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Comment: Re:No it isn't. - Whitelists (Score 1) 67

by t4ng* (#43823209) Attached to: Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV

The user will do anything and everything to get what they want. They will accept any kind of warnings you through at them, no matter how scary language you use. If you completely take away their ability to control this (ie. Walled garden like Apple), you end up with much more restricted experience.

There is a cute term for this situation: Dancing Pigs.

Simple solution: Rewrite all security warnings to reward the user with lolcats if they pick the secure option.

Comment: Re:They saw this coming for ages... (Score 5, Informative) 231

by t4ng* (#43805341) Attached to: Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
Actually, Democrats only kind of had a super majority for about 4 months starting at the end of 2009. But only if you count 2 independents and the blue dog Democrats as voting with them, which they don't. So instead, you had the Republicans using the filibuster more than any Congress in history. Oh, but wait, the only way they've been able to filibuster so often is because they just expressed their intent to filibuster without actually doing the time consuming work of a filibuster. That way they can quickly get on with the business of expressing intent to filibuster even more.

Comment: Re: This is disgusting!! (Score 1) 579

by t4ng* (#43712097) Attached to: Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case
But then there is the other issue... Monsanto has sued farmers out of existence when their fields were contaminated by a neighboring farmer's Monsanto GMO crops. It should be the other way around; if a farmer's organic crops become contaminated by Monsanto GMO crops, the farmer should be able to sue Monsanto for the cost of decontaminating their field.

+ - Hanford nuclear waste vitrification plant "too dangerous"->

Submitted by Noryungi
Noryungi writes "Scientific American reports, in a chilling story, that the Hanford, Washington, nuclear waste vitrification treatment plant is off to a bad start. Bad planning, multiple sources of radioactive waste, leaking containment pools are just the beginning. It's never a good sign when that type of article includes the word "spontaneous criticality", if you follow my drift..."
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Comment: Re:Good for you! (Score 1) 314

by t4ng* (#43678421) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40?
#1 reason that anyone, in an career, that is over 40 is doomed... the employer's cost of employee benefits skyrocket on employees over 40. Employers would rather have a bunch of kids fresh out of school, working for peanuts, with very low health and life insurance premiums, than to have any employees over 40 drawing a higher salary and having to pay higher premiums. (Well, except for the over 40 management types making those decisions; they won't lay themselves off)

Comment: Re:Sad aint it... (Score 1) 87

by t4ng* (#43495231) Attached to: House Panel Backs 'Internet Freedom' Legislation

k... well I guess I should not have expected anyone to actually read the page on how the index was created. But I thought at least the title might have been a clue. Let's take it one word at a time, shall we?

  • Corruption... ok, should be easy, it's the subject we are talking about.
  • Perception... So it is based on people's perceptions since corruption is difficult to uncover in absolute values.
  • Index... So the numbers are a score, which is why some countries have the same score, and there are gaps between index numbers.

Comment: Re:have you tried it? (Score 1) 863

by t4ng* (#43462289) Attached to: ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over"

Thanks to Costco having a very liberal return policy on computers, I tried 5 different computers with Windows 8 on it. I hated the first 4. I swore I would hate Windows 8 forever.

But unlike the first 4 computers, the 5th computer had a touch-screen (an Acer V5) and suddenly Windows 8 make perfect sense. Without a touch-screen Windows 8 is a useless piece of crap, even with add-ons like ClassicShell. With a touch-screen, Windows 8 is faster to use on most tasks than Windows 7.

Comment: Themes, plugins and .htacess... (Score 1) 110

by t4ng* (#43436433) Attached to: Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack
I've found the "Better WP Security" plugin to be pretty good at stopping all of this. You can set login limits, 404 limits, etc., and have it automatically deny offenders IP addresses from accessing your site by modifying the site's root .htaccess file.  But even it doesn't cover everything.

Many WP attackers probe for themes and plugins with known weaknesses, or exploit the upload system to upload executables.  But what most people don't know (including most WP developers I've worked with) is that there is no reason for PHP files to be directly accessible anywhere in the /wp-content/ directory (which includes uploads, themes, and plugins).  Simply adding a .htaccess file to the /wp-content directory with something like the following in it will protect against poorly written themes, plug-ins, and most not-yet-known exploits of WordPress.

# Add allowable extensions as needed
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
<FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|gif|png|mp3|mpe?g|flv|swf|js|css|pdf|xml|html|gz)$">
    Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

If that breaks a plugin or theme you use, then it's not written very well and you shouldn't risk using it.  Contact the developer and tell them they should not need direct access to executables in /wp-content

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