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  1. A few quick facts, mostly Clinton quotes on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Since you don't have enough information, here are a few quick facts. The Inspector General (appointed by Obama) stated that Clinton sent top secret satellite photos. He said that information is classified top secret as soon as the picture is taken (it's not classified later). Shortly after that announcement is when Clinton started adding the word "marked" to her denials - "I didn't send any email -marked- classified."

    Which is a bit odd, because failing to properly mark classified information when conveying it is a separate violation. So in terms of legal risk, she just admitted to an additional offense in an effort for better PR.

    A brief chronology of Clinton's statements, from earliest to latest:
    There is classified information on the server.
    I didn't send or receive classified -documents- (an important change, after it was confirmed she sent classified information, she pivots to pretending it's the document that's protected, not the info.)
    I didn't -send- classified documents. (After public confirmation she did receive them)
    I didn't send documents which were -marked- classified when I sent them. (After it was confirmed she did send classified documents, which were classified when she sent them.)

    That's the story according to Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration. Given their side of the story, I don't even need to hear what conservatives have to say on the matter,

  2. I'll likely get one for VPN. OpenWRT forums on Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? · · Score: 1

    I'd be likely to get one. Maybe to use as a router, but I'd think of it more as a general purpose small network appliance to be cast into whichever role I need. Right now, I use a consumer router with *wrt as my VPN endpoint for the rescue network on my sever rack. It provides access to IPMI and the IP-controlled power strip through a VPN. (Meaning it's not used often, and doesn't need to be fast). Your device looks good for that type of purpose. Rack ears, preferably 0-U rack mounting, would be handy.

    I could see using it as a firewall or a light-duty file server.

    I don't see a lot of mass-market potential; I don't expect to find it at Best Buy. Rather I see two or three markets. The OpenWRT community of course - I assume you have a consistent presence on those forums. If you get to be known as a "best choice" on the appropriate forums, I see some sales there. Certainly the same -type- of hobbyists who play with Arduino and RPi might also be interested, though I think you want to clearly distinguish yours as being a -network- device.

    What could be gold would be if you had a version with excellent build quality and established a reputation with one of the communities where people build more serious networks and have need of a flexible appliance they can drop in to do a specific job. That may not be your target market, though. That would be one market at a time. Think of a use and target that community, think of another use and target that next community, etc.

  3. Did you confuse Texas with Vermont or Connecticut? on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    It seems you've confused Texas with Vermont or some other state in the northeast. Last fiscal year, Texans paid 265 billion in federal taxes, while 147 billion in federal spending went to Texas.

    Meaning that beyond paying for themselves, Texas paid the entire combined deficit of Vermont, Maryland, Maine, Connecticut, Virginia, Idaho and several other states.

  4. if 80% less is the same amount on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    > Gatorade, so-called nutrition bars often have as much sugar in them as soda.

    12 ounces of Coke has 150 calories, all sugar
    12 ounces of Gatorade G2 has 30 calories, mostly sugar

    So Coke has more than FIVE TIMES as much sugar.

  5. quick look at lion, horse, human teeth on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Take 30 seconds sometime to look at pictures of teeth from a carnivore such as a dog or cat, an herbivore such as a horse, and a human. You'll see for yourself which is more similar.

    I think you'll see that our teeth are much more like horse teeth than lion or wolf teeth (or house cat). Unlike horses, we DO have a pair of canines. 85% of our teeth are the same types that horses have, not the types that carnivores have. Look and see.

  6. apes don't actually spend their time hunting on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to get a general idea of what prehistoric human ancestors may have eaten prior to agriculture, you can easily look at the other great apes - who have human-like teeth and don't have agriculture .

    You'll see they spend their time eating plants, and if a lizard or other morsel of meat happens by, they'll eat it. They. Don't hunt like lions (or have teeth like lions). Meat is a very small portion of their diet.

  7. So you think Coke is healthy is grain is bad. Okay on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    So I pointed out that Coke has 150 calories of sugar, while Gatorade has 30.

    You argued that I'm wrong because "A calorie is not a calorie". So you think Coca-Cola calories (high fructose corn syrup) are healthy calories. Uhm, okay.

    You then say butter and lard are healthier than vegetables.

    And you think grains are bad.

    Fyi, you just provided evidence that grains are good. See if you can figure out why.

  8. like the commission that Hilary appointed? on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 1, Informative

    > How about the fact that he's one of the Benghazi conspiracy nutters?

    The commission that -Hilary Clinton- appointed to investigate Benghazi found that "senior leadership of the state department " was reckless, in the face of clear warnings, to the point that it "suggests the appearance of intentional neglect". That's Clinton's very own commission who came to that conclusion.

    Rand Paul (along with anyone who has been paying attention) agrees.

  9. Count your teeth. 30 calories vs 150 on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    > What healthier options do they market?
    I> t's all high fructose-corn/sugar-laced products and/or grain-based/soy-infused poison.

    Coke has 150 calories in a 12-ounce serving.
    Gatorade's current product, G2, has 30 calories.
    So 80% less than Coke. If you think sugar is bad, Gatorade is 80% healthier than Coke. (Water is probably better - and Pepsi sells water under it's Aquafina brand).

    Regarding "grain based", look in your mouth to see what kind of food your body was designed for. You have 8 incisors for slicing (fruit, fleshy vegetables, meat), 4 canines for tearing and puncturing (meat), and 20 flat molars and premolars for grinding (grain, starchy vegetables). So of your 32 teeth, 20 are made for grains and starchy vegetables, 4 are made for meat.

  10. Not needed, security companies do it without immun on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 2

    CISA attempts to increase the amount of shared knowledge about ongoing threats by creating a federal government bureaucracy which is supposed to facilitate communication. It grants immunity from law suits to any information shared through the new system.

    This isn't necessary in order to achieve the goal. A federal program like this would be used almost exclusively by large companies, mom-and-pop shops aren't going to do 800 pages of paperwork to become a participating entity. Currently, the large companies who care about security -already- engage the services of security companies like Alert Logic or Fire Eye, who are -already- monitoring for security threats across their many client networks, and already raising the alarm when there are widespread indications of a threat in the current threat landscape. They do this without any special legal protection, and compete to see who can do it best. because they aren't immune from privacy lawsuits, they have to actually follow privacy laws (or try to, mistakes happen).

    I seriously doubt that a government agency, with no motivation to do excellent work (but plenty of politically based mandates), would do better than the companies full of experts doing it already.

    Also, the most important thing for companies in this space is their reputation - that their brand name is trusted. They have ample motivation to do everything in their power to be sure they don't -cause- a breach and to secure their own systems. Many of us know how secure government systems tend to be - almost as if they didn't care. Perhaps that is because hardly ever does any government program lose funding or any govt employee get fired for shoddy security. A breach of Fire Eye's network, or Alert Logic's, would have immediate and significant consequences for the company and the people responsible.

  11. Rand Paul has been pushing privacy amendments on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looking at how candidates are responding to this Rand Paul has been pushing several amendments addressing the privacy concerns of CISA.

  12. Gatorade, water, tea, snacks. Soda only 25% of Pep on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    As you said, Coca-Cola has doubled down on advertising full-sugar soda, as soda consumption has been falling. Pepsi instead followed demand, marketing bottled water, tea, Gatorade, nutrition bars, etc.

    Coke sells more soda, but that's a declining market. Pepsi is ahead in the healthier options which have seen increasing sales.

  13. Proposed solution: federatio of democratic republi on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 2

    > It may just be that a successful democracy has a maximum limit of size before it ceases to function correctly.

    Indeed. A solution that was proposed was that one could have a bunch of smaller democratic republics, and where large- scale action was required (such as a military at war), those sovereign republics would act as one by each republic having a vote on what the coalition (federation) does.

    Local citizens would be served by locally elected publics servants for things like noise ordinances, schools, and anything else that doesn't directly affect neighboring republics. That is, each community rules themselves. To move mail around the entire federation you'd have a federation mail service, and when negotiating with foreign countries they'd act as a united federation. The concept was called federalism and the workings were described in a document called the US Constitution.

    It was supposed to be separate states, but united. United States. During and after WWII, the federation government (federal government) assumed most of the power, and the states have allowed it.

  14. But every US senator does on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    > Lots of people have never met a Wall St banker. A state representative in New York maybe, but otherwise, what's your point? City councilman anywhere other than the 5 largest cities? Not likely.

    How likely that ALL of the 100 US Senators have had lunch with Wall Street bankers and their lobbyists? Approximately 100%. So, would you rather have most laws be made by:
    a) people who hang out with Wall Street bankers and lobbyists.
    b) People who hang out with your dad

    Federal politicians - US senators and house reps, hang with banker and lobbyists. State and local reps hang out with your dad, your teacher, or your pastor. You may not have spoken to your state rep personally (though you can call or email any time if you choose to), but you probably know some of the same people. Specifically, the head of the local charity, your pastor, and other local leaders you know personally have probably talked to your state rep.

  15. do you mean compressed? Yes, plus boot splash grap on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    Do you mean compressed files? It's a compression algorithm, not a video codec. And yes, on the system partition you'll find compressed files, typically cpio + gzip.

    Also, in terms of media (which isn't relevant, but you mentioned it), you're likely to find splash images there.

  16. I know my state rep, city council member. Wall St on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When Wall Street paid for Senator Clinton's campaign, she "represented" 20 million New Yorkers, and saw 0.000001% of them face-to-face. She DID spend face time with Wall Street bankers, she didn't spend (unscripted) face-to-face time with "normal" people. Senators generally don't do that much.

    My state representative represents 167,000 people, is my neighbor, and sees me once a week at church.

    Who do you think is more influenced by Wall Street bankers vs influenced by people like you and I - my neighbor, who is my state rep and sits two rows down at church, or my federal senator? My state rep has never met any of the Wall street bankers who bankroll federal candidates.

    At an even more local level, my city councilman represents a district of about 8,000 people. He's my daughter-in-law's brother. I have his phone number. He's also never met a Wall Street banker.

  17. "dedicated to revealing secrets" privacy consciou? on Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    I see that the site is dedicated to spreading information that some people would prefer to keep private. They publicize things that they think should not be private, "violate the privacy" of those whom they think should have their information revealed and publicized (rightly or wrongly).

      So in some sense, it's an anti-privacy site, for better or worse. I don't immediately see any indication that the operator is "privacy conscious ". Do you? Or is it more like "I think he -should- be privacy conscious, so I assume that he is"?

    That said, I imagine anyone publishing just about anything would be interested in knowing how many people use the site, which types of documents get the most interest, etc. That information comes from log analysis.

  18. And -requires- FAT 8.3 filenames. See page 537 on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 2

    See page 537 of the UEFI spec. A file -can- a- have an LFN attribute (long file name). It -must- have a file name, which is 8.3.

      As I said in GP, the canonical filename for FAT (used by UEFI) is the 8.3 name. All files must have a name, and those names are 8.3. A file -can- also have a LFN (long file name) which is stored as an attribute of the file.

  19. EFI, the NEW boot standard, requires FAT 8.3 on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 3, Informative

    EFI is the new boot standard, which will probably be the standard for 30 years or so. It boots from a FAT volume. On FAT, the real file names (which must be unique) are 8.3. Long "names" are stored as a secondary attribute of the file. Thus, three-letter extensions are still a major standard, and will be for decades.

  20. Not comparable, just good enough for 10 inch apps on Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With our Chromebook, we've found that there are certain tasks that you want to do on a little 10 inch notebook, and certain tasks you don't. On a small laptop, a processor good enough for YouTube and Netflix is good enough. You don't want to run Visual Studio on a 10 inch device, so there's no need for a Core i7.

      Obviously, it doesn't matter to you that a supercomputer is faster than your desktop, if your desktop is fast enough. Similarly , if an ARM is fast enough for the things you do on a small laptop, it doesn't matter whether Intel offers a more capable processor or not - if the ARM suits your needs, that's enough.

  21. Chromebooks are surprisingly useful. 10 inch scree on Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I installed Linux on my (really my wifes) Chromebook, dual boot. It turns out we never ever boot it to Linux. ChromeOS (aka the browser) does everything we want to do with it. We mostly view regular web sites, YouTube, and use Google Docs.

    It won't run Visual Studio, but it turns out you don't WANT to run Visual Studio on a 10 inch screen. Everything we would want to do on a little Chromebook works fine without needing any x86-specific software.

  22. a step further - instead of md5, add a good hash on First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it would be just as easy to add sha256 rather than to add md5. You could then deprecate the sha1 and after a while stop using it at all. If you keep the two hashes separate rather than concatenating them, you can deprecate a weaker one every ten years or so, as as needed. Instead of:

    if matches (candidate, md5hash)
    You'd use:
    if matches (candidate, @undeprecated_hashes)

  23. IN ADDITION, not sha1 of md5 on First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm (google.com) · · Score: 2

    GP said IN ADDITION to, not "as the input of".
    Not
    hash = sha1(md5))
    which would be weaker. Rather:
    hash1 =sha1(plaintext) , hash2 =md5(plaintext)

    Adding (not embedding) an additional hash is strictly stronger.

    Of course it would be just as easy to add sha256 rather than to add md5. You could then deprecate the sha1 and after a while stop using it at all.

  24. It got picky. For one thing, you may need to restart the resolver daemon. Also, if you have IPv6 running, you may need to set an IPv6 address in /etc/hosts as well - even if you never use it.

    As others mentioned in this thread, people are using it - it "works", it just got harder.

  25. Yes, the board/C*O job is to make decisions across on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    The job of the BOD and the senior executives is to understand the big picture and long-term strategy and based on that MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE ENTIRE COMPANY about which projects to do, which projects to cancel, and the relative priority of each thing, etc. Those big-picture decisions need to be consistent throughout the organization. You don't want the development team to prioritize product XYZ while the marketing team has cancelled the marketing campaign for XYZ.

    Does that make sense so far, that you don't want the graphic design team pulling overtime to design the UI for a product that the programmers have decided to cancel? To avoid that, the "liaison" TELLS the programmers "this is the product you need to build." "But we want to ..." "No, that sounds like a cool project, but the company is doing XYZ, and your part of that is to build X." A manager can be nice about it, they can be mean about it, or they can be matter-of-fact about it, but they have to tell each team what the decision is is how they are expected to contribute. If not, you won't have all the different parts done in a way that they come together to make a successful project.