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  1. Some of us think he should face the exact same treatment that Hillary got and that both should be prosecuted under the appropriate laws. Having separate work and personal e-mail is fine but you do need to keep them separate and not commingle things. When everyone was making a big deal about people in the Trump administration having private e-mail accounts and conducting private business with them there was nothing to see so long as things were kept separate. This however is different and there should be action taken. That said this doesn't seem as bad as the Hillary case as it should be possible to retrieve the e-mails from AOL unlike Hillary's wiped private server.

  2. Re:the proliferation of horses on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    So what did the Romans do with all those extra slaves?

    Gladiators

  3. We still have to pick grapes by hand

    Nope. Starting at 12:25 you can see machines in action to do this. Also before that they have a tomato picker in action.

  4. Re:Wouldn't work on /. on A Norwegian Website Is Making Readers Pass a Quiz Before Commenting (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    I would just suggest that the test be to find out ones true thoughts on hosts files and do some filtering based off of that.

  5. Re:So WTF are you actually meant to say? on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Agent> The correct answer is: page 267 of "The C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup .

    Lies. In my version of the book (first reprinting with corrections July 1987 copyright 1986) that would be found in chapter 7 which starts on page 191.

  6. Re:Almost nobody needs know how to balance a B-Tre on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    There is an updated Dragon Book. Looks like it was published in 06 and still has a dragon on the cover.

  7. No, they would likely score as mathematicians instead. An engineer would talk to a girl but would stare at their chest and ramble on about something. A mathematician would just turn red and stare that their own shoes, or if extra sociable stare at the girls shoes.

  8. Re:I'd fail that binary search tree test on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    That would have been my answer but that is something I haven't done since my second year of my CS degree 19 years ago.

  9. Re:Israel has been doing this on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You should go as a guest of a government entity like I did several times. On the front end I got a Mossad background check and then had a document that was provided by the government entity to the airport (I had a copy as well) that for the most part meant I just had to sent my crap through the X-ray machine and that I just had to walk through the metal detector after presenting it and having it confirmed with the copy they had. I did get some questions once because I packed my old metal bodied SLR film camera and metal bodied lenses in the middle of my suite case and they couldn't get a good X-ray of it. At that point I had to cart my crap over to a different area get the item in question out and they asked me about it. When did I get it, where did I get it, how long have I had it, what did I take pictures of, does a camera like that really take better pictures than a digital one, etc. They fire them off one after another mostly looking to trip you up.

  10. Re:Who are those 8+M extra people? on Anthem's Historic Data Breach: What We Still Don't Know 2 Years Later (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you may be correct in the "prospect-customers, wanna-be employees". My wife recently got a letter from a school district she applied to before we were married stating that her personal information had been stolen. We think that the information was kept for 16 or 17 years but is at least 15 years old. Personally I am getting really sick and tired of getting the notifications that organization X has had a data breach and as such I will be granted 1 free year of credit monitoring by shit company Y that I already have 5 concurrent monitors from. In a case like the one with my wife they had no reason to still be holding on to that information and should have disposed of it long ago, smells like negligence to me. In the case of the target breach where there were tons of places that had they simply followed basic system security procedures they could have stopped it so again smells like negligence. The problem is that there aren't any real consequences for these companies. Make it so that if you are negligent like in these examples that you have actual damages to pay to individuals. Even making it some value like $100 per individual would go a long way to seeing that proper measures are taken. Maybe make it $100 for regular data loss but losing something an individual's SSN or partial SSN (the last 4 digits are the unique ones the rest can be figured out fairly reliably) it then goes up to $1000 and 10 years of credit monitoring since far too many institutions feel they need SSNs and treat them as the magic number to uniquely identify a person across systems.

  11. Re:Maybe Better Music Would Help? on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The Germans have been cranking out Industrial for longer than 15 year. Hell even Rammstein goes back longer than that with 22 years of albums , fuck I feel old now. Going back father there is always KMFDM (1984), Die Krupps (1980), or really reaching back to the origins of the genre you have Kraftwerk (1969) which sounds almost toyish today but there is a lineage there.

  12. Re:Was it ever? on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I like some Taiwanese Finnish style death folk metal. At this point Freddy Lim can probably make a claim as being the most interesting man in the world. You can get all sorts of strange music genres that regular people haven't heard of, my wife was shocked that there was such a thing as cello rock. For most people the most unique/different genre they would likely hear would be some modern jazz, progressive metal, or new age. Once you get much outside of that you will likely never hear it on the radio.

  13. Re:English? Really...? on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be worse, he could be Welsh where the BBC would likely subtitle him if conducting an interview.

  14. Re:Raspberry Pi Zero The Makebelieve Computer on Raspberry Pi Zero W is a $10 Computer With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Before Christmas I saw that the micro center near me had them on special near the check-out lanes for $0.99 each. I thought about buying some then but then tried to think of what I would do with them and decided that I didn't need to impulse buy something that would get left in a desk drawer and forgotten about as I don't have a good use for it.

  15. Re:Not on my property on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Range wouldn't be the concern but penetrating power. Slugs are broad heavy and slow so against unarmored things they work great but add some armor and a bit of distance between the armor and critical systems and a slug becomes ineffective. A high powered rifle on the other hand would make it through and still damage the circuits. Against unarmored devices I would probably suggest some finer buck shot like #0 so it is big enough to cause a lot of damage but you still get a spread to increase you chance of hitting critical areas.

  16. Re: Mandatory on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Is that even still around? I now feel old for know what that is.

  17. Re:You don't need six figures in Silicon Valley... on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought about it and I'm finding it hard to feel sorry for this guy. Yes he makes a bit more than I do, but he also pays more for housing than I do. It isn't that big of a difference when looking at post tax post housing income when taking those into account . Then again my housing expense is for a mortgage on a ~2000 square foot house on .5 acres that backs up to a multi acre wooded city park that will be paid off in 9 years. I also don't live in SV nor do I want to. I manage to save a large portion of my income and have done so for a while. To me this individual seems to be bad at managing their money.

    Personally I wouldn't take a job out there because I would have to decrease my standard of living substantially. I like telling recruiters and headhunters out there they can't afford me when they call with job offers even when they insist that it is a very generous offer. I've laughed at some who did have some very insulting offers. Add in that I don't want to be a brogrammer, work 90+ hours a week, or live in a state that is on fire or being washed down hill and they only offer marginally more than what I currently make and it just isn't worth it.

    If a company were serious they would offer me a multiples of what I currently am making since that is what it would take to get my current lifestyle out there. I want a sub 40 minute commute. I want a recreational property within 2 hours (owned outright). I want to be in one of the best school districts in the state with my kids going to the best schools in that district. I want to have a nice but modest house with nice property features. Offer me enough pay to get that and we can talk otherwise your offer is garbage. Sadly because I have a very good lifestyle it would probably take close to a half-million a year to afford what I currently have out there.

  18. Re:Not on my property on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You may want to upgrade to a full power rifle in the .308, .30-06, or 7.62x54r range as a 12 gauge slug lacks the penetration power. If that isn't enough there is always the Barrett line of firearms.

  19. Re:I have no faith in cryptography, because.. on Apache Subversion Fails SHA-1 Collision Test, Exploit Moves Into The Wild (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that several years ago everyone was told to move away from SHA1 as it wasn't considered secure given the at the time theoretical attacks this shouldn't come as a surprise. NIST has been very open about the process as of late with the AES process and more recently the SHA3 process. Even though no known issues exist with the SHA2 suite of hashes they were proactive in going forward with the SHA3 process because SHA2 is mathematically similar to SHA1 so it may be possible to have related attacks against the various SHA2 hashes. I would question anything that is just dropped wholesale from the government like the whole botched EC crypto, and then there was thae long standing questions about the DES S-Boxes that while it turned out were strengthened against differential attacks but no explanation was given as to why at the time. Even now the full set of parameters used for them haven't been provided.

  20. Re:"In the wild" - slight exaggeration on Apache Subversion Fails SHA-1 Collision Test, Exploit Moves Into The Wild (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It means that collisions are now possible, and are within reach of moderate sized organizations.

    This is the key. 6500 CPU years or 110 GPU years of computational power is not that difficult to achieve. When this news broke last week a few of us at my work had a discussion about it and while those number sound impressive we then realized that at work we have access to probably 2x that processing power in our building.

  21. Personally I like that there is a brick and mortar that I can go to and get stuff same day that doesn't carry a silly markup over online and has a good selection. Add in that they have a good return policy for things DOA and I prefer shopping there than online even if I can do marginally better price wise online sometimes. The last machine I built (a little pfSense box) I could have gotten for $3 cheaper online and if there was a problem I would have to dick around with some remote company and I would have to wait for shit to go through the mail. Instead I got it at micro center as it is on my way home from work. My desktop build I did 4 years ago cost me like $50 less with what I bought at micro center compared to online, but even there if it had been reversed I would have gotten from micro center because when you buy all the parts you just run the chance of getting a defective part. In that case I had a bad RAM stick and brought it back the next day and got a replacement without issue.

  22. The simple act of counting that high on an ideal classical CPU would probably kill all surface life on Earth.

    Nope. The energy requirement while substantial is not insurmountable. I believe that the amount of energy to cycle a 128 bit counter through all states on an ideal classical computer is around 10% of the total annual US energy consumption. This assumes an ideal machine which happens to be many orders of magnitude more efficient than even our best computers so using conventional technology it would be ocean boiling energy consumption.

  23. They don't halve the time they halve the number of bits for symmetric key encryption, to put it another way the do it in square root time. So 128 bit encryption on classical computers is equivalent to 256 bit encryption on quantum computers. For asymmetric encryption take makes uses of elliptical curves or prime factorization it completely breaks them. The 2^50 is because the best break for AES-256 is a related key attack that has 2^99.5 complexity on classical computers. Assuming that this decreased key space can processed using Grover's Algorithm that give a complexity of about 2^50 on a quantum computer.

  24. Re:Not viable on Windows 10 on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I can think of some but that is usually really shitty software that does its own checks instead of using the OS checks. It then has a hard bail out and UAC never prompts to elevate privileges. There are a few programs that I have run into that do this but then I just right click on them and run as administrator anyway which then brings up the UAC prompt before the program starts and things work. It is most often installers of older software that have this problem and I haven't seen it in a while so I am forgetting the few that I have seen do this.

  25. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes but you would have to strip the electrons off of the hydrogen so it would be affected by them. Also you wouldn't be able to generate the electrical power by hand crank that are needed like one can do with the diamond anvil