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  1. Re:NameCheap on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I've registered three domains with gandi, including a .com, a .cn and a Chinese script domain name. Seems good so far, I like being able to edit zone file fragments in BIND9 format in addition to the "friendly" editor.

  2. Re:NameCheap on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    Haha very funny. Just one problem: none of my spam actually has anything to do with that. Most of it has something to do with HARP, energy independence, diabetes, saving on mortgages and losing weight. I assume these are things Americans worry about.

    Seriously though, I will be doing business in China and need Chinese domain names. I honestly don't know who a reputable .cn registrar is. Hosting isn't a problem.

  3. Re:NameCheap on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy to recommend NameCheap for .com and .com.au domains as well. But I have a question about domain name registration myself: I'll soon have to register some .cn domains, does anyone know a good registrar for .cn domain names with IDNA support?

  4. Re:So easy to find on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 1

    It makes you vulnerable to MITM attacks, since when you connect to your camera, you can't be sure it's actually yours and not just another device with the same well-known certificate/key.

    It means that if you use a key exchange mechanism that encrypts the session keys with the server key then someone who's extracted the private key from one of these can decrypt communications with any of the cameras using the same certificate/key.

    If you use a key exchange mechanism with forward secrecy, extracting the private key wouldn't allow Eve to decrypt all your communications.

  5. Re:Why can't they fairly negotiate? on SpaceX's Challenge Against Blue Origins' Patent Fails To Take Off · · Score: 2

    Sounds a lot like the all-American inventor hero Edison.

  6. Re:Why would anyone want to watch videos in 16 col on VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release · · Score: 2

    People watched videos on one-bit monochrome computer displays that really were black and white.

  7. Re:I wonder why... on Uber Offers Free Rides To Koreans, Hopes They Won't Report Illegal Drivers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cities don't license plumbers, painter, interior decorators, electricians, doctors, lawyers, nannies, or nurses. Even though these people need much more training.

    In Australia, plumbers, electricians, doctors, nannies and nurses all need to be licensed. You're talking out your arse or you live in the wild west.

  8. Re:I use GnuPG on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    PGP isn't a standard, but S/MIME is. And S/MIME is implemented in plenty of serious mail clients, including mutt, Outlook, Apple Mail, Kmail, Thunderbird, and even web-based shit like Horde.

  9. Re:git blame on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 2

    Outlook and Apple Mail have supported S/MIME for years, and the UI for using it is way nicer than any GPG plugin I've used. But the trouble is, no-one else uses it so I ended up only ever doing encrypted e-mail to/from my wife.

  10. Re:Here's what happened on Is Sega the Next Atari? · · Score: 1

    And you know why there was no good third-party content? Because the console was hard to squeeze maximum performance out of, but Sega didn't give anyone development libraries for it - just gave you a book of specs and left you to work it out. They went in the complete opposite direction with the Dreamcast - they gave you great libraries and almost no specs, so it was more like, here's the API, ignore what's behind it. You can't really say they were incapable of learning.

  11. Re: "im a sheep?" well played, Mr Torvalds on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's the same character for both in Chinese - you have to disambiguate if you want to be more specific. There are more goats than sheep in China, so it's usually translated as goat if not specific.

  12. Re:Maybe I'm not keeping up? on Netatmo Weather Station Sends WPA Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 2

    WPA is TKIP. It's a way of making the network more secure than WEP without requiring major hardware upgrades (uses the same RC4 cipher as WEP). WPA2 introduces AES encryption. IIRC there are known vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to inject packets into a WPA connection.

  13. The clean C++ way to deal with that is to use RAII and have little helper objects that are there just for their destructors. It lets you return from any point in a function (or exit via an exception) and still have all your cleanup done. Of course it obfuscates flow even more than goto.

  14. Re: Google's biggest problem is IH on Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support · · Score: 1

    But who's prepared to pay more (even just in terms of ad impressions) just so they can see their cat pictures? No-one's arguing that security isn't essential for your bank or whatever, but all this "free" shit actually costs money to deliver, and encryption would make it cost more.

  15. Re:Google's biggest problem is IH on Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support · · Score: 1

    It is if you have constraints on server resources. Encryption costs CPU time, and it requires even more if you use forward security as people tend to since the Snowden revelations. If you're serving lots of public assets (think 4chan image CDN), requiring encryption would greatly increase the CPU resources you need.

  16. Re:Google's biggest problem is IH on Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support · · Score: 1

    Not really, it has a number of modifications, including dropping mandatory encryption.

  17. Re: Definition of "Remote Attack" on How To Hack a BMW: Details On the Security Flaw That Affected 2.2 Million Cars · · Score: 3, Informative

    You only need physical access to the Commbox from to a single car to extract encryption keys that can be used to steal many cars. That's the flaw. The cellular base station emulators are readily available.

  18. Re:Schwab - max 8 chars! on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    The set of characters available still depends heavily on the language settings of the OS.

  19. Re:Thunderbird? on Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next? · · Score: 1

    I'd learned to hate MS Outlook after having to use it at four jobs in a row. Then my next employer didn't want to pay for Outlook, so we all had to use Thunderbird. I learned to miss how much less shit Outlook had been. It's like there's a competition to make the worst email client.

  20. Re: Down with fanny bandits!! on Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park · · Score: 1

    That's called a "bum bag" in other countries.

  21. Re:Basic DVD feature on YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment · · Score: 1

    The only DVD I have that uses it is Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. On a few of the scenes you can switch between three crops. You're not even choosing different angles as such, just how "zoomed in" the view is.

  22. Re:rm on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 1

    Fuck no! You should never alias in -i like that, because you'll learn to depend on it and then fuck yourself over when your in a shell without those aliases. Those aliases are downright dangerous.

  23. Re:Schwab - max 8 chars! on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    The 'no special characters' restriction could be to protect you from getting locked out if you need to log in from a machine where you can't type some of the characters. For example the set of characters you can type on a German keyboard is different to a US keyboard.

  24. Re:Down with fanny bandits!! on Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the UK "fanny" is an obscene term for a woman's genitals, so given the context you're using the wrong term and making yourself look stupid. That aside, do you have as much of a problem with heterosexual arse piracy, or is it only gays that you hate? What about pegging? Are you sure you're not in the closet?

  25. Re:Where you failed on Apple To Build New $2 Billion Data Center In Bankrupted GT Advanced Buildings · · Score: 1

    Kyocera is making the screens themselves. They're primarily a materials company: the "cera" in their name comes from "ceramics". I have some Kyocera cookware, the cooking surfaces are really good.