valkabo - Slashdot User

Comment What? (Score 1, Interesting) 52

by valkabo on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:34AM (#35196608) Attached to: The Joys of Running a Bug Bounty Program

Hackers are excellent at following directions. They are just also excellent at seeing where the directions are flawed and exploiting them. What.. you think steve the hacker is finding holes in your software by guessing? No. He uses the program like it is suppose to be used and then tracks down the issues he is looking to exploit. You can't break a rule if you don't totally understand it.

Comment Wait (Score -1) 587

by valkabo on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @01:54PM (#27573747) Attached to: Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA

These lawyers are the very very top shelf of law. Need proof? How many laws have the RIAA broken and gotten away with?

Comment So basically (Score -1) 156

by valkabo on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @05:38PM (#21016763) Attached to: Beyond Nobel, Hard Drives Get Smart

So just to check..

1. 4tb/inch capacity

2. ???

3. Portman with grits?

Submission + - US faces US$100 billion fine for web gaming ban

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday October 11, 2007 @05:34PM

Stony Stevenson writes: A Brussels think-tank has accused the US government of reneging on commitments made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over internet gaming. The forum believes that the US could be liable for up to US$100 billion in trade concessions to European industries after placing illegal discriminatory trade restrictions on European gaming operators. The disputed concessions arise from Antigua's victory earlier this year when the WTO ruled that the US violated its treaty obligations by excluding online Antiguan gaming operators, while allowing domestic operators to offer various forms of online gaming.

As a result, all 151 WTO members are considering seeking compensation for the withdrawal equal to the size of the entire US land-based and online gaming market, estimated at nearly US$100 billion.

French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ 728

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 15, 2006 @05:21PM from the hey-I-resemble-that-remark dept.

Xemu writes "French scientists have linked obesity to lower IQ reports the Telegraph. In a new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults, people with a low body mass index (BMI) could recall 30% more words in a vocabulary test than those who were obese. The fatter subjects also showed a higher rate of cognitive decline when they were retested five years later. In the United States, 30% of the population is obese according to OECD. That's the highest rate of obesity anywhere. Do these high obesity rates affect the average IQ of the population?" (Of course, this sidesteps discussion of whether IQ tests measure anything significant at all.)

Comprehensive Projection of World Oil Exports 490

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 10, 2006 @03:23PM from the firewood-futures-market dept.

Prof. Goose writes, "This article is a comprehensive assessment of world oil exports, defined has the total amount of liquid hydrocarbons that are surpluses in producing countries. This assessment is made by projecting into the future fixed change rates that reflect current trends in liquids production and consumption in all countries where presently the difference between the two factors is positive. The outcome of this assessment is rather worrisome." Here is the money graph through 2020.

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