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  1. Re: To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    I'm certainly capable of getting past 4cam being already set up with the whitelist. If you don't mind sharing your JSON file... well, I'll probably have to do a lot of work on my own. But it always helps to have a working example.

    And, from what I understand, I would just use the JSON file initially until I found a specific site that did not work.

  2. Re: To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the recommendation, AC. I plan on experimenting with umatrix tonight.

  3. Re:To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    I want to use Google maps. This means not blackholing all of Google to 127.0.0.1.

    I want to use /. and other sites, without Google tracking me. Normally this means blackholing all of Google to 127.0.0.1

    Sure, it's technically /. that put the tracking on their site, but the solution is normally to violently kill Google's IP.

    Similar to how I typically keep FB from getting any requests, which means I could not log into FB if I want to.

  4. Re:To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    Right, I want to use some Google services (e.g. Maps) while preventing a data-leak when not using their service (e.g. being on /.)

    I get that I cannot use G.maps without telling Google things. I just want to only tell Google what I want to tell them explicitly.

  5. Re:To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    To my understanding, some CDNs server a unique datafile to every response, instead of using cached files. This can be done by introducing meaningless arguments into the URL that resolve to the same location, but do not need to. It's similar to the 1 px transparent gifs.

    Unlike the gifs, blackholeing the CDNs doesn't work, because the JS is required by the main page.

    So, it's more expensive, but also more reliable.

  6. To refine the question, with subquestions on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 2

    Is there a way to use some things (E.g. Google Maps) with known leaks, without exposing every activity to Google all the time on unrelated sites. It seems like limiting some domains make sense, but I'm thinking of things like cloudfront.net

    Also, is there some way to prevent the CDN-style spying/extra downloads?

  7. Re:This is all for show on San Francisco Bay Area In Superbowl Surveillance Mode (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm sure that the radioactive material sensors can detect some percentage of people who try to make a dirty bomb. Maybe most of them. I don't really understand all technical issues, but I have no problem with that.

    Bad guys are not binary: determined/uninformed. They have a skillset. 100% security is impossible. You'll never stop someone from stealing your life savings if they really want to and have skills and equipment. But you still would put it in a safe.

    Which doesn't mean all these measures are good ideas. But I categorically reject "none of these matter" as categorically as I reject "all of these matter".

  8. Re:They read one Tom Clancy novel on San Francisco Bay Area In Superbowl Surveillance Mode (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they're reading Tom Clancy novels now. As opposed to being surprised by some obviousish things:

    1. Debt of Honor - 747's could be turned into weapons, and flown into government buildings in DC
    2. Executive Orders - Removing the Iraqi government leaves a power vacuum that Iran and others want to move into, sparking a civil war.
    3. The Bear and the Dragon - China's economy is super-fragile, and when it starts cracking the government will do anything to prevent it.
  9. Re:Apple doesn't need a new device! on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of us have vowed we will never again buy an iOS based device. Because we have earlier devices that have been abandoned by the App Store.

    The current OS supports the last 5 generations of phone (back to the iPhone4S). That's one problem Apple saw and hs tried to fix.

    Compare that to the fragmentation in Android, where you can buy a new device that doesn't work with the current app store.

  10. Re:12k Fraud gets you on europes most wanted list. on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    Socialist societies rob people of motivation. It's pretty obvious.

  11. A system based on vocation seems quite poor. There are far more important things than your job, at least to some people. Some people's political beliefs are so circumscribed, but it seems like theya re already assuming that politics should embody their philosophy with this setup.

  12. Re:That is utterly stupid on T-Mobile's Binge On Violates Net Neutrality, Says Stanford Report (tmonews.com) · · Score: 1

    I should point out that all market failures arise from user choice. It's the choice of everyone to use IE that killed Netscape. Now, that choice was made cause MS made it very, very easy to use IE if you had a Windows computer. And then all the web site developers made a choice to anticipate IE's non-standards parsing because 99% of browsers were IE. And then other people made a choice to drop Netscape, cause sites didn't look good.

    Then a bunch of corporations made a choice to use ActiveX components because JS didn't exist in IE yet. Then not rewriting all that code was a choice that made fiscal sense, and only necessitated staying on IE platforms.

    All sane, rational choices.

  13. Re:Tiny? on Ask Slashdot: Economical Lego-Compatible 3-D Printer? · · Score: 1

    Oops, looks like XY tolerances are here

  14. Re:Tiny? on Ask Slashdot: Economical Lego-Compatible 3-D Printer? · · Score: 1

    The tolerances of a Lego brick pretty well defines the problem space. A snippit but I cannot find wthe article it referes to.

    It looks like a height tolerance of 40 microns (max). Not sure about the XY tolerances.

  15. Re:Hmm? on Privacy-Centric Linux Distro Tails Hits 2.0 Release · · Score: 1

    Correct, Tor does not usually hide the fact that you are using it. There are some obscuring gateways into Tor, but those only work if you know about them and your adversary doesn't. I wouldn't trust that, and assume if I am using Tor, anyone who wants to know that fact can get it.

    The bomb threat made at Harvard (via Tor) a while back was traced to the only person who was on Tor when it was sent. That was the primary thing that lead to his suspicion.

  16. I liked the UI on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I thought the Windows Phone UI was pretty good. Certainly better than the Android UI, which I never liked. I suppose I consider the iOS UI in between the two.

    I'm guessing the fragmentation of Android devices means I never picked up an Android device and felt that it worked the same as other Android devices. So those differences grated on me. I haven't used WP in a while. but it was pretty easy for me to get to the things I needed quickly.

  17. Re:MS is not abandoning the platform on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like MS has ever had a poorly received product in a crowded marketplace, and just held on til it took off before...

  18. Re:iPhone 6 / 6S on Tim Cook: What's Good For the US Dollar Is Bad For Apple · · Score: 1

    Not likely. iOS 9 was supposed to extend how long you could use your iPhone 4S. Which makes sense. They make money off their hardware, but they make money off the app store.

  19. Re:Stupid traps for stupid people on Android Ransomware Threatens To Share Your Browsing History With Your Friends (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    "Eventually get pulled" is a kludge for no real security.

    I agree, i want to be trusted. But there should be a big difference between "I sideloaded an app" and "I ran an app in admin mode". there doesn't seem to be, security-wise.

  20. Re:The Bake Sale Model on A Crowdfunding Site To Help Pay Patients' Medical Bills · · Score: 1

    Use real costs. The fact that there is an "insurance cost" and a "self pay costs" tells us all we need to know about medical bills. They aren't tied to the actual cost of service in any meaningful way.

    Who uses real costs for anything? I mean, is cell service at "real costs"

  21. Re:Decentralized source control on GitHub Service Outage (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Or , you could export the patches, move them to another machine, and import them. Exacly what would happen automatically wiht push/pull. But it still will have the same information as far as changesets/etc. so it'll seemlessly work once its up.

  22. Re:Decentralized source control on GitHub Service Outage (github.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I have an office I can go to. You know, for all the working with coworkers,

  23. Re:Stupid traps for stupid people on Android Ransomware Threatens To Share Your Browsing History With Your Friends (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    So, instead of having an OS with security built into it, we get an OS with a weak security model, but it's okay because if you let Google control everything you see/get a cut they'll keep you safe?

    There's no real reason the Google store is any safer than any sideloaded app. All google does is runs some automated detection software, and that could be run clientside.

  24. Re: The "Floor" was always a kludge on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    longer delays tend to produce bigger swings, for the simple reason that a system can go off the rails longer before the market corrects it.

    Longer delays mean that new information cannot affect the market for a longer period of time. Assuming that it's much faster to abort acting on the information than to begin acting on it, that gives a longer period of time for validation/analysis of that information. See also, the huge blips that comapnies get based on twitter rumors.

    But there's an even more basic error in your reasoning, namely the assumption that market swings are bad or that we should adopt policies to reduce them.

    Stability is a good thing. I'm not sure what value wild intra-day voitility provides. Longer term stability menas that longer term plans can be mad.e

  25. Heads I win... on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd be fine with this, if they weren't allowed to unwind transactions because of "computer glitches". If they wanna automate trading, they should have to take the good and the bad. But now, if their software does something stupid (like repeatedly buying at 25.01, and selling at 25 even) and you take advantage of it, they sue you and get the trades reversed.