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  1. Re:Kurt Eichenwald is the classic example on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    True enough, I run my browser under a different username locally and I have to do xhost +SI:localuser:<username> so my browser user can access the X display on the same machine.

  2. Re:Kurt Eichenwald is the classic example on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Haha, a few decades ago, while in a school lab with Sun workstations, we could wait until the teacher was looking at a student screen and popup a porn site on the screen.

    It would basically go like this:

    1) open shell
    2) export DISPLAY=(ip of the target)
    3) $ netscape http://pornsite.com/
    4) hit control-C to make the browser window disappear. For the teacher, it looked like the target student had raised the window by mistake then, minimized or killed the window by himself.

    Funny thing is that even the teacher didn't have a clue. I guess the systems were pretty open back then. Also, each work station had a big sticker with its IP on it!

  3. Re: Restore NN and enjoy the gov approved network on Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom's Best Efforts To Kill It (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You are correct indeed, that's what I do too with some variation and I seldom get robocalls, say 1 a month on average and that's from direct lines that don't have to go through an IVR before ringing whichever device are close to me.

    I don't use any apps although, I control this at the voip switch and most of my cell/copper line calls are routed through it in some way.

  4. Re:Restore NN and enjoy the gov approved network on Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom's Best Efforts To Kill It (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Telecoms are quite capable of clamping this down with an iron fist, but don't. There's overwhelming demand for that clampdown to happen, but --- somehow --- the telecoms just won't self-regulate like GP insists is possible.

    I suspect that you don't have much experience in telecoms. CallerID need to be settable by the calling end. This has been explained on Slashdot many times so your argument is weak. Just do your own research on why this need to be and you will easily find.

    What we would really need is some kind of tracebility/digital signature of the calling end spoofing the CallerID.

    Unfortunately, I am not aware of such provision in SIP or other protocols right now although somebody might already be working on this.

    If nobody is currently working on this, why don't you volunteer?

    Cheers,

  5. Re:Frame of reference on Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Na it's relative to the speed of light which is absolute.
    http://www.einstein-online.inf...

  6. That's what I tend to suspect too. You don't need to corrupt developers. That would be stupid. You only need to corrupt the people who put the releases in prod. You can then eliminate all logging etc. In short, you patch the releases without any knowledge of the dev team. This is is done by a parallel secret team that do their own "fork" before putting the software in production.

  7. Re:Passwords still not hashed??? on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    they probably just store it all in Oracle or mysql.

    That's what I do most of the time and it doesn't prevent me from hashing and salting so I am not sure that I understand your point.

  8. Dupe from 5 posts ago on the front page :(

  9. Re:bunch of stuff on Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 (drupal.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it is not!

    There are migration scripts available but your mileage may vary especially if you wrote custom stuff. Third party modules may also be a concern.

    https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/...

  10. Welcome to traffic shaping!

    The more you pay, the better I'll shape your traffic.

    Seriously although, I like the idea of a low priority lane in space and I find the whole concept damn smart.

  11. planes can fly faster and use less fuel when they can go with the air stream.

    Planes seem to have to go at a given rpm to be efficient, which seems to be cruising speed (close to max) for a commercial airline flight.

    I would bet airlines don't slow down the planes because it would be less efficient and jet fuel cost money.

    Heck! Maybe they could even run out of fuel if they flew slower to meet the timetable like most other transportation modes do.

    Here is what I found so far:

    efficiency:
    http://www.thermopedia.com/con...

    fuel reserve:
    https://science.howstuffworks....

    fuel cost:
    https://www.indexmundi.com/com...

  12. Re:Why do you expect privacy on an airline? on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really need privacy for something while flying, you can use the lavatory for that.

    Are you 100% sure about that?

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  13. That is what websites should do. A functional website should never return a 404.

    I agree, my web site sends a redirect to the Austrian government when a page isn't found. I get about 10,000 request a day for wp-login.php and I don't host any wordpress sites.

  14. I assume that Austria must have more than 65,535 simultaneous connections needs.

  15. So does Canada.

  16. one thousand would be 1.000,000 in their system so in short it is just like driving to the right or driving to the left. Inverse everything ;)

    Dots become commas and commas become dots.

    1,000.825 == 1.000,825

    I have to agree this is kind of silly that we can't all agree in the same notation. This is far worse than metric vs imperial because it is expressing exactly the same value.

    There is many websites out there (example: Paypal) that force you to enter an amount or a number in a specific way depending on how your locale is set .

  17. Re:Super Bowl? on FBI Confiscates Six Drones Near Super Bowl Stadium (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I think that in elementary school, they taught us there were 5 continents, but it seems to vary from 4 to 7 depending on who you ask.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

     

  18. Poor senators anyway, authorized or not, this has been available on the Internet for ages!
    See here:
    https://www.trackapartner.com/

  19. Re:Application or virtual ISP on Will BitTorrent's Paid 'Fast Lane' Violate 'Net Neutrality'? (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution for you seems to be to download your 25 Mbps 4 K video at 15-20 Mbps (maybe faster) using BitTorrent then, to watch it as many times as you wish without any additional bandwidth usage! AT&T really leaves you no choice here! hehe:)

    A friend told me that Netflix automatically publish their videos on BitTorrent as soon as they come out!

  20. IT WAS SIX DAYS AGO

    Wrong, it wasn't even 5 days ago. More like 4 days + 15 hours ago in the US. Hint: There is no January 0.

  21. Re:APT? on First-Ever UEFI Rootkit Tied To Sednit APT (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you seem really apt in the matter, dear sir!

  22. woosh!

  23. I think you have to use -noremote as well to run multiple profiles at once but yes it is easy.

  24. If you work on any software for Google, Facebook or Twitter then, you are automatically a software engineer.

  25. If the tax is 10 cents per kWh...

    10 cents per kWh tax? I pay less than 10 cents for 1 kWh from the grid...