jrumney - Slashdot User

Comment Re: National A something S something A something (Score 2) 86

by jrumney on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:39AM (#50037547) Attached to: Rocket Labs Picks New Zealand For Its Launch Site

I'm pretty sure we can all say %@#%

Whoah there. I hope you spelt out that acronym in your head as you wrote it and didn't actually say THE WORD out loud.

Comment Re:if that's true, (Score 2) 487

by jrumney on Thursday July 02, 2015 @06:15AM (#50031449) Attached to: Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts

You are the one who is "full of shit", since you are getting all of your information on the implementation of this feature on Windows 10 from an old article about Windows Phone 8.

Comment Re:if that's true, (Score 0) 487

by jrumney on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:28PM (#50029925) Attached to: Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts

This is per PC. And it is on by default. All it takes is one user with sharing via Outlook enabled, and Outlook automatically adding all the spammers' and phishers' mail addresses to his Contacts, and your network has been compromised.

Comment Re: What was the command? (Score 1) 154

by jrumney on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:06AM (#50018499) Attached to: How IKEA Patched Shellshock

For the more security conscious, a safer option is sudo dd /dev/zero /dev/sda

Comment Re: that's it...thanks (Score 1) 154

by jrumney on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:03AM (#50018471) Attached to: How IKEA Patched Shellshock

With 3500 servers, its probably worth setting up your own package archive. Then the command to patch all the servers would most likely be pushing your tested and approved package to your local archive to be pulled by all the production servers on their next poll for updates.

Comment Re: What a confusing summary! (Score 1) 128

by jrumney on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:10AM (#50010745) Attached to: AP CS Test Takers and Pass Rates Up, Half of Kids Don't Get Sparse Arrays At All

Alternatively, nearly half the students taking the test are far enough along the autism spectrum that they could not answer the questions about implementing getter methods when faced with a class containing private member variables with no methods to set them.

Comment Re:That's good (Score 1) 146

by jrumney on Sunday June 28, 2015 @09:05PM (#50008853) Attached to: BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't

On the other hand, this article (7th from the top of the May 2015 list) makes no mention of anyone by name, so it may also be possible that the victim is able to request its removal, despite not being identified in the article.

Comment Re:Is Haselton going to jail? (Score 1) 187

by jrumney on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#49999951) Attached to: My United Airlines Website Hack Gets Snubbed

To hack the account, they need both the account number and either the PIN or password. This allows them to brute force the PIN, and retrieve the account number as a byproduct of that. Knowing the email address or home address only gets you the account number.

Comment Re:No business acumen (Score 1) 368

by jrumney on Sunday June 21, 2015 @08:51PM (#49958869) Attached to: Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing'

You mean like this?

Comment While we're at it, pi (Score 2) 1067

by jrumney on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:04PM (#49941095) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero?

Indeed. And my programs would run a lot quicker if pi was 4. Does anyone really want pi to be anything other than 4?

Comment Re:Elop just fulfilled his destiny. (Score 1) 121

by jrumney on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:27PM (#49933631) Attached to: Elop and Others Leaving Microsoft, Myerson Taking Bigger Role

Now that his destiny has been fulfilled, Microsoft no longer needs his services.

Or maybe they do need his services again. Watch where he goes next very closely. That is the industry Microsoft wants to fail in next.

Comment Re:How many times? (Score 1) 389

by jrumney on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @11:13AM (#49921567) Attached to: Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI

Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman mostly,

Comment Re:0x4650 (Score 1) 141

by jrumney on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @10:55AM (#49921401) Attached to: Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet

Of course, administration of the pot consumes 80% of the remaining revenue after Apple's standard 30% cut, which is entirely taken from the artist's cut as "promotional expenses".

Comment Re:Thank you captain obvious (Score 4, Funny) 127

by jrumney on Saturday June 13, 2015 @11:55PM (#49906983) Attached to: Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10

If it was Google who wrote Windows, we would have hit Windows 95 back in the 1980s.

The Google Windows 95 beta was discontinued in 1986 after too many people came to rely on it for their daily work.

Comment Re: Brings back memories (Score 2) 127

by jrumney on Saturday June 13, 2015 @11:49PM (#49906969) Attached to: Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10

The Windows key only really became a bad idea in Windows 8. Before that it was relatively harmless on its own, and quite useful as an additional modifier key.

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