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  1. Right... fair point. But to expect a company to be responsible for the actions of a third party is unreasonable, so "enforce" really just means what Google will allow its employees to do as part of a contract.

    It’s a perfectly reasonable expectation from a company claiming to be ethical. Google could always just tell the DoD ‘No’ and walk awayif they were really being as ethical ad they claim.

  2. Yeah, right... on Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What exactly these guidelines will stipulate isn't clear, but Google says they will include a ban on the use of artificial intelligence in weaponry.

    Even if Google follows this, how is it going to prevent the DoD from weaponizing what Google develops? Google is clearly not naive so this all reeks of a public show for something they’ll never be able to enforce.

  3. Re: You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And the person is double fail since that RFC even states it’s not a “standard of any kind.”

  4. Re: You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    It is a regrettably well spread misconception that publication as an
          RFC provides some level of recognition. It does not, or at least not
          any more than the publication in a regular journal. In fact, each
          RFC has a status, relative to its relation with the Internet
          standardization process: Informational, Experimental, or Standards
          Track (Proposed Standard, Draft Standard, Internet Standard), or
          Historic. This status is reproduced on the first page of the RFC
          itself, and is also documented in the periodic "Internet Official
          Protocols Standards" RFC (STD 1).

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

    Now let’s go to the I’m a Teapot RFC:

    Status of this Memo

          This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
          not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
          memo is unlimited.

    So basically you’re wrong as can be.

  5. Re: You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No it’s not. Also it was part of a yearly joke RFC.

  6. Re:You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well then good news. NPM isn’t a serious web application. It’s an amateur hour piece of software.

  7. Sure but the USPTO can't issue patents in South Korea. And again, the lawsuit has nothing to do with patents in the first place.

  8. Execpt no patents are involved. This is all about claims of copyright infringement.

  9. Re: Can you steal something that is already stolen on PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That Hunger Games Minecraft mod you keep referencing came out like 7 months after DayZ was released.

  10. No one is being sued over patents. Secondly, what does the USPTO have to do with South Korea? You know, the country the lawsuit is filed in.

  11. Re:Can you steal something that is already stolen? on PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PUBG did certainly not come up with that game concept, the DayZ mod did it in ARMA 2 back in 2013.

    The guy who made the DayZ mod is the creator of PUGB. So, yes, he did come up wih the game concept used in DayZ.

  12. ARK is not a Battle Royale game. Secondly, the creator of PUGB has other Battle Royale games that predate ARK.

  13. Unless they think they can patent a genre this'll end badly,

    They don’t think they can patent a genre. That’s why this is about copyright infringement. Not that that makes there case any less silly.

  14. Battle Royale is more than just a deathmatch, though.

  15. Never?

  16. Yes it is to save keystrokes in writing useless boilerplate that the compiler can infer on its own.

  17. and fucking JEP 286 (yay, let's make Java like JavaScript!) is a good idea,

    What’s wrong with type inference and how would that make Java like Javascript? Just because both would use the keyword “var” does not make the concept the same especially as like in C# and C++11 everything would still be statically-typed unlike Javascript.

  18. Re:Object serialization is dangerous. on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You store off program state as data not as a serialized binary object.

  19. Re: Was very obvious back then on Oracle Calls Java Serialization 'A Horrible Mistake', Plans to Dump It (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering how many bugs exist in CPUs this statement doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. Doubly so when taking into account Meltdown and Spectre.

  20. Re:No. Wrong. Try again. on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bad guy intercepts encrypted email he wants to read. (MITM). He injects additional HTML data into the email (in his possession).

    Except the email is still encrypted at this point. How could they inject HTML into an encrypted email?

    So, yes, this does act as MITM.

    Except the scenario you invented is not what this flaw is about and flaw doesn’t allow tampering with the encrypted email while in transit. The email isn’t decrypted until it reaches the email client and the email client has to be one of the buggy ones that don’t actually check the failure return.

  21. Re:Dupe on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Should have included HTML so that it could be decrypted surreptiously.

  22. Re: Wired misunderstands exploiting the flaw. on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Wired misunderstands exploiting the flaw.

    After reading your post, I can only assume this title was being ironic? You seem to understand it even less than Wired.

  23. Re:Dupe and Wrong on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Because you’re name is Chick N. Little?

  24. Dupe on Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Is the flaw that Slashdot editors posted a duped story?

  25. Re:18 Moths of Planned Software Availability on AMD Integrates Ryzen PRO and Radeon Vega Graphics In Next-Gen APUs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But will the commercial-grade QA process make up for the moths coming in under count?