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  1. Re:Getting 'Snowden' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Ra on Getting 'Showdown' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    Isn't our brain a wonderful engine?

  2. Getting 'Snowden' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Raft on Getting 'Showdown' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Rift · · Score: 2

    "Getting 'Snowden' To 90 FPS In UE4 On Oculus Raft" is what I read first. Well time for a break I guess...

  3. Re:Actual irony? on Drupal Warns Users of Mass, Automated Attacks On Critical Flaw · · Score: 1

    All we have to do is make the algorithm recursive so it fixes sql injection problems in its own code. Simple.

  4. Re:Oh shit on Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares · · Score: 1

    It's only giant alien space ships that drive straight into the sun thus causing solar flares. I have seen it on William Shatner's "Weird or What?" tv show.

  5. Re:Fine, if on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 2

    In case of a crash or when the plane lose control, for example if the plane dives or fly upside down, I wonder if the display will follow up.

    Bonus, hacking into the display system or a bug in it could freak people out even if the plane flies normally.

  6. Re:really? on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    I read a bit about the Atlantic Conveyor Belt. This is why it is much warmer in Paris France (48 51 N 2 2 E) than Gaspe, Quebec, Canada. (48 50 N 64 29 W). You just freeze your butt in Gaspe.

    Even Montreal at 45 30 N 73 34 W is cooler than Paris.

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

  7. Re:really? on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Tell them about the "minimalistic" impact of the sun too then.

  8. Re:Another way to think of it on The Problem With Positive Thinking · · Score: 1

    I'm feeling kinda neutral about the whole thing now...

    Perfect! The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

  9. Re:It's simple on The Problem With Positive Thinking · · Score: 2

    Well, it is used a lot in organization such as Amway. If you think positive, you can become a billionaire.

    I have always wandered if it was a way to blame the person if he/she wasn't successful. Kind of: you didn't think positively enough..

  10. Submitter addicted to technologies on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1

    The submitter must be addicted to technologies. I started with a 300 baud modem and I am happy with what I have today. I feel progress is catching up fast enough for my use case:

    100mps/100mps for my data center
    1.5mps/10 mps for my home connection

    Total cost: 110$/month

    Of course, give me more for the same price and I will take it but I wouldn't raise any issue with this.

  11. Re:How hard is it to recognize a stoplight? on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > What we need is better geo-mapping from cities themselves

    For driver less cars to work, the whole city should be wired so the google car doesn't have to recognize the red light, it would just get the information through some type of wireless transmission thus knowing it has to stop. It may fall back on A.I. on country roads with not much traffic but then again.

    A.I. is not advanced as we sometimes think it is. Even good drivers can have trouble recognizing a red light in bright sunlight conditions.

  12. Re:Shipping companies.... on The Future of Stamps · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't have a phone. What will I do?

  13. Re:THIS JUST IN... on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 2, Interesting

    joe - Joe's Own Editor

    Description
                  JOE is a powerful ASCII-text screen editor. It has a "mode-less" user interface which is similar to
                  many user-friendly PC editors. Users of Micro-Pro's WordStar or Borland's "Turbo" languages will
                  feel at home. JOE is a full featured UNIX screen-editor though, and has many features for editing
                  programs and text.

                  JOE also emulates several other editors. JSTAR is a close imitation of WordStar with many "JOE"
                  extensions. JPICO is a close imitation of the Pine mailing system's PICO editor, but with many
                  extensions and improvements. JMACS is a GNU-EMACS imitation. RJOE is a restricted version of JOE,
                  which allows you to edit only the files specified on the command line.

                  Although JOE is actually five different editors, it still requires only one executable, but one with
                  five different names. The name of the editor with an "rc" appended gives the name of JOE's initial-
                  ization file, which determines the personality of the editor.

                  JOE is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Pub-
                  lic License as published by the Free Software Foundation. I have no plans for turning JOE into a
                  commercial or share-ware product. JOE is available over the Internet from www.source-
                  forge.net/projects/joe-editor.

  14. Re:Sounds nice on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only Linux versions using systemd are supported for now.

  15. Re:ET Phone home on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    Well I could always block encrypted traffic and implement introspection rules or allow encrypted traffic and implement MITM. It is my LAN and there is absolutely nothing apple can do about it ;-)

  16. Re:ET Phone home on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    UPNP is disallowed on my router. It could very well be a UPNP attempt but it would just make my point about iphone devices phoning home and trying to tell apple servers that they are listening for mother ship commands on a specific port. UPNP is typically used so internal LAN devices can tell the router to listen on the router public port and redirect the packets to the device.

    Not such a great idea, I just redirect ports manually if I need to run a game server or what not.

    Note that I support UDP conntracking so if the iphone device was just trying to communicate with apples servers. I wouldn't see what I see and the devices could communicate freely.

    In my case it looks like the device and apple servers assume it used PNP with success on the router but those packets just get dropped.

  17. ET Phone home on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Friends with wireless access and iphones coming to my place seem to be phoning home in some way.

    I detected apple trying to connect to some UDP ports on my router only when those iphones were around.
       

  18. Quick, patch whitehouse.gov!!! on Drupal Fixes Highly Critical SQL Injection Flaw · · Score: 1

    Quick, patch whitehouse.gov ;-)

    http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/...

    http://buytaert.net/whitehouse...

    More seriously, I assume they also run some kind of WAF that would catch the attempt even if drupal wasn't yet patched since I do and I am much much smaller.

  19. Re:US Customs on Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested · · Score: 1
  20. Re:US Customs on Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested · · Score: 1

    I think this article confirms that either this is already happening, or will very soon.

    Well, speaker recognition dates as far back as facial recognition does.

  21. Re:Great! on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    And yes, a cert is just a public key bundled with other data like signing authorities and certificate chains. You still have to keep your private key apart in order for a cert to work. Anyways, this is basic PKI. It didn't fly back then for end users so I would be puzzled if password managers did now;-) Marketing approach ?

  22. Re:Great! on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Gitlab web interface kind of work like that. It allows you to paste multiple public keys to access git through ssh although users don't have shell access, only git access through ssh. Next step would be to reuse those keys for web based authentication.

    One problem I can see is that although browsers have been supporting cert auth for years, I don't think that public key auth is supported in a standard way yet between clients and http servers.

    Oh well, going with self signed certs would achieve basically the same results I guess.

    With the correct tools, the whole process could be as transparent as using a password manager for end users. For some reason, we ain't there yet apparently.

  23. Re:Your "password manager" should be your brain. on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Me too:

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  24. Great! on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Reading TFA, this guy just reinvented public/private key infrastructure where your password manager acts as your keystore.

    In any case where a so called "password manager" could be used, we would be better off using a keystore. You loose ease of logging in from different devices in either case. One needs to carry around its password/key database in both scenario or store it in a centralized database.

  25. Of course, everything is a hoax and scientifically impossible until the day it is proven to actually work.

    Nonsense.

    Most real inventions go the other direction...

    Most claimed inventions ....

    Most everything that is real is known to be real before it works, and most everything that is a hoax actually is a hoax.

    Most people have the same reasoning has you do.

    Most innovations come from people who think differently than the mass.

    Most people have a resistance to change and that slows down progress. What is the hurry to call it an hoax?

    I would say wait until it is proven to be a fraud before declaring the would be inventor guilty.