zaimor - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Data data everywhere and not a drop to think (Score 0) 366

by zaimor on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:46PM (#50941905) Attached to: 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet

And yes, I'm aware they may not have something like that currently but what would keep them from doing it? If not one giant scale, why not systems at aircraft entry points that weighed everything coming on board?

Comment Re: Data data everywhere and not a drop to think (Score 1) 366

by zaimor on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:44PM (#50941881) Attached to: 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet

By taxiing the aircraft over a scale device at some point during the departing process. Similar to highway weigh stations. I've always wondered why they didn't do this.

Comment Re:So... Question, (Score 0) 1232

by zaimor on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @11:34PM (#42391931) Attached to: New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map

... Very few mass shootings were done with legally acquired firearms.

I generally just enjoy the banter here on ./ but I have to respond to this; [http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map] "Of the 139 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally..."

Submission + - New Tool Blocks Downloads from Malicious Sites

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Hugh Pickens

on Saturday October 09, 2010 @12:31PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Science Daily Headlines reports that a new tool has been developed funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Office and US Office of Naval Research to prevent "drive-by downloads" where by simply visiting a website, malware can be silently installed on a computer to steal a user's identity and other personal information, launch denial-of-service attacks, or participate in botnet activity. The software called Blade — short for Block All Drive-By Download Exploits — is browser-independent and designed to eliminate all drive-by malware installation threats by tracking how users interact with their browsers to distinguish downloads that received user authorization from those that do not. "BLADE monitors and analyzes everything that is downloaded to a user's hard drive to cross-check whether the user authorized the computer to open, run or store the file on the hard drive. If the answer is no to these questions, BLADE stops the program from installing or running and removes it from the hard drive," says Wenke Lee, a professor in the School of Computer Science in Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Blade's testbed automatically harvests malware URLs from multiple whitehat sources on a daily basis and has an interesting display of the infection rate of different browsers, the applications targeted by drive-by exploits, and the anti-virus detect and miss rates of drive-by binaries."

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