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  1. Re:Autorun has always been a vulnerability on US-CERT Says Microsoft's Advice On Downadup Worm Bogus · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, U3 drives can be neutered.

  2. Re:Solution on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    I was speaking of living in one of the most lightning-intensive areas of the planet. I need as much isolation from utility power as possible if I wish to keep my equipment working.

  3. Re:Get a MIMO hub on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    You could improve it even more with an amplifier.

  4. Re:Solution on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    I live in Florida. I need as much isolation from utility as I can. No way I'm sending data over those lines, I'll be blowing NICs daily in the summer!

  5. Re:Solution on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Realtek. Those RTL1839C cards are a dime a dozen, and the boot rom WORKS!

  6. Re:Hack your AP on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Even better, find an old 2.4ghz phone handset. Do yourself some circuit bending, and take out ALL the frequencies.

  7. Re:Hack your AP on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    More likely the amplifier used was cheap, and with more power came more wave distortion.

    Think of a guitar amplifier - put on the overdrive and it sounds very different. Now try to get the original signal from that wave... good luck!

  8. Re:Simple Solution... on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once more, Darwin extends into the internet.

    Computers are tools. They do what they are told without question. The internet is made of computers. By extension, it is a tool that does exactly what it is told.

    Kind of like a handgun, and you don't (usually) let people run around with those without some kind of training.

    Also like a handgun, most tools don't care who is issuing the instructions - they just do it. That tablesaw doesn't care if it's a 2x4 or your forearm, it saws anyways.

    Yes, I'm an elitist bastard sometimes.

  9. Re:The Best Defense is Offense on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1, Troll

    The solution is to make the bad guys "disappear," not to seek out "justice."

    Why the hell would Elbonia care if some local scumbags show up dead in a gutter somewhere?

  10. Re:What if she doesn't want to break the law? on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    I hardly think you can get nailed for software piracy ANYWHERE if you did not know you were obtaining something illegally, and deleted it upon noticing that it was.

  11. Re:It's a plot! on Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK smartass...
    I'll give you a BGP packet, and you have to replace it with another working BGP packet (with addresses that you want) that has the same hash.

    Go ahead. I'll wait for you. Well, not really - I'm sure the universe will reach heat-death before you find one.

    Now, assuming you do find one... find some for the whole communication. Also, you only have a few milliseconds to do it.

    Starting to sound difficult?

    Don't spout off bullshit when you KNOW you have no idea what you are talking about.

  12. Re:Eee Keyboard on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Why don't they call use the "e3" instead? It's easier to say and even looks "cooler!"

    * Dammit, the 3 is supposed to be a superscript. Why would slashdot filter "vertical-align:super" or <sup></sup>?

  13. Re:This is not a sexual comment! on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 1

    ... sorry. I couldn't resist. Please shame me for it.

    I'll even post this logged in, so you can nail me twice for it!

  14. Re:This is not a sexual comment! on Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    And this, gentlemen, is why you want to get your woman excited before you go down on her. Spend some time away from the target first!

  15. Re:Why isn't this under idle? on Why Not To Shout At Your Disk Array · · Score: 1

    SSD is digital. Radio is analog.

    Your radio waves will need to cause at least 1.5v (or more, depending on the logic level of the device in question) to have a chance of flipping a line.

    If the waves coming out of your phone can do that, call your doctor. You probably have at least 3 types of cancer.

  16. Re:Dear Every Corporate Tool in the Universe: on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    HTML compresses really well in case they didn't know.

    The problem is, that they wouldn't be backing HTML up. They would be backing up a database.

  17. Re:When is backing up *not* an option? on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    It's called risk management. You can't have it all.

  18. Re:When is backing up *not* an option? on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    SMART doesn't work over USB.

    You really should be checking smartcrl -a before touching a drive for backup...

  19. Re:tips on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    You still need to worry about it freezing up to your mains shutoff.

    You really need to keep it moving a little.

  20. Re:tips on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    This is correct. If you don't, you will introduce regular spikes and sags (as destructive and constructive interference will occur in a waveform manner as well) potentially dropping current and doubling peak current... bad stuff.

  21. Re:tips on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    Just trickling water from your pipes should be enough, you don't need to drain them.

    Also, if you do what you say, the water freezes just before the mains valve, which means you are screwed...

  22. Re:Malwarebytes on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1

    I did this crap with Blaster back when that was new. I've since reinstalled to greener pastures (leave it at that).

    What I did was use a fancy tool to shred the module's drive space allocated to the file. Note that I did NOT use the filesystem API for anything but to find which clusters to hose. Hex editors are fun.

    After this was done, a hard reset ensured the process died without having time to do anything useful.

  23. Re:Agree! on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1

    1. Can't help you there!

    2. ubuntu-studio *

    * (or, look for the ubuntu-studio audio metapackage. make sure you get linux-rt and the associated kernel headers etc as well)

  24. Re:More to it than that on Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives · · Score: 1

    They have to store it without losing any of it. That means redundant storage distributed geographically. The cost of doing this is pretty significant.

    We are talking about the U.S. Government. Even if we can't afford it, we will spend it anyway.

    You are also ignoring the possibility of an agency already having what's required.

    I'm sure the NSA could set up a colo for the Whitehouse if needed, for instance.

    Heck, I would feel a lot better with that data living under the NSA's roof than some random Whitehouse hodgepodge.

  25. Re:Formats not dealt with? on Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't take the general internet public of curious people very long to pick through 100TB.