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  1. Re:Now that the candidates are officially lined up on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No he doesn't. Hillary could simply perform worse. Think before y.... oh, it's creimer.

  2. Re:Now that the candidates are officially lined up on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those kinds of factoids are meaningless drivel. No one has done X without Y until one day it happens. Then you'll say no one has done X without Z.

    FTR I hope they both lose.

  3. Re:Does NY law really work that way? on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also rights granted to most people (like constitutional rights) don't apply to people who are still on paper (still in the corrections system on parole or incarcerated)

    These rights aren't granted they're guaranteed. Many of the rights our country is built upon are inalienable, meaning they absolutely do apply to people in prison. The government cannot legally take them away, nor can anyone else. They are inalienable.

  4. Re:all he needs now is... on Tesla Is Buying SolarCity for $2.6 Billion (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You're both missing it. Do you even know why sharks have frikkin' laser beams?

  5. Re:all he needs now is... on Tesla Is Buying SolarCity for $2.6 Billion (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    WHOOSH baby, yeah!

  6. Re:But they pay more to the EU than they get back. on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In FF you can just highlight the link, then right click and open it (in the current tab, in a new tab, in a new window, or in a private tab).

  7. Re:But they pay more to the EU than they get back. on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The "loss in value" is virtual bullshit. The money that gets paid to the EU and distributed to other countries is real.

    Stock markets will normalize, and people who don't panic can profit off of the situation.
    On the other hand, good luck getting your money back after some Greek guy spent it on gyros.

  8. Show me this type of vulnerability in VMware, any version. I think you are a bit off base here. The Xen Guys are good, it sucks when this type of vulnerability were to surface, but there has never been one like this on vSphere.

    Any computer software more complex than this has bugs:
    10 PRINT "HELLO, WROLD!"
    20 GOTO 10
    .
    .
    .
    (so does this one)

    That's demonstrable false. Software can be formally proven. Not all software for the general case. But if you limit inputs or execution time, you absolutely can prove software to be correct, bug-free, etc..

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

    No major US credit card is chip+pin.

  10. Re:Nope on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like how no system was allowed to store the code on the back of the card, online stores were supposed to ask for it and never store it, and providing it "proved" you had the card in your possession.

    It took about 4 seconds before the whole world started storing those codes and scammers started copying them in addition to everything else.

  11. Re:Nope on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Banks and payment processors profit off of fraud because much of it goes unnoticed.
    They don't care if charges are legitimate, they just care that a transaction is processed and they get their cut.

    This change further removed liability from the banks, card issuers, POS vendors, etc.

    Chargeback / fraud report on a mag swipe? Retailer at fault, should have used "secure" chip and sign!
    Chargeback / fraud report on chip and sign? That's secure, trust us! So that means the retailer is trying to scam us!

  12. Re:Alternate Headline on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of SSDs even get that part wrong, storing the key in an easy-to-get area, not really deleting it and creating a new one, etc.
    But even when it works, you can't delete "MySecretFile.txt" without also deleting everything else on the drive.

  13. Re:Alternate Headline on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to pull the chips, though that's not very hard.

    You can send a national security letter to Samsung.
    You can hack your own firmware together and flash it to the drive and have the drive dump out the contents of every flash chip.

    For backups, everything should be stored encrypted (with a key you control).

    For generic filesystem issues, use a better filesystem? Or at least one that provides a way to truly delete/overwrite space marked as free?

  14. Re:First Amendment ... no, sorry. on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    They already regulate everything based on content you fucking nitwit.

    Political calls are exempted from the do-not-call list due to their content.

  15. Re:So make it equally first amendment to block the on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    The actual issue is that unwanted robocalls are already handled by the national do-not-call registry, but the politicians have exempted themselves from the relevant laws meaning they do not have to respect the do-not-call registry.

    Using this judge's backwards reasoning, that is a violation of the 1st amendment and said exemptions must be shat upon.

  16. Re:Alternate Headline on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The SSD operates below the filesystem. It doesn't matter what filesystem you use. The SSD decides where to put data and where to say data has been put. They won't match up.

  17. Re: Infinitesimally precise on Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It's Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    An infinitesimal mathematically by definition has no value. It is greater than zero but less than any other value that can be named.

    It's larger than zero, not necessarily greater than zero, and smaller than anything else, not necessarily less than anything else.

  18. Re:If you have the time... on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 1

    You don't need to bookmark anything. Windows is going to have a subscription model for all buy the Enterprise versions. And those will simply be licensed annually with support after your anniversary being non-existent unless you pay up.

  19. Re: Same As Before on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 2

    Android isn't free. AOSP is free. AOSP is not Android.
    Count up the number of devices running AOSP, the number of devices running Android, and the number of devices running some other mutation of AOSP that isn't free.

  20. Re:Same As Before on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you monetize your product by selling it. When you monetize your customers, you're selling them. People don't want Windows 10 spying on them, serving up ads, having built in backdoors, etc.

  21. Re:Windows 10, Windows 10, Windows 10! on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 1

    That's not what you said at all.

    "Cortana, what percentage of people who buy top of the line i7 workstation-class computers actually CARE about running Windows on ARM?"

      people who buy top of the line i7 workstation-class computers and actually CARE about running Windows on ARM
    /
    people who buy top of the line i7 workstation-class computers

  22. Same As Before on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My thoughts are the same as I've expressed before on these Windows 10 stories.
    I'll describe them in detail again.

    Fuck MS.

  23. Re:Alternate Headline on WhatsApp Isn't Fully Deleting Its 'Deleted' Chats (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    What's worse is that with flash-based storage, you can't ever be guaranteed that you've overwritten an individual file even if the OS thinks it has overwritten it 100 times with random data.

    SSDs and other flash-based storage have wear leveling and over-provisioning which result in your writes not going to any guaranteed physical place.
    The only ways to securely overwrite a file on a flash-based device are to:

    1) Issue the ATA Secure Erase command and hope the drive actually does its job.
    2) Use a tool provided by the manufacturer that issues custom commands to the drive that achieve a similar effect (again, hope that it actually does so).
    3) Fill up the drive with random data for years until it's dead. Many drives will enter a read-only state. Others will outright fail. You still have to hope that no copy is left on a physical flash chip in the drive.
    4) Physically destroy the drive.

    In all cases you lose all the data.

    With HDDs you could access individual sectors and zap em as appropriate. With SSDs that's not the case. Everything is logically mapped by a controller and you have to trust it to do a secure erase properly - either resetting the encryption key or filling every block (even the ones used for over-provisioning) with 0s.

  24. Re:Worst Part on Microsoft To Lay Off Another 2,850 People In the Next 12 Months (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    After the 29th, it goes from "offer" to "severed horse head in your bed".

  25. The severance pittance^W package is tied to an "exit interview" that involves upgrading to Windows 10.