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  1. Re:Please stick to "news", Slashdot on Independent Audit Finds Foxconn Violates Chinese Work Rules · · Score: 1

    By this logic slaves can also just walk away.

  2. Re:Steve Jobs said it best on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a job for tomato.

  3. Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 2

    iTunes.

  4. Re:200 on Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures · · Score: 1

    Because I have no control over the specifications.

  5. 200 on Study Shows Many Sites Still Failing Basic Security Measures · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder how they test. Some sites that I manage return the user to the homepage on a hack attempt or unrecoverable error resulting in a 200 return. Would they consider such a system as hacked, since they got a 200 OK return, or not.

  6. Re:It'd better happen quick then on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    To easy to fail.

  7. Re:Take your time, let software catch up. on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 2

    And in what meaningful way would that be different than an up to date Vista?

  8. Re:Amazing on Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock · · Score: 1

    It would be amazing if they can get a patent on that.

  9. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 2

    What is there to stop this in countries that already have nukes. You know that some of those countries consult "IMAGINARY" friends for advice too.

  10. Re:And the Libya example. on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    If that happened, then countries selling oil will have most of the gold in the world. What happens if they do not want to sell it back. Where would you get the gold needed to buy oil.

  11. Re:Hilarity on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    You do not have to store the info on their server, you can just enter every time you want to make a purchase.

  12. Re:Well, it is obvious now, isn't it? on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    My old Dlink 2640 from 2007 had WPA2.

  13. Re:And on $1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan · · Score: 1

    You forgot Hitler.

  14. Re:What? on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 2

    This is more like Child-proofing. You will be surprised what a 5 year old can do.

  15. Re:VMs are in the IO category for sure on eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half · · Score: 1

    This only works if your RAM/cach is greater than the data accessed. Which works great for CD, but not so great for multi-GB VM images.

  16. Re:Just when I was hoping... on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    The problem with these systems is that all the drives tend to be bought at once to fill it up, and all the drives are rated for the same number of operational hours.

    I avoid this problem, by using drives bought at different intervals. Say I want to build a new system today. I get 3 new drives. I would use 2 of the new drives in 2 different older systems to replace the drives there, and end up with 3 unused drives that are bought at different times.

    Right now, most of the drives that we are using at 500GB, we do not really see a point a using anything larger.

  17. Re:Aye, pirates be the reason IE6 just won’t on IE6 Still Going Strong In China · · Score: 1

    So basically they are still in the Geocities era of perpetual under construction gifs.

  18. Re:cellular? so you are willing to pay $$$ data bi on How Increasing Cloud Reliance Affects IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    The 4g will work if you only need to connect to Mail, Chart and svn.

  19. Re:Think of it as 4.0.2 on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 2

    The problem is that there is no check to see if your plugins will work with the updated version before an update.

  20. Re:But Microsoft can't bundle a browser?!?!?!?! on Apple To Start Making TVs? · · Score: 1

    It does not matter if it is opensource or not. You cannot really push your version of WebKit on a non-rooted i*device*.

  21. Re:But Microsoft can't bundle a browser?!?!?!?! on Apple To Start Making TVs? · · Score: 2

    So are saying it would be ok for MS to force all the browsers to just the IE engine on Windows?

  22. Re:The new Taliban? on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 2

    You mean the gun with a plane strapped to it.

  23. Re:Not a matter of caring on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    You are kidding right. The whole IT support industry is based on the fact that most people cannot follow instructions.

  24. Short Answer on Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.

  25. owasp on Ask Slashdot: Verifying Security of a Hosted Site? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a good starting point:
    http://code.google.com/p/owasp-development-guide/

    Make sure that you setup your mysql server to only accept connections from your server(s).

    And get something like Fail2ban if you are using linux to stop brute-forcing.

    Store salted hashes of passwords.