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  1. exactly on Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    all you have to do is exactly what they did in europe and make the retailer liable for the fraud if they swipe

  2. the solution is easy and has a RFC 6480

    RPKI has been around since 2013

    RPKI provides a way to connect Internet number resource information (such as Autonomous System numbers and IP addresses) to a trust anchor. The certificate structure mirrors the way in which Internet number resources are distributed. That is, resources are initially distributed by the IANA to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), who in turn distribute them to Local Internet registries (LIRs), who then distribute the resources to their customers. RPKI can be used by the legitimate holders of the resources to control the operation of Internet routing protocols to prevent route hijacking and other attacks. In particular, RPKI is used to secure the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) through BGPsec, as well as Neighbor Discovery Protocol (ND) for IPv6 through the Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND).

    IP addresses and Autonomous Systems Numbers are allocated by five Regional Internet Registries (RIR): Afrinic for Africa, APNIC for Asia-Pacific, ARIN for North America, LACNIC for Central and South America and RIPE for Europe, Middle-East and Russia. Each one operates independently.

    so whats your excuse america ?

  3. USB C audio up the wire on Tablet Shipments Decline For 16th Straight Quarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    USB-C audio has the ability to be so so much better if only the manufacturers understood

    all you have to do is place the DAC in the bulge away from the phone/device and close to the headphones
    (the dongles all place the DAC near the EMF emitting device)

    IT HAS TO BE USB Audio Class 3.0 otherwise its a fail...

    cost about $10 to manufacture and charge $49

  4. yes management not price and no spyware on New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    google education licenses in schools, does not allow google to use any user personal information (or any information associated with a Google Account).

    basically edu licenses for both Microsoft and Google are free its the hardware etc that costs, microsoft had pretty much lost this one and even DELL know it... I repeat DELL sell chromebooks thats how much chromebooks are working in edu.

    personally the quicker we can kill Active Directory and have proper security the better

  5. Crazy old man yells at cloud.... and spreads misinformation about how things work...

  6. the canadian government is surprised to find china did exactly the same thing to them as they did to china...

    come on just implement signing and validation...
    https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/are-bgps-security-features-working-yet-rpki

    also get on your DNSSEC and DANE implementations

  7. governments/regulators will do ? on An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    nothing

    the ISP will announce that they will file for bankruptcy and the original owners will take on the customers through some shell companies removing all liability
    (there will be small loss's of customers and cash flow but nothing unmanageable)

    meanwhile all the users have been thoroughly plundered for data by well paid offshore contractors, nothing connectable just good old fashioned rip off

  8. write bandwidth... on The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    transfer bandwidth is something quite different from job complete time

    by the time you write to all those tapes the Square Kilometer Array will have generated more data...

    they wont be using tapes for transfers...

  9. backhaul... its all about the backhaul on Ask Slashdot: Can You Install a Wifi Mesh Network in a Barn? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    so when people refer to wifi mesh their are two parts and the confuse the two...

    1. The ability to have the SSID name the same "mywifiName"
    2. the ability to have the nodes communicate to a central node via Wifi

    The ability to all share the same wifi name and login to one SSID is a good honorable thing.

    Using wifi as backhaul is frankly a hack its like the cell providers who use microwave to link sites together, yes it works but it has problems

    Link your individual wifi points with string (fibre or Cat 6/5E) and your world will be a much better place

       

  10. market risks huge shareholders will punish them on Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    ok so you launch a search engine in china and due to regulation you must operate within china (your Data Centre can not be yours) and you must "partner" for payments

    so you think google is going to code a search engine from scratch or take some of the existing code over ?
    do you think that it wont be "audited" ?
    google IP (how its search engine works) is now going to be in the hands of "non google" I would say shareholders should be very worried

    they would have been better to partner with a advertising firm in china and simply offer to advertise globally to google customers...

  11. actually focused on the corporate dealings... on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 1

    they just focused on the corporate dealings of qualcomm...

    technically if they can focus their efforts for centriq on the 5G edge (fixed in home modems and cell sites with caching, SDN etc) then they have a chance to expand their footprint otherwise intel will own the server and have a 5G modem competing with qualcomm which is not good for corporate returns at all...

     

  12. while yes there is a point that bigger doesn't imply better

    however the example about the iPhone 4s is completely wrong... iOS 5 had a long list of things that where wrong with it compared to iOS 9 for example the browser was not anywhere near as good as iOS 9 and comparing sizes on Android 8.1 is not really a very good metric just look at the media assets that are combined in the binary.
    But that would take a understanding of actually how things work... not writing a snazzy headline...

    the fact that you cant come up with a simple example show's its not quite that simple

     

  13. software updates will go well... bureaucracy on EU To Stop Changing the Clocks in October 2019 (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    so think of all the scheduling software... update it all for 2019... not going to happen

    this is just a bureaucracy of consultations... what do you think they will be doing... paying themselves and ?
    lets say germany changed and france was delayed by 2 years... do you think business would not suffer ?

    it requires all member states to change then updates to all software that keeps the time, no matter how lofty the goal it just is not going to happen.

    regards

    John Jones

  14. its the encoding NOT algorithms on Worries Arise About Security of New WebAuthn Protocol (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    the algorithm is fine its the encoding... i.e. this RFC which to give the authors credit they updated...

    To be honest I suspect that this was driven by hardware and the "standard" defines other algorithm's so its simply a case of getting rid of that combination
    Its a good thing that people are auditing these before they become enshrined and I hope WebAuthn becomes stronger because of it

      WebAuthn is so so much better than the current in place alternatives... we really really needs to give an alternative to the password that is widely adopted

    regards

    John Jones

  15. pwa good but basic things like DNS bad... on Progressive Web Apps Moving Mainstream As Twitter Makes Its Mobile Site the Main (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    twitter actually has some nice compiler guys and does some good work on web standards and things like PWA... they are let down by their networking team it seems...

    here are some basic DNS failures at twitter :

    No DNSSEC (allows nation states to spoof twitter on HTTPS connections )
    Name Servers are on the Same Subnet
    Serial numbers do not match across servers
    SOA Serial Number Format is Invalid on some servers
    outside provider (oracle) has failed many performance targets

    regards

    John Jones

  16. So what are the open equivalents

    right now the display standards are being locked in and you want something 8K :

    Hybrid Log-Gamma
    HDR10+ (supported by apple TV and Samsung/LG)

    for audio its about the number of speakers and position... both DTSX and Atmos are BROKEN for home setups they do not enforce the placement or provide guidance strictly so its pretty much pointless...

    can someone please just release an open standard for meta data with 22.2 audio which prescribes exactly what to do when downmixing ?

    thanks then we will be without the marketing BULL

  17. APPLE why not get store employee's ? on Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing To OpenStreetMap (theodi.org) · · Score: 2

    why not encourage your apple store employee's to contribute in a meaningful way to openstreetmap ? its a nice way that store employee's would actually feel they are helping the community and not just serving the corporation...

  18. wildly inaccurate findings on Air Pollution Causes 'Huge' Reduction in Intelligence, Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    does no one check these things

    it would be almost impossible to draw any inference of overall IQ from the air quality its just statistically hard to do
    (the population in a city do wildly different jobs and diet compared to farm workers) and IQ/intelligence is frankly a terrible to test...

    what you could do is draw an conclusion on lung capacity using a CT or MRI scanner to measure it but that would be scientific...

    Xi Chen at Yale School frankly should be ashamed and discredited

  19. Huawei and ZTE switching equipment numbers are heavily skewed by their home market i.e. selling into the chinese government

    Nokia and Ericsson are rightly seen as neutral compared to american firms

  20. well here is a pretty blatant copying

    https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-correcting-the-record

    but hey using google is hard...

  21. The real money is in mass market silicon (silicon chips are ideally sold in the many millions) for that you need vendors such as Nokia networks, Cisco etc

    Mass market previously was mobile phones but that has matured now its about the networks which need more processing power and for that to be distributed.

    regards

    John Jones

  22. biggest reef... on AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Australia has a pretty big reef and what have the australian gov done with 444million dollars ?

      awarded the largest ever non-profit grant to an organisation with six staff members "without due diligence, without a proper tender process, without them even requesting it"

    Great Barrier Reef Foundation then took big minning exec's a on snorkelling tour

    contact Mr Frydenberg here :

    https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=FKL

  23. its about the screen... on 'Do Not Buy a Smartwatch Right Now' (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    The Snapdragon Wear 3100 will still share many of the traits of its predecessor, like four Cortex-A7 cores and a large 28 nm process.

    IF you buy a smartwatch THEN worry about the screen that sucks more power and is your primary interface...

  24. seems exactly what bromium have been doing... on Windows 10 Enterprise Getting 'InPrivate Desktop' Sandboxed Execution Feature (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    This is exactly what bromium have been doing for years now:

    bromium.com

    regards

    John Jones

  25. 100% right on Sony's Mobile Business Is Shrinking Out of Existence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They had a playstation emulator with no exclusives i.e. no specific games
    They had no specific playstation emulator that emulated ps1 or ps2

    I had a Xperia Play given to me by google and the hardware was great however the software was terrible.