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  1. Re:Why mention Windows? on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a UEFI that did NOT let you modify the list of permitted signing keys.
    My guess is that Dell and other major OEMs don't let you, but if you require that amount of customization you may as well BE the OEM and build your own, choosing a decent mobo.

  2. Re:This is not surge pricing on Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone in the world put up with that kind of shit?
    Is it just the hipsters and layabouts who don't need regular transportation?

  3. Re:20% isn't surge pricing on Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening · · Score: 1

    I think you mean down by sixteen and two thirds percent.

    Let S be the Surge Price.
    Let P be the Poor Price.

    If S is 20 percent more than P, then P is 16 2/3 percent less than S.

    Other examples:
    If S is 100 percent more than P, then P is 50 percent less than S.
    If S is 0 percent more than P, then P is 0 percent less than S.

    Alternatively:

    Given non-zero A and B:
    1 / (A/B) = B/A

    Some examples:
    6 / 5 = 1 / (5/6) [Here you can see that 6/5 is 1/5 more than 5/5 and 5/6 is 1/6 less than 6/6. See how this relates to the 20 percent example above.]
    0 / 3 ?? 1 / (3/0) [Here, the operation 3/0 cannot be performed. Any algebraic cancellation of the term is also invalid.]

  4. Re:English Is Difficult on A New Algorithm Could Protect Ships From 'Rogue Waves' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    The f got flipped upside down.
    By a large wave.

  5. English Is Difficult on A New Algorithm Could Protect Ships From 'Rogue Waves' (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Wreck? Rude?
    Wreak. Ride.

    Aside from your atrocious spelling, your facts are false and misleading. Not all ships are large enough to withstand 10 meter waves. No ship can "deal with any storm the ocean can throw at it". The size of the wave makes a big difference, regardless of slope. If a large wave crests and comes down on you you're fucked. It a large wave hits you at a bad angle, you're fucked.

  6. Re:Waste of 1s and 0s on ISIS Makes Direct Threats Against Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the zeroes are free and plentiful, it's the ones that cost you.
    Of course, with certain types of memory the whole thing is flip flopped, much like juice/cider in Canada.

  7. If you want sayings, the only one worth being said is:

    What is best in life?
    To crush your, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

  8. Re:Site attribution on Facebook Donating 25 State Of The Art GPU Servers To AI Research In Europe (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Because Slashdot.

    File a C&D and threaten to sue for copyright infringement.

  9. Re:A Nice Breakdown from Microsoft!! on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, you invoked it.
    He made the comparison which you feel satisfies the law, but you were the one who invoked the law.

    http://dictionary.reference.co...

  10. Re:Linux is your friend in legal backups on Slysoft (of AnyDVD Fame) Closes After Increased International Pressure By AACS (myce.com) · · Score: 0

    While you can argue piracy, the USA it is perfectly legal to make backup copies of commercial media you legitimately own.

    No it isn't. You have the right to make a backup or archival copy, but they have to be backup or archival copies only. You cannot actually use them as long as your original is intact. (And no, you can't sell the original and use the backup.)

    Further, you cannot make a backup or archival copy if doing so requires the circumvention of a copy-protection scheme. So for nearly every single commercially-released DVD/BluRay/etc., making a copy is illegal under the DMCA.

    Copy it anyway. Fuck the DMCA. If you relied on AnyDVD and need a quick simple alternative, look at DVDFab.

  11. Re:Measurements on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You're completely wrong.

    More means addition, less means subtraction. Just like in math and English.
    Times means multiplication. Just like in math and English.
    Fractions (half, third, fourth) mean division. Just like in math and English.

    4 is 2 more than 2.
    4 is 1 time more than 2.
    4 is 2 times 2.
    4 is 100 percent more than 2.

    2 is 2 less than 4.
    2 is 0.5 times less than 4.
    2 is 0.5 times 4.
    2 is 50 percent less than 4.

    The only thing implied is what "times" and "percent" relate to. (Hint, it's the thing being compared to - the thing after "than").

    4 is 1 time 2 more than 2.
    4 is 100 percent of 2 more than 2.

    2 is 0.5 times 4 less than 4.
    2 is 50 percent of 4 less than 4.

  12. Re:Measurements on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    No, it gives you 1/1000th the uncertainty. It doesn't give you negative 999 times the uncertainty of the other (1 - 1000).

  13. Re:Firefox, Notepad++, Outlook... EMET shuts it do on Attackers Can Turn Microsoft's Exploit Defense Tool EMET Against Itself (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell them to disable EAF+ for Firefox.
    Not sure about Notepad++.
    EMET kills Outlook when Outlook opens up malicious email. You can either disable EMET for Outlook or you can risk getting #REKT.

  14. Re:Apple - standing alone on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You have no way of knowing which code is correct.
    There's a difference between securing the pass code and using that pass code as a key to encrypt data.

    It is trivial to secure the pass code perfectly. Securing data with the pass code is trivial as well if the clear text is unknown to the attacker. See one time pads. If some portion of the clear text is known to the attacker, then that helps them. Otherwise, it's literally impossible because you make up any damned thing you want with a simple XOR of some pad.

  15. Re:that quote is wrong on Variable Instruction Computing: What Is Old Is New Again (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I scrolled down and saw what you're referring to:

    "Gort, klaatu nikto barada." -- The Day the Earth Stood Still

    Slashdot, turn in your stash of fake nerd cards. You're not even at poser level anymore.

  16. Re:A Lose-Lose Proposition on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Life in prison, in solitary confinement in a basement if you don't reveal your passwords and encryption keys

    That's just as wrong as what they're trying to do now.

  17. Re:Apple - standing alone on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no cryptographic way to secure a 4 digit passcode, or a 6 digit passcode. It's physically impossible.

    Store hash.
    Hash function can be anything, including XOR with some other value.
    Good luck!

  18. I thought all PL-II decoders could handle PL mixes properly, and the benefit of PL-II and later was the ability to encode (and decode) more separation, more transparently. Is that not the case?

  19. You seem to be informed on these matters, sir.
    Could you tell me if I will be able to buy a holodeck remaster box set of Futurama in the year 3000? Or will there be shenanigans with 30th Century Fox?

  20. Yup.
    I love my surround sound but if the source is stereo it's staying stereo.

  21. "My eyes, the goggles do nothing!"
    "The goggles, they do nothing!"

    Stickerbush Symphony
    Stickerbrush Symphony

  22. If you manage to dump the memory contents without tripping any protections that cause shit to be wiped you'll need to brute force a random 256-bit key.
    Otherwise, you'd need to clone the whole fucking phone, including the hardened security chip, because it nukes the key after 10 failed attempts by default.

  23. Hard Gee on Twitter Rolls Out GIF Button (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a hard gee, FYI. I don't care who says otherwise.

  24. Re:RAID, let them fail on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because you don't know how it will fail, you don't know what other drive may fail next, and you don't know when a 2nd, 3rd, nth, drive will fail.

    Further. drives that manage to actually report that they're dying are typically fucked to the point of impacting your performance significantly. If you're still writing to a drive that's hobbling along, it will slow down the whole array.
    Reads are usually okay (depending on your controller and setup) but writes need to be completed at some point, regardless of your cache scheme or cache size.

    Sustained writes to an array with a crippled drive will eventually either result in the drive being taken offline or the array's write performance turning to shit. If you're lucky, the drive is taken offline gracefully, doesn't catch fire, and you do the hot spare / cold spare dance, the rebuild boogaloo, etc.

  25. Words on Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The word they're looking for is "limited".