BrettJB - Slashdot User

Comment Re:there's an app for finding a new home? (Score 1) 152

by BrettJB on Sunday November 29, 2009 @12:50PM (#30262116) Attached to: iPhone App Store Rejects Find a New Home

Try the iZillow app: http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=19238&cat=68&platform=osx&method=sa/

Comment Re:Next its an Android in everyones Fridge (Score 1) 93

by BrettJB on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @01:04PM (#28943633) Attached to: Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips

Err... shouldn't that be microhoo, or yahsoft?

Comment Re:CORRECTION: Google owns Youtube, not Yahoo (Score 1) 124

by BrettJB on Monday May 11, 2009 @11:44AM (#27907831) Attached to: Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha

Your mistake makes your nick all the more appropriate, so be proud!

Comment Re:Very funny... (Score 2, Informative) 1582

by BrettJB on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:34AM (#27418281) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Working system? Did you click the links to Taco's "achievements"?!?! I think Slashdot needs to warn epileptics and others with a tendency towards seizures to NOT do so. The goggles do nothing indeed...

This public service announcement brought to you by the letter i and the number pi

Comment Re:Competition is good (Score 2) 242

by BrettJB on Thursday March 05, 2009 @05:27PM (#27082735) Attached to: Amazon.com To Accept Game Trade-Ins

Yeah, I hate not being able to access amazon.com from anywhere in the world...

You know, what they need is some kind of distributed network, with nodes interconnected with one another, kind of like a web. Yeah, a world wide web, that's the ticket!

I kid, I kid... You may have a point with people being unwilling to put up with the delay and uncertainty of dropping their used games in the mail, but I doubt it'll dampen the enthusiasm for Amazon's offering much.

Comment Re:Just what the world needs... (Score 5, Funny) 232

by BrettJB on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @12:57PM (#27066069) Attached to: Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software

-1 Collateral Damage

Comment Re:Bad News (Score 1) 234

by BrettJB on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @05:09PM (#26628725) Attached to: What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You

"Results 1 - 10 of about 2,080,000 for Anonymous Coward. (0.21 seconds)"

Sorry, but I'm calling a little over 2 million data points of BS on this one...

Comment Van Eck (Score 1) 276

by BrettJB on Thursday December 11, 2008 @03:45PM (#26079575) Attached to: Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data

I'm in ur MRI
Van Eck phreaking ur mind...

DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web 215

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 07, 2008 @12:59PM from the gee-dan-thanks-thanks-a-bunch dept.

gringer writes "Dan Kaminsky presented at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and said that the DNS vulnerability he discovered is much more dangerous than most have appreciated. Besides hijacking web browsers, hackers might attack email services and spam filters, FTP, Rsync, BitTorrent, Telnet, SSH, as well as SSL services. Ultimately it's not a question of which systems can be attacked by exploiting the flaw, but rather which ones cannot. Then again, it could just be hype. For more information, see Kaminsky's power point presentation." Update: 08/07 19:48 GMT by T : There's also an animation of the progress of the patch.

Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes 326

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 07, 2008 @07:57AM from the unsafe-at-any-customs-counter dept.

Death Metal Maniac writes "New microchip passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft failed the test when a researcher was able to manipulate one in minutes. The cloned passports were accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports. According to the article: 'A computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.'"

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