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  1. Re:No substance on Top 10 Web 2.0 Attack Vectors · · Score: 1

    With respect to the RSS issue, I assume that the author of the article was trying to explain in a very poorly-worded way discoveries like these:

    http://www.spidynamics.com/assets/documents/Hackin gFeeds.pdf (warning: pdf)
    http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/cross-context-scrip ting-with-sage/

    etc, etc.

    However, I agree that most of the points were simply various different ways unchecked user input can be exploited, and the banking example was absolutely horrible.

    My overall impression was that the author either had no idea what he/she was talking about or was aiming for a much less computer-literate audience than slashdot.

  2. Re:Nice to see... on Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life · · Score: 1

    I would say RTFA, but you apparently didn't read the summary either.

    I preemptively declare RTFT to mean 'Read the Full Title.'

  3. Re:Heh on Mixing brain cells and nanodots · · Score: 1

    You meant...

    proc DetectPoison ()
    {
                global $NeuralActivity;
                return ($NeuralActivity == 0);
    }

    Right?

  4. Re:I, Robot on Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    Or Beowolf?

  5. Re:Rules of Shuttle Flight on Shuttle to Launch Despite Objections · · Score: 1

    Wrong again, it's:

    1. cut funding
    2. ignore the engineers and launch anyhow
    3. blame the engineers when something goes wrong
    4. State the problem is not what even high-school dropouts suspect is the problem
    5. Ignore the engineers for weeks until it becomes patently obvious to even idiots that the problem engineers warned about and laypersons expected was the problem IS the problem
    6. Profit???

  6. Re:PV efficiency & moon power generation on Holographic Solar Collectors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats a great idea.

    And then when Bush Jr. Jr. Jr. decides that he doesn't like [bad country here], he'll just tell the opperators to point the giant microwave systems at [bad country] country for a while.

  7. Please RTFA on Startup Prepares Cracker Attack Emulator · · Score: 1

    "Instead, Mu Security's product performs a thorough and methodical analysis along the many lines of inter-dependencies that exist among protocols. Understanding how to create the right type and set of mutations needed to systematically expose potential vulnerabilities in highly interconnected applications and systems - identifying both existing and "day zero" threats - is a key part of Mu Security's breakthrough in determining the security readiness of such a wide range of systems. Marrying such capabilities to a platform approach allows such analysis to be comprehensive, efficient, and repeatable. The net result is that Mu Security's solution has already uncovered multiple day zero vulnerabilities in every system analyzed."

    http://www.musecurity.com/

  8. Clarification on Microsoft Source Code Still Not Enough for EU? · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain to me the difference between the "Blueprints" and "source code"?

  9. Re:Correction.. on Macedonia Deploys 5,000 Ubuntu Desktops in Schools · · Score: 1

    Us Canadians live in America too. North America contains much more than just the USA, but somehow they are the ones we go around calling americans (I refuse).

  10. Re:EOLAS = Patent farm on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, the company consists of a single person with rights for this single patient.

    Possibly worse than a patient farm no?

  11. Re:WOW on Internet Immunization · · Score: 1

    The summary said "0.004%, which is not the same as (800,000 / 200,000,000) OR the 0.4% in the actual article. The number in the summary is the ratio, not the percent, and is incorrect and misleading.

  12. Re:but what powers it? on GMail Adds Virus Protection · · Score: 1

    30% of my emails contain executables, and 0% of them are evil. Granted, I enjoy programming....

  13. Re:Final Straw! on GMail Adds Virus Protection · · Score: 1

    I just put my zip files inside another zip file.

  14. Google on Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist · · Score: 1

    I get 6.7m now on google. 1.05m without quotes.