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  1. What? on Boredom Drives Open-Source Developers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know... I was bored and decided to read this article then got an idea... Instead of wasting my life read /., what I should be doing is writing code....

    wget -qO - http://www.infiltrated.net/slashdot|\
    ruby -lne 'puts STDIN.readlines.reverse!.slice(0,2).reverse!;#suck er'|\
    perl -p -e 's/[0-9]//g;s/X/ /g'|\
    ruby -pe '$_ = $_.chomp + " " + gets if $. % 2'

  2. Oy ... on Transform a Regular LCD Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me know when some high end printing company bundles this so I can go to work on Photoshopping my paycheck. (For educational purposes of course)

  3. Re:Mismanaged... on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 1

    Means little to me personally In my arena. Not tooting my horn here but I have exhaustive experience with what I do. My job to be quite frank has more to do with me not wanting to go bonkers being @ home. I make more in consulting in a few hours then I do working...

  4. Alrighty then... on The Story Behind a Windows Security Patch Recall · · Score: 0

    The DLL that hosted the shell extension created a worker thread, so it did an extra LoadLibrary on itself so that it wouldn't get unloaded when COM freed it as part of CoUninitialize tear-down. ... and then waiting for the worker thread to respond with a "Okay, I'm all done" event." I usually am a brute and kill -9 things that won't listen. Lesson of the day? When in doubt kill -9 it all.

  5. Mismanaged... on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked for IBM as a contractor and I'm sure for anyone else who has worked there whether as a full time employee or as a contractor, I am not kidding when I say they are highly mismanaged. I worked as a security engineer responsible for managed firewall services they were doing and I was extremely frustrated at the methods upper management handled things. We'd often spend an hour to two hours over the phone talking about nonsense and waiting for others to join in on the calls. Mind you I worked from home so IBM wasn't spending on me what they did for their normal employees. Whenever I had to head to Southington CT, I would see nothing but waste. I won't be crying for any one of those workers, that's the name of the game, making money. I only wonder why it took so long since this was inevitable anyway.

  6. Depends on your view on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 1

    In the US "Rape is probably the most underreported crime in the United States" with that being said... If the person who was "e-raped" was a victim of a physical rape, the psychological effects of the rape can likely cause all sorts of mental issues. Its one thing to role play, and another to impose a view. My stance on it (as everyone's stance could ONLY be an opinion) is, if the victim was willing and playing along with a conversation, then no crime (if one could call it that) occurred. On the flip side, if I was sending unwanted images, audio, video, or anything else describing sexual actions against someone else's will, then I could side with maybe sexual harassment, or even aggravated sexual harassment. The definition of rape legally is defined as intercourse, which could never occur unless of course you've already discovered SoIP

  7. Millions of infections on 2012 Olympics Security to be Chosen by Sponsorship · · Score: 1

    Oh the drones of people who will get infected via XSS attacks. Nice to see there will be money to be made via this stupid mechanism for choosing IT security... It wasn't too long ago (April fools this year) where Cisco via an XSS attack posted something funny... Can you imagine the wet dreams malware authors, virus creators, and XSS injectors are having right now.

  8. Re:All about the benjamins on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    I actually have 50+ machines monitoring brute forcers... Rates have fluctuated give or take 2% for the past three months which means things aren't getting better, but they aren't getting worse.

  9. All about the benjamins on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    If others like Dell had better business sense, they'd look to stray away from MS or at least offer an alternative to it. They'd save from having to purchase (even via partnership sweetheart deals) MS' product line. What I could end envisioning though, is a slew of botnets and bruteforcing ssh hosts because of things like this though.

  10. Frivolous on Mahir To Borat, I Sue You! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know... I think I'll sue someone for something when I'm washed up and can't find an avenue to make money off of. When my 15 minutes of fame is up someone is getting subpoenaed I can tell you that much

  11. Brandt is a Republican on Wikipedia and Plagiarism · · Score: 0, Troll

    Brandt, who has long sparred with Wikipedia over an unflattering biography of himself, called on Wikipedia to conduct a throughout review of all its articles.... Sounds like he's a politician. So what I'm a jackass, I molest underage boys, send troops to die... Wiki is plagiarizing"

  12. Mission Accomplicate on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So Saddam is convicted of killing 148. The toll post-Saddam is 100,000 and counting (Iraqis) and 3,041 US military personnel. Beheadings don't count. If you ask me, I'd say 100,000 is not a bad number of casualties and we (GOP'ers) can justify the 3,041 Americans based on actionable intelligence that shows that Saddam Hussein was a terrorist.

    We can all forget about Darfur now its obvious there could never be a more evil tyrant than Saddam.

    America, we're (GOP'ers) asking you to forgive our sins, they're nothing more than political tricks by dems to sway the vote. We've brough gasoline prices down, we're bringing the troops home, we've got the largest unemployment ratio in five years. All is well. If you don't vote for us now, the dems will allow Rosary beads of mass destruction into America. They're (dems) secretly colluding with Osama, Kim Jong Il, and Idi Amin. And as God is our witness (keep in mind dems are really Satan worshipping sinners), if you don't vote for us terrible things will happen.

  13. In related news... on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 0, Troll

    President Bush signed a measure promising to bring home all American troops of the execution of Saddam is carried out before Election day, Army commanders say sorry to Rumsfeld, and media halt from association the GOP with NAMBLA. "Americans are now safer. Saddam will be justiced, our strong will on newkellur wehpinsh is showing in Korea. And our party is the party of God. This Tuesday, vote republican or Saddam's ghost will return." stated Bush at a NAMBLA convention...

  14. Natural Born Killer on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So we have one man responsible for thousand of deaths (Saddam) and they're now liberated. Only since the beginning of their liberation, they've actually being dying by the thousands. The irony.

  15. Cyberframing... on Cyber Bullying Destroys Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I wrote a document on the possibilities of someone having their lives shattered via e-Framing a while back Breaking Point. I saw it then as a method someone could screw someone else's life up in hopes to revise the document on how to protect one's self. I can see a black market economy in the shadows revolving around this same thing.

  16. What did I miss? on Community Patent Review Project Announced · · Score: 1

    American companies General Electric, IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have joined... The four companies, plus Red Hat, the world's biggest listed open source software business, are the lead sponsors...

    Did I miss something or could this have been written as:

    American companies General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat have joined with the New York Law School and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to inaugarate a new system of peer review for software patents.

    As for for the comment: " Red Hat, the world's biggest listed open source software business," ... Doesn't Sun with Solaris and Java qualify as "the world's biggest listed open source software business"... Even Novell with SuSE could qualify for that title.

  17. I swear I saw a butterfly on Automatic Image Tagging · · Score: 1

    at least that's what I told the psychologist. Then on the second look, it looked like splotched ink on a paper that was then folded in half... I hope this software doesn't think like me cause at the end of it all, I saw a segfaulted X server on fvwm

  18. Fugly Detector on GPS Phone Tells Others Where You Are · · Score: 1

    You know... A while back I was called by this hot sounding girl who dialed the wrong cellular #. I mean her voice made me think porn star Jenna... Long story short, I wanted to puke and I'm not kidding. Anyhow, this device could have saved me the headache and queasiness... Just think "Fugly girl @ three o'clock". How can I place my order?

  19. Wasting their time on MySpace to Use Audio Fingerprinting · · Score: 1
    What's to stop someone from simply (drum roll):

    posting an off-site link to illegal content

    ripping and saving under a different file type

    stop using MySpace and moving on to the next big hype It's their money let em waste it how they want. They should know by now its only a matter of time before whatever solution they use will be defeated.

  20. Just imagine... on Mining Neologisms from Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the chaos and reboots as the program analyzes a George W. Bush speech

  21. Re:This is NOT a big deal on SHA-1 Collisions for Meaningful Messages · · Score: 4, Informative
    Even if their test hardware could be accelerated from 33 MHz to 4 GHz, the process would still take 170,000 years. And even if a giant cluster of such machines were used, no collisions would be found within a realistic timeframe of a few years.


    The second reason to keep cool is just as important, if not even more so: hackers will have to execute a pre-image attack to manipulate, for instance, a contract that has been digitally signed. In other words, hackers will have to find a second, manipulated contract with the same hash value as the real contract. In principle, the number of operations needed is thus far greater (2160). Indeed, as far as we know all attacks to date have only concerned collisions, and Wang et al. does not change that. There are no known methods to reduce significantly the number of operations needed for pre-image attacks.

    Don't you think you're flying off the meter here a bit... Just because a collision was found means truly little. So a garbage laced HTML page was created after the actual HTML closing tag... 1) No one will see what comes after that unless you like viewing the source of a webpage as opposed to an actual page. 2) You should read up on birthday paradoxes. If someone created two similar messages, it would take years for them to figure out how to compute a hash to match. Now in the field of sending out something so so so secure, what makes you think that even if a someone did re-computate a hash to match, that message would be worth anything years down the line. Someone would have to be able to accomplish a collision, re-computate the hash in their new message and send it all within minutes for it to truly be a threat.

    Let's look at this scenario... A massive kernel update is made to say Linux... The information is hashed, posted, and everyone is now going to update their Linux boxes... Unless someone is so quick fast to intercept along this path, most are safe unless they choose to verify the hash years down the line (which by then would be worthless). So unless someone can exploit this within minutes (no more than I would guesstimate 36 hours), I see little reason to get all bent out of shape over this...

  22. ph1rst of 4ll on An 'Ethical Hacker' On Protecting Your Identity · · Score: 0

    Data Thefts have been so rampant there is likely little this article says for pointers. You can have ubersecurity skills and all it takes is the theft from your bank and everything you've done is down tubes. The article if you ask me was meant for those new to the net and did nothing to give me insight. Flame on, moderate away but lets be realistic, the article did nothing for me.

  23. So that's the ticket on The 50 Worst Videogame Names of All Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wild Woody huh... Could've been worse, they could have had a sequel. "Wild Woody meets Mad Pussy" or something

  24. Sure... on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: -1, Troll

    The government can't even secure their own networks from people stealing personal data off machines, they expect me to believe they'l implement IPv6... Right. Then again wasn't Bush promising to put someone on Mars too...

  25. don't messenger shoot... on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    a few of the writers on the AP Computer Science list serve suggest, that it is genetics that make white males far more interested and effective in the computer science arena ... Blah blah blah... We've got a problem in computer science education and it's two fold. First, we are the only curriculum area where, as Ed Lazowska said at this year's Computer Science and Information Technology Symposium attached to NECC stated, equity between young men and women is actually going in reverse. ... Since computer science is almost throwing away half of its potential enrollees by not attracting young women, many school districts are simply shutting down their computer courses. ... Now most teachers have not been just sitting on their hands and letting this situation continue. There are many groups from Carnegie Mellon's 6APT to the Northwest Girls Collaborative Project that have offered well reasoned suggestions for ways of improvement that many teachers have take to heart. ... blah blah blah