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Why no story on Tesla hack?
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That was posted more than 24 hours ago.

Slashdot really that afraid if EIon? Will he stop paying them?
Shame!

The issue with North Korea's sites isn't really ads.

North Korea's official news website serves malware

The Attack on Sony

North Korea's cyberattack on Sony Pictures exposed a new reality: you don't have to be a superpower to inflict damage on U.S. corporations

Shared malware code links SWIFT-related breaches at banks and North Korean hackers

Of course if they can get some hard currency from them I doubt those pages will be ad free forever .... if they are now.

128GB SSD to small for the basic system.

Also no ati or nvidia video in any system.

For one or two (ie. dual boot) operating systems 128GB SSD'sare great and are not that much more in price than a 60GB SSD.

Anyone who has built their own desktop knows that you should always put the OS on an SSD (M2's are still SSD's) for the best performance and use an additional disk or disks for the rest of your data. The problem with many laptops is many come with only one disk so a hybrid is a compromise between performance and storage.

Of course, if you really want capacity and performance of your storage device you can always replace your 2.5" laptop disk with something like a 15TB SSD, cheap at only $10,000 USD :-)

Reuters, the poster and most commentards have missed the point entirely.
The case and the judgement relate to linking to copyright infringing content, see http://www.pcworld.com/article/3117094/top-eu-court-hedges-on-question-of-hyperlinking-legality-in-playboy-case.html The question considered is whether this act is equivalent to copyright infringement. It appears that the court has decided (quite reasonably) that it is.

This does NOT mean that linking to 3rd party content becomes illegal. Embedding 3rd party content in your own web site without permission is already a breach of copyright, but linking to 3rd party content on the 3rd party site (i.e. where the browser loads the 3rd party page containing the content) is not and is unlikely to become so, ever.

So not "goodbye to the web" but 'business as usual." Unfortunately the reality would not have made a story...

Getting sick of how the word "Deep" is being plastered on everything. Like "Dark". It's become another bullshit marketing buzzword. Supposedly it means "a large system of neurons arranged in several hidden layers" but by that token you can call any program with nested subroutines "Deep". This is DEEP software bud. DEEP! I can't explain it to you because it's DEEP. Now break out the checkbook sucker, and I'll throw in this cyber cat brain too.

Branch delay slots? Register windows? This is one of the first RISC architectures, and it has warts. Fujitsu just abandoned it.

Today, that means something like Phase One's 100 megapixel medium format digital back. This lets us initially grab as many pixels as possible and then throw away the ones we don't want later.

Pffft Is that all?

But really it's a lot of naval gazing and penis compensation. High-end reprographic work hasn't gotten any better in the past 5-10 years. The same arguments were made back when medium format backs were 30mpxl and DSLRs were 8mpxl. The same argument is being made now. Interestingly the pictures are still the same quality which really puts the whole "*really* need" thing into perspective.

As far as I can see from available information, the HoloLens has a focal distance somewhere around 2 meters away from your face.

Whereas in a "true" hologram, you capture the interference patterns of all light rays that pass through the volume of your photo sensitive film. Shining a laser through that film will recreate light rays with the same direction and intensity. As if you were looking through a window at the original scene.

Oracle is campaigning for accountability? Sure, I love accountability.
How about:

- Improper accounting practices on your cloud service business: http://venturebeat.com/2016/06...
- Breach of contract: http://www.pcworld.com/article...
- Putting stockholders' investments at risk: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
- Fraudulent practices/overcharging the Deparment of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...
- Patent infringement: http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
- Project cost overrun and breach of contract again: http://wtnnews.com/articles/85...

If Oracle had any hint of accountability it would've closed doors a long time ago. What they want is money.

That says a lot about the state of US reporting, A lot of US hard news articles are UK newspaper based, and not reported much, if at all in the US.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

There you go US Based and more computer/tech oriented.

Just a suspicion the Guardian was used because Pravda isn't what it used to be and the Russian State organs are now about Russian Nationalism not communism.

Windows anniversary update:

http://www.howtogeek.com/24817...

Some useful group policy options no longer function on Windows 10 Professional and require Windows 10 Enterprise or Education. These include the ability to disable the lock screen, tips, and “Microsoft consumer experience” that downloads apps like Candy Crush Saga.

https://blogs.windows.com/wind...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/...
Basically, all those things you turned off, you did through the group policy editor.

Store? Its on permanenty and you won't be able to disable it unless on enterprise.

That search bar? Its cortana and you won't be able to disable it for the same reason.

  All that tracking and ads same reason. So Aftre the 9th when all your hard work is undone and you get the real taste of 10 come back and share.

http://akademie.dw.de/digitals...

You may be right.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Or not

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

or ... you can see for yourself

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

When you are thinking to sympathize to Avaya think again. For example "Avaya tried to monopolize maintenance, jury says in $60M verdict" http://www.pcworld.com/article...

1. Upgrade: MS wasted tens of millions of manhours worldwide with their all-but-forced upgrade
2. Telemetry: They listen to you using your computer
3. Ads: They push ads at you via the OS, taking over what remains of your attention span
4. Kernel Mode Drivers: No more can your programs manipulate Windows 10 internals (bye bye www.colinux.org)
5. UEFI Secure Boot: No more can you boot another OS on a Windows 10 tablet or mobile device. For now, you can do so on a desktop, but manufacturers now have the 'option' (wink) to remove this 'security risk' (nudge).

1. Upgrade: MS wasted tens of millions of manhours worldwide with their all-but-forced upgrade
2. Telemetry: They listen to you using your computer
3. Ads: They push ads at you via the OS, taking over what remains of your attention span
4. Kernel Mode Drivers: No more can your programs manipulate Windows 10 internals (bye bye www.colinux.org)
5. UEFI Secure Boot: No more can you boot another OS on a Windows 10 tablet or mobile device. For now, you can do so on a desktop, but manufacturers now have the 'option' (wink) to remove this 'security risk' (nudge).

Show me this type of vulnerability in VMware, any version

Here's one example.

Here's a story showing that VMWare tries to hide their vulnerabilities.

...After all, why use something FOSS that you can patch in minutes when you can wait for your vendor to take their time and do it for you?

Not everyone is Microsoft, the company fixed it overnight.

But that's the problem. I have to *trust* that they'll proactively and competently fix security holes. That's the inherent flaw in proprietary security patches.

...After all, why use something FOSS that you can patch in minutes when you can wait for your vendor to take their time and do it for you?

Not everyone is Microsoft, the company fixed it overnight.

You're a dumbass. But I expect nothing else from a millennial. Closed source is one layer of security along with memorizing passwords and encryption. Removing any layer of security is stupid. Opening up the source so anyone can find vulnerabilities and exploit them is as stupid as removing encryption and storing passwords plaintext. You millennial snowflakes really are pretty stupid.

That's funny, I didn't know Bruce Schneier was a millennial. Oh well. Use closed source security solutions if you like. After all, why use something FOSS that you can patch in minutes when you can wait for your vendor to take their time and do it for you?

I think there is more potential in the petabyte-potential crystal storage reported earlier this year, notwithstanding the fact that at current write speeds it would take 1200 years to fill just one 360TB crystal...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

  there’s no way to turn off some of the telemetry data Windows 10 collects about your system and beams back to the mothership. Microsoft executives don’t consider this a privacy issue. If you do, Windows 10 isn’t for you.

Now let's put this on 1.1 million military systems.

I don't think the "Enterprise Edition" has this telemetry. Corporations won't allow it. Neither would DoD.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

there’s no way to turn off some of the telemetry data Windows 10 collects about your system and beams back to the mothership. Microsoft executives don’t consider this a privacy issue. If you do, Windows 10 isn’t for you.

Now let's put this on 1.1 million military systems.

"Enough horsepower to run an Oculus Rift well?"

Quoting from the The Rift’s Recommended Spec:
"For the full Rift experience, we recommend the following system: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater"

Ars Technica writes "Faster than a GTX 980".
PCworld even uses the title "GTX 1060 is a $250 GTX 980 killer".

So, yes, it's easily enough to use the Rift.
And the HTC Vive for that matter.

Windows defender sucks ass. See here: https://www.av-test.org/en/ant...

Far below industry average. So yes AV is still relevant. For more data, try here: http://www.av-comparatives.org...

And other website are saying defender is getting quite decent, especially for a free/no installation AV : http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Furthermore, the core of my point is that no virus are supposed to reach that last layer of defence. Unless you are dependant on animal porn?

From a security standpoint you shouldn't be using antivirus software for real-time scanning. These issues have been known for years and keep occurring ( https://www.blackhat.com/prese...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...
https://community.sophos.com/k...
). Antivirus vendors have been screwing up too often - false positives (blacklisting OS files etc), being exploitable (like this), being unstable, using too much resources.

Real time AV scanning should only be used by people who are incompetent enough to screw up their own systems (or let malware do it) more often than a AV company would. If you know what you are doing you wouldn't be using real-time AV scanning. You'd only scan certain stuff using sacrificial machines and more as a precaution and additional layer of defence.

In one word: Cortana

You can look at RIM/Blackberry to see where all other non-Apple, non-Android smartphone makers ended up. The feature phone market dried up, ending Nokia's most successful niche. The company's downward slide had already started before Elop signed-on. "The company's board was widely seen to be searching for a turn-around CEO." Note that you don't need a "turn-around" if your company is doing great... Or if you don't believe that, you can just look at the charts and see the decline BEFORE Elon was hired on. In fact RIM/Blackberry sales were still climbing a couple years after Nokia's downward slide began...

"Elop's CEO contract with Nokia included a bonus clause worth $25 Million dollars, if Elop sold the handset unit specifically to Microsoft." So obviously Nokia's board were specifically eying a Microsoft buyout when they signed Elop on.

No question Elop was a lousy leader who didn't help things, but everybody knew Nokia was broken before his tenure started. I'd call Elop's tenure a symptom, not the disease. Note that Blackberry had a precipitous downward slide, too, without any former Microsoft execs involved.

Of course, no company would allow a popup request for installing an operating system with a dialog box that has the "Upgrade Now" next to the button marked "OK". If you got something like this then we would assume it was Malware and click the "X" button at the top. .... Oh! Wait! :-)

Don't Apple already have a range of pricey screens called iMac? :)

They sell like hotcakes.

Wasn't Dell forced to drop the price of their cheap 5k monitor (they couldn't actually ship yet) because Apple's pricey "iMac" display cost just as much as the Dell? Why yes, they did.

The following *should* work:
1. Capture full disk image of your existing Windows 7/8.1 system (use Macrium, CloneZilla, Acronis, Ghost, etc.).
2. Perform in-place Windows 10 upgrade. Verify digital entitlement activation
3. Capture full disk image of Windows 10 installation.
4. Restore your Windows 7/8.1 disk image
5. Optionally perform clean install of Windows 10 after July due to digital entitlement

Who is gonna host all that data and for how long?

Brewster Kahle. Forever.

Your data, good for a thousand years

If that's not good enough, go back to sleep for another twenty years.

Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind

Problem solved.

I was smoking an e-cig while riding on my hoverboard when my Dell laptop battery exploded in my backpack.

Alphabet CEO Larry Page says his company never considered getting permission from Oracle for using the latter's Java APIs in Android.

Technically, he's correct. But Google did apparently try to get a license of some type from Sun Microsystems. From 2011:

Google: Sun Offered to License Java for $100 Million

Sun Microsystems offered to license its Java technology to Google for US$100 million, a Google attorney said Thursday, attempting to show that Oracle is out of touch as it seeks billions from Google for patent infringement.

...

Holtzman said Oracle has an e-mail from a Google executive to Rubin, the head of Google's Android division, which he said shows that Google recognized it needed a license for Java.

He read part of the email in court: "What we've actually been asked to do by Larry and Sergey is to investigate what technology alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome," the Google executive wrote, referring to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. "We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java."

...

The Feds have been known to choose where to deem a computer/internet crime occurred to favor jurisdictions where they feel they have the best chance of a favorable outcome.

You mean forum shopping.

Like prosecuting a California web site in Tennessee or Florida on pornography charges. http://www.pcworld.com/article...

What's a Skimer?

Using the magical oracle known as "Google", we find the answer to that question is...
ATM malware
ATM malware
ATM malware
ATM malware
ATM malware
ATM malware
(you probably get the idea by now: "Skimer" is ATM malware)

Everyone who knows anything knows that the community is the value. Get everyone on the internet, value is automatically created.

The only problem is 1 of those billions of people would probably share a song illegally on a p2p network and would owe 75 trillion dollars, leaving us like 68 trillion in the red.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Ideally, the ditch diggers train to operate the robots which dig ditches. We went through this in the 1980s. Robots were starting to enter into manufacturing. The labor unions rebelled and rather than negotiate for retraining, they negotiated to keep the robots out of manufacturing.

Fast forward 20 years, and transportation costs dropped enough that foreign manufacturing + transport was now cheaper than domestic manufacturing by humans. If they'd allowed the robots back in the 1980s and retrained, a lot of those manufacturing facilities and jobs would still be here. But instead the factories were shuttered and manufacturing moved overseas. This is why Foxconn is prepping to replace workers with robots. Now that wages are rising in China, they don't want the manufacturing jobs they took from the U.S. to be taken from them by Vietnam and Thailand.

If the "people have limits," then you design the robot's controls so those people can operate and correct problems with the robot 99% of the time. The other 1% you call in a specialist. That's what happened to computers in the 1980s - we switched from command-line interfaces which required users to have memorized thousands of obscure keywords, to graphical user interfaces which allowed someone clueless about or just learning the system to find the correct command on their own. (I'm also really skeptical that people are *that* limited in their ability to learn. If you've ever seen the controls for a crane or a bulldozer, they're not exactly simple. Yet "oafs" like construction workers seem to have no problem learning how to use them quite proficiently.)

This belief that computers and robots will replace humans is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the limitations of computer algorithms. There will always be problems which in order to solve, the mind has to be flexible enough to transcend the boundaries within which the problem is defined, making them impossible for current AI and probably impossible for anything short of a self-aware AI. More to the point, this also means there will always be problems where it's cheaper just to hire a person to do it, than to try to program a machine or computer to do it (Clippy vs asking your friend who's good with computers).

I can tell you from first hand experience, it was opt out only, and there was no notification. Here's a popular AskUbuntu article which shows how complicated it has been over the years (the interface changed a few times, etc). This PCWorld article claims that in the beginning there wasn't even a GUI option to disable it, meaning you had to know it was there, find the package and purge it. SUPER sketchy.

It doesn't matter if they remove it as this point. As shuttlecock himself said of the whole fiasco, "[they've] got root." I think it really goes to show how little Ubuntu respects its userbase and trusted position (having root of a sizeable install base, afterall). I don't see Ubuntu as a trustworthy entity, and I haven't seen anything which mitigates their actions. It's no longer about the Amazon thing; now it's about what will be next. Ubuntu is no longer trustworthy.

> Why is any part of a multi national trade deal classified information ?

The answer to that is classified. :-)

You mean you don't trust a government where the FBI director wants expanded law enforcement access to encrypted data but yet still has the gall to make laws in secret?

What are you? A commie for pointing out the government officials are hypocrites? :-)

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First Contact is coming ~2022. Are you ready for a larger perspective?

But here's the LINK

Obviously...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

May 3, 2011... http://www.pcworld.com/article...

All browsers should have the ability to pause autoplay content (videos with sound especially) by default. This would be a game changer. Chrome has this: An article with an ironic autoplay advertisement.

The problem isn't that people are idiots

Yes, it is. Would you pick up a random needle off the street and stick it into your vein, then wonder how you got AIDS? Would you stick your dick in some random person you found behind a 7-11, then wonder how you got the clap? It's not the computers fault you stuck an unknown, infected USB drive in it. Take some responsibility for your actions already. This is absolutely nobody's fault but your own, so stop doing stupid shit and then playing the victim card.

The problem is that it isn't safe to plug a USB stick into a computer.

Bullshit. It's perfectly safe to insert a USB stick into a computer, as long as there's nothing malicious on it. Knowing whether or not there's anything damaging on it is up to you, and there's always a risk (even fresh out of the package), but to imply that all sticks are dangerous is just FUD. I've never picked one up off the street, or met one in a truck stop bathroom, and I've never had a bad experience with a thumb drive. Just use some common sense, and take the proper precautions.

Have you seen the custom made USB drive that fries your laptop like an egg?

Real malicious people drop devices that look like USB sticks, but in reality contain a bank of capacitors that slowly charge then deliver a high voltage mega death zap to your USB port. Those puny TVS designed for static don't stand a chance and it perma fries the entire machine.

http://www.pcworld.com/article... & antivirus adds on more slowing bloat. Hosts speed you up 2 ways by comparison! See subject and it's useless vs unknowns often failing causing false positives as apk noted and thus they're useless crap that slows up computers and doesn't work. Even Symantec said so against modern threats. Hosts updated daily by the 1,000's in known bad sites that deliver malware does work. The odds do the rest for others not caught thus. It has been a pleasure shutting you up. By the way. Ask Tavis Ormandy how many SECURITY FLAWS HE'S FOUND IN ALL ANTIVIRUSES LATELY TOO!

Don't get Bill Gates' comments on this mixed up with Microsoft's stance on this. Microsoft has stated they back Apple, and even Gates backpedaled on it, saying he only supports breaking that one phone in order to fight terrorism.

The bad news is provisions in the USA FREEDOM Act actually allow the US government to tap digital encrypted communications, They also remove all responsibility from a company complying (so you can only sue the government) and can put a gag order on it, which is why sites like canary watch exist. I'm not exactly sure how this works in detail, but I read about it first on April fools day and wasn't sure if it was serious or a joke, but apparently reddit's canary disappeared that day, meaning they've received a gag order from the US government and are under surveillance. Makes me wonder if Slashdot needs or has one.

[...] Asteroids, Centipede, Pitfall, and Pong [...]

Pitfall wasn't an Atari title, it was an Activision title. Not sure why it got included in this list.

Atari Vault only includes games created by the company. Classic 2600 games from companies like Activision, Namco, Parker Brothers, and others aren't here, including Berzerk, Empire Strikes Back, Frogger, Joust, Pitfall, Q-Bert, and Pole Position.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3048362/windows/the-atari-vault-hits-steam-with-100-classic-games-to-scratch-your-retro-2600-itch.html

they always deliver on their promises

Like this one?

Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu has done a lot of great things and overall they've been a very positive thing for the Linux world, but they're not all awesome and they're far from perfect.

Not by coincidence. Iceweasel *was* just the ESR release rebranded for debian stable.

Anyhow, I use the past tense.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

So, if I read this right, Debian, having foisted the poisoned-software-we-dare-not-name-lest-it-summon-trolls upon its users, is now going to unbrand their neutral sounding icexxxxxx ports of Mozilla stuff and give them back their true names?

I do suppose it's only logical. Mozilla is rapidly losing any true relevance, anything to boost the install base numbers now goes, feck knows what Debian are getting out of this, now the brands are tainted.
In the case of Firefox, I used it quite a lot in the past, now, the software has at best become a major joke, at worst, it's a major embuggerance..having been presented with the fait accompli of Firefox/IE only on a works machine I have no admin rights to, the resource sucking nature of Firefox was such that running it with more than three tabs opened caused issues for the other software on the machine...thank FSM for portableapps.
As for firefox on my mobile, again a resouce hungry wee monster that gets worse with every update (so much so, I've rolled back a couple) I only keep on there for the two websites that I need to access which choke on the default browser (cough...security...cough..).