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  1. Re:And they only use them to block us out on Police Department Accused of Updating Their Radios With Pirated Software (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bullshit. HIPAA applies to covered entities and that's not the police

    https://www.hhs.gov/sites/defa...

  2. Re:"but today most developed countries ban it" on EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Asbestos wrap was very popular with mechanics when you needed to heat up parts and hopefully avoid lighting the vehicle on fire, of course now the only real option you have is soaking shop rags in water and with luck that'll get you through whatever you're heating up

    Accepting that it's not quite as fireproof as asbestos, why won't Kevlar or Nomex work for this? At the very least, if you're gonna be doing a rag soak method, why not use a 'rag' that is itself relatively fire resistant rather than what I would assume is cotton or poly blend or something.

  3. Re:sounds like a bargain on Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    What was once OS/400 running on AS/400 is now IBM i running on Power (they merged i series and p series into a unified Power line a while back too besides just the various OS rebranding along the way)

  4. Re:Financial Statements on Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An extension cord that reaches as far as a Tesla can range on a charge would weigh a hell of a lot more

  5. What makes you believe that those keys you're taking pictures of are any more valid than just getting one from a keygen? They're locked to the machine in question. No, not from a technological perspective, but yes from a licensing perspective. Either way you're in violation of the license agreement

  6. Re:Back In The Day on 'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    >So around the time that Creative moved on to the X-Fi hardware platform from their earlier, non-PCI-based cards

    The fact that you don't know the difference between PCI and PCI Express makes me question the veracity of the rest of this 'history'

  7. Re: The second best Star Trek on Barry Jenner, Who Played Admiral Ross On 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' Dies At 75 (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    inter arma enim silent leges

  8. Re:This is sacrilege plain and simple on George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Undoing mods to point out that Sulu was helmsman, and Uhuru was communications office. I don't think it undermines your point but

  9. Re:I'll probably hold out a while longer. on ZFS For Linux Finally Lands In Debian GNU/Linux Repos (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    OpenZFS was forked at version 28. Oracle has put out 5 versions since then, the most notable feature being native encryption. I wouldn't call it a standstill, but I wouldn't call it blistering speed either

    https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23...

  10. Re:No, it will on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Blocking private IP space in this context means that the router has a rule along these lines

    if (DST Subnet: 10.0.0.0/8 || 172.16.0.0/12 || 192.168.0.0/16 ) && (DST iface = WAN) drop

    So, in other words, if the destination interface is the WAN port, and the destination subnet is RFC1918 space, drop the packet. Unless the 192.168.100.0/24 subnet exists on the LAN side, and is therefore in the routing table as something more specific than 0.0.0.0, the packets are going to be routed to the default gateway (eg. your upstream), and match the above rule and be dropped. If the subnet did exist on the LAN, then a route would exist, it would never match the default gateway and never end up going out the WAN to the cable modem.

    Even something old but venerable like the WRT54G has this feature, and enabled by default.

    Now, before your router has a public IP on its WAN interface, it is often possible to hit the 192.168.100.1 page from the LAN side - that's because in the interim while a public IP is being acquired, the WAN iface is given something in the 100.x subnet by the cable modem DHCP, and will have 100.1 as a gateway. But once it gets the lease for the actual public IP and real gateway, all of that gets dropped, and you're back to the situation described above

    YMMV, but I've never been able to hit my cable modem status page with a default router config, on Comcast, in the decade+ I've had service with numerous routers from cheap throwaway no-names to WISP grade stuff like mikrotik and ubiquiti.

  11. Re:"Linux" is just a kernel on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    Now if you try to take a MAX at 2am,

    Then you are shit out of luck. Sadly one of the major failings of the MAX is that it doesn't operate after the bars close at 2/2:30. There's only a handful of trains that run after 1am, and nothing system-wide after 2, only a few very short 5 stop sort of staging runs on one end to get stuff in place for the morning or maint.

  13. Re:ahhhh advertising, my good friend! on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I disagree. It doesn't just look bad, it's indentation is communicating semantics that aren't accurate. It should be corrected. Something that should be corrected... is a flaw.

    You say its "working as intended" (and I presume it is); but the message the developer communicated with that formatting is that he intended for it to work differently from how it does in fact work.

    I agree its "just a formatting error"... but its a particularly nasty one; and code like that SHOULD be investigated and corrected.

    Thank god FreeBSD isn't written in python

  14. Re:ahhhh advertising, my good friend! on PVS-Studio Analyzer Spots 40 Bugs In the FreeBSD Kernel · · Score: 2

    You think the FreeBSD foundation has 0 funds and the github page is their primary web presence? Lol....

  15. Re:They did for me. on AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Centurylink pulls the same crap here.

  16. Re:I'm not renewing prime this year... on Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Sharing · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. They'll throw some digital media or pantry credits your way, but I've never gotten a free month of prime by complaining about missed commits

  17. Re:Single shop most likely on Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations · · Score: 1

    Verizon FIOS is not Verizon Wireless. VZW's network is almost totally unrelated to VZ the Tier-1 ISP and VZ the consumer ISP

  18. Re:Yahoo knew fine was a bluff on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 1

    OR, look at telco Qwest as they refused to cooperate with the Government over specific contracts almost a decade ago. Are they even alive today as a company?

    You may be more familiar with them as Centurylink

  19. Re:Here's how I found out.... on How the FBI and Secret Service Know Your Network Has Been Breached Before You Do · · Score: 2

    Indeed, I've received notification from the FBI at $dayjob based on information they scraped from Shodan.
    Specifically, it looked like they were looking for "siemens" anywhere in the results, and then sending out notifications, most likely intended for SCADA/Industrial Automation kind of gear. We just happen to have a handful of Siemens CPEs... because apparently they make DSL modems too?

  20. Re:No one wanted to listen or change on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about triclosan, which is a biocide rather than an antibiotic. However, triclosan resistance is still a possibiulity

  21. Re:"Hacked!"? on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 1
  22. Re:take that trailblazers fans on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/10/ill-advised_shot_from_feisty_g.html

    Answer: extemporaneous utterance from Bill Schonley (aka the voice of the blazers) in their inaugural season which has stuck ever since. Doesn't really mean anything.

  23. I was the main research assistant for this study on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 2

    I realize this isn't reddit, but, AMA.
    I wasn't involved much in the study design in terms of the sampling methods themselves, but I did the site selection for the portion of our study that ended up published. It's been a few years but I still know it like the back of my hand.
    I did all of the sampling itself and a large portion of processing the samples including the GC-MS portion. I was not involved much in the analysis except as a sounding board.

    To address some of the concerns brought up thus far:
    1) There are no known natural sources of caffeine in Oregon. There exists some coral in the indian ocean that secretes caffeine but nothing here locally, off-shore or terrestrial. Caffeine is not the best example, but, the idea is that it is a marker of human impact. We focused on waste water here because it's the most likely source.

    2) Yes, you can accurately measure levels of ng/L. Yes, it's a pain. We actually did about a year of sampling, modifying our procedures, and tests before we were able to confidently prevent and rule out source of contamination. This even included not consuming caffeine in proximity to samples or before doing work with them.

    3) I've not yet read the final paper (no uni access any more) but the other portion of the study we did was dosing pacific mussels with caffeine in a controlled environment. We looked at stress proteins, which are formed in response to environmental stressors, most notably heat. We did not observe an effect at the levels we measured in nature.

    4) Excretion rate from humans is about 5%. Depending on the wastewater treatment regimen, primarily based on tertiary treatment like carbon filtering (very rare) and residence time, anywhere from 0% to 100% of caffeine can be removed. Further study here is necessary.

    5) The half-life of caffeine in the environment is primarily heat related. Based on other studies we referenced, it's much longer in seawater. Off the top of my head the magnitude was on the order of 200 days in seawater vs 60-90 in fresh water. You should read the paper/references for exact numbers. This is far longer than the transit time from excretion to the ocean for most wastewater treatment. It does not bio-accumulate.

  24. Re:Nice thought, however not close to reality. on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 2

    Why are you giving a wine recipe and not a recipe for hard alcohol?

  25. Re:Constitution-Free Zone on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    You missed Portland International Airport, for one that I can see just on a quick glance. I suspect there are more that I am not familiar with as well.