Comment: Rap superstars (Score 1) 288
Normal rap stars just don't cut it. Also, supergroups in any music genre.
Comment: Guerrilla guide (Score 5, Interesting) 218
The Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting is probably one of best resources you can find.
Comment: The effects of this poll are already visible (Score 1) 469
Comment: Re:What I have noticed (Score 1) 240
Note that the Cherry G80s are available with three different types of keys: "click pressure point" (loud and clicky, preferred by most typists), "soft pressure point" (not so loud, I currently use one out of consideration for my co-workers), and "linear" (no pressure point at all, not recommended). These keys are also used by many other keyboard manufacturers.
Comment: Re:That is an ignorant response. (Score 2) 165
The problem is their SSL keys are 1024 bit, which is trivial to break if you have $168 million.
Then guess how many bits the RSA key of the google.com certificate has.
Comment: Re:Urheberrecht (Score 1) 218
You can act as if, but you can always go "Fuck you, cooww and shee-keeenn! Now you can't use it anymore!" if they are stupid enough to fall for it.
If an author signs a contract with another party granting an exclusive license to publish a given work, is that unenforceable?
Of course it's enforceable. The OP doesn't have a clue.
Comment: Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? (Score 1) 473
which is subsidized by the electricity consumers (NOT by the goverment, as some seem to think).
Even worse, it's not subsidized by the industry, only by households which consume only a fraction of the total energy output.
Comment: Quote Stuffing (Score 4, Interesting) 617
Where's the news? This is called quote stuffing and has been going on for ages. The reason is simply to mislead or overwhelm the HFT algos of competitors.
Comment: Re:What % always considered us the enemy? (Score 1) 362
Since when are the USA at war with Pakistan?
Ask Slashdot: How Much Is a Fun Job Worth? 397
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Soulskill
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from the three-hundred-fifty-two-dollars-and-eight-cents dept.
Nicros writes "I have the good fortune to be a lead software engineer in a really fun company. The culture and people are great, and while the position has some down sides (distance from home, future opportunities), in general I'm quite happy there, and I wasn't looking for a new job. Now, I've had an offer to go be a software director for a new company. The pay is more than 10% better, the location is closer to home, and the people seem nice. I would get to grow a new group as I saw fit, following some regulatory guidelines. Problem is, I just can't decide what to do, and I'm not even sure why I can't decide. Maybe it has to do with leaving a job that I like (something I've never done) that just doesn't sit well with me. Maybe it's fear. I'm 40, so maybe it's just getting older and appreciating stability more. But then again, I have my current position dialed in, and could use a change. I have ambition, and my current company has made every effort to work with me to develop my career — probably more in the business development side, but that could be fun too. That career path is just more vague and longer-term than jumping right into a director position, with no guarantee that it would even work out. In the new company, software is not what this company does primarily; not many people would use the software, so the appreciation level would be much lower than my current position. Has anyone made a transition like this in software? How did it work out? Did you stay or did you go? Why? What's more important, the people and culture at a job, or the opportunities that job presents for future growth?"
Comment: Re:European law takes these things seriously (Score 2) 164
A gay, a Vietnamese, a guy in a wheelchair, and an elderly East German woman walk into to a bar. "You're a funny bunch," says the bartender. "No, we're the German government."
Comment: Re:Misleading summary (Score 1) 186
In the original draft, even single sentences would have been regarded as "significant parts", but that would then also mean that you cannot quote from any news article anymore in any other publication, which would have significant negative side effects.
You could still quote articles. But that quote has to be embedded in another non-trivial work. Aggregation of news has never been quoting in the sense of German copyright law.
Comment: Re:Pretty Cool (Score 1) 192
Because they almost blew it with the faked moon landing and don't want to risk that again. Also the cold war is over, so there no good reason to fake such accomplishments.
Comment: Re:There is - far less (Score 1) 433
I've bought Kindle books from Amazon.de without a credit card for ages. You should have the same payment options as for any other Amazon article.
Prototype Clickjacking Rootkit Developed For Android 51
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samzenpus
from the click-attack dept.
from the click-attack dept.
ShipLives writes "Mobile security researchers have identified an aspect of Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and earlier models that clickjacking rootkits could exploit. As part of an effort to identify potential weaknesses in smartphone platforms, the team was able to develop a proof-of-concept prototype rootkit that attacks the Android framework, rather than the underlying operating system kernel."