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Re:Developer responds to allegations of FBI backdoor in OpenBSD IPSec
on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:29AM (#2011477)
Chewie was a female and being pregnant most of the time from her incessant whoring resulting in the hairy toe head always putting pressure on her bladder ... did cause a leak or two.
Re:Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:38AM (#1996979)
The money allotted to the TSA for the scanners was specifically part of a stimulus package (ba-da-bing!). It didn't directly have anything to do with security, more pass through grant to the scanner companies.
Re:Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?
on Sunday December 12, 2010 @12:29AM (#1996538)
I have run trac and redmine, I like trac more since I grok the python and find it pretty easy to hack extensions.
Re:Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?
on Sunday December 12, 2010 @12:28AM (#1996532)
trac is pretty easy to setup.
Re:Liu Xiaobo: I Have No Enemies
on Sunday December 12, 2010 @12:27AM (#1996528)
The man has a heart of stone, soft loving stone.
Re:4chan appears to be down after Anonymous takes down MC, Visa, and P...
on Thursday December 09, 2010 @02:39AM (#1986536)
It would be like dropping a turd directly on does-it-blend. It isn't 2012 the 4chanapocalypse doesn't start yet.
Re:Leaked cables suggest China Access to Microsoft source used for cyb...
on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:23AM (#1978215)
This is still a problem. Latent exploits still sit ripening on the vine of every codebase.
Re:Leaked cables suggest China Access to Microsoft source used for cyb...
on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:19AM (#1978209)
Back in 1997-1999 it was fairly easy to get access to MS source code on the corp net. Esp if you were in Visual Studio or Windows NT (2000, XP, etc) team. Meaning pretty much anyone could get it. I had a local copy on my workstation I would study. Very readable code the NT 4 codebase. Everyone who wants a copy of codebase X can get a codebase X with a concerted amount of work. It will be impossible to stop this.
Having access to the source can give you insights into the various ways you can attack a system. It saves months if not years of hacking. Yes you can make exploits w/o the source. With the source it is a whole new ballgame.
Firewalls, MAC, separation of concerns, etc. With the proper virus one can bring the whole system down (pick your system).
Re:Ask HN: What do you use for Screencasts?
on Friday December 03, 2010 @02:14PM (#1967074)
Screenium is great for capture (on the mac). For editing I use after effects. iMovie would probably work really well. The most important thing is sound and the font size / screen size. Preview it a bunch with fresh eyeballs.
Re:How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google
on Sunday November 28, 2010 @03:50AM (#1947024)
They also have a newegg account, http://www.newegg.com/Mktplace/SellerProfile.aspx?SellerID=A... it should be canceled.
Re:Ask HN: What are the current (IT) industry skills employment cash c...
on Saturday November 27, 2010 @05:06PM (#1946003)
As a highering manager (who uses Hadoop) it easy for me to request more head count at a 200k cost to the company. It is not even the same order of magnitude amount of effort to request hardware at 1/4 the price. What I could get done with more hardware...
Re:Personal Surveillance Drones are here.
on Monday November 22, 2010 @12:07AM (#1928779)
This is really cool, but not legal esp if flying for money.
You cannot let anything get out of visual range and within regular air traffic.