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  1. Education approach is all wrong on 3 Years Ago, Microsoft Said Tech Should Fund K-12 CS Education. What Changed? (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    I just think that if school would focus on teaching the native language of the students; and mathematics, then they should be able to learn everything else they need on their own, and according to their interests.
    I don't understand the big push for STEM when Mathematics is a poorly marketable skill, and science is a low-paying field after crushing stress of getting a PhD.
    Am I the only one in the world who thinks this way?

  2. Re:So how do we detect if we have it? on Cisco Finds Backdoor Installed On 12 Million PCs (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't know you could get viruses in X Windows...

  3. Re:What is Uber, a CAB COMPANY? on Uber's New Policy Fines Riders Who Are Two Minutes Late · · Score: 2

    What the fuck kind of shoes are not intended for walking? This is your own fault, for no contingency planning. If you were wearing a costume or whatever you should have brought a spare pair of shoes.

    You have told this story about how your foot is somebody else's fault, four times now.

  4. Re:Foolproof backup strategy on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    a hosts file, properly configured, will do that for you more easily.

  5. History repeats itself on The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is funny because my first job in San francisco was for a software robot company; the founder had exactly that idea: we make the chatterbot, and then we hire a room full of English Majors to program the chatterbots.

    So we had a room full of people who knew nothing about computers, essentially programming using a weird, proprietary scripting language. It was a disaster. Eventually they were programming frameworks and math libraries in chatterbot script.... it was spaghetti to the ceiling.

    The company went out of business but kept the entity alive just long enough to convince a few search companies that we were the future of search engines... and a few employees got rescued.

  6. Re:I got a butt chewing for giving my daughter hon on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    Honey has botulism in it. Sometimes.

  7. Re:Whose Eyes? on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 1

    Yeah, WTF?

  8. Re: The best bug is the one not written on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 1

    mod parent up, damn. The things people say around here.

  9. Re:How 1969 to 1973 on Linux Foundation: Bugs Can Be Made Shallow With Proper Funding · · Score: 1

    Well, finally today they do. LLVM is good for catching unsafe casts and such, which can hide buffer overflows.

  10. Re:Original premise is false on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly. (My day job is static analysis)

    "Many Eyes" are great for identifying and fixing the broken build... but have no good track record for monitoring security design and implementation flaws.

    For security infrastructure critical code, the available tools should be coming up spot clean. This is absolutely not the case with Openssl.

  11. Re:well, almost on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    And I am not even a crypto expert! Well, this is a very long-winded way of saying that the GP "DigitAl56K" was probably right; that we do need a clearing-house of good software cryptographic random number generators.

  12. Re:well, almost on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    repeatedly hashing a counter that is set with a random seed

    But I think that's exactly why you don't roll your own. That would be a predictable sequence. I could make a rainbow table of sha1('1'), sha1('2') etc. up to 4 trillion, and then by sampling a few numbers from your stream I could very quickly identify the current counter value and the next sequences for ever. Total fail, and if the seed is the system time this is only a level of abstraction more difficult. (Chess & West, p. 398)

  13. well, almost on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    That was for fast secure hashes, and not for psuedorandom numbers. They aren't really the exact same thing, are they?

  14. Re:Many Eyes on Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? · · Score: 1

    That's utterly crap advice. Since a lot of softwares in popular, active use have critical vulnerabilities.

    The example quoted just above (http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4862577&cid=46414687) in which nobody got the sarcasm... says:

    You know there won't be any bugs in those, or if there are they'll be very quickly fixed and not sit there unnoticed for years.

    He was referring to https://www.gitorious.org/gnut... and https://www.imperialviolet.org..., not to mention http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/... which also sat unnoticed for years.

  15. OpenBSD and the 1000M limit on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    The last time I tried to run OpenBSD, it was so I could test our static analyzer Fortify SCA on the kernel.

    One thing that really held me back in my research is that processes were limited to about 1 Gigabyte of RAM each. What exactly is the reasoning behind this hard limit?

    Note: I never finished my work, but it would be totally cool to compete this someday.

  16. Re:actions become automatic on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 1

    It's a design error, plain and simple. I don't know what the real solution is however.

  17. Re:Don't use ice to cool the oil on This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey · · Score: 1

    If you dump enough ice that it actually cools the oil, then it's fine.

    Obviously, risky behavior if you don't know the equipment you're working with.

  18. Re:ups and down in the industry on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    All of this already exists. Type rated Captains, First Officers, ATPLs, CPLs

  19. Re:what about adding a apprenticeship system into on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 3, Informative

    Instructing is not an apprenticeship. First Officer is an apprenticeship, a program which of course already exists.

  20. Re:Legitimate uses of drones on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    Aerial photography?
    Traffic monitoring and alerting?

  21. Re:I could have sworn I typed "slashdot.org" just on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    He means the Russians can buy the current working directory.

  22. OWASP on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Collecting and Storing User Information? · · Score: 5, Informative

    OWASP has guidance; for instance, here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/IOS_Developer_Cheat_Sheet#Insecure_Data_Storage_.28M1.29

    From https://www.owasp.org/images/5/5e/Mobile_Security_-_Android_and_iOS_-_OWASP_NY_-_Final.pdf
    2. Insecure data storage
    Solution
      Avoid local storage inside the device for sensitive information
      If local storage is “required” encrypt data securely and then store Use the Crypto APIs provided by Apple and Google
      Avoid writing custom crypto code – prone to vulnerability

  23. Re:Go to China on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    Chinese need an exit visa to leave China.

  24. Re:Misses the point... on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Misses the point... on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's going to be the University of Illinois!