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Comment Re:Can't trust this site (Score 1) 226

Yeah, it tells me my Mac-based Firefox doesn't "benefit from Windows Operating System features that protect against structured exception handling overwrite attacks?"

Oddly, it thinks that I do derive benefit from "Windows Operating System features that protect against arbitrary data execution" and
"Windows Operating System features that randomize the memory layout to make it harder for attackers to find their target."

Whatever, dude.

Comment Re:lifetime of cameras (Score 1) 248

After the EMP, your digital cameras (and other electronics) won't work. Then again, neither will film -- the high background radiation will fog any emulsion after a few seconds*.

* obligatory nuclear obliteration apocalypse may be provided separately, and may not be available with all crumblings of civilization.

Comment Re:NEWDOS-80 v 2 (Score 1) 763

LDOS was pretty cool.

So you were doing DS-DD 40 tracks? I thought I was the only one doing that. It took me about a week to figure out the NEWDOS-80 settings that would work with that density/track count. Then again, I didn't have the Radio Shack disk controller, either, it was homebrew.

The old TRS is still out in the garage. I wonder if it'd even power on. I don't think I've fired it up since 1989.

Comment Re:NOOOO! (Score 2, Funny) 98

Sorry, but real pros replace ALL of the HTTP status codes at random to prevent the client / browser from detecting a pattern. Similarly, pros override "true" and "false" constants to be functions that return random booleans, just to keep the code guessing. Sure, standards are great, but pros make sites that are secure, not standard.

Comment Isn't it Obvious? (Score 2, Funny) 483

What's the matter with you people? Back in the day, Slashdotters would have figured this out immediately.

It's the *terrorists* using the bid data as an out-of-band *communication protocol* for transmitting *encrypted messages*! Remember? Like they were doing with steganography in eBay auction photos? The brilliance is they are using our own tools against us!

Bear with me a moment, pour yourself a large frosty mug o' xenophobia, and think about all those *overseas programmers* in the financial industry. Why, if we don't stop them, they'll probably code up some *derivative bots* that will f-up the mortgage industry!

Comment Re:Bold faced, not bald-faced. (Score 1) 108

I've heard:

"This takes us to the crotch of the matter" (which, I suppose, might make sense in contexts other than the one in which it was delivered).
"Nothing more to talk about -- it's a mute's point"
"He was essentially in involuntary certitude"
"More changes are coming down the pile"
"We'll come to that bridge when we get to it"
"You need to think outside the blocks"
"There's no 'me' in 'Team'"

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