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  1. Re:Why isn't this configurable? on Google Restores Backspace Functionality To Chrome With an Add-on (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    "There's an app for this basic functionality that should just be an option" is one of the reasons I usually do not use chrome.

    Seriously, it's probably like 40 lines of code to have a config option, check it, and if set map a key to an already defined action (unless your codebase is collapsing under its own weight.) This is not worth the cruft of another app in the ecosystem.

  2. Re:Witty comment here... on The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    You can pretty much do that in a single cli command. But you'll get the 25 or so copies your browser made of it by viewing this page, too.

  3. Re:Presenting real facts... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Posting the damning email evidence that she is lying crook will change the minds of any sensible people

    Problem is, you think that is smoking gun evidence, but the people you send it to don't see it as such, because they view it critically and know how to read between the lines, which maybe you should start looking into as well... if there is good evidence, it isn't what's been passed around, so you should probably figure out what's wrong with that "evidence" and find the real evidence. And if there is actually no such evidence, well, maybe it's you who should change your mind.

  4. Re:If it sticks it to the utiities I am in. on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yet the alternative is to have board members making the average person's salary.

    No, there's a difference between "huge multiples" and "several times", the latter of which is probably palatable. The market is a fool to pay what it does for "executive leadership" -- an educated, talented person who is dedicated and works hard is still just one person, there simply is no justification for outsized salaries.

  5. Re:How we "psych" ourselves out on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We're rapidly nearing the point where the energy to extract more fossil fuel will exceed that from the additional fossil fuel.

    No, without an alternative source of energy it will be economical to extract enough fossil fuel to completely ruin the planet. Civilization will collapse well before we reach fossil resource exhaustion due to agricultural resource exhaustion.

    When do we actually turn to reducing energy consumption, reducing importing from China, fighting fewer wars, importing fewer foreign workers, and actually get down to the business of "think global act local"?

    Half of those things have nothing to do with the energy problem and are just a personal political wishlist.

    Any strategy that relies on a universal sea change in mass behavior is no strategy at all. This has to be fixed supply-side.

  6. Re:Its a continuation on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, it's no longer news, but NiMH rechargeables that take over a year to self-discharge pretty much made alkalines obsolete for all uses but things you don't maintain every year. Consumers have yet to realize this, apparently, but you've been able to buy them for over a decade now.

  7. Re:interstellar mission on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Or we could wait 25,000 years or so for it to get closer, and that would shave *years* off the trip :-)

  8. TLDR for those who think ASLR protects against this: de-duplication essentially makes all the shared VM RAM into a rather slow content-addressed storage. All you need to know is the content of the page you want to alter, not the address. The authors note that THPs are used to anchor multiple consecutive rows on the attacking VM to consecutive DRAM rows, and after finding a rowhammer bit flip template, fill the victim page with the known content, wait for dedupe, and then hammer the bit flip in gain. KSM will break up the THPs so individual pages can be targetted, not just THPs.

    Another TLDR: buy better RAM.

  9. Re:I don't get it. on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This is where you get told to RTFA. It's a very good FA, including statistical analyses of success probabilities.
     

  10. Re:Why weren't the Republicans also hacked? on Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are the Republican emails?

    Held back till after the election. For Blackmail.

  11. Re:Clintons have killed tons of people on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And you don't even know how to spell his name?

    Wow what an opening. But we'll defer on making fun of the spelling skills of conservatives since you're all probably feeling pretty low already these days.

  12. Thanks for the summary. Obviously, that points out some limitations to the attack -- you have to be on an insecure ISP that will accept your spoofed source addresses to launch it. Which addresses you can spoof can vary greatly based on the granularity of the ISP's and local network's source lockdowns, so attacking people on the same segment or the same organization may be more possible than those located elsewhere. That, and a DPI firewall on the attacked end that is able to detect such floods could probably shut the attack down, and some products might already do so by default if they protect against pre-RFC5961 flooding attacks.

  13. IKEv2 is a bit better in that respect than IKEv1 is.

    Really, the problem with doing IPSEC right has always been 90% inter-vendor interoperability and only 10% due to the complexities of the protocol. When you have to interoperate with vendors who have not made a complete IPSEC product, security with the well done implementations also suffers. Strongswan to Strongswan works pretty damn well, though.

  14. ...or just be a chemical catalyst.

  15. Re:Locks are for honest people :) on 75 Percent of Bluetooth Smart Locks Can Be Hacked (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Honest people don't need locks to stop them from opening things they shouldn't be opening.

    This may be true of your home's exterior door or your car door in modern western society, but it certainly is not in
    other settings. People often find themselves in situations where they need to try doorknobs until they find the right
    room/closet, and a locked door is a good way to tell them "not the right door." Signs are usually a better way, but
    sometimes it is silly to put a sign on everything.

    For example, you don't leave the door to your dangerous laboratory unlocked and then send your temp worker
    down the hallway to empty all the trash pails.

    It's sort of like saying AAA isn't needed to stop honest people from assuming a website is for public use...
    an honest person will usually eventually figure material should not have been left posted, but they may
    end up seeing or doing something they were not supposed to before then, especially if they come in via
    a link to a subpage... unless you put a header at the top of every page saying "don't read this."

  16. Re:So an old man says TVs are too complicated? on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh. After I posted I said "Damn I wish I had thought to link that," so thanks.

  17. Re:So an old man says TVs are too complicated? on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As an aging techy, Smart TVs are among the gadgets that I look at and say "Is there something I am missing here, am I finally going over the hill, or is this really just the crappiest dogpile of UX malpractice, feature bloat, and scamware ever created?" It turns out the be the latter (this time).

    So no, it's no surprise -- older people are old enough to remember the world of software before it turned to utter crap, when we had well designed UX experiences with crisp response times and common sense discoverability. So naturally we'd be the ones in a position to complain.

  18. Re:in retrospect... on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually it might be stem-cell-grown blood from the patient themselves, with alterations, and less risky. Same for tissues.
    For those that are still young, blood and tissue may be stored early in life for later use which might obviate the need for DNA manipulation.

    Really I take a dimmer view of his Trumpkinism than his curiosity about investigative anti-senescence therapy research.

  19. Re:DNC Preparing for Hacked Clintons Server on Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    When Trump was letting the religious nutjobs rape the Republican platform committee, the only place his campaign put their foot down was on one item that opposed Russian interests in the Ukraine. So, there's ample reason for suspicion.

  20. Re:Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 4, Informative

    So Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith.Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty weren't killed there in large part due to Hillary?

    Nope, they were killed there. But not "in large part due to Hillary" except on your fantasy island.

  21. Re:Untouchable criminal on Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop watching movies and thinking they are real.

  22. Re:Parties! on WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    But... but... but... a vote for a third party is a vote for Trump\Clinton!!!!!!!!!!

    This year it's 1/2 a vote for Trump/Pence:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:The DNC sucks an asshole on WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    IT is dying, because the cloud is removing the need for system admins

    Umm... well lets just say this doesn't square with my personal experience. Every cloud project I've seen needed more IT staff than in-house projects.

  24. I'm not your pal, buddê.

  25. Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Once in Washington, the Republican legislature would mop the floor with Trump, who thinks he's such a genius deal-maker. By Washington standards he's an easily outmaneuvered dupe. And Russia likes him for the same reason Trump "loves the poorly educated" because on a the global stage they will pass his ass around the eastern bloc like a chickenhead's around a crack house. Trump thinks he's smart because he's managed to dupe some ordinary people -- he is way lower on the food chain than he thinks he is.

    So yeah we won't get Trump's agenda except for a few stupid things they throw him to make him feel like he is winning -- or if he becomes a nuisance they'll just impeach him for Pence, which should be easy because the dumbass will probably commit at least three impeachable offenses a day. Instead we'll get the agenda of the people who own the house Republicans. In a lot of ways that's worse, because unlike Trump, they are smart enough to figure out how not only to set us back decades, but make it extremely hard to undo once America comes to its senses and stops acting like children.