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  1. Re:Damnit, I'm on Startcom on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Note: if they cheat again, trust in existing ones will be pulled without warning.

  2. Re:Damnit, I'm on Startcom on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one option. Are there others left?

    I was only aware of WoSign (which I happened to start using, before LetsEncrypt was released) and StartCom as alternatives for free trusted SSL certs.

  3. Re:Obviously. . . on Samsung Plans To Sell Refurbished High-End Smartphones In 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You may want to skip S6, it was quite a misstep by Samsung (no waterproofing, no SD card, no removable battery compared to S5). They have gone back on some of that in the next generation.

  4. My Chrome must-haves on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1

    AdBlock Plus.
    HTTPS Everywhere.
    Desktop Notifications for StackExchange.
    Chrome extension source viewer (allows examining extensions and apps without installing them).
    Kicktraq (shows funding graphs embedded in the header of Kickstarter page)
    RSS Subscription Extension + The Old Reader Notifier (disclosure: I maintain that one)
    A few self-written extensions for Fallen London browser game.

  5. Re:Two separate topics? on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You will find that each instance is edited by BeauHD. It's his "shtick". But I agree it's more often than not irrelevant and annoying.

  6. Home / work on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    At home: a competent gaming + VR (Vive, DK2) machine running Win10. At work: top-spec Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu (not that I need top spec for all the LaTeXing I do).
    I prefer Sublime Text and Chrome. Vim when GUI is unavailable.

  7. Luckily they closed off Russian keys from being used by anyone but Russians.

    And that's why, as a Russian, I need keys to exist. After the ruble crash happened, Valve decided to region-lock activation of gifts from Russian accounts. And I have many friends outside the geofence.

    As a result, I have to use sources outside Steam to gift games to those friends (Humble, GMG, direct sales).

  8. Re:out of the ISP's hands - so what is the ISP for on Municipal Fiber Network Will Let Customers Switch ISPs In Seconds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This also adds a single point of failure to all ISP offerings.

  9. Re:What is Spotify? Help a brother out on Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You pay a monthly fee for technically not pirating music (while the artists only get fractions of a cent), as long as you're paying and the country you're in is blessed by licensing agreements.

    If you don't pay, you can't cache music for offline use and it inserts ads (but still can listen to it).

  10. Re:Cliches on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Whoosh.

  11. Re:I actually liked this feature on Microsoft Removes Wi-Fi Sense Feature From Windows 10 Which Shared Your Wi-Fi Password · · Score: 2

    Well, if you don't secure the WiFi, you're broadcasting all your packets in plain text.

    Don't look at WPA2 as access control only, it's also providing channel encryption.

    Guest networks (isolated from the main one) are a nice idea but they should be secured anyway for the sake of the guests.

  12. Electricity bills on Swiss City of Zug Will Accept Bitcoin For Public Service Payments (techweekeurope.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One should be able to pay electricity bills with Bitcoins.

    That would give an important perspective.

  13. Re:Always browse torrent sites with Javascript off on The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine did give me a warning yesterday. It's probable that the rule was quickly retracted.

    Note that it wasn't a malware warning - it was a "DECEPTIVE SITE" warning, the ruleset against fake download buttons. Possibly targeting the "Anonymous download!" deceptive ads under magnet links.

    It may be in line with Google's recently proclaimed war on fake download buttons.

  14. Re:Why is non-encrypted data going to cloud? on Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    By using homomorphic encryption, of course!

  15. Re:Not A Broken Encryption. Learn To Language. on Encryption Securing Mobile Money Transfers Can Be Broken · · Score: 4, Informative

    While true that it doesn't break the encryption algorithm itself - such things are rare.

    But one can argue it breaks an implementation of an algorithm. Which, arguably, doesn't "exist physically" either, it's still a bunch of bytes.

    However, there are software countermeasures to some side channel attacks (like constant-time calculations), so question is whether such mitigation is possible here. Looking at the article - that's exactly what's lacking with some software.

    Notable quote:
    > The OpenSSL's developers notified us that "hardware side-channel attacks are not in OpenSSL's threat model"

  16. Internet of Things on One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, it's the era of Internet of remote-accessible government-issued Things..

  17. Re:GTX 980 is not "upper midrange" on Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that multi-GPU configs are probably included in the calculation of the "range".

  18. Re:Achievement unlocked: HTTPS support on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    Great, however their RSS is still served over HTTP only.

  19. I guess that must be the reason.

    Google is trying to put some distance between robot-kicking and themselves in the wake of AI emergence happening in their datacenters.

  20. Wrong subsequent links on Pwn2Own Day 1: Hackers Earn $280k For Hacking Chrome, Flash, Safari (securityweek.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    All three links lead to the same article, which seems to be a copy&paste oversight.

    I believe the second link was meant to be http://www.securityweek.com/ha... and the third http://www.securityweek.com/re...

  21. Comparing generations on Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S: Samsung Has the Upper-Hand, For Now (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously it's unfair to pit a model 7 against a model 6! /sarcasm

  22. Re:Mobile, better, you can do it! on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 2

    Also would be very interested in Markdown for comments.

  23. Re:Stupid is as stupid does on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    We're not talking about hosing the OS. We're talking about hosing the motherboard.

  24. Art should be considered as well. on How Sports Commentaries Can Speed Up AI Development (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Was already a problem with USB 2.0 on Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever a USB cable is used for charging, it's very easy to see why cheap cables are cheap.

    A quest for a cable that can support full 1.2A charging, not to mention current generation fast-charging, can be a long and frustrating one. I prefer my chargers to have 1.8m cables instead of manufacturer-standard 1m, and it took a lot of tries to find one that doesn't suck.