Comment hack the planet (Score 4, Insightful) 66
knee-jerk reactions are the norm not the exception to security disclosure, and I doubt he has some leeto 0-day to destroy the world with.
Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 186
Actually worse
You have super-cleared individuals, cleared individuals, or non-cleared individuals.
And who becomes cleared depends on how much paperwork your willing to push to do it.
Comment Re:Living paycheck to paycheck? (Score 2) 355
You and third world dictators love their slushfunds. Government auditors don't though.
Comment Oh look the d word (Score 4, Insightful) 212
"However, the diet was also important for creating the right conditions for the lean twin's bacteria to flourish. A bacterial obesity therapy seems unlikely to work alongside a a diet of greasy burgers."
Guess what, proper diet still required.
Comment Re:Seems to be a systemic problem. (Score 1) 144
Agreed, first week out of the gate it was a feature stripped train wreck that also crashed every half hour.
The problem I have with Google products is the one of constant reinvention. Every 6 months - 1 year they roll out the next Gmail, due to the next "A-team" developer group working on reinventing web email.
Youtube post google-buyout is the worst, they reinvent the website, ignore the actual common problems people experience from the service. They just now, in the past month, added a play icon to show which tab was playing a video. They will never fix the oddities with the buffering and streams until they actually sink some serious dev time into HTML5 (and better) video player logic. I personally have to fight with my Youtube quality setting because it doesn't understand how and when to switch quality settings.
But god help them they'll redesign the way you can roll over videos on your intro page. Every god damn update.
Comment Disprove = free paper (Score 2) 163
Analyze that elemental analysis, if it's obviously fabricated publish short refuting paper in a better journal
Or offer ACS to print it if ACS is the best in the industry, boom name recognition and easy paper.
Comment Re:That's Impossible! (Score 1, Insightful) 148
Introducing the new Viri virus scanner, for only $30 it will prevent all infections and coo to you while it does it!
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Comment Chinese no-names to the rescue (Score 1) 272
1. Something like this
2. With another something like this
It will give you MMS, recording in 720p, and ability to yell at them in korean to get out of your store.
Comment Re:How was it broken into again? (Score 1) 272
Right, could be insider threat.
Comment Cloud (Score 1) 231
Just what I need, the reliability of Amazon cloud systems in my vehicle.
Submission + - Emergency Alert System hacked, warns dead rising from graves (krtv.com)
Rawlsian writes: "Great Falls, Montana, television station KRTC issued a denial of an Emergency Alert System report that 'dead bodies are rising from their graves.' The denial surmises that 'someone apparently hacked into the Emergency Alert System...This message did not originate from KRTV, and there is no emergency.'"
Comment 20 million government project? (Score 5, Funny) 56
"interoperable, scalable, cost-effective advanced tools that do not impede critical energy delivery functions, that are innovative and can easily be commercialized or made available through open source for no cost."
Choose two.
Submission + - Yahoo! Pushing Java Version Released in 2008 (krebsonsecurity.com)
futhermocker writes: From TFA:
"At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions ofJava,Yahoo!is pushing many of its users in the other direction: The free tool that it offers users to help build Web sites installs a dangerously insecYahoo! has offered SiteBuilder to its millions of users for years, but unfortunately the tool introduces a myriad of security vulnerabilities on host PCs.SiteBuilder requires Java, but the version of Java that Yahoo! bundles with it isJava 6 Update 7. It’s not clear if this is just a gross oversight or if their tool really doesn’t work with more recent versions of Java. The company has yet to respond to requests for comment.
"At a time when Apple, Mozilla and other tech giants are taking steps to prevent users from browsing the Web with outdated versions ofJava,Yahoo!is pushing many of its users in the other direction: The free tool that it offers users to help build Web sites installs a dangerously insecYahoo! has offered SiteBuilder to its millions of users for years, but unfortunately the tool introduces a myriad of security vulnerabilities on host PCs.SiteBuilder requires Java, but the version of Java that Yahoo! bundles with it isJava 6 Update 7. It’s not clear if this is just a gross oversight or if their tool really doesn’t work with more recent versions of Java. The company has yet to respond to requests for comment.
Comment Never should have happened (Score 5, Interesting) 419
It never should have happened in the first place. Ethanol uses absurd amounts of energy to produce because you have to boil water from it
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329132436.htm)
This is not something we can tech out of. It's always going to be wasteful and one of the worst possible fuel choices for vehicles.
Comment Re:PC Load letter (Score 2) 113
Inflatable/expandable structures are weaker, leak more, and have more points of failure than a rigid pre-defined structure. It's one of the reasons why the ISS is the shape it is.
