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  1. There's another way to protect a brand on Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The lesson seems to be for developers to protect their personal brand by registering a domain name with the .com extension due to it being perceived as the default.

    If your handle is really a brand and important to preserve, then register it with the US Patent & Trademark Office. You can register the .com, but you don't need to in order to protect yourself. If it's not important enough for all that, then maybe your "personal brand" is not that important at all.

  2. Re:I remember this from a quarter century ago on Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, that's Windows Resource Protection. Windows Defender might show a notice, but you don't have to use it to prevent this at the OS level.

  3. Re:Holy Moly! This is some seriously creepy sh*t! on Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The default should be that it only unzips under the extraction target path. Optionally, you can preserve destinations outside of that path - with an argument. The default security should be essentially the same as a chroot.

  4. Re:Because Open Source is FREE and... on PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is fine - nobody said it was bad to offer it as an option.

  5. Slow performer. I needed twin towers just to power it.

  6. Re:Because Open Source is FREE and... on PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    $50/mo. is not modest. It's equivalent to re-buying the entire suite every 3 years. I never upgraded that often prior to that forced change.

  7. Re:Oracle already has a 5.0 GHz chip on the market on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    But they call the max speed a "boost" clock (even if they call the feature in general "turbo core"). It's literally all semantics.

  8. Goodbye Games on Apple Deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL in macOS 10.14 Mojave · · Score: 0

    There will be no more support for cross-platform games on the Mac, then, I guess. Until someone makes a translation layer that will translate OpenGL calls to Metal, that is.

  9. If you look closer at photos, it does have a keyboard hole - no plugs in it (except maybe the power cord). In the form of a Thunderbolt / USB 3.1 port. That may also be the charging port, but it can be made to work if it's built to support the proper standards.

  10. How is Apple not here first? on The Asus Project Precog is a Pioneering Dual-Display Laptop, Due in 2019 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple has already reduced their key travel to almost nothing. I'm surprised they didn't ditch the keyboard first. I'm sure this will also be painful to type on.

  11. Re:Skylake again on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they not create a die for an existing CPU when testing a new process? Seems like you wouldn't want to troubleshoot a new design and a new size at the same time. This might be just a die created for R&D.

  12. Re:Oracle already has a 5.0 GHz chip on the market on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If that's verbatim, where is it?

    The article says "first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency" which was crafted to be correct on a technicality (it's not the base clock rate).

    The summary says "its CPUs are hitting 5.0 GHz for the first time"

    And Intel doesn't make SPARC chips, so that's also correct.

  13. Re:But .... on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably tried 10GHz on a Pentium IV, but melted down the facility in the process.

  14. Re:Skylake again on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they shrunk it down to 7nm to hit 5GHz. And the very limited quantities is probably because they already anticipate production problems.

  15. Re:And Bayer :) Brands on No More 'Miracles From Molecules': Monsanto's Name Is Being Retired (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, sure - one of many, many examples. Pepsi owns Quaker oats, Dole, Frito Lay. None of those are named Pepsi despite it being a much bigger brand. In fact, none of them even list Pepsi on the packaging.

    Incidentally, Gatorade is owned by Quaker Oats Comany - not directly by Pepsi.

  16. Re:Wtf are you talking about? They are not changin on No More 'Miracles From Molecules': Monsanto's Name Is Being Retired (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Why in the world would the larger company, Bayer, change ITS name to the name of the smaller company it is acquiring?

    See: AT&T

    But seriously, huge companies do not usually use the parent company's name. How many products in the grocery aisle have you seen marked as Mondelez International? You see plenty of Kraft, Nabisco, Cadbury, etc.

  17. Re:Cludge fix? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    It would be smarter if that one hour window only applies to unlocks that grant USB access, not all unlocks. Much like an unlocked phone still requires confirmation for an app store purchase.

  18. Re:Carbon neutral by law? on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    This is Hawaii. They are an island with no coal, oil, or natural gas reserved. Everything comes in by boat. Barrier to entry is really the only reason renewables aren't preferred.

    All the energy providers in the state need is a nudge or subtle threat against their future to move a little faster in diversifying.

  19. Re:Bandwidth creates a natural monopoly on Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need For Four Wireless Carriers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    would be to seize those leases and rebid them as 5 year leases, so that there's a possibility of competition emerging.

    That would be a horrible idea, and speed up the obsolescence of equipment that's already happening at too fast a pace.

  20. At least for several years they do - in order to not send the Sprint customers running to Verizon and BYOD.

  21. Re:Technically Correct - The Best Kind of Correct on Top US Antitrust Official Uncertain of Need For Four Wireless Carriers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    1 = monopoly
    2 = duopoly
    3 = oligopoly
    4+ = at least some competition. And no, MVNOs don't count, because they rely on the above.

  22. Re: So, we've created a monster on America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    significantly increases the MITM risk by making it possible for third parties who manage to get write access to your web tree to generate certs that are indistinguishable from real ones

    No time to go point by point, but this one is just silly. If someone gains write access to your server, MITM is not even relevant anymore.

  23. As far as I know, they only have "interns" as writers there.

    No matter how potent CFCs are as a greenhouse gas, the amount is so absolutely tiny (relatively speaking) that it doesn't really matter. The chain reaction destruction of ozone is far more of a concern - because it multiplies its effects so broadly. I clicked away earlier and read that a single chlorine atom produced by CFCs breaking down in the stratosphere can destroy thousands of ozone molecules. But I'm too tired and lazy to cite my source, so just believe me instead.

  24. Re: So, we've created a monster on America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's a good thing from a security standpoint. Renewals can be fully automated too.

  25. Re:So, we've created a monster on America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SSL certs protect your visitors, not you. And you can get free SSL certs from Let's Encrypt that are trusted by every major browser.