Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 75
Who needs life size, I'd be happy with a Dead or Alive "Ayane" action figure with silicone boobs. I am tired of paying top yen for these figures.
I had mod points yesterday, now I don't. I would have given them all to you.
Fuck Slashdot's moderator policies.
Why would you use vi bindings in Emacs? Why not just use vim? ViperMode is especially terrible, it doesn't implement the function of vi's "f" or "t" commands, which I use only a million times every day.
There are like 20 forks of Firefox for Linux already, I can't even keep track of them all: Iceweasel, Seamonkey, Icecat, Swiftfox, Flock,
There are even more based on WebKit.
I have a hard time believing that Santorum actually expected to have a chance at this stage. My mother is a Neo-conservative Christian party-line voter, and even she is considering voting for Obama again; and not because she likes him. The entire GOP lineup is a mess.
Wow, neo-conservative christians hate mormons that much? So much that they would actually consider voting Democrat if given the choice? That's hard to believe.
Well done. Now, what about the other 200 patents that cover that exact same algorithm?
Also, it seems tapes are always trying to catch-up with improved hard disk technology, but they never do. Sure, 8 terabytes seems good now, so the "next generation" of tapes will be able to backup data from 8 1TB hard disks, which might be OK until about 5 years from now when 8 terabyte hard disks come out. Then all of a sudden a simple RAID-1 array of 8TB disks is as large as your next generation tape used to be, and has the advantage of both random-access and redundancy. So for all your investment in tapes, it turns out it may have been easier to just upgrade your RAID disk arrays with larger disks.
Really, tapes have a niche for storing data that no one will ever need to read once it is written, which is common in industries that have regulations requiring them to store records for a certain period of time before deleting them.
Does using the tablet have smooth and instant responsiveness? At the end of the day, that's all that matters. Tegra 100 or ipad 100 won't matter if the OS that uses it isn't smooth and keeps up with the user interactions. Consumers just care about experience, how they get there isn't of interest to anyone other than nerds.
At the end of the day, if it only lasts for 30 minutes on a full battery charge, then your smooth and responsive tablet with it's watt-guzzling high memory bandwidth is worthless, and consumers will care very much about that.
The article focused on how often or for how many minutes certain files and programs on the lost phones were accessed. 57% of the time the "stored passwords" file was accessed, and 66% of the time, a "Login/Password" screen was accessed which had the password auto-completed so anyone could have access to the account, for whatever service it was (not mentioned in the article).
What they didn't check for was how many people were like you:
I always look for a contact named ME, HOME, MOM, WIFE, ICE, etc. so that I can find out who the phone belongs to and get it properly returned.
So this research is a bit spurious: in their analysis they make NO attempt to isolate cases of natural and innocent curiosity with cases of malicious intent, they just assume all access of the device was malicious. But looking at a passwords file may well have just been someone thinking "what kind of password does this guy use?", and not someone looking to steal their identity. If I find a phone, I am very curious to know what kind of horrible things might have happened to this person if a criminal had found this phone instead of me.
He is mounting "/dev/sdb1" to "/tmp". Most Linux systems mount the in-memory only "tmpfs" to "/tmp", so data written to it is in memory only. Unless the pages comprising "tmpfs" are swapped to disk, none of this information should ever even touch the hard disk. But the way he set it up, "/dev/sdb1" will capture all terminal data. Why would you even set it up this way to begin with? It's not the default setup.
This is pretty stupid. Not a security vunerability, just another thing to be careful of -- never mount a physical disk to "/tmp".
If someone exposes your dishonest scheme, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie some more, repeat the same lies over and over again in every venue and on every news network so often that people start to think you are telling the truth. Accuse everyone else of being dishonest, accuse everyone else of conspiring against you, tell everyone who will listen, and if anyone who listens actually believes your lies, praise them for being fair and balanced.
The second rule of PR is...
lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie some more, repeat the same lies over and over again in every venue and on every news network so often that people start to think you are telling the truth. Accuse everyone else of being dishonest, accuse everyone else of conspiring against you, tell everyone who will listen, and if anyone who listens actually believes your lies, praise them for being fair and balanced.
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
