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  1. Re: They have made official statements backing App on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    Well Microsoft does make phone hardware...but...lol.

  2. Re:Vote Hillary Clinton! Women Unite!! on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered why the perfect economic model never survives the first round of successes.

    And which one has fared better than capitalism so far?

  3. Re: God this guy in an idiot on Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay · · Score: 2

    But do gay fish lives matter?

  4. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    These kind of countermeasures probably wouldn't stop this guy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Or the too long didn't watch: He physically probes the data bus to be able to watch what it's doing, and can dump the full contents of the smartcard he's probing, or even insert his own commands if he wants to.

  5. Re:This is what happens when govt runs media on End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know everything BBC broadcasts, however I do know that they presently air Family Guy and American Dad, both of which are from Fox.

  6. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I still don't see why they couldn't remove the NAND chips and dump their contents, then do an offline brute force attack. I figure that if this is a terrorism case, then NSA could throw their most powerful compute clusters at it.

  7. Re:Yet another call for replacement... on Red Hat, Google Disclose Severe Glibc DNS Vulnerability; Patched But Widespread · · Score: -1

    Because any time that people move away from anything GNU on Linux, Richard Stallman eats another piece of toe jam.

  8. Re:This is what happens when govt runs media on End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    The simpsons? X-files? 24? A lot of shows that saturate popular culture came from Fox. Nevermind that the BBC actually recycles a lot of US content, which in many cases ends up being more popular than the domestic content.

  9. Re: Michigan..... on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    I'm = in

  10. Re: Michigan..... on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    That sounds funny because Hitler once argued that his men didn't need winter gear in Russia because he was still wearing shorts I'm the German winter.

    Of course, that did nothing to stop the cold from literally freezing his soldiers' feet and eyelids off.

  11. Re:Planned obsolescence on Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Really. So explain to me why the general population was able to afford to import foreign cars back then, but they can't now? They don't even need American cars, they can import Japanese or European cars if they want to, as neither country has an embargo against them. However virtually none of them can afford to do that now. Instead they rely on inheriting the 50's era cars from their grandparents.

  12. Re:Planned obsolescence on Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it was a utopia by any stretch. What I AM saying is that it's MUCH worse under communism. I mean shit, just look at TFS: They had 60,000 imported cars, and since then they've gotten crappy soviet bloc made cars that have aged much worse. The general population had to have a higher level of wealth during that period of imports that they don't have now.

  13. Re:Seems trivial to mask on How To Defeat VPN Location-Spoofing By Mapping Network Delays (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    A problem with this is that some types of connections are slower than others when it comes to overall latency. With modern broadband, geosync satellite is the slowest, followed by DSL, followed by cable, with fttp being the fastest. How are they supposed to control for that? A VPN really doesn't add a whole lot of latency, and even if it did, they could just replace it with GRE to reduce that added latency (we don't really need encryption if we're just trying to geospoof since the sites we're trying to geospoof to always use TLS anyways) and you're adding the same amount of latency that say DSL would add vs cable.

  14. There's a difference between 'religious' and 'spiritual'. ....

    Likewise, there's a huge difference between 'a belief' and 'a religious belief'.

    However everything you mention ultimately requires having nothing more than "faith" in that particular belief, making it ultimately religious in nature. Just because it isn't written in a book (i.e. a bible) or you don't go to church doesn't make it any less so.

  15. Also anybody who ever says "natural is better" or "whole foods are better" when they talk about medicine or diet is also subscribing to a religious belief, as when tested from a scientific perspective, none of those hold up particularly well

    I'm not sure which scientific perspective your thinking of but in general canning and preserving food removes some the nutrients. Granted any one selling over priced whole foods is probably scamming you but fresh fruit and vegetables are better than canned and preserved even if the are genetically modified.

    Are you talking about micronutrient or macronutrient? The most critical micronutrients are just atoms. I.e. phosphorus, potassium. Likewise, they won't break down within your lifetime. The others (such as amino acids) do so very slowly. Macronutrients (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates) which are just calories break down faster, but if you think you aren't getting enough then just eat more.

    Believe it not, we've been living on aged food for a LONG time. The difference now is that we're able to preserve food for MUCH longer periods. For example, if you were to store an apple in cold nitrogen, it would take a month to age just as much as the same apple sitting out in the sun for a day would.

  16. As somebody who's very much atheist, I've noticed that unless somebody is really skeptical, then they have some kind of religious belief. Hippies that claim to be atheist are a prime example; they talk about "auras" and "vibes", and if you ask them what exactly that is, then they start talking about your energy or your spirit or something. Also anybody who ever says "natural is better" or "whole foods are better" when they talk about medicine or diet is also subscribing to a religious belief, as when tested from a scientific perspective, none of those hold up particularly well.

  17. Re:Planned obsolescence on Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Modern cars will last as long as these did. I say "did" rather than "have" because even as TFA notes, if you were to look under the hood you probably wouldn't even find original parts in them anymore. That is, other than the body, these practically are no longer the same cars that they once were in the 50's.

    The reason why modern cars don't seem to last as long in first world countries is because once they break down to a certain point, the labor cost is so expensive that it's cheaper to just get a new car. However in Cuba, the labor price is typically lower while at the same time it's harder to get a hold of new stuff, which means reusing stuff becomes more practical than just making a new one. Like for example, TFA mentions repurposing old dryer motors for key cutting machines.

    It's somewhat hard to think that in the 50's, Cuba was a somewhat wealthy country. That is until glorious revolution happened, and communism made everybody equally poor.

  18. Re:These people don't stop existing, though on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well this is a whole new breed of cunt. The previous generation of cunts would call you dirty names and shit, however the new generation of cunts call themselves "politically correct" and will use clean sounding but still inappropriately placed words like "racist" "bigot" "misogynist" "homophobe" or label you as one who uses "hate speech", even when none of these terms apply to you in any way possible. In other words, the old cunts were hecklers, the new cunts are self-righteous assholes.

    In fact, here's a video of what it's like to be assaulted by a hoard of these cunts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Not bad on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not bad for a technology that they tried to ban once.

  20. Re:Interesting on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As somebody who is very heavily opposed to communism and socialism, I'm interested in seeing the results of UBI (which is neither communism nor socialism, rather just a form of welfare) however I wouldn't want it anywhere I plan to live anytime soon, because it's one of those things where once you have it, it's practically impossible to take away, no matter what kinds of problems it creates or doesn't actually solve.

  21. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ??? And how exactly would that allow them to overturn obamacare or get the Keystone pipeline built and raise gas prices to $7.00 / gallon?

    Actually the Keystone pipeline would probably lower gas prices if anything. A huge reason why they're low right now is because another similarly controversial technology, fracking, is in widespread deployment, which consequently is flooding the market, which puts downward pressure on the prices.

  22. Re:Why not capture with wireshark and analyze? on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    And how to you propose to get around the fact that all the code that you would need to replace won't run unless is it signed by Microsoft? At this point, the layers of verification from power on to logged in go deeper than firmware.

    This is a silly question to ask. I personally haven't seen or even heard of any systems that don't permit you to disable boot code signature enforcement. Hell, even the Microsoft built Surface Pro 4 does; you can go right ahead and install Linux on the damn thing. Without enforcement there's no chain of trust, so you can patch wherever the hell you want.

  23. Re: Why not capture with wireshark and analyze? on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    Some code needs to be patched to write the data to a file before the encryption happens. I doubt that is impossible.

    Precisely. If you patched it, you'd break patches and other whatnots, but that doesn't matter because this doesn't have to be a production system. Or if there are so many checks that it would take forever and a day to patch them all, then perhaps run it in a VM and poke the kernel memory from behind the hypervisor until it cooperates.

    For the latter approach, I'm not sure if any tools exist that could properly map the kernel memory in a VM due to address randomization, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  24. Re:Why not capture with wireshark and analyze? on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 2

    Well, son, there are three possible scenarios:

    - They are using a symmetric key (doubtful)
    - They are using assymmetric keys to negotiate a symmetric key on the fly
    - They are using asymmetric keys for the whole transmission

    The first two can be figured out with some kernel patching, or even just firing up a VM and watching for the symmetric key.

    The third would involve patching the kernel to replace Microsoft's public key used for encryption with your own public key that you can then decrypt with a private key. Or just flat out disable the encryption entirely.

    Either way it's done, you'd also need to have another host emulate Microsoft's server responses to see how the exchange takes place, and simply capture what is being sent, and analyze.

  25. Why not capture with wireshark and analyze? on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    Sure, traffic is probably encrypted, but since your system is encrypting it, surely there's a way to discover the keys and find out exactly what data is being sent.

    I personally don't have either the time nor the kernel hacking skills to pull it off, but I'm sure somebody could.