Comment: "IT degree?" (Score 1) 267
I didn't know you could even get a degree in "IT". Which department at a university would offer that?
Comment: Re:This won't work (Score 1) 668
When I was a kid my father poached wild game. It was the only way we could afford meat.
Did you grow up in Sherwood Forest?
Do Slashdotters encrypt their email? 3
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An anonymous reader writes "Many years ago when I first heard of PGP, I found an add-on that made it fairly simple to use PGP to encrypt my email. Despite the fact that these days most people know that email is a highly insecure means of communication, very few people that I know ever use any form of email encryption despite the fact that it is pretty easy to use. This isn't quite what I would have expected when I first set it up. So, my question to fellow Slashdotters is 'Do you encrypt your email? If not, 'Why not?' and 'Why has email encryption using PGP or something similar not become more commonplace?' The use of cryptography used to be a hot topic once upon a time."
Kim Jong-il Is Dead->
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An anonymous reader writes "Kim Jong-il is dead. But what comes next is a mystery. After all, Western media has previously relied on a former sushi chef for information on the presumed successor, Kim Jong-un."
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Comment: Re:"Empathy Tests" (Score 1) 200
You're apparently using "selfish" to mean "acting in accordance with a motivation", which is not a particularly useful description (especially if you are including involuntary processes in this), and is certainly not consistent with the general use of the word.
The difference between altruism and selfishness isn't whether or not you like what you're doing, but what sorts of things you like to do.
Comment: Re:And still... (Score 2, Informative) 511
It matters because when they increment the major version number unnecessarily, it breaks extensions (which are the main reason to use firefox).
Comment: Re:No CarrierIQ? (Score 1) 133
I do take issue with the concept of having to pay more to not have a keylogger on my phone.
It makes sense to me that company might offer a cheaper-but-spyware-riddled version of a phone. It's not much different from adware, which is often free or cheaper than other software of its type. Whether you cast it as "paying a premium for privacy" or "getting a discount for giving up privacy", it's the same idea as long as the company is upfront about the spyware (if they aren't, then they're just crooks).
Siri hack turns your car into K.I.T.T. from Knight->
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AmyVernon writes "OK, it doesn't turn it into a Trans Am (nor you into the Hoff), but that's probably a good thing. But if your car has a Viper SmartStart module, the php script will allow you to auto-start your car using voice commands, as well as open the doors and the trunk."
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The Problem with Current Malware Metrics->
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Orome1 writes "When security companies say that there was an X number of infections from a particular type of malware in the past month or year, or that an Y number of variants of a piece of malware was detected, these numbers mean something to other researchers and to marketing departments, but very little to individual consumers. David Perry from Trend Micro talks about why the currently used malware measurements are not up to the task and about the need to stop sharing with the users statistics that are effectively useless to them."
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Childbirth-predicting Software Warns of Difficult ->
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Zothecula writes "In the United States, approximately one-third of all births are performed via cesarean-section. Here's another statistic: emergency C-sections are six to seven times more likely to result in death or harm to the infant, than are planned C-sections. Therefore, if a significant percentage of the emergency cesareans could instead be planned, that would potentially save a lot of babies. That's where PREDIBIRTH comes in. Developed by Dr. Olivier Ami and a team of researchers from France's Université Paris Sud, the software can accurately predict the likelihood of difficult births, based on MRIs of pregnant women's bellies."
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