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  1. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    7071 alloy doesn't exist
    I think you mean 6061

  2. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is 7071?

    Is it anything like 6061?

  3. Consuming a stimulant causes stimulant effects.

  4. Re:First amendment on Democrats Ask FEC To Create New Rules To Keep Foreign Influence Off Social Media Ads (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are already restrictions on campaign advertising. No one claims they violate the first amendment

  5. Re: Actually you can on Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and DMCA takedown notices are only effective against entities that have a US presence. Just like you can't sue me for violating a US software patent if I have no business there.

  6. Re:What should you do? on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    There is no private class D address space.

    Reversing a domain name makes no sense. The most significant part of a domain name is the name itself, not the TLD or what registrar happens to have been used.

  7. Re: Actually you can on Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't that because they were trying to enforce copyright on a number? Someone that's never been done before (and probably should never be done).

  8. Isn't that the thing you need to build if you want to build Battlecruisers?
    What's it got to do with Apple and file systems?

  9. Re:What should you do? on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    I've always thought the 192.168.0.0/16 and 172.16.0.0/12 blocks were a bad idea.
    They account for a little over 6% of the entire private address space. I don't see why it can't just be 10.0.0.0/8 for private.

  10. Re:We Aren't to the Friendly Part Yet on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    heh. you picked a bad example.

    You'll find important features like configuring the lock-screen not under right-click display like you would expect, but buried deep inside the user-accounts system

    Yes, you'll find a security setting inside the user-accounts system.
    Sure, it's semi-related to a password protected screen saver. It has nothing to do with a screen saver though, or display resolution, orientation, multiple screens, display adapters, or anything else to do with the display settings.

    I agree with what you're saying though, Windows is like every other large piece of software. It's been changed a lot over time. It's full of new things that don't quite match up with the old things.

  11. There's a new buzzword, complete with acronym on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 2

    UX: User Experience

  12. Re:What should you do? on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    big companies love having their own CA though, it lets them decrypt and snoop on HTTPS traffic and resign it without browser security warnings

  13. .... your other option is to install your own CA on the LAN PC's so you can issue your own trusted certificates for .local domains.
    Then you've got no problem with HTTPS using mDNS

    Public CA's don't issue certificates for local domains for good reason.

  14. You know your comment is moot if you quote the entire sentence, right?

    why are you doing web development without HTTPS unless you're planning on never using it?

    If you're using multicast dns, why are you using .dev instead of .local, as is part of the mDNS RFC?
    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

    If you're not using the Google sponsored .dev gTLD, this doesn't impact you at all.
    They bought the rights to control who's allowed a .dev domain. Just like you need to abide by certain rules if you want to use .aero or lawyer, etc. Perhaps a condition of using .dev is to only host HTTPS web servers? I haven't looked in to it.

  15. What should you do? on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about: Don't use a gTLD for your local DNS?

    Also, why are you doing web development without HTTPS unless you're planning on never using it? It's not like certificates cost anything. There's also nothing stopping you loading your own CA cert and signing your own certificates too.
    Browsers behave differently based on the protocol. Building against one set of rules and deploying against another is just asking for problems.

  16. Re:No, it won't on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    you know, apart from the hundred of thousands of lines of code Microsoft has already put in the Linux kernel.

  17. Canadian tech company hints at Canadian Government to throw money at Canadian tech companies.

  18. Re:That outfit would have made a great viral YT vi on Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The VW trailer assist video was pretty good
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Even in your analogy Apple is copying their competitors. Motorola already sold a phone called the RAZR

  20. My Moto X supports fast charging, if connected to a charger that supports Qualcomm QC

    The phone only came with a basic 5V 700mA charger, so I had to buy a QC compliant charger to use the feature.

  21. I have many:
    My phone
    My watch
    My headphones
    My laptop
    My PC
    My 2 TV's
    My speaker dock
    My car stereo

    My wife has many:
    Her phone
    Her headphones
    Her iPod
    Her laptop
    Her tablet
    Her car stereo

    My son has a laptop with bluetooth

    That's 16 devices in my house of 4 off the top of my head
    Doesn't include all the old phones not actively used.
    I've also got a bunch of other devices with bluetooth hardware but no software stack: Raspberry Pi 3, Asus Tinkerboard, Pine64... quite a few of those dev boards have Bluetooth.

  22. Re:Does one really need the BlueBorne app? on BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Looks like the vulnerabilities that impact Android are in the BlueZ bluetooth stack.
    Nothing to do with the MAC address of your Bluetooth/Wifi, of if Bluetooth and WiFi are contained in the same piece of hardware (I doubt any phone has a separate Bluetooth chip anyway, it would require a separate bluetooth antenna, cost more and take up more space)

  23. Lenovo won't release a security update for the Moto X 2014
    It's still on August 2016 patch level, 13 months old now...

  24. Re:Before jumping to conclusions on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is done on basically every piece of test equipment with optional features.
    What's the difference between a Rigol 1054Z 50MHz DSO and the 1104Z 100MHz model?

    One costs $399 and the other costs $619.
    The physical hardware that provides the bandwidth is identical. There is switch in the front-end to lower the bandwidth controlled by software. Doing this means the hardware costs more, but they can sell it at difference price points to get a larger market.
    They offer software upgrades to increase the memory depth as well.

    No to mention extra upgrades to unlock protocol decoding.

  25. Re:That's disgusting on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank goodness the CPU I'm using right now is not the same die as a higher performance part, but with some cores and cache disabled. Not because of yield, but because they need to produce a certain number of each model.