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  1. Re:Smart Criminals on Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked · · Score: 2

    True, it makes a great read - when nobody is cleverly and ingeniously maimed or killed.

  2. Re:Wow nice... on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time to grow up from the arbitrary divisions like left and right?

  3. Re:Take it public on Security Researcher Makes His Point By Hacking Into Zuckerberg's Facebook Page · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incidentally I was just reading about the issue... Market research numbers from last year.

    $5000 - $30,000 Adobe Reader
    $20,000 - $50,000 Mac OSX
    $30,000 - $60,000 Android
    $40,000 - $100,000 Flash or Java Browser Plug-Ins
    $50,000 - $100,000 Microsoft Word
    $60,000 - $120,000 Windows
    $60,000 - $150,000 Firefox or Safari
    $80,000 - $200,000 Chrome or IE
    $100,000 - $250,000 iOS

  4. Re:Oh delicious irony on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are wrong in your irony. Wikileaks is not an anti-secrecy organization. They are a media organization (by their own account). They are against secrecy when it's being used to conceal dishonesty and unjust practices by governments (often to mislead the population). Wikileaks' own leak submit system relies heavily on secrecy to protect the sources from persecution, so you are pretty late with your remark.

  5. The crazy times on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    Security investigations lead to closures of secure services.

  6. Re:Point is... on New Technique Creates 3D Images Through a Single Lens · · Score: 1

    True. At least the movie studios have the material for reprocessing, but it lacks the information behind the objects. It's pretty funny that something shot as 3D is turned into a 2D projection for the screen. Everything is still flat. Curved screens are better, but still it's basically 2D...

  7. Re:The first thing I'd "speak" with my pupils on Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils · · Score: 2

    A movie worth seeing: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    That's about the first thing the locked-in patient Jean-Dominique Bauby, who wrote a book by blinking his eyes, said. The book is an amazing read, breathtakingly beautiful and intelligent. Bauby died a bit after the book was released..

  8. Oh no on Hubble Spots Source of Short Gamma Ray Burst · · Score: 1

    Millions of years of courting and burst at the first touch. We feel you GRB 130603B, hope you have a long life together.

  9. Re:has been happening for a while on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    United Stasi of America. It's here. X-Keyscore proves it can't be avoided almost in any way.

    Full take of all of the data is constantly analyzed. By now the responsibility must have been given to a faceless algorithm, so there is no one to sue, no one to accuse. People around the machine are just supporting staff, like those working at the concentration camps - who just followed their orders given by the machine.

  10. Everybody can finally go home now. on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    A well executed decoy by the allies of Linus succeeded to lure MS to make a wrong move after about 20 years in this epic battle! The ambush took MS by surprise because of the lack in their intelligence about the quotes of Linus. Whew I'm glad it's over!

    So what's in the future of Slashdot after all this? The currently still low burning Distro Wars?

  11. A step further on Full-Size Remote Control Cars · · Score: 1

    At first sight it doesn't sound really efficient, with empty cars driving around, but there could be new kind of shopping. Drive through malls where stuff is thrown into the empty car which can then be driven back home. Or how about a nice day at the beach with friends, in 5.1 surround and 360 degree vision? Maybe later models have more audio channels too. Next step could be to use car stereo system to transmit voice. There will be a boom in the car audio retail.

  12. Re:Security Engineered Out on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 1

    It's a five year old document. It's more likely an understatement by now.

  13. Re:No, it still looks like Snowden was lying... on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry to inform you but it says so in the very document:

    "Rolling Buffer" of ~3 days of ALL unfiltered data seen by XKEYSCORE:
    - stores full-take data at the collection site - indexed by meta-data
    - over 500 servers distributed around the world

    Later:

    - we can use this traffic to detect anomalies which can lead us to intelligence by itself
    - E-mail Addresses, Extracted Files, Full Log, HTTP Parser, Phone Number, User Activity

    It appears they take all data and then use that to detect anomalies. It includes data on everyone, and from all of the data they try to pinpoint targets.

    Look for anomalous events
    - Someone whose language is out of place for the region they are in
    - Someone who is using encryption
    - Someone searching the web for suspicious stuff

    They have example tasks listed such as:

    - Show me all the encrypted word documents from Iran
    - Show me all PGP usage in Iran
    - Swow me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me the data so I can decrypt and discover the users
    - Show me all the Microsoft Excel spreadsheets containing MAC addresses coming out of Iraq so I can perform network mapping
    - Show me all th exploitable machines in country X
    - Show me all the word documents with references to IAEO [International Atomic Energy Organization?]
    - Show me all documents that reference Osama Bin Laden

  14. Re:Official answer from Samsung on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the correct analogy be about limiting the power of the engine? The car manufactures would send their racing tuned cars for benchmarking, while they would provide consumer versions otherwise. I don't think there are many cars with speedometers that actually go to the maximum, unless the system is unleashed.

  15. Re:Official answer from Samsung on Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to understand what's wrong in making a device to run unrestrained when making the benchmarks. The very idea is to test what the device is capable of.

    This calls for more extensive and hands-on comparison and feature testing. It's funny how much people are tuned to numbers.

    The benchmark app producers could also be provided with a flag to turn the limiting features on and off. The more transparency the better anyway.

  16. Re:They're gross looking on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 1

    True. I'd guess processed insects will be introduced to replace some ingredients, and the first mass marketed products could be flours and such powders.

    There already are insect parts in our diets.

  17. Re:Lobbying lawyers are also citizens... on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    Already happening in Finland, because the representatives are obligated to think and talk about gay marriage and banning of fur industry. An overdose of ethics and humanity. There have been calls to cease the whole citizen initiative system, which was established by law recently.

  18. Re:For all the drunks out there! on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Have you considered sending your brain to the cloud?

  19. Re:Does anyone care? on Blackberry 10 Sends Full Email Account Credentials To RIM · · Score: 1

    General public may not care, but the market becomes domestic pretty quick, and the devices are then reverse engineered, copied and released in the foreign markets without the backdoors, because there's demand anyway.

  20. Re:I didn't start using DuckDuckGo for privacy on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    The article misses the point. It's about getting rid of the Google sphere and search filtering.

    I'm using Startpageat the moment.

  21. Wrong hemisphere on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have launched from Australia.

  22. Happy times on New Atomic Clock Could Redefine the Second · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, no more sloppy seconds!

  23. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    Get used to it.

    What would you say if Microsoft was a state owned enterprise?

  24. Re:simple on Ask Slashdot: Preventing Snowden-Style Security Breaches? · · Score: 1

    Ultimately free individuals can never be contained.

    Therefore complete transparency should be applied. The nationalist paradigms and constructs are futile. Ideals and methods can be implanted, but they are not what you are.

  25. Re:No reason to light up snipers these days... on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 2

    The transitions in Egypt have been politically guided by the military, most likely in co-operation with some foreign help - for instance the US, because the US has a lot of interest in Egypt (supporting the past dictatorship too). The group who managed the first revolution and this one perfectly know how to channel the energy of the masses.

    Military should ideally be a politically neutral force. That's not true anywhere.