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  1. Re:Going out on a limb here.... on Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they lied. Intel loves to dodge the question, too. They'll tell you your CPU doesn't have it even though it's physically present and is just disabled (trust us) via firmware. Or they'll tell you your system isn't vulnerable even though your BIOS shows the vulnerable ME firmware version string because your SKU doesn't have those features enabled.

    It's all still physically present. The hardware is there in the CPU (or chipset on older platforms), waiting to fuck you, and you have to trust the firmware and hardware to be truthful. You have to go over a decade back to be safe from this shit.

  2. Re:What about older CPUs? on Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I predict that as Intel gradually loses its grip on the desktop and server markets, Israel will gradually lose its grip on US policy, with some lag time.

  3. Re:Thank heavens I have an old Athlon... on Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...where I run CentOS and Firefox. I'm not trusting any sensitive personal data to Intel until I get easy tools to remove the ME.

    I wish Oracle would put out a "Raspberry-Pi" class of the SPARC T2. The design is open and can be trusted.

    Nothing from Oracle can be trusted. Being open doesn't mean something is trustworthy. It means you're able to build your own and audit it. You can't trust something unless you actually do that.

  4. My guesses are:

    A) He only read the headline, and improperly parsed it as Google working on supporting Swift within Fuchsia OS.

    B) He's not familiar with modern semi-open development fads and he doesn't understand that a "pull request" means Google is requesting that Apple pull Google's changes (supporting Fuchsia OS) into Apple's source code for the Swift compiler.

    C) covfefe

  5. Re:Time limitation for projects on Apple Could Have Brought a Big iPhone X Feature To Older iPhone But Didn't, Developer Says (twitter.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As far as I understand it, they DID port it.

    Just to add insult to injury, if you AirDrop that photo back to the iPhone 7 Plus now it shows the Portrait Lighting UI, and lets you change mode.

    The feature is baked in and ready to go on the 7 Plus, but only the X will write the requisite metadata in the header to trigger it.
    Copying that metadata over from a photo - any photo - taken on the X and pasting it over the metadata on a photo from the 7 Plus results in the 7 Plus activating the feature.

    As far as I understand it, anyway. I don't have an iThing so all I can do is trust the summary.

  6. Re: Censorship, plain and simple on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If Trump wins in 2020 I expect all out riots in the typical hipster cities (los angeles, san francisco, seattle/portland, austin or the other one, I always forget, new york city, etc.).

  7. Re:Liberals won't like this on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    It takes a special kind of retard to keep pushing that narrative.

    What I need in this life is a photo of someone with an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt walking around a Clinton rally and posing next to people with "I'm with her" shirts/signs.

  8. Re:Liberals won't like this on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When? They've been looking and looking and looking. Year and half now. Still nothing.

    Your rock called, says you need to get back under it.

    I just crawled out from under my rock.
    Please show me the charges that have been filed against Donald Trump and the evidence to be presented. Also, when's the first hearing?

    Oh? What's that? Complete silence when pressed for facts?

  9. Re:Completely Untrue on Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020, Report Says (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    UEFI is flawed by design, and is pandering to Hollywood generally.

    Give it a few days. Someone will step forward and #metoo accuse UEFI of sexually harassing them, then UEFI will be axed.

  10. There are people who still run on big iron, i.e., mainframes.
    Mainframes are resilient, fault tolerant, upgradable without downtime (many have hot-swapable RAM, CPUs, etc.), and in general fucking reliable.

    Even with HA / fault tolerant VM systems, you're relying on communication between external systems to identify failure, recover/transition automatically, and rectify any data inconsistencies. For many transactional systems, that's a no go. Many systems use distributed databases, fault tolerant / HA VMs, etc. behind the front-end, but transactions won't be considered truly confirmed until they hit the mainframe.

  11. Re:That's funny... on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Compared to up-to-date Android, which is riddled with known security holes.

  12. Re:Private browsing on Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I guess (I don't know the details of it) what this feature is doing, is preventing any cookies that differ from the domain displayed in the URL from being loaded. I'm not sure how exactly this is different from private browsing.

    No, it's in the summary.

    This is isolation, not blocking. Plenty of sites won't work if you outright block 3rd party cookies.
    What this does is allow the cookie to be set and sent back in future requests, but it's one cookie per ad domain AND per visited site.

    If you go to pussy.com and it loads a tracking asset for ass.com, Firefox sets a cookie for ass.com.
    If you go to pussy.com again and it loads a tracking asset for ass.com, Firefox sends the same cookie back.
    So ass.com can track you on pussy.com.

    If you then go to titties.com and it loads a tracking asset for ass.com, Firefox sets a separate cookie for ass.com.
    This way, ass.com can't track you across pussy.com and titties.com as a single user by use of their cookies.

    They will still try (and generally succeed) at such tracking via browser fingerprinting, timing, meta analysis, and the good ol' IP address.

  13. If you're a stock music composer, you sign over the rights to whatever music you put up on a variety of hosting sites. That can get complicated -- especially when your music winds up being used to soundtrack hate speech.

    If you sign over the rights then too fucking bad.

    What, am I supposed to care what George Lucas thinks about the new Star Wars movies? TFA, Rogue One, and Solo are worse than the fucking prequels. But too fucking bad, they're canon now.

  14. In general, all income is taxable. This merely clarifies that such things are income that need to be reported.

  15. It is income. It is taxable.

  16. Re:Not the issue on Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fail.
    The innocent in his scenario is a foreign person not being granted entry into the US, something which they have no right to do.
    The innocent in your scenario is a US citizen being denied justice, which is something they expressly are guaranteed.

  17. Geez, what planet do you live on?

    "Terrorism isn't a real threat"

    You're in the US, right? Nice "twin towers" you have, shame they fell down. But terrorism isn't a real threat. Right. Got it.

    You believe the official story? LOL!

  18. Re:The moral of the story on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    He was always one.

  19. Re:This is what us techies get on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric companies charge you more if you use electricity at certain times of the year or at certain times of the day. They charge you higher rates if you use more. They also charge absurd delivery fees, and these can vary based on where the electrons you're getting are coming from.

    Yeah, it's bullshit. But it's not unusual.

  20. Re:Speaking as someone who.... on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, I remember it well. It was back in 1929. In those days, Black Friday fell on a Tuesday.

  21. Dead Since the 90s on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Black Friday died in the mid 90s when the masses got their mitts on the world wide web.

    There used to be actual deals (and freebies) worth getting, and you had a decent chance of getting them if you showed up when the store opened.

    Today you have to fight to the death to get a chance at a "good deal" on last year's off brand TV model or $50 off a router that's fundamentally broken out of the box and is EoL so you'll never get firmware updates from the manufacturer, etc. And you have to do it all on Thanksgiving day. And you have to watch for the pre Black Friday sales. And the Cyber Monday sales.

    Fuck all that shit. Here's the real pro tip:

    Buy what you want up to 30 days before the sales using a Discover IT card. Then use the price protection perk if it goes on sale. Discover IT covers Black Friday. If what you want doesn't go on sale, who cares?

  22. Re:Depends your status. on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why would anyone do that? It's an arbitrary symbolic assignment either way. Why cater to morons who can't understand that?
    People like you already fucked up inflammable and non-inflammable with your improper "flammable" and "non-flammable".
    People like you are trying to fuck up KB, MB, etc. by insisting they're factors of 1000 instead of the correct 1024.

    Fuck off. Not everything fits your preconceived mold, nor should it. Trying to force such changes is what creates ambiguity and confusion.

  23. Bullshit on Apple Is Back To Being the World's Top Wearable Maker (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The top wearable maker has got to be Durex or Trojan.

  24. Anything less than a zero tolerance policy from the the CEO is grounds for a lawsuit.

    Only because you can sue for anything, and nothing.
    You can have whatever policy (or no policy). That wouldn't be grounds for a successful lawsuit

  25. So you're alleging a conspiracy now? All the black folks are going to say one thing and all the white folks another?

    I suppose it's possible... though really unlikely.

    It doesn't need to be all. Just some.

    If he's seeking to add 100+ people to the class, they only need to find a handful willing to testify that they experienced such treatment to have a good chance of convincing Tesla to fork out cash.

    The defense could literally parade every other member of the class through court. The prosecution would have 2 questions for such witnesses: Did you experience this yourself? (No.) Can you say for sure that others did not experience it? (No.)

    The prosecution only has to show that it happened to one class member if granted class status (since the claim is that the entire class is victimized by the behavior even if it wasn't direct/overt for all members). The defense has to show that it didn't happen to any.

    If you don't think you can get a handful of people in a group of 100+ to lie for personal gain, regardless of the makeup of that group, you're a fool.