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  1. Re: Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are any number of private .dev based environment's that predate ICAN'T opening up .dev. There is a case to be made for an internal air-gapped server having the exact same domain name as the public production server but not being accessible to the public. I've also seen enterprises that do the same thing for production servers where the internal enterprise.com includes staff only material as well as the public pages.

    It's like I named all of the rooms in my house after real addreses and I'm complaining that envelopes are now rigged to self-destruct if I try to take them into my house. The kids just wanted to play post-office, not actually deliver the mail to outsiders.

  2. Re: Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You did make sure to run that comment by legal, HR, and the political officer first right? You wouldn't want to violate PC standards, would you?

  3. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They might, but if they bothered to click advanced options, "I understand the risks", and then "accept certificate", they have nobody but themselves to blame. They could at least give me a checkbox in about:config to enable that. As I said, there's a reason the tools in my toolbox aren't Playskool brand.

  4. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that is a work around. As you say it's obnoxious and shouldn't be necessary. For all of that, pinning is still not a thing even though that would make public SSL easier, cheaper, and more secure all at the same time.

  5. Re: Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, as long as the server is exposed to the outside world with an actual registered domain. The topic of this thread is internal only servers that are firewalled at least or possibly air-gapped.

  6. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, the browser is just being difficult now. I have a perfectly good setup that works as long as I avoid updating the browser. There's a reason none of the tools in my toolbox are Playskool brand.

  7. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's just another variation on exposing an internal only test environment to the outside. That is, a REDUCTION in security. More flaming hoops for the wonder dog to jump through.

  8. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    No, it's not. For one, the ludicrously short expiration times on free certs is just silly, especially for a damned INTERNAL only system. Two, the verification process doesn't actually work when the INTRERNAL ONLY server cannot be accessed externally.

    Why not let the user decide? At least let the user decide that self-signed certs are OK without some crazy procedure akin to reciting the pledge of allegiance backwards while hopping on one foot, rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time.

    I'm not a trick performing dog, I just want to pull HTML down from an HTTP server.

  9. Re: The herpes of art supplies on Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not, but I also found a 3rd grade math test once.

  10. The e-cig industry did a fair job of it. That's why the FDA had to lay down the law.

  11. Re:The herpes of art supplies on Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If experience is any guide, the kid will visit home from college and when he gets back to his dorm, a bit of that glitter on his bag will catch the light and remind him of elementary school when he first tracked it home.

  12. Re:There needs to be testing and validation... on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how it's SUPPOSED to be, but in practice you won't find a cop or anyone else testifying about the internal state of the breathalyzer or why a sample might cause it to read 0.035. It'll just be 0.02 is the legal limit, he came up 0.035, case closed!

  13. Re:There needs to be testing and validation... on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Without the source, it would be hard to assure complete coverage in the sample data, The test would have to be exhaustive.

    That's fine if the company wants to go that way, but of course, exhaustive testing will cost plenty more and make it far less likely to ever be funded. Until that testing happens, the whole technique should have the same legal standing as the magic 8 ball.

  14. Re:He's confusing free speech with Net Neutrality on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Criticizes Companies That Oppose His Efforts To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The exclusive franchise agreements are mostly dead now and have been for some time. These days, cable providers meet quietly and agree on territories and stay out of each other's area, because they know that if they allow market forces to apply even on the edges of their areas they will have to start offering better value.

    But let's not forget that the exclusive franchise agreements were originally part of the privatize everything kick. They were intended to assure private corporations that they could quickly see ROI on a significant capital outlay so we wouldn't end up with (God forbid) a government supplied utility. So before you get too far behind the cable ISPs crying over regulations, remember that they would never have existed without regulations.

    Perhaps one day when most people have 5 or 6 viable choices for broadband internet we can back off the regulations, but we can't let the market sort it out until there IS a market.

  15. You could actually run through the airport and people would just assume you're running late. No ID check necessary as long as you had a boarding pass.

  16. Two knobs, VHF for channels 2-13 and a U to select UHF channels. The VHF knob had detents so it made a solid clunk sound as you changed channels. It had a fine tuning ring around it. The UHF was free turning and took a good many turns to go from channel 14 to channel 80, so it could take a while to get to the right channel. Since it had no detents, it was also used to fine tune UHF.

    Since it was all analog, the tuner was very susceptible to the slightest bit of wear on the selector, so once you tuned the channel as close as possible it would sometimes take a few good slaps to the side of the TV to get the horizontal and vertical hold to lock on. Yes kids, slapping the TV actually had a chance of helping matters, it wasn't JUST frustration.

    If that didn't do it, you had to go to the V. Hold and H. Hold knobs on the back. Someone who could see the screen would tell you how it was doing while you adjusted.

    If you were in a fringe area you might have a motorized outdoor antenna you could re-aim with a knob. Otherwise you might have rabbit ears with a loop for UHF to try adjusting, including adding and subtracting bits of foil.

  17. Re:Childhood Memories on Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything that suggests you might be less that perfectly correct is irrelevant, GOTCHA!

  18. Re: Notice! ***CDG CV**** on Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? (jvn.jp) · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that I have a realistic view of the actual state of security in networks, including those set up by people reading a flip book and people who don't even do that much.

    You seem to be ignorant of the known issues with WPS including common user errors.

  19. How well do those tools design GUIs running on X? Or native Mac apps?

    It's one thing to code to a portable framework, quite another to use a framework that nails you to a particular platform so hard that only a total re-write can set you free.

  20. Re:Most likely it's just for fun on YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that I just went to youtube and I got suggestions like "a British accent", "a lucid dream", "clear skin", "confidence", "good handwriting". So either it was something to do with cookies stored in the users browser, or Google actually DID address the issue as you say they should.

  21. Even for games, where low time for development is paramount, the engine is written by one company in C++. Then dozens of other companies use that engine and Lua or some other scripting language to actually write the game quickly.

    That's a good model for most software that needs high performance. Even batch style high performance software generally has critical and non-critical code. If the critical parts are bound together through a higher level language it's often easier to test and debug and when necessary, modify.

  22. Obviously you never saw the "this is your brain with a glass of orange juice and two strips of bacon" tee-shirts.

    E-cigs are probably the biggest blow to cigarette smoking in a looong time, but all levels of government are moving to reverse the win.

  23. Re:Childhood Memories on Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the many cartoons, comics, works of fiction, etc were all released generally to entertain a very few?

    Robert Goddard did his work well before the russians were the bad guys (he didn't even live to see that come about).

    It is true that interest swelled immensely once Sputnik was launched, mostly because that proved that the daydreams could actually be realized.

    I can't say with certainty that loss of the stars has resulted in loss of interest in space, but it would certainly be interesting to see a study correlating interest in space w/ visibility of the stars.

  24. Re:Not going to work on Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be fairly clear. The court case this discussion is about claims that a patent is like real property. Naturally, the property lines would be all about the broadness of the patent.

    I would go one further. The court also has the power to decide if your title to land is legitimate. It does not deprive you of property if it decides you don't actually own the Brooklyn Bridge even if you did give some guy $10,000 for it.

  25. Re:Cheap tricks? on Motorola Ad Mocks Samsung Ad Mocking Apple (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish more advertising would stick with compare and contrast with a bit of humor. I'm tired of ads trying to tie their products to nostalgia, love for family and rose colored memories of childhood through calculated attacks on the subconscious mind.