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  1. so the datas not really encrypted on Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's sounding like the data isn't stored encrypted, just their implementation with the chip gives you the illusion it is so, and the exploit shows it.

    Is this right?

  2. Re:Just cut the . . .satellite. . . or cord on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    been doing that for nearly 10 years with centurylink dsl(under quest), their forever price didn't last a year with an increase of $1, and at the year mark went up, called them on it, they claimed to never of had a forever price. But their raised prices are not as rape you as comcasts.

    Guess what, they re-introduced forever price again....

  3. Re:Does it matter? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    While I disagree somewhat on the premise, what you are saying is very sound, and correct. We haven't had the time.

    But realize, one of the reason why these micro plastics are everywhere, is because it's inert and not reacting with anything. But with these single molecule's that are not being broken down are accumulating, we do need a way to remove them from the environment.

    Also, further studies needed

  4. Re:Open Season on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Wolves are gone, and we don't want them back.

    Wanting wolves back, is like the antivax group thinking not vaxing is safe. The amount of damage they will do from live stock to the safety of people.

    I can't stat e this enough; Wolves and humans do not mix! Do you think animals that can take down things bigger than us like elk and moose wont cause problems for us? I'm not just talking about livestock, or pets, but also kids, even adults! There is a reason why man purposely removed wolves.

    Let man be the apex predator, do not re-introduce wolves!

  5. Re:Laughing out loud on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of things you say that I disagree with, and many wrong and ignorant.

    But moving Israel embassy to Jerusalem, was doesn't in part to recognize it as their capital. A nation picks their own capital, but for most of the world is refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Like it or hate it, why shouldn't Israeli pick their own capital?

    Both the left/right are just as misinformed as each other as they are lost in a sea of group think. In fact that's a problem social media experts didn't expect, but knowledge now.

    And "Democrats can't be bothered to vote in any election other than the Presidential" is completely missing the point and a lie. It's almost as bad as blaming russia for Hilary loosing, when she was just a bad and hated candidate. Both parties suffer in none presidential elections. Trump is the symptom that both parties where pushing candidates the people didn't want, and trump slipped in as a R.

    Christians hatred of Muslims is mostly a fabrication of one side to make the other side look like villains. While the other side shows Muslims being villains and Christians the victims.

    You need to find a way to respect people who do not fit in your group think for what ever reason you come up with.

  6. Re:Per this TED Talk, this is 100% backwards on Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, good link, really opened a new thoughts and I love how the scientist said how wrong he was, and how doing the opposite thing is actually producing results.

    Also, the midwest use to have 100,000's of thousands of buffalo, and it's all desert now.

  7. Re: Gee, good thing they didn't open source any of on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    If an attacker walks onto a base, steals classified data (or even whole systems), and tries to leave, they'll be saluted at the gate as long as their paperwork looks right.

    This!, even a moderate physical secure systems need to be secured. Everyone assumes everyone else is doing what they are suppose to, and question only when they are suppose to, and wouldn't know otherwise.

  8. Re:Insiders though? on Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the fact that a single spy, working as a service member, could make the whole ship unusable. And with out methods to detect, deter, or catch the person doing this.

    Now think of that single person, planting something that accepts remote (like via satellite phone, or even cellular if in port) can now remotely own these billion dollar weapon platforms.

    So while physical is important, that physical should be protected, not just some random terminal on the ship.

  9. and now we have two victims......

    But lets say its some idiot that's not in their mom's basement who has assets and can continue to work, how do they pay damages while serving 20 years in prison?

    The problem is that police are entitled where it's all about them, their safety and their goals.

    The goal is that everyone is made safe, how are their actions making it safer? Oh sure, safer for them with the surprise, weapons aimed at innocents, destruction of property and risking the lives of those they encounter.

  10. Re:What if I don't want a password? on California Bans Default Passwords on Any Internet-Connected Device (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do the thieves need a "compromised" device to harm others? They can do exactly the same with uncompromised devices that they bought themselves. You made an invalid comment.

    Umm, this is where I disagree. If I'm going to DDoS someone, I'm not going to use anything I paid for, or can be traced back to me. More so if I am going to crack into a business, your neighbor, the DoD, etc.

    Other common uses it becomes part of a botnet, or maybe it just uploads files in IRC, or seeds a torrent.(which can really really hurt you w/ lawsuits from RIAA/MPAA)

    Your route, phone, smart thermostat, even fish tank water heater, can all be owned and used to hurt more than just you.

    And yes, there are cases where victims of theft are held responsible when it's shown no do due diligence to keep that stuff safe. It's rare and takes special circumstances, like when a business gets hacked and loses customer information...

    So there are plenty of self preservation reasons one would want to have their stuff secure even if they don't care about anyone else.

  11. problems not with ASUS on Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support? · · Score: 1

    ASUS is a great motherboard manufacture, and has been for a long time. Even when I use other motherboards ASUS is still one of the top tier in my book. Finding a better one....

    Your motherboard is using the z87 chipset
    Not just ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI (other good motherboard makers) also don't have released microcode
    https://www.asus.com/News/V5ur...
    https://www.gigabyte.com/Micro...
    https://www.msi.com/news/detai...

    You'll have to rely on the OS patches.

  12. Re:Power company time-of-day plans on Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Nears Commercial Release (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Its the fact that their power bill does not end up changing(other than up), and now they are inconvenienced(to say the least).

    Lets say you change things, so you're using only 1/3 the power you normally use during prime, but get charged 3x as much, now in non prime you are using 2/3 of your power at 1/2 cost.

    Those are pretty close to what I remember from using it years ago. My power bill went up dispute the fact I did everything after 5(and really did less, because it wasn't enough time to do everything needed)

    Unless you are a household with no one home from 8am till after 5(and everything is off during that time), you lose.

  13. Good start, don't forget to leave a autorun.inf with something along the lines of
    [autorun]
    shell\readme\command=notepad README.TXT

    Or rather, point them to an html page.

  14. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with garbage being worth anything, is that with technology we use less resources in creating things.

    There is so little of things of value, all mixed tightly together and with things of less value.

    Not just things made smaller, but old electronics had gold plate, now if gold is used, its like 5-10 atoms thick.

  15. Re:Bummer on FBI Warns of 'Unlimited' ATM Cashout Scheme (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    banks are not concerned with high security. They are concerned with risk, but more importantly, with their internal rules, policies and such.

    They make policies that actually go against security and PCI. And getting them to fix it takes years.

    You know, it took one bank a year to fix the fact they listed ciphers in the wrong order, they went from weakest to strongest and it took a year to fix that.

    That's minor compared to crypting passwords and salting them, rather than plain text.

    Or removing a policy that ever computer have an account with xyz password, that's never changed in 10+ years(and its a simple password). Never mind that those in charge of it's use don't know a thing about Nix.

    Security preventing AD/ldap authentication because it increases attack vector, so that people use local shared accounts instead across 1000's of servers.

    Also, if banks were really interested in security, rather than a chip you would have a password/pin with your credit card.

    Banks don't care about security.

  16. This is a real problem when looking at server class systems with very basic graphics cards (often with no and/ or very buggy 3d acceleration)

    What the hell are you doing installing a GUI on a server? What it really matters is older desktops, that have no, or very limited video acceleration/3d.

  17. Re:Only in the "IE for life" USA, mate. on Mozilla Is Working On a Chrome-Like 'Site Isolation' Feature For Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Statcounter lets you look by country.
    http://gs.statcounter.com/brow...
    http://gs.statcounter.com/brow...
    http://gs.statcounter.com/brow...
    http://gs.statcounter.com/brow...

    Chrome is the dominate browser, with often chrome /webkit based ones coming in 2nd(or the Chinese one...).

    So where is "over here" where no one uses chrome?

  18. Re:dumbed down & inaccurate search results on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    well he does have a point. using google to search for say, errors when installing/configuring/compiling, and when it keeps sending you to shopping based pages is what I consider a crap search query.

    And any attempt I've used to force it to have those words have done little to improve the search.

    I do feel that google search was better in the early 2000's, not sure if it was because big corp/marketing didnt know how to optimize for it, or that google found ways to better monetize it's results.

    Although it's search engine is still the best spell checker I've ever used

  19. Re:Party City is planning to open a toy city on Amazon Will Publish Toy Catalog This Holiday To Fill Toys R Us Void, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We would use the toy catalog so that each kid would find out what other kids wanted, then head on down to toys-r-us, one parent would take 1 kid, the other would goto other end of store with the others, repeat for each kid. This system was the same for my parents.

    But now, if we as parents didnt buy at that time(or ealier in year), would resort to toping off with orders from Amazon, sometimes toys-r-us website. It worked out to at least 50% of kids toys came from toys-r-us.

    Taking all kids to 1 store to get all kid shopping done in an hr still can't be matched for online browsing of endless items that are similar or the exact same by different retailers. Kids can't make a decision.

    Not to mention this family outing ends with icecream or some other treat. Toy-r-us will be missed, and filled a much needed roll besides just the catelog.

  20. Re:Bad Chemistry on Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    while your average fish tank creature might not show signs of this being a problem, it certainly does make it so most cannot reporduce.

    From eggs not being able to be fertilized, to the creatures not wanting to mate.

  21. Re:Partially true. Weak, scared leadership ran awa on Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    that french reputation existed before before US invaded Iraq. And was also quite popular in UK, not just the US.

    But yes, the leadership of France did create the stigma, not the front linemen.

  22. Stop buying those games on EA Still Believes in Loot Boxes, Will 'Push Forward' With Their Use (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This works because EA keeps making lots of money off this system.

    People need to stop buying games that have this, and also tell others to do the same. Even if the game is free, don't download or play.

    Not buying the loot boxes isn't enough.

  23. Re:Teachers are themselves to blame on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I know many, many teachers. Most take all the summer off, some have a 2nd job, few do any kind of teaching activity including those further their education. I even know two, who produce constantly have the best growth in students, and the best grades in the state, do very little to no teacher type work during the summer. Those that do burn out in a few short years.

    Part of the reason for their low pay is that they don't work all 12 months. The other reason is the pension. I have to work many more years, saving 15% of my income(partially taxed) to even come close. And chances are I'll be forced to retire before 60, they on the other hand are protected to work, some even get two retirements.(same state, different district)

    Now, this is not to discredit what they do, or how hard they work.

  24. After spending some time trying to find ways to get carbon out of air and more oxygen, I really don't see a more efficient process than reforesting, which will sequester CO2 along with H from water, releasing some O.

    All in all, it's very inefficient but everything else takes much more energy, and doesn't scale.

    Could be more efficient by making use of waste heat from Nuclear power plants on the coast to desalination.

  25. Re:Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is good stuff, and should be modded up for that.

    It clearly shows how pacifism while in theory works, but in practice fails. And why rather than quitting, you should try to make changes.