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  1. Re:Confused. on Updated Skimer Malware Infects ATMs Worldwide (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does the video show a fake(?) ATM dispensing the worst counterfeit $100 bill ever recorded?

    The must have done a bunch of takes. I think the person on the left has to pee.

  2. Re:Just more copyright extension.. on YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Hiding behind third parties does not remove your responsibilities. Much, perhaps most, youtube material is copyright violation.

    That still doesn't make it YouTube's responsibility to proactively police the content. Hell, they don't even have to reactively police it if they don't want to. They can take your DMCA complaint and wipe their asses with it if they so chose. Doing so would exclude them from the Safe Harbor provisions of the DMCA but that's their call.

  3. Re:may might predicts on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Just the fact that a SDC can drive much closer means that at least 2-3 times as many vehicles can fit in the same stretch of road as before. Combine that with the ability to replace traffic signals, stop signs, and it means faster driving overall. Highway intersections that require multi-level construction can be replaced by a simple four-way, with vehicle computers adjusting speed so they can go through safely and at highway speeds.

    None of which can happen unless you have SDC only roadways. For as long as SDCs have to share the roadway with normal motorists, things won't change much.

  4. I wonder how that compares to SyFy? It feels like they are running ads 50% of the time.

  5. Re:It became shit a long time ago on Latest Update to ES File Explorer Android App Brings Adware To Your Lockscreen (xda-developers.com) · · Score: 1

    Also if you still cannot live without it, uninstall it and manually install one of its old shit-free versions from here. Make sure you've disabled automatic updates in the Google Play (Store) app.

    How far back do you have to go?

  6. Deliberate Errors on Researchers Are Reconstructing Babbage's Analytical Engine (plan28.org) · · Score: 1

    One of the more interesting things I remember from a video about the construction of the difference engine was the introduction of deliberate errors. Apparently the engineering drawings included deliberate errors in key pieces so that if they were fabricated as drawn, it would jam the machine up badly. This was in case someone stole or copied the plans but plays hell with constructing one today.

  7. The need for a warrant and location to be searched on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no law which prevents them from seeing things they aren't looking for. Yeah, your phone may contain nudie pics. Your house may also contain nudie pics. That doesn't mean police can't get a warrant to search a house, or that such a warrant would be improper, given probable cause.

    Any of the items you mentioned which may be on a phone may also be in a house or a car. With a warrant, properly obtained, authorities can rightfully search a house, car, or phone.

    In the US there are limits that LEOs must abide by. The case in point made by the gp revolves around looking inside desk drawers when searching for a stolen TV. Anything in plain sight is fair game. Anything found in a place that could reasonably be expected to possibly hold the item being searched for is fair game. Everything else is off limits. It's not reasonable to expect that someone hid a 32" TV in a 3"x12"x12" desk drawer. If the drawer were open and the bag of weed was plainly visible then it becomes fair game. If the LEO smells marijuana he could request a new warrant to search for marijuana, then the closed drawer of the desk would be fair game because it could reasonably be expected to contain a stash of weed.

    This limit should also extend to your phone. If they are searching your phone for communications to confirm that you spoke with someone, then the warrant should be restricted to the call logs on the phone. If pictures are within a password protected application, then a warrant for call logs would not give LEOs the right to demand that you unlock that application. Unfortunately all of this would require that the judges granting the warrants understand the technology and understand when LEOs were being overly broad with their warrant request. The judge could then require the LEO to limit the "places to be searched" on the phone to just the relevant sections. Defense attorneys will have to successfully challenge the warrant in court as being overly broad and get evidence excluded though before anyone will tighten up the warrant requests.

  8. Re:Backlash on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean technically Apple didn't lose in Court, but the government actually got more then it wanted in terms of access to your damn phone because the hack it's using today is not tied to a single iPhone 5c.

    On the other hand it's also not usable on any Apple phone since the 5c so any recent iPhones are immune to this particular attack.

  9. Re:Unconstitutional on Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are 'Woefully Ignorant' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A person accused is not required to say one word in writing or with speech to cops or judges or to testify in any way in their own defense. So just how is it that any court dare to demand a password which may well further a conviction whether just or not?

    The same way that they can use a warrant to compel you to give them access to a safe that you own or possess which may contain evidence that implicates you. Neither that safe, your hard drive or your phone are protected by the 5th amendment. They are protected by the 4th amendment to the extent that officials must obtain a warrant from a judge by demonstrating probable cause that evidence will be found in the place to be searched. Once they have a warrant officials (or the courts) can compel you to give them access and they can hold you in contempt of court for failing to do so.

  10. Re:Woefully Ignorant... Or Willfully Ignorant? on Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are 'Woefully Ignorant' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, she's the one that, in the mid 1990s, wanted to ban Civil-War Reenactments as "Blood Sport" that fomented a culture of violence.

    Consistent? Yes. Consistently HYPOCRITICAL.

    So you are saying that in disguise she participates in Civil War Reenactments?

  11. Re:Cool, let's host our own server on Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 (open365.io) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget also, that a lot of countries have data residency laws.. so depending on what kind of data your employees are working on, it may be illegal to use a cloud-based solution if it is hosted outside the country/trade block.

    Fortunately they already thought of this.

    Open365 is 100% open source. You can download it and deploy to your own servers or use it online for free.

  12. Kasich's Team Response? on Symantec: Cruz and Kasich Campaign Apps May Expose Sensitive Data (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said the campaign's staff reviewed Veracode's analysis and did not find it credible.

    "Your firm doesn't understand our product," Nichols said. "They don't know what they don't know."

    Asked for details of what the campaign felt was in error, Nichols replied: "I'm not a tech person."

    Seriously? Anyone who has Kasich's app installed should uninstall it immediately.

  13. Re:Yes... Vwery interesting... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    All the actively calculated parts of our universe must be part of the actively calculated parts of the enclosing one, hence the computers need to get bigger as you travel up the chain.

    Or the calculations just need to take more time, but since the universe is simulated anyway, the passage of time is a relative experience and unnoticeable by the denizens of the simulated universe.

  14. Eagles and Gerbers on Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    If anyone is interested the Eagle and Gerber files are downloadable from links on the bottom of the article page.

  15. Re:Welcome to the World on EMV Technology In Credit and Debit Cards Reducing Counterfeit Fraud, Says Visa (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of the rest of the world has had EMV for about 10 years, often wondered why it never caught on sooner over there.

    Because none of the parties involved in the transactions were losing enough to fraudulent transactions to justify the expense of implementing EMV across the ecosystem. It took a shift in the liability mandated by Visa and MasterCard to drive any real change.

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  17. Re:Most of these malware articles are terrible. on BAE Systems Warns About Shape-Shifting Strain of Qbot Malware (computerweekly.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of these malware articles are terrible. The articles don't mention the operating system, they don't mention the method or vulnerability being used to propagate. They are mostly useless for an administration who would want to stop such malware.

    If you are going to computerweekly for the information needed to help defend the systems that you administer, you're doing it wring.

  18. Re:Who doesn't? on The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I don't, but then I make sure Dell sends me the SKU that the DoD orders when I order my laptops

    Sure, but since it's a SKU for government purchase, your laptop will cost $25,000.

  19. Re:USB keyboard. Your computer DOES run the comman on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Who remembers the infamous "No keyboard detected. Press F1 to continue.." error message?

  20. "I just sent off an email with my resume to the first person who wanted to interview me in months," one user posted in a Google Help forum. " I clicked the wrong button and sent it with the mic drop. Well, I guess I'm not getting that job. Words cannot describe how pissed off I am right now. I'm actually shaking. One click, ONE CLICK and I lost the job. Goddamnit. Not funny, google. I'm going to go cry now."

    You didn't lose a job. You never had it. You probably weren't going to get the job anyway.

  21. This is a function of libraries, not languages. People are getting dumber in this industry.

    The article makes this clear and lists the libraries from these languages that were used in the testing. The IQ drop seems to be on the slashdot end.

  22. Re:Slice Statistics on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you should ban guns because THEY (sic)FUCKEN KILL PEOPLE!

    Of course they kill people. That is their purpose. That doesn't mean they should be banned.

  23. Re: About par for the BBC on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As it gets harder to find COBOL developers because people like me were discarded for having the nerve to want to be paid well we're going to start seeing some serious banking problems as a lack of staff forces system upgrades.

    Either that or the banks will need to offer us huge incentives to come back much like they had to when the Y2K bug could no longer be ignored and they'd "rightsized" too many people.

    Don't worry. A quick call to TCS and the bank will be assured that they have many fine developers skilled in COBOL that can do the needful.

  24. Re: apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Cellebrite has an American arm and is already the de facto forensics software for law enforcement in us and Canada.

    Maybe for mobile but for PCs all I ever see is EnCase.

  25. You can now order Comcast TV and Internet Service...

    FTFY