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  1. Re:ISPs should meter their customers on Netflix Changes Course, Says It Will 'Never Outgrow' Fight For Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your numbers and/or units are wrong.

    > 33,480,000 bytes

    That is only 33.48 megabytes.

    But your error is before that.

    3600 * 24 * 31 = 2678400 sec/month (that one you got right)
    2678400 sec/month * 100,000,000 bits/sec = 267,840,000,000,000 bits/month (you had an error here)
    267,840,000,000,000 bits/month / 8 bits/byte = 33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month
    33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month / 1,000,000,000 bytes/gigabyte = 33,480 gigabytes/month
    33,480 gigabytes/month * 15 $/gigabyte = $502,200

  2. Re:There is one good thing on 32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Optical scanner systems have been hacked already.

  3. Re:Open Source And Would Not Be Here on Dangerous 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Flow To Top Security, Software Tools (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How long has OpenSSL been open source and had major vulnerabilities before they were found?

  4. Re:Weak in Mid-Atlantic states on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why there isn't a standard based on FM radio- since just about all the FM stations now broadcast digital information, including the time.

    Two possible reasons:
    1) the receiver would still be more complex
    2) lack of a single, standard frequency to set the receiver for.

  5. Re:Way to miss the point! on LibreSSL Unaffected By DROWN · · Score: 1

    And what library did OpenBSD use for SSL/TLS before LibreSSL? Oh wait, it was that same OpenSSL as Linux, until Heartbleed caused them to fork the project and clean it up.

  6. Re:It's a hacked Deja Vu on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Pro's is awful. Mainly "a", "c", "e", and "s".

  7. Re:Also, who does not separate drive control? on Why Car Info Tech Is So Thoroughly At Risk · · Score: 2

    Normally there are two _separate_ CAN busses, one which handles all the critical crap, and one which handles the infotainment and comfort stuff. There's a module which connects the two, providing read-only queries from the second to the first. None of the hacks breached this system.

    Oh really? Then how did that Jeep Cherokee hack via the infotainment system work?

    from http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h... (emphasis mine)

    As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That's when they cut the transmission.

    Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.

  8. Re:More proof... on Manipulating Microsoft WSUS To Attack Enterprises · · Score: 1

    Is it any different then say apt-get using unsecured http or ftp connections?

    In addition to the package .deb files being signed, the official package repositories have signed package indexes. I suppose one could just serve up a modified index without a signature, but apt might warn or error on that. (I haven't checked this part)

  9. Re:Mod parent up. on $340 Audiophile Ethernet Cable Tested · · Score: 2

    From the cable tear-down, it does not appear that either end had any of the shielding connected to the plug shield.

    With XLR cable connections, you have your shield, which IS connected at both ends, and your signal ground, which is isolated from the shield.

  10. Re:Walnut Creek CD-ROM on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 1

    I actually have a number of them, though without the case inserts and booklets...

    Here, have some Linux CD labels or some for online services.

  11. Re:I found it works on Slashdot on Researcher Bypasses Google Password Alert For Second Time · · Score: 1

    Hey....

  12. Re:I found it works on Slashdot on Researcher Bypasses Google Password Alert For Second Time · · Score: 1

    12345sameAsMyLuggage

  13. Re:Who cares? on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The researchers believe that Mumblehard is also installed on servers compromised via Joomla and Wordpress exploits"

    So, not just from downloading the "cracked" mailer program.

  14. Re:Spamming daemon packed inside ELF binary on Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA: "The researchers believe that Mumblehard is also installed on servers compromised via Joomla and Wordpress exploits"

  15. Re:Don't they care about the sales tax revenue? on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    However, I don't know offhand if you can get a MI tag on a car titled in another state.

  16. Re:Don't they care about the sales tax revenue? on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Not when registered (getting a plate) but when you transfer the title between owners.

  17. Re:It's a Republican Thing on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And for the irony, aren't the Republicans usually all for the free market and against restrictions? But here they're pushing for the opposite: restrict the market to block out competition and support the entrenched.

  18. Re:what's that going to accomplish? on FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption · · Score: 1

    This article talks about Intel's design, which is based on two inverters in a ring. Both inverters are forced to the same state and then left to settle into one state or the other based on thermal noise. There's a bit more to it, but that is the basis.

  19. Re:Coulda swore... on DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters · · Score: 1

    Boston Dynamics has been working on varieties of this concept since the late 1990s or early 2000s. In 2005 they came out with a lighter version called BigDog. (The LS3 is apparently the next phase of the BigDog project). Here is a video from 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBG-nSRcrQ

  20. Re:Industrial espionage on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about just doing a boot-time truecrypt volume? They can't boot the system from the hard drive, and booting from a live CD/USB is also useless, as the data on the hard drive is encrypted. (unless they want to take the time to image the whole hard drive so they can work on cracking it elsewhere)

  21. Re:No, not his right. on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    You might want to check to see if Archive Team was able to save any of that person's MobileMe data. Here is a form you can use to find a user's data: http://www.archive.org/download/archiveteam-mobileme-index/mobileme-20120817.html

    Note: that search page requires javascript in order to function.

  22. Re:It would be interesting... on US Navy Funds 'MacGyver' Robot · · Score: 1

    And then, when the ship's computer is damaged, they open several time windows into 18th century France for a replacement?

  23. Re:Just self defense on Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat · · Score: 1

    Where, exactly, did I say that it was alright?

  24. Re:Just self defense on Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat · · Score: 2

    Even in a no-knock raid, if you fire on the police, and especially if you kill one of them, you are going to be in for a world of hurt from the brotherhood of blue.

  25. Re:Why not? on Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now try again, without requiring flashing a custom OS version or root. The average user is not going to do any of that.