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  1. Re:MAGA on Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2
    https://haveibeenpwned.com/Pas...

    "MAGA"

    Oh no — pwned! This password has been seen 62 times before

    "MAGA bich"

    Good news — no pwnage found!

  2. No one under 18 would be allowed to have filter software deleted.

    Once again, demonstrating that politicians have no grasp on the workings of technology.

    Or their own state laws?

  3. Under House Bill 2319, the state of Kansas would declare a “distributor shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, lease or distribute to a consumer any product or service that makes content available accessible on the internet unless such product or service contains an active and operating technology protection measure.”

    So, absent a definition of "technology protection measure", DEFAULT ALLOW might well do it.

  4. Re:A missing null is a terrible thing. on Microsoft: 70 Percent of All Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Issues (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I suppose lack of memory safety is a "decision" for processor manufacturers too. How dare assemblers not implement proper heap protection!

    .

    Actually, it was a decision, and some vendors made different choices. Quite successful choices.

    while (*p++=*q++);
    when you actually mean
    p = q;
    (and the idiom depends on idiosyncrasies of the PDP-11 instruction set), was a stupid decision.

  5. Re:Let's just use it anyway on Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:"Doc" Smith was right... on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 2

    Preferably without Gharlane though.

  7. Re:The poor get screwed on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2
    Public transport, ride sharing or some such?

    Israel has about a third the rate of car ownership of the USA. I can see that the 'poor', and even the middle-class, might find the cost of a private vehicle becomes uneconomic. Maybe. It's an interesting thought.

    And, BTW, what is going on in San Marino? With its land area, pretty everywhere appears to be within walking distance, and yet there's 1.3 cars per person!

  8. Ban the SALE on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    Band the sale only. So, no new non-electric (or CNG) vehicles, but there will be existing vehicles. I assume that there will continue to be a large (if diminishing over time) number of 'legacy' vehicles for some considerable time. In fact, unless really draconian regulations are introduced, there will be vintage and speciality vehicles indefinitely. Not to mention military (battery powered tanks?), aircraft, ships, farming and such like.

    The interesting point will be when the filling stations are mostly all electric charging stations, and driving your vintage car across the country gets to be pretty challenging.

  9. Re:Just follow the money on US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls (reuters.com) · · Score: 2
    That's actually the reason. The Internet is a medium with zero trust. It's also unreliable. Therefor, the end-points have had to ensure trust and reliability themselves.

    The telco world evolved on the premise that its network was secure and reliable (objective evidence to the contrary). Its protocols assume secure/reliable transport, and DON'T put any checks in themselves. Over the years, as the protocols have evolved, the mindset has still been one of a centralised cabal of trusted providers. If something does go wrong at the transport layer, the endpoints don't and can't do anything about it. That means that there have to be fundamental changes in order to do authenticated calls. But, after over a century of incremental modification, the natural path (natural for the telco mindset), is to do more tweaking; to add more complexity to the twisty maze of interconnect protocols. Instead, the correct thing to do is to replace with a new, Internet based app. All the while navigating more than a century's worth of laws, regulations, established best practice, and without breaking established services.

  10. Re: Just follow the money on US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    Alas, it's more complicated than it appears. Way more complicated

    The FCC proposal seems stupidly complex on the face of it, but it might be the simplest solution. (Might, I don't know.)

  11. Re:Just follow the money on US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    A phone network knows the numbers in its own network, but relies on the networks it peers with to supply correct information.

    If Verizon passes on a call from Cox, it trusts the number Cox says originated the call. In terms of billing, Verizon doesn't care. It doesn't send a bill to the originating caller (Cox's subscriber), it sends it to Cox, with appropriate call details (time of day, duration, A & B numbers, etc.)

    Given that every telco doesn't peer with every other telco, that trust then gets distributed---and diluted.

    As networks get huge, and hugely complicated, bad actors can spoof their numbers. Or, they may just steal them (hack into someone's PBX and jump off from its number).

  12. Re:You have no rights on Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    "The right to buy weapons is the right to be free" The Weapon Shops of Isher .

    I really enjoyed that book when I was a kid. (Unfortunately, it's got rather a lot of magical thinking, around the nature of the weapons themselves.)

    If there were a correlation between gun ownership and freedom, you'd expect the top 10 gun owning nations to largely overlap the top 10 most free nations. Oh well, correlation does not imply causation.

    To think about it another way, and quoting some pop culture: "Culture eats Strategy for breakfast". Countries with a culture of democracy don't mind if their citizens have guns---Switzerland and New Zealand both have quite a few guns, but very strict laws about their ownership. Without the culture, giving your citizens guns doesn't make them democratic, it just makes more of them dead.

  13. Re:Luckily Amazon sells body bags... on Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    Just need the right chemical: ClF3

    It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.

    or FOOF

    "Satan's kimchi"

    [the]Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons"

  14. And my rubber chicken.

  15. Re:Phones should be near MRI on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Mobile phones should not be taken into a facility with a MRI machine anyway.

    The phones were nowhere near the MRI. The Helium leaked out of the MRI facility and into the surrounding areas, according to the article.

  16. Re:Helium goes right through things on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Helium goes right through solid objects. Plastics have molecules, and holes between molecules, about 25,000 times larger than a helium atom. Helium gas is normally single atoms, not molecules.

    Helium gas is always single atoms, except for extraordinarily unusual circumstances which assuredly were not in play here.

  17. Re:destiny on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:It's easier now to cook, and FAR cheaper. on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cooking for yourself doesn't make economic sense - it's more like a hobby.

    If you cook for yourself though, you will probably use less salt; you will almost certainly use far less sugar; and you will not add any of the commercial preservatives, emulsifiers, bulking agents and dyes that are added to the majority of store-bought meals. Your food should therefor be healthier and significantly less fattening.

    People have hobbies because they enjoy them. They are objectively good for you because they reduce stress and increase happiness. If cooking is in fact your hobby, that's a good thing for your health and sanity.

  19. If you Google for "My Little Pony fleshlight" you get "About 473,000 results (0.53 seconds) ". Will that do?

    I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but actually, I am. Sigh.

  20. Osmium, Polonium, and of course, Gold (liquid form, taken orally).

  21. Re:What's the benefit? on Get Ready For Atomic Radio (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. However, receive and transmit antennae are normally separate anyway. You use a multi-element receive antenna, but a single element transmit antenna. If you can replace all of your multi-element receive antennae with a single, smaller one, that's still a big win in terms of tower real-estate.

  22. Re:What's the benefit? on Get Ready For Atomic Radio (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
    One antenna covering a huge range of frequencies, rather than many. As the article says, a normal antenna is one or more conductors, each 1/2 wavelength long. If you have many bands, such as the cellphone system, then you need one antenna for each band.

    With high bandwidths, such as will be used for 5G, you are into the sweet spot for this technology.

    In other words, this has potential.

  23. Re:The solution is clear: on The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Aka Newspeak

  24. Re:I just can't relate to micrometres per minute on Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death In Cells And It's 30 Micrometers Per Minute (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    0.826003824 cubits per decan

  25. How long before some band claims "30 micrometers per minute" as their name?