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  1. Not the specter/meltdown patch on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    It is just the new systemd(estroy) update gobbling all resources.

  2. Re:"Reliability of Shuttle Destruct System" on SpaceX's Latest Advantage? Blowing Up Its Own Rocket, Automatically (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Disappearing can just mean reduced in reach or scope. Perhaps it is not as widely known or shared - even if it is 'archived' somewhere.

  3. The main expense may come from having to purchase hardware to accommodate for the performance loss inherent in the patch. If you are running a VM farm of some sort, and have provisioned for a certain amount of load or cycle availability for the VMs, a drop in performance could mean not meeting SLA for those VMS and a need for additional hardware to cover the load. This would be a budgetary burden to many.

  4. Fix Hollywood.... on MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren't Sold on It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet attendance was flat at North American cinemas in 2016, and analysts are predicting a 4 percent decline in 2017, bringing ticket sales to a 22-year low. Perhaps something more radical is necessary.

    How about good movies - that aren't reboot #13 of some long worn out franchise that you are squeezing for every last penny, licensing fee and take-down notice you can wring out of it?

  5. Pi-hole or ublock when travelling FTW on Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    https://pi-hole.net/

    pi-hole that shit.

  6. Re:Unless you're one of the top gamers on The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then it IS an occupation, not interfering with one. In our society it is okay for an occupation to interfere with everything else (health, relationships, etc).

  7. Re:News flash: access to device lets you disable i on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    You forget the inside man job.

    Pay a patsy (janitor, disgruntled employee, whatever) on the inside to drop a device onto the DVR (hide it behind, whatever). Trigger remotely when needed, then break in.

    Hell, I have been in many small offices where the DVR is in the managers office, which is often open. Get an 'interview' and attempt to plant the device for later use while waiting for the manager to interview you. Think convenience stores, check cashing title loan offices, any small place that deals with cash, this could be used as method to disable recording.

  8. Sounds like a use case for SSDs on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Step 1 - record to SSD
    Step 2 - move to spinning storage (this does not even have to be onsite where the attack is possible)
    Pretty simple way to harden it would seem.

  9. I wonder... on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Could the same procedure be used on Alan Hills 84001?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:I love that: on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need ice cores. Trees have this awesome recording mechanism called rings. Old trees in an area an tell you the history of fires and rain for any given year.
    https://cdn.uanews.arizona.edu...
    Please, try not to be so retarded....

  11. Re:Minerals? on New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike you however, I openly admitted to having little knowledge aside from a cursory glance at a paper on the subject. That is far from hypocritical.,br> You on the other hand seem to want to be acknowledged as an expert with little more than a 'fuck you I'm smart". But I think most here can see through your ego.

  12. Re:Minerals? on New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As you stated above with "I should think" indicates you have no practical knowledge of the subject at hand either. You just want to be 'internet correct' the best kind of correct.

    I have no specific knowledge either, but I know Rei is highly intelligent and from past posts probably works in the field, even if this subject is not his direct area of study.

    All that bitching aside, here is a paper with some numbers for you: http://people.virginia.edu/~re...

    If Io were the only source of non-ice material to Europa’s surface and no loss occurred, then using the flux values from Table 1, sulfur compounds could be present on the surface at ~7% (molar abundance) relative to H2O, while Na and Cl could reach 0.3%. Silicon and magnesium could be comparable or slightly less than Na and Cl. These estimates assume uniform mixing and ignore hemispherical flux and gardening rate differences, which can produce surface concentrations that are a factor of 10 or more different between the leading and trailing sides (see Fig. 2 and caption).

    Seems to me that there could be quite a bit of material present. Much from Io outgassing and 'splash' from impactors to IO settling on Europa, not even counting direct impacts to Europa.

    Science.. try it sometime.

  13. This is a pretty weak argument, and the same one that Lord kelvin is falsely attributed to have had. Answering questions often raises more than were answered. there will always be research to do as long as there are minds to do it.

  14. False equivalence? on Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Comparing LoTR and GoT is like comparing Pornhub and Wikipedia. Sure, they are both fantasy novels (as WP and PH are both websites), but that is as far as it goes.

  15. It's also chromium based.

  16. Re:A more serious question... on Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    This is MS.. they cant put the engineer or device for the domo in a group with the appropriate GPOs set? come on

  17. Re:A more serious question... on Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Silverlight does not run in chrome anymore, and would also require extra add-ons/extensions if it did. In fact just abou tanything I can think of as a web extension tech requires some sort of extra install - except javascript.
    Javascript sort of works in IE you know.
    This just shows that even MS engineers do not trust prefer MS software in certain circumstances.

  18. A more serious question... on Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did this engineer not know that Windows 10 also has IE installed? It is just a simple start menu/cortana seach away. Not favoring MS productrs here.. IMHO Edge and IE both suck in very different ways. Edge sucks becuase it is immature and doen't know any better. IE sucks because it apparently has decided that sucking is its purpose in life.

  19. That is very interesting, thanks. I am not well versed in audio physics, but wouldn't this be reliant on the physical properties of the microphone. IE resonant frequencies, harmonics, etc... If that is correct it should not work on all microphones being they have different sizes, diaphragms, housings, etc. You would have to tune the ultrasonic signal to trigger the sideband/harmonic within a particular mic.

    That said, there are probably not that many different mics used in phones, so tuning for a large swath of devices may not be that difficult.

  20. That input to a voice recognition system would be run through a notch (bandpass) filter only a little wider than human vocal range. It just seems like such a simple way to help sanitize the input.

  21. the headline in 2027 reads, only 13% of Americans have jobs after robots took over.

  22. Re:Officially Freaked Out on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Just run all your public missives through an article rewriting tool or two. Yes, some meaning will be lost, but it is sure to confuse any styleometric system. As an example I will take this paragraph and run it through two different rewriters twice.

    Sample 1 (http://articlerewritertool.com/ and http://paraphrasing-tool.com/)
    Basically run all your open messages through an article reconsidering instrument or two. Genuinely, some significance will be lost, nonetheless it is sure to bewilder any styleometric system. For example I will take this entry and run it through two unmistakable rewriters twice.

    Sample 2(https://spinbot.com/ and https://smallseotools.com/arti...)
    Simply run all of your open letters through an editorial modifying device or 2. Indeed, some significance are going to be lost, nonetheless it's sure to confound any styleometric framework. for example i'll take this passage and run it through 2 distinct rewriters doubly.

    Just beware that most of these sites are bad ad landmine fields and will not work with an ad blocker. I guess that is mainly because they are used by SEO blog spamming shitheads and college students looking to make a quick paper.

  23. I prefer Schroedinger's pants. This is where a female wears a longer shirt such that you cannot tell if she is wearing shorts or pants underneath it.

  24. Re:Sounds about right on Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death (manchester.ac.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Whatever an individuals level of intelligence, travel tends to widen perspective and make people more liberal. They see people all over, just doing 'people' things, loving, suffering, enduring, dying. Those who wall themselves off often have a more specifi focus - which can be good or bad depending on the focus.

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

    - Mark Twain