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  1. Re:Firefox removes a CA while Google removes PKP on Mozilla Might Distrust Dutch Government Certs Over 'False Keys' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Supported by Blink and enabled by default in Chrome 61 and Opera 48. Mozilla has publicly voiced their support for it and are currently developing support for it.
    https://www.chromestatus.com/f...

    It stops any CA from mis-issuing a certificate without first publicly declaring so. They have to submit their certificate to a public log before they use it. They can't remove it from the log.

  2. Re:Firefox removes a CA while Google removes PKP on Mozilla Might Distrust Dutch Government Certs Over 'False Keys' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What about "Expect-CT" ?

    If a site is using Expect-CT, the mis-issued certificate would need to be added to a publicly verifiable append-only log or if the header mysteriously went missing, it gets reported.

  3. Re:Spying? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 2

    You don't have to worry about firmware updates bricking your Chinese products. You never get updates to begin with, regardless of how many bugs and vulnerabilities it has. You'll also get random outgoing connections to random Chinese IP addresses.

  4. Re: stupidest reason.ever. on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    remote connection attempts.... why does your tv have a public ip address?

  5. Re:As usual you have to determine cost/benefit on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Except water is denser than ice.

  6. Re:As usual you have to determine cost/benefit on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You've vastly underestimated the energy density of methane.

    164m3 of methane is about 6GJ of energy (55MJ per kg, 0.656kg per m3, 164m3. 55 * 0.656 * 164 = 5.9GJ)
    1 cubie metre of ice, minus the ~100kg of methne is 900kg.
    Melting 1kg ice takes 333.5kJ of energy. Melting 900kg of ice takes 300MJ, so there's an excess of about 5.6GJ of energy per cubic metre. That assumes the ice is already at 0 degrees. Add on 3.6MJ per degree below zero to heat up 900kg of ice and 200kJ per degree to heat up 100kg of methane.
    Assuming the ice is at -20 degrees, that's another 76MJ, still insignificant compared to the 5.9GJ of energy in the methane.

    However, you don't need to burn anything to melt ice. It would take a while, but you can use the energy in the atmosphere to melt it, effectively for free. You can use a heat pump to speed it up, without using as much energy.

  7. Of course I had to look it up, I'd have to look up their marketing wank too. It's all right there on the product page for the drive though, next to the wank.

    However "designed for x per enclosure" is supported by physical hardware differences - an accelerometer to adjust the head height based on detected vibrations.
    That was kind of my point, that feature is apparently not just marketing wank.

  8. According to WD, Red and Red Pro are different for many reasons
    5400rpm vs 7200rpm
    Red generally has a smaller cache than Red Pro
    Red Pro is designed for up to 16 drives per enclosure, Red for up to 8, with no mention of "nas bay shock protection".

    LARGER NAS BAY SHOCK PROTECTION

    A multi-axis shock sensor automatically detects subtle shock events that may occur in larger NAS environments and when combined with dynamic fly height technology, helps to adjust each read-write function to compensate for increased vibrations and protect data.

    Red Pro has a 5 year warranty, Red has 3 years.

    There's 4 points of difference, all available on their website.

  9. Don't the red pro drives have accelerometers to detect and mitigate the vibration caused by having many drives physically coupled with platters all spinning at approximately the same speed and heads all moving differently?
    The red pro's are also 7200rpm vs 5400rpm
    They all have different default settings for power management too, like idle timeouts and head parking.

  10. Next you're doing to tell me the NAS drives are just slightly different to non-NAS drives, and Surveillance drives are only slightly different from regular drives too.

    To be fair, the workload figure of 550TB/year is quite a bit higher than 180TB/year.

    It's like comparing a consumer grade printer with an office grade printer. They might have the same speed, image quality and maybe even warranty period, but the office grade one is going to last a lot longer if it's printing hundreds or thousands of pages a day.

    Even power tools are like that. The warranties of cheap products exclude commercial use, since they'll fail pretty quick if used all day every day.

  11. Their actual test says 4.5% false reject rate.
    They also say only 78% of people were able to successfully use their app to make an authentication.

    Needs some work.

  12. Re:"not just for graphics cards anymore" on PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    After actually reading the NVMe spec, it's specifically designed to be used over PCI Express. Other transports look to be an afterthought. NVMe over Fabrics is a separate specification for using NVMe over non-PCI* interfaces.

    NVMe 1.2 was only intended to be used over PCI type interfaces, primarily PCI Express, but also PCI and PCI-X.

  13. Re:This is excellent. on Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That would depend on both the cost of bleach and sodium bicarbonate and the concentrations required for washing.

  14. Re:"not just for graphics cards anymore" on PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose so...

    NVM Express (NVMe) is an interface that allows host software to communicate with a non-volatile memory
    subsystem. This interface is optimized for Enterprise and Client solid state drives, typically attached as a
    register level interface to the PCI Express interface.

  15. Re:I love hearing about improvements! apk on PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't worry, Microsoft will make sure new AMD CPU's aren't compatible with Windows 7, just like Intel CPU's
    AMD officially don't support Windows 7 for Ryzen or Threadripper CPU's.

    It's going to get harder and harder to get drivers for Windows 7 for either platform.

  16. "not just for graphics cards anymore" on PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was never just for graphics cards. It's a replacement for the PCI bus. It just happened to also replace AGP, which was a dedicated graphics port.
    It's commonly used for network cards, audio cards, storage (NVMe is PCIe), etc.
    Thunderbolt is PCIe + DisplayPort

  17. Congrats San Francisco on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I almost feel bad for having gigabit fibre at home.

  18. Re:old programmers never die. they just branch to on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Java programmers go to 0xcafebabe

  19. Re:Pai Guy on FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bidding would imply only one winner, so only one payment.

    Lobbying lets politicians take money from everyone.

  20. It would make things much more efficient on FCC To Loosen TV, Newspaper Ownership Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    With fewer companies to coordinate with, it would be much easier to promote a consistent agenda.

  21. Re:Why use commercial pricing schemes? on Honolulu Now Fines People Up To $99 For Texting While Crossing Road (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe there is some rule/law/guideline these kind of offenses must have a fine "less than $100" ?

  22. Let Darwin do his work. Stop interfering with gene pool cleansing.

  23. Re:Powerrrrrr!!! on 2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really.

  24. krack doesn't "enslave" wifi devices. It allows the encryption to be broken.

    I would take a guess and say it hasn't, at all.

  25. Apparently a higher than average percentage of people with mental illness.