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  1. Re: More likely reasons for 2FA: on Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    > I mean, it's not like facebook provide identity services, allowing a facebook login to be used for accessing other services run by third parties. If they offered that service, things might be different.

    They do.

  2. Re:Good luck with that, I just won't upgrade anymo on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If the problem was certificates, we would've pushed new certificates. It's the ancient SSL/TLS implementations that are the problem.

    I agree that IPMI controllers, in general, don't have their security well-implemented. That's the whole reason we have a physically isolated network for the IPMI traffic in the first place.

  3. Re:Good luck with that, I just won't upgrade anymo on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My pet peeve -- all the IPMI management consoles whose SSL causes firefox/chrome to refuse to even allow you to request to ignore the weak encryption, then the java console access applets which new versions of Java refuse to let you load.

    All of our IPMI interfaces are connected via a physically separate network, which only a single locked-down machine has access to. It ends up being quicker to open a ticket to ask someone down in the DC go touch the hardware instead of trying to manage some things remotely over IPMI

  4. Re:Mechanical storage on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This is me being naiive, but if it's a stationary, land-based installation, do you really care if you need flywheels that are 20x as massive as comparable Li batteries? A slug of iron's gotta be a lot cheaper than a mountain of lithium, right?

  5. Re:why on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    net energy consumption was pretty negligible

    As long as you have infinite empty cars uphill :)

  6. Okay, then what? on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    The docs roughly say, "POSIX is crufty and a bad API, we're not afraid to not implement those parts in order to get a cleaner interface".

    Okay, but what does this new API look like instead? Will the features enabled by these not-implemented APIs be reimplemented in some other, cleaner fashion? Or will that functionality just not be provided at all?

  7. Virtual memory? on Nvidia GPUs Can Leak Data From Google Chrome's Incognito Mode (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Question from a layman: Do GPUs have a physical-virtual memory mapping? Ex: Could process A get space on the GPU, then when process B requests memory, the GPU would give process B the physical pages process A used to have (while copying the actual data over) to defragment the physical pages, leaving B with a copy of what A used to own? Or, perhaps process B requests so much memory that the texture space requested by process A gets paged out to main memory?

  8. That's true. I wonder what the $/kg for mining lunar He3 compares with building a ton of nuclear bombardment facilities works out. Not that any of it is at all practical anyway...

  9. 1) the vast majority of earth helium is He4, which has some undesirable properties for fusion

    2) even if it was all He3, there's not a lot of helium. He is light enough that it simply floats away from the earth

  10. Re:Sadly.. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the 80/20 rule? I know I'm guilty of doing the "exciting" stuff on little libraries, then when it comes to the bits like packaging/documentation/etc.., putting it off to "later". It's just not as fun to do those little maintenance stuff as it is the neat parts

  11. Re:Sadly.. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    Keeping up w/gimp a little bit, I know they were working on library-izing the codebase a few years ago. Did that ever get done?

  12. Chromecast sticks? on Ask Slashdot: Tiny PCs To Drive Dozens of NOC Monitors? · · Score: 2

    If it's strictly browser-based, chromecast sticks (not the boxes) should work. Google is advertising that use, no less.

  13. Idiomatic Java? on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    I learned Java way back in the 5 days. Obviously things have changed since then (and I was much less experienced). What examples are there of "the right way" Java applications?

    For instance, is there a performant HTTP server/proxy that keeps pace with something like nginx whose source I could browse to see the state of the art?

  14. Re:Why to develop anything? on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 2

    People don't magically create software where there isn't a gap to fill (fucking about user interfaces excepted of course).

    Everything systemd aside, that's not true. The NIH-syndrome is alive and well. Instead of working on and improving existing software, a LOT of people want to start from scratch just so they can have their braces in the place they like to see them. For instance, I was poking around with protobuf earlier and saw that there are five javascript bindings.

  15. Re:So perhaps /. will finally fix its shit on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    And if you install your CA on the machines, you can still use a local caching proxy.

  16. Re: Dallas? on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    The straight sections help focus the beams down into tighter bunches

  17. Re: Wake me up... on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    He was saying you don't have to cast

  18. Re:Haswell has a chance if it can emulate ARM inst on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 1

    since you wouldn't even need to recompile applications for different platforms if the backend is handled properly.

    I'd say that's a huge "if", given the number of apps that put the "magic" in C shared libraries to make it easier to port to different platforms

  19. Honest question on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intel has a mountain of money, the various ARM SoC guys have a pretty large revenue stream (though it's fragmented...). Is it reasonable to say that Intel's money they have to devote to pushing their power usage down is large enough to overcome ARM's advantage, or does ARM have some sort of inherent advantage (+ ARM's supporters' money) that will keep them at least at parity?

  20. Re:Now.. on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 2

    Which is why someone needs to make a fully functional LibreOffice for Android.

    I'm still waiting for someone to make a fully functional (Libre|Open)Office for my desktop...

  21. You're a fucking idiot on Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you think someone broke into your Skype account to call 5 random countries? They're all toll numbers in Africa. The damage is done and you lost

  22. Re:Not a daily-use thing on Google Maps Directions Adds Real-Time Traffic Estimates · · Score: 1

    The speed limit is the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at

    Absolutely not. I-88 outside of chicago (part of my commute) has a speed limit of 55, and the only two times I've ever seen people traveling under 70 was in rain or if there was a cop in the median. Every city I've lived in has the same effect.

    Speed limits are a number of things, but they're certainly not "the speed other drivers expect you to be driving at"

  23. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    I don't think we're that far apart. Certainly the idea that a university should ban everything is stupid. I was just saying that people who dedicate their lives to teaching appreciate students that pay attention and succeed. Saying: "why should the teachers care if the students or pass" disregards why those people enter education compared to other careers

  24. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    I might as well have just stopped reading your post there, they might lock you in to studying with them for 4 years but you are allowed to move off campus you know.

    Many universities don't allow you to move out of the dorms (the cynic in me says it's for the $$, but who knows). I went to a tiny school in a really rural location and even if we wanted to move out, there were more students in the town than actual people in the town (1400 students, 800 residents), so it would've never worked to have people spread around.

  25. Re:It's their bandwidth ... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    Then why are you bitching about it on Slashdot? Chances are, none of us are the administration you're railing against. It *is* their network and their rules. If you don't like the food, the internet, the dorms then your options are to complain to them or leave. If it's not providing the things you want to have, then you've probably made a bad choice when you were applying to schools. (assuming they didn't mislead you on what they were providing)

      My university didn't allow cable TV in the dorms (they didn't even have the hookups), and I didn't run around trying to find a few miles of coax to string a cable to my room. They also have an amazing cafeteria, and I love eating food, so it made a lot of sense to go there :)