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  1. Re:I have a simpler approach... on How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain · · Score: 2

    10 years? I first noticed that traceroute was showing my connections bouncing around half a dozen addresses in Cheltenham on their way from one part of London to another in 2000.

  2. Re:There is no training on How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? · · Score: 1

    The company WANT me to do that because ... there is a $1.20 tax deduction for every $1.00 they spent on training

    That's the reason, everything else is just a side-effect.

  3. Re:(intentionally blank) on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    Car anolgy fail. Your car doesn't require a fuel tank replacement every time it runs out, and it doesn't refuse to start when the fuel light comes on.

  4. Re:My bank is the worst. on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 1

    no capitalisation allowed

    The bank's response: How can a 4 digit number have capitals anyway?

  5. Re:Too similar on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or they frequently forget their password, and after getting sick of all the support requests for password reset, an automated password reset system is put in place that has more security holes than the passwords they are trying to block. Even if the system is not automated, think about the potential for social engineering attacks when forgotten passwords are a daily annoyance for helpdesk staff that they just want to get out of the way as soon as possible.

  6. Re:Holy crap... on .Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain · · Score: 1

    Mirrored on .dupe

  7. Re:I was really hoping... on .Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain · · Score: 1

    With the overuse of technical jargon in jumbled sentences that don't really have any meaning, I'm sure the implication in the summary is that .onion is reserved for satire.

  8. Re:And in most cases it is wrong on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 1

    $5 an email means what exactly - $5 per support email you send to the hosting company? If it's $5 per email passing through a cloud hosted email server, I don't see how that can be economical for any company, and will soon lead to disputes over whether a sudden deluge of spam shortly before the hosting company posts its year-end financial results is actually a malicious attempt at extracting revenue or unlucky coincidence.

  9. Re:And in most cases it is wrong on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 1

    In reality a hosted cloud is more expensive and less secure in almost all cases.

    For a large company that is probably true. For smaller companies that have one overworked IT support worker, cloud hosting makes sense in a lot of cases for both security and cost reasons.

  10. Re:I always assumed they were on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    The purpose of a TSA lock is so the TSA can open and inspect your baggage. They have the right to do so (and many countries I presume use TSA keys as they have that right).

    No, in most countries the equivalent of TSA request that you open the luggage yourself in front of them if they want to inspect it. Only in the US are they given master keys and the power to open suitcases behind closed doors for the purposes of planting phoney evidence or whatever it is law enforcement agencies do these days.

  11. Re:I guess it makes sense.... on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    He's already proved himself to be an inconsistent hypocrite, so he is probably well qualified for politics.

  12. Re:No sources on Vulnerabilities In WhatsApp Web Affect Millions of Users Globally · · Score: 1

    Here is the Checkpoint blog entry on the vulnerability. The vulnerability is real, I got an unsolicited message last week with a "vcard" attached, but since it was unsolicited and not from someone I know, I deleted the conversation and blocked the user without looking at it. Now I'm wishing that I'd at least kept a record of who it was from so I can figure out who was doing the spearphishing.

  13. Re:Visibility of version number on Vulnerabilities In WhatsApp Web Affect Millions of Users Globally · · Score: 1

    If you are running the vulnerable version there is a green banner in the sidebar with a saying an update is available.

  14. Re:Very pokey and slow on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    And likely the first iteration of commercially available autonomous driving will be focused on specific easy and low risk tasks like this (you could say that with adaptive cruise control and lane departure warning we are almost there already). Very low speed manoeuvring (autonomous parking) and long distance cruising on dual carriageway roads is the low hanging fruit of autonomous driving. Urban driving is where the hard stuff is, and while Google has made great progress it is still a long way from becoming universal.

  15. Re:How is this legal? on Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men · · Score: 1

    More specifically, the specification of jurisdiction in a contract applies to a contractual dispute only. If you are disputing under other laws that clause is irrelevant.

  16. Re:Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    I don't know how else you're supposed to come to any conclusion about suitability of encrpytion algorithms without either taking someone else's word somewhere along the line or doing your own full proof.

  17. Re:Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 0

    You might do okay at coding web sites. But even then: if you don't understand how the encryption works, how do you know what method to use for encrypting the passwords on your website. Should you just take someone's word for it? (Answer: no. And yet that's how bcrypt became popular.)

    In other words, any web developer who has not worked through their own proof of the Fermat-Euler theorum is not qualified to call themselves a good programmer.

  18. Re:So what? on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 1
    Seriously, Al Jazeera is blocked in the US?

    I know Dubya and co were targeting them and Reuters for being the only independent press operating in Iraq instead of being embedded under contol of the US military, but I'd have thought that within the US borders at least, your Constitutional Right to Free Speech was still being upheld.

  19. Re:This on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 1

    unless I am wrong - I've never been, is somewhere in the South Pacific

    You're wrong, Malaysia is between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

  20. DNA testing of waste? on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So the owner of the cat that my dog ate yesterday will get the bill for cleaning up when it gets expelled tomorrow?

  21. Re:What does Science have to say about this? on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    Science says that it is time they upgraded the mother to N. Or skip N and go directly to AC.

  22. Re:keep honest people safe on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 2

    When they cam for the perverts, I said nothing, for I was not a pervert?

    If I catch my daughter camming for the perverts, I certainly am not saying nothing.

  23. Re:Great thing, but can this really work? on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 1

    A lot of the most successful northen countries, especially in Europe. are 80, 85, 90% homogeneous. Most of the immigrants come from similar countries.

    Sweden is 80% "homogenous", it is true. And most of the immigrants come from similar countries like Iraq, Syria, former Yugoslavia, Iran, Poland and Somalia, you are right.

    In the US, you're talking more around 65%~, and because of the size of the country, even those are divided in 2 (eg: on health care).

    In the US as a whole, you are talking about 72%. In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and West Virginia its almost 95%. The US as a whole is pulled down by a handful of your biggest states, which have almost as many white Hispanics as white Americans. But keep kidding yourself that your problems are caused by not having enough Aryans.

  24. Re:Great thing, but can this really work? on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that not only the employment laws of your country need to be modernised, but your education system too? It seems you are from 1930's Germany BTW, based on the implication of your beliefs in your last sentence.

  25. Re:Great thing, but can this really work? on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ask Sweden. This is pretty much the legal minimum there.