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  1. Re:Not about fear on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 2

    Hydroelectric, problem is there are few good untaped spots for it.

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

    If they have assets in the US or anyplace thats far to nice to the US then yea they can be taken to court and a judgement enforced. In any event a court order in a criminal investigation is pretty much an absolute defence vs a civil court.

  3. Re:apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    DCMA would be civil a judges order for a criminal case provides pretty good cover. As far as criminal the state can grant you immunity.

  4. Re:apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have fun with that. THEM Hey FBI can ya get me a court order to do this? FBI Sure here ya go. The judge said I could is a rather good defence for a civil issue.

  5. Re:Simple Solution on The Internet of Things Is a Surveillance Nightmare (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a LOT of IoT devices oddly they can not connect to the internet. Frankly when you have devices and standards that need to last decades you're never going to cost effectivly put enough crypto on them. So build upon that assumption, break into my zwave network you can turn on lights or unlock a door or turn on the heat. You're not going to disable the security system merely some extra motion sensors. Break into my IoT wifi and you still can not get anywhere.

    At the end of the day the implementations that require the cloud to work are broken by design. I need my fridge to talk to my HA controler it should be the only thing that needs to talk to the world and be updated/replaced on a regular basis, no different that a wifi AP (frankly mosts homes it could easily live on the wifi ap). I need open standards not apple homekit lock in. Because at the end of the day nobody wants a maytag oven thats not compatible with their frigidaire freezer or samsung microwave but we also can not expect maytag to provide updates to new protocol 10,0 to a 20 year old oven. We can expect to get a HA controler than supports everything and keeps it reasonably secure within the confines of the protocol.

  6. Re:little spring lock tag things = bad design on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    That's only because it's cheap to make them in plastic, seen plenty of STP (shielded) RJ45's with metal clips. Those rubber boots are an ugly hack longer thinner bits work better.

  7. Re:A reliable standard on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    Your assuming that the low insertion count, inability to be easily field terminated etc are not a design features.

  8. Re:But pedestrians will need. on MIT Study Shows Stop Lights Won't Be Necessary In The Future (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the correct response, get the people off the road. Elevated platform tunnels etc etc etc.

    It realy does not matter as automated cars have to take pedestrians into account outside of cities we have plenty of rarely used crosswalks that do not have stop signs and traffic laws to always yield to crossing pedestrians. It actualy works here in the burbs/rural setting.

  9. Re:they will kill the taxi driver profession on Self-Driving Cars Should Be Legal Because They Pass Safety Tests, Argues Google (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Enough autonomous cars in NYC and no more rush hour congestion.

  10. Re:He basically said "give us a back door" on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We have that device now, TPM and similar chips need a complex physical design to prevent somebody from lapping them down and inspecting the contents directly. Thats an expensive process for sure and takes time. It's not a horrid compromise, you can just swap chips, need physical access etc.

    What he is asking for is a cheap easy way to do it as a matter of course.

  11. Re:For a constitutional lawyer... on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the government shouldn't get apple to backdoor every phone so they can correct their failure to install standard corp controls. Notice they want a signed IOS to do it, not hand apple the phone and let them they in effect get that ability on any phone of that type.

    It's a simple safe argument, the government can pay somebody to crack a safe. If it has failsafes that incinerate the contents when you do it happens. Nobody makes safe manufacturers tell the government how to open their safes, they might tell a locksmith they have a relationship with how the right place to drill etc.

    Forever people have been hiding things, burying them etc etc etc. We do not require notebook manufactures to embed tracking chips. In some cases when it was realy needed they did expensive exhaustive searches for this sort of evidence.

    A phone is no different they can send it off to get broken into it costs a lot of money so they are forced to do it only in the most extreme cases. What Obama wants iis for it to be cheap enough to be routine. That cost is a check on the government, lets remember that are still trying to call it ok to search a phone because it's on you for the most trivial of charges. Much like saying it's ok to search your house because your keys were on you (in relation to accessing cloud data that the keys to are on the phone).

  12. Being quiet and well mannered drinking with at least a little discretion tends to be allowed even where not legal. Simply too far down on the priority list to bother with. On the other hand have seen some bar cars that remind me of happy our at a pickup bar.

  13. He is guilty of intentionally causing interference on multiple licensed frequencies. If people were also breaking laws disturbing the beach etc sure get them but I doubt it noise laws are pretty lenient.

    Really if they guy can not stand other people he should get out the the cesspools that are cities.

  14. I am assuming the MTA is also an acronym for the chicago or some other subway system. It's also the acronym for the NYC though CT commuter rail that definitely allows drinking, has trains with bar cars and licenced vendors selling booze on the platforms. To the point where I swear the stock brokers buy houses within easy walking distance so they can get lit on the way home.

  15. Re:Who participated? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    So pregnancy is somehow a hurdle? It's a choice at least in the modern world. Rape has something to do with people ability to enter an engineering competition? With their ability to get an education?

    What institutional level racism or discrimination would a person of color have to deal with that a white male from appalachia would not have? The "justice" system comes to mind but not a lot else. Comparatively they have a lot of programs in their favor.

    Sorry your just a SJW with your check your privilege this or that. I'll give you a hint to check privilege in effect means to pull somebody down from there perceived unfair advantages, to say they have no right to the circumstances they were born and/or raised with. Want equality thats enabling people to rise as equals, additive vs subtractive. That's also a much harder sell, to say they are free to earn it that yes their parents are responsible for not giving them a specific advantage etc.

  16. Re:Ok, so... on New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams · · Score: 1

    Standard procedure at my sons school, phones go into the basket on way into class.

  17. Re:Decisions decisions on Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a socket 2011 mb, it's not like these are meant to go into a single socket board.

  18. Re:Who participated? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    I do not see that as much different than a white male who grew up in the poorest parts of the US. In many ways a member of a minority or female in the suburbs has a lot more access and opportunity. To often we make the bad leap from correlation that some group has statistically less representation in a field to that they are somehow excluded from that field. Asians/pacific islanders hold nearly twice their percentage in the overall population in new STEM degree's. American Indians/Alaskan Natives only about a third. In any event you have to look as why people are not choosing that field of work, poor education, societal values that do not value those sorts of fields, lack of role models, etc.

    In any event thats far far out of scope for a contest to deal with, you can not fix not having enough minorities or women with the appropriate skills as part of a less than two year competitive event. If anything you realy should not give anybody special treatment in a competitive event only the results matter. Initial outreach is probably as far as you can go without biasing towards those minorities or women. Longer term unbiased outreach to younger populations could even things out in the long run and remain fair.

  19. Re:Who participated? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because registering a team is somehow hard for minorities or women? The fact they had to use the internet or english? Please describe a change faced by these groups that a white male from Appalachia would not also face?

  20. Re:Awesome on Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    If you're going to do BLE, OpenCV, wired network etc a VM might be a better choice. Overall a higher level controller is a better choice for whats a HA task. HA as a bunch of one offs is a very poor solution, integration is the main usefulness of HA. If you going to use opencv your probably better off with some sort of CCTV camera to integrate with or start a home CCTV system, with opencv running on a vm, hell running on a modern wifi AP, or rpi. But would put the rpi as the least prefered option.

  21. Re:I don't find data caps to break NN on Comcast Hit With FCC Complaint Over Net Neutrality Violations (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If you let them skip NN for wholly owned they will vertically integrate and now you choice in ISP is you choice in streaming media, voip, gaming, etc etc. I have no issue with them pushing their own stuff it's cheaper for them and if the price/performance works out great. The caveat is they have to be held to task around their peering and transit connections insuring they are not over capacity etc. Oddly if there are still ever increasing penalties for an oversubscribed link it will get fixed quickly.

  22. Re:When will people learn? on Raspberry Pi 3 Is a Nice Upgrade, But Alternatives Exist With Faster Performance (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Itunes and the fashion accessory won that battle. Itunes quickly had the best selection and the devices themselves were a trendy accessory. The tech merely needed to be good enough.

    That realy has very little in relation to rpi etc.

    Apple does have a history of pushing high speed buses, early macs had a processor direct slot that could fit whole CPU upgrades, very cost effective networking that was standard, and SCSI as standard. Modern ones pushed usbc thunderbolt pcie ssd's etc. Overall modern macs are more about fashion and form with the odd stellar piece of hardware.

  23. Re:I don't find data caps to break NN on Comcast Hit With FCC Complaint Over Net Neutrality Violations (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure till its effectivly a walled garden. This es exactly what net neutrality has to protect us from. Then its the refusal to get enough bandwidth to any but preferred sites.

  24. Re:Worse issue on Paperless Statements Not Always Best Choice, Says New Report · · Score: 1

    I just renewed my license and the DMV specifically allowed printouts of electronic statements for the 2 required proof of address documents (for the idiotic federal ident bit).

  25. Thats right they are exercising their rights on New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We should ban them.