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  1. Re:But are we? on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    i effectively type left-control (also sometimes left-shift) with the first knuckle of my left pinkie, not with the pad of the finger. never had a problem with it.

  2. Re:Open Secret on New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret, Says Schneier · · Score: 1

    Master's Thesis on SCADA Sec? Really?

    Yes, the cite would be something like

    Davies, Aaron G. "A Toolkit for Intrusion Detection in a SCADA Environment." MA thesis. University of Louisville, 2005.

    Published anywhere?

    Astonishingly, yes, at least if you count ProQuest. Not that I'd bother reading it (or at least anything but the background material) if I were you--it was basically about hooking up a SCADA emulator to Snort and an alert correlator to make a testbed you could deploy potential attacks against to see if your filter configuration worked. I have no idea if anyone ever did anything with it; I can't find any evidence that anyone's ever cited it, anyway.

  3. Open Secret on New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret, Says Schneier · · Score: 5, Informative

    I did my master's thesis on SCADA security. tl;dr: there isn't any. We're talking about an industry that uses unencrypted radio links in their control systems....

  4. Re:Anyone can sue anyone, merit is not required on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 2

    "Whatever X gov't does in X is legal."

    So... The Nazis were right after all?

    had they won, they would've been. "international" law is whatever stronger countries impose on weaker ones.

  5. Re:Oh boy... on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 1

    However, the aftermath of this might involve legislation to prevent future exportation of technology to be used in this manor

    now that's what i call corporate feudalism....

  6. Re:If you are breaking the law... on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 1

    So yes, you could have unlawful imprisonment by the state.

    does anyone know what the "official" chinese law on the typical western civil rights is? i know the USSR had a huge pile of constitutions and guarantees which, if taken seriously, would've made it (at least) as free a country as the USA--they were just blithely ignored by the authorities. (iirc, claiming legitimacy under those laws was one of the primary tactics various dissidents used to gain support.) i wouldn't be terribly surprised if china has a law on the books that says something like "freedom of expression is guaranteed", but just ignores it; otoh, i also wouldn't be surprised if it read "freedom of expressions is guaranteed, except when it disrupts the harmony of society".

  7. Re:Good luck. on Falun Gong Sues Cisco · · Score: 1

    it's more like the guy driving the getaway car being prosecuted, even though he never even stepped in the bank that was robbed.

    and if a security guard is shot dead during the robbery, that's felony murder in most (all?) states for the driver, a crime which carries the death penalty in at least some states. i for one wouldn't have a problem with a "known or should have known"-type standard being applied to corporate actions like this is alleged to have been, with a corporate death penalty being totally on the table as a possible consequence.

  8. *Rogue* on 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy · · Score: 1

    The correct term is rogue planet. Almost anyone who's interested in this is going to have read enough science fiction to know what a rogue planet is, so why make up a new name?

  9. Re:Why buy a Window's device... on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    have people forgotten what WINE stands for?

  10. naked-eye version? on Worldwide Night Sky Stitched Together In 5 Gigapixel Image · · Score: 1

    this is pretty, but obviously the product of long exposures (and/or post). are there any similar pics out there that try to represent a real naked-eye view under ideal conditions? i'd like to know what i'd actually personally be able to see of the milky way, etc.

  11. Re:Better visual on World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year · · Score: 1

    i thought water was incompressible?

  12. Re:God damn Republicans on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    that's bipartisanship for you--republicans increase entitlements and democrats attack civil liberties. it's called "governing to the center".

  13. Re:P = NP? on Forty Years of P=NP? · · Score: 1

    the "magic" that's supposed to come out of P=NP is that anything you can describe with a SAT formula can be realized automatically. e.g., if your SAT expresses all the constraints for "a bridge that can take a 15-ton load", the computer can give you a solution to all the free variables in P time.

    silly people expect this to scale up to "a play by Shakespeare" or "a symphony by Beethoven"....

  14. What Happened to Ruby? on Tcl Announces NaTcl: Native Client Tcl · · Score: 1

    The XTHML documentation (I think?) was full of references to scripts in Ruby (instead of JavaScript). Whatever happened to that?

  15. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    "liberal arts" comes from Latin "artes liberales," literally the "freeing arts."

    i've usually seen it translated as the "freeman's arts", i.e. what Romans who weren't slaves were taught.

  16. Re:Set yourself on fire... on Ask Slashdot: Advice On a DIY Neutron Beam? · · Score: 1

    Light a man a fire and he's warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

  17. Timing? on Vatican To Digitize Prohibited Archives · · Score: 1

    The timestamp on TFA is March 31. Screwy CMS?

  18. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 2

    clarke-hanlon: any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. thinking that GPLv3 prohibits commercialization is such an egregious mistake as to make me ignore everything this person says about licensing in the future.

    my guess would be that apple has "legitimate" (from their point of view) problems with the tivoization rules--they probably want to put windows networking on AppleTVs or something, and GPLv3 definitely isn't compatible with iOS-style lockdown.

  19. Re:How do you exchange stuff in the first place? on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 2

    I miss Palm Pilots--they got this exactly right. Take out your Palms, point them at each other, and in turn, hold down the "Address Book" button for about a second. The entry marked as your personal card is sent over IR, the other person hits "accept", you're done. Nothing on an iPhone even comes close.

  20. Re:Gadhafi's military rank on UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi · · Score: 1

    wasn't greece ruled by a junta composed entirely of colonels for a while? i think some other african dictator was a lieutenant--i remember reading on wikipedia that he was the lowest-ranked military dictator ever, but some deletionist appears to have pulled that bit down.

  21. Re:Next project for Andrew : on Internet Explorer From 1.0 To 9.0 · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Testable! on Large Hadron Collider is a Time Machine? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:moot on Poole To Zuckerberg: You’re Doing It Wrong · · Score: 1

    see also the economist

  24. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 1

    Anyone else watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 last year?

  25. , Kill Sarah Connor on Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human · · Score: 1

    and the sad thing it's been years since i read fark regularly....