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  1. Jobs Program on EU To Give Internet Firms 1 Hour To Remove Extremist Content (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I see: 32-hour workweek, 1-hour response time. That's a lot of employees.

    Also: small businesses and startups need not exist.

  2. Re:End of life? on Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Legal? They said they sold it to government customers. Probably the DEA to unmask darknet market participants.

    Who do you think it going to make it illegal, that same government that benefits?

  3. Re:Why are people not upgrading? on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the complaint of a home user, not an enterprise user.

    And a home user can still install the EU enterprise build if they want. Who wouldn't, really?

  4. Re:zdnet article / slightly OT on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't count on ten usefulness years on Redhat. The security space moves much too quickly. They'll patch most obvious exploits but don't count on getting an 'A' at Qualsys on an 8-year-old version of RHEL.

    Debian stable will do as well or better and it's much easier to upgrade incrementally (e.g. Apache 2.4). RHEL's "software collections" is an insane hack around their inability to modernize the RPM space ten years ago.

    They're "cloud crazy" now while neglecting essential infrastructure because it's "too hard". Say what you want about systemd but that's the only successful story of a very difficult modernization that was very painful but is now better than SysV was worse. That's the only thing that Redhat has managed to do in the last decade that required the necessary suffering.

    I used run a pure Fedora+ shop but they can't compete today. The collateral damage from the Spectre/Meltdown fiasco finally opened my eyes (while Debian has become Enterprise-grade in this decade; old dpkg problems were infuriating.)

    The purpose of a distro today needs to be keeping you current AND stable. Yes, complexity is hard, but we need software in the 2020's to manage it, not admins to avoid it.

  5. Re:Wrong and simplistic. on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3

    Because Windows is a dumpster fire and if you don't keep up you're going to get pwned sooner or later causing everybody else all kinds of problems from malware infections to identity theft.

    Sure, YOU can drink and drive responsibly, it's just everybody else who cannot. I mean "run unpatched Windows".

  6. Re:Why are people not upgrading? on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think sometimes that a lot of applications people do not understand software lifecycles and do no planning or budgeting beyond initial acquisition and then expect IT to clean up their mess.

    Microsoft's strategy of "pay for your lack of planning" is a perfect market-based solution and I fully support it. Only at a few enlightened companies do internal IT operations work that way. Mostly IT people are just shit upon and expected to work unpaid overtime for people who fuck up and take off for the weekend. I'm very glad I made the jump fifteen years ago to getting paid handsomely for those cleanups.

  7. Re:Who can afford to run a tor exit node ? on Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out the Library Freedom Project.

  8. Russians hacked the space station on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  9. Re:Did they incite violence on Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle To Police Bad Actors (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    This cartel has been canning people who are *explicitly* anti-war and non-violence. Scott Horton, Dan McAdams, et. al.

    Meanwhile the people who actually drop bombs on school buses get a pass.

    It's hard to not use the term 'libtard' when that's how they're acting.

  10. Re:and then they sacked him on Google's Doors Hacked Wide Open By Own Employee (forbes.com) · · Score: 0

    Google doesn't sack people for finding exploits. They sack people who say men and women aren't biologically identical.

  11. Re:Baby, Meet Bathwater on Google To Nix All Tech Support Provider Ads (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Yup. First they came for the crypto people...

  12. That would only make sense if Essex Jct. were producing on the latest fab and they're not. They do a lot of high-volume chipsets at larger sizes - RF chipsets and game systems chips your probably have heard of or own. The ITAR stuff is minor in terms of volume.

  13. Re: Tesla is a good investment on Elon Musk Says Investors Convinced Him Tesla Should Stay Public (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Tesla is a liability even at $4.20

    I tell you what - sell some puts at $4.20 and I'll buy them. What do you want the close date to be?

  14. Re:The first release was "dropped" --? on Linux Turns 27 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's modern for "released". e.g. "Kanye dropped a new album yesterday".

  15. Re:How to avoid future licensing issues: on Intel's Reworked Microcode Security Fix License No Longer Prohibits Benchmarking (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm not buying it.

    Happy AMD owner here but I've never seen AMD say it will always provide microcode fixes and that the microcode will never come with a shitty license.

    I do think AMD has a good opportunity here to say they will offer microcode fixes and that they will offer them with a free license, but as far as I know both AMD and Intel could screw us at any time here, legally.

    Granted, only Intel has tried.

  16. Intel sold him a chip with security features that offered no security. To get what was advertised he has to hobble the performance he was sold as well.

    No, lots of people will have sympathy for his situation - this is not of his own making. This is something Intel should have been on top of shortly after Rowhammer was discovered.

  17. So Intel is saying if you want to benchmark to decide if you want to join the class action, you can't provide a detailed reason that you're joining the class? Lawsuits are a matter of public record - a judge is going to laugh at that kind of restriction. How does Intel expect it's going to enforce this?

    Let's see a million people tweet their slowdown measurements and then it'll be Intel Legal's move. Somebody come up with the hashtag.

  18. So you only have one device and you use it every day and you don't frequently rotate your PIN numbers?

    These aren't ATM machines - you are in control of security (but not adopted adjectives).

  19. Re:Is this some kind of parody? on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how mining works. You need fast hashes that profit more than electric costs. PoW chains have difficulty increases.

  20. Re:Disparity is fine, pay reflection should adjust on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's supply and demand. Your typical IT guy would stand no chance of leading a 20,000 person organization. The big CEO needs those skills and then has to be willing to work 85 hours a week and never be home.

    IT aside, there are tremendous exponential gains in working hours before burnout. If you can actually sustain 85 hours a week of work, you don't get twice as much done as somebody who works a solid 40, you get 20 times as much done.

    Most "overworked" IT guys have shitty schedules but aren't exactly hyperproductive. That's fine but a good CEO doesn't have time for /. or YouTube - he's constantly working.

    So few people have both the skills and willingness to have a machine-like life that the pay is commensurate. It's reasonable to think that lifestyle is crazy. What's also crazy is to expect anybody to work like that for a normal salary or to expect to be paid like that for normal work.

  21. Re:'out of body experiences' are delusions on The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate a Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually leaving your body and going on some kind of spirit journey is fake

    If it's happening in your brain, it's not fake, by definition. That the meaning may be difficult to derive is a separate issue but the reality cannot be questioned. This is a novice materialist error which contradicts the central materialist claim.

    That so many psychedelics turn off inhibatory centers specifically should give pause to those who claim that experiences are "fake" or "delusions". Anybody who can see an optical illusion should understand that the world isn't precisely what we sense. It takes years of building processing filters for humans to build a stable subset of reality that they can filter.

  22. List on Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped On Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    read TFA for methods and BMO link.

    Popup-Blocker
    Facebook Bookmark Manager
    Facebook Video Downloader
    YouTube MP3 Converter & Download
    Simply Search
    Smarttube - Extreme
    Self Destroying Cookies
    Popup Blocker Pro
    YouTube - Adblock
    Auto Destroy Cookies
    Amazon Quick Search
    YouTube Adblocker
    Video Downloader
    Google NoTrack
    Quick AMZ

  23. I bet fewer than six will quit when Google proceeds.

    Now, those six - they might be worth hiring.

  24. Re:Remembered the shared family TV? on Slashdot Asks: Did You Have a Shared Family Computer Growing Up? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Right - the shared family TV was the monitor for my C=>64 I eventually found a really bad 15" color set at a yard sale for $12 bucks and became liberated.

  25. Spy tools? on Trump Signs Defense Bill With Watered-Down ZTE Sanctions (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So ZTE agreed to put backdoors in its modem and gave NSA DMA access?