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  1. Re:Kali is not well-known? Change your password... on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention it's one of the few distros featured heavily in a prime time TV show (Mr. Robot).

  2. Why does your compiler need to constantly run kernel system calls? That's what makes Linux on Windows slower than native. This sounds more like your compiler is broken. A compiler is probably one of a few exceptions that would run at almost the same speed as native. Unless there's something else weird with this arrangement like being limited to a single core.

  3. Re:S stands for Sucker on Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 'S Mode' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
  4. "Unactivated" Edition on Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 'S Mode' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's about time they made Windows 10 S free. All pirate copies of Windows 10 that fail to activate get to be Windows 10 S. If you have a paid license, you get Home or Pro. Anyone can download the media creation tool and install Windows 10 S without a license.

    That's my prediction. Though give it 2 more years and anyone not paying for a subscription to Windows will get the "S" edition and everyone else will be downgraded.

  5. Re:Doge says on 'Repeatable Sanitization' is a Feature of PCs Now (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    from the new-hot-trend dept.

    More like the straight out of a press release department.

  6. Re:How do they track without cookies? on The Slow Death of the Internet Cookie (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    services you need to log in to use

    Using cookies...

  7. Re:Why Are Children Running Major Internet Compani on Spotify Is Cracking Down On Users Pirating Premium-Like Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Since this relies on streaming rather than local content (unless you're paying), it's a lot easier than that. Just don't trust the client. There's no reason to. Let it authenticate and then let the server decide what's allowed, not the client.

  8. Not trusting the client side is old news in web development. Why would a web service binary client be any different? No need for more authentication, just less trust.

  9. Re:really? on Remote Work is Going To Keep Increasing, Study Says (upwork.com) · · Score: 2

    you can't remote-work a fast-food restaurant.

    Unless you're at a McDonald's drive-through speaker.

  10. Re:Save the Earth on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Different meaning of the word "wear."

  11. Re:That is why apple makes lion share of profits on Bad iPhone Notches Are Happening To Good Android Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They can make the phone shorter, with less room for battery. That way, they'll have an easier time throttling your phone in 3 years to sell you a new one.

  12. Re:Slashdot's Back? on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My use of the word impossible accounts for the almost certain level of imperfection with any option - automated or not.

  13. Re:Slashdot's Back? on EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    automatically take down any reported content without review.

    Unless it's not flagged/reported. Then they're in violation of the law if no one reports it with an hour.

  14. Re:Fuck the MPAA on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be the same as taking a screenshot on the local machine. You'd get nothing. What do you think 'passthrough' means and what do you think that's bypassing?

  15. Ask for the impossible. As long as it's the law, they'll just have to do it...somehow...

  16. Re:Fair use, anyone? on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair use is fair use even with a profit motive. As long as you're making your actual profit from the commentary and not as a way to see the copyrighted content, it's legal fair use.

  17. Re:Fuck the MPAA on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Secure content path. HDCP. No screen capture.

  18. Re:Fuck the MPAA on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Not on proper Blu-Ray player software - which requires a secure content path from the decoder to the screen, including HDCP. If you're saying you can get a screen grab, you are probably issuing a player that already breaks the encryption.

  19. They didn't need to do anything for our government to look ineffective and petty.

  20. Re:This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read on Children Struggle To Hold Pencils Due To Too Much Tech, Doctors Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the first I've heard of kindergarten having prerequisites. They certainly weren't published anywhere.

  21. Why run Windows in a VM at all if you're not going to give it access to let you work on your critical files?

  22. If it relies on external services to keep working, then I stand by my assessment.

  23. Re:Windows Phone 10 is still alive and well on Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The walled-garden approach to block code written in third-party languages was like a death-knell to it. I mean, if it were possible to run something like Firefox (with XUL, allowing browser extensions), then it would have been reasonably meaningful.

    All these things are not possible on iOS either. Then again, XUL isn't possible in Firefox desktop either now.

  24. Re:It'll still support Kodi ! on Apple To Suspend iTunes Store Support For 'Obsolete' First-Gen Apple TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple never used to force obsolescence.

    How long ago? Before they dropped Rosetta? Before they dropped classic mode? Sure, it's getting worse, but they've definitely cut legacy ties sooner than the industry average.

  25. But the Roku 1 has been more or less disabled for a year or two. But Netflix still has not dropped support for the ancient release of their app that's still available for it. At least last I knew before I stopped using that Roku last fall.