I don't think you are qualified to remark on how qualified I am, but thanks for opining without any factual basis whatsoever. You can go back to making up random stuff now.
I actually do know what I'm talking about. You can go join DJ Trump in the Land of Make Believe.
The telcos and the cablecos are the duoply that keeps on taking. No matter where you live in the US you have a choice of ONE built-in telco and ONE built-in cableco.
Karl Bode of Arstechnica incorrectly calls these ISPs, but they are not ISPs. They are legacy providers of wireline telephony and wireline cable tv ("Community Access TeleVision or CATV").
It's sad when the tech writers can't get the tech right. It's sad when the companies can't provide service right. And now their lobbyist arms are changing names to hide their true motives.
We need to get TRUE COMPETITION in fiber and copper providers. Screw the cable lobby. Screw the telco lobby. Screw people who call everyone ISPs when they're not. COMPETITION and MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN EVERY HOME is the answer.
Europe, despite being backward about copyright law and about to pass chapter 13 in their "down with google" endeavors at least have lower prices and better options.
"Deploying encryption in medical devices is tricky because is increases computational complexity and therefore uses the battery faster"
Locking your door is tricky because is[sic] increases the time to get into your house and makes you use up calories.
Having a PIN on your credit card is tricky because is[sic] increases the time to get your munney and stuff.
Coming up with stupid excuses why in 2019 you didn't deploy encryption by blaming battery life means your software is SHIT. (Is[sic] increases the stupid factor).
> The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams
Can you repeat this again?
Slashdot, once you were great. Now you can't afford editors who read. What's next, removing users who read? Oh wait, that's already there. 2000 comments on posts indicate "I can't be bothered to read anyone else's comment. Nobody else would have the insight I do. Let me just post my opinion because my insight is so important."
Time to hire editors that read... or CLOSE UP SHOP.
Java doesn't have "billions of lines of code" and worse yet, anyone attempting to use that as justification for "something" needs to be replaced by a real software developer.
There are plenty of open-source calculators from HP-11C style RPN apps for Android and IOS, to a variety of callable interface ones on Linux, MacOS, and whatever.
Microsoft's 24 year old calculator isn't worth the code it was stolen on.
If the "art piece" is admired, respected, liked, and enjoyed, it's art.
It doesn't matter if a human being with a "soul" and "conscience" set out to do it, or an AI just spit it out, or even hundreds of them per minute. It's still art.
But, like a hammer in search of a nail, a Harvard Professor thinks he knows something. If he did he'd have acquired himself a job. Surely someone with brilliant thinking can work for SpaceX, Apple, etc. No. Just teaching philosophy?
TMO boss made a "personal pledge" not to raise prices? I see that and raise him to add this language to their T&Cs:
"T-Mobile and Sprint Wireless will not raise your rate for your current services nor for any services you add so long as your contract stays in force. We will not update our T&Cs to allow us to raise your rate during this time. If you renew your service we will keep the same rate active."
NOW THAT'S A PLEDGE.
DO THAT, JOHN "ARE YOU TELLING THE TRUTH OR ARE YOU LYING" LEGERE!
Ehud P.S. I'm not a lawyer, but it's good language, right?
There are three parts to their claim and they're all pseudo-babble junk: 1. A "stream of photons" can detect a stealth aircraft from some useful distance 2. Photons can be entangled on the fly (in real "stream" speed) 3. The entangled stream at home can be analyzed on the fly (same speed)
1. Can photons be entangled? Sure. Can they be entangled at the speed of light such that a "stream of photons" (going out sequentially at the speed of light) are all entangled... possibly, but not with current technology and not with 2015 technology.
Think of it this way... physicists spend days setting up a quantum entanglement experiment where they entangle ONE or even TWO and sometimes FOUR (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/aa736d) photons. To entangle enough to create a "stream of photons" and then sweep the skies two or three dimensionally for stealth aircraft is orders of magnitude beyond current tech.
2. It takes experiments ages (in photon time) to get photons entangled. Our primitive tools (electronics) uses electrons in a wire, which are slower than photons in air or in vacuum. Our tools simply cannot hammer these fast-moving nails fast enough... so what we do is fire a crap-ton of nails at our slow moving hammer and hope we can hit one into the other into the detector.
3. See #2. We don't have the speed with our slow-moving tools to analyze a photon stream.
This is an awesome service! The more we can encrypt any data that others use to identify who we are and what we do on the Internet... the better (and safer) we are. It returns control of our devices... and our private information... to us.
Yes, a free Linux distro for $20 from the one company that's worked harder than anyone else to destroy Linux.
Where can I bow and worship at the feet of my new alien overlords?
Ehud FAA Commercial helicopter pilot Mint Linux user Have not booted a Windows box in any property I rent or own since 2000 Has not paid "Microsoft Tax" on my Android phones, my laptops, my server, etc. Oh yeah and if you want to downvote me, I voted BLUE not orange.
Multiple factor authentication includes SOMETHING YOU HAVE (fob, fingerprint, retina, brainwaves, token) and SOMETHING YOU KNOW (PIN, password, passphrase, your mother's maiden name, etc.)
The key to good authentication is to require all factors to be presented in order to authenticate. A brainwave is definitely something you have, and like a fingerprint, it's something someone else can sample to force you to authenticate against your will. Even if it becomes so sophisticated as to be able to "read your mind" thinking a specific word ("pink elephant") all it would take is the black-hat actor asking you to think about "pink elephant" and your mind would do so, thereby authenticating.
Passwords, PINs, passphrases, challenges, etc. require us to ACTIVELY CHOOSE to authenticate. Law enforcement hates this. So do black-hat actors. Those of us who favor authentication love it.
Brain waves will NEVER REPLACE PASSWORDS ENTIRELY soon or at any other time.
You're not a lawyer, and your glib description of "illegal products" is nonsense. Even the legal expert cited in the original article wrote: > “This strikes me as an abuse of trademark law by Apple,” he added, “one clearly designed to maintain its stranglehold over the repair market and, ultimately, to force customers to buy new hardware.”
So now we have a real legal expert who says that Apple marked products sold by Apple manufacturers to a third party are not an abuse of trademark law. Secondly laws don't cover products, so there's no such thing as an "illegal product", "illegal battery", "illegal gun", etc. There are violations of the law that people can do... such as violate trademark law, import laws, customs laws, which our heror here did not do.
Hero: The guy trying to service "vintage" laptops by replacing batteries in devices Apple and their "genius" people won't touch. NB: Apple has nobody on their staff with the IQ to be a genius. BadGuy: Apple for using a US Government agency to help them promulgate their exclusionary practice of stopping 3rd party repair, even if it's for products they themselves refuse to repair.
Winner: Apple. It cost them nothing to do this. Loser: Everyone using an Apple device that is either now or one day will be unilaterally declared by Apple to be "vintage" and non-repairable.
Please don't play lawyer on slashdot. Or anywhere. UPL is a violation of the law.
It's cute that they can't get along on anything meaningful, like putting a second rapist on the Supreme Court, nor can they actually get the Senate itself to do or say anything together, but two senators (1% of the US Senate) can "urge Canada" to not use a vendor because "we said so."
Canada has its own researchers, which use science to determine whether a vendor is worth doing business with, not voodoo. Canada has its own parliament, which other than the obvious advantage of having people who are still alive practicing politics, and not trying to return to 1973, allows a wide range of opinions to circulate.
Frankly the US would be better off if we listened to Canadian opinions, and not those of evil old men hell bent on destroying our freedoms like Mitch Mcconnel, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley. These evil old men have one goal in mind -- remove women's rights. Everything else is to be mowed down in this quest to restore the past.
Thank you for that insightful and informative reply. You're 100% right. My LineageOS 15 phone will -not- be displaying any orange messages today or any other day.
Thank you Free and Open Source Software for allowing US to decide what to do with OUR device. I did not "purchase a public address speaker" for our elected criminals.
"It just works... (it does)" and "...never looked back."
This one person's opinion isn't an article, isn't news, isn't technical, and ends up asking the reader for their opinion. It's like those "Mashable" op-ed pieces that says "Here are our favorite movies. Tell us what yours are!"
If this piece was a reply to an article it would be modded -1 TROLL.
It's not an article. It's a -1 TROLL opinion.
Apple fanbois really should find somewhere better to graze than slashdot.
It was all going so well until the WikleVI decided to open Gemini and have funds which they claim are pegged to the dollar.
You CAN'T HAVE an alt.coin or digital fund pegged to the dollar without being... the US Government!!! I know, it seems silly to have to say it, but if all you had to do was invent a name... maybe something stupid... like "twoface" or "the joker" or "the riddler" or "gemini" or "Winklevii" and then issue coinage and claim it's worth EXACTLY a dollar because "we're storing dollars"......then every lesser developed country would do it. Do you think south American countries going through 1000% inflation wouldn't LOVE to peg their "petro-currency" to the dollar?
Oh WinkleVii, WinkleVii, WinkleVii. You're not just sore losers (yeah, Facebook, right?) but now you're also bitcoin losers and Gemini fund losers.
*shrug* I install Chrome[cast] and FireFox and have never seen anything interrupting from Microsoft. But then, I use Linux... and don't use Microsoft. That's my choice.
This thing described above is only a problem for those who have chosen Microsoft or failed-to-choose-otherwise.
If you chose Microsoft, go look in the mirror -- that person there is the reason you're getting these messages.
If you want to blame Microsoft after YOU WENT AND CHOSE THEM and STUCK WITH THEM and now are MAKING EXCUSES FOR WHY YOU MUST STICK WITH THEM... you're the problem.
She says the proposal is to be tabled. US Speak - to table something is to take it off the table and not discuss it until later. UK Speak - to table something is to put it on the table to discuss it now (yes, 180 opposite of US). EU Speak - nobody knows
The US, for now, still has 47 U.S.C. 230, even as FOSTA/SESTA/Republicans gut it daily. Perhaps The EU will reconsider joining free discourse.
Slashdot Mirror
This guy demonstrated issues wirh MS [lack of] security
and they cried uncle.
Do you support free security research, or Microsoft?
Note: if you're not part of the security community please put "idiod" in your response subject so as not to bias valid results.
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I don't think you are qualified to remark on how qualified I am, but thanks for opining without any factual basis whatsoever.
You can go back to making up random stuff now.
I actually do know what I'm talking about. You can go join DJ Trump in the Land of Make Believe.
E
The telcos and the cablecos are the duoply that keeps on taking. No matter where you live in the US you have a choice of ONE built-in telco and ONE built-in cableco.
Karl Bode of Arstechnica incorrectly calls these ISPs, but they are not ISPs. They are legacy providers of wireline telephony and wireline cable tv ("Community Access TeleVision or CATV").
It's sad when the tech writers can't get the tech right. It's sad when the companies can't provide service right. And now their lobbyist arms are changing names to hide their true motives.
We need to get TRUE COMPETITION in fiber and copper providers. Screw the cable lobby. Screw the telco lobby. Screw people who call everyone ISPs when they're not. COMPETITION and MULTIPLE OPTIONS IN EVERY HOME is the answer.
Europe, despite being backward about copyright law and about to pass chapter 13 in their "down with google" endeavors at least have lower prices and better options.
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"Deploying encryption in medical devices is tricky because is increases computational complexity and therefore uses the battery faster"
Locking your door is tricky because is[sic] increases the time to get into your house and makes you use up calories.
Having a PIN on your credit card is tricky because is[sic] increases the time to get your munney and stuff.
Coming up with stupid excuses why in 2019 you didn't deploy encryption by blaming battery life means your software is SHIT.
(Is[sic] increases the stupid factor).
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> The streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams. The site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams
Can you repeat this again?
Slashdot, once you were great. Now you can't afford editors who read. What's next, removing users who read? Oh wait, that's already there. 2000 comments on posts indicate "I can't be bothered to read anyone else's comment. Nobody else would have the insight I do. Let me just post my opinion because my insight is so important."
Time to hire editors that read... or CLOSE UP SHOP.
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Java doesn't have "billions of lines of code" and worse yet, anyone attempting
to use that as justification for "something" needs to be replaced by a real software developer.
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There are plenty of open-source calculators from HP-11C style RPN
apps for Android and IOS, to a variety of callable interface ones on
Linux, MacOS, and whatever.
Microsoft's 24 year old calculator isn't worth the code it was stolen on.
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With all respect to the Harvard Professor,
If the "art piece" is admired, respected, liked, and enjoyed, it's art.
It doesn't matter if a human being with a "soul" and "conscience" set out to do it,
or an AI just spit it out, or even hundreds of them per minute. It's still art.
But, like a hammer in search of a nail, a Harvard Professor thinks he knows
something. If he did he'd have acquired himself a job. Surely someone with
brilliant thinking can work for SpaceX, Apple, etc. No. Just teaching philosophy?
How about that...
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Yes yes, that's all nice and untrue.
What does this have to do with the studios suing Omniverse?
Please, do try another distraction from preventing a discussion. That's a tactic only a fool uses.
Or Trump.
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TMO boss made a "personal pledge" not to raise prices? I see that and raise him to add this language to their T&Cs:
"T-Mobile and Sprint Wireless will not raise your rate for your current services nor for any services you add so long as your contract stays in force. We will not update our T&Cs to allow us to raise your rate during this time. If you renew your service we will keep the same rate active."
NOW THAT'S A PLEDGE.
DO THAT, JOHN "ARE YOU TELLING THE TRUTH OR ARE YOU LYING" LEGERE!
Ehud
P.S. I'm not a lawyer, but it's good language, right?
What an odd way to illiterately say "I don't know.
Surety means 100%. Anything less isn't "not completely sure" it's either "unsure" or "don't know."
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If you choose to run a carrier-provided version of Android, you can live with these restrictions.
If you choose to download and run the open source LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) you can live without these restrictions.
This is the power of open source. YOU, the OWNER of the device, can CHOOSE what you like.*
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
One Plus 1 - LineageOS 15
MotoG4 - LineageOS 15
Nexus 7 - LineageOS 15
* You should also choose an unlocked bootloader device so you can run whatever you want on it. You can pay less, of course, but then you get less.
There are three parts to their claim and they're all pseudo-babble junk:
1. A "stream of photons" can detect a stealth aircraft from some useful distance
2. Photons can be entangled on the fly (in real "stream" speed)
3. The entangled stream at home can be analyzed on the fly (same speed)
1.
Can photons be entangled? Sure. Can they be entangled at the speed of light such that a "stream of photons" (going out sequentially at the speed of light) are all entangled... possibly, but not with current technology and not with 2015 technology.
Think of it this way... physicists spend days setting up a quantum entanglement experiment where they entangle ONE or even TWO and sometimes FOUR (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/aa736d) photons. To entangle enough to create a "stream of photons" and then sweep the skies two or three dimensionally for stealth aircraft is orders of magnitude beyond current tech.
2. It takes experiments ages (in photon time) to get photons entangled. Our primitive tools (electronics) uses electrons in a wire, which are slower than photons in air or in vacuum. Our tools simply cannot hammer these fast-moving nails fast enough... so what we do is fire a crap-ton of nails at our slow moving hammer and hope we can hit one into the other into the detector.
3. See #2. We don't have the speed with our slow-moving tools to analyze a photon stream.
I'm calling physics bullshit.
Ehud
This is an awesome service! The more we can encrypt any data that others use to identify who we are and what we do on the Internet... the better (and safer) we are. It returns control of our devices... and our private information... to us.
Thank you, Cloudflare!
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Yes, a free Linux distro for $20 from the one company that's worked harder than anyone else to destroy Linux.
Where can I bow and worship at the feet of my new alien overlords?
Ehud
FAA Commercial helicopter pilot
Mint Linux user
Have not booted a Windows box in any property I rent or own since 2000
Has not paid "Microsoft Tax" on my Android phones, my laptops, my server, etc.
Oh yeah and if you want to downvote me, I voted BLUE not orange.
Multiple factor authentication includes SOMETHING YOU HAVE (fob, fingerprint, retina, brainwaves, token) and SOMETHING YOU KNOW (PIN, password, passphrase, your mother's maiden name, etc.)
The key to good authentication is to require all factors to be presented in order to authenticate. A brainwave is definitely something you have, and like a fingerprint, it's something someone else can sample to force you to authenticate against your will. Even if it becomes so sophisticated as to be able to "read your mind" thinking a specific word ("pink elephant") all it would take is the black-hat actor asking you to think about "pink elephant" and your mind would do so, thereby authenticating.
Passwords, PINs, passphrases, challenges, etc. require us to ACTIVELY CHOOSE to authenticate. Law enforcement hates this. So do black-hat actors. Those of us who favor authentication love it.
Brain waves will NEVER REPLACE PASSWORDS ENTIRELY soon or at any other time.
Ehud
> The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts
Without the investigation being complete, HOW can they possibly already CLEAR
the Iranian Government SO ABSOLUTELY?
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You're not a lawyer, and your glib description of "illegal products" is nonsense. Even the legal expert cited in the original article wrote:
> “This strikes me as an abuse of trademark law by Apple,” he added, “one clearly designed to maintain its stranglehold over the repair market and, ultimately, to force customers to buy new hardware.”
So now we have a real legal expert who says that Apple marked products sold by Apple manufacturers to a third party are not an abuse of trademark law. Secondly laws don't cover products, so there's no such thing as an "illegal product", "illegal battery", "illegal gun", etc. There are violations of the law that people can do... such as violate trademark law, import laws, customs laws, which our heror here did not do.
Hero: The guy trying to service "vintage" laptops by replacing batteries in devices Apple and their "genius" people won't touch. NB: Apple has nobody on their staff with the IQ to be a genius.
BadGuy: Apple for using a US Government agency to help them promulgate their exclusionary practice of stopping 3rd party repair, even if it's for products they themselves refuse to repair.
Winner: Apple. It cost them nothing to do this.
Loser: Everyone using an Apple device that is either now or one day will be unilaterally declared by Apple to be "vintage" and non-repairable.
Please don't play lawyer on slashdot. Or anywhere. UPL is a violation of the law.
Ehud
It's cute that they can't get along on anything meaningful, like putting a second rapist on the Supreme Court, nor can they actually get the Senate itself to do or say anything together, but two senators (1% of the US Senate) can "urge Canada" to not use a vendor because "we said so."
Canada has its own researchers, which use science to determine whether a vendor is worth doing business with, not voodoo. Canada has its own parliament, which other than the obvious advantage of having people who are still alive practicing politics, and not trying to return to 1973, allows a wide range of opinions to circulate.
Frankly the US would be better off if we listened to Canadian opinions, and not those of evil old men hell bent on destroying our freedoms like Mitch Mcconnel, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley. These evil old men have one goal in mind -- remove women's rights. Everything else is to be mowed down in this quest to restore the past.
Go, Canada!
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Thank you for that insightful and informative reply. You're 100% right. My LineageOS 15 phone will -not- be displaying any orange messages today or any other day.
Thank you Free and Open Source Software for allowing US to decide what to do with OUR device. I did not "purchase a public address speaker" for our elected criminals.
E
"It just works... (it does)" and "...never looked back."
This one person's opinion isn't an article, isn't news, isn't technical, and ends up
asking the reader for their opinion. It's like those "Mashable" op-ed pieces that
says "Here are our favorite movies. Tell us what yours are!"
If this piece was a reply to an article it would be modded -1 TROLL.
It's not an article. It's a -1 TROLL opinion.
Apple fanbois really should find somewhere better to graze than slashdot.
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It was all going so well until the WikleVI decided to open Gemini and have funds which they claim are pegged to the dollar.
You CAN'T HAVE an alt.coin or digital fund pegged to the dollar without being... the US Government!!! I know, it seems silly to have to say it, but if all you had to do was invent a name... maybe something stupid... like "twoface" or "the joker" or "the riddler" or "gemini" or "Winklevii" and then issue coinage and claim it's worth EXACTLY a dollar because "we're storing dollars"... ...then every lesser developed country would do it. Do you think south American countries going through 1000% inflation wouldn't LOVE to peg their "petro-currency" to the dollar?
Oh WinkleVii, WinkleVii, WinkleVii. You're not just sore losers (yeah, Facebook, right?) but now you're also bitcoin losers and Gemini fund losers.
Time to go out there and buy more matching suits!
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*shrug* I install Chrome[cast] and FireFox and have never seen anything interrupting from Microsoft. But then, I use Linux... and don't use Microsoft. That's my choice.
This thing described above is only a problem for those who have chosen Microsoft or failed-to-choose-otherwise.
If you chose Microsoft, go look in the mirror -- that person there is the reason you're getting these messages.
If you want to blame Microsoft after YOU WENT AND CHOSE THEM and STUCK WITH THEM and now are MAKING EXCUSES FOR WHY YOU MUST STICK WITH THEM... you're the problem.
Enjoy.
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She says the proposal is to be tabled.
US Speak - to table something is to take it off the table and not discuss it until later.
UK Speak - to table something is to put it on the table to discuss it now (yes, 180 opposite of US).
EU Speak - nobody knows
The US, for now, still has 47 U.S.C. 230, even as FOSTA/SESTA/Republicans gut it daily. Perhaps The EU will reconsider joining free discourse.
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It's free to download:
https://code-industry.net/free...
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(Sorry, we don't do VAT in the big part of the world.)