Comment Re:Results (Score 4, Funny) 52
Here's a video
Comment Re:Clint Eastwood asks... (Score 1) 50
Færa vinstri fæti áfram
Færa hægri fæti áfram
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Comment Han fired first (Score 1) 121
He didn't need no constitutional law.
Comment Giant rockets on the moon (Score 1) 150
Then when an killer asteroid is found, just push the moon in the way.
(Yes, I know that can't work. But it won't stop Hollywood from using it in a movie.)
Comment Re:And the answer is... (Score 4, Interesting) 150
It would be amusing to hook the angry robot up to one of those online automatic assistants.
Comment Project Ara (Score 1) 25
Hopefully not like Project Ava. Helpful hint: ok to meet the project lead, but don't spend a week with him.
Comment Re:I guess .sucks sucks (Score 1) 108
It's
Comment A weak spot (Score 1) 111
Caused by four states meeting together at one point.
Uber's Hiring Plans Show Outlines of Self-Driving Car Project 45
itwbennett writes The most interesting people that Uber is now hiring aren't drivers: they're engineers. The mobile ride-hailing app has listed a slew of jobs at its new Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh. In particular, Uber is looking for engineers in the areas of robotics, machine learning, communications, traffic simulation, vehicle testing, and software and hardware development.
Comment Re:Ironic headline (Score 3, Funny) 57
And the Belgians are waffling.
Comment Finally (Score 4, Funny) 137
We have someone to take the place of the Iraqi Information Minister. I miss that guy.
Comment Another kids computer book (Score 3, Interesting) 44
Reminds me of that well-known reference The Story of Ping
Comment I found your Battleship (Score 4, Funny) 114
Billionaires play Battleship with real battleships.
Submission + - FREAK Attack Threatens SSL Clients (threatpost.com)
msm1267 writes: For the nth time in the last couple of years, security experts are warning about a new Internet-scale vulnerability, this time in some popular SSL clients. The flaw allows an attacker to force clients to downgrade to weakened ciphers and break their supposedly encrypted communications through a man-in-the-middle attack.
Researchers recently discovered that some SSL clients, including OpenSSL, will accept weak RSA keys–known as export-grade keys–without asking for those keys. Export-grade refers to 512-bit RSA keys, the key strength that was approved by the United States government for export overseas. This was an artifact from decades ago and it was thought that most servers and clients had long ago abandoned such weak ciphers.
The vulnerability affects a variety of clients, most notably Apple’s Safari browser. The bug was discovered by a large group of researchers from Microsoft Research and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, and they found that given a server that supports export-grade ciphers and a client that accepts those weak keys, an attacker with a man-in-the-middle position could force a client to downgrade to the weak keys. He could then take the key and factor it, which researchers were able to do in about seven and a half hours, using Amazon EC2. And because it’s resource-intensive to generate RSA keys, servers will generate one and re-use it indefinitely.
Researchers recently discovered that some SSL clients, including OpenSSL, will accept weak RSA keys–known as export-grade keys–without asking for those keys. Export-grade refers to 512-bit RSA keys, the key strength that was approved by the United States government for export overseas. This was an artifact from decades ago and it was thought that most servers and clients had long ago abandoned such weak ciphers.
The vulnerability affects a variety of clients, most notably Apple’s Safari browser. The bug was discovered by a large group of researchers from Microsoft Research and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, and they found that given a server that supports export-grade ciphers and a client that accepts those weak keys, an attacker with a man-in-the-middle position could force a client to downgrade to the weak keys. He could then take the key and factor it, which researchers were able to do in about seven and a half hours, using Amazon EC2. And because it’s resource-intensive to generate RSA keys, servers will generate one and re-use it indefinitely.
Comment Oblig. (Score 5, Funny) 162
Human: "Get me a drink"
Robot: "I'm sorry,sir, you've had too many."
Human: " Sudo get me a drink"
Robot: "Ok"
