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  1. Re:What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The chip protects from the biggest source of credit card fraud, card cloning. The pin only additionally protects from stolen card fraud which is by comparison a tiny amount of losses.

    Calling it little security is hugely inaccurate.

  2. Re:Office365 -- Windows365 on 'UpgradeSubscription.exe' File In Preview Build Hints At Windows 10 Subscriptions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but David Mitchell made a point on one of his soap box youtubes about durable goods on a subscription model might yield better quality than the model we have now. The exact example he used was a table I think (or possible a chair, either way link below).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:To be fair, the Feds seemed to be pretty thorou on VPN Provider's No-Logging Claims Tested In FBI Case (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3

    Enough circumstantial evidence will secure a conviction (without something exculpatory in defense), at some point it stops being a just series of coincidences. People do get convicted on nothing but circumstantial evidence all the time. The standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt", not "beyond all doubt".

  4. Re:Only valid for stream ciphers. on New HTTPS Bicycle Attack Reveals Details About Passwords From Encrypted Traffic (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    AES-GCM is derived from CTR mode. CTR mode turns a block cipher in to a keystream generator (thus a stream cipher). I haven't fully read the paper though, so I don't know whether this attack applies to block cipher used as stream ciphers.

  5. Re:Hate emojis ... on The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji (oxforddictionaries.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a unicode code point, 1F602 specifically. Your user-agent doesn't download the resource, it is like any other character and rendered with your local font assuming it has a glyph for this code point.

  6. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 2

    It also happens to be fake. Generated to stoke tension. The WSJ article you mention does not support your claim, it says nothing about immigrants wanting to cancel Oktoberfest.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com...
    http://m.snopes.com/ban-oktobe...

  7. Re: What is really worrying ... on FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers · · Score: 1

    What you are describing is basically what Docker Machine does. It creates/controls VMs with a docker host on it and then allows you to run docker containers on that host.

  8. Re:It is not what you did .... on US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article is comparing apples and oranges. What happened in the above article was a criminal prosecution brought by the Government, what happened to Thomas-Rasset was a civil action brought by Capital Records. The government employee may still be sued by the actual rights holder. Thomas-Rasset, to my knowledge was not prosecuted, for her copyright violations.

  9. Re:This is why. on US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation · · Score: 1

    In all seriousness though the article is comparing apples and oranges. What happened in the above article was a criminal prosecution brought by the Government, what happened to Thomas-Rasset was a civil action brought by Capital Records. The government employee may still be sued by the actual rights holder.

  10. Re:So can I sell my used copy? on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 2

    This isn't anything new either, you couldn't reliably resell/buy used copies of Starcraft or Diablo II back in the day as you never knew if someone else kept the CD-key (this applies to a lot of online games that used CD-keys).

  11. Re:ummmm on "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More to the point, it is what the locals wanted. Nobody in Alaska calls it Mount McKinley it has always been Denali. The Alaska state government calls it that as well and petitioned the US Govt to change the name in the federal government back in the 70s. Had it not been for some twat Congressman from Ohio this wouldn't have taken 30+ years. There is no liberal conspiracy, it just people who don't know whats going on making mountains out of mole hills.

  12. Re:I'll never forget... on The Boeing 747 Is Heading For Retirement · · Score: 2

    How times change. I just flew IAD to SAN on a 737 (not sure which model but i'm assuming a newer one). I remember when standard equipment for cross country routes was larger planes as well. I miss it, being crammed in to a 737 for 5 hours is not very enjoyable.

  13. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    I had heard this claim as well. I remember being stated roughly as "If 10% of cars were automated, improvements would be seen." so I decided to do some Google-Fu, I came up with a few articles quoting the linked study on that figure.

    https://www.enotrans.org/wp-co...

  14. Re:Can we hear from an IRS apologist? on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In all seriousness, If I'm a civil servant (Note not an politically appointed one, just a white collar worker) and the Speaker of the House starts grandstanding about people going to jail, I'm certainly not offering my neck out. If I'm in her position I tell them to go pound sand too. She literally has nothing to gain by testifying even presuming she is innocent and honest people can get tripped up in testimony very easy. If they wanted her testimony that bad they could have easily had it by giving her immunity.

    Brings to mind the the quote "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

  15. Re: It's like Venezuela but without all the gun cr on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    They are not exiting the EU, just the Eurozone. Countries can be in the EU without being on the Euro.

  16. Re:Oh get over it. on Can New Chicago Taxes On Netflix, Apple, Spotify Withstand Legal Challenges? · · Score: 0

    My biggest complaint would be (if I lived in Chicago) how this tax is structured. It is a "use tax" which mean I have to keep track of everything that falls under this tax and remember to put it down on the appropriate tax form at tax time. It is a mess. It will have the same problem every other use tax does in that it will have a recordkeeping burden and that will drive non-compliance more than anything.

    If they are smart they'll have a tax table where you can make a good faith estimate of your expenditures under the tax and just pay that. Several states did this with use tax due on purchases and I believe compliance went up. Otherwise this law is going to be a huge audit liability for individuals and businesses.

  17. Re:Google It on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    I recently replaced a toner cartridge in my hp cp1510i. The box the new cartridge came in had a UPS shipping label inside it. You put the old toner cart in the new box and put the label on it and give it to UPS. I assume like Brother, HP gets something out of this. They must take them apart and reuse parts or something or maybe just refill them.

  18. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    They won't have to do it, default IPv6 security posture will be similar to the current default IPv4 security posture. No unsolicited inbound packets at the edge unless a forwarding rule is established. NAT and stateful firewalls are both built on top of connection tracking and are of similar complexity.

  19. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stateful firewalls and NAT both are built on top of connection tracking and are similar in complexity. Default IPv6 firewall rules will result in the same edge protection NAT +IPv4 does. No unsolicited inbound connections unless there is a forwarding rule.

  20. Re:Why do people dislike systemd so much? on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is when you fork your own distro you quickly discover that using systemd is the easiest way to maintain it. It isn't a coincidence that medium and small distros like Arch Linux picked it up in addition to the big boys. Unit-files save package maintainers boatloads of time they used to spend having to writing and maintaining initscripts a lot of which is copypasta boilerplate anyway but its usually distro specific copypasta.

    This is the source of a lot of the strife in my opinion. The people who actually do work to maintain distros like systemd, the users not so much.

  21. Re:Christian fundamentalists will smile knowingly on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    The passage is extremely vague and can be applied to almost every type of official currency. They said paper money was the mark of the beast, they said credit cards were the mark of the beast. At the time the passage was authored it was likely referring to Nero's profile appearing on of Roman coinage.

  22. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter anyway as WebView in 4.3 and earlier is part of the system that is non-upgradable with out a new system image. Fixing the problem would require OEMs to update, they may as well just take 4.4. Note that WebView equivalent in 4.4 updates when Chrome updates via Play Store, so this won't be a problem in the future. It would be a lot of work for Google to backport the patch only to have OEMs ignore it anyway.

  23. Re:Obligatory reminder that an alternative exists on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released · · Score: 1

    They are not hardcoded. You can remove all the default trust anchors if you want to, then add only certs that you feel you can trust. Deciding who to trust is not part of SSL/TLS.

  24. Re:Obligatory reminder that an alternative exists on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SSL/TLS has nothing to do with what certificates the client and server trust. You can bootstrap a TLS stream using a pre-shared key if you want, or with DANE, or with explicitly selected certificates. The fact that most clients use CAs for trust anchors is not a failure of SSL/TLS.

  25. Re: No Caching? on The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS · · Score: 1

    Well yes, in the same sense people who use hosting providers for their websites have to trust that their hosting provider doesn't mess with their files (a CDN is just a type of hosting provider after all). There is no break in the TLS trust model though, the client will authenticate both the original host and the CDN.