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Comment Re:Not the remote exploit many are looking for (Score 2) 41

I find it amusing to see how hard some people will work to try to compromise my inconsequential system.

Lol, same here. The only thing of value on my file server is the stuff I'm sharing publically anyways. When I look through my logs at all the fancy attack vectors I think to myself they'd be better off pointing a web browser at index.html, it would sure save them a lot of trouble.

Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575

The only answer is to vote 3rd party, otherwise you're just part of the problem by voting for a bad president. It doesn't matter if the 3rd-party candidate is destined to lose; it's that mentality that keeps the 3rd parties out of power, plus you can be held blameless for anything the president does if you didn't vote for him. If you vote for him and he's horrible, well you're to blame, and it's rather hypocritical to complain about him after-the-fact when you knew in the voting booth that he'd suck.

Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575

I didn't call you a liberal. My post was directed at all the Obama fans, not to you. Since you were bashing Obama, you obviously weren't much of an Obama fan or a tow-the-party-line liberal.

As for 2012, the answer is yes. Vote 3rd party. It's the only thing that makes sense, even if it's destined for failure. If you vote for a bad president, then you're partly responsible for all his actions. If you vote for someone else, you're not. Out of all these people complaining about Obama, if they actually voted for him, they're hypocrites, because they enabled him by voting for him. I voted for Johnson, so you can't blame me for any of Obama's messes. If more people had voted like me, we wouldn't be having so many problems.

Comment Re:Who drives $2,500 used sports cars? Teen boys (Score 1) 261

> TFA was bullshit when I saw the Supra on the list ranked at #4 (and the 3000 GT at #17). > They stopped making both of those cars well over 10 years ago

So they are sporty cars that are ten years old and now worth about $2,500. What kind of driver with $2,500 to spend on a car buys something sporty? Teenage boys, maybe?

Would teenage boys who drive sports cars be more likely to get tickets that a soccer mom in a minivan?

$2500? For a Supra?

The engine alone can command that.

Submission + - Hacking USB firmware

An anonymous reader writes: Now the NSA isn't the only one who can hack your USB firmware:

In a talk at the Derbycon hacker conference in Louisville, Kentucky last week, researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson showed that they’ve reverse engineered the same USB firmware as Nohl’s SR Labs, reproducing some of Nohl’s BadUSB tricks. And unlike Nohl, the hacker pair has also published the code for those attacks on Github, raising the stakes for USB makers to either fix the problem or leave hundreds of millions of users vulnerable.

Personally, I always thought it was insane that USB drives don't come with physical write-protect switches to keep them from being infected by malware.

Comment Re:Drink IPA (Score 1) 119

Really, this was modded up and mine was modded down? Have you never actually read anything about the history of the eruption? Everyone who was with him at the time was fine, he was the only one who was having trouble, because of his lousy health. Pliny the Younger blamed it on his "weak innards".

Comment Re:'Truman show' surveilance is the answer. (Score 1) 575

Indeed. Unfortunately that "security" does not include security for anyone criminal, and that by now includes everyone without immunity, including children. So in the end, all members of the police and all officials will have security and everybody else will be a criminal. Such is the way of the Police State.

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