boron boy - Slashdot User

Comment AntiSec == security through obscurity? (Score 2) 159

by boron boy on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @03:20AM (#36608184) Attached to: The Lesson of Recent Hacktivism

LulzSec (and Anonymous) have 'demonstrated that an awful lot of people are either asleep at the switch or believed in arcane security methods like security through obscurity.

Wait what? Lulzsec showed that security though obscurity is bad? I thought the whole point to their "AntiSec" cause was to stop security companies publicly announcing vulnerabilities. Isn't that the definition of security through obscurity?

Comment JACK (Score 1) 2

by boron boy on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @01:44AM (#28524691) Attached to: Windows App for Controlling Sound output per app

Sounds like the kind of thing you'd use JACK for on linux or mac. No idea how you'd go about it on windows.

Submission + - Windows App for Controlling Sound output per app 2

Submitted by

AppahMan

on Monday June 29, 2009 @10:58PM

AppahMan writes: "For a long time now, my family and I have had our 37" LCD in the living room hooked to our kitchen computer as a second monitor via a long cable it connect both video and sound to the screen, my problem is that once we start playing a movie, we cannot watch hulu in the kitchen, or listen to music or the myriad other things that the computer is used for. this computer has 6 sound jacks in the back for surround sound and it seems like an easy software task to just split the sound per application, vista comes close, by allowing me to control sound level per application but not output. Does slashdot know of a nice application that would perform this task? or shall I start up the c# compiler and get to work?"

Submission + - OpenAustralia beats official parliament record (news.com.au)

Submitted by

Daniel Kinsman

on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @10:27PM

Daniel Kinsman writes: "FTA:
Hansard, which has online records of everything said by Australia's elected representatives for the past 28 years, is an "aged technology", admits the Department of Parliamentary Services. It is now seen as so inaccessible that almost a quarter of the users of a rival parliamentary record, Open Australia, have a .gov.au address.
OpenAustralia is a volunteer open source project and website that takes the official record of parliament in Australia and republishes it to make it searchable and useful. The team of volunteer developers are also finding errors in the official record, and are having a hard time getting them fixed at the source.
Open Australia volunteers claim to have regularly found errors with official Hansard records, and say the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is reluctant to get them fixed.

(Disclaimer: I have been a contributor to the OpenAustralia code in the past)"

Comment Summary (Score 2, Funny) 806

by boron boy on Friday November 09, 2007 @12:30AM (#21290625) Attached to: Is SETI Worth It?

Yeah it's not practical, yeah it's expensive, but damn, if it pays off, it pays off big time. Besides, it's not like we're asking you to pay for it, SETI runs off private money.

Personally I think they'll have more of a chance in the fledgling field of optical seti, where they're looking for aliens pointing laser beams at us... yes really.

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