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  1. You think there should be defences for someone codes a SQL injection in this day and age?

    Because by penalising the 'attacker', you are creating a defence for it. They are the bad person, we are the victim.
    When in reality it is pure incompetence - like leaving the till open and realising a hour later that it is empty.

    Now I'm not saying that hacking websites is maliciously is right, but there needs to be a *greater* punishment against whoever allowed it to occur to begin with.
    Someone who leaves the till open for an hour certainly will not keep their job for example.

  2. Re:Least interest on Security Industry Incapable of Finding Firmware Attackers · · Score: 1

    Have you seen newer motherboards? They have 16mb+ of flash for the BIOS.
    Oodles of room to do fun stuff in.

  3. Re:Do VPNs protect against this? on Routing and DNS Security Ignored By ISPs · · Score: 1

    No this has little to do with end users. This is a big networks issue.

    If your VPN endpoint also saw the hijacked route then you'd equally be stuffed.

  4. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    The trademark says yellow, not a specific shade.

  5. Re:From the Article on Malware Attack Infected 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably more accurate to say that you mathematically prove that you have your credentials, but you never actually send them to the server.

  6. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    You want Google to drop S3's pricing? I'm not sure if you actually mean that or just worded the sentence badly.

    Also remember with S3 you can choose your reliability level.
    Regular storage is 99.999999999% reliable but Reduced Redundancy Storage is 99.99% reliable

    You can bet Google's cheaper storage is somewhere in the middle - certainly not 11 nines.

  7. A quick search with my local Australian electronics parts distributor shows up a nice $4.50 CS42L52 (in single quantities)
    AC97, 8 input channels, 4 output channels, 24bit, 96k samples/sec. Oooh and it is even low power!

    http://www.cirrus.com/en/produ...

    Show me one thing your favourite $20/channel DAC does better that can be perceived by the human ear.

  8. Re:OTA updates on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 1

    Would you also like them to give you a copy of the GSM specs? TCP/IP? A overview of the Linux kernel? The GPU's docs?

    None of that sort of thing is needed by the end users.

    I'm sure it is a fully documented feature, in Samsung.
    We don't get a full copy of their blueprints just by buying the device however.

  9. Re:OTA updates on Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices · · Score: 2

    Where exactly would you expect the documentation for something like that to be in a consumer device?

  10. Re:LOL on Neil Young's "Righteous" Pono Music Startup Raises $1 Million With Kickstarter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Define proper DAC? Just saying that makes me think you actually *do* want the audiophile markup.
    That Cirrus Logic 60c Audio DAC clearly isn't very good! It's too cheap!

    Reality: The DAC is *not* the limiting factor in audio. In fact there really aren't many limiting factors apart for Chinese crap.

  11. Re:Linux sales figures on Crytek Ports CRYENGINE To Linux Support Ahead of Steam Machines Launch · · Score: 1

    I'm not a gamer. I have paid for games (Kerbal Space Program) because they were available on Linux.
    I would not have paid for it if it was Windows only as I don't have a computer with Windows on it.

    (I do have 2x HD7850's but they are for my 5 1080p monitors, not for games)

  12. Re:Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    That isn't a problem at all. That is 40 years of taxes.

    Now if the pension adds up to more (or a significant portion) of the taxes then there is a massive issue.

  13. Re:Why not open source it? on Microsoft Confirms DirectX 12 Is Alive and Well, Demo Coming At GDC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So your saying that if Microsoft opened up DirectX it would be possible to use on the same devices where OpenGL is used now?

    No shit sherlock. Then DirectX would be as *open* as OpenGL.

    Being a open standard has everything to do with OpenGL's adoption.

  14. Re:Why not open source it? on Microsoft Confirms DirectX 12 Is Alive and Well, Demo Coming At GDC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the OpenGL standard is very much open. Unlike DirectX.
    Which goes a big way to explain why it is king everywhere except Windows PCs.

  15. Re:Mischaracterization of problem on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    Estimation isn't learning multiplication tables.
    I use estimation an awful lot. I don't memorise raw calculable facts.

  16. Re:Do you want your code to work all the time on Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? · · Score: 1

    And make sure you don't do a even worse job.

  17. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Erm...a switch doesn't alter routing tables at all.

  18. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Err it would be like you and your neighbour having separate connections with 1 router.
    Its nothing like your neighbour having the same ISP. That has 2 routers, 2 physical connections back to the ISP, 2 routing tables and 2 public IPs.

  19. Re:So what happens on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Different public IP though? That would make for some interesting routing rules.

  20. Re:6 scripts at once? HNNNNNNNNNG on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    I've never experienced a binary safeness issue in PHP for some time. The usual stuff I do like file_get_contents, substr, strlen, etc... are all binary safe.

  21. Re:6 scripts at once? HNNNNNNNNNG on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    Try:
    if ($_GET['do'] == 'read' && file_exists($filepath))
        echo json_encode(array('content' => 'data:image/'.$filetype.';base64,'.base64_encode(file_get_contents($filepath))));

    The key bit being file_get_contents. It is a hell of a lot better than using the f functions except for very specific circumstances.
    Also check the ram usage on the Pi. It should be able to keep a few 8kb files in the file cache.

  22. Re:6 scripts at once? HNNNNNNNNNG on The New PHP · · Score: 3

    Yeah. Stupid global weather simulations also run like a dog on the Pi.
    When will people start testing their complex simulations on multiple platforms?

  23. Re:Permenant Beta on Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs · · Score: 1

    There is 0% Java on Google Maps?
    And the previous Google Maps was 100% Javascript as well if that is what you mean't.

    You should have searched for your room in the Hotel. The new Google Maps might have given you directions straight to it with a floor plan.
    It works in many shopping centres around the world.

  24. Re:Mischaracterization of problem on Teaching Calculus To 5-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    I had that argument given to me at school. In practice it is rubbish.
    Just buy a bloody calculator.

    I would say knowing stuff like long division is valuable, however I do not know it off the top of my head and have never needed to do it since school.
    If I had to do it now I'd figure out how it worked from what I remember and *then* do the problem.

    I never actually learnt multiplication tables either. Never needed them.
    As a programmer who uses math a reasonable amount (nothing scientific), funnily enough I always have a calculating instrument around.

    It is most important to know what tool to use to accomplish a goal, not to memorise the exact workings of it.
    E.g. Most people can read a clock, but few know exactly how the clock works or how to make one.