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  1. Amazing... on Quantum Cryptography Slowed by "Dead Times" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know, I'm glad someone explained this all. Critical network and security functions through a flexible content driven, media friendly derivative with parallel facing vector approaches which may or may not be hindered by dead times. This is an extremely proficient alternative to the traditional approach of deploying modular - forward facing designs and parallel vectors. The ramifications of parallelizations are altogether to high to ignore. So yes, I didn't understand it either. Did you?

  2. Watch out Mickeysoft on Trouble With MS Genuine Office Validation · · Score: 1

    Someone... Just released something for free

  3. Way of life on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1, Funny

    and I can't quite bear to buy Chinese while the Burmese military are shooting at monks with the Chinese Government as their biggest backer. You're right. By the way didn't I just see you leave Walmart?

  4. Unfair taxing on Internet Service Tax Moritorium Set To Expire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, this is insanely stupid bill. Let's take two people, Farmer Joe in Oregon and City Jake in New York City. Farmer Joe has Internet access for mundane tasks and will usually go online maybe 3 times a month to check weather stats, maybe check out the prices on Cattle feed. For his access he pays say 20.00 a month. City Jake in New York City - to make a long story short - lives online spending in excess of 12 hours daily. He pays 20.00 a month. Why should Farmer Joe now have to pay an Internet tax if he should, why should it be more than City Jakes taxes. What I can see happening is less usage over time as consumers will be less likely inclined to pay high fees for what is almost always in the home segment iffy service at best (how many times has your cable provider went down... DSL had issues). If this should happen it would mean less consumer spending throughout the country and world (why should I spend a 17% tax when I can walk to the mall). Politicians are just plain e-stupid

  5. Re:Stupid is as stupid does... on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the part where I mentioned education

  6. I'm confused... on Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned · · Score: 1

    'Developers are confused and divided about [the restrictions GPLv3 imposes], with fairly equal numbers agreeing with the restrictions, disagreeing with them, or thinking they will be unenforceable The conundrum... If a packet falls in an OSPF forest of Spanning Tress does it send an ICMP-Unreachable

  7. Stupid is as stupid does... on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    Schools have been told to confiscate mobile phones, and, more controversially, to investigate and get material removed from personal social-networking sites. And then what will they do? Bully the student to remove the offensive material... "If you don't remove that post about Timmy RIGHT THIS INSTANCE YOUNG MAN!!!" That's teaching them how not to bully others by bullying them.... Seriously, what about education for a change. Personally I don't think anyone carrying a phone in any school should be allowed to do so unless they're on the University level. When I was in school I never needed a phone for anything. Had I had a phone then, I'd likely be using using it to update my blog/Myspace/Facebook/Hi5/etcSpace... instead of focusing on whats more important (learning)..

  8. Irony continued... on Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I tried to call my local representative to have a word in with him about this and he hung up claiming he was on some form of Do Not Call list. Can you imagine that?

  9. Cartoony image on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Americans kept saying they'd provide the codes, but never did. Pictures tall kid dangling candy over another kids head. "Here you go" kid jumps... "Sucker..." "Here you go!" kid jumps again... "Sucker..."

  10. I wonder on End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has Moore ever heard of Murphy?

  11. The irony... on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 2, Funny

    In an interview after the speech, Gelsinger said there's typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology,

    In today's news, vendors worldwide urged one another to move quickly and get IPv6 deployed by the year 2025. When asked about the one or two year lag between the release of specs and the availability of the technology, vendors quickly pointed out the timeframe it took to implement Packet Over Bongo and IPv6 for Refrigerators. "It's been a long time in the making (IPv6) but we've finally succeeded in getting console connectivity to the fridge. We can now via a command prompt: finger lettuce" stated the happy refrigerator engineer. We never even knew of the existence of IPv4 for refrigerators. Engineers estimate another 20-80 year wait for IPv6.

  12. Responsible disclosure on Hacker Publishes Notorious Apple Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 3, Informative

    Love him or hate him Maynor did the right thing waiting to come out with his paper. Even with an NDA, anyone can publish something anonymously which he didn't do. Its sinful that corporations don't take this into consideration when dishing out credits to security researchers. As for the NDA, I'm going to guess it was probably with Atheros. For those looking for the page with Maynor's attack, its here OS X Kernel-mode Exploitation in a Weekend... Don't know why contributor didn't link it.

  13. Missedconception on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    The write up wasn't tailored for the home user it was written to make those in industry aware of the false representation Absolute was dishing out. "Track anyone". For me in the IT industry at a Fortune500 that means mitigating against corporate theft/espionage. As an IT/security/network/insert_other_titles_here engineer my main concern was being able to remotely wipe the machines in the event of a compromise - something Absolute states they could do. Oh yea, how are they going to wipe it from a company conducting corporate espionage. Do you think that companies that go this route (corporate espionage) hire rookies or someone off the street to swipe laptops loaded with company secrets. As a deterrence to lowly home machines sure, as a "corporate" protection tool it lacks. I'd stick with encryption to protect data else a thief is left with wiping it and having plastic, an LCD and metal.

  14. Re:Tracking on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    Did you read the information on the right... Wouldn't tell you nothing more than what network you're coming from. user1.tmobile.nyc.starbucks.com if you're lucky

  15. Re:Tracking on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    Again... I linked to Verichip directly which is doing something with Department of Defense (Coast Guard I believe) to replace dog tags. They can be tracked via satellite ;)

  16. Re:CompuTrace on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I suggest you read about Computrace and how they offered me money to hush and go away with their false claims. http://www.infiltrated.net/lojack.pdf

  17. Tracking on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well for Windows I can tell you LoJack for laptop sucks. You should try creating your own script. See the thing with Windows crapaganda based "trackers" is they mainly track to src IP of wherever their little daemons call from. Means nothing since most ISP's won't provide you with an IOTA of information without a court order. In most cases in bigger cities, your machine will be wiped by the pawn shop owner.

    If you want something truly truly effective, talk to a vet about something similar to Verichip. Find out whether you can perhaps open up the machine and place it somewhere. Anything else would have to be IP based. For that matter a shell script will tell you what network your machine is coming from, nothing more. Unless you get creative but chances are if its stolen 1) it will be sanitized from all software 2) HIGHLY likely anything NIX based will automatically be wiped unless its swiped at say Linuxworld Op or something

  18. Re:While you were sleeping on CastleCops.com Hit With Reputation-Based Attacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    No doesn't take as much as you think. http://www.arbornetworks.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=33 If NAP's and NSP's created a policy to their downstreams vis-a-vis this would almost be a thing of the past. http://www.infiltrated.net/?p=23 (warning if you're a network engineer, this will likely piss you off love it or hate it)

  19. While you were sleeping on CastleCops.com Hit With Reputation-Based Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know... A while back I rambled on about lazy ass engineers who have the capability to stop botnet DDoS traffic. Went unanswered, some mumbled those with the capabilities to stop it did nothing. As for the financial fraud occurring, its unfortunate but will likely be resolved too. Its a shame when people go out of their way to make things better only to be trampled upon. Kudos to Castlecop's team for their resiliency. As for the network engineers who peruse this site, this could one day be you too. Think about that before you decide to just brush away calls for assistance when dealing with botnets and attacks.

  20. Slashdot taints article study finds on Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis · · Score: 3, Funny

    The secret is out! Investigators are looking into whether or not millions of scientists have been using modified versions of SCIgen for their work. The FBI and Department of Termpaper Security have acknowledged the investigation but declined to speculate on the alleged ties between SCIgen and grammar terrorists citing a new law just passed by pResident Bush which allows warrantless underwear tapping.

    Authorities are also investigating the connections between Malda, Bush Laden, Bill Gates, Dvorak and Borat SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.

  21. AntiSocial society on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know, I love technology and all that it has done and is continuing to do, but I'm also starting to feel that technology is making a large portion of society very antisocial. When I was younger I used to enjoy going to the library, playing in the park etc., nowadays I see a huge portion of younger people skipping the libraries in favor of wikipedia or finding it online. Same goes for interaction, say dating... Why should someone head to a bar, coffeeshop, the laundrymat to meet someone when they could find it online. Alot of interaction has gone down the tubes and while it may be nice to think of an "e-classroom" of the future, I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't clown around in person as opposed to faking smiles behind a screen. Screw that give me some dirty smelly kids, jokes, teachers throwing chalk at me versus a "digital classroom"

  22. Unimpressive on New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux Supported · · Score: 4, Funny

    36 hours... Well after years and years most still have not cracked the method for avoiding the Slashdot effect

  23. Re:You can't "slap a Jap" anymore on Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm just so glad I have 5 moderator points. Now I will block you before you poison the minds of millions of /.er's

  24. Re:Totally Unprofessional on Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apparently you have some fucking sort of perception problem. Just the other day I was telling my boss to kiss my fucking ass after he'd left the meeting. In fact while walking to my car I was telling the marketing people how I thought they were so full of shit!

  25. Re:Mixed feelings... on Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know, I hope people keep this incident in mind if they are considering going to work for a disreputable company What you consider disreputable others consider reputable. Most businesses are in the business of making money, bottom line. There was a show I was watching yesterday where hot chicks were baiting married men to see if those men would cheat on their wives. How disreputable! To think that women would stoop so low to entrap someone will to do something illegal just makes me so mad.

    I think that an even worse fallout of all this is that companies are going to be even more anal about stuff like e-mail policies and such. At my company now, they content-block us from accessing Gmail. Boo hoo. Work is work not meant for personal stuff. Although some companies may allow it, you're there to do a job not worry about your Gmail account so grow up and get real.

    I'll be that companies will start doing crap like blocking employees from even sending e-mail to Gmail now, the attack vector that allowed these e-mails to get leaked. Poor policies allowed the company information to get leaked. Why the hell procedures weren't in place to prevent corporate email from going out on something other than a corporate server is puzzling but again, you're throwing personal feelings into the mix. Which part of *your* work contract specified "Check your Gmail hourly for personal mail". I don't think there is any corporate policy which specifies that.

    But still, even after having said all that, I love it when an evil company doing evil things gets their due like this. Evil things like what? What they were contracted to do. Personal feelings aside would a security engineer at your company be an asshole because he decided to block all and allow in specified hosts? Its his job is he an evil ass?