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  1. Darl McBride on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 2

    History should record that the whole SCO fiasco was the brain child of this scam artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It was a patent submarine attack and one of history's ugliest. The guy is now the CEO of some company he made up in his garage. Check out this garbageL https://www.crowdfunder.com/sh... What a joke. He got what he deserved.

  2. Harry Potter? on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 1

    They got Harry Potter to play Dan Houser? I would have gone with Sebastian Janakowski myself.

  3. I knew it was fishy... on Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..when the "hot chicks" were Nancy Pelosi and Rosie O'Donnell.

  4. Re:Smurftastic! on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 2

    Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!

  5. Smurftastic! on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    The NSA has all the actual slides from the internal presentation:
    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    From what I gather, TRACKER SMURF module of the WARRIOR PRIDE rootkit for both IOS and Android sort of grabs pin positions of places you search for in Google Maps as well as where you actually ARE. What's interesting is the seeming fascination with sexual orientation and clubs. I guess if there is dirt to be had on an operative or a politician, it might be if they are secretly a wild and crazy guy, or perhaps visiting a mistress in South America instead of being lost on the Appalachian trail.

    I know it's fashionable to be angry and all that, but the more of these slides they release, the more you understand how good these guys are at spycraft. It's a solid rootkit base with modules for various device driver interaction, it's pulling back info to be sorted in databases specifically at dossier building on targets, etc etc. It's a well organized program of information gathering, actually.

  6. This just in... on Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill · · Score: 1

    The DHS and TSA will be going to class to say "Papers, please" with a thick Russian accent.

    They've also been given Commodore 64 emulators for Linux and a copy of the classic game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM

  7. Re:the important part of the story was the last pa on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    Another Felix Leiter job well done.

  8. Re:idiots already have been arrested on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also believe that there are databases that trace bill serial numbers to the ATMs that distributed them. The banks probably had a database of every bill issued to the criminals. Once they surfaced anywhere, they were going to be tracked. Also, nobody in underworld finance would dare launder that heist. Those were toxic bills and probably why they got caught quickly.

  9. Ozzy? on USAF Strips 17 Officers of Nuclear Launch Authority · · Score: 1

    Is this where we queue the Black Sabbath music?

    Generals gathered in their masses.....

  10. Look at Pwn20wn at CanSec West on Are Contests the Best Way To Find Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Pwn20wn is probably the high bar for programming contests. Charlie Miller can walk in there and drop a 0-day for Chrome on the judges and walk out with a check for $100k. Is this not the market at work? Is browser sandbox security now such an integral part of the internet security landscape that it warrants the need to pay, and pay fruitfully for the knowledge of how these exploits work? A young guy, maybe 18, nobody heard of, with no real internet 'cred' from Eastern Europe, who had no real degree or CS education, walked in with an IE9 exploit that defeated DEP once it broke out. It also worked around address randomization.

    Unless that guy shows up and earns his rep that way, what's he going to do? Just start a blog and put the exploit code on it?

    I would argue that these programming contests are pure market forces, about as pure an application of the free market as one will see on the world stage.

  11. Sung to the tune of Mirror in the Bathroom... on Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings · · Score: 1

    Water in containment
    please don't heat
    The door is locked
    just you and me.
    Can I take you to a temperature
    that melts glass sweet
    You can watch yourself
    while you are eating me.
    Water in containment
    I just can't stop it,
    Every Saturday you see me
    furiously mopping.
    Find no interest in the
    pipes and welds
    Just a thousand isotopes
    in my own sweet self...
    Water in containment
    You're the water in containment
    You're my water in containment
    You're my water in containment...
    Water in containment

  12. Just a typo on Univ. of Illinois Goes War-of-the-Worlds On Students · · Score: 2

    It meant to say "Reactive HOOTERS at State & Main."


    It's part of a new network detection system for big, non-artificial breasts detected by a camera system. The roll out is initially for Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, the AI is being perfected by the NCSA guys.

  13. Re:Sudirman found it hard to believe... on Man Finds Divorce Papers, Tax Docs On "New" Laptop · · Score: 1

    IN the future, Duke is played on Android 2 phones.

  14. Re:What's wrong with Experts Exchange on Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search · · Score: 4, Funny

    Experts Exchange is the Charlie Sheen of IT Knowledge websites. Slashdot, on the other hand, is the Jules Verne of IT knowledge. No, I don't understand my analogy either.

  15. Re:Have you noticed... on William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission · · Score: 1

    I dunno, Charlie Sheen is doing a pretty fucking good job of getting away with it as well...

  16. So Craigslist is Mos Eisley then? on Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Luke: You know, I think that R2 unit we bought may have been stolen.
    Uncle Owen: What makes you think that?
    Luke: Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says that he belongs to someone named Obi-Wan Kenobi. I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about?
    Uncle Owen: Just a fucking Craigslist thing, you know how it is.
    Luke: I wonder if he's related to Ben.
    Uncle Owen: That wizard is just a crazy old internet pervert. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have it's memory erased. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.

  17. Re:Starship Troopers on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    The Men Who Stare at Goatse.

    Ah yes, the Farrely brothers movie...

  18. Re:May as well... on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    The court will garnish her wages for up to 30 years.

  19. Johnny Mnemonic says... on How Your Username May Betray You · · Score: 1

    Build a username which uses Acrostics or Chunking of the place you are going.

    My Yahoo account is GPLDANJCYS, which stands for me + Jesus Christ Yahoo Sucks.

    Then, you know exactly who is leaking and linking your information, and how you feel about them to begin with.

  20. Re:The USG Wants Two Things From You, Narus on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 2

    His name was Mark Klein.

    http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70914

    that was Narus equipment then, as well. The Egyptians saw how good AT&T had gotten at it, and ordered themselves up some of that spy pie.

  21. Dear Hosni... on Who Unfriended You, and Why · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't like you any more. In fact, for the last 30 years, I found you kind of intolerable.

    Signed,
    The Egyptian People

  22. War against Netflix on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 5, Informative

    Content providers are at war with Netflix, and Netflix is differentiating Classes of Service depending on hardware used.

    How I do I know? Same way you could know if you did the research. I have a Wii, a PS3 and Apple TV. Hook them up to a FastE hub, or a FastE switch that supports SPAN. Attach wireshark on a laptop.

    Start the Netflix viewer on each device. Note that they each have different data centers that they reach out to. Always.

    Traceroute to these IP addresses. Note that the Apple one in particular is congested at the last hop.

    That is why the Netflix service sucks using the ATV2 unit.

    So you have Netflix giving different hardware manufacturers different experiences - AND - you have bandwidth providers (mainly cable) trying to kill Netflix outright by rate shaping the traffic.

    If I were Netflix, I wouldn't put those DVD burners on Ebay just yet...

  23. Run the backdoor'ed OS on a cracked key? on FreeBSD Running On PS3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    So - um - let me get this straight...


    I want to use a cracked signing key to install an O/S with NSA weakened IPSEC? (At least according to Theo de Raadt).


    Does anybody find this strange? What should we call it? Peanut Brittle OS? Thin Ice?


    I know! Kardashian's ass! It's got a hell of a crack in it!

  24. It's a governance issue - plan and simple on Deferred IT Maintenance Is a Ticking Time Bomb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Too many CIOs of too many western corporations report to the CFO, not the CEO. There are WAY too many CIOs who come into organizations with an eye, or a reputation, for cost cutting instead of tech innovation. Pick up any copy of CIO magazine and look at the toadies who make the top CIOs in the nation, and ask yourself - what innovation did they bring to make that list? What business process did they improve with tech? Only a handful make the cut. Most are there because they are good at pinching out costs, kicking out the older IT workers and either outsourcing or bringing in college grads.

    I routinely see job ads for experienced Java developers, people with hard core experience in integration, esp. with telephony or security technologies, need 5-10 good years, offering $70k tops. Good luck with that, but again it is the CIOs who get the jobs telling people they can staff cheaper, run leaner, cut the corners - that get the job because it is the CFO who is doing the hiring and the performance reviews.

    The big corporation IT C-level execs are a fear driven lot, there are no Gates or Zuckerburgs in their midsts. The action is being with the cloud providers, or the web service providers themselves. Enterprise IT is really a shit place to be outside China. It's a world full of EDS consultants and chickenshit CIOs who won't think how a business could use IT to expand. And the social media space is going to tear a bunch of them new assholes, because none of them know how to leverage it. The startups do.

  25. Everyone under 30, please STFU on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Floyd are whores, Gilmour is a whore - Waters is out whoring his whore ass doing the Wall again and again, which he retained the rights to in his lawsuit over the Floyd name.


    Do you guys KNOW how many greatest hit records there are of Floyd that ALREADY break their shit up?

    http://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Best-Pink-Floyd/dp/B00005QDW5

    There's one for you. There are PLENTY of others.

    And only Dark Side and Animals and the Wall can be considered concept albums. EVERYTHING pre-DSOM (and that is a LOT) going back to Saucerful of Secrets are just a collection of individual songs ANYHOW.

    Really - nothing to see here. Just a bunch of grey old sods selling out what they already sold out for more pension money. And maybe a new 458 Italia for Mason. this one in yellow, perhaps....