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  1. One step closer on 'Partly Alive': Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We are now one step closer to immortal heads in jars...

  2. Re:You need to understand the reviews on Scammers Are Buying Thousands Of Fake 5-Star Amazon Reviews -- on Facebook (thehustle.co) · · Score: 1

    I absolutely do this for any high-value product.

    I want to know what problems people are having more than I care about how much people love it.

    Who cares why people love it? I am already considering this product, I don't need to know that it's great, I NEED to know if it will break after 1 use or has some kind of "gotcha" that isn't made obvious in the FAQ or product description.

    I obviously through out any low stars with no explanation or obvious user-error or shipping related issues.

  3. But then, how are you supposed to get followers and become and influencer? HOW?!

  4. Nobody tows anything with an SUV

    And China only, so it'll be a small SUV

    Maybe you were wondering about the Rivian pickup truck.

    Oh, so this is an "SV" then....

  5. Re:How does it know... on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure there would be backup methods (e.g. ambient false positive? blow into the tube. etc)

    I am also sure that the system would be trivial to defeat by most monkeys but the notion here is that a log would be kept and that log could be critical in determining the cause of a crash after the fact. It would also prevent some deaths so the end effect is that it is better than what we have now.

  6. Re:Automakers? on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason is that safety features sell cars. Please like to feel safe and will purchase cars based on feature checklists.

  7. Re:Emergencies on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Make the system easy to override with the implicit knowledge that the system will flag your vehicle for a "probable cause" stop. If you happen to then pass by any law enforcement, you will be stopped and queried.

  8. Re:These sound about as safe and on The UN Wants To Build Floating Cities To Save Us From Climate Change (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    b) What's reasonable about plans that make floating Floridas for the rich and will leave the other 99.999% of the world to fend for themselves?

    I somehow feel that this would turn out to be the opposite... what sane person would want to live on a floating commune? Not rich people... Not anybody, really...

    This sounds like it would turn into a place to shove unwanted people...

  9. Whitelist DNS on your router on Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking DNS Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1

    Routers should only allow DNS queries to DNS servers they are configured to use.

    I do this manually on the routers I maintain by blocking all DNS requests and then only allowing the DNS servers that are authorized.

    This is basic security.

  10. I have been using the https://www.rowkin.com/rowkin-... BT ear buds for over a year with no noticeable degradation in battery life (which is about 3.5 hours per charge). They don't look nearly as dorky as the airpods either...

    They do tend to be a little more vulnerable to interference and drop outs than my other BT headphones, but are great for listening to podcasts on my morning bus commute since they can be worn without fuss under winter gear.

    I use full circumaural wired headphones for music or when I care about quality.

  11. It sounds to me like the cable lobby is cutting the cord....

  12. This is the first thing I thought of as well.... So.... they have upwards of 13 4TB drives in a RAID-6.... wow!

  13. Re:Maybe develop control systems in Linux not Wind on Norsk Hydro, One of the World's Largest Aluminum Producers, Switches To Manual Operations After Ransomware Infection (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why you run it in passive mode for a while and learn all the violations then whitelist those using the policy generating tools that come packaged with SELinux. It actually isn't that hard and is well worth the effort to learn how to use it.

  14. I think you just described SELinux...

  15. The problem is not so much message authenticity these days.

    The scammers have worked around DMARC by just using legit mail senders and legit web hosts/file sharing services like SharePoint.com, Google Drive, etc.

    So these days you get a message from a person you know who lost control of their e-mail account credentials. So the message passes SPF, DKIM and DMARC tests. The message contains a link to a legit file sharing site which passes blacklist link testing. The file hosted is a PDF which displays just fine in all modern web browsers because they all come packaged with a PDF reader. The PDF content emulates some kind of other legit service (docusign, etc) with a link to the actual, illegitimate, script-hosting malicious site.

    Everything is on the up-and-up as far as all the e-mail filters are concerned and the content is convincing enough or at least familiar enough for it not to raise alarm bells in most users.

  16. Re:Spiral of escalation on Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes... that is how an arms race works.... it is an integral component to humanity since day one.... not sure what your point is....

  17. The company said the ransomware was planted on its network in late Monday evening

    More like an employee who wasn't trained in identifying malicious e-mails got phished....

    This is why, in addition to training, all Internet connected computers need to be behind proxies that don't allow executable downloads and application whitelisting should be enabled on the endpoints. There is just no other way to operate these days.

  18. Re:A BS story on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But a virus writer would certainly be aware of a free fix for their virus being distributed on a public web site....

  19. Re:Building a decrypter? on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    One angle you are perhaps missing is that this guy works for an AV company. Which means that he probably has access to some pretty good telemetry from several different systems attacked by the same malware. You can imagine that if something is seen once and reports it back to the mothership, the second, third, etc, instances are each delivering behavioral metrics on how the malware operates.

    Also, I am sure that because AV runs at such a low level in a system, it is able to do things like analyze all system RAM and other caches for things that don't get cleaned up quickly enough. The keys need to be put into memory at some point in order to do the encryption, which means they can be read from memory....

  20. Re:Leftist tears on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    Tears are made of water which came from a well irrigated California... The body does not spontaneously create water from nowhere...

  21. Re:Fight fire with fire on Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you use a brain to tape over your camera? I find that a small piece of paper or some masking tape works well enough...

  22. An African swallow maybe...

  23. Re:Grasping? Who cares? on Origami-inspired Robot Gripper Grasps Objects Up To 120 Times Its Weight (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I grasped your joke....

  24. 3 day weekends in the name of justice!

    Hmmmm..... I may need to implement this policy for myself....

  25. Re:Share your favorites for joy on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You would like Ayreon