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  1. Re:This is an easy one. on Valve Faces Lawsuit Over Video Game Gambling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not arrest, but the suit should not succeed on it's merits.

  2. Dude, you need a different bank/card company.

  3. Re:IQ is a good measure of ... on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That being said, the same study puts the corruption perception index as a greater contributing factor.

  4. Re:Why not a reverse auction instead? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    During the dip Scalpers will be bidding against scalpers as well. However supply added by scalpers can mitigate the last-minute price jump. Additionally the ticket release curves may tweaked depending on what the venue and the artist have in mind.

  5. Re:IQ is a good measure of ... on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Additionally IQ and criminality is very inversely correlated. A nation with high IQ is likely more aware of the negative side of potential piracy and pushes back more strongly against it.

  6. Misleading Title. on Twitch Brings CFAA and Trademark Claim Against Bot Operators (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    CFAA(and the california specific variant) and trademark claims are only 3 of the 9 Claims cited. Fruad, Unfair Competition (X2), Breach of Contract, and Tortuitous Interference with contract, and anti-cyber-squating are also cited as claims.

  7. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    So tell me is the culture in your average shitystan or North Africa friendly and gentle towards young children? If you like the start, it implies the second. Not all cultures are equal, and migrants tend to take their culture with them, and the more disparate the cultures the longer the integration period.

  8. Flying Cars on Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question · · Score: 1

    Given that every other famous Larry in tech seems to be starting their own secret flying car factory, when are you going to start yours?

  9. Re:Multi-culti BS on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    By that logic, then you'd have to kill the whites, then the asians, until only the Jews remains. Your just a Zionist in disguise.

  10. Yes on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Stop spanking your kids or adononing them at daycares when they are very young, and stop letting Muslims in from shithole parts of the world.

  11. A possible mitigation?

  12. There are fair use exceptions., or Uber might be opened to an anti-trust counter-claim should they sue to enforce this particular TOS.

  13. No, it was a dirty hack more or less. It relied on the user to determine after the fact as to weather programs that escaped were misbehaving or not and report the bug or patch accordingly. However systemD isn't an intelligent user, it's a blind program following unequivocable rules, there's no way for it to tell the difference categorically. Yet, there is good reason for systemD to terminate misbehaving processes, which it can't tell apart for from screen's dirty hack dating back to a venerable, but not perfect UNIX operating specification.

  14. Only half sarcastic, the systemD guys really do want to manage, track, and expose control levers for just about everything that happens between startup and shutdown. To paraphrase, to create a standard Linux plumbing system that distros shouldn't have to mess with too much, and third party vendors can rely upon to behave consistently across various systems. .

  15. *YAWN* The design was broken in the first place. There was no way for the computer the tell the difference between an intentionally unresponsive process a inadvertently locked or stubborn process. When things were simply you could give some trust that the applications actually were doing the right thing, now not so much. How would you solve it? You can't control upstream and even if they cooperate it'll take time to patch. If you white-list the most common things you want to keep, you confuse the heck of of people using the next edge case you don't white-list, and seriously violate the seperation of mechanism and policy design principle. Systemd is the one daemon to rule them all. Screen behaves exactly as before, except now the session manager is good enough not to lose track of it. and recognize it as originating from the user session it's trying to manage. All must bow to the one true daemon.

  16. Re:WTF on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because there is not other way for logind to determine that "screen" was one of the things a user actualy intends to keep running, or something that is still running because it's exit logic is misbehaving. The other alternative may be to add an extended attribute to the screen executable or other sort of thing that says "please don't kill me, I'm meant to linger, honest"

  17. Re:Well fuck you, systemd on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, in fact I'm taking that option right now. However, I'm well aware I'm living on borrowed time. Console-it is dead and unmaintained, has been for a few years now. The only alternative for linux is logind. Going without one or the other really degrades the whole expected desktop experience. Given a server system, you should still be able to run for a long time still without systemd.

  18. Re:The /. community does not hate Mozilla. on The Future of Firefox is Chrome (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This https://www.youtube.com/watch?... at least is something of value. C++ is not the way forward due to security concerns and difficulties with concurrency.

  19. Re:Oh, come on, now! on Phishing Email That Knows Your Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    PGP could foil all that crap, but who has the time?

  20. Re:People are stupid [Not] on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but Vulkans are very logical and program all non-systems code in Haskell or Ada so the don't have bugs. In real life, the barrier between code and data is not well maintained, meaning specially crafted files can launch from exploits in thumb-nailing or preview programs.

    And a really nasty USB device might emulate a keyboard and monitor, use the keyboard to set up a second monitor, and run exploits just as well as if the hacker had access to the unlocked workstation.

  21. Re:Doesn't matter on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Also consider that the U.S government has been among the largest supporters of terrorism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

  22. Re:Doesn't matter on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that the average Joe is more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist... Boo hoo.

  23. Addtitionally Apple's involvement in a brute for is niether neccessary, nor are they they most qualified to carry out the attack.

  24. Perhaps they could have, but That's not what the FBI asked for though. They asked for software that they could run on arbitrary phones. The FBI asked apple to write, sign, and deliver software capable of bypassing security features. Additionally not every pin is four digits, it could be eight, in which case it would take years instead of days to brute force the phone. How many combinations would Apple be obligated to try? And even in thier own lab the bypass is not guaranteed secure, and the existence of such software would invite demands for access or copies from other nation-states.

  25. Re:All the more reason... on FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    So if Apple was just one of several software vendors for the iPhone hardware, you'd be a-okay with their refusal? I don't think the bundling has any legal significance. If bundled the user makes the trust decision on purchase, if unbundled upon installation. As much as I dislike the walled garden, the issue isn't relevant here. Unless you want to say a user ought to be responsible for vetting every update, then there is going to be a golden signing key to update vital parts of the OS... Mac has it, Windows has it, most Linux distributions have them, and there are ways for the end-user to lock the system to run only signed code. You can lock Mac, Windows, and Linux to run only software and firmware that is properly signed by third-parties. Does the court have authority to compels any and all of these third parties to create signed and compromised versions of their software?