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  1. Re:Well sort of, but you're missing a key point on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Build a second dam.

  2. Re:Minimalist firewall on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming it has some application specific links the network, so it does need to be on it. You just can't trust the network stack and windows.

  3. Minimalist firewall on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Implement a firewall with a small microcontroller with a relatively secure TCP/IP stack (ejip if you don't want to spend money, HCC embedded if you do) and do protocol level sanity checking and filtering of all network inputs.

  4. Appearing crazy is a soft power in and of itself.

    If Trump threatens disproportionate retaliation for not letting US companies use Taiwan, China will believe him.

  5. Semantic games, trusting them with your data is no different than trusting them not to read it. It's implicit.

    All this nothing about the fact that putting another PKI guarded access in the phone doesn't magically open some random security hole which third parties can abuse ... it just means you have to trust government as well as Apple. Not even with safekeeping of the keys, just with not requesting access without good cause. Which was as I said my main point, the people who pretend this is some huge security hole are being disingenuous or stupid.

  6. At the very least just give them a VLAN instead of putting them on the intranet. Switches are a big black box of NSA inserted exploits and bugs but it's better than nothing.

  7. If you own an iPhone and accept updates I know exactly the extent you trust Apple, you trust them with all the data stored on and communicated with your phone. You know they can own your device arbitrarily. In fact if government waltzes in with a national security letter, they'll have little recourse but to push compromised system/app updates your way.

    My main point is that the unlock key is not some huge security hole, it's the 5$ ... the integrity of updates for which you put all your trust in Apple already is next month's rent. An over the air attack is more dangerous than a physical one.

  8. That's not necessarily what he is asking. What the FBI asked Apple originally to do is provide them the service of unlocking the phone, the FBI didn't even demand the technology to allow them to do it themselves. They just wanted Apple to do it on, with a court order.

    Apple having a key to unlock your phone doesn't fundamentally cause any more of a security hole than them having keys to sign updates and to authenticate their update servers, because pretty much everyone accepts updates. If their existing keys are compromised and someone pushes a rootkit update you'll have no security either, you obviously trust Apple to safeguard those keys. Why wouldn't you trust them with one more?

  9. Re:Bend the americans over on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a locked backdoor change anything when there's already a frontdoor with the same quality lock? Apple&co can just push an update to your phone to own your phone if they want ...

  10. It takes a lot of massaging to get to that from raw long term datasets like this :

    http://www.psmsl.org/data/obta...

  11. Re:silver lining on Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not an issue, it's been the reality of living near the sea for generations. The sea has steadily been rising for a long time.

    There is also a very simple solution to stop the sea level rise accelerating near your shoreline, just put down a tidal gauge, it will scare the sea away to locations only observed by satellite and return your rise to the one from 100 years ago. Don't ask me how it works, but it most definitely works.

  12. No fucking way it costs that much. on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Decommission them with a bid system. I don't see how a scrapper could not make money on it, even the ones on the sea, almost everything about it is easily recyclable. Oh the blades aren't ... big whoop, grind them down, forget about them. What the fuck planet is this girl on when she thinks decommissioned windmill blades are going to fill our landfills? Drop in the pond.

  13. Re:Questions and observations on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Python improved on the existing scripting languages, but it fucked up the v2 to v3 transition and lost some momentum in the process. It's still the most popular scripting language ignoring javascript, so I don't see a lack of staying power. Pascal simply lost to C, they competed in a single niche and winner takes all.

    I don't think your perception of how fast the field moves is accurate.

  14. Re: Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's supposed to, but it clearly isn't. The only concept of metadata they had when it was written was what was written on the outside of a letter, recording and search of which has historically also not been a 4th amendment violation.

    Metadata searches weren't on their minds when it was written, they worried about search of physical property. Not the invasion of privacy from total surveillance, nor how mass communication would make organizing internal attacks on the nation so much easier. How they would have ruled is anyone's guess ... well except the SC justices which pulled the right to privacy out of their asses, guess they got out their Ouija boards.

    If you want privacy rights, get congress to create law.

  15. Re: Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But should it be the domain of some unelected and neigh unaccountable bunch of judges to pull law out of the penumbra of the emanations of the constitution to fix flaws exposed by the march of progress? Once you go down that rabbithole, you allow for abuse which will be very hard to fix. Creating law should be the domain of congress in my opinion.

    The line between interpreting the constitution and judicial activism isn't solid, but with the invention of a right of privacy I'd still say they have leapfrogged it. You need more judges willing to take a step back.

  16. Re: Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Granted.

    Any records of your visits to the deposit/PO boxes however are almost certainly not covered, aka metadata, given United States v Miller 1976.

  17. Re: Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It might be an unreasonable search of the carrier's property, if that carrier doesn't simply cooperate when asked nicely.

    If the carrier cooperates you really need the constitutional right to privacy to have much of a point of declaring even that unreasonable, the legal reasoning behind that has always been shaky to say the least.

  18. Re:Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Nah man, all the law you'd ever need is in the constitution if you're smart enough. Like it says that intervention in one trimester of pregnancy can be regulated by the state, but another can not. You just need high IQ to see it.

  19. Daytraders and idiots.

    The trick is to fleece the idiots, sociopathy helps.

  20. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Meant arbitrage.

  21. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet, when all is said and done the electricity is still more expensive than before renewables.

    These large scale grid storage solutions are arbitrary opportunities created by subsidized renewables.

  22. Re:Complacency strikes again on Intel Says 5G Plans For iPhone Are Unchanged (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful with the intensely racist ones, at least for senior positions. That's how Intel got in this mess.

  23. Re:Taken in context of the times on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    If the majority of colonists had wanted to commit genocide there wouldn't have been any full blood Indian left.

  24. Re:What type of family? on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    The benefit of gentrification and lack of subsidized housing.

  25. As valuable as the software supposedly is, I doubt they distribute it as a software. Ideally you'd just put your own software running on your own servers in the loop, but that would make you far more complicit with all the dirty shit the third world countries and expose their dirty shit to you. Neither them nor the customers want that.

    I assume they distribute it as a tamperproofed box. Tamperproofing is not all that easy to break if you only have a single unit available, even for advanced actors.