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  1. Re:That is *not* out-of-band on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    Those all talk about Microsoft, originator of the misuse of "out-of-band". It's all just parroting the same source, reporting what Microsoft called it.

    One company's misused term in marketing does not an agreed-upon definition make. Find an independent source that doesn't source or reference Microsoft and its off-schedule releases. And not one you make yourself, either.

    The term "off-schedule" already existed and is specific and precise. There's no just cause for expanding the definition of "out-of-band" to encompass "off-schedule", that a regularly scheduled release date is a "method or channel".

    Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to mambo dogface to the banana patch.

  2. Re:That is *not* out-of-band on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    Citing the first (and only?) source to misuse the term is not citing an authority.

  3. Re:That is *not* out-of-band on Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update · · Score: 1

    Not unless the only date you can download your updates is on that single day of the month. The regular release date is not a method nor is it a channel. It's a schedule. This is out-of-schedule, or off-schedule.

    "Rapid response" would be the marketable term they should have gone with.

  4. Your intellectual property has value, too. on Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    I wonder, given how long copyrights endure and the potential for profit during that period, what kind of damages one could sue out of UMG for unlawful destruction of automatically copyrighted intellectual property when the YouTube-hosted version was the sole copy?

  5. Re:Someone hire this guy a proofreader on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    Do you want to more money? Sure, we all do.

  6. Re:Soylent Green on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 1

    I wish some kind, caring and free country would invade the UK and the US and free us from our evil rulers. (and the evil yardsticks, too! I hate those the worst.)

    You think metric is any better? The punishment will be decimetered.

  7. Comma Karma on Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable · · Score: 1

    Who decided it was to be called "Mars land" and when?

  8. Re:Looser? on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 0

    looser (n.) One whose greater penile girth ruins another for being pleasured by anyone with lesser (origin: teenage girl slang, often accompanied by a thumb-and-forefinger gesture to the forehead).

  9. Re:Looser? on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Semprini?

  10. "Over" $50 million? on Universal Music Demands Insurer Pay For Infringement Damages · · Score: 3, Informative

    The first link (2011 Jan. 11) says it was $47.5 million and that they had set aside $50 million to resolve it in case it ever went to court. (Perhaps that was not reserve funds as we were led to believe but instead the size of the insurance policy?)

    The second link (2011 May 31) rounds that up to a $50 million settlement. (Meh, what's another $2.50 million?)

    How did it get to be "over $50 million"? Contempt citing/accrued interest/late fees for taking so long to pay out, or just bad reporting not clarifying whether it was in Canadian dollars or the reporter had converted it to US dollars?

  11. Re:My favorite response on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 1

    There are companies out there that will handle sending the invoices for you. I've heard Leo Laporte (TWiT Network) uses FreshBooks.com.

  12. Re:Laws to be used against spammers in Canada on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the AtPtEaAotCEbRCAtDRoEMoCOCAatAtCRTaTCAtCAtPIPaEDAatTA Act. Rolls right off the tongue.

    Or is "Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act" actually the acronym?

  13. Re:I have to say... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed I haven't seen doomsday theories regarding this yet.

    The year, 1994. From out of space, comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is cast in ruin.

    Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn. A strange new world rises from the old. A world of savagery, super-science, and sorcery.

    But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice. With his companions, Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword, against the forces of evil. He is Thundarr, the Barbarian!

  14. Re:very low frequency = 0.80%? on Human Blood Protein (HSA) From GMO Rice · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they just include a dummy extra chromosome that does nothing but make the GM variety incompatible with reproducing with the natural crop, or some other genetic incompatibility, preventing cross pollination entirely? Or require they do so by law for any crop grown outside of a sealed laboratory? This isn't rocket science or brain surgery; it's genetic engineering!

  15. Re:You Lose on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 2

    Stop speeding. If people didn't speed, then the government wouldn't get any ticket revenues, and would be forced to find another income source (such as a direct tax).

    While keeping the laws against speeding on the books and continuing to enforce them against everyone else who didn't stop speeding? Obsolete laws don't get repealed.

    #OccupyInterstate Everyone drive 45 MPH in the 40-Minimum-to-75 MPH zones this Thanksgiving weekend!

  16. Re:NON ISSUE on New Attack Tool Exploits SSL Renegotiation Bug · · Score: 1

    Speaking of you, doesn't Woot! invite this kind of attack at least once a month?

  17. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    Encryption is feasible now that would require the entire mass of the universe to be working on breaking it and still be infeasible in the lifetime of the universe.

    So, longer than a human lifetime plus 70 years? That seems... unconstitutionally excessive.

    No, I'm not going to trust that the copyright holder will show up 70 years after his death and provide the key.

  18. Re:Change cannot be stopped on The Case For Piracy · · Score: 1

    People who skip commercials are stealing television.
    People who wear body armor are stealing your ammunition.
    People who fluoridate water are sapping and impurifying all our precious bodily fluids.

  19. Re:Constitution-Free Zone on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    Have you done any research on it?

    It's a combination of 50 years old law establishing border enforcement activity within 100 miles of the border and the recent escalations of what rights you no longer have at the border. The expansion of powers at the border extend throughout the enforcement region due to that 50-year-old definition which is ignored each time they expand their border powers to more invasive methods (upheld by the Supreme Court), expanding powers beyond a geographic scope most people would consider reasonable: encompassing the whole of many of the 13 original colonies. An October 11, 2011 story easily found by Google (but difficult to cite via an iPhone) talks of further codifying these powers along the northern border (though the story got one fact wrong, setting the terrorist attack as being on Sept. 11, 2011).

  20. Constitution-Free Zone on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last I checked, Tennessee was further than 100 miles from the national border.

    Or are they including foreign embassies and Native American territories in the US as right-to-search borders now? And of the former, I don't just mean static buildings but also ambassadorial mobile vehicles. Want to search without a warrant? Invite a foreign ambassador to visit a nearby county.

  21. Back to Reality on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    encouraging truck drivers to join their First Observer Highway Security Program an[d] report anything suspicious that they see to authorities.

    "We're calling it, the Knightwatch."

    "Be a Government Informer. Betray Your Family & Friends. Fabulous Prizes to be Won"?

  22. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Well, they could, but then they may want to charge you an additional 33% as uncollected tax on that untraceable cash. And if you pay that in cash, you owe 33% for that, and so on, until you've either given them nearly 1.5 times what you originally owed in a convergent series (e.g. $1 + $.33 + $.11 + $.04 + $.01 == $1.49) or give them something traceable.

    Meanwhile, I'm imagining a music video featuring Twisted Sister propagandizing the refusal of cash for all purchases: "We're not gonna take it / No, we ain't gonna take it / We're not gonna take it anymore!" People with wheelbarrows full of cash being turned away from businesses and registers being chucked into the trash, replacing them with card readers and fingerprint- and iris-scanners. "Louisiana: Your Cash Is No Good Here."

    I should propose that as an ad for the Colbert SuperPAC to run.

  23. Re:All debts, public AND PRIVATE on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Really people? You emphasize "all" and others counter with emphasizing "debts" (weaseling out a loophole against their own interests), yet no one emphasizes "private"?!

    You're like people thinking they're pledging allegiance to just the flag and not also allegiance to the republic: unable to parse past conjunctions.

  24. Indeed on SMH Outs Copyright-Violation Hunters As Porn-Pushing Brothers · · Score: 1

    Strange bedfellows.

  25. Re:Forced Safesearch (by proxy) defeated using htt on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 1

    Hmm. At certain places (of employment)

    (and of education and of public services)

    they use a proxy that always forces Google searches to have SafeSearch on. Using https for Google appears to bypass this particular constraint. For the moment, anyway.

    The IP range for secure searching is different from the IP range for other Google secure services. Such institutions just block access to Google secure search IPs, redirecting you back to the insecure version so they can spy on you and deny and/or punish you for seeking inappropriate knowledge (Security Now 255, 27:37 - 33:20).

    There's no need for a gateway to act as a MITM performing encryptions and decryptions when it can be a MITM forcing plaintext communications for more efficient monitoring.