Good job TVA finally bringing another nuclear reactor online. It's clean, it's safe, and it's advanced.
Shame on slashdot "editor" BeauHD for adding in the unrelated story about renewable energy overtaking natural gas. DID YOU BOTHER TO READ THE SUBMITTED ARTICLE???
Seriously nice article today about Sourceforge and Slashdot Media all improving must have missed that there are people running the show who can't read. http://arstechnica.com/informa...
"Not content with forcing people into using its Messenger app, Facebook is continuing its aggressive tactics and driving users to install its photo-sharing app, Moments"
Not content? Aggressive tactics? Driving users? Perhaps it's time for an entitlement-check - when someone gives you free software and access to their social network perhaps a better attitude might be:
Soon after giving people its second free app, the free online social network is now giving a second app and removing duplicate functionality.
If you want to use your credit card to verify you know a name that matches a number and maybe two other numbers and a checksum, good for you. Any credit card processor will verify it for you *AND* if you're not a customer of one you can just go try and buy ANYTHING online and if the credit card checks out you can go and use it.
Government IDs are different and the systems that can verify them run everything from C# to Ada to Cobol. https://fcw.com/articles/2013/... There are -no- APIs to allow anyone to verify them, but moreover there won't be any APIs because OUR government doesn't want FOREIGN governments to be able to verify passports, SSNs, IDs, etc.
That same "concern" is shared by most every other country in the world. So right there you can kiss API verification goodbye.
Where does that leave us? Public-key? No... because that's not either a) Government provided (read "verified and if they don't like you you can't have one") b) Government authenticated (read "if you piss them off it won't verify" think Assange, Snowden, Aaron Schwartz, or ANYONE accused of a crime)
So given that governments won't provide an API, and we the free people don't want our ability to interact on the Internet taken away by a) conscious act of government not wanting to auth you... or b) government can't run a server well and it's not able to auth you... or c) the contractor doing upgrades takes it down 6 hours each Sunday morning like some F** database servers... this is a nonstarter.
It's really nice that some guy bought a house (or rents) and while his property ends at the property line, typically prior to the sidewalk if there is one, his sense of entitlement doesn't stop there, no it goes all the way to the other side of the street and then up and down the whole area.
Public streets are built by taxpayer-funded public funds and they are for EVERYONE's good. That includes the self-entitled guy who lives in that little house that posts false reports on Waze, and it includes EVERYONE else who wants to drive through that neighborhood.
I'm sure he'd be shocked if some people told him he couldn't drive on a particular segment of a particular freeway because they own a house nearby or something.
These people are not waze-warriors, they are malware-spreading(put in false info) misanthropic scumbags.
YC Sucks: VCs don't take YC seriously because YC is a joke. YC has so many "schticks" but really they know nothing of taking businesses from seed, angel, vc, public, to success. That's why whenever anyone criticizes YC they trot out the THREE COMPANIES they've helped that people know. Good job, losers.
This article: And now, in an attempt to prove that they aren't entirely irrelevant other than as a vehicle for taking private people's funds and BLOWING them on companies that could be helped by REAL VCs... they're going to give RANDOM FAMILIES some SUBSTANDARD amount of money on which families can't survive... and THEN.. and THEN they'll draw conclusions from this.
Seriously, YC is like the Kardashians. They'll do anything for a media story. But it won't help anyone but them. And there's nothing pretty about it. Also huge asses.
Internet is capitalized to distinguish between "internetwork" (interconnected-networks) and THE global internetwork using IP -- The Internet (caps).
Tom Kent's comments that "The BEST reason MAY HAVE BEEN" blah blah blah does a disservice to anyone who could either research this very simple thing, or ask someone who knows. It's not anything he says it is. Also there's no connection between a trademark (requiring an individual or company to register exclusive use in commerce) with the capitalization of a word!!! Truly this guy is a marvel in not knowing anything about words.
They can stop capitalizing it. The word internet and the word Internet will still be different, the former being any networks tied together, and the latter being The Internet.
I'm not a robot. I'm a grad student who should be able to use other people's work merely by typing a phrase into google, and this is causing me to waste my extremely valuable time. Why... why... why... I might even have to go to the li-bury. My girlfriend, of which I have one, Morgan Fairchild, she does not want me going to the li-bury so FIX YOUR GOOGLE SHIT so I can GET MY FREE RESEARCH without MOVING MY ASS!!!
-- said lots of entitled grad students ever
> One post ended by stating succinctly "I'm not a robot, I'm an academic professional, and this process is wasting nontrivial amounts of my time. How do I stop it?"
Do you know why you're downvoted? If you don't, I'll tell you. You're a hater. You're a troll. You're an "imaginary property cop".
You wrote: > I don't think they're covered under fair use.
Thank you for your expert opinion. You are, of course, an expert in Copyright law? No? A lawyer versed in Copyright law? No? A judge who has presided over Copyright law cases? No?
Microsoft leads the world in insecure software, so on the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 it's good they're working to help.
On the other hand any time you decrease keyspace by creating arbitrary rules ("Must contain this", "must contain that") you constrain an otherwise limitless keyspace and make it easier to guess.
I want to wish them well... because it appears they are well-intentioned. Sadly, they are still incompetent.
Want to make stronger passwords? Don't REQUIRE people to use specific parts of the keyspace. Want to make stronger systems? Don't make your Win95/Win98/WinME/Win2K/WinXP/Vista/7/10 compatible with DOS so people can pwn your users.
These people didn't argue so the fine becomes formal. That's how the process works, but it neither makes the fine appropriate nor does it set followable precedent.
You can rest easy that "CTS" (the Chinese firm -- not its real name) will continue to sell the jammers under many many other names and the amount they will pay the FCC will be somewhere around $0.
You can rest easy that just like prisons want to use cellphone jammers https://gcn.com/articles/2013/... so too do beat cops who stop a motorist on the road. That way they can prevent that "call to the lawyer" that might help preserve the rights of the individual.
When law-enforcement plays with these toys, that means they too are interfering with legitimate signals and communication. That takes all the hot air out of the FCC's "think of the [adult] children [communicating]!" message.
Nobody will pay a fine. Cellphone jammers will become more ubiquitous... like drones [UASs] only not so popular. But hey, headlines.
- Apple will not be open-sourcing their OS modifications to BSD
- Microsoft will not open-sourcing their OS
- NEITHER OF THOSE POINTS Is relevant to software applications available for LInux
(In other words even if both Apple and Microsoft open-sourced their OSs that has
nothing to do with application availability under Linux)
Finally regardless of all the above, FOSS supporters aren't here to "get more apps". We want freedom to enjoy our apps as per the freedoms of open source software. Sure, we COULD have MOARE apps. If they're closed-source or blobs we don't want them.
Ehud Tucson AZ It's hot here, but not as hot as the hell that those who want to adopt closed-source software on Linux will burn in.
OR... Or... or... if you're not good at those kind of things, you should whine about how it doesn't make for a balanced life and "true coders" (of which you'll never be one) need to go outside in the sunshine and like do things and stuff.
Have pity on those who can't. One day they'll be your legislators making laws so that you can't either.
So is Mr. Clapper now going to admit that SECURING WEBSITES and SECURING DATA is a good thing... and to do that we need encryption, or is he going to try to weasel out by somehow pretending you can secure these things but still give law enforcement and hackers access?
Sooner or later these Washington mouths need to realize that what comes out of one side of their mouth undermines what comes out the other.
"opens a pathway to a theoretical microscopic framework with abundant predictive power." (It's like a sentence but really it's just puff-PR piece dribblings on the floor)
Remember when "editor" meant "someone who edits" and "edit" meant actually knew how to read, sometimes modified, improved, and maybe even approved something for publication?
Just like those airline magazine ads that tell you "top ten steakhouses" that are paid for by... the ten steakhouses listed, this "day" is nothing other than sheer marketing.
Big clue: It was formed in 2014 by a group wanting money to advertise for... independent booksellers. Read all about it here: http://www.indiebookstoreday.c...
I'm surprised Scott "I hate Amazon and the Internet" Turow hasn't come out and supported it too.
Emergency calls in the NANPA areas are handled by PSAPs (public service answering points). Most are consolidated centers, like the one servicing all 12 of CenturyLink states.
The operator is trained to take the call as soon as possible, and say "911; what is the emergency". *
At that point the only thing they have for sure is your CLID and if there's a LIDB CNAM entry for it, that entry (Colloquially "Caller ID number and a name"). It takes time for the system to also display any other information. Your cellular telephone's GPS is actually not used -- instead tower information is used. However, if you're out on a rural highway with sequential towers, you're likely only hitting one tower so all the operator can know is you're within an X-mile radius of some location. Note that "X miles" is approximated by using the round-trip-delay in the cellphone-to-tower communication and dividing by the speed of light.
So that's E911. This new suggestion that Indian phones send out their coordinates supposes that the GPS/GLONASS is on all the time. If it isn't, it may need to acquire ephemeris data and that can take 30s-5m if the GPS has been recently used, and up to an hour if not. (These times vary depending on various factors too complex to get into here and not entirely relevant). The point being is that if you push the "PANIC" button and someone is attacking you, it is extremely likely they can take your phone and render it inoperative prior to it getting a GPS fix. (GLONASS ephemeris time to live is a one-byte field that counts how many 900-second intervals the data is valid. This allows their users more flexibility in not needing always-on devices.)
That leaves the simple issue that if someone wants to perpetrate a crime in India then the FIRST THING they are going to do is take the phone away from the victim. So much for a panic button.
Ehud
* There was talk at some point of having the automated system say it and then put the operator on the line (thus saving on personnel costs) but they decided that oftentimes what the operator hears in the background while saying that is actually useful intel. Also in the event of a delay in putting an operator on the call, the caller hasn't already started talking.
Even terrorists have the freedom to expression without government interference.
That these guys are using "Cyberbombs" is merely escalating the war in the use of weaponized malware. Given the OPM breach I'd suspect they should fix their defense before mounting an offense -- particularly one in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Slashdot Mirror
Good job TVA finally bringing another nuclear reactor online. It's clean, it's safe, and it's advanced.
Shame on slashdot "editor" BeauHD for adding in the unrelated story about renewable energy overtaking natural gas.
DID YOU BOTHER TO READ THE SUBMITTED ARTICLE???
Seriously nice article today about Sourceforge and Slashdot Media all improving must have missed that there are people running the show who can't read.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
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Are you for real?
That *is* his nickname. Google it.
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"Not content with forcing people into using its Messenger app, Facebook is continuing its aggressive tactics and driving users to install its photo-sharing app, Moments"
Not content? Aggressive tactics? Driving users? Perhaps it's time for an entitlement-check - when someone gives you free software and access to their social network perhaps a better attitude might be:
Soon after giving people its second free app, the free online social network is now giving a second app and removing duplicate functionality.
TFTFY.
E
You... do... have a backup, ... right?
E
If you want to use your credit card to verify you know a name that matches a number and maybe two other numbers and a checksum, good for you. Any credit card processor will verify it for you *AND* if you're not a customer of one you can just go try and buy ANYTHING online and if the credit card checks out you can go and use it.
Government IDs are different and the systems that can verify them run everything from C# to Ada to Cobol. https://fcw.com/articles/2013/...
There are -no- APIs to allow anyone to verify them, but moreover there won't be any APIs because OUR government doesn't want FOREIGN governments to be able to verify passports, SSNs, IDs, etc.
That same "concern" is shared by most every other country in the world. So right there you can kiss API verification goodbye.
Where does that leave us? Public-key? No... because that's not either
a) Government provided (read "verified and if they don't like you you can't have one")
b) Government authenticated (read "if you piss them off it won't verify" think Assange, Snowden, Aaron Schwartz, or ANYONE accused of a crime)
So given that governments won't provide an API, and we the free people don't want our ability to interact on the Internet taken away by ... or ... or
a) conscious act of government not wanting to auth you
b) government can't run a server well and it's not able to auth you
c) the contractor doing upgrades takes it down 6 hours each Sunday morning like some F** database servers...
this is a nonstarter.
E
It's really nice that some guy bought a house (or rents) and while his property ends at the property line, typically prior to the sidewalk if there is one, his sense of entitlement doesn't stop there, no it goes all the way to the other side of the street and then up and down the whole area.
Public streets are built by taxpayer-funded public funds and they are for EVERYONE's good. That includes the self-entitled guy who lives in that little house that posts false reports on Waze, and it includes EVERYONE else who wants to drive through that neighborhood.
I'm sure he'd be shocked if some people told him he couldn't drive on a particular segment of a particular freeway because they own a house nearby or something.
These people are not waze-warriors, they are malware-spreading(put in false info) misanthropic scumbags.
E
YC Sucks:
VCs don't take YC seriously because YC is a joke. YC has so many "schticks" but really
they know nothing of taking businesses from seed, angel, vc, public, to success. That's
why whenever anyone criticizes YC they trot out the THREE COMPANIES they've helped
that people know. Good job, losers.
This article:
And now, in an attempt to prove that they aren't entirely irrelevant other than as a vehicle for
taking private people's funds and BLOWING them on companies that could be helped by
REAL VCs... they're going to give RANDOM FAMILIES some SUBSTANDARD amount of
money on which families can't survive... and THEN.. and THEN they'll draw conclusions
from this.
Seriously, YC is like the Kardashians. They'll do anything for a media story. But it won't
help anyone but them. And there's nothing pretty about it. Also huge asses.
E
Internet is capitalized to distinguish between "internetwork" (interconnected-networks) and THE global internetwork using IP -- The Internet (caps).
Tom Kent's comments that "The BEST reason MAY HAVE BEEN" blah blah blah does a disservice to anyone who could either research this very simple thing, or ask someone who knows. It's not anything he says it is. Also there's no connection between a trademark (requiring an individual or company to register exclusive use in commerce) with the capitalization of a word!!! Truly this guy is a marvel in not knowing anything about words.
They can stop capitalizing it. The word internet and the word Internet will still be different, the former being any networks tied together, and the latter being The Internet.
E
When the music stops the people left holding the bitcoin will be the losers because Bitcoin is the pay-to-play version of musical chairs.
It's never been worth anything and still isn't worth anything let alone $545, $525, or even $500.
It's a VERY-TEMPORARY right-to-sell that keeps getting transferred from last week's sucker to next week's sucker.
This is "timely /. news" in the same sense that Prince's hard drive may be auctioned off at some price.
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I'm not a robot. I'm a grad student who should be able to use other people's work merely by typing a phrase into google, and this is causing me to waste my extremely valuable time. Why... why... why... I might even have to go to the li-bury. My girlfriend, of which I have one, Morgan Fairchild, she does not want me going to the li-bury so FIX YOUR GOOGLE SHIT so I can GET MY FREE RESEARCH without MOVING MY ASS!!!
-- said lots of entitled grad students ever
> One post ended by stating succinctly "I'm not a robot, I'm an academic professional, and this process is wasting nontrivial amounts of my time. How do I stop it?"
E
Yes, I am writing a business plan too ,
Dammit, I just lost $457,000!!!
*Goes to join the MPAA and BSA to help them explain how their lost profits are calculated*
E
Do you know why you're downvoted? If you don't, I'll tell you.
You're a hater. You're a troll. You're an "imaginary property cop".
You wrote:
> I don't think they're covered under fair use.
Thank you for your expert opinion. You are, of course, an expert in Copyright law? No?
A lawyer versed in Copyright law? No?
A judge who has presided over Copyright law cases? No?
Oh. You're an Internet commentator. Well then:
https://xkcd.com/386/
Ehud
Microsoft leads the world in insecure software, so on the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 it's good they're working to help.
On the other hand any time you decrease keyspace by creating arbitrary rules ("Must contain this", "must contain that")
you constrain an otherwise limitless keyspace and make it easier to guess.
I want to wish them well... because it appears they are well-intentioned. Sadly, they are still incompetent.
Want to make stronger passwords? Don't REQUIRE people to use specific parts of the keyspace.
Want to make stronger systems? Don't make your Win95/Win98/WinME/Win2K/WinXP/Vista/7/10 compatible with DOS so people can pwn your users.
These people didn't argue so the fine becomes formal. That's how the process works,
but it neither makes the fine appropriate nor does it set followable precedent.
You can rest easy that "CTS" (the Chinese firm -- not its real name) will continue to sell
the jammers under many many other names and the amount they will pay the FCC will
be somewhere around $0.
You can rest easy that just like prisons want to use cellphone jammers https://gcn.com/articles/2013/...
so too do beat cops who stop a motorist on the road. That way they can prevent that
"call to the lawyer" that might help preserve the rights of the individual.
When law-enforcement plays with these toys, that means they too are interfering with
legitimate signals and communication. That takes all the hot air out of the FCC's
"think of the [adult] children [communicating]!" message.
Nobody will pay a fine.
Cellphone jammers will become more ubiquitous... like drones [UASs] only not so popular.
But hey, headlines.
Ehud
Tucson AZ
The company is Axanar Productions: http://www.axanarproductions.c...
The movie is Prelude to Axanar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's no "e" in Axanar, unless the E is for the missing slashdot editor who approved it without bothering to read.
E
He's wrong on all counts.
- Apple will not be open-sourcing their OS modifications to BSD
- Microsoft will not open-sourcing their OS
- NEITHER OF THOSE POINTS Is relevant to software applications available for LInux
(In other words even if both Apple and Microsoft open-sourced their OSs that has
nothing to do with application availability under Linux)
Finally regardless of all the above, FOSS supporters aren't here to "get more apps".
We want freedom to enjoy our apps as per the freedoms of open source software.
Sure, we COULD have MOARE apps. If they're closed-source or blobs we don't
want them.
Ehud
Tucson AZ
It's hot here, but not as hot as the hell that those who want to adopt closed-source
software on Linux will burn in.
Eat. Sleep. Code.
OR... Or... or... if you're not good at those kind of things, you should whine about
how it doesn't make for a balanced life and "true coders" (of which you'll never be one)
need to go outside in the sunshine and like do things and stuff.
Have pity on those who can't. One day they'll be your legislators making laws so that
you can't either.
E
So is Mr. Clapper now going to admit that SECURING WEBSITES and SECURING DATA is a good thing... and to do that we need encryption, or is he going to try to weasel out by somehow pretending you can secure these things but still give law enforcement and hackers access?
Sooner or later these Washington mouths need to realize that what comes out of one side of their mouth undermines what comes out the other.
Long live encryption.
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
"opens a pathway to a theoretical microscopic framework with abundant predictive power."
(It's like a sentence but really it's just puff-PR piece dribblings on the floor)
Remember when "editor" meant "someone who edits" and "edit" meant actually knew how to read, sometimes modified, improved, and maybe even approved something for publication?
Slashdot readers are still great.
Slashdot "editors" not so much.
Best
E
...if you pay the right company.
> Today is "Independent Bookstore Day,
No, it's not.
Just like those airline magazine ads that tell you "top ten steakhouses" that are paid for by... the ten steakhouses listed,
this "day" is nothing other than sheer marketing.
Big clue: It was formed in 2014 by a group wanting money to advertise for... independent booksellers.
Read all about it here: http://www.indiebookstoreday.c...
I'm surprised Scott "I hate Amazon and the Internet" Turow hasn't come out and supported it too.
Still not a holiday.
E
You're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ehud
He's informative and he's correct.
Emergency calls in the NANPA areas are handled by PSAPs (public service answering points). Most are consolidated centers, like the one servicing all 12 of CenturyLink states.
The operator is trained to take the call as soon as possible, and say "911; what is the emergency". *
At that point the only thing they have for sure is your CLID and if there's a LIDB CNAM entry for it, that entry (Colloquially "Caller ID number and a name").
It takes time for the system to also display any other information. Your cellular telephone's GPS is actually not used -- instead tower information is used. However, if you're out on a rural highway with sequential towers, you're likely only hitting one tower so all the operator can know is you're within an X-mile radius of some location. Note that "X miles" is approximated by using the round-trip-delay in the cellphone-to-tower communication and dividing by the speed of light.
So that's E911. This new suggestion that Indian phones send out their coordinates supposes that the GPS/GLONASS is on all the time. If it isn't, it may need to acquire ephemeris data and that can take 30s-5m if the GPS has been recently used, and up to an hour if not. (These times vary depending on various factors too complex to get into here and not entirely relevant). The point being is that if you push the "PANIC" button and someone is attacking you, it is extremely likely they can take your phone and render it inoperative prior to it getting a GPS fix. (GLONASS ephemeris time to live is a one-byte field that counts how many 900-second intervals the data is valid. This allows their users more flexibility in not needing always-on devices.)
That leaves the simple issue that if someone wants to perpetrate a crime in India then the FIRST THING they are going to do is take the phone away from the victim. So much for a panic button.
Ehud
* There was talk at some point of having the automated system say it and then put the operator on the line (thus saving on personnel costs) but they decided that oftentimes what the operator hears in the background while saying that is actually useful intel. Also in the event of a delay in putting an operator on the call, the caller hasn't already started talking.
Even terrorists have the freedom to expression without government interference.
That these guys are using "Cyberbombs" is merely escalating the war in the use of weaponized malware.
Given the OPM breach I'd suspect they should fix their defense before mounting an offense -- particularly
one in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
That's just a hilarious thought.
E
As shown in V, an allegorical drama about aliens on Earth...
First they came for the scientists, removing those who would show the world the horrors it was facing.
Now "they" are saying that studying science is linked to (one day they will say "causes" but not yet) terrorism.
That's right. Look on all science students with suspicion. They may be closet terrorists. Turn them into your government leaders.
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