Yeah, but every single country in the world does this. Including the USA (the USA is actually one of the worst, it's not even government level stuff, it's handing Airbus secrets to Boeing so they can compete, stuff like that).
Why all the stories about Chinese spying...? It's just more smoke and mirrors to give the population something to focus on other than the government's failure.
Yep. They're more interested in "winning" for their party than helping the country. They were never going to agree.
OTOH the result is good. There's no way to decide who should get cuts because every department in government is lead by professional liars and bullshit artists. The only answer is to cut every single department by the same percentage.
Does CPU usage really matter for certificates? They're only used sign things or encrypt session keys so you only need to do one encryption per session.
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If with 'long trip' Alaska is also included...
I'm not sure subby realizes how many furlongs are in a USA.
Still, let the geek-fest begin...
Here's an idea: Maybe one of them uses a VGA connector and the other uses HDMI/DVI.
Analog vs. digital, see?
"Might have". The phrase you want is "might have".
It's true though, not everybody has a vote. I'm one of them. Where I live you can only vote if you were born here.
The old "You can recover data even after it's overwritten" thing is a myth.
Today's bit densities are so high that it simply isn't going to happen.
Format them. Run a small program to write a file (can be the output of a RNG if you want) until the disk is full. Job done.
Or, as mentioned, use one of the many programs available for this.
Take the "repeatedly overwrite" thing with a pinch of salt unless you really enjoy sitting there watching hard drive lights blinking.
That's not really the point. The point is that "China" is the only name that ever appears on TV. China is the new Eastasia ... and it's war!
It's a pretty famous case*, a special European commission was even formed to investigate it.
For the lazy: http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm
[*] ie. a Google for something like "nsa boeing airbus" would have found a cite in seconds
Yeah, but every single country in the world does this. Including the USA (the USA is actually one of the worst, it's not even government level stuff, it's handing Airbus secrets to Boeing so they can compete, stuff like that).
Why all the stories about Chinese spying...? It's just more smoke and mirrors to give the population something to focus on other than the government's failure.
Why is this modded +4 informative?
Because it saved millions of slashdotters from having to read TFA.
"He also does not appear to be able to tell the difference between the DEA and the TSA"
I think you'll find he's referring to government in general and the people who let DEA/TSA do this sort of thing.
Vista? Ack.
At least have the decency to install Windows 7.
I think we can be fairly sure that the cause of all planetary warming/cooling, past, present and future, is "atmospheric composition".
The alternative to this is that the Earth can somehow heat itself up spontaneously.
No. Tax increases are only a temporary solution at best.. At some point somebody has to put their foot down and stop spending so much money.
(Especially on "wars"...)
Yep. They're more interested in "winning" for their party than helping the country. They were never going to agree.
OTOH the result is good. There's no way to decide who should get cuts because every department in government is lead by professional liars and bullshit artists. The only answer is to cut every single department by the same percentage.
Does CPU usage really matter for certificates? They're only used sign things or encrypt session keys so you only need to do one encryption per session.
Um, it's a blog. That's not the same as a "job"...
Um, the stacker settlement wasn't because of bundling something with the OS.
How exactly should Microsoft stop people from double-clicking everything they see with the words "see Britney nude" in it?
it may however be the end of McAfee and Norton.
Nothing of value was lost.
Let's hope they don't just step up their attempts to bundle themselves with *everything*.
Yeah, but they still didn't add a secure boot mode to Windows or even a way to ensure the antivirus is the first thing to run.
Also ... "Failsafe mode" isn't. You can run any program you like in failsafe more just by adding it to the registry.
The only way to really scan a Windows disk for a virus is to take it out and connect it to another machine (hopefully a clean one...)
Bottom line: There's still an awful long way to go as far as Windows security is concerned.
Oh, OK. The way that was written I thought it meant something like the long jump... but for broads.
Nothing unusual about that...most C compilers are written in C and the first C++ compiler was written in ... C++.
If it means not having the Java runtime installed on my machine then I see no downsides to it.
Ummmm, Java != Javascript.
I thought that bit of confusion was cleared up by now. I was wrong.
What the hell is the broad jump?
Yeah, I notice there's no "geeky and no good at any sports" option on their list.
This will be used by parents who are going to bully their kids into playing sports whether they want to or not. Society will be poorer as a result.