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  1. Re:Offline archive? on Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End · · Score: 1

    The link for those nostalgic, but lazy: https://store.drdobbs.com/prod...

  2. Fruit Salad on The GPLv2 Goes To Court · · Score: 1

    Is fruit salad a derivative work of an apple? I believe that the creators of GPLv2 would say yes, but I don't think it is unreasonable to disagree. A lot hinges on the definition of 'derivative'.

  3. Starting with a false premise on Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords? · · Score: 1

    "Any password policy sufficiently complex to be secure is too complex to remember" is not a universally true statement. https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

  4. kaJ = Hack on Iranian Hackers Compromised Airlines, Critical Infrastructure Companies · · Score: 1

    "kaJ" is a clever way of spelling "Hack" using roman transliteration and reading right to left as indicated by the capitol J.

  5. Just a small matter of science and technology on How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything · · Score: 2

    From Wikipedia:

    Terahertz radiation occupies a middle ground between microwaves and infrared light waves, and technology for generating and manipulating it is in its infancy, and is the subject of research. This lack of technology is called the terahertz gap. It represents the region in the electromagnetic spectrum that the frequency of electromagnetic radiation becomes too high to be measured by digitally counting cycles using electronic counters, and must be measured by the proxy properties of wavelength and energy. Similarly, in this frequency range the generation and modulation of coherent electromagnetic signals ceases to be possible by the conventional electronic devices used to generate radio waves and microwaves, and requires new devices and techniques.

  6. Maybe a New Zealand Court on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    Will allow him to seize a U.S. Destroyer.

  7. Do you really have the scammer's number? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 2

    You do realize that the phone number that you think you have for the scammer is also likely spoofed? These guys are probably sitting in India or Kenya.

  8. Counterpoint on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 1

    One of the best bosses I ever had was technically clueless. He had been the company's best salesman. When he wanted to travel less, the president made him our fledgling team's director. He viewed his new job's duty as 'selling the team to management'. He figured out what management wanted for him to look good and shared that with us. His attitude was 'make me look good and I'll make you look good'. He also understood his cluelessness and asked about what to read. He would take books like Steve McConnell's Rapid Development, photocopy chapters and read them one by one while he ran on his treadmill in the evenings. It was always fun noting his progress based on his behavior and questions. Seriously one of the best bosses ever and taken way too young by Lou Gehrig's.

  9. Re:Misleading- Good will is common accounting on Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Accountants from the 1970s will tell you that having good will on your books means you made a dumb decision at some point. Modern accounting practice is to assign as much value of a major purchase as possible to 'Good Will' because of the associated write off. If you review the fortune 100's annual filings you will find them full of purchases of lesser companies where the majority of the value of the purchase was assigned to 'Good Will'. Since the IRS takes 'Good Will' assignment at face value, why wouldn't you take as big of a write off as possible if you are a business spending money?

  10. Very clever of them to create new PII on Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic · · Score: 1

    Now under the law I believe they are required to protect this information. If the state of California has decided that a Zip code is PII, then this identifier certainly is. Roll the plaintiff's attorneys.

  11. Its a nonregressive tax on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 0

    This is actually a good thing for Hungary, not a bad thing. The more ways governments find to raise taxes nonregressively, the better off our countries will be in the long run. The 'Internet' is not your personal friend.

  12. Apple's icloud trademark trampled on China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Apple will complain to the world trade commission regarding the self-signed www.icloud.com certificate. This is a purposeful violation of Apple's trademark.

  13. Things everyone can do on FBI Warns Industry of Chinese Cyber Campaign · · Score: 1

    In your firewall:

    1. Whitelist destination IPs for destination port 53, workflow denials adding IPs that have reverse DNS entries. (e.g. don't allow access to fly-by night DNS servers)

    2. Whitelist source IPs for destination port 53. (E.g. do not allow alternate DNS servers to be used inside your org)

    Have your org's DNS servers point to OpenDNS or GoogleDNS -- they do a good job of filtering out the rifraf

  14. Connect then duplicate on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    You should probably have your proxy choose just one path for the initial connection setup and then after some configurable number of packets start the flow cloning process to the secondary route. You want to make sure that the server has a chance to get whatever house keeping it does at connection setup time completed before you start relying on the magic of TCP to keep the server from going insane. If you mess with the connection too early you are likely going to mess something up in game's connection setup process. If you send the very first SYN packet twice there is a good chance the server will reset the connection. Then you are going to have to start adding TCP protocol logic to your proxy which is going to make it way more complex. You will need to peak at the TCP sequence numbers when deciding what to pass back to your client from the server.

    UDP is a simpler protocol and therefore more complicated for you to handle. You won't have a sequence number and you will need to hash the contents of every packet coming from the server and only pass packets back to your client that you haven't seen before. And of course you will need some sort of expiration on the hashes.

    Without fully implementing the TCP protocol in your proxy you can expect issues from time to time, particularly when you pause play and a reset might slip in at the TCP protocol level. But you should be able to create something that works most of the time pretty easily.

  15. Clojure on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    Scala seems to be kicking Clojure to the curb.

  16. This is crime in many states on DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook · · Score: 4, Informative

    Louisiana: http://www.criminaldefenselawy... Unfortunately in New York http://www.criminaldefenselawy... the intent must be criminal.

  17. Re:So, it has come to this. on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Certainly doesn't exist in Texas.

  18. Screaming 3 year olds on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    are orders of magnitude more distracting than these device related distractions. Are we going to ban children in cars next?

  19. Grossly underestimating ingenuity on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    The average amount of solar energy that reaches the surface of the earth is 6KWH/m^2. The earth has 510,072,000,000,000 m^2. We have only scratched the surface of what we are capable of consuming.

  20. We know Columbus had maps on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 1

    but it has never been clear what maps he showed the Queen of Spain. If he had a map from Marco Polo that showed a large chunk of something East of Asia that was not Spain, I think this would have been a compelling argument to go check out what was to the West of Spain.

  21. quid pro quo? on Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger · · Score: 1

    Why isn't anyone asking why these sheriffs departments are even buying this software with their soft funds? I'll bet there is a campaign contribution that correlates with each of these sales.

  22. Re:They are just lazy on Ask Slashdot: Software Issue Tracking Transparency - Good Or Bad? · · Score: 1

    Your convolution of sales and marketing indicates ignorance. True, a good marketing guy would know how to spin the differentiator. However sales guys are always incentivized by the deals they close. If they believe that the public bug database is keeping them from making money you are going to hear it from them. If the sales guys can make a convincing argument, they should be listened to. If they make more money, the company makes more money. However, they should be reminded that closing off the bug database at this point will also be used against them.

  23. Re:Shocker, a federal agency is executing its mand on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    It's really not that big of a secret: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

  24. Re:Are we even sure this is legal? on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly! How can patents developed with public dollars be anything other than in the public domain?

  25. Home routers vulnerable on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that my home router shells out to IP Chains to generate the NATed ports page. It will show this page to anyone and I can't turn it off -- remote administration is OFF, but for my router that just means only 192.* addresses can login and change things like the NATed ports. It still serves up the web pages to all requestors.