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  1. Re: Transparancy on Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Gary Johnson is an open borders zealot. We don't need any more of those.

    So am I. Well not really a zealot, but open borders would be fine. Having governments not telling you where you can or cannot go would be nice. It's lovely to drive through Europe crossing borders without that hassle of border controls.

  2. Re:Let me know when ... on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    My issue is with digging carbon out of the ground and burning it.

    As for the constipation, no, it doesn't work like that. It is time for a new sig though. That one is ancient.

  3. Re:Let me know when ... on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter.
    The peaks are huge and we need to cover them.

    Plus who ever said we need to get rid of base load completely? That's a very stupid argument and you should be ashamed of yourself for putting up such idiocy to deliberately mislead.

    As long as all the base load is nuclear and we aren't digging carbon out of the ground and burning it, we'll be ok.

  4. ISPF: Whatever my 3270 emulator is, which is green on black.

    I liked the VT100s at college hanging off a microvax. You got the green screen glow.

  5. Re:Ah, minimialism on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Alright. This this X1 is bristling with extra buttons, finger sensors, track pads, track pad buttons and other pointing devices. They went too far though I don't need that stuff, but I do use esc. My existing mac book is fine without extra buttons for volume or power but it has esc in the right place.

    Perfection would be the happy hacking layout with control where caps lock usually is. That's why I use a happy hacking keyboard at my desk.

  6. Re:Ah, minimialism on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    >Lenovo did this with their X1 Carbon a while back too. What is the obsession with removing functionality? Sure, Mac users probably don't use the Escape key too much, let alone the function keys. However, Esc has always been the equivalent of Cancel on MacOS and Windows dialog boxes, and terminal-based applications still use it.

    I'm typing this on my Lenovo X1 Carbon, complete with its escape key on the keyboard. What are you talking about?

  7. Re:And... NO CONTRAST on Internet is Becoming Unreadable Because of a Trend Towards Lighter, Thinner Fonts (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jesus H. That's like the anorexic fashion show of editors. There's nothing of substance there.

    VIM: Whatever my terminal is, which is white on black.
    Emacs: Whatever my terminal is, which is white on black.
    Notepad++: Black on white.
    BBedit: Black on white.

    That covers all of them I think, over Linux, Windows and MacOs. Nothing else matters.

  8. Re:Who should we blame? on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Also blame the engineers who didn't put in some interlocks, e.g. no requests from outside the LAN until the default password has been changed or simply force the user to change the password the first time they log in.

    Can you do that? How can a device know a request comes from outside the lan? If I'm not mistaken, unless you use IPv6, in order for an outside request to reach a device on the LAN, you need to NAT it, and then, from the point of view of the device, the request comes from the router, from a local ip.

    uPnP comes to the rescue and allows your camera to open a path in from the outside. Yay uPnP!
    Disable uPnP in your router.

  9. Re:and they do it pretty shittily. on Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Last 3 videogame preorders... all arrived AFTER promised delivery date and did not even freaking ship until release day.

    If you like playing release day games, dont go with Amazon.

    Delivery? You click 'install game' on the steam application.

  10. >The real issue however is that they've validated it with hindcasting.

    I suppose you do it right and compare against the future.
    Could you send me the S&P max and min valuation for 2017, 2018 and 2019 please?

  11. Re:Banks Like Money on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US they take between 3% and 5% of every fee, whether credit card or debit card or NFC phone payment.

  12. Re:shit post on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    The terminals support several payment schemes.

    So what? Terminals can be bulletproof, but you still need software to talk to those terminals, and that's where the problem usually lies. ApplePay wouldn't prevent any of those security problems at all.

    That's where PCI-DSS steps in as an utterly stupid spec that doesn't enable secure communication with PoS systems while leaving the card data within the PCI security boundary. This is in part so they can charge a bucketload of money certifying every PoS terminal that doesn't need to be within the PCI security boundary.

  13. Re:shit post on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The NFC terminals were paid for by the merchants. The terminals support several payment schemes.

    It is in my interests as a person who pays for things and as a merchant who pays for and uses payment terminals that IPhone based NFC payments remain as secure as possible and letting thousands of different banks mess with it with thousands of different applications is counterproductive.

    Look beneath the surface and you will see that this is about grabbing a larger share of the merchant's fee.
     

  14. Banks Like Money on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >Yet, this infrastructure was built and paid for by Australian banks and merchants for the benefit of all Australians."

    Bullshit. The infrastructure was paid for by merchants buying the equipment.

    Banks have shown themselves incapable of passing on the reduced costs of electronic transactions to consumers and incapable of deploying secure payment schemes. This particular scuffle is everything to do with banks wanting to keep all the 2-5% transactions fees rather than share it with a phone vendor who has developed moderately secure payment hardware that is in the hands of millions of people.
     

  15. I'm not up on the tech. Is there any way they could improve latency rather than bandwidth?

    No. Unless you count the fact that it will only travel within a room, rather than to a base station a kilometer away. The speed of light being constant and all.

  16. Re: Good English Is A Minimum Requirement, Guv'nor on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope and nope.

    There's a difference. See if you can try to work out what it is.

  17. Re:Good English Is A Minimum Requirement, Guv'nor on London Insists on English Requirement For Private Hire Drivers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The knowledge is obsolete. We have apps for that now.

  18. So finally he admits he likes Authoritarian Regimes.

  19. Re:And now for something completely different on Evernote Confirms a Serious Bug Caused Data Loss For Some Mac Users (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Had this been a OneNote flaw, it would have read:

    Microsoft has sent an email to users warning of a critical flaw in multiple version of Microsoft's OneNote that can cause a severe loss of data, the extent of which is not entirely known. Microsoft refuses to acknowledge the severity of this issue, claiming that only "a small number of people" are affected. Those who have received the email may be able to install an update to repair the flaw, but the efficacy of this "fix" has not been confirmed. Regardless of the "fix", the users data has been lost irrevocably. The glitch has been occurring for many months but this is the first response Microsoft has provided.

    Top tip. Don't use Microsoft products on MacOs. It won't end well.

    Numbers is fine.

  20. >The idea wasn't to boil a pot of tea.

    It's never a good idea to boil a pot of tea unless you want a sterile tea pot. Boil the water then add it to the tea pot.

  21. Does it correctly implement RFC2324 and respond 418 I'm a teapot when asked to brew coffee?

    It's not a teapot. It's a kettle.

  22. Re: This is why I'm no longer in tech. on English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A normal kettle takes about 45 seconds to boil a liter of water, yet we're debating how to add WiFi to a fucking KETTLE so we don't have to wait that long.
    What the fuck is wrong with us?

    This was in the UK, where the voltage is twice as high, so the power (P=V^2/R) is four times as big. Actually it's a little less than that, but the kettles do boil faster than in the USA.

  23. Re:What part of this is hard to understand? on Dutch Net Neutrality Law Goes Too Far Say Critics (telegeography.com) · · Score: 1

    Stay the hell away from CenturyLink. In Yakima, WA, they've been completely taken over by numpties. They've also gone to usage-based billing; http://www.centurylink.com/dat.... Yakima, WA is circling the drain. For example: https://www.yakimawa.gov/counc...

    The ACLU scammed the city (https://aclu-wa.org/cases/montes-v-city-yakima-0), but no one seems to give-a-dam.

    To be fair, there are plenty of reasons to not live in Yakima in the first place.

  24. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As the number of trials increases (I.E. the number of elections) the P value on rejecting null hypothesis improves if it is actually false.
     

  25. Re: US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >Or perhaps no one have yet bothered to conduct voter fraud there yet.

    That was what I was implying.

    >Do you also buy those bear repellent stones?

    Bears don't roam once they build a semiconductor fab on their habitat.