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  1. Re:Right-o on 35,000 vBulletin Sites Have Already Been Exploited By Week Old Hole · · Score: 1

    SHA256(passphrase,domain) = password

  2. Re:AMD multi-display problems on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 1

    I too get this issue.

    It is repeatable by moving the cursor along the bottom edge of a monitor boundary and bringing it up at the other side a few times.

    This is also the fastest way of returning the cursor back to normal.

    I have had this issue for nearly 3 years with countless driver updates, no fix in sight.

  3. Re:WTH is Brian Krebs?! on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The summary switches between third-party and first-person perspective multiple times which is confusing.

    Is this the quality standard we are to expect from Slashdot now?

  4. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 1

    FUD. I have a micro USB3 portable SSD which is backwards compatible to any of the MicroUSB2 cables I have around.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=micro+usb3

    The only real-life difference with lightning is "doesn't matter which way I plug it in". The rest is just great technical sheet data.

  5. Re:4 years?! In the future?! on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 1

    The hate is amusing. It was a JOKE.

  6. 4 years?! In the future?! on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 0
    From http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html...

    2013-07-20 2011UTC: Reports of defacement
    2013-07-20 2015UTC: Site taken down, this splash page put in place while investigation continues.

    It took 4 years after they were notified until they took the site down, in the future.

  7. Re:Write your list on notebook paper on How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List · · Score: 1

    So THAT is what was in the safe! No wonder they never updated!

    Oops, wrong site.

  8. Re:Samsung Galaxy S2 on Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Arrogant maintainers... on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 2

    I don't think arrogance means what you think it means as I haven't demonstrated anything to that effect.

    Whilst your comment is marginal troll, I will point out in the majority of cases the sensitive nature of any project wouldn't be a bearing in the choice of creating your own data center, that is just absurd.

    Also, in the UK the B2B sector of hosting is a cut-throat arena just like most heavily invested sectors. I'm sure some of our competitors would relish at the opportunity to put a spanner in the works to discredit the service we provide.

    Paranoid delusions? Possibly, but better safe than sorry.

  10. Re:Arrogant maintainers... on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 4, Insightful

    -- "if there's nobody in the room with you"

    That's an assumption. You don't know what other people are doing. You are basing an installer used by thousands on your own experiences. You're making the same mistake as the developers are.

    Plenty of times I have worked in the datacenter with other engineers from other companies doing installs all around me. I don't want them to see the password, thanks.

  11. Re:limit login attempts on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 0

    It would be written in PHP, so trivial to add an exception to your IP.

  12. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Its so much easier with cyber-attacks though. The attackers identity is hidden by tunnelling through multiple zombie machines or which some or all don't hold logs detailing the next 'hop' makign it impossible to trace.

  13. Re:BitTorrent on Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" · · Score: 2

    Bittorrent is an easily replaceable protocol. Going after it isn't going to stop any piracy. Its like outlawing a model of car because they're being used to traffic drugs.

    Bittorrent is just a vehicle, of which there are 100's of different types to choose from that will replace it.

  14. Re:WHAT on Proof-of-Concept Port of XBMC to SDL 2.0 and Wayland · · Score: 1

    No, he meant Xbox Media Center.

    I don't care that they ridiculously changed themselves to an abbreviation, it started as Xbox, and as far as I'm concerned, shall remain as.

  15. Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    I think whether or not it's newsworthy is decided by its effects, not how much effort it takes to implement.

    Echo?

  16. Re:Stupid on NetBSD To Support Kernel Development In Lua Scripting · · Score: 1

    So? The language used doesn't determine what is written for? Even the summary says "for drivers". RTFA.

  17. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Apparently I missed that you didn't include.... what? It is my fault that you forgot? Please, don't answer.

    I wished I never replied to your comment, I then carried on reading comments and found you dual weilding the fanboi sword on 5+ threads and realised I got trolled :(

  18. Re:And they are cheap... on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 1
    You perked my interested with a £50 helicopter. My son has wanted one for eons but any worth their salt seemed to be far too expensive.

    Then I read this on the Hubsan website:

    "Keep it away from children. Carefully read the instructions before any use. If you are beginner, it's advisable to be assisted by an experienced helicopter pilot."

    Anything for a beginner without training?

  19. Re:Or... on Fragmentation Leads To Android Insecurities · · Score: 1

    Windows Update was originally just a website. During Windows 95 days the user had to pro-actively visit the site to get updates.

    It wasn't until a while after Windows 98 was released that a notification tool became available that checked for available updates. But thats all it did, it just "notified", and it required the user to download it from the Windows Update website.

    Windows ME was the first to have built-in automatic updates.

  20. Re:So tablets at PCs now? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    Still puts Nintendo on top.

  21. Re:Hardware or software exploit? on Untethered iOS 6.1 evasi0n Jailbreak Arrives For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch · · Score: 2

    Thats a side-effect from the way I see it. No longer being tied to the Apple store allows me to use the apps that Apple has banned.

    Sumptuous, Glorious, Magnificently Beautiful XBMC. How I love my ipad4 now :)

  22. Re:UPnP is a vulnerability on 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable To UPnP Flaws · · Score: 1

    Okay thats great thanks.

    My experience of UPnP has been from routers and firewalls. For example the linux daemon for upnp upnp just adds a NAT rule in the UPNP table.

    The pfSense option does the same thing.

    The article is about upnp from many IPs (via routers I would of imagined)

  23. Re:NO, not the same... apk on 5 Years After Major DNS Flaw Found, Few US Companies Have Deployed Long-term Fix · · Score: 1

    I have to leave the internets now :( I'm glad my afternoon appointment had been cancelled so I had the chance to make you sweat.

    However at night I am a father and a husband and don't have time for these unimportant discussions.

    Good day!

  24. Re:NO, not the same... apk on 5 Years After Major DNS Flaw Found, Few US Companies Have Deployed Long-term Fix · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the memo? "MS Security Essentials" is no longer trusted anti-virus software in the eyes of independent AV researchers. You look silly.

    Notepad++ can edit hosts file and bypass the "MSSE protections", so um, yeah ... just, wow. Notepad++ must be awesome.

  25. Re:You failed vs. my DNS inefficiency points... ap on 5 Years After Major DNS Flaw Found, Few US Companies Have Deployed Long-term Fix · · Score: 1

    Whoa, your e-peen is massive! I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!

    I also don't care. I did a TLDR from "I shit on guys like you, everyday", not worth my time.

    You're cracking at the seems with the rambling!

    Right, back to the APK crap you keep going on about. You should place a notice on the software page that it requires an SSD in order to benefit.