Comment Yeah, right (Score 1) 252
At most, all the fresh honey contained therein will come out. This may be less than all the fresh honey I want.
Comment Re:Banks need to push out VMs (Score 1) 161
Doesn't work – you can modify the VM's memory contents and read/mutate its I/O operations from the host machine. It would in many respects make the attacker's job easier as they would only have one OS/browser version to go at.
Comment Re:Live CD (Score 1) 161
Even better if you are a little technical, set up a "frugal" boot partition. This will unpack and boot a CD image much faster than booting from CD and when you power down it doesn't keep any state. No viruses survive the reboot.
Since it's on writable media, this is only true until someone writes a more sophisticated piece of malware. The same applies to a Live CD on a CD-RW to an extent. A Live CD on a finalized CD-R really is immutable.
Comment Re:Um, this is news because...? (Score 1) 161
UNLESS you forcibly close that session by closing your browser.
Doesn't help. Web servers do not (and cannot) know when your browser has been closed.
Besides, if the hijacker has done their job properly and you've only ever been communicating with the server you think you're connected to via their proxy, you can't disconnect unless they let you do so.
Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 520
The relative error in a measurement is unaffected by multiplying it by a constant, however large. If your m is accurate to 1in 1.75e-7 the result of e=mc^2 is also accurate to 1 in 1.75e-7.
If it was e=cm^2 you'd have a point.
Comment One to pre-emptively block (Score 4, Funny) 135
TwoGirlsOne.kp?
Comment Re:The PRE programming mistakes (Score 1) 394
Just out of interest, do you work at IBM?
College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior 1079
FutureDomain writes "The Boston College Campus Police have seized the electronics of a computer science student for allegedly sending an email outing another student. The probable cause? The search warrant application states that he is 'a computer science major' and he uses 'two different operating systems for hiding his illegal activity. One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on.' The EFF is currently representing him."
Dead Birds Do Tell Tales 21
grrlscientist writes "While many natural history museum study skin collections have specimens that are more than 100 years old, most museum tissue collections are very recent — in fact, many were initiated during the 1980s. Due to the perishable nature of tissues, they are expensive to maintain and must be carefully managed and continually replenished. Unfortunately, funding shortages and other considerations have made it more difficult for museums to collect animals as often as they did in the past. Therefore, tissues from both wild and captive animals are limited, particularly those from rare and difficult-to-collect animals, such as lories."
Comment Re:Now RedHat can buy them ... (Score 1) 291
System i, formerly iSeries, AS/400 are minicomputers.
System z, formerly zSeries, System/390, System/370, System/360 are mainframes; some of which have longer uptimes than AS/400 (or indeed Sun) have existed for.
Not the same at all.
Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 385
A user on Reddit pointed out that Richard "rick752" Petnel, maintainer of one of the most popular filter lists for Ad Block Plus, has passed away at age 56. In an article last year Petnel described a bit of what he was up against in the ad world. "'I'm playing against some pretty big players,' he said, explaining his reluctance to step forward. 'I don't want to be harassed. . . . I don't want to be bribed. I started it because I was frustrated with getting my computer infected from ads -- malware and spyware and all that stuff,' he said. 'I kind of went overboard with it. But you have to admit, it's pretty amazing, right?'" Update 15:05 GMT by SM: updated to reflect Rick's status as maintainer of the most popular Ad Block Plus filter as opposed to Ad Block Plus itself.
Submission + - Security flaws in iPhone CryptoExercise (wordpress.com)
WillerZ writes: "Apple's CryptoExercise sample for the iPhone (sorry, link only works if you have an iPhone developer account) uses the SHA-1 algorithm incorrectly, leaving significant security holes. This is a problem given the distinct lack of other documentation on the iPhone security services. You might want to read how I recommend you fix it before modelling your application on it."
Comment Re:IBM is in the computer business now? (Score 1) 132
IEFBR14 is now about 30 years old, and in all that time there have only been 2 bugs reported:
1) IEFBR14 doesn't set a return code; this was reported and fixed about 25 years ago
2) IEFBR14 source contains no comments; this was reported and fixed about 20 years ago
Show me another product which has that kind of bugs/time ratio...
1) IEFBR14 doesn't set a return code; this was reported and fixed about 25 years ago
2) IEFBR14 source contains no comments; this was reported and fixed about 20 years ago
Show me another product which has that kind of bugs/time ratio...
Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year? 251
nz17 writes "Under the original deal, 3D Realms was to receive some $6 million from Take-Two to develop the title. Now the Texas-based developer will receive only $4,250 for the oft-delayed game when it is completed. Just the same, 3D Realms has a fairly large incentive to get Duke Nukem Forever done by the end of the year; Take-Two has offered the studio $500,000 in the form of a promissory note if the game sees commercial release by December 31, 2006."
Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC 789
boosman writes "In his current column, and in a similar op-ed piece in The New York Times, Robert X. Cringely predicts that Apple 'will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware.' I dissect why this is unthinkable and challenge Cringely to a public bet on the subject."
