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  1. Re:Administrators group on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    That depends on what commands the sudoers are allowed to run (sometimes it's pretty restrictive).

  2. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    Let me rephrase: one twin, regardless of actual guilt, can be compelled to testify about the other twin. Prior knowledge of their guilt or innocence is irrelevant.

  3. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    "against himself", not "against his brother". Despite being genetically identical, you'd be hard pressed to convince a judge that a twin's brother is also himself. The innocent twin can be compelled to testify.

  4. Re:This idea is getting worse every day... on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    Disney did a Terrible job with TRON Legacy. Disney owned the rights to TRON 2.0, a vastly superior story about viruses, cyber espionage, and the logical consequences of the digitizing technology, but decided to trash it in favor of a stark story about emergent AI on a sparcstation 4.

  5. Re:This idea is getting worse every day... on Han Solo To Reportedly Return For Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    In all greek tragedies, you always knew the ending and the major events. the form is so settled that everybody knows the structure. This is true for shakespearian tragedies as well. The enjoyable part is how you get there.

    And eps 1-3 should have been a good tragedy.

  6. Re:its normal on Ask Slashdot: Is the Bar Being Lowered At Universities? · · Score: 1

    dont you no most people dont rite well

    FTFY ur grammer sux

  7. Re:Calling Russian /.ers! on Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured · · Score: 1

    First Reaver Pope. Never thought I'd live to see the day. That Papal Conclave is really progressive.

  8. But not right away on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    They won't find out until 2016 when they try to reinstall the OS or move to a new machine. Of course by then they will just buy Office 2016.

  9. Re:Not hard at all on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 1

    If you were to compare this to computers then you'd have things like sudden goose swarms jumping right in front of the car at unexpected times, all 4 tires losing friction, a bunch of other drivers on a single-lane road and all fighting each other for the privilege of getting to drive as first of the line, your car suddenly starting to perform maintenance and cleaning on itself while you're trying to drive, mandatory pit stops at variable distances and you having to always perform this or that manual task when you reach one, and so on. Does it sound so easy at this point?

    Well that's not a perfect sphere in a vacuum is it?

  10. its governance on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 1

    Does the notion of cyberspace make the debate over its governance less fruitful?

    This question presupposes the the notion of cyberspace as a place.

  11. Re:Uh.. bandwidth? on Home Server Or VPS? One Family's Math · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If its use is all at home, then you get much better bandwidth by having the server at home.

  12. Re:The hell it doesn't cost consumers! on Everything You Know About Password-Stealing Is Wrong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not only that, but your reimbursement had to come from somewhere, and it's not the CEO's pocket. It's everyone else's pockets in increased fees.

  13. Re:Just shut up on Citizenville: Newsom Argues Against Bureaucracy, Swipes At IT Departments · · Score: 1

    If âoethe cloudâ can offer services cheaper then why not do it?

    Security. That's just the first thing that comes to mind. Cheaper is rarely better or even the same.

  14. "centralized ... out ... as we move toward cloud" on Citizenville: Newsom Argues Against Bureaucracy, Swipes At IT Departments · · Score: 1

    Does he not understand that "the cloud" is centralized servers? Who maintains them?

  15. Re:Oh, the irony! on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    I sincerely doubt this. You have to position your arm correctly, and time your furtive glance for when they're looking away. You'll be spending so much mental power readying yourself to secretly find out what time it is that you'd be better off just ending the conversation early and politely.

  16. Re:Oh, the irony! on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    And if you're 40's or older, glancing at your watch or even a wall clock during a conversation is rude too. It's the same message ("What time is it? This conversation is lasting forever.").

  17. Re:memo to hardware producers on Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific · · Score: 2

    Samsung has competitors and maybe a few fired programmers with grudges.

  18. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1

    The Royal Panadian Gounted-police?

  19. Re:OK, I'm clueless here... on E-Mail Hack Exposes Bush Family Pictures, Correspondence · · Score: 1

    Spear phishing is my bet or easily guessed security questions a la Palin. Speaking of security questions, why did their use rise after the Palin email incident? Could have also been targeted malware key loggers.

  20. Re:ROMAN JUSTICE for financial pimps on Email Trails Show Bankers Behaving Badly · · Score: 1

    You only decimate because then the 9/10 left can still do work. Presumably better work.

  21. Re:Um... How? on Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug · · Score: 3, Informative

    These sites are including javascript from facebook. Check your noscript/requestpolicy lists on those pages and you'll be surprised how many external sites those pages include javascript and images from. This was bound to happen (and worse things have probably happened in secret).

  22. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    What he's good at doing are action movies that are based in geek culture. Star Wars is probably the most relevant franchise in that vein

    Star Wars isn't action, it's space opera. It's about feelings and grand designs. The "action" was there to drive the feelings. Without Luke watching the Vader/Kenobi fight, it would be boring, but you empathize with Luke, so you feel tense as the two old/disabled men lazily swing their lightsabers. Without the goal of the exhaust port, the trench run is likewise very boring, and Han's return is the highlight, which allows for the epic feat at the end.

  23. Re:This is why the equipment should be heterogeneo on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 1

    What you want is some homogeneity in sections, but heterogeneity between sections, so you're not brought completely to your knees when a bug like this is exploited, but you still have copies of hardware for part-swapping tests or frankensteining old servers.

  24. Re:The financial sector rivals the government on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    The founders of the United States banned a Federal Government endorsed religion because several states already had State established religions and were quite satisfied with that.

    If that's the level of your knowledge of American history, I'm not sure I trust the rest of your argument.

    It's a pity you ended with an almost trollish remark. It probably prevented your being modded up to where normal folks read.

  25. Re:Comes with Free SOPA/CISPA Style monitoring too on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So instead of just one "bad guy" snooping one exit node (and other bad guys between there and the destination), you have the potential for more people seeing some data in the clear.

    Yes, you should still worry about encryption. Tor isn't magic pixie dust for your packets.