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Comment Re:Just a assumption (Score 1) 334

by cc1984_ (#36566690) Attached to: UK Sticks With Nuclear Power

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

Reported deaths: 1 (heart attack)

Let's put that in perspective, the Bhopal disaster (chemical based) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release

In fact, 1 death is on a par with the number of deaths related to people putting lava lamps on stoves (that we know of)

Comment Re:Apress products are highly suspect (Score 1) 55

by cc1984_ (#36245032) Attached to: Book Review: Camel In Action

Apress prints up the developer's notes directly without any editing or proof-reading. The text and illustrations and intellectual content were of sub-standard quality throughout. Thus I found it almost completely useless.

Thus I found it almost completely useless.

You might want to proof-read your own posts before posting.

Also, where's the relevance to Apress in this review? It is Manning Publications who are publishing Camel in Action

Comment Re:Well, not really... (Score 1) 298

by cc1984_ (#36185148) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots?

Proactively? Not really. The systems used for this are typically overseas, in countries that more or less don't care.

However, you -can- configure your server to disregard even initial connection attempts from specific ranges of IP addresses. I solved a lot of this on my own home FTP server by (sorry comrads) telling my server to ignore connection attempts from Russia and China.

Upon doing so, it went from a daily occurrence, to maybe one attempt a month. Usually less.

And, if a friend ever needs to FTP in from one of these countries, it's a simple enough rule change.

That's a pretty good idea. I take it you use the ip blocks given in http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/

The only slight snag is that the IP I'm on at work in the UK doesn't seem to be listed, so I'm not sure how reliable this list is, although I guess a false negative is better than a false positive.
Hardware Hacking

The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw 845

Posted by Soulskill from the licensing-the-operation-of-the-circuitry-inside dept.
Pickens writes "Network World reports that in the past if you wanted to remove the outer case on your iPhone 4 to replace the battery or a broken screen, you could use a Phillips screwdriver to remove two tiny screws at the base of the phone and then simply slide off the back cover. But now Apple is replacing the outer screw with a mysterious tamper-resistant 'pentalobular' screw across its most popular product lines, making it harder for do-it-yourselfers to make repairs. What about existing products in the field? Pentalobular screws might find their way into them, too. 'Apple's latest policy will make your blood boil,' says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit. 'If you take your iPhone 4 into Apple for any kind of service, they will sabotage it by replacing your Phillips screws with the new, tamper-resistant screws. We've spoken with the Apple Store geniuses tasked with carrying out this policy, and they are ashamed of the practice.' Of course, only Apple-authorized service technicians have Pentalobular screwdrivers and they're not allowed to resell them. 'Apple sees a huge profit potential,' says Wiens. 'A hundred dollars per year in incremental revenue on their installed base is a tremendous opportunity.'"
Government

UK ID Card Scheme Data Deleted For £400K 149

Posted by timothy from the mere-pocket-change dept.
DaveNJ1987 writes "It will cost the British government only £400,000 to destroy the data for its failed ID card initiative. The data compiled by the National Identity Register, which was scrapped last year by the coalition government, will be disposed of for the relatively small sum — in government figures — Home Office minister Damian Green confirmed."
Bug

Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs 481

Posted by CmdrTaco from the software-is-hard dept.
surveyork writes "Firefox 4.0 beta 9 (AKA 'a huge pile of awesome') was released on January 14, 2011. Firefox 4's release schedule includes a beta 10 and a release candidate before the final launch in late February. However, one wonders if this schedule won't slip again, since there are still more than 100 'hardblocker' bugs, more than 60 bugs affecting Panorama alone and 10 bugs affecting the just-introduced Tabs-on-Titlebar. Some long-standing bugs won't be fixed in time for Firefox 4 final either (example, example). Many startup bugs are currently pending, although Firefox 4 starts much faster than Firefox 3.6. As a side note, it's unlikely that Firefox 4 final will pass the Acid3 test, despite this being a very popular demand amongst Firefox enthusiasts. Perhaps we'll have to wait until Firefox 4.1 to have this 'huge pile of bugs' (mostly) fixed."

Comment Re:Facepalm (Score 5, Informative) 206

by cc1984_ (#33433518) Attached to: Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS'

I know you're trolling but let me explain why the UK does what it does.

The Sale of Goods act (1953) was brought into being to protect the consumer from shops palming off problems to the manufacturer. Your equipment is faulty? Send it back to the manufacturer. The book you bought has pages missing? Phone up the publisher to get it replaced. With this act the retailer is obliged to offer a replacement to the purchaser and it becomes the retailer's responsibility to get a replacement from the manufacturer. No flux capacitor required.

Comment Re:'aggressive' waste of time (Score 2, Funny) 160

by cc1984_ (#33355990) Attached to: <em>Halo Reach</em> Leaked To Filesharing Sites

Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.)

Secret websites are nothing special. The only thing that Microsoft forgot to do is create a robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /SecretDownloads/Halo-Reach-Prerelease.zip

That way it wouldn't have shown up on Google and nobody would have downloaded it. Problem solved.

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