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  1. If I forget my password on my Iphone and guess it incorrectly 11 times in a row it wipes itself out... Sometimes I do forget passcodes.

  2. Re:People actually *like* Python whitespace? on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's crazy. "Let's make some invisible character with a variable width significant."

    Like Makefiles do?

  3. Re:Citizen of Belgium here on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    "Germany Got Debt Relief After WWII, Refuses Same For Greece Today"
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

  4. Re:Pulseaudio misconceptions on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try the settings - standard kernel options for linux don't work for this.

    The only options that work today are using driver level code for audio processing or a real time Xenomai task.

    Please support Thomas Gleixner via the Linux Foundation to help to fix this limitation of Linux: http://lwn.net/Articles/572740...

    Until then, all high performance low latency audio processing in linux needs to not use any user level tasks.

    Jeff

  5. Re:Pulseaudio misconceptions on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Software mixing you say? It's called dmix.

    Why the fuck do you want to round a *sound mixer* inside your *kernel space* ?! Do you run your video decoder and webbrowser there too ?
    I prefer to run unnecessary things like sound as daemons in userspace. Thank you very much.

    ... Because I need less than 125 microseconds mixing processing latency (12 samples at 96 kHz) so that in-ear monitor mixing for live performance can be useful - requires a total latency from microphone to wireless receiver to CPU to processing to wireless transmitter to in-ear monitor of less than 5 ms. Until Linux user tasks can be scheduled with this kind of hard real time timing accuracy, mixing real time audio in user tasks doesn't cut it for live audio. So I myself am required to do my mixing and processing for real time audio either in the kernel driver, in a RTLinux task (in kernel space), or in a Xenomai task (see xenomai.org ) running at a higher priority than Linux.

  6. Re:Not if gas stays under $2/gallon on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    The Tesla is not a car you buy because you can't afford gas. It is a car you try to afford because it is the best car overall: http://www.businessweek.com/ne...

  7. Re:MITM legalized at last on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Until relatively recently, these re-directions would adversely affect a debian/ubuntu linux system update procedure. A cron job would apt-get update and pull in new index files. Since the transport was not encrypted, the index files would not be what the apt system were expecting. It would store the content of the redirected web page instead of the proper index files into a cache and then apt-get update would be forever broken until you manually figured out how to delete the corrupted files someplace in /var/*/apt

    ISP's and WiFi Access points that do this redirection are the reason why HTTPS everywhere is a good idea.

  8. Re:Submit the request! on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Additional thought: I wonder if the police would be requesting their own members to be anonymous on the internet?

    --jeffk++

  9. Re:Submit the request! on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    But that would be authentication between the client and AP.. How would 802.1x on WIFI work when rcmp.gc.ca is the server that has to authenticate the client?

    --jeffk++

  10. Re:Submit the request! on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Thanks! That would be a fun experiment to see how much businesses would be affected. Can you even put 802.1x in the wireless access points and cell phones?

    --jeffk++

  11. Submit the request! on Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    They need to submit their request to the International Internet Board of Governors!

    --jeffk++

  12. What kind of fish? on Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the fish accidentally a word there with its mouthful of teeth!

  13. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    (reposted as my account since i accidentally was AC)

    The scariest taxi ride I ever had was in the Seattle area, heading back to the Airport after the C++ conference. The taxicab was a Prius which was broken and dirty inside - you could see the airbag. The car's signal lights did not work. The driver was weaving in and out of traffic and just about killed a couple on a motorbike, causing a big road rage incident. The taxi driver was angry that we didn't tip him. If we had tipped him a normal amount, then the total cost of the trip would have been the same as the Uber ride that we took from the Airport to the same hotel.

    As a consumer I want the choice to choose a safe, reliable, and trustable source. For me that is Uber.

    --jeffk++

  14. Re: Or maybe... on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    A more interesting side to this story is how people were able to figure out which airport she was flying to just by googling her name: https://www.twitter.com/Zac_R/status/414249210641653761/photo/1?screen_name=Zac_R

    I'm not sure how that was possible by google - but it sure is a creepy thing.

    The person who made that tweet ( @Zac_R ) was apparently able to talk to Justine's father before she landed, and took the pictures of her at the airport:

    https://www.twitter.com/Zac_R/status/414278786449158144

  15. Re: Who cares? on Why Snapchat and Its Ilk Face a Revenue Conundrum · · Score: 1

    But were they offered that amount in cash? Or restricted shares of some sort which would not be able to be liquidated for a long time in which the value of those shares can plummet?

  16. Re:What? on Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA · · Score: 1

    I thought our Canadian Intelligence was busy guarding our Maple Syrup Reserve.

    *--jeffk++

  17. Re:BSD-bad, MIT-good on Creative Commons Launches Version 4.0 of Its Licenses · · Score: 2

    I personally prefer the ISC license: http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC

    Specifically because it does not have the advertising clause - i.e. I do NOT want 3rd parties to be using my company name in their advertising.

    *--jeffk++

  18. Re: The Third World was first on California Becomes First State In Nation To Regulate Ride-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Two weeks ago I did an experiment - uber from the airport to my hotel cost $60 including the automatic tip. Taxi from the hotel to the airport was $50!not including tip. The über ride was great, the driver was nice, the car was clean, the trip was safe. On the taxi ride the Prius was falling apart, you could see the airbag peeking out from the hole in the dash, the signal lights did not work, the driver was shifty and allots killed a couple on a Harley by cutting them off on the freeway since the taxi driver was not looking and couldn't signal. The taxi ride was scary. The consensus amongst my group was that uber wins and I don't want to take a creepy taxi unless uber really is not available. This happened in Seattle, three weeks ago.

  19. Re:Major extension to TCP? on A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    In this example, X and Y are each providing a different subnet address. Your device just moved to a different network and now has a different IP address. This is not a design error but an appropriate design. Multipath TCP is a standard that allows your device to have uninterrupted mobility.

  20. Re: My give-a-darn meter is reading negative GADs on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why apple is exposed to patent lawsuit when their system is based on proprietary extensions to standards.... The existing standards can be used to implement FaceTime point to point - so are these patents really encompassing NAT traversal of UDP??

  21. Re: Links to classified data should be labeled on Inside the 2013 US Intelligence "Black Budget" · · Score: 1

    So if there were an article on a news site about top secret news but it was pretend and wasn't really top secret would you still have to wipe your computer? If yes, then you will be wiping your computer often. If no, then you get acknowledgment if a leak is actually true or not.

  22. Re: RSA = out of date on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Also see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6090

    9. Intellectual Property

          Concerns about intellectual property have slowed the adoption of ECC
          because a number of optimizations and specialized algorithms have
          been patented in recent years.

          All of the normative references for ECDH (as defined in Section 4)
          were published during or before 1989, and those for KT-I were
          published during or before May 1994. All of the normative text for
          these algorithms is based solely on their respective references.

  23. Re: RSA = out of date on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Good point; There are implementation techniques and specific curves which are patented and it is possible to make an implementation that is not patented. For example: http://dnscurve.org/crypto.html

  24. Re: RSA = out of date on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    IEEE Std 1363a defines a method to to Elliptic Curve Crypto that is not patent encumbered.

  25. Re: Curiouser and curiouser on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Please re-read my posting. IEEE is very clear about patent disclosure for essential patents. IEEE does not state what FRAND actually means. Samsung is free to charge $0.00 for red hat to release ptpd, and is free to charge much more than that per device to apple for other patents which are less interesting! And in both of those cases, FRAND is satisfied.