Comment Re:Failed argument on all counts (Score 1) 936
As Kirk once (will?) said, "Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent (ly designed) life down here."
Submission + - Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "For the second time in nine days, Adobe has patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting, Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports. Adobe also updated Reader to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not gotten around to fixing. The memory corruption vulnerability in Flash Player could 'potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,' Adobe said in an accompanying advisory. 'There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via malicious Web pages.' Adobe last issued an 'out-of-band' emergency update on June 5, when it fixed a critical flaw that attackers were exploiting to steal Gmail login credentials. Those attacks were different from the ones Google disclosed the week before, when it accused Chinese hackers of targeting specific individuals, including senior U.S. and South Korean government officials, anti-Chinese government activists and journalists. Google, which bundles Flash Player with Chrome, also updated its browser Tuesday to include the just-patched version of Flash."
Comment Re:Ask the British... (Score 1) 2288
Ask the British...
I hate to break it to you, old chap, but we Brits do use metric. Petrol (gas) is sold by the litre, and speed and distance by the kilometre. I do buy food by the pound (legally, the kilogram). After all, it (appears to be) much cheaper to buy a pound of bananas for 0.99 than a kilogram for 2.18.
Comment Re:Not so sensasonal headline (Score 2, Informative) 286
Ah, yes.... cehc all of your links :-)
The last one is, of course, PGP Fone, silly!
Comment Not so sensasonal headline (Score 2, Informative) 286
The Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which revealed: "We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework.
Yes, it is _just_ a proposal, do you want it to come about? So... time to ramp up development of https-everywhere, ensure that you use GNU Privacy guard for all EMail, bit locker on your drives, and dust off your NT box to run https-everywhere!
Comment North Korea invents the internet! (Score 1) 175
Hey! Kim Jong-Il has invented the Internet, and is allowing us to use it as well!
Comment Re:Central Canada = Toronto? (Score 1) 560
There you go supporting the Torontonians belief that they're at the centre of the universe again!
We didn't feel it out here on the Wet Coast, BTW...
Comment Where's Monty Python when you need them? (Score 1, Troll) 390
Upon ascertaining that the jaywalker had returned to his flat at #12, Wellington Gardens, the controller launched a Hellfire missile...
Honestly, the UK is already the most monitored country, with little real result. This won't be any more beneficial to anyone, the authorities included!
Honestly, the UK is already the most monitored country, with little real result. This won't be any more beneficial to anyone, the authorities included!
Comment Re:Whatis bot (Score 1) 274
as an IBM employee I use the "Whatis bot" all the time. It is just a chat bot on Sametime chat inside Lotus Notes that allows you to message it an abbreviation and it tells you all the meanings. This is very useful when you get an e-mail from a long time IBMer that knows every abbreviation and doesn't hesitate to use them.
As a long time customer of IBM, I'd love to have access to that tool. After all, I after reading my invoices, I always thought IBM stood for It'll Be More! I'd rolf, but then would I owe IBM more money?
Submission + - Happy birthday, Internet!
NobodyExpects writes: I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the Internet! Today marks it's 40th birthday!
In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledging ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by year's end, and the internet was born.
Comment Re:Expect it to be slow (Score 1) 468
Software encryption is slow, but using drives with encryption on the hardware will be quicker. I'm not making a product recommendation with Seagate, I understand Fujistsu also has a FDE solution.
In an enterprise environment, you can set up centralized password recovery utilities (for when the user goes under the bus, or over the wall to your competitor)...
Comment Well, I see his problem (Score 1) 504
nandemoari writes
six-year-old who recently stole his parents' car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games' controversial Grand Theft Auto video game
Of course it's his parent's problem. Not only did they leave the keys where the child could find them, but they didn't prepare him properly. Everyone knows that they should have bought him Gran Turismo or any other driving simulation, instead of the game GTA, if they really wanted him to drive to school!
Comment Re:Slashdot, I'm in shock! (Score 1) 429
A time when you HAVE to stay indoors and play with the computer? I'm completely amazed that the 'is great' option hasn't got 100% of the votes here.
Don't we just stay in and play with the computers anyway, no matter the weather?
Comment Re:Snowbound? (Score 1) 429
I moved from the US to Canada in 1981, and I think I'm finally starting to think in metric!
Great. And now only 305,945,330 (http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html) more Americans to educate...
Comment And in other news... (Score 1) 293
And in a related article (found on page 9), Al Gore has claimed responsibility for inventing the pneumatic tubes, while Ted Stevens admitted he doesn't understand them. John McCain admits the he doesn't use pneumatic tubes...
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
