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Comment Don't you think it's a little late now? (Score 5, Insightful) 225

This has been A LONG time coming. Decades of mission creep, no one complains. But now that it's come back to bite us in the Gluteus maximus, we're all surprised? Personally, I love the idea that it's happening. Sure, I'll probably be one of the ones tortured and jailed for no other reason than "suspicious activity". And I'm not looking forward to that bit at all. But people have been screaming at us that this was going to happen. And no one listened. You reap what you sew, etc. As it was stated in the past, When they start coming for you, it's too late to change things.

Comment Re:Skyclad? (Score 4, Interesting) 258

I watch porn. I enjoy adults performing a natural function. And I have no reason to pirate porn. LITERALLY a search engine away and you have streaming porn. I mean, You have to really enjoy a certain actor to go as far as pirating a video. And then, why not show that you enjoy their work by paying for it? And to those that don't think performing on screen while performing sex acts is work, I would disagree. While I personally have never done so, I can imagine it is quite uncomfortable at times. "Hey earl, Stop, stop, stop! You are doing it wrong, You see her face? She should be begging and you aren't performing like you should. Get out of the way, john, take earls place, he is terrible today." I know that would hurt on a professional and emotional level. >.>

Comment Re:I hope (Score 2) 353

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#43704645) Attached to: Engineering the $325,000 Burger

Um, wouldn't the ethical vegetarian become ethical non-vegetarians...

This interests me greatly. I have never had meat in my life, for ethical reasons. I'd eat this thing, though.

I'm curious if this would one day allow human muscle tissue to be sold. I saw this weird movie where most, if not all diseases were cured, and there was a obsession with celebrities. If they got a virus, it would be sold at a high price. And their vat grown muscle tissue was sold at a local deli.
Power

Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America 89

Posted by samzenpus from the guided-by-the-light dept.
First time accepted submitter markboyer writes "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The 'Across America' tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."

Comment Re:keep it read only: Two wires (Score 1) 113

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#42953743) Attached to: Utilities Racing To Secure Electric Grid

Only connect one data link and ground, and it will be secure. Run a balanced pair if you are feeling fancy. If the receiver can keep up, you don't even need flow control lines. Problem solved.

You could just set a led that blinks when there is something wrong and have a 2 dollar webcam monitor it. If someone manages to force data through a led that isn't configured for such activity, they have won the internet and deserve access.

Comment Re:Question: How do get my employer aware? (Score 4, Interesting) 119

So I work at a large grocery store. How do I get my IT department up to date on this issue?. We have been compromised in the past and I have been noticing some strange things showing up on my terminals.

If your IT department isn't already on top of it, you have much bigger problems.

Comment Re:dd (Score 1) 193

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#41861427) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media?

With dd you can create an exact image. Unfortunately you need to figure out if your hard drive can be read in a modern system. Xenix aka OpenServer was far more popular than Unixware in the x86 arena so I wonder what kind of architecture it is?

Here are the steps 1. Create a Linux system 2. Hook up the hard drive to it and mount it (Can Linux read Unixware formatted volumes?) and then run dd off the old hard drive and output it as a binary to the new hard drive. 3. Find a Virtualization solution that is compatilbe to load the image in

I doubt VMWare supports Unixware but it might. This is going to be a challenge and I know you may hate me for saying it but keep the server. Unless there is a new version of the software that is Linux compatible why fix what isn't broken? Keep in mind old SCO is Tarantula and owns Unixware. New SCO aka SCO Group does not own Unixware but is a just a licensing troll.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO-9.html Quote from page: The support for BFS is included in the Linux kernel since version 2.3.25. If you are using an earlier kernel, check if BFS homepage contains a patch which adds support for this filesystem. The homepage also contains bugfixes/enhancement which are not yet merged into the official kernel.

Comment Re:subject (Score 1) 284

by allaunjsilverfox2 (#41748635) Attached to: PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked

Honest question: I do have an updated PS3 (yeah slashdot, judge me). I'm not interested on pirated games, but I may be interested on homebrew stuff (emulators and stuff like that). That leak will make that possible for me?

Umm...I may be in the wrong here, but I'm assuming you don't have the carts to the games you want to emulate. Which would make you interested in pirated games. If you do have the carts, More power to you!
Bug

Sophos Anti-Virus Update Identifies Sophos Code As Malware 245

Posted by timothy from the auto-immune-disease dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday afternoon anti-virus company Sophos Inc. released a normal anti-virus definition update that managed to detect parts of their own software as malicious code and disabled / deleted sections of their Endpoint security suite, including its ability to auto-update and thus repair itself. For many hours on the 19th, Sophos technical call centers were so busy customers were unable to even get through to wait on hold for assistance. Today thousands of enterprise customers remain crippled and unable to update their security software." Sophos points out that not everyone will be affected: "Please note this issue only affects Windows computers."

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