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  1. Self signed certs? on IBM To Unveil Secure Open Wireless At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    I wonder who will be the first to make a soho wireless router with self signed certs.

  2. Re:Arduino on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    yes. avr c nice. don't forget about c++

  3. Hay Day on .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer? · · Score: 1

    I think they are wishing for their hay day back. Hay day being, back when people were building their own machines and Microsoft was significant.

  4. Re:No such thing as privacy on the web. The end. on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    EISA 3Com Ethernet cards

    Nice. I remember them well.

  5. Re:No such thing as privacy on the web. The end. on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    The hardware address is in the packet before encryption. Set up a Linux box with Arpwatch and OpenVPN and see for yourself.

    You start following the trail here: http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/

  6. Re:No such thing as privacy on the web. The end. on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    No. I'm one of those assholes that writes software with the explicit intention of allowing applications like snort to protect people. Unfortunately, it is also usable for other things. The mac address of the machine is encap'd in the header of the packet before decryption. When it is decrypted the mac information is still there. The outer headers of the packet (post encryption) do not have the mac address of the machine. The mac address of the last hop is what you will see in those headers. I suspect the reason you posted anonymous is because you haven't studied l2 or l3 or tor or etc...

  7. Um on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 1

    So people that can afford a Mac or machine with a new version of Windows are smart, people that build their own machines are average, and people that have shitty old computers are stupid? Oooooh K.

  8. Re:Here is my KISSmetrics for kissmetrics.com... on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    write a dpi signature to block js files from cloudfront.net that create a script element for insertion. got it. thanks!

  9. No such thing as privacy on the web. The end. on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1, Informative

    As someone who writes "visibility software" let me just say, there is absolutely no way you will ever have privacy on the web. You can use TOR, or TOR like services, if you don't mind TOR servers being the ones that track you. You can use VPN's if you don't mind the people selling VPN connectivity tracking you. If your traffic is not encrypted or terminates at an untrusted site it is visible. Oh. And just so you know. Encrypted packets carry your mac address because there isn't changes to the headers for last hop so TOR and VPN services can tell you what kind of nic your machine is using. Following the trail from manufacturer to retailer to you takes less than 8 hours. If you haven't gone at least 3 hops of encrypted traffic YOU are visible.

  10. You still get spam? on Why Public Email Needs a Police Force · · Score: 1

    Use a debian spam filter with zen.spamhous as the rbl and things will be nice and quiet.

  11. $10 says it wasn't a former employee. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With the Business Software Alliance? · · Score: 1

    BSA tried to give a former employer of mine that bullshit. Their sources are software updates on Microsoft products. We had a lab with 50 bitch computers spewing malware, worm, spam, tor, crap traffic ad nausium and always used the same CD to rebuild them. Because we had to allow them open, during rebuilds, to the www for updates we got flagged. We had 20 employees and hundreds of copies of everything they accused us of pirating. They actually just showed up insisting on an audit because we originally told them we didn't have the man power to compile a list of all of the copies of the softwares they wanted. The lab had glass doors and a barrel of windowsXP and office was just inside the door. My boss ran his hand through the barrel of software and asked the guy if he wanted to take the barrel to the trash for us. Long story short, after paying a lawyer to send them a massive list of shitware we never used, everything was on Linux and Solaris, and the names of our employees they dropped the suit. When we counter sued them for legal fees, their argument was that we needed to use a different copy for all of our test machines. The real irony. We developed software/dpi signatures to protect windows from exploits.

    Short answer, hire a lawyer to send them a list of your shitware and employees. If your in Texas, don't bother counter suing because the gooberment loves them.

  12. Re:how much cocaine do traders use? on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    I agree they contribute most of the same things to society but I don't know about fewer legal issues.

    stock+trader+arrested == About 184,000 results

  13. Re:Traders on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    By directly -- and heavily -- taxing companies that outsource labor and manufacturing.

    Have you leaned nothing from the /. right wing? You need to sugar coat it. For example, if a company employs 10 US citizens they can receive a percentage of the amount of taxes and benefits as a write off and a write off for each employee. If the same company employs 10 US citizens and 10 over seas citizens or H1 workers the number of over seas/H1 workers is subtracted from the number they can write off therefor completely negating the write off. If the company only has 10 over seas/H1 workers they get taxed what they would have received as a write off. This way the goobermonkeys can say they are passing a bill cutting taxes for US employers.

  14. Re:Perversion of Capitalism on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    The challenge is making it look like the code is intended to do something entirely different

    Ooooh. Now I get it! I thought they used Haskell to protect the code. ie. C++ you just decompile it. With Haskell you get everything, non readable code, no compiler to wait on, and nobody is sure what your code does. Sweet.

  15. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight... on Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots · · Score: 1

    uh huh huh Nom nom nom. I love it.

  16. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight... on Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots · · Score: 1

    You say that as if nobody voted for the critters. How did they get in office? Sure. I believe tea baggers, republicans, and religious conservatives posing as democrats should be taken out into the street nightly and beaten with a stick that has nails in it; but, apparently the majority doesn't agree.

  17. Re:So Let Me Get This Straight... on Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots · · Score: 1

    Outside of, "people will rise up and kill the bad people" your very close. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Strip out the bigotry and political views and the philosophy actually sounds plausible.

  18. Re:I will say it now... on Unified NoSQL Query Language Launched · · Score: 1

    I doubt that. Microsoft's extend and embraced version of SQL has XML support using XQuery. They are obviously looking for someone like Sybase, the origin of msSQL, to unify the sql language to handle queries on both XML and Relational Data without switching languages. I mean really, how else can Microsoft "invent" it?

  19. Over all mass? on Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Just a thought. Doesn't a cloud of something in space have an over all mass? Wouldn't each object gravitate towards the center?

  20. Re:too small - space gravel on Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    What happens when a human occupied vehicle crosses paths with one of these dead objects at 10,000km/h differentail speeds?

    I'm sure you meant to say "just one of these". Regardless. Space gravel takes the fear of space collision to a whole other level.

  21. Damn that interpreter!!! on South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog · · Score: 1

    I said glow in the dark mosquitos not beagles.

  22. Re:That's ok on Ubisoft Brings Back Always-Connected DRM For Driver: San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I think your right. They probably also believe this game will be popular enough to pull some people over the fence. The "uninformed parents buying their kids a game" source of revenue is going to stave off boycotts to a certain degree. Tempting enough informed people to bite the bullet is all they need to get over the hump. Unfortunately for UbiStupid, Driver isn't that good of a game.

  23. Digital... sigh on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    The real slap in the face was when the Alpha 443a had bios changes to allow NT to be installed on it. I'm glad I'm not using my real name because I have to admit, a tear ran down my face.

  24. Most users with speed at 40th on The Net (According To Akamai) · · Score: 1

    Wow. The US has the most users but speeds barely rank in the top 40 with other nations. I wonder who has the greediest bastards owning the ISPs.

  25. I like it. on Microsoft Launches Avatar Kinect · · Score: 0

    Though it isn't new and will be spouted as something Microsoft invented, I like it. I liked it when Matrox did it. I like it now. There is something inherently cool about a character behaving like me.