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  1. Re:What benefit are we missing? on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that to any smart person is a complete joke.

    You sound mad, not amused and not at all "completely" amused.
    Therefore by your own logic, you can't be one of the smart people you're talking about. Too bad, because it looks like pointing out how smart you are was more or less the whole point of your post, Mr. "fakefuck39".

    Now, unlike others in this thread, I am not going to try to explain to a moron that he is a moron.

    Talk about comedy.

    People who say dumb shit like you do, which I realize to you sounds perfectly fine, are entertaining.

    You still don't sound entertained, and given that your reply is longer than the original thing you're replying to, I guess the main source of entertainment here, if any, is you. It's a little bit adorable and makes me want to pat you on the head.

    The day can get fairly boring

    Try finding a job, then you won't have to spend all those boring days in the safe confines of your mum's basement.

    and having people like you talk - it's like a comedy show all around you.

    Pot, meet kettle.

    having morons think they are smart and attempt talking scientifically about things helps me locate them quickly and avoid conversations with them.

    ...he said, while making conversation with one of the people he just said he'd avoid making conversations with. You're truly a special sort of retarded, quite impressive.

    We then make fun of you behind your back

    Yup, par for the course.

    and often to your face in ways you immediately recognize, but have grown so tired of, you don't even bother reacting to

    FTFY. Protip: the joke is usually on you. Try to be more original.

    At work, I like to greenlight people like you. Set them up and even give them a little push on projects, and make them look like morons at the end when things fail. That helps me succeed.

    It doesn't surprise me that you have to go that route in order to succeed.

    You're a moron. No, I won't explain why. But keep saying things.

    I think you couldn't have made it more clear who's the real moron here. Yes, I just explained why, no, I'm not confident you'll get it.
    Please avoid saying things whenever possible.

  2. $ taskset
    -sh: taskset: command not found
    $ ls -ld /usr/pkgsrc/*/*taskset*
    ls: /usr/pkgsrc/*/*taskset*: No such file or directory
    $ locate taskset
    /mnt/huge/cmport/repo/cm/external/busybox/miscutils/taskset.c
    /mnt/huge/cmport/repo/cm/external/busybox/testsuite/taskset.tests
    $
     
    :(

  3. Netscap^H^H^H^H^H^HFirefox announces that [...]

    What is this NFirefox? I hadn't heard about it yet. New firefox? Next firefox?

    That said, am I the only one who does NOT want multi-process simply because it's annoying as fuck already that firefox hogs ONE core? I don't want it to hog EVERY core, for resource waste, noise and temperature reasons.

  4. Re: Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 2

    You also [have] no control over transparent caching proxy servers used by your ISP,

    Yes, you do. It's called https.

  5. Re:Everyone's saying it, so I will too... on Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not imply causation. There, now that the elephant in the room has been addressed...

    TFS addressed that elephant already.

  6. Re: Go go Godzilla! on Japan Successfully Launches Solid Fuel Rocket (oann.com) · · Score: 1

    mom?
    MOM?
    MOOOOOOOOOOM!

  7. Re:And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And you conveniently ignore that none of the mentioned sources backs the one claim I was curious about in any meaningful way, and some are pretty questionable.
    Do you know all those stories about X hacking Y, when it turns out that prior physical access to Y/an already compromised Y/etc was required to pull off the hack in the first place? Yeah, I thought so.

    Ah, and there it is. Love that elitist "In the developed world", and yet you couldn't be bothered to know anything outside of your bubble, or be bothered to look it up when your error was pointed out. And even when it's put right in front of you, you shrug it off and are insulting...fwiw, I lived in your "developed world" for six years...you've got nothing on us. It's okay, we forgive you.

    From the tone of that, I'd say pot meet kettle.

  8. Re:And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ca...

    In a dramatic demonstration, he and his colleagues use a laptop computer to hack into a car being driven by Stahl. Much to her surprise, they were able to take control of many of the car's functions, including the braking and acceleration.

    Yeah that's, like, very credible. (Have you actually bothered to read the full thing?).

    http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/22...

    In a controlled test, they turned on the Jeep Cherokee's radio and activated other inessential features before rewriting code embedded in the entertainment system hardware to issue commands through the internal network to steering, brakes and the engine.

    Translation: their commands were ignored or didn't even reach the intended systems. If they had actually managed to "disable the brakes", they'd probably mention it in a bit more than a vague subsentence like that.

    http://www.infoworld.com/artic...

    They also cause the steering wheel to jerk around by making the car think it's in reverse and activating the auto-park feature, and thanks to their hacks, the car's brake pedal ceased to work entirely.

    Translation (if honest): at very low speeds, we can actually disable the brake pedal.
    Color me impressed. I'm glad that car wouldn't be allowed on EU roads.

    In fact, Valasek and Miller ask Greenberg to turn off the car after their speedometer prank, most likely to head off the car deploying its airbag when its speed drops rapidly from 199mph to the actual number, which the car would interpret as a crash.

    That's a wild, and wrong, guess. That's not how airbags deploy.

    http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech...

    I honestly tried to watch the video but it's unclear which of the few dozens 3rd party javascripts to allow for it to actually play.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    Not only does the computer weakness allow hackers to manipulate the locks and turn off the engine, it also enables them to cut the brakes. They can even take over the steering wheel if the car is in reverse

    That sounds like the paragraph above re-digested.

    https://www.ic3.gov/media/2016...

    [disabling the brakes at low speed only] (paraphrased)

    Meh.

    Well, at least I have learned that American cars may actually have brake-by-wire, fair enough. In the developed world, there are safety requirements, like a redundant physical link between the brake pedal and the actual brakes, that has to work regardless of failure of one of the brake-supporting systems.

  9. Re:Is it so hard to bake in a chron job? on Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron

    Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link!

    Symbolic link, eh? Yes, that's very correct, and likely what you'd read on wikipedia, or in a textbook.
    Unfortunately, 100% of the unix hacker population will say symlink. Next time you're pretending to be into unix, don't say "symbolic link". K?
    Textbook Shibboleth, BTW.

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron

    Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link!

    No, you don't. The symlink you're creating is backwards, or likely creating it would simply fail because /usr/sbin/cron (which you're trying to point to /usr/bin/chron) likely already exists. If it didn't exist, it would still not work, because /usr/bin/chron, the thing you're trying to create, doesn't exist, and therefore the symlink you're creating is broken. Apropos creating:

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron

    Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link!

    Symlinks are transparent to most operations, therefore there is no knowing "how to use" a symlink. See, if /foo/bar is a symlink to /etc/passwd, then using /foo/bar instead of /etc/passwd to ultimately refer to the same file requires absolutely no extra knowledge about your system, or your shell (hint: that's your command interpreter) or anything. Sure, you meant you know how to create a symlink, but (see paragraph above), you don't.

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron

    Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link!

    Now, why (assuming the symlink wasn't backwards) you'd go from sbin to bin is completely beyond me. Care to elaborate?

    sudo ln -s /usr/bin/chron /usr/sbin/cron

    Oh noes! I know how to use a symbolic link!

    Just so that I don't give the false impression that anything about the entire idea was sound, it's not. If you need it that badly, use a shell alias. Geez.

    The horror!

    Oh yes.

    Now when I type 'chron', it invokes 'cron'

    No it doesn't.

    and I dont get mad!

    Yes you do.

    It's in the user bin folder, instead of the user shared bin folder! How horrible!

    Indeed. Why in the fuck would you put your retarded symlink into /usr/share? If you want to appear as if you're familiar with unix, please do yourself a favor and read hier(7) or whatever. Protip: you want /usr/local/sbin. Memorize this for the next time.

    Nevermind that BOTH are in the fucking path statement

    You have /usr/share in $PATH? Why...? That makes no sense whatsoever

    Nevermind that BOTH are in the fucking path statement

    It's called an env[ironment] variable, a statement is something entirely different.

    tl;dr it's like you're not even trying. Time to learn some basics?

  10. Re:He'll need to go deep & fast on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Then they should at least rename to Unter. Or Ünter, for the sake of consistency.

  11. Re:He'll need to go deep & fast on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    how deep do you have to tunnel to make sure you don't hit anything man-made?

    Deeper than the last guy (is what she said, I know, I know). And hey, once you're done, you have made something man-made to hit at the new, previously unoccupied depth.

  12. Re:Is it so hard to bake in a chron job? on Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    I make a simple invocation redirect in /usr/bin

    "chron", "invocation redirect", .... doing it in /usr/bin.

    Maybe stop pretending to be familiar with unixlike OS.

  13. Re:And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You thought you could find the answers by Googling for them?

    No, I thought he would fail to back his claims with a source.

    Then why not do it in the first place?

    Because I want to know what exact story he is referring to, instead of wasting time searching for a needle in a haystack.
    Hint: the needle is a remote hack that doesn't require prior physical access/an already-compromised vehicle/cooperation by the driver, etc.

    That, and part of my asking was rhetorical, because at least "turning off the brakes" is impossible, for cars permitted on EU roads at least.

    So, I'm still waiting.

  14. Re:And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought.

  15. Re:And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We have already seen people hack into cars and do things like turn off brakes

    Do you have a source on that? Because otherwise I'll have to call bullshit here.

    accelerate, and steer despite the driver trying to maintain control.

    Not as unbelievable, but I'd like to read about this too. Care to provide a source?

    [builds straw man, tears down]

    I don't think anybody is planning to solely rely on this system, let alone put it in charge of the actual driving.

  16. Re: Never saw the point of github on Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So your company has some odd thing for sinking ships? :-)

  17. Re:Just received this from Yahoo! yesterday on Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Your search - 36a7d045d7b15123b79602889074cb16 - did not match any documents.

    Not anymore.

    That said, my search - 2ab96390c7dbe3439de74d0c9b0b1767 - did match some pertinent documents.
    And <wild guess>you might have accidentally digested a trailing newline from echo(1) along with your data.</wild guess>

    That said, googling the hash is the lazy approach. If you're serious about it, download a rainbow table. Every 8-letter combination of printable ASCII chars in there, fits on a 2TB disk (stored as a plain key-value lookup table, that's 156878 TB worth of data).

    I'd say Joe Luser rarely picks passwords longer than 8 chars. And I don't suppose you're going to tell me that yahoo bothered to salt their md5 hashes...

    So overall you can consider the vast majority of those passwords to be compromised. Naturally, they'll find their way into much smaller, real-world-passwords lookup tables...

  18. Re: Never saw the point of github on Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    More or fewer years than that story about sourceforge bundling crapware together with the downloads from projects hosted there goes back?

  19. Re:Just received this from Yahoo! yesterday on Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    hashed passwords

    Nice! I honestly was expecting plaintext passwords. But hashed! Companies are learning!

    (using MD5)

    Oh, wait.

    the stolen information did not include passwords in clear text

    ayy, until you google the hash.

  20. Re:Big whoop! Supercritical steam! I'm sooo afraid on Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  21. Starting next year, they MAY access your data. Prior to 23 January 2017, they COULD [] access your data.

    FTFY. It's delusional to assume the people who run the damn service were somehow magically unable to access their own damn files.

  22. you don't need to touch the registry. [...] open file location of cortena. Rename the folder.

    That really is a worse hack than fucking with the registry.

  23. Re:Poor CEO of Reddit on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it happen to you a lot that you find yourself almost actually thinking?

  24. Re:Poor CEO of Reddit on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    His thin seems as skin as Trump's

    FTFY...

  25. Re:/. expired ssl cert on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely weird and bizarre, a Let's Encrypt certificate that had *expired*? How could that possibly.. oh wait, they expire every couple months.