Katsury - Slashdot User

Comment The Vogon State (Score 1) 314

by Katsury on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:57AM (#47230433) Attached to: California Regulators Tell Ride-Shares No Airport Runs

More and more I read how my state (California) is becoming more and more regulated, taxed, bureaucratic. Hell I'm just going to call it now while I'm looking about for my towel. All hail California, the Vogon state!

Comment Re:More Please.... (Score 1) 140

by Katsury on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:18PM (#35106540) Attached to: 'Dating' Site Imports 250k Facebook Profiles

Not that I'm even slightly a fan of 88 page long TOS "by clicking here I agree I've read and accept all of the above" agreements, they are often enforceable.

I have to wonder how much their lawyers get paid to take apart an 88 page book and find loopholes/defenses in it to use against the other party.

Comment Rule of Thumb (Score 2) 48

by Katsury on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:03PM (#35105346) Attached to: Next-Generation Banking Malware Emerges After Zeus

I think it should be expected that there will always be something better, more efficient, and equally if not more spooky than the malware that we know about. The unknown stuff is the malware you should be worried about.

Submission + - Dating site inports 250k facebook profiles (wired.com)

Submitted by mark72005 on Friday February 04, 2011 @01:47PM

mark72005 writes: How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?

Simple.

You scrape data from Facebook.

At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, with profiles — names, locations and photos — scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site categorizes these unwitting volunteers into personality types, using a facial recognition algorithm, so you can search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.”

Submission + - If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again. (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Friday February 04, 2011 @01:35PM

wiredmikey writes: It’s official. The IANA(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) this week allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool.

While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.

The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.

Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.

If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.

Submission + - Security warning over web-based Android market (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 04, 2011 @12:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Vanja Svajcer is warning that cybercriminals may be particularly interested in stealing your Google credentials, after discovering a way of installing applications onto Android smartphones with no interaction required by the phone's owner.

The new web-based Android Market retrieves the details of Android devices registered to the Google address, and automatically installs software onto the associated smartphones with no user interaction required on the phone itself.

Svajcer summarises: "Google should make changes to the remote installation mechanism as soon as possible. As a minimum, a dialog should be displayed on the receiving device so that the user must personally accept the application that is being installed."

"Let us hope that the update will come in time to prevent cybercriminals abusing the Android Market for the automatic installation of malicious software. "

Submission + - "Invisibility Cloak" Created Using Crystals (gizmag.com) 1

Submitted by Zothecula on Friday February 04, 2011 @11:16AM

Zothecula writes: The quest to build a working “invisibility cloak” generally focuses on the use of metamaterials – artificially engineered materials with a negative refractive index that have already been used to render microscopic objects invisible in specific wavelengths of light. Now, using naturally occurring crystals rather than metamaterials, two research teams working independently have demonstrated technology that can cloak larger objects in the broad range of wavelengths visible to the human eye.

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