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  1. Re:edgerouter.. on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    At that price point, and in that space? Cambium ePMP.

  2. Re:off topic on Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code · · Score: 2

    So freedom to use whatever software you want, as long as it's the software you approve of?

  3. Re:Constipated Justice System on 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    More accurately, try to find a drunk driver who was killing people by driving drunk *as a for-profit business.*

  4. Re:Good on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 1

    That's an issue with the legal system, not with the ADA. America is a litigious society.

  5. Re: Maybe because the movies were not that good? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Maybe because the movies were not that good? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 2

    With the Prequels, Lucas did everything

    This cannot be overstated enough. Go watch the 'making of' featurettes for Phantom Menace. You'll see Lucas saying things like "I liked Liam's forth take, but I liked Ewan's thirteenth take." Seeing as how they're greenscreened, he'd simply take the left half of take four, the right half of take thirteen, paste them together, and put in the background.

    Which means you have both actors looking at, responding to, and acting against a person who wasn't there.

    And that's when there's actually two humans interacting! Now have them acting against a character who is represented by a stick with masking tape at that character's eye level.

  7. Re:Don't worry actors on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    Note also that both lines were overdubbed, as Ray Park's voice was judged insufficiently low and menacing.

  8. Re:"principles our nation was founded on" on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    You won't find those exact words; however, you will find this:

    but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

    If there was a state religion, or if religion were not required to be separate from the state, there would, indeed, be religious tests applicable.

    Of course, the Constitution also still contains provisions on how to count slaves for purposes of allocating Congress.

  9. Re:Ummmm ... duh? on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Rather than locking the co-pilot out, just shoot/stab them, and keep the door locked.

    If the pilot has control of the airplane, the pilot can crash the airplane. It's really that simple.

  10. Tom Clancy strikes again on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    Tom Clancy published 'The Sum of All Fears' in 1991. In the afterword, he mentions how it was frighteningly easy to piece together, from public domain data, how to build a multistage thermonuclear bomb. How he was couriered design specs for fabrication devices for the asking. How he felt the need to obfuscate some details, even though he knew there was no point, just to assuage his conscience.

    As he points out, it's physics, and it's engineering.

  11. Re:Nice but ... on Pixar Releases Free Version of RenderMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just get RenderDog instead, it's RenderMan's best friend.

    Until the first time you start the program after not using it for too long, and you discover it's chewed up all your meshes, and shit all over your textures.

  12. Re:You want security? Start with the OS. on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    Today, the computer utility concept has returned [13], but todayâ(TM)s operating systems are not even up to the level of security that Multics offered in the early 1970s, let alone the level needed for a modern computer utility. There has been work on security for Computational Grids

    Because the Multics security enhancements, including mandatory access controls, were shipped to ALL customers, this meant that the designers of applications had to make sure that their applications worked properly with those controls. By contrast, many application developers for other systems with optional security enhancements donâ(TM)t even know that the security enhancement options exist,

    Of course vulnerabilities remain. But when you're deliberately aiming for a secure *system*, they're a lot less impactful. Kinda like how turning ASLR on simply nullifies entire classes of vulnerabilities. MULTICS, according to your paper, didn't have problems with buffer overflows. Thirty years ago, this was a solved problem. Why is it an ongoing problem now?

    One of the most common types of security penetrations today is the buffer overflow [6]. However, when you look at the published history of Multics security problems [20, 28-30], you find essentially no buffer overflows. Multics generally did not suffer from buffer overflows, both because of the choice of implementation language and because of the use of several hardware features. These hardware and software features did not make buffer overflows impossible,

    And so on and so forth.

  13. Re:You want security? Start with the OS. on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    Why is it so hard to write secure software?

    Really, it isn't. The problem is that 'secure software' is exactly one piece of the puzzle that is 'a secure system.'

    Securing your software, but not your OS, your hardware, your physicals, and your users, is kinda like having a highquality steel security door, unpickable deadlock, and so on, on your house, right beside a bog-standard window.

    Remember, UNIX started out as 'MULTICS with all of the annoying security stuff stripped out.' Literally a castrated version of MULTICS.

  14. Re:So... How do they make money? on Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Software like Office, and professional services.

    Windows is the razor; Office, Exchange, Sql Server, support contracts, and so on, are the razor blades.

  15. Re:this is why i read slashdot on Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? · · Score: 1

    Once in a while they throw in an argument about programming languages, chumming the waters.

    That would be the bit about Windows. Completely irrelevant to the task at hand.

    That all said, it's really fucking easy to put a server outside; people do it all the time. Just get an outdoor enclosure with a heater, a fan, and a thermostat. You can even get them rackmount. It's going outside, so solar load won't be an issue, so it's a stupidly easy thing to do. If this thing is going to do nothing but fileserve, it doesn't even have to be much of a computer.

    Yes, he'd be better served by getting a Synology diskstation or something similar, installing the Plex package, and being done with it, but whatevs.

  16. Re:So What? on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    And they have the same right to make a bot to revert other people's changes, same as everybody else.

  17. Re:FAKE on Watch an Original NES Run Netflix · · Score: 2

    You don't.

    They made an NES program that had a Netflix-like interface, and a fuckton of, basically, static images that were flipbooked onto the screen, and stuck it onto a cartridge. It's like showing somebody a series of screenshots of a website, and claiming to be accessing the website. Or watching an animated GIF clip of a movie, and claiming to be 'streaming the movie.'

    That said, the NES did, in fact, have network capabilities. Nothing that was released outside of Japan, admittedly.

  18. Re:like benghazi on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between 'lets do cultural exchanges between our cities!' and 'Attention foreign government: Don't bother negotiating with our President, cuz we'll do everything we can to sabotage whatever he comes up with.'

    Like the man said, whodathunk sitting representatives of the US government would find common cause with Iranian hardliners over their own, elected president?

  19. Re:Israel got a lot of heat for much lesser offens on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 2

    More importantly to a Canadian, it's section 6 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    Of course, section 8 is the part about being secure from unreasonable search and seizure, which should prevent being asked to give up passwords at the border....

  20. Re:From the TFA.... on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 3, Informative

    He's a Canadian citizen. Section 6 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms says he gets to go home, and Section 8 says he doesn't have to give passwords in order to go home.

  21. Re:Sure thing, Republicans. on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Banning it *after it had been in common use for, literally, thousands of years* lead to a worse result overall.

    Banning LSD didn't lead to things like Prohibition did.

  22. Re:silly reasons not to on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    How does drawing on a bill reduce it's lifespan? Especially compared to common use, folding, crumpling, in and out of pockets, wallets, etc etc, going through the laundry

  23. Re:Sure thing, Republicans. on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Both would be, were they introduced today. Both have history behind them, and as they say, the genie can't be put back in the bottle.

  24. Re:Fascism largely a creation of director Verhoeve on 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Discussion point: Can it be said to be voluntary if it's necessary for a major societal function?

    Also, look at the example of Rico's father. At the beginning of the book, he's dismissive, possibly even contemptuous, in a non-malicious way, of Federal Service. He proclaims that voting isn't important anyway, and that people should do 'real work.'

    Of course, once Bueno Ares is hit, he changes his tune right quick and signs right up, for military service, thus proving that his original statements were, short-sighted and wrong.

    SST the book wasn't, I think, fascist, but it was awfully fetishistic of the military. It was St Crispin's Day/Band of Brothers in Space.

  25. Re:military weather? on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    On one hand, 'weather satellite' was a cold war (and probably is still) a euphemism for spy satellite. Kinda like how nuclear missile subs conduct 'oceanographic research,' not 'nuclear deterrence patrols,'

    On the other hand, the military is very interested in weather, as 'Hang on, let me check if it's going to be stormy' isn't a proper military response to 'Ok, we need to move a carrier group down to, say, Taiwan. Now.'