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  1. Re:I live in DFW, TX... and its bad on Apple To Close Retail Stores In the Patent Troll-Favored Eastern District of Texas (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If they are buying EDTX then they are not getting a very good deal, since the results there are not much more favorable than average

  2. Re:Apple made a huge mistake here on Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pulling the developer certs would only affect public users of released versions of apps other than Onavo. The PR fallout would be "Apple took away my Facebook" and "Apple made an arbitrary decision just to hurt Facebook" verging on "zOMG antitrust". In addition, Onavo would keep working.

    By pulling the enterprise certs the only collateral damage is inside Facebook, since Facebook was using the same enterprise certs for the internal apps and beta testing that were actually what enterprise certs are for, and they have the advantage that this is a policy spelled out ahead of time.

  3. Re:Apple made a huge mistake here on Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    No, they pulled Facebook's enterprise certs. The developer certs were unaffected.

  4. Re:Just always apply hardware access controls. on Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    "bad cache invalidation"

    Except the "valid" state of a cache line has an actual definition, and the cache line in question actually is valid. No one had ever defined a "Forget we were ever here" request.

    You might think you could just add a method to mark every line you touched during a mispredict as invalid, but now you are open to timing attacks based on cache misses on which lines got evicted in the first place.

  5. Re:Just always apply hardware access controls. on Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    You have assumed a multicore CPU that does not share the last level cache between cores, which is not necessarily true.

    While I have not a description of a Spectre exploit that specifically involves a multilevel cache, and I have not seen that case specifically rejected either.

  6. Re:Logitech has fallen... on Logitech is Relaunching the MX518 Gaming Mouse (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    If we're going backwards I wish someone would put the middle button back in placed of making a wheel that is also clickable.

    I have a few mice left with actual middle buttons, but they all seem to be second rate in other ways.

  7. Re:Loaded Interview on Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short (triplebyte.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get into a hour-long argument about the difference between UB and IB do you pass or fail? ;-)

  8. Re:Maybe not a bad idea... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just make a division in NASA responsible for defending us from "space" too.

    Because NASA is an independent agency not part of the Department of Defense, and the military space budget is *already* larger than than NASA's budget.

  9. "Maybe it's time to talk limiting incarceration"

    That *is* a limit. No one could possibly serve more than 80 years for the nine crimes charged. Furthermore, federal sentencing guidelines will also take into account prior criminal history, i.e. if they are young and have the possibility of growing up to act wiser in the future. Your proposal of five to ten years comes to 45 yo 90 years total for nine charges, which is pretty much what the current maximum sentence is.

    On the other hand, the nine charges cover 2,400 bomb threats as well as a faked airplane hijacking. That's a maximum of 12 days per bomb threat.

  10. Sneakers, Act 1: On going legit on Hacker Who Stole 620 Million Records Strikes Again, Stealing 127 Million More (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Bank Secretary : So, people hire you to break into their places... to make sure no one can break into their places?

    Martin Bishop : It's a living.

    Bank Secretary : Not a very good one.

  11. Re: What's in a name on James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Released After Sixteen Years (rottentomatoes.com) · · Score: 1

    Manga No. 5

  12. " an awesome used purchase for the 80 kWh version of the same vehicle"

    Except it would then be hauling 25% more mass in batteries than if it had fresh batteries.

  13. Re:Good government management on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations should not go places that offer subsidies, since if you get a subsidy this year that means you are paying whoever gets a subsidy next year.

  14. Sam Esmail needs to stop generating the future.

  15. "according to people familiar with the situation" on Publishers Chafe At Apple's Terms For 'Netflix For News' Subscription Service As It Demands a 50 Percent Revenue Cut (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the chances that someone just made that 50% up so that they can claim later that Apple was forced to back down to a more reasonable figure?

  16. Re:There seem to be some disputed facts here? on Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    'the diagrammed fence just east of Brownsville, complaining that the proposed fence starts "miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico"'

    That location is the start of a currently exisiting section of wall.

  17. "Intel hasn't had a lot of success outside of x86"

    Intel's greatest success outside of x86 has been... their cellular modems. Until the XMM 7560 their modems used ARM cores for the communications processor and were manufactured on TSMC processes.

  18. What standing does Sprint have? on Sprint Sues AT&T Over 5G Branding (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    5G in this context is a trademark of 3GPP. Only they can object to an unauthorized usage.

  19. Facebuck actually cares about those?!?!

    ROFLMFAO

    Facebook didn't say they were fighting *against* terrorism and child abuse.

  20. Presumably for the same reason Facebook needs to design their own silicon to run a website.

  21. Re:Banking by the seat of your pants. on Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "When cryptocoins are lost, the value of the remainder go up."

    When cryptocoins are *known* to be lost, the value of the remainder go up. Therefore if you are holding a particular coin it is in your interest for lost of dramatic stories to be spread about how you lost a significant fraction of the money supply, whether or not it actually happened.

  22. Re:Hire an Engineering Leader, not a Financial one on Intel's Interim CEO Bob Swan Gets the Job Permanently (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "Intel used to be lead by former engineers or minds of that leaning. They would be wise to get back there."

    Up to this point Intel was lead by former engineers. So it's engineers that got them to their current situation.

  23. "a way for a VOIP system to register the IP address with the phone company when it makes the phone call "

    The phone company knows who to bill when they complete a phone call. Just impose a near zero call completion fee and hold the phone company liable if they can't figure out who to bill it to upstream.

    On average, most callers will net close to 0. In bulk, the net calls could be rounded down to the nearest 1,000 to avoid the effort of chasing the small fry. All that's left are the big fish, and the phone companies have their incentive to keep track of who they are.

  24. "You're okay with breaking something you don't personally use. "

    If they have to impose an external cost 26 billion times a year, that's not a viable business to be concerned about.

  25. Re:Too bad Apple Won't Do Anything on Facebook Pays Teens To Install VPN That Spies On Them (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "They've deliberately abused the application testing program in order to harvest user data that they couldn't get by getting that application deployed through the App Store."
    The reason they are distributing that way is because... Apple threw the original app out of the App Store.