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  1. Re:It's e-mail, it's never going to be 'secure' on Outgoing White House Emails Not Protected by Verification System (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not strictly true - that SPF records says to treat a failed result as suspicious, not to reject it, so email servers will accept it and usually treat it as having a higher spam rating.

  2. Re:Big Bang is false too, just like Creationism on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Big Bang is a "socially accepted theory" just like the geocentric model or spontaneous generation used to be.

    Next generation telescopes launched in the next 10 years will determine the Big Bang is false, just another human-friendly creationist theory dressed up in 20th century scifi.

    And that will be science doing what it's supposed to do. Coming up with theories of how things work and testing them all the time, trying to disprove them. When something is found not to work, new evidence is used to come up with a better model.

    Contrast with religion.

  3. Re:Did Apple say it was pure sapphire? on Apple's Use Of 'Sapphire' in iPhone Camera Lens Questioned in New Tests (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Quite. Welcome to marketing, where the language is both very precise and very loose at the same time.

    A point in case, does:

    "A first for Company X"

    Mean that Company X is the first in the world to do something, or just that this is the first time they have done it, and others may have been doing it for years...

  4. Plenty of corporate Windows-only shops that this at least gives another option to.

  5. Re:Can Slashdot stop post IBM advertisements? on IBM Launches New Linux, Power8, OpenPower Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meanwhile, in the real world, most systems are not CPU bound but IO bound. If Power8 lives up to the hype, it's a very interesting prospect.

    Summary: go back to Call of Duty.

  6. Re:from the article... on US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That was the previous model, this one goes to 12...

  7. Re:Wot? on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    There's no need to make a big deal of it.

  8. Re:Screws with users on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS? · · Score: 1

    Not in the UK it isn't. Hyundai are the other way round, but I believe this is a Far East thing, not a RHD thing.

  9. Re:Paper trail on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 2

    Why not do what the UK does and use a separate piece of paper for each, and maybe vote on fewer things at any one time?

  10. Re:Remove It on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    How exactly are binary logs more secure? Either they are in a documented, useful format, or they are proprietary ("secure") and useless.

  11. Re:Nobody else seems to want it on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like your game needed drivers - if DOS needed them, then you would expect them to be provided with the hardware, you would install them, and then your applications would use them through the OS API. The fact that you had to configure games specifically for your hardware means they were not "DOS drivers" but "game drivers".

  12. Re:My only question: does it work at Google-scale? on Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human · · Score: 2

    It's a problem when your human detector fails to detect human

    Says the bot!

  13. Re:Public Lending Right on Why the Public Library Beats Amazon · · Score: 1

    Yes, the library buys the book, but that doesn't benefit the author much - one book will be borrowed by many people, none of whom now have to buy the book, so this is a net loss for the author. Public Lending Right compensates for this loss by making a small payment (fractions of a penny I believe in most cases) for each time a book is borrowed. This is totaled up and then paid to the authors (presumably once such payments have exceeded a certain threshold).

  14. Re:Who couldn't see this coming? on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    Rubbish. Everyone knows the future is WoMF(*)

    * Windows on MainFrames

  15. Re:Cynically I expect on Scotland Could Become Home To Britain's First Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Space-port must always be passed to the left, just the same as Earth-port

  16. Re:Disclaimer? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are incorrect. The email may be mis-addressed, but you are still the intended recipient of that email, as given by the fact the email envelope has you as the recipient. You therefore have a legally acceptable record that that individual email was sent directly to you.

  17. Re:Disclaimer? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've also seen a creditable argument that because the disclaimer is at the end of the email, and you would have to read the email and therefore all of it's content before reading the disclaimer that warns you not to, that they are particularly worthless.

  18. Re:Disclaimer? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with that is, is if was sent to your email address, you are the intended recipient.

  19. Re:So CentOS will be out in 2016? on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are missing the whole point - the idea is that throughout the 7.x release the glibc (/ other software) version will not change, so in 10 years time your *current* software investment will still work, rather than being force to upgrade. Stability means not changing what is deployed *now* in the future. For many deployments this is crucial. If you do not need this form of long-term software stack stability, then, yes, RedHat is not for you - however there is no point criticising RedHat for a policy that is deliberately enforced for a good reason.

  20. Re:whats the surprise again? on Western Digital 'MyCloud' Is Down 5 Days and Counting · · Score: 1

    You need to bring the power back online so you can close the door locks to the server room and prevent the velociraptors from getting it. They may have worked out how to use door handles by now.

  21. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Your prayers have been answered - here is a new Billy Mitchell

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

  22. Re:Anyone notice the irony ?? on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    Will the response be: 505 - kill switch not found ?

  23. Re:You've gotta be kidding me on Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is the whole point I believe - as part of the process *you* name the ink blots that were generated for you. Then next time you log in you match them back up.

  24. Re:Good Luck With That on Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying · · Score: 1

    Nah, they'll just use one of those encryption breaking machines that matches the key one digit at a time on a big display.

  25. Re:And it begins.. on Chinese Seek Greater Say In UK Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Trident_system

    "Under the terms of the missile lease arrangement, the United States does not have any veto on the use of British nuclear weapons, which the UK may launch independently."