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  1. If it was up to the security guys 100% of the budget would go to security practices, training, and equipment.

    A lack of security is never ever the fault of those implementing them.

    Staff, software, and equipment, sure.
    Training or certification? Might as well burn the money.

  2. Stalkers and Abusers on Kaspersky Lab Will Warn You If Your Phone is Infected With Stalkerware (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stalkerware is frequently used by stalkers and abusers to spy on people through their phones.

    And it's more frequently used by people who want to catch their spouse cheating on them before they file for divorce so they don't get screwed (in court).
    You can argue about whether or not that's right or not, but the "stalkers and abusers" line is mostly bullshit. It's people prepping for divorce and gathering evidence.

  3. Damn it. Those "you're"s should be "yore"s, obviously.

  4. They aren't demanding it. They're asking for it as a convenient option for morons.

    If you accept, they take your creds, log in, and you're Facebook account is activated / email validated. Then Facebook violates your shit behind your back.
    If you decline, you get the email, click the link, and you're Facebook account is activated / email validated. Then Facebook violates your shit behind your back, but presumably not your email account.

  5. HTML has had <embed> for ages. It makes the browser do only sane thing: Throw the content to the OS to handle, and drop it if the OS can't handle it.

  6. There is no legitimate reason to allow for these notifications. Dynamic content works just fine with background requests.

  7. Re:Persistent Memory Use Case? on Intel Announces Cascade Lake With Up To 56 Cores and Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 2

    As soon as Intel and its partners find one, they'll let you know.

    I think MS SQL supports it, maybe in some preview build not sure. But to that end, why not just use the already-existing functionality of memory optimized tables, persisted memory DBs, etc.? The only real advantage Optane has is capacity per price, but it sacrifices speed and longevity (down to traditional flash or worse) to get it.

    It offers a transparent non-volatile storage, but we've had transparent, disk-backed RAM drives for ages. Optane also sidesteps SATA/AHCI/NVMe overheads for better latency, but once you're at NVMe there's not too much raw performance to be gained in latency. And if you do need that small edge, using traditional DRAM is the better choice. You just need to make sure it writes out to disk transparently and can survive power failures. Again, we've had this shit for ages.

  8. There's a reason Micron bowed out of the relationship, neglected to release any 1st generation products, (and looks to not be releasing any 2nd generation products), and has instead doubled down on their investment into traditional DRAM design and manufacturing. 3D Xpoint (Optane) does not meet any of the specs they've claimed it would (even after revising them all, unfavorably, by multiple orders or magnitude). It needs several more years in the oven, and even then it may not pan out.

  9. Because you need software designed to recognize and treat it as such to take advantage of the fact that it's persistent.

  10. No. Yields aren't good enough to support a product with the full chip and everything enabled. You over design then trim back. If yields improve, or the market saturates, you can release a part with fewer things disabled later. Happens with CPUs and GPUs.

  11. Re:where's the lie? on IT and Security Professionals Think Normal People Are Just the Worst (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Passwords on post it notes are a sign that the password requirements are too strict or onerous.

    No, they're a sign that the person who wrote it down needs to be fired.

  12. Re:Really makes you think. on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    come on - have you seen the shit they are talking about? Children's videos killing their favorite superheroes? At some point we have to agree on decency. Remember, they are RECOMMENDING this shit, not just hosting it.

    Go watch the first few minutes of the original Transformers movie and get back to me about kids having their cartoon heroes killed. Your fucking shit isn't even canonical.

  13. Re:I know it when I see it on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    Go look at the data. People are more likely to be recommended left/liberal/mainline views than they are to be recommended right/conservative/"conspiracy" videos.

    There is flow from each category to the others, but the overall flow is largely in favor of left/liberal/mainstream. The idea that Youtube is radicalizing people is false.

  14. Yes to all.

    If you're worried about idiots seeing that and harming themselves or others, the problem is with the idiot.

  15. Science does not have a "culture". Academia does. It's publish or perish, and get public grant money or get fired.

  16. It's the sun, you fucking idiot.

  17. Re:See you in prison, Trumptards. on Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3 million more votes? What are you talking about? Trump won 306 to 232.

  18. Voter ID laws are unConstitutional and don't prevent fraud anyway... certainly not vote-switching en masse fraud via hacks. You're kind of retarded, the only voter fraud in-person campaign was Republicans this last election.

    You're the fraud, GOP.

    They would go a long way to preventing fraud. They're no more unconstitutional than requiring an ID to purchase guns or beer.
    We witnessed massive voter fraud in 2018 in Florida. What are you fucking talking about? The lady in charge who was CONVICTED of the same shit years earlier was creating box after box of fake provisional ballots and kept "finding" them well after the deadline to count and certify. It was so brazen that she resigned in an attempt to avoid another round of charges.

  19. Election integrity is the single most important aspect of a democracy,

    Maybe, maybe not. This isn't a democracy, by the way.

    and the fact that apparently only Democrats seem concerned with the fact that so many of our elections can be easily and invisibly rigged should be deeply disturbing.

    Whenever the Republicans are concerned and want to do something as simple as require an ID to vote, people call them racist.

    If you don't need to ID to vote, you shouldn't need an ID to buy beer or guns.

  20. Trump is a criminal

    Oh my. You haven't heard.
    Who gets to tell him?

  21. Re:Same reason they keep remaking Skyrim on Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I bet it involves an arrow and his knee.

  22. That'll stop 'em!

  23. Re:why limit it to tractors on Elizabeth Warren Calls For a National Right-to-Repair Law for Tractors (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because she doesn't give a shit and is only trying to win points in red states. If she comes out with any idea Apple doesn't like they'll cut her down well before she has a chance to be completely destroyed in the primaries.

  24. Re:Why would you call AirBNB about it on Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Because nearly all AirBnB rentals are in violation of the law.

  25. Re:This is backwards! on Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    AirBnB isn't for renting out your home, it's for renting out your other properties and eschewing all regulation regarding hotels, tenant's rights, short term rentals, etc.