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  1. Re:While you're at it, build in crime prevention on The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    A terrorist will manage to communicate one way or another. Money is ostensibly a tangible thing but I expect my bank with be secure enough to get insurance to cover any losses.

    The government does not need a stranglehold on information to effectivly deal with either issue or any issue for that matter. Having dealt with them fighting kiddie porn they are not interested in anything thats not a slam dunk with 10 minutes work.

  2. Re:Vienna Virginia solved this on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Have fun with that. Do you realy think no through traffic regs are not enforceable?

  3. Re:Vienna Virginia solved this on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Hells I know a spot in Secaucus NJ that a physical gate closes during commuting times to stop through traffic. A bit north of the AT&T Datacenter actualy.

  4. Re:Air-gap on FTC Has Serious Concerns About IoT Security and Privacy (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Thus my I'm sure somebody could come up with an attack that jumps from one of these networks through vera or openhab to get further up the stack statement. And why both of those have very little access to anything. I would frankly be far more worried about somebody getting into one of these cloud connected HA controllers I picked gear specifically that will work without an internet connection.

  5. Re:Air-gap on FTC Has Serious Concerns About IoT Security and Privacy (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    I have what I think is a fairly proper setup. If you want access to camera's thats wired with VPN access. You could get on my zwave network and what look at thermostats and dimmers? Sure you could turn the lights on but nothing more mischievous that costing me some money, you could see when I'm moving about and what temperature etc. Wifi you could know how much propane is in my grill and that network deadends. Primary security is hardwired it keeps my insurance guy happy, I've got some RF in that if you were realy crafty you could block it and break into my shed and get away with garden tools. I've got some proprietary radios you could turn up my hot tub or read my weather station. I'm sure somebody could come up with an attack that jumps from one of these networks through vera or openhab to get further up the stack but you still need to get past network levels controls to get out of the HA portion of the network or even into the CCTV portion.

  6. Re:barcode on Olympic Athletes To Sport Visa's New Payment Ring In Rio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Without a battery?

  7. Re:Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We call it impeding traffic, cyclist are not allowed to use the full lane unless the entire road is too narrow to allow passing with the 3 foot safety in these parts. Seems like a good thing to me.

    As far as corners sorry physics says your bike loses every time, as I said my state does not allow bikes to use the full lane and any road where it's a 45-55mph speed limit it's wide enough for a bike to stay on the side. If your mid road you're allready in the wrong when you get hit.

  8. Re:not impressed. on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be great, no officer my ai car did it all by itself. The screen flashed red and just ran into them.

  9. Re:Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    20+mph You must live in the flatlands. How many kids can do that in places where we have hills? 20mph is still a safety issue in roads try 55mph traffic and blind corners.

    In any event we have no issues with kids bikes on sidewalks, the adult cyclists use the roads.

  10. Re:Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing it's legal where I am and firmly suggested fro children.

  11. Re:Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You must live in very different burbs, our sidewalk are rather wide 4 people abreast easily 8+ on the main road (all of a mile or so of it) and no sidewalks once your are off through streets. Mind you I said children adult bicyclists get to use the side of the road. A pack of 10 year olds can use the sidewalk all they want.

  12. Re:Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in the burbs to rural, were smart kids use the sidewalks it's safer for them. I didn't say it was technically legal but these are laws made by city folk for city folk. We do not realy have to contend with massive throngs of people using the sidewalks. Try biking down main st a cop will tell you to get up on the sidewalk and stop being an idiot.

    Around here we call a cyclist using a full lane obstructing the flow traffic and patently dangerous. 45+ mph speed limits and plenty of turns bike doing 5mph going to cause an accident.

  13. Disable cycleist hum on Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop the noise pollution the 3 adults that ride bikes on the road around me can deal. The kids are smart enough to use the sidewalks.

  14. Re:Have at least three models on Sundar Pichai Says Google Will Be 'More Opinionated' About Nexus Design (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Would love a 5p, I dont want a phablet. I do want more CPU umph and can we get back qi charging :)

  15. Re:Because I don't want external devices on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    Yea cause a roku stick is so hard to find space for?

  16. Re:Wife Approval Factor on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 2

    Get a harmony remote. Wife presses watch movie button all the right bits come up etc etc, wife presses off button things all go off.

  17. Re:Same reason TV VCR's sold so well. on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    They could actualy smarten up the HDMI port.

    A tv with a port that will take my preference in smarts would be great.
    It should support passthrough of ethernet, expose full remote functionality in a useful way.

    Bonus points for direct controls for things like picking audio outputs, that way my smart device might play the news over built in speakers while the move though the attached receiver.

    The foundation is there it's the implementation that needs work.

  18. Re:There nothing YouTube can do about this... on YouTube Threatens Legal Action Against Video Downloader (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Brick and mortar stores can not even seem to figure out what's in any given store at any given time. Sure you have loss from theft but pretty sure 4 bikes walked out the door etc. So drive down to find out they lied to you, great customer services guys.

  19. Re:He's wrong of course on Net Neutrality Is Complicated: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's not net neutrality that should be forcing them to upgrade but rather existing fraud false advertising etc laws, an ISP needs to responsible to upgrade all circuits within it's network up to and including connecting to other networks. Otherwise they are not honestly offering 75mbs or whatever they are selling. Now I say circuits, wireless is a different beast and frankly where you have the most ability to vote with your feet. In the meantime any ISP with any monopoly rights needs to be held this net neutrality standards and require any transit providers they use do the same.

    Try working in B2B hosting segment you pretty much have to give out your mrtg graphs for all your transit circuits. You better be able to handle at least one failure if not failure in everything in that fiber path or you're not going to get much business. But unlike last mile ISP's people can pick and choose.

    Long term the last mile should go municiple as in full fiber from home to CO, let the ISP's use CWDM to light up customers. That keeps ISP's in the ISP business and muni's in taking care of that last mile. Fact is fiber that was put in in the 70's works perfectly well today and nobody expects that to change. Fact is that same fiber can easily handle 100x as much bandwidth than the current top end consumer services (gigabit to the home) on a single channel.

  20. Re:From a security perspective... on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    You do relize that those oh so bad programs are ancient? Back when you could not export any sort of crypto as it was considered a munition. Back when encryption was a massive amount of CPU time. We did have ways Kerberos existed, legally getting them out of the USA was very tricky.

    If you're realy worried about lusers cgroups gives you far more protection than killing processes of a logged off user.

  21. Re:From a security perspective... on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    I question whether it's technically better or change to sell consulting hours etc etc.

    What technical issue does this fix vs how much does it break. I've never gone OMG let me go clean up user processes left behind after logout it's taking my server down. I do not recall hearing others complain about the same. It's unix we have had the ability to spawn long running background processes forever and it's a known useful feature. Systemd is doing the old way is broken use the new way to get the same functionality. People seem to disagree with the old way being broken, I do. To me it makes far more sense to add something to logout maybe logout --killall or some such (mind you that may well allready exist) than have the init system killing processes. If I realy want my init system doing this I would want it restricted to a dumbusers group but a global on/off (I'm making assumptions here have not looked at the particulars for this "feature" as I have no need besides disabling it) seems far to heavy handed.

    What this realy boils down to is them making a new way to do the old thing in an embrace and extend sort of way. How long till there is a global find/replace and the problem case is the same. Your problem user case will figure out the new way and your no better off.

  22. Re:From a security perspective... on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because for most linux is not a desktop os, we use it one servers. I've had logged in screen sessions that date back to when machines were built. Systemd keep thinking that people want it for a desktop os, for their laptop etc. I've got literally thousands of physical boxes running linux that I deal with I've only got one linux laptop so the laptop scenario should never be the default for me, the systemd devs seem to keep thinking their linux laptops are the majority.

  23. Re:Reasonable expectations. on Ruby on Rails Creator Supports After-Work Email Bans (signalvnoise.com) · · Score: 1

    As a business owner my people do get calls etc etc outside of their normal work days. If they are on salary they take a comp day. If they are hourly I pay them 4 hours overtime (assuming the emergency takes less than 4 hours). This is not hard people.

    In this the salaried guys get screwed a bit since on a work day they get nothing but they also get the benefits of salary, need to rush out to pick up sick kid at school, doctors appointments, hours are your own etc etc.

  24. Re:Sure It's reinventing the flight recorder, but. on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    It still not change the SAR effort, you have to do it immediately on a chance of survivors thats your first 72 hours or so after that it's body recovery to give family closure.

  25. Correct either is illegal thats my point. Because it's illegal to keep a copy you should be allowed to sell it. We gave publishers of creative works a special right to encourage them to create. There is no need to give them more rights, the ability to resell a work will not make them make less works they do not need another right.