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  1. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    If your laptop is connecting to any random open wifi and does not have a strict firewall, it should get a STI aka Stupid Transmitted Infection.

  2. So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 2

    It requires a man in the middle attack on traffic that should never go across the internet outside a vpn. Yes it's a problem but not exactly a significant one for a well put together network.

  3. Re:Good guy HBO on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 1

    Effectively paying twice for one piece of content.

  4. Re:Good guy HBO on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they would just cut out the DRM I would buy it from them. I want my media to play on my devices and I want to own it not rent it.

  5. Re:Energy use on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They should not be using electricity in the first place. Desalination is a perfect pairing for cogeneration with Gen IV fission plants. Added benefit is you can put the entire output to desalination when demand is low to avoid using peeking plants.

  6. Re:Isn't a Claymore or mine an "autonomous" weapon on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    No they are not, you certainly can use traps as offensive weapons, have you looked at what IAD's are used for? They restrict movement in both time and resources to clear them. They are used to harass supply lines. They can be well unitized to cover potential escape and maneuvering routes that you can use you own maneuvering to make appealing or push your opponent into.

    Automated weapons are potentially much safer to civilians than land mines.

  7. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    How long in archive do you think that consumer grade USB drive will last?

  8. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    You do realize that for either of those two use cases they are not in typical enterprise settings. No hardware raid controllers (or at least being used a jbod) means no need for TER. They are not buying anybody solution the tech is a core business function. You average enterprise cares about somebody to call to fix it more than we saved 50% on hardware.

    For my own company you better beleive we use consumer grade drives internally. Things like ZFS mean all the hot data is on SSD anyways (and while you can use a consumer ssd for write cache a lot of research is needed).

  9. Re:Going off the grid completeletly is stupid on The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    The environmental impact of creating new lakes is pretty significant. You also want it to be near other methods of generation so you no going through double conversion.

  10. Re:LOL no info on distance on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 1

    The vast majority certainly can not get excellent speeds from wireless. Nomatter how to slice it it's a limited resource. Expensive point to point gear on licenced RF can be touchy.

    Wireless is a great adjunct to a well planed fiber network but your never going to replace whats potentially terabits a second per home of a well laid out fiber network.

  11. Re:Cutting edge journalism on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple limited carrier choice for a very long time, that whole 5 year exclusive to AT&T.

  12. Re:Cutting edge journalism on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    I own many nexus devices, the phones all bought directly from google (about have the price of buying them from my carrier). Current gen I can put a sim in and work on every major us carrier CMDA or GSM with one phone. Hell my carrier (ting) is working on phones that are on the GSM and CDMA networks and roam freely between them. The radio does get updates from the carrier PRL updates and the like.

    Google figured out that the carriers were a barrier so they went around them.

  13. Re:Going off the grid completeletly is stupid on The Myth of Going Off the Power Grid · · Score: 2

    They take forever to ramp up/down. A NG turbine can ramp up down as needed. The only clean baseline that can ramp up/down is hydro but thats pretty much tapped out in the 1st world. This is what the greenies do not get the grid is not some battery, you need to balance inputs with outputs. Some heavy industry does this aluminum smelting etc that can shift it's demand to use up excess capacity and often get the power for next to nothing. Smarter building can help we have extremely little cogeneration where otherwise waste heat is put to work.

    Some countries have used that excess capacity to pump water uphill to use as hydro peeking but thats very terrain specific.

    EV's could help this, a typical car is parked at work or home most of the time. These are big batteries capable of soaking and sourcing a lot of power individually but a parking lot full is potentially capable of massive amounts (parking lot of 200 cars with 30amps at 240v is nearly 1.5 megawatts either way). Now thats a lot of infrastructure to get in place to actually use. It's also a huge monitoring and security issue. Do you want the power company to be able to infer you had strenuous activity in your bedroom at these times and these dates? Do you want those record to be available for criminal/civil subpoena, national security letter, or the NSA hacking in because they can? Do you want every major appliance in your home reachable somehow from the power company? Considering that this gear may well affect billing one way or another there will be a big push for it to be closed source black boxes that could end up in everything that plugs into a wall socket. We need strong protections from all this to keep the information private, the system open, and allow individuals to protect themselves with technical means.

  14. Re:1st on Amazon Gets Approval To Test New Delivery Drones · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because ground transportation in gridlocked cities takes forever.

  15. Re:Bad reporting on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    Streetlight upgrades are to remove the blasted things. They waste energy and pollute.

  16. Re:Wrong Solar tech being pushed on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Having lived in a passive solar home for 20 years or so, they are a joy to live in. It's also not something you can add on to an existing home.

    Were pushing straight PV when we know that hybrid panels are more efficient on the pv side (hotter panels are less efficient) while adding hot water for heating and domestic hot water.

  17. Re:Bandwidth? on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Aircraft have clear line of sight to the sky pretty much anytime they are not in a hanger. Main issue is that induces a lot of lag (to geo stationary at least). You could order an AI around but flying when you need to react quickly is not going to happen.

  18. Re:Fail deadly on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 2

    Thats not necessarily true there are plenty of things that make bombers and terrorists in general lives harder but should not be done. Often our reactions to terrorism are worse than the terrorism itself. Our politicians go for security theater to show the populace that something is being done.

    The root issue is how open to abuse this is. Pick any major gathering look hard enough and you can find a threat. Cellphones have shown to be a powerful tool of political change and incontrovertible evidence of police abuse. Letting the government disrupt them at will is a serious issue.

  19. Re:Fail deadly on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to detect the network up but not received messages. Dirt cheap phones have enough storage to keep years worth of pre generated sms conversations. Fail to get a few correct SMS's on time, ok well hopefully they don't have AT&T or they will blow up. But same goes for data.

    Long and short of it is blocking communications does not make us safer, with the provision that the bombers assume it will happen.

  20. Re: The authors found that batteries appear on tra on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think · · Score: 1

    For a gas vehicle your correct and it's reasonable to have a drivable vehicle for 20+ years. I say this as I can find 20+ year old beaters in the local paper.

    An EV on the other hand will not make it that long, this is great for the car companies killing of the used car market. But nobody is going to put 20k into a car thats is 8+ years old with 100k+ miles on it.

  21. Re:This is all great, but... on The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network · · Score: 2

    It's perfectly compatible, search is not supposed to be secret. If they serve you a search warrant for you phone they should be able to go clone it etc and attempt to penetrate the crypto all they want.

  22. Re:ADA insanity... on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 1

    The problem is the ADA pretty much turned anything anybody said was a service animal into one under law. They have no training requirements merely that somebody (including the owner) say it's been trained. They had to go back and reword it to specifically be dogs (but throw in service horses with a lower requirement).

  23. Re:ADA insanity... on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 1

    You have an issue with a seeing eye dog?

    Service animals are problematic as no training is required and it was open to abuse (NYC service purse dogs).

  24. Re:Why Netflix ? on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 1

    What idiot would put hard captions on anything? This is just let another issue with DRM laden rent seeking, I DL a movie and I can get captions for a multitude of languages and often of a higher quality especially for content like anime that has a vibrant culture. Hell at this point it's automated, the fetching of subs in my preferred languages just happens every time a new piece of content is added to my library.

  25. Re:The ethical issue is that it's still a car on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Cities can have parks etc. Closest thing in central park I've seen to a tree fort was a homeless encampment. Thanks I'll pass.

    Negative population growth would be great preferably without war or famine being the cause. Most first world nations have it when you exclude immigration. Take a look at Japan as to the short term effects. That is a much bigger issue of maintaining stability in a democracy while you control the population.