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Comment Better learn to be specific ! (Score 2) 387

Well coding, is the prime example where things that are not specific engouh, either fail totally or are COMPLETLY INSECURE (Pretty Happy Parsing errors)

You don't need to learn to code, you just need to learn how to describe something, that it can be reproduced within a certain margin of error. This is the description of a specification.

And you might say "reproducable yes, but does it work ?"
Not if the working condition is not specified.

If you can describe somehting acurate, THEN YOU CAN program!

Hint:
Good practice for writting "good"(see upper description) specifications:

- one page introduction make it 1/4 of a page
- List interfaces
- List operating conditions
- List operating requirements
- List ordering/delivery conditions
- List storage conditions
- List mounting unmounting possibilites and conditions (yes this includes tools and tool sizes)
- do the D-FMEA as easy as dancing YMCA !

based on this list collection of data you need to provide, if the data isn't 100% acurate and you know that, take an educated guess, (calculate, use your engineering skills, use previous data set a trigger level of acceptable conditions)

Comment We need to crack down on doormakers too ! (Score 1) 335

Because low cost and easy to acquire doors from doormakers (there might even be discount door sellers !) protect children from being seen when they get abused.

Join, the remove all doors movement, we provide you the feeling of being better people, because you can morally pic on others that don't want to declare to you why they love to fuck asses or wear sissy dresses, or just want to be who they are .. unwatched & unsuppressed.

Comment Don't play with gravity & impulse !! (Score 1) 365

One word, nobody shall undertake commercial mining operations on the moon, anybody does, shall be killed by nuclear warheads.

Because if done wrong, we could get the moon moving more rapidly away from the earth or the other way around. Impacting masses on moon and earth also play a role, but at the moment the moon gets 5cm more distant per year.

We are in the need of Spacepeace.

Comment Coding is freedom (Score 1) 123

However not everybody needs to be a coder.

Also the essence of worth expressed instead of LOC can better be expressed by the following equation:

Worth = LOC / TAB * TAC * RCEF * PI() * e() * cos(90)

LOC: Lines of code
TAB: Tasks achivable
TAC: Tasks achieved
RCEF: Relative Computing Effieciency Factor

pppppps.
Irony as in steel ;)

Comment All Wrong (Score 1) 267

1.) Tape is fast - your sata2 hdd will hardly be able to support a steady flow of data to an LTO5 drive (SAS 3/6gbs)
Disadvantage - no random access but that's not what tape is usefull

2.) proprietary - partly wrong if you want to use those vendor lock in products (cheaper drive - expensive cartridges)
LTO5 (and next LTO6) is downward compatible at least one version you can read data from your LTO5 tape with a LTO6 drive

3.) unreliable
in which way ? due to it's crc and sophisticated(develloped over decades) error correction tech

4.) idiots with money to burn buy one disk drive after another if they don't chose to invest more into the drive an be cheaper on the long run as the media price for (Example LTO5) is extremly low, especially if you find good unopened goods on ebay

Perhaps you got it, I'm a happy LTO5 (private, HD movie filmer) user and I occasionally look at ebay for cheap "10x Sony/Fujutsu/HP" disk packs, unopened, then I pay as low as 5€ per 1TByte, I don't need to buy new 4TB drives for backup, where the price per 1TB equals 40-45€

Comment J.Kimmel show kid says "Kill everyone in China!" (Score 3, Interesting) 519

Ok, will China go to war ? I think there is no default choice here, because chinese rulers decide a bit machivellistic, and therefore they have recognized that
China cannot sustain it's own growth of population, wealth(=CO2 Emission), industrial production(=Self polution) these factors lead to social unrest and
this is the last thing the rullers want. Looking back into the past(Tienamen Square Masacre) there is a chinese solution to social unrest - use the patriots view and direct it to an outside scapegoat / enemy.

Japan is the enemy number one, also for historic reasons - japanese nationalism has done it's part in the situation we are in now (masacres, rapes, torture / WWII)
and Japan is an easy enemy because on the one hand it's military force is specialised in defending(the main islands) but what comes in handy is the blood & death bonding with the U.S.

So in reality China wants to demonstrate strength against the U.S. and Japan comes in second(Shinzo Abe - tries to alter the "National Defense Force" into a "National Offense Force" and what gives me the creeps is that Japans tendency for nationalistic thinking is very similar to the chinese view.

China is in a deadlock situation for it's ambitions as a regional superpower, from the military capacity they are. (Nukes, Missiles, Destroyers, Subs, (experimental)Carriers)

The deadlock consists of
Japan:
- Japan is under direct U.S. protectorate, if China attacks, U.S. are about to react.
- China must find out if the U.S. will react or just play the non aggression card and give up on some rocks in the boiling sea

Taiwan
- U.S. allies
- like swizerland - if someone attacks, they will secure the country by trip/tank mines and asymetric tactics, the only chance to win
for China without paying an extreme death toll would be to blast Taiwan of the earth (Nukes)

Vietnam
- they don't like China, and feel threatened by China, espicially when China held back some good for vietman during the war

Philipines
- U.S. allies

And well those deserted rocks in the boiling sea are the weakest target, but are a lithmus test for the unconditional military support for Japan to be supported by the U.S. But if China's leaders don't watch their steps closely they could really "kill everyone in China".

Comment Wrong, please read how he describes himself (Score 4, Insightful) 241

1.) he was someone especially motivated by power and manipulating others
2.) MAO-A gene that has been linked with aggressive behavior
3.) is family line included seven alleged murderers

It's not all bad genes, but his genes affect his behaviour pretty strong, and the genes(family line) increase the chance of turning into a murderer.

The question is when will the trigger level be reached where he cannot suppress the violent tendencies and go postal. Yes he might have learned to emphasize
or simply learned to emulate it pretty convincing. And there is another question perhaps some folks at slashdot don't have the mild form of asperger but are just psychopaths, and get into a rage like "Hans Reiser".

So psychological conditioning is very important in these cases too, do you get a bonus for treating people in a human way or in an inhuman way.

- Is your peer group awarding you for helping someone or for calling someone a sissy, faggot or else ?
- Do you get a bonus if you treat your fellow workers with respect or you just use their burned out corpses as a ladder for your own success

And well taking these additional thoughts into consideration - soldiers are trained not to emphasize with the enemy, soldiers being awarded for brave behaviour (brave=where mostly the basis is a good rage like killing spree) - amok runs like the one in washington are a consequence of this trained behaviour and genetic disposition.

And the major question is how would a psycho-scan of the GOP and the Democrats turn out, because if you recall the term "liberal sissy" it carries a very distinct aggressive undertone and aims at casting someone out of a social group, and these are sociopahs (read: "manipulating others").

It's genes it's the environment it's the education the question is is there any free will or just a trigger level a source and a drain ?

Comment Suggestions to fight back - here are some (Score 1) 256

Hi,

the main problem is that anybody entering slashdot.org in the addressbar expects to get the data slashdot sends,
but as this MIM attack has shown, this data can be altered even for hand picked connections, these attacks were discussed in the past.

So we have a key problem here:

data transmission is compromised (yes even now it is compromised, because european traffic travels over great britian)
- by this compromise I cannot authentificate that slashdot.org data is really displayed to me (I cannot authentificate that I really communicate with /.)
- by this compromise I cannot authentificate that the data displayed doesn't contain an additional payload

the "solutions" in place to this day are

"https" - is compromised
this will display a warning if the certificate does not match the domain, this solution however is compromised today, because if
you have access to the private key you can fake the data as it is not encrypted. The private key exists in two places /. and the CA

Also your browser needs to be supplied with valid certificates (public keys) however if you take a look at what CAs issue these trustworthy keys
you could leaving your door wide open won't matter.

Also if the ssl cipher used is rc4, well you don't even need to know the private key you just crack the communication.

"VPN" - compromised
- needs a CA infrastructure
- cisco

The solution to this problem are the tor hidden services, /. needs to start a hidden service

pro
1.) the communication is authentificated, as long as /. does not give their XD48484jdd.onion key out of their hands (vs. NSL)
2.) MIM attacks are possible but are extremly complicated
3.) the communication is end-to-end encrypted

Please /. just start a hidden service, and annoy those GCHQ guys.

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