pilots use R22s for Deer Recovery. One Pilot, one shooter, and one deer at a time in the sling. They're generally regarded as insane, but the R22 can just do this.

    With no copilot you'd be fine as long as you had ground crew for the sling hookup.