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  1. Re:Exposing those who store plaintext passwords on As We Speak, Teen Social Site Is Leaking Millions Of Plaintext Passwords (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there anything short of hacking them that will get their attention?

    Slashdot them. And bringing their site to its knees will also stop it leaking passwords so quickly.

  2. What contract did the botnet breach? I am sure the botnet didn't agree to their terms of use.

  3. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The principle here is 'be selective about who you listen to'.

    Sometimes just listening to the client is the quickest way to get things done, instead of listening to the other programmers. In other words, just find out what the code is supposed to actually do, rather than how it's supposed to do it.

  4. Re:Headphone Jack is Pretty Crappy on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I fitted my phone with an XLR socket.
    It's sufficient to bear my own bodyweight.

  5. And it's legal because it's legal...

    The ruling suggests bulk collection and retention of customer data might not be in breach of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights -- if it's done legally and with safeguards

    So it's not illegal, so long as it's done legally.

  6. Re: Man, animation must _really_ be evil then. on Pixels Are Driving Out Reality (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Could you imagine any 12 current actors trying to pull off 12 Angry Men?

    Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Downey Jr, Harvey Keitel, Vincent Cassel, Jack Nicholson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Sean Penn,

    Aside from people who'd actually get cast in such a movie nowadays, like Steve Buscemi, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Walken, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks...

    Still no shortage of great actors.

  7. Re:No on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be 1023 (not including yourself)?

  8. How about 'being Newt Gingrich' is a felony?

  9. Re:Programming is not the important thing on Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    That's what Apache Cordova was invented for.

    Mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS
    Target multiple platforms with one code base
    Free and open source

  10. Re:nano-degree class ? on Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be a pico-degree class.

  11. Re:I Love You on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Citigroup's THANKYOU trademark only protects them from other companies operating in the same market sector using the protected mark.

    They were able to get the trademark because banks saying THANKS are so rare. For example, they would not have been able to take out a trademark on the phrase F***YOU because that's so common in the banking sector.

  12. Re:I'll believe text is dead... on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    PC keyboards (keyboards attached to PCs) have been abandoned for cameras (selfie-stick attachments) which double as games consoles and phones.

    People don't type about where they are or what they are doing. They just take photos of themselves and post them. Their friends' replies are emotes enacted by illustrations of kittens.

    Facebook are being 100% perceptive about where this is headed.

  13. I disabled updates around service pack 1. No issues

    The botnet software you're unaware of on your machine is reporting 'no issues' too.

  14. Re:"cannot be skipped" on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 3

    Oh I'll skip it alright... I'll close the damn youtube window.

  15. To fight terrorists who would sow the seeds of dischord!

    "I thought my tewworwist fwendth emoji said that kittenz are wuvvley, fwuffy, nawwty and mentil. But my fwendth emoji ackchully said that kittenz are wuvvley, fwuffy, nawwty, gentil, mentil and lully."

  16. Re:Strange signal on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you get successful we will sue you to get a piece of the cake

    Estimating about $2.50 for a 300g cake, that's roughly 1.1 million metric tonnes of cake.

  17. Re:starting a class action on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd pay $9.3 Billion to kill Java.

  18. Re:L2Program, L2DB on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And I thought the difficulties I encountered with my "REGISTER_GLOBALS" username would last for all time, but luckily that problem is now 'solved'.

  19. Re: Really not legal on UK Man Faces Prison For Circumventing UK's Pirate Site Blockade (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    He was originally arrested in 2014. How his case progresses will depend to a great extent on who represented him in the station at that time, and what he said. The fact he voluntarily handed over a few of the domain names at that time may, unfortunately, indicate that he was made to believe that an offence had been committed, and he may have said more than he should have, unadvisedly.

  20. Re:Hmm on UK Man Faces Prison For Circumventing UK's Pirate Site Blockade (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Then let's set aside 'ethical' issues, and look at it, step-by-step, from a legal perspective, since that is how the police view it. I'm not a lawyer, but UK law is written in fairly plain english:

    There is no law in the UK that stops people accessing The Pirate Bay. There is a court injunction, obtain by a consortium of media companies.

    The injunction tells UK ISPs they must block access to specific websites (URLS) under a 'section 97'

    That refers to section 97 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

    The High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session) shall have power to grant an injunction against a service provider, where that service provider has actual knowledge of another person using their service to infringe copyright.

    The service providers listed in that injunction were Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2, Virgin Media and BT

    This has also been an issue with other Pirate Bay proxy sites, for example the BFI attempted to get the Pirate Party's Pirate Bay proxy shut down, unsuccessfully.

    Amongst all these laws and injunctions, I don't see mention of anything that would refer to Callum Haywood's site, except the unsuccessful BFI attempt, since that's the only one that concerns a proxy. His site isn't one that's listed in the injunction but, even if it was, the UK ISPs listed should already be blocking it at a network level in the same way they block the original Pirate Bay.

  21. Re:The war on white space on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: the 140-Character Limit 'Is Staying' · · Score: 2

    YesabsolutelyrightIthinkEnglishisgoingtolookalooklikegermaninthenodistantfuture.

    That's how Thai, Laos and Myanmar script is actually written (zero spaces).

    And by using diacritical marks to indicate vowels, those languages are extremely economical. (Twitter-friendly).

  22. Re:Offering others a chance to share the pie on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: the 140-Character Limit 'Is Staying' · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that
    seventeen syllables are
    more than sufficient

  23. Re:And clinton said... on NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm fuzzy on the whole 'Encryption is bad for the masses' thing.

    On the one hand, the politicians (advised by the NSA) remind us that "Encryption is Bad" for the proles, and it must be outlawed, or some have some kind of backdoor.

    And on the other hand, the NSA are advising what kind of devices people need to prevent their phonecalls/messages from being decrypted because "Encryption is Good" for the elite.

    But please tell me where the prole/elite line is drawn? Is there a law which sets out what kind of person is Elite, and what kind is Prole. Are pop-stars elite? Or actors? Lawyers? Maybe just top Lawyers? Because I'm very interested in knowing about this line.

  24. Re:Goverrnment on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
    And Florida's Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd needs to be played by James Best (Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane)

    That guy has threatened to arrest "rascal" Apple CEO, if it comes up.

    "You cannot create a business model to go, 'We're not paying attention to the federal judge or the state judge. You see, we're above the law,'" he told Fox 13 News. "The CEO of Apple needs to know he's not above the law, and neither is anybody else in the United States."

    So, would sheriff Judd hesitate to arrest Cook himself?

    "I can tell you, the first time we do have trouble getting into a cell phone, we're going to seek a court order from Apple," he said. "And when they deny us, I'm going to go lock the CEO of Apple up. I'll lock the rascal up."

  25. Re:Goverrnment on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope whoever has the screenplay rights to this DOJ/Apple stuff turns it into a great movie! I can't wait!