C-Shalom - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:I can confirm the email being sent out. (Score 1) 103

by C-Shalom on Wednesday December 28, @04:34PM (#38518856) Attached to: New York Times Hacked?

It's from the same IP address as their other marketing emails regarding digital subscriptions and also their "Exclusively for Times Subscribers" newsletters

208.70.142.121

It's from them or their marketing partner.
I'm putting my money on a marketing campaign gone wrong.

Comment: Re:Virgin Mobile (Score 2) 319

by C-Shalom on Thursday December 22, @06:13PM (#38465476) Attached to: Average Web Page Approaches 1MB

If you have line of sight, you might consider reading 'Diary of a Not-spot' posted on The Register.
Hopefully some of what he's tried and gone through could be of help to you.

Diary of a Not-spot: One man's heroic struggle for broadband
Diary of a Not-spot: The readers speak
Diary of a Not-spot – the final chapter
Diary of a not-spot: Breaking the BT barrier

Comment: Re:In God we trust (Score 2) 238

by C-Shalom on Saturday December 17, @05:04PM (#38411130) Attached to: How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

All others we polygraph.

More like:
In Elected Officials we have to trust.
All others we polygraph.

The Senate Foreign Intelligence Committee is a great example of this.

Comment: Syslog on Windows (Score 1) 248

by C-Shalom on Wednesday November 23 2011, @05:34PM (#38152690) Attached to: Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed

Secure Syslog?!?
I'm still waiting for regular syslog on Windows.

Comment: Re:Official extensions thread (Score 1) 452

by C-Shalom on Tuesday September 27 2011, @06:02PM (#37532716) Attached to: Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7

So far, Acrobat Create PDF 1.1 is incompatible.

Not again!
Adobe just released the update two weeks ago to fix the Create PDF plugin so it would work with FF6.
This is getting out of hand.

Comment: Re:So long and thanks for the OMG PONIES!!! (Score 1) 1521

by C-Shalom on Thursday August 25 2011, @10:35AM (#37206064) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Thanks for all you've done.

This is one site I truly come to for the comments.
I often lurk and rarely post, I'm just not that social.
It's an end of an era now that Taco is gone.
But thanks for the OMG PONIES!!!

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/301/

Slashdot Sued For Patent Infringement?-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 13 2011, @12:52PM

An anonymous reader writes "According to this story, Slashdot is among a group of sites sued for patent infringement (well, technically Slashdot's parent corporation, Geeknet, but it's over Slashdot). Other sites in the lawsuit include aggregators Digg, Reddit, Fark and Delicious, as well as the blog TechCrunch. What could all of those sites possibly done to infringe on a single patent? The patent is for "a system and method for structured news release generation and distribution." The problem, according to the lawsuit is that all of these sites "has and/or require and/or directs users to access and/or interact with a system that receives and stores separately specified portions of a new or press release and that assembles a news or press release in a predetermined format." Uh yeah. That patent was filed for in 1999, well after Slashdot existed."
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Comment: Re:Messed up links (Score 1) 417

by C-Shalom on Wednesday June 30 2010, @12:55PM (#32746840) Attached to: Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really.

Right now they are all pointing to different pages. The description appears to be the same for all but the requisition number on each is different, as is the URL.

FBI failed to break the encryption of hard drives-> 0

Submitted by benoliver on Saturday June 26 2010, @01:02AM

benoliver writes "Not even FBI was able to decrypt files of Daniel Dantas (Brazilian banker accused of "financial crimes" by the Brazilian justice). Hard drives were seized by the feds during Operation Satyagraha, in 2008. Information is protected by sophisticated encryption system. The hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after a year of unsuccessful attempts, the U.S. federal police returned the equipment to Brazil in April. According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives. The government has no legal instrument to compel the manufacturer of the American encryption system or Dantas to give the access codes."
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Can Sounds Mimic The Effect of Drugs?-> 0

Submitted by

Beetle B.

on Friday June 25 2010, @10:16PM

Beetle B. writes "For decades, parents, doctors and school administrators have worried about the dangers of drugs. In the digital age, they've got a new arena for concern: Sound waves that, some say, affect the brain like a drug — and cost only 99 cents on iTunes and Amazon.com."
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