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Comment They did their job is a news story? (Score 2) 698

by BisuDagger (#45713637) Attached to: NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware
NSA needs to stop back pedaling and trying to prove they are a legitimate organization. It's their job to protect us from all types of stuff the general public has never heard of. Maybe they should watch some more Hollywood action films because those actors in the movie are more concerned about OPSEC then the NSA.

Comment Testing Inaccurate? (Score 2) 160

by BisuDagger (#45706843) Attached to: FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps
Only 5 percent of people properly washed their hands long enough to kill infection-causing germs and bacteria. Maybe if the general population washed their hands properly there would be time for the antibacterial agents to go to work. Instead we instantly scrub our hands clean and follow up with a solid sniff to make sure they smell good, because if it smells clean then it is clean method works every time.

Submission + - Exponential Algorithm in Windows Update Slowing XP Machines (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: An interesting bug regarding update dependency calculation has been found in Windows XP. By design, machines using Windows Update retrieve patch information from Microsoft's update servers (or possibly WSUS in a company setting). That patch information contains information about each patch: what software it applies to and, critically, what historic patch or patches the current patch supersedes. Unfortunately, the Windows Update client components used an algorithm with exponential scaling when processing these lists. Each additional superseded patch would double the time taken to process the list. With the operating system now very old, those lists have grown long, sometimes to 40 or more items. On a new machine, that processing appeared to be almost instantaneous. It is now very slow. After starting the system, svchost.exe is chewing up the entire processor, sometimes for an hour or more at a time. Wait long enough after booting and the machine will eventually return to normalcy. Microsoft thought that it had this problem fixed in November's Patch Tuesday update after it culled the supersedence lists. That update didn't appear to fix the problem. The company thought that its December update would also provide a solution, with even more aggressive culling. That didn't seem to help either. For one reason or another, Microsoft's test scenarios for the patches didn't reflect the experience of real Windows XP machines.

Comment Not the first time (Score 2) 114

by BisuDagger (#45669873) Attached to: StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa
League of Legends was actually the first game to have a pro issued a sports visa. To quote a friend "They're recognised as athletes for visa purposes because they come into the country and compete and then leave again so as far as immigration is concerned that's the one that fits them best. Unfortunately the vast majority of posters are too stupid to understand that and the topic turns to shit." source http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=421180

Comment Horde (Score 1) 293

No wonder the NSA is suffering low morale http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/08/2232257/employee-morale-is-suffering-at-the-nsa because they chose Horde while these companies http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/09/1319216/google-apple-facebook-twitter-microsoft-yahoo-form-alliance-against-nsa chose Alliance.

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