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  1. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Most removable cellphone batteries and all removable laptop batteries have protection circuits built in.
    They're protected from short circuit, over charging, over discharging and reverse connection.

  2. Just because they may or may not have stolen technology, doesn't mean their products will spy on you.

  3. Re:Why are we not doing optical data transfer? on USB-IF Confusingly Merges USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Under New USB 3.2 Branding (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    It's called Fibre Channel and its very expensive.

  4. But mongoDB is web scale.

  5. It's about snowflakes on Microsoft CEO Defends Pentagon Contract Following Employee Outcry (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    If it was about democracy, they would be voting for a new government.
    Instead they're trying to deny the department of defense technology that could save American soldiers lives.

  6. Re:Stop obsolescence on Drupal 7 Will Reach End-of-Life in November of 2021 (drupal.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should spend some time to migrate drupal.org off of Drupal 7.63

    Why would you upgrade to 8 if the creators of it won't upgrade their own site?

  7. Re:I fear poor support long term on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Just buy something else
    Mazda has decided to not put any touch screens in their new cars, due to driver distraction.

  8. Re:CR? on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    So Consumer Reports knocked points off a car because consumers had issues operating it?
    Weird. Oh wait, that's their job.

  9. Re:1.0 Problems on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many other cars have a channel around the inside of the boot lid that catches the water that runs off the lid when you open it, draining it out under the car or over the rear bumper so you don't flood inside the boot.

  10. Re:1.0 Problems on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No... assembly problems happen when you try to build your cars in a make-shift tent because your production capacity isn't up to task.

  11. Re:Misleading title on Queensland, Australia Drivers Set To Get Emoji Number Plates (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Don't let facts get in the way of a clickbait title.

  12. Re:Target audience? on Queensland, Australia Drivers Set To Get Emoji Number Plates (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You can start learning to drive at 16 in Australia.

  13. Re:How about....? on Queensland, Australia Drivers Set To Get Emoji Number Plates (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    ... Except you can only choose one emoji, and it goes at the end of the plate. It's no different from the current vanity plates they offer, except the specific graphic is different.

  14. I hope you're not Australian. If you are, turn in your BBQ and shrimp.

  15. Re:Is this like Net Neutrality. on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The enterprise solutions aren't perfect.
    Not only does it slow things down, it increases latency too. These are compromises enterprises make to monitor traffic.
    You end up with a situation where your browser never sees the certificate from the website in question. You can't inspect it yourself.
    You have another certificate store to keep up to date.
    It completely breaks public key pinning and fires off reports for public key pin reporting.
    You don't have a choice to ignore certificate errors.

    The one I'm behind right now makes an exception for Extended Validation certificates, it doesn't intercept them at all so users who expect to see an EV cert in the address bar can still see it and know its still secure.

  16. Re:Intel chips broken by design on Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The shills Intel pay at AMD?
    https://www.amd.com/en/corpora...
    They admit there are hardware issues and that page describes which software mitigations are required.
    ARM have also admitted all of their speculative execution cores are vulnerable to some of the spectre attacks.

  17. Re:Is this like Net Neutrality. on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good way to compromise security and performance in one shot.

    I suppose you could do some kind of dynamic IP blocking, by using the router as a DNS proxy, and blocking what ever IP addresses are resolved for specific host names. That doesn't work with dns-over-http but it's better than maintaining a huge list of ever changing IP addresses.

  18. Re:this is why... on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Which has supported Flash since 1996

  19. So it's trivial for a wifi portal to run Flash on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All you need to do is redirect your "WiFi login" page to a whitelisted domain, MITM that domain, since you control the wifi network, and deliver what ever malicious Flash content you desire.
    Easy to do, since the whitelist is not restricted to HTTPS connections.

  20. Re:How is this different from other browsers? on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because it's a "secret" list users don't have the ability to change.

    Facebook obviously doesn't need to use Flash to function, as Chrome and Firefox don't have this exemption.

  21. Re:Is this like Net Neutrality. on Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can only block IP addresses on your router, of which I'm sure Facebook use hundreds as part of their CDN.
    Browsers are moving towards dns over http, which bypasses your hosts file.

    Good luck with your blocking.

  22. Big massive header text when you open an app on 'Samsung's One UI Is the Best Software It's Ever Put On a Smartphone' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So... they've realised that the bigger and bigger screens they're putting on phones are less usable.
    When you use the phone with one hand, you can't comfortably reach the top half anymore, so no point putting interactive controls up there.

  23. Re:I read this a few days ago on Return To Sender: High Court To Hear Undeliverable Mail Case (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess a lot if this guy created an industry out of it?

    I guess.
    Also enough that the post office is spending a butt load of money in legal fees because they want to do it too, over a patent that expires in a little over 3 years.

  24. Re:I can't even do 10 but I'm healthy as a horse on Middle-Age Men Who Can Do 40+ Push-Ups Have Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    The data shows a bigger correlation between existing CVD risk factors - smoking, age, blood sugar and BMI. So take this article with a grain of salt.
    If you're a fat, old, smoker with high blood sugar, you have a higher risk of CVD and a high risk of a low number of push ups.

  25. Just so happens there is a clear trend in BMI and the number of pushups too.
    Also a clear trend in age.
    Also a clear trend in being a current smoker.

    Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

    My take from it is firefighters who are old, fat and smoke are more likely to have a heart attack.