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  1. Re:NSA responds on OpenSSH 7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    advancements in computing power have brought factoring a 1024 bit key into the range of computationally feasible (though very expensive).

    And there's your answer, even those too weak keys are still too expensive to routinely crack. More sensitive logins should have been using 4096 all along. Start updating now.

  2. Re:Good for experiments, not powerplant ready on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's just the construction costs. Things shift a bit if you count all costs through the payback period at planned capacity.

  3. Re:Failure mode ? on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Tritium obligingly heads for the upper atmosphere when it gets loose.

  4. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1

    Read up on parallel construction (AKA feds lie their asses off on the stand).

  5. Re:Lipstick on a pig! on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core For Small, Embedded Devices · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you should have used a more standard/off the rack distro or you're forgetting that that degree of customization for Windows would be somewhere between just as much work to impossible.

    qemu offers emulation for a number of CPUs if you need emulation. Another option is to do a more complete install on your target hardware to act as a development platform. GDB does remote debugging if you like. It's really not that hard to use a cross compiler. There are a wide variety pre-built that you can use or detailed step by step instructions for building a cross compiler from source if you prefer.

  6. Re:Lessig/Sanders, Sanders/Lessig on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

  7. Re:Showed too much of his hand on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    Yes. Kinda like the passage of a simple law allows owners of a corporation to insulate their personal finances from it's failure and to avoid criminal prosecution for it's crimes.

    In practice, it might be ruled that seizure is forbidden because those assets belong to individual real people. Or perhaps it would only create an obligation to return the assets to the shareholders in a reasonable time.

    If the owners don't like that, they could form another sort of partnership where they assert their rights as natural people but also accept the liabilities personally.

    Less drastically (and probably a better move), they could start taking the public interest clause in corporate charters seriously for once.

  8. Re:Piss off on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 2

    They *DO* need to know enough that the answer to their questions doesn't sound like "We must astrocate the frobnicator or someone might wibble the flibberdejibit forthwith".

    If they want to be at all respected among the ranks, they must know enough not to instruct the janitorial staff to be on the lookout for the token that fell out of a network cable.

  9. Re:What kind of communism is this? on Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More · · Score: 1

    If they're going to fuck someone, they should have to marry them, and then pay alimony after the inevitable divorce for non-support and abuse.

  10. Re:Can GIMP not read PSD? on Ask Slashdot: Switching To a GNU/Linux Distribution For a Webdesign School · · Score: 1

    Personally, I find the arguments for color calibration and Pantone in Photoshop to be a bit silly. Sure, it makes the image on your carefully calibrated monitor look (almost) just like the printed page from your carefully calibrated printer when seen under your carefully calibrated lights. But the end user will read it on a train with an uncontrolled mix of flickery fluorescent lights and sunlight through variable clouds through randomly tinted glasses. It won't look like it did in your office on your monitor.

  11. Re:But but but.. on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it probably shouldn't be in children's cough syrup, but it should be generally available for other medical uses. It shouldn't be treated any different than other prescriptions.

  12. Re:Fine but they should invest in wind next on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    Our energy needs are far from ever decreasing. Individual uses are becoming more efficient, but overall our use is expanding. It will expand more once we start automating labor.

    If we want to leave the next generation an environment they can live in, we will need to stop burning fossil fuels. Solar and wind can take up a lot of slack, but not all of it.

  13. Re: What energy prices have risen? on Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar · · Score: 1

    It came out of the ground in dilute form, leaving a void. It will necessarily fit back into that void if diluted back to natural concentration.

    The alternative is concentration. Re-process it into a small amount of concentrated highly active waste that will decay in 200 years and the remaining 95% is fuel ready to go back into a reactor.

  14. Re:Fat? It's not your fault! on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    And remember, you're not thin because of a good diet, you're thin because your gut flora help you literally poop out the excess Calories you consume.

  15. Re:I'm torn.... on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Re-seed your gut flora with a culture from a skinny person.

  16. Re:It might work out on Chinese Tech Companies Building Factories In India · · Score: 1

    Next morning you come in and mysteriously, the roof leaked right over your booth and nowhere else, and of course the lights are out. Don't worry, they'll get someone right on that, shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 days.

  17. Re:the original intent on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 2

    Nonsense. By the time mass copying even became available, copyright had already been pushed to more than 3 times the original (and reasonable) 28 years. Hollywood accounting was already a thing and double platinum albums that were supposedly still 'recouping' (that is, no royalties yet paid to the artists) had happened. The Girl Scouts were already sued for singing camp songs and nobody dared sing Happy Birthday in a commercial setting (even though evidence suggests the copyright was exhausted nearly a century ago). Valenti had already made wild claims in court that the VCR was like the Boston Strangler.

    Screwy DRM schemes on VHS and software existed for a decade before anyone outside of a university even knew there was an Internet.

    Is it any wonder that respect for copyright was low to non-existent by the time the internet came out was at a low? Then came the huge damages that were clearly meant for the operations that made many thousand copies in a warehouse and sold them as legitimate, not for someone who shares 2 copies over a torrent. Then the mass lawsuits where the plaintiffs clearly didn't care if the named defendants actually owned a computer, much less iof they actually shared the media in question as long as they were able to squeeze money out of them. Now throw in the scummy manufacturers who abuse the DMCA to keep you from repairing your own hardware and refilling ink carts and I think it's fairly clear which side fired the first shot and remains the more aggressive,

  18. Re: Counter DMCA notice on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    All too often, the site will NOT put it back up. Instead they invoke their right to reject any content for any reason or for no reason (look at the fine print).

  19. Re:But but but.. on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 2

    There's an important distinction you're missing. I firmly believe regulation is necessary for food and drugs. That does NOT mean I believe the FDA is particularly good at it. Amputation is not a good solution for an ingrown nail.

  20. Re:But but but.. on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    And, of course, it was the government that opened and worked that mine and ran off with the profits when it came time to clean it all up...OH, wait, no it wasn't!

  21. Re:But but but.. on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 1

    We have a rather distorted view of opiates these days. Evidence from before they were illegal suggests that people who were functional before addiction remain functional and dysfunctional before stays dysfunctional after. There is a strong selection bias there. Since it's illegal now, we only tend to see the addicts who are too dysfunctional to hide it. Meanwhile, many of the health issues, including death associated with it are the result of impurities and inconsistent strength that result from black market production and distribution.

    To add to the shame we make it hard to get for people with a genuine medical need and at the same time, we make it hard to get appropriate treatment for people who get addicted even if it's a result of medically sanctioned use, all in the name of a failed war on drugs.

    I'm not at all suggesting it's a good way to unwind after a rough day at work, but many of the problems with it are manufactured by legal and social policies and many innocents are caught up in the harm.

  22. Re:easier patch for younger drivers on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Which would bring it to about 4100 pounds. 2 1/4 tons is close enough for a conversational post.

  23. Re:easier patch for younger drivers on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    The police package would add a few hundred pounds.

  24. Re:"Emergency Parking Brake"Re: FP on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Using the foot pedal *IS* awkward but I have actually done it successfully. A handbrake is certainly preferable.

    Every driver should practice this in a safe area just in case. It's part of knowing your vehicle and being a safe driver.

  25. Re:"Emergency Parking Brake"Re: FP on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    It *IS* awkward but I have actually done exactly that. The handbrake is preferable for that situation, but the foot operated brake is usable in a pinch.

    You can always push it down slowly to stop, and then release it.

    This is something everyone should practice in a safe area just in case. It's part of being a safe driver.