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  1. Re:Have IPv6-only phones on Cisco SPA300/500 IP Phones Vulnerable To Remote Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    Or the best practices of having these all on a separate subnet/VLAN that can only communicate with the call manager. That's why Cisco has marked this as a low threat because if you've configured your equipment right nothing else should really be able to communicate with the phone outside of the call manager.

  2. Re:Say Cheese on Giant Lava Tubes Possible On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Now Ken we all know that the moon is not made of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs, would you eat it then?

  3. Novelty Effect on New Site Mocks Bad Artwork On Ebook Covers · · Score: 1

    By having over-the-top bad art and getting noticed, the authors probably are going to sell more books than otherwise would have.

  4. Re:To the second point on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 2

    Doesn't make it any less sleazy for them to do it.

  5. Re:That's great if you have a mobile phone on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 1

    Or it's a way to associate your real life identity for advertisers. That way the information they can take the data from your grocery rewards card and push targeted advertising on your inbox to help you change soap brands.

  6. Re:The Rules on FCC Posts Its 400-Page Net Neutrality Order · · Score: 1

    Or you know, follow up on offers to placed Content Distribution equipment at ISP sites. Just like they have at others, which would then allow just for delivering the bandwidth that the customers already bought and paid for. If the edge connections weren't just a manufactured issue to squeeze money out of the other side of the equation.

    If you can't deliver what you promised when you sold your service to your customers, don't sell it.

  7. Re:Is semver too simplistic for kernels? on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    By it's very nature the changes to the kernel will be small and incremental. As to not break everything. So if all of the changes are small it's unlikely that you would ever reach definitive threshold for a major version. This is compared to other project that do major upgrades, feature additions, or complete rewrites.

    Every version system is arbitrary. The entire point is utilitarian and supposed to be helpful in keeping track of which version you are using.

  8. Re:Plural of LEGO is NOT LEGOs! on LEGO Contraption Allows Scientists To Safely Handle Insects · · Score: 1

    The relevance completely depends on if you are a prescriptivist or a descriptivist.

  9. Re:slashdot? on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, but no one can actually read that tripe. Anyone who clicked on that just wanted to get to the comment section to read all the responses pleading for the crappy blog posts to stop.

  10. Re:Your rights don't include infecting my kid or m on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    Even more so, it's not just at school where infection can be spread. There is no reasonable way to keep someone out of all areas of public life.

  11. SSN as an ID not password on US Health Insurer Anthem Suffers Massive Data Breach · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Always stuck me as silly that your SSN was supposed to be secret and is used as a password. But you can never change it and you have to give to everyone including companies like this that lose it. Seems like the SSA should also give you a password that you can update that places could authenticate against. That way if you suspect a breach and you could update that number. Something like they you come in verify your identity and give you a new PIN.

  12. Default settings on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    They are upfront about this and right when you install it they give you the link to uncheck to block unobtrusive advertising. The fact that people pay to be on the "unobtrusive" list isn't exactly surprising. Nonstory.

  13. Re:More ambiguous cruft on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Headline stupidity on Former NATO Nuclear Bunker Now an 'Airless' Unmanned Data Center · · Score: 1

    Might want to call a plumber.

  15. Re:im guessing the iterations were something simil on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    For Pedantry sake, if you are going by kernels OP should have only included the NT's, since the Win 9X product line was discontinued after WinMe. But if you are talking consumer OS's then the OP didn't miss anything.

  16. Not special. on Obama Planning New Rules For Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions · · Score: 1

    Such is the nature of any politician in their lame duck period. Happens after midterms are over, it'll tone down once his decisions affects the new presidential race. Then it'll get really heavy after there is a President-Elect.

  17. Re:Free? on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    New institutions isn't the only form that increased supply. Increased capacity and additional branches is another form.

  18. Re:Questionable Statistics on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 2

    If you want tuition costs to fall, you have to stop subsidizing education and start creating a competitive market.
    Tuition prices have steadily increased with no jumps matching any of the changes matching changes in student loans and grants for both public and private schools. I find it quite funny that you mocked students attending non-state schools with higher than average job placement rates and pay rates and then argue against competitive private schools. Perhaps you would like students to attend schools like Corinthian?

    there still is no tuition crisis
    Crisis is definitely a weasel word. But call it what you will, inflation adjusted costs doubling is definitely problematic.

    Why is that a relevant statistic?
    How much more basic can you get than a statistic than students are carrying more debt than before? You could even just have the statistic be for four year schools and eliminate the med school or post docs. The point would remain the same, debts are increasing. Your first article even points to this indirectly by saying that they have increased by current low interest rates and longer payment schemes are keeping the monthly payment the same. We also know that payrates have stagnated and decreased.

    Don't argue ad hominem, look at the facts.
    That was my entire point. Only selective facts were given.

    in the Brookings study: when you look at the statistics
    My point is that they don't include all the statistics. Here is a page with only the numbers and no commentary. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org...

  19. Questionable Statistics on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    These articles use very selective statistics in order to make a point that goes along with the author's political leanings. The first article basically says students are paying the same amount each month because the terms of their loans are longer. The second article looks at households headed in an age range from 20 to 40? This adds in people who did not go to college or are 20 years out to drive down the average debt so the numbers fit the narrative. It doesn't give previous averages either. Why not compare have debt burden of new graduates from previous dates to debt burdens on current graduates.

    Adjusted for inflation, average tuition costs have gone up %230 since 1981. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/d... Fill in whatever politics you want around the numbers, but at least be honest with the numbers you are using.

  20. Re:Hacker Group? on FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nearly everyone is vulnerable to DDoS attacks, as long as your attacker has more bandwidth than you do. They've done nobody any favors.

  21. Plessy on New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am all for making any form of education more accessible to any group. But Separate but Equal seems short sighted. What's old is now new....

  22. Climate != single event on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 2

    A seasonal drought is a weather event. The frequency of droughts is climate. Not sure how you can make any claims about climate with one event. This isn't say that climate isn't changing or what is causing it. But that one event is not relevant to the discussion.

    No event or small chains of events can ever be proof or unproof of what the climate is or whether it's changing. The whole point of climate is that it's over a long time. So evidence of what happened requires long time scales. But that doesn't mean you can't have predictive models. Evaluating models with data sets is key. But if you think that you can prove or disprove a model with only one data point, you are going to have a bad time. If you want clean proofs, stick with pure math. Inconclusive data and blurred lines are the trademark of applied sciences. Especially ones with many variables.

    This is not news. It shouldn't even be a talking point. This is only in the headlines because of how unfortunately politicized this topic has become.

  23. Ads on 2014 Geek Gift Guide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This gives new meaning to Slashvertisement. Still, probably better than hearing Bennett whine about some other uninteresting topic.

  24. Re:Please can we try to use the English language? on Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    MATLAB, C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Perl (numerical comparison only), PHP, Python, Ruby, and R

    It's pretty common shorthand for not equal to.

  25. Re:Looks like you have been in jail before... on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the DA not the police. So it's more "Look's like you've been in prison before, you've been arrested for serious crime again, and the police say you you've been causing trouble in the neighborhood, let's allocate more resources to prosecute this case." I can see an argument for filtering the input for possible bias from police, but that's supposedly the DA's job already.

    I see on slashdot all the time about going back to doing honest detective work where you find out who is really causing trouble in the neighborhood rather throwing out a monitoring dragnet or throwing absurd punishments rather than trying to aim for reforming the person. I have a hard time complaining about this as long as there is monitoring that data is fair and collected/retained in an appropriate manner.

    Why wouldn't you put additional resources to stopping an Al Capone over some kid who got caught as a rumrunner. Sounds like they are trying to apply common sense with collected data.