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  1. Re:Evade air defense? on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Those high powered ground based radars will be long gone by the time a bomber gets there.

  2. Re:Do you know how far bullets fly? on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    It was dismissed because the drone was harassing them. Rather hard to say a drone over a public street or is doing the same. They should not be overflying private property.

  3. Re: About as far as you can throw a strawman on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Birdshot is designed for this specific sort of thing, hitting a fragile flying object but not significant threat to anything else.

    Can we not just enforce existing peeping tom laws? They seem to cover this just fine. Common sense says not to fly over property you do not have permission or look into private spaces from property you do.

    The drone operator needs to be responsible for any property damaged caused by them being shot down and the person firing the gun for any 3rd party injury or death no different than if they were shooting at a burglar and accidently killed a neighbor.

  4. Re:Trump vs Clinton -- Whats different for voters on ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? (edn.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks about that way from here in the states as well.

  5. Wrong security model on Why IoT Security Is So Critical (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    The it's got wifi and connects to the cloud model is broken by design. It's a great marketing thing to make you replace your outdated bits every few years since they are no longer compatible. But a model that is reliant on lots of vendors to do constant updates to deal with newly uncovered issues fails as white good vendors forget about a model the instant a newer version comes out. All of the cloud features have been how can we nickle and dime you

    You need basic encryption/authentication/replay prevention on the network. The device(s) that control those networks need to be secure. We have openhab etc in the opensource side and a small pile of black boxes with varying levels of local intelligence. My vera can not reach the internet it's in an isolated network along with a few other IP based IoT like my garage door controler some DIY kit etc. Oddly it chugs along just fine with openhab relaying any external info it needs like when I should be arriving home or the weather forecast. Sure if there is a network level exploit to zwave, insteon, zigbee or whatever will need to get firmware upgrades on bits. Bet far better to make something thats not intended to be a 20+ year lifespan embed device be the thing thats get upgraded etc. The last thing I want is my fridge having to phone home to do anything, to be reliant that some cloud is still there and supports my 20-30-40 year old device. Sensors can be very well defined it's not like some software upgrade will add a new sensor. Lightbulbs are getting smarter with RGBW and color temps as well as dimming, would expect motion sensing ambient light levels etc to be pretty standard soon. But who wants to worry that the cheap chinese bulbs they got at walmart wont get security patches a couple years from now.

  6. Re: Capitalism at work on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    You're assuming no other regulation that patent, It's rather expensive to bring a new generic online. The FDA is slow to do the paperwork their are increased costs etc etc etc. It's so bad that a basic drug like tetracycline the only generic was made by the brand name for a while and the price went from pennies to dollars per pill overnight. The 2012 Generic Drug User Fee Amendments was supposed to make generics come online faster but has ended up shrinking the number of providers and the price hikes to go with them.

  7. Re:Outside of trading scams er markets on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    That should be a zoning issue, no new power lines above ground is not that hard to make happen.

  8. Outside of trading scams er markets on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 2

    Proximity is important just not that important. The smallest DC's I deal with are in commercial buildings at that's maybe 5k of raised floor. These building already much have generators since they have elevators. They are not so big they can not get ones that have good soundproofing. As far as fuel around here nearly everybody has a couple hundred gallons in their basement to run the furnace it's rather safe.

    Really isn't this a zoning issue datacenters at this scale should be in industrial space with established noise ordinances. It's realy not that hard to deal with noise leakage traditional methods work ok and some of the new but expensive ones do wonders.

  9. Re:Biggest problem? DRM, HDCP, bd+ on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    So stop buying DRMed content?

  10. Re:Plex + Roku on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    Plex, with roku frontends for TV's piles of other front ends (my Voip deskphone runs the plex app, actually rather nice for music). 30TB of usable space. Sickrage, couchpotato, and headphones feeds it. Mostly usenet as a source.

    I technically have cable and a cable card in a hd homerun (bundled internet+cable is cheaper than just internet at the same speed). All the hoops to jump though made it far more of a pita than it's worth.

  11. Re:Can Apple push extra software on the device? on Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    These sort of countdown clocks exist for other things. It would be extremely hard to fully implement as an app, they simple dont have the access. It might be able to erase a sdcard but not the rest.

  12. Re:Do not trust firmware or embedded hardware on Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack · · Score: 1

    But I am sure his resume said he had decades of experience and several PHD's in the subject even though he was only 25.

  13. Re:Can Apple push extra software on the device? on Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That would realy depend if it was running or not. If it was fully powered down it needs credentials to decrypt the storage and finish booting (I am assuming they are similar to android devices). If it's powered up and connected to even wifi what's stopping it from getting a remote wipe command?

    RF shielding is fairly easy, they make evidence collection bags for just this purpose they even keep the phone charged. Both major OS's have build in remote wipe capabilities. So you would need the carrier and the OS manufacturer to implement some specific firewalling so the phone can get on cell data and only get to the OS manufacture who would only send the unlocking app.

    Now why the OS would allow an app to be able to control a low level OS security function seems rather broken by design. OS updates should require user intervention as well.

  14. Re:Gun Control... on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't blow it up because they are hard to make very expensive to buy and probably not inline with whatever fantasy he was living out. He was obsessed with school shootings after all.

    If you're not equating them with violence then why pushing to make them even harder to get? So you're ok with denying that 20% of false positives without any proof that it will improve the situation at all? We have a extremely hard time accepting that we were wrong in this country when it comes to laws and repealing them. It took 13 years to figure out prohibition was idiotic that alcohol was not the root cause of wife beatings etc etc that the suffrage movement claimed it to be. And that pretty much is what the regulate guns push equates to the prohibition movement.

    The stats show no correlation with murder rate per capita vs number of guns per capita. Effective enforcement is much much harder to quantify, sure police states have less crime they are also police states not a reasonable tradeoff in my book.

    You do not seem to understand the cat is out of the bag, you're not going to be able to collect up all the guns from the "bad" people without resorting to draconian measures that our constitution was meant to prevent (this is exactly what they did pre revolutionary war). Even if you succeed people just move onto different methods. The UK has very strict gun laws funny the most common method is sharp implement. The murder rate relates to far far more then just how available guns are to potential criminals. It's not about how people kill people it's about why they are doing it.

  15. Re:It all comes down to blood and money. on Why Aren't There Better Cybersecurity Regulations For Medical Devices? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most medical devices need very simple very structured data exchange. Oddly much like household IoT. In both cases making an interface device that's fairly generic makes a lot of sense. We do this now for a lot of large industrial devices, harvesters for example have one of a slew of interfaces and companies make boxes to gather up data and relay instructions via cell phones wifi etc etc etc.

    Sure it's not perfect security it's the hard candy outside approach. For for what amounts to an embedded machine it's pretty easy to physically harden and protect the actual controller.

  16. Re:Why store it at all, it's NOT waste on Former Governor On Holding the Department of Energy Accountable In Idaho (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Reprocessing tends to separate out the plutonium that's useful for weapons, the industrial process we currently use is designed to produce plutonium as an offshoot.

  17. Re:Gun Control... on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuclear control works? Funny we have an ever growing number countries with at least a limited capability.

    You're equating guns with violence yet the state with the most guns per person has the lowest murder rate.

    You're saying it's guns the kill people yet more people are getting killed by blunt objects.

    France has a very low murder rate yet is second in gun ownership. The highest murder rate countries generally have strict gun laws.

    People killing people is not about guns. They are a tool often used for sure but you're not going to fix the problem by getting rid of one of many methods. The US issue is the murder rate were nowhere near the rest of the civilized world. Hell were far above most of the uncivilized world. Your implication is the prevalence of guns must be the underlying reason for that, yet world wise statistics do not show that to be the case and thus why I disagree with you. I would say we need our police to stop being the shining example of how to kill people via guns. Take a deep look at our incarceration and monitored supervision rates. Quickly you will have to look at the war on drugs the fuels both of those. These are the things where we also far exceed the rest of the world that seems related to our murder rate. Maybe it's something entirely different but to continue to fixate on guns means nothing changes.

  18. Funny do not see this on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 2

    I generally do not have a problem. Obviously an outbound spam filtering service will deal with the issue.

    Did you do a slow start? Most common cause of this in the hosting industry is some guy gets a domain setups up email on a VPS then spams his entire contact list with a hey this is my new email to watch it get blocked, bounced etc. Oddly all the big guys seeing a mass mailing as the first thing they get from an IP they flag it.

    Fastmail frankly it sounds like you're a spammer er opt in marketing company. Your looking to startup a paid email service, what sets you apart from the market?

  19. Re:Will there ever be self-storage type datacenter on Data Centers Coming To a City Near You (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 2

    There are tons of DC's that have maybe a couple guys on days and an on call. L3 and the likes has no manged services DC's. You can easily get a rack with 20a 110v for under a grand a month (a decent hunk of that price is power/cooling). Lots of places offer half and quarter racks. A quarter rack is about as small as you can go where there is customer access since it's about as small as you can make it. Piles of places will let you ship a 1ru where they and stack it for you for a very nominal fee.

  20. Re:Gun Control... on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    BS you dont see people using IED's in the US to often either yet they fairly easy to make.

    ATF has over 2 million registered destructive devices under which grenades fall under. Grenades are a fairly specific use weapon unless you're a suicide bomber you want that to be far away from your or on the other side of something substantial.

    NH has the most guns per person in the US and has the lowest murder rate.

    Most years more people are murdered with blunt objects than firearms. At the end of the day somebody wants to kill another they will find a way to do it. So banning a thing will never stop an action. You can shift around the means but your looking at the wrong end of the equation.

  21. Re:TPP... on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    That is not how the supreme court interpreted it. You're correct the wording says that but the supreme court disagreed. The court was clear that treaties do not hold a privileged position over congress specifically allowing for them to pass laws to deny enforcement of, modify or repeal a treaty with nothing more than any other law.

  22. Re:Firmware is not software on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is you have no clue what firmware is.

    By definition it's software that has been programmed into read only memory. Nearly nothing has write once read many storage aside from programmable fuses that tend to be used to turn bits of kit off so one chip can be sold in many configurations and in some gear to block further updates to what is flash or similar.

    In this case you generally have one blob that contains one or more other blobs. The primary being a complete operating system and the smaller blobs that are used by hardware to in general avoid having much onboard rom. Requiring the larger one to be signed etc is BROKEN you still have a large attack surface so they will get modded to exceed FCC regs. The only thing that does is makes it an even playing field for companies to try and monetize their features that tend to be years behind OSS and/or some cloud based pay us forever rent seeking.

  23. Re:TPP... on Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What your looking for is Head Money Cases, 112 U.S. 580 (1884) that said specifically that treaties do not hold special case above congress outside how they are negotiated and approved.

  24. Re:You can choose not to use Win10 on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    DX12 will force many

  25. Re:Gun Control... on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The ban all the never works. We have tried it with drugs, nuclear weapons, etc etc.

    So in your twisted world somebody steals a firearm and the owner is responsible? If it's stolen by a complete stranger who broke into a safe while the alarm was going off but the cops never responded till hours later? Dial it down a few notches and it's stolen from a parked car outside a gun free zone, sure it's in a lockbox etc etc. How about somebody that's mugged and the gun in stolen.

    28 states have child gun access laws now some of which include criminal, these generally require negligence. Leaving a loaded firearm in the back of a car is a brain dumb thing to do in general forget with a toddler, whoever was transporting like that should be held responsible to some extent. I think all the rest would just chalk that up under general criminal negligence and not need a special law for the one case. Laws are much like programming rarely is a hyper specific function a better idea than something more generally usable and the more of them you have the worse things work trying to understand anything.

    Making gun owners liable like you want is an attempt to circumvent the constitution, making it so risky to be a gun owner that honest rational people won't.