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  1. Send your take-down notices and leave please.

  2. I've read aloud the Gettysburg Address. If you were quoting it would you attribute it to me? or Abraham Lincoln?

  3. Re:I can't understand how companies can be so stup on Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Protection money" doesn't cover protection from other criminals, it only means "nice business you got there, shame if something were to happen to it".

    Not in any sane protection racket scheme, even wikipedia can tell you this
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

    In an extortion racket, the racketeers agree simply to not attack a business. In a protection racket the criminals agree to defend a business from any attack. Conversely, extortion racketeers will have to defend their clients if threatened by a rival gang to avoid the client transferring their allegiance.

    Yes it's possible for the people running the racket to be morons, but the end result is someone else will come in and sway their client to them and actually protect them from the original gang.

  4. I bought a couple of these early last year. Computers that are powered over nfc are common place. It's just a contactless smartcard *yawn*

  5. Re:Feinstein is one of those on US Anti-Encryption Law Is So 'Braindead' It Will Outlaw File Compression (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When did Carly Fiorina run against Feinstein?

  6. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Wash your hands before you take a whiz.

    I learned this the hard way making a bonfire when someone gave me wood covered in poison ivy that I couldn't see due to it being dark.

  7. Re:apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why a cop can flip traffic around and tell you to go the wrong way down a one-way street because there's an accident in an intersection

    Contraflow lane reversal is generally on the lawbooks specifically enumerated. The police aren't instructing you to do anything illegal when they do that.
    You must follow any lawful order from a peace officer. A peace officer can't compel you to do something illegal. He can arrest you for refusing but if it truly is legal a judge should let you off and another judge should give you a nice settlement later. A judge on the other hand essentially decides what is illegal so he more or less can compel you to do something you feel is illegal.

  8. Re:Who was it? on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a small percentage of gun owners have the patience to hand-load. I've done it, and it's slow going.

    You must have never used a progressive press. After the initial setup all you do is pull the handle and a fully loaded bullet comes out.

  9. Theres the UID key needed to decrypt the flash key, and it is in fact stored in the processor and inaccessible. The difference between it and the secure enclave is the secure enclave contains the whole flash key instead of just the key to decrypt the flash key and the secure enclave erases itself through the unupdatable firmware on it, whereas without the secure enclave erasure of the flash key is done by the operating system.

    Having the encrypted flash key is worthless without that uid as it is impossibly difficult to decrypt. Look into how long it would take to decrypt aes-256. If the fbi could get that UID key then they would have decrypted the flash key already. This is all explained in the aclu's blog on this. Try reading the article the summary links to man.

  10. I've been saying the same thing for months: the key is stored (albeit encrypted itself) in flash, so all you need to do is to back up the flash chip

    And everyone else has been saying for months that part of the key is stored in the cpu in a region that is not readable. So all you need to do to back up the key is disassemble the cpu and hope you don't destroy it in the process.

  11. Re:192.168.0.2 Is The Offending IP on Microsoft To Court: Make Comcast Give Us Windows-Pirating Subscriber's Info (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    On the moderation page, all poster's IP addresses are listed, and they're all the machine's personal IP, not their connection's public IP.

    Uh, how does the server even get their internal nat ip? the whole point of network address translation is at the border their router translates it to the public ip. Their web browser never sends their internal ip your server just sees the public ip.

  12. Re:Does anyone actually install a JRE any more? on Brazilian Coders Are Pioneering the First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files · · Score: 1

    They still have JVMs

    No they don't. all of he "JVM" stuff for ios runs on the development machine and does static translation to native code.

    (android even moved BACK to oracles and ditched Dalvik)

    No they didn't. They ditched the harmony project and started using the openjdk libraries.
    The VM itself is still dalvik only instead of going right from dalvik opcodes to native code it goes dalvik->llvm->native code.
    Android does not and has never supported java bytecode. You must recompile java bytecode to dalvik bytecode on your development ahead of time. Just like if you want to use java with ios. This means a jar file containing java bytecode will not and can not run on iPhones or android phones.

  13. Re:Does anyone actually install a JRE any more? on Brazilian Coders Are Pioneering the First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files · · Score: 1

    Almost every smart phone does.

    Almost every smart phone, except for Android and iPhone where the JRE isn't available at all...

  14. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Reaction time and experience are the two most important things. New computers will always come with faster reaction times and more experience. Whereas new drivers only come with faster reaction times, they always have less experience than the older models.

  15. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 2

    Having control over one's transport is a core component of liberal (as in liberty) society.

    We've reached the point with modern vehicles that the government has more control over your car than you do. See things like onstar. You already need to purchase an older vehicle if you want control over your transport. Throwing self-driving cars into the mix doesn't change that very much at all. But self driving vehicles do open up personal transport to people who are otherwise incapable of operating a vehicle. Thereby offering the same liberty you enjoy now to a wider range of people.

  16. Re:trying to figure out how to survive on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    If by "here" you mean the USA then thats federal law so all states.

  17. Re:trying to figure out how to survive on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    since your spouse would have to claim the support as income and pay taxes on it.

    http://family.findlaw.com/child-support/child-support-and-taxes-q-a.html/

    A: No, child support payments are not considered taxable income, according to the IRS. Child support payments are neither deductible by the payer nor taxable to the payee. So when you calculate your gross income to see if you are required to file a tax return, do not include child support payments received.

    Not sure where you get your info from but it looks like it may be out of date.

  18. Re:MAI v. Peak on Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have To Fix Copyright Law (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know congress made MAI v. Peak irrelevant in 1998 right?

  19. Re:no, without linefeeds it says PRI*HTTP/2.0SM on HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' (jgc.org) · · Score: 1

    HTTP is Hyper TEXT transfer protocol, it makes sense that it is text.

    Yes its for transmitting hypertext, ie text documents that contains links to other text documents. IE exactly what HTTP/2.0 is doing. Hypertext refers to the content not the protocol.

  20. Re: thats strange on VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    more efficient Otto cycle

    Well no wonder they needed the cheat device! these are Diesel cycle engines!

  21. Re:Charger cables on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As compared to the old nokia charger which had a 850 mA limit?

  22. Re:System76 prices are also a bit high on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well considering you said computer, yes if you redefine the terms. I'd bet though your cheaper laptops dont have half the specs of the $700 system76 laptop

  23. Re:SQL Injection... really? on VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    bind variables can be used for any value that can vary, thats the whole point of them.

  24. Re:System76 prices are also a bit high on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Whats wrong with buying two systems with "a decent OS" for $500 at system76.com?

  25. Re:Everyone has to learn about it. on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    For the simplest selects and inserts PHP could easily provide an interface that escapes the arguments. That would make it more natural for the lazy programmer to realize when he is doing queries that he has to think about.

    If you're escaping your sql inputs you're part of the problem. SQL injection has been known to work on escaped strings using unicode tricks. Use bound parameters in parameterized queries and its not an issue at all.