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  1. Re: I'm missing something on Nvidia Looks To Gag Journalists With Multi-Year Blanket NDAs (hardocp.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To be fair, you can be a week late and slashdot will still post it as breaking news.

  2. Corporate Success! on Nvidia Looks To Gag Journalists With Multi-Year Blanket NDAs (hardocp.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nvidia downgrades the independent press into a marketing tool.

    Nvidia will be the envy of all other companies.

  3. Surveys are mostly meaningless on 57% of Tech Workers Are Suffering From Job Burnout, Survey Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the sample selection is random, it's not an opt-in survey and there's no opt-out, then its results have no meaning.

    Only people who have personal motivation to answer the survey will - those who feel burnt out and want to complain about it in this case.

  4. Re:Homepod and spatial oriented sound field headph on Apple To Unveil High-End AirPods, Over-Ear Headphones For 2019 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My 2016 LG base-model TV can configure itself to the room geometry, as heard by the microphone in the remote. It optimises the sound so it is best where you are actually sitting.
    I'm pretty sure the older ones did that too.

    The summary says it all about Beats though, they want a higher-end price point product above their high-end Beats branded products.

  5. Re:Moral panic: on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They've got that covered with in-game ads and product placements.
    Fear not.

  6. Re:Let Darwin sort it out on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla's prefer to target crash barriers, fire engines and semi truck tailors, not light passenger vehicles.

  7. Re:Let Darwin sort it out on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't live in a country full of Tesla's

  8. Their lawyers determined they would lose all the class action lawsuits and this is the cheapest option.

  9. Re: So if Autopilot thinks I'm not paying attentio on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because autopilot isn't paying attention to the road either.

    Have you noticed how Elon Musk had stopped tweeting about how safe autopilot is? That's because more people die in a Tesla when it's turned on then when it's turned off.

  10. Let Darwin sort it out on Tesla Autopilot Safety Defeat Device Gets a Cease-and-Desist From NHTSA (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    The sooner the people who think it's safe to not pay attention while driving are taken off the road the better.

    If that happens because their Tesla autopilot drives out the lane, speeds up and crashes into a safety barrier while still accelerating, so be it.

  11. All the better to sell you proprietary charging pads and AirPods!

  12. Re:Browser solution on Google, Roku, Sonos To Fix DNS Rebinding Attack Vector (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Give me control of your domains DNS server and I'll get a Let's Encrypt certificate issued in 5 minutes.

    Let's Encrypt use the ACME protocol to verify control of the domain. It's a completely automated process requiring only a webserver running on the IP address listed on the A record of the domain.

  13. Re:Browser solution on Google, Roku, Sonos To Fix DNS Rebinding Attack Vector (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That can be mitigated by HSTS being used by your bank

    Their browser would refuse to connect without HTTPS to www.mybank.com if they have already visited it before, therefore requiring the attacker to have a valid certificate to perform the redirect.

    Your scenario also requires control of the network configuration of the victim.

    A DNS rebind attack is re-binding a domain during an attack to a different IP to get around same origin protections.

    What you described is not a DNS rebind attack, it's DNS hijacking. That's where you gain control of the DNS server a victim uses, either by changing their network configuration or gaining control of their existing DNS server..

  14. Re:Browser solution on Google, Roku, Sonos To Fix DNS Rebinding Attack Vector (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    For DNS rebind to work like that, the hacker has control of the DNS servers hosting your bank's domain.
    That's already pretty bad news. With complete DNS control of your banks domain they can obtain certificates and pose as a secure copy of your banks website and steal your credentials that way. No DNS rebind attack required.

    Public websites that are hosted as virtual hosts aren't vulnerable to rebind attackers either, as they use the HTTP Host header to determine how to handle the request. A rebind attack means the Host header won't match the website and would generally return a 404.

    CDN's also stop rebind attacks from working on public websites for the same reason. The Host header is the domain of the attacker, not the destination.

  15. What about AMD's SMT implementation in their new CPU's?

  16. Re:Good idea on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised about firmware stability.
    I wouldn't be surprised if they rebooted when the wifi connection failed.

    Cutting the power cord on a wifi camera also disables it too, btw.
    Dome cameras don't have exposed wires either. you'd need to smash the dome first.

  17. Re:Good idea on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    What's to stop the burglar from stealing the cameras too?
    Not only would they be taking the only copy of their footage, they'll also have resale value.

  18. Re:Good idea on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    Any device that needs a power connection would benefit.
    If you already have to run a power cable, why not run data over it too?
    You can get 100mbit full duplex along with 12+ watts of power over 4 conductors. You don't need 4 pair cat5, you could use any 2 pair 100ohm utp cable. You don't need802.3af compliant PoE, you can use cheap passive PoE.

    The security camera screwed to the side of my steel garage doesn't have signal issues and only needs a single cable to provide power and data, with enough power to also power it's infrared lights for night vision, fed from a passive PoE injector. I doubt my homes wifi signal would be strong there.

    The wireless weather station on my roof (again, made of steel) gets occasional drop outs and the receiver is less than 15 metres from it. That's a low-power 433MHz wireless connection.

    If running new cables is a problem, there's commercially available power-line ethernet too.

    Wired data doesn't have its range impacted by all the other nearby devices on the same spectrum or by concrete or metal framed buildings.

  19. Re: Slashvertisement brought to you by.. on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    What makes it worse is the title implies that Kickstarter is backing this thing, not a Kickstarter campaign.
    Campaigns don't bet on anything. To bet on something you need to use your own money. The point of a crowd funding campaign is to convince others to bet on your idea.

  20. Re:SPI or 1-wire bus? on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    Sounds great from a security point of view.
    All you need to do to gain access to a network is tap in to a couple of wires anywhere on a property and reflash one of the devices.

  21. Re:SPI or 1-wire bus? on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    differential signalling is much more robust in terms of interference suppression.
    1 wire combats this by using slow speeds.

  22. Re:SPI or 1-wire bus? on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 1

    SPI, no, 1 wire, yes.
    1-wire can go up to 500m, depending on how many devices are on the wire. It doesn't provide much power though and it's extremely slow. You're lucky if you get ~10kbits shared between all slave nodes.

  23. Slashvertisement brought to you by.. on Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some Kickstarter campaign marketing company!

  24. Re:Didn't we all assume this was already happening on iOS 12 Will Automatically Share Your iPhone Location With 911 Centers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 2

    Because you'd get upset when you're hiding under the bed while someone is invading your home and you see the closest officer stop at the local donut shop.

  25. Why not just divide the Pacific up democratically?

    5 million to New Zealand
    5 million to Singapore
    8 million to PNG
    18 million to Chile
    24 million to Taiwan
    25 million to Australia
    25 million to North Korea
    30 million to Malaysia
    30 million to Peru
    36 million to Canada
    50 million to South Korea
    92 million to Vietnam
    100 million to the Philippines
    130 million to Japan
    130 million to Mexico
    145 million to Russia
    260 million to Indonesia
    320 million to USA
    1.4 billion to China

    That's assuming no stake in the Atlantic for USA.