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  1. Re:Override the veto on Senate Votes To Reinstate ZTE Ban That's Nearly Shut Down the Company (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. If ZTE doesn't make the phones, someone else will, and they'll want the Qualcomm parts as well.

    If ZTE could have done without American components, they would have, at least for the phones they sold into sanctioned countries (repeatedly).

    The only thing endangered here is the Trump families private business deals.

  2. Nevertheless, the work OP was looking for is drivel. Look it up.

  3. Re:iOS should display location, too on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    ^Mod this UP!^

    It may not be perfect, but it easily done, zero cost, and highly useful in a variety of situations. Call it the 90% solution. Hopefully the 911 call centers will eventually catch up for the remaining 10%.

  4. Re:Liberal death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they feel about Trump saying it's wrong and blaming the Democrats?

  5. Re:Locks are useless on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll still get in, they just won't enjoy it long if they didn't take precautions. :)

  6. Re:Locks are useless on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some locks are for that. Others are designed to force the bad guy to make noise or hang around looking suspicious long enough to get caught. No lock is absolutely PROOF against unauthorized access.

    Another purpose of a lock is to remove plausible deniability. It's hard to say you didn't know you were trespassing if you had to pick or break a lock to get in.

    Same for safes. The crappy ones talk about how they keep people out with absolute security. The good ones talk about how long it will take the bad guy to get in (as they inevitably will if they're determined).

    But locks that can be opened through actions indistinguishable from legitimate access are totally worthless.

  7. Re:Where do they find these people? on The 'World's Worst' Smart Padlock Is Even Worse Than Previously Thought (sophos.com) · · Score: 2

    Not necessarily. They need plausible deniability when they start emptying out people's storage.

  8. Re:Liberal death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I suspect you are right. I recognize that Trump finally saying the child separation is wrong is just empty words flying out of his mouth. It'll take a lot more pressure to get him to throw Sessions under the bus.

  9. That's what LTS kernels are for. Unless you have a compelling reason, you shouldn't be updating every time Linus releases a kernel. Instead, wait for your distro to backport any critical fixes.

  10. Re:Liberal death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. His boss should fire him. I understand he is familiar with that procedure.

  11. Re:You I'll reply to & why? Ok... apk on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    You obviously haven't reached a skill level where the significant advantages of text based admin come in. Sometimes enterprise means resilliant and effective, but quite often it means brittle and catering to the lowest common denominator.

    It''s fine if users use a GUI, but the system itself should be text based so a skilled admin has a chance of actually fixing it when it's not working right. Even MS is starting to recognize that.

    As for LAN/WAN, step one when there is a problem is ditch the GUI and get a command line. If you actually understand the network and how the routers work, that will give you the tools you actually need to solve the problem. Use the GUI to check status when things are working well. If you need a picture of a thermometer to know when the temperature is too high, you'be already lost.

  12. Re:Liberal death panels on Google Is Training Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have. It takes some real desperation to make that happen. The only way to make that worse is to seperate said 2 year old from it's parents and lock it away in what amounts to a refurbished dog pen as if the 2 year old is even capable of criminal culpability. Even Trump recognized that that was sufficiently repugnant that he'd better try to blame someone else for it.

    Oddly, you simultaneously cheer for the action and Trump who now says the action is wrong.You also seem to believe what Trump says, but stand against the people Trump says are responsable for the action you applaud.

    Orwell was right about Doublethink, but wrong about who would institute it.

  13. Re:Voting power behind those "shareholders"? on Amazon Shareholders To Jeff Bezos: Stop Marketing Facial Recognition Tool (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a bunch of people figured out that when their ballots offer bungee or death by bungee, their best bet before getting the pitchforks and torches out is to try exerting control over the corporations themselves.

  14. Re:Speck file-system encryption?? on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    But be careful, the NSA also provided advice to NIST that resulted in significantly weakening their crypto standards.

  15. Re:Comment vs. "SysAdmin" scriptkiddies on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I'm just tired of squinting at attached screenshots rather than the user with a problem just being able to cut paste 160 characters of text into an email.

    That and clearly telling the user to click on the thing that looks like a squished beetle and they keep clicking on the deformed grasshopper.

    Give us a call after you spend some time maintaining a server you have never actually touched or seen on the other side of the country, then tell us how much you like the gooey interface.

  16. We have that now. You build your out of tree module and then modprobe it.

  17. Re: You need zenstates on Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, I'm sure she'd rather see error 0×657EA6556778B4732FFED56546

    That way she can fire up her hex editor and manually patch the Windows kernel to fix the issue.

  18. What you're talking about is mostly low level waste. A fair bit of it is no longer particularly radioactive. It's just that once it has been declared to be nuclear waste, we have no sane regulatory process to declare that it's no longer radioactive now so it's just (potentially recyclable) trash.

  19. Re:I don't have much of a problem with this on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    It is notable that 95% of what we call waste is actually unspent fuel if we would just reprocess it to remove the 5% that is actual waste from it.

    The 5% that is actual waste can be expected to decay to a sefe level of activity in 250 to 500 years depending on how you define safe.

    The gloom and doom about storing for 1000 or 10,000 years is just fluff to amp up the fear.

  20. Re:Having a weapon doesn't mean you shoot everyone on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure?

  21. Re:Having a weapon doesn't mean you shoot everyone on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And my comment reflects exactly what happened in Kansas.

    You send a bunch of people with inadequate discipline in to a situation that's hyped as dangerous with a prevailing attitude that danger is everywhere and that they have an incredibly dangerous job, and arm them to the teeth and somebody is sure to get shot.

    If you arm them heavily, you create a disposition to shoot first.

    Note, until officers see a shooter or you have multiple reports, all you have is report. I wouldn't suggest they be unarmed, but they also shouldn't go in expecting a military style assault.

  22. Re:In a hostage situation / murder, send meter mai on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So you shoot the first person to come to the door? Because there's no chance a hostage taker would ever send a hostage with a message for the police rather than making himself an exposed target?

  23. Re: Execute Barriss on Two Teenaged Gamers Plead 'Not Guilty' For Fatal Kansas Swatting Death (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    They should respond, but they need a lot more training, apparently. Including figuring out when the report is false (without killing people) and making sure the person they can see is a bad guy and not a hostage. Trigger happy police increase rather than decrease danger to the public.

    We've gotten to the point where an officer shot a GROUNDHOG that "lunged at him menacingly".

  24. Re: Whew! Dodged a bullet on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people poop out half the calories they eat. Some do not.

    Then there's those who clinch their anal sphincter so tightly the shit comes out of their mouths.

  25. Re:So you are saying ... on 17 Backdoored Images Downloaded 5 Million Times Removed From Docker Hub (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That depends on the container, but yes. The spec of a container can include direct access to host resources, including directories, or not. Adding to the fun, if you grant a user sufficient access to docker to run their own images, you have effectively granted them root.