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  1. Re:The PATRIOT act is not a law. on Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a law until a judge rules it unconstitutional
    Until then, any official exercising any of those powers is doing their job. It's not their place to question the laws that congress have passed.

  2. Sucks to be an American citizen.

  3. Re:Laptop versus 4U graphics cards on AMD Quietly Made Some Radeon RX 560 Graphics Cards Worse (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, the 1080's on desktop and mobile have the same specs, except mobile is a TDP of 150W and desktop is 180W.
    Mobile doesn't support Boost 3.0, so peak speed is slightly lower.
    If I had to guess, they're the same chips with a yield split based on voltage. Lower voltage at the same clock means lower power. Or they're identical and the mobile versions just throttle quicker, due to the lower TDP rating.

  4. Re:iPad vs Kindle on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? · · Score: 1

    Probably got sick of kids playing angry birds in class and passing around nudes of classmates.

  5. Re:Idiot on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he should pay over and over again for the same content for every device he wants to use it on.
    Because downloading something you already have a license for is illegal. (arguably, depending on the technology used to obtain it, downloading the copy isn't illegal, it's the person running the server that is)
    Because circumventing copy protections to make a legitimate format shift is illegal. Not because you made a copy though, That's perfectly legal.

  6. Re:Serious Business on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're in a mining pool, don't you have to trust the pool?
    If you're not, isn't it pretty much impossible to mine anything?

  7. Re:Let me be the first but not the last to say... on NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen (reddit.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Treat bitcoin like cash?
    Put it in the bank and you'll still get it all back back (with interest!) if the bank gets robbed?

  8. When the oil reserves eventually run out homodieselparticulitus won't be able to survive.

  9. Re:Giraffe or Guilt? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I found it's more like the G in Graphics Interchange Format

  10. Re:hearing muscles on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    light travels faster than sound

    That also explains why some people appear smart until they open their mouth.

  11. Or Ireland did it knowing the EU would eventually make the companies pay up.
    They get the best of both worlds then, the jobs that come with attracting the big companies and the taxes too.

  12. How much did Google pay? (Hint: their fair share too)

    FTFY

  13. Re:EU, mind your own business. on Apple To Start Paying Ireland the Billions It Owes In Back Taxes (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    They have the option of removing themselves from the EU. The EU is not forcing them to stay a member, but while they are they need to follow their rules.

  14. Re:It's the ads, stupid on Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not supposed to be that bad.
    It's designed to be 7 minutes of show, 3 minutes of ads. That's why half hour time slot episodes are 21 minutes and hour long shows are 42 minutes

  15. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    in 2014 Netflix was paying Comcast because its traffic was being deprioritized
    Verizon was slowing down Netflix in 2014 as well and asking for money

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
    https://www.extremetech.com/co...

  16. Russian scammers on The Underground Uber Networks Driven by Russian Hackers (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Not Russian hackers. They're not hacking anything.
    They're using Uber to launder stolen credit cards

  17. But it sounds like his work was non-BS maintenance, that he wasn't actually doing. He was slacking off instead of working while telling his employer he was doing the work.

    Next thing you know you're working at Equifax and instead of installing security updates, you went golfing.

  18. Re:Having worked at Intel... on System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't IME on desktops and laptops for when they're used in corporate environments? Remote provisioning, updates, etc.

    It lets, for example, computers be removed from the network until OS patches have been applied.

  19. Re:Whats the alternative? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    gTLD's shouldn't be used in private networks

    The assumption should be you don't control any names you don't own.

    Every place I've worked uses their own domain for their intranet.
    The last thing you want is for a client to have their DNS servers incorrectly configured, or to be used outside the intranet and have intranet requests be made to random internet servers.

    If an employee is working from home and their VPN isn't connected, where does the HTTP request end up when the domain name is resolved by their ISP's DNS server? If you used your own domain for your intranet, it goes nowhere, as the DNS lookup fails because your intranet host names aren't in public DNS servers.

    If it's some random TLD, it goes to some random IP address.

    Don't be stupid, never use a domain you don't own for internal purposes, unless it's in RFC2606.

  20. Re:Problem on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Same with TV!

    It would be nice if there could be some kind of TV bundle.

    I don't want to have 15 different subscriptions to HBO, Starz, Netflix, Disney, NBC... Can't I just pay one company to bundle it all together?

    Oh wait....

  21. Perhaps someone should have thought to put it in RFC2606, like they did with .test, .example, .invalid and .localhost

  22. Re:Whats the alternative? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hypothetically they could remove .dev from the HSTS preload list.

    The same could be said for any domain in the list
    https://cs.chromium.org/chromi...
    What if the ownership of one of the 40,000 entries in that list changes?

  23. Re:Did the cool-aid taste good? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm in a corporate environment right now.
    All HTTPS traffic is inspected. All downloads get virus scanned.

    All HTTPS traffic is decrypted by the proxy, scanned and re-encrypted with a certificate signed by the companies CA.

    It's a non-issue for a corporate environment. Since you've got control of all the machines on the network, it's not hard to have them all trust your own CA.

    The only time it's a pain in the ass is when you try to access an HTTPS site with an invalid certificate. The proxy refuses to allow it.

  24. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My company uses an HTTPS proxy and only pushes their public key to the OS certificate store. So anything that doesn't use the certificates trusted by the OS fails.
    Luckily IE and Chrome are sane like that.

    What's also lucky is I'm not too retarded to figure out I can export that certificate and load it in to any application that refuses to use the OS certs.

  25. Re:Whats the alternative? on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wireshark is fine with TLS if you give it the private key.

    What's not fine is how a browser handles a webapp with mixed HTTP and HTTPS requests.
    If you're going to deploy it with HTTPS, you should build and test with it too.