Comment Re:Slashdot users are niggers (Score -1, Flamebait) 94
On the contrary, they are almost certainly more white than the general population.
By that I mean, you did not get first post.
Comment Re:Good to keep in mind (Score 2) 421
Operating expenses for something like the Iraq war (or a new, unnecessary war in Iran) could be cut 100% without touching the kind of research programs you are talking about.
Comment Re:Good to keep in mind (Score 1) 421
Let the space industry become fully privatized, except for the parts which have military relevance (since the military still isn't fully privatized).
Then the invisible hand can decide optimally how we will invest in manned spaceflight. No wasted surplus labor. Right?
Comment Re:Good to keep in mind (Score 1) 421
Which are the "more controlling and hateful religions" you would like to exclude?
Comment Re:Good to keep in mind (Score 1) 421
Please consult any source, like this http://www.ontheissues.org/john_kerry.htm to see a huge pile of statements which Romney would never agree with.
You can still say there are no good options, but it isn't correct to say that there are no differences
Comment Re:Good to keep in mind (Score 1) 421
Doing it regularly has nothing to do with it, rather what is needed is a sustainable profit from doing it. That still isn't there and it won't get there by wishing hard
Comment Re:Microsoftesque? (Score 1) 352
Acer is plenty big enough to run an app store in China. Or did you forget that China is fucking huge?
Comment Re:simple answer (Score 1) 570
Sure they do, vis-a-vis their incorporeal proxies
Submission + - Private Key Found Embedded in Major SCADA Equipment (digitalbond.com)
sl4shd0rk writes: RuggedOS (A Siemens Subsidiary of Flame and Stuxnet fame), an Operating System used in mission-critical hardware such as routers and SCADA gear, has been found to contain an embedded private encryption key. Now that all affected RuggedCom devices are sharing the same key, a compromise on one device gets you the rest for free. If the claims are valid, systems in use which would be affected include US Navy, petroleum giant Chevron, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The SCADA gear which RuggedOS typically runs on are often connected to machinery controlling electrical substations, traffic control systems, and other critical infrastructure. This is the second security nightmare for RuggedCom this year, the first being the discovery of a backdoor containing a non-modifiable account.
Submission + - Google Building Privacy Red Team (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Google, which has come under fire for years for its privacy practices and recently settled a privacy related case with the Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a $22.5 million fine, is building out a privacy "red team", a group of people charged with finding and resolving privacy risks in the company's products.
The concept of a red team is one that's been used in security for decades, with small teams of experts trying to break a given software application, get into a network or circumvent a security system as part of a penetration test or a similar engagement. The idea is sometimes applied in the real world as well, in the form of people attempting to gain entry to a secure facility or other restricted area.
But Google's concept of building an internal team to look critically at engineering and other decisions in the company's products and services that could involve user privacy risks is perhaps a unique one. The company has been a frequent target for criticism from privacy advocates and government agencies regarding its privacy practices. The most recent incident was the settlement with the FTC earlier this month in a case that revolved around whether Google was circumventing the browser settings on Safari to place tracking cookies on users' machines. While not admitting any fault, Google agreed to pay the $22.5 million fine, the highest ever in such a case.
The concept of a red team is one that's been used in security for decades, with small teams of experts trying to break a given software application, get into a network or circumvent a security system as part of a penetration test or a similar engagement. The idea is sometimes applied in the real world as well, in the form of people attempting to gain entry to a secure facility or other restricted area.
But Google's concept of building an internal team to look critically at engineering and other decisions in the company's products and services that could involve user privacy risks is perhaps a unique one. The company has been a frequent target for criticism from privacy advocates and government agencies regarding its privacy practices. The most recent incident was the settlement with the FTC earlier this month in a case that revolved around whether Google was circumventing the browser settings on Safari to place tracking cookies on users' machines. While not admitting any fault, Google agreed to pay the $22.5 million fine, the highest ever in such a case.
Submission + - Review: Google Compute Engine (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes an in-depth look at Google Compute Engine, the search giant's response to Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. 'If you want to build your own collection of Linux boxes, Google Compute Engine offers a nice, generic way to buy servers at what — depending on the size of compute instance you need — can be a great price. The most attractive feature will probably be the proximity to the other parts of the Google infrastructure,' Wayner writes, adding that Google Compute Engine is just one part of the Google APIs portal, a grand collection of 46 services. 'I suspect many developers will be most interested in using Google Compute Engine when they want to poll these Google databases fairly often. While I don't think you're guaranteed to be in the same zone as the service you want, you're still closer than when traveling across the generic Web.'"
Comment Re:"moving irresistibly"? (Score 1) 673
They don't need to actually have one, it would be bad press, so they do precisely the same thing by methods which won't get such bad press
Comment Re:Battery or Sexual Battery (Score -1, Flamebait) 1127
If God is just then you will end up on the sexual offenders list, forever a pariah, for some trivial thing like people peeping into your window while you are naked
Comment Re:What the hell is Wayland? (Score 1) 319
X is remote "any time it's needed," except for all the many many times when the app was specifically not written to support it, or was written in a way where the performance is unusably bad when run remotely.
Comment Re:What the hell is Wayland? (Score 3, Insightful) 319
you already generally have to use something like VNC or xpra (layered over X, not really using it) in order to get reasonable performance or to detach and reattach remotely.
X might seem like the answer until you try to use it... it isn't good enough because it's nowhere near usable as GNU screen.
