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  1. Re:On a probe? Count me bemused on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    shielded from the sun space is pretty darn cold

    No, it isn't. When you're in that vacuum, where are you going to dump your heat? How efficiently can you radiate it into the void? (Hint: not very.)

  2. Re:lousy project planning on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part where he said "heavy"?

    They'll be carrying a lot more mass, the effect of gravity is about 2.3 times as strong on Mars as it is on Luna, and Mars is also much further away.

  3. Re:lousy project planning on NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed the news where SpaceX is going to land cargo on Mars in 2022 and humans will arrive soon after. They will need power.

    Define "soon".

    It'll take about 6 months from launch to reach Mars, if things are aligned nicely.

  4. "Professional" means "you get paid to do this", and nothing else. He's not an math prof, so he's an amateur.

    No, "professional" means you're a member of a government-regulated "profession". A lawyer who isn't practicing is still a professional.
    As is an electrician, a doctor, an engineer (the one that drives a train engine), a contractor, a pilot, etc.

    Things that aren't professionals include professors, software "engineers", most other engineers (they're weakly and not universally regulated), and athletes.

  5. Re:Why do they have the fucking passwords!? on Twitter Says Glitch Exposed 'Substantial' Number of Users' Passwords In Plain Text (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If the client side does the hashing, then the password is effectively plaintext - the Hash is the plaintext.

    The entire _point_ of hashing is that the string provided by the client is not the string stored in the database, but can be confirmed to be a string that produces the value stored in the database.

    Uh, hash it on both ends?

  6. Re:Why do they have the fucking passwords!? on Twitter Says Glitch Exposed 'Substantial' Number of Users' Passwords In Plain Text (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hashing client-side seems like a bad idea - does anybody do this? The hashing function (as well as salt) would be exposed on the client javascript or whatever. I may be wrong - haven't worked on anything related to password security in 5+ years.

    Neither the salt, nor the algorithm are considered secret. Nor is the password hash, by the way.
    The standard model has the user and password files in plaintext available to all.

    The only secret should be the password.

    However, due to crappy implementations (such as allowing for social engineering, DoS lockouts, etc.) service providers like to consider the username secret. Due to using old algorithms and not having people regularly change passwords, they often consider the hash secret too. And the salt, And even the algorithm. Often, this is due to embarrassment more than anything else. How many times have we seen service providers get hit with a breach and then a year or more later sheepishly admit they had shit in plaintext, relied on MD5, didn't use a salt, had the last x characters in plaintext and readable by the support staff, effectively only used 12 characters (dropping the rest), etc.?

    Hashing client side makes a lot of sense.

  7. Re:Not looking well for the future of cpus on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still on a 2600k and Windows 7 for my gaming box.
    There are about 3 titles that are DX12 / Windows 10 exclusive that interest me - Killer Instinct, Sea of Thieves, and probably something else that I can't remember. Sea of Thieves currently has no content worthy of a purchase, so I'm fine passing on it for now. (I did play in the stress tests on a physically separate Win 10 install.)

  8. Re: not buying any more new computers & gadget on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A 100 percent secure computer can be turned into a military grade cipher machine by every competent computer scientist...

    Nope. A 100% secure system wouldn't let the computer scientist modify it or even determine that its hardware met milspec.

  9. Re:Oh NOES!!! Trump is EVUL!!! on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not about hating him it is contempt for the fact that some beat down Americans stumbled to their feet,

    You perfectly exemplify the permanent grievance of the worst kind of trump voter. He campaigned on "you are all losers, but I will win for you, there will be so much winning, you'll get tired of all the winning." And just like with any other conman, he wins and his marks end up losing the most. Just like the suckers who signed up for trump university.

    ...most of the gnashing of teeth is performed bu the useful idiots.

    Said the guy who has ground the enamel completely off his molars.

    I didn't vote for Trump. How did the people who voted for Trump lose?

    They got a huge tax break instead of an all-but-guaranteed tax hike.
    Unemployment is way down.
    The stock market is way up. I don't think this is a good measure of anything, and I'm sure it will tank again (hopefully soon), but people love to point to the pretend money in the stock market as a sign of economic health.
    Denuclearization, peace, and potential reunification in Korea,
    Tons of sex cults and human trafficking rings have been broken up.
    Corrupt leaders and former leaders of many countries are actually being brought to justice.
    He's getting support for enforcing our immigration laws, even from cities within California. The wall is being built.
    Next year there will be no unconstitutional personal mandate for health insurance.
    He shut down all the anti-second-amendment bullshit from the CIA plant David Hogg and his cadre of useful idiots with a single tweet.
    He's firing and investigating corrupt people in Washington left and right, all while under incessant attacks and illegal, phony investigations himself.

    Who is losing, exactly?

    The man is a blowhard and an asshole, but he's proving to be damn good at his job.

  10. Re:Oh NOES!!! Trump is EVUL!!! on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The majority of people earning under $50K/yr voted for Clinton.

    The same clown shoes polling that guaranteed HRC would win in a landslide.
    How'd that turn out?

  11. I saw 4 but I only briefly scrolled through.

  12. In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may, in rare cases, affect a person’s ability to participate within them, when the conduct amounts to an egregious violation of this code.

    If someone doesn't like you they'll dig up any dirt on you from any source, show it to LLVM, and LLVM will give you the boot and the SJW mafia will raise a big stink about how you're a monster that shouldn't be able to get a job, house, etc.

  13. Re: He's not wrong on One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over Code of Conduct, Outreach Program (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're actually on slashdot right now. I can't believe I have to tell you that.
    CoC's only apply to those organizations, and are usually unenforced and dropped after awhile since they don't work.

    You'd think so, but:

    In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may, in rare cases, affect a person’s ability to participate within them, when the conduct amounts to an egregious violation of this code.

    You're wrong.

    Such codes of conduct, community guidelines, etc. are simply text they can point to whenever they want to blackball anyone who isn't on the SJW team. Oh, you voted for Trump? GET THE FUCK OUT, BIGOT! WE'LL ORGANIZE A HATE CAMPAIGN TO GET YOU FIRED FROM WHEREVER YOU WORK!!! WE'LL HARASS YOU UNTIL A NEW TARGET SHOWS UP!!! Oh, you posted "All men are scum. Kill all men! Whites are the devil. We need a new genocide!!" all over Twitter, Facebook etc.? Well, obviously you're entitled to express your feelings.

  14. Merit includes the ability to get along with others without being a dick.

    No, it doesn't.

  15. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You can read it. The special counsel is wrong.

  16. This is a farce. The EPA has the authority to do what it did. The states have no grounds to sue. If they states want to enforce such standards, they can make their own standards for vehicles sold or operated within them.

  17. Re: Elections have consequences on California Leads States In Suing the EPA For Attacking Vehicle Emissions Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That whole state can fucking burn.

    It often does.

  18. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I am just wondering what business model that employs any significant number of people you think is NOT based on exploiting people desperate for work?

    One where you pay employees well, treat them well beyond pay, offer opportunities for advancement, etc.?

    For example, In-N-Out.

  19. Re:Cheating is stupid on Some YouTube Stars Are Being Paid To Sell Academic Cheating (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Essays are stupid unless you're going to write essays for a living.
    90% of all assignments in school (from kindergarten through college) are busy work at best.

  20. Futurama did it with the Execubots.

    Executive Alpha, programmed to like things it has seen before.
    Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.
    Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.

  21. Re:All this is proving one thing - on Twitter Sold Data Access To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Researcher (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, here ate Slashdot we're cows. MOOOOOOOOOOOO.

  22. Re:Dialing back Dotcom Bubble 2.0 hubris? No way! on As Controversy Swirls, Facebook Dials Down the Swagger On Its Developer Conference (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This is exactly what woot.com did with the Bag of Crap.

    $5 + shipping for the BoC that could include anything from twine and lint to a fancy new HDTV.
    The smart money bought the max per account usually 3) to minimize the shipping overhead.
    Their servers crashed every single time, and they were sold out instantly. But if you secured one, oh man, you were the tits around town. "I got 3 BoC. Yeah, they put up a BoC for 4 seconds at midnight. I was hitting F5 non stop for 2 hours and I got 3. You missed it? That sucks. I got 3 by the way."

    When your BoC arrives, you're excited for about 4 seconds. Then you realize you paid for someone to ship you their trash. I got such gems like a lighter that looks like a revolver (never even filled it so I don't even know if it works), a proprietary audio connector for some random feature phone that no one owned (even at the time), and a little travel bag barely big enough for a regular toothbrush.

    WOOT!

  23. Re:Will we finally get Network Bridging? on USB 3.2 Work Is On The Way For The Linux 4.18 Kernel: Report (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    but they have a dongle in the middle

    ur mom has a dongle in the middle ooooh sick burn

  24. Re:Leftists are Envious on China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Which side supports free speech rights

    Not the side with the cries for censorship, "hate speech" laws, etc.

    which side complains about the "lies" of the liberal media and their inauguration crowd numbers?

    Everyone but the liberals.

    You haven't asked the important question. Which side is correct? (Hint: It's not the liberals.)

  25. That goes double for James Cameron!