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  1. Re:Great on Tinder Bans Most Teens (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly you have not seen a lot of nude 13 year old chicks...

    And neither should you.

  2. You can create a link to Facebook that appends the h_kr part so it always starts in Most Recent mode. Doesn't work on their mobile app though (which buries Most Read down in the interface). Facebook's mobile app is such a hog that you probably shouldn't use it anyway.

  3. Re:Could systemd be responsible for the boot issue on Linux Kernel 4.6.1 Released; Some Users Report Boot Issue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Looks to me like a problem with rSCSI or nfs or something is horking the boot process when it tries to mount root.

    I'm not surprised. I had to struggle like crazy to get nfsroot working on Ubuntu 14 (diving deep into support forums to find the one completely undocumented option required to make it work). I would have given up except that Ubuntu has (had?) a trial thing that did nfsroot so I knew there had to be a way to make it work.

    It's kind of dumb just how hard it is to make an old style thinclient these days. In the old days you would add the nfsroot option in DHCP and a tftp link for the kernel. Super easy. Now you need to jump through several hoops to even get to the point where you need a completely magical kernel commandline option to make it work. Even when you do systemd gets really upset with you because it really really wants to check UUIDs on everything and that doesn't make sense on a thin client. While it's possible to hack out the UUID checks, they get added back in with every minor kernel update (so every couple of days on Ubuntu) and require hacking several files to properly disable. Even then you get a 30 second wait because some message wasn't sent through the message queue (debugging mass message queues sucks) during boot and you have to rely on the fallback to finish booting.

  4. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I wasn't clear. That was one of the reasons I ditched Verizon and went with a carrier with free SMS. Coverage isn't as good, but it's sufficient for my needs.

  5. Re:Hardly suprising on Nearly 1 In 4 People Abandon Mobile Apps After Only One Use (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    People who get charged $.35 per message they send or receive? That shit gets old quick. I actually ditched Verizon because they wouldn't offer a reasonable SMS plan. It was either $.35 per (running up to about $15-$20/month) or an outrageous $20/month unlimited plan.

  6. Re:LOL! Sure, whatever you say! on Controversial Surveillance Firm Blue Coat Was Granted a Powerful Encryption Certificate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The article was terrible, but I think it's a wildcard cert that would allow them to resign general web traffic in such a way that your browser wont throw a fit. Basically it allows them to man in the middle TLS connections without tripping your browser's MITM protections.

  7. Re:If on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have hardware that is 100% impervious to hackers then you don't need all of this hash nonsense in the first place. Just store the raw passwords.

  8. Re:If on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that going to drive your users crazy? I created a 27 character password with no two characters of the same class together and all 5 classes of characters represented and nothing like a real word or anything that makes it possible for a mere mortal to memorize it and the system still rejected me!! (because it hashed the same as 12345).

    But the bigger point is that when hackers do steal your database, they're going to run their GPU based password crackers against your cheap hash list and come up with a nice dictionary of possible passwords real quick. They can then do the slow hash checks against that list to find the actual passwords. You are defeating the computational complexity protections built into password hashes.

  9. Re:If on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    What's even better is that your big database of CRC32 hashed passwords will be an absolute treasure trove for the hackers that download your data.

  10. Last time we had a discussion about raising the minimum wage (decades ago) McDonalds actually demonstrated a fully automated restaurant. It promptly went back to wage slaves once the talk died down. Now they're so lazy they're not even bothering with the proof of concept store.

    If these robots were practical at the price he is quoting they would be in use today. Payoff period would be 2/3 of a year instead of 1/2 a year, but that's barely any difference. This is a scare tactic pure and simple.

  11. Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The big win with Fuel Cells was that chemical batteries were so bad that about the only car you could make with them is some tiny commuter car that can't go outside of the city. However, battery technology is improving and fuel cells are still stuck with the same old problems they've always had, so now they just don't make sense anymore.

    Hydrogen has lots of issues too. You need a pressurized tank, but hydrogen has a bad tendency to infiltrate the metal in the tank and make it brittle, increasing the risk of explosion. This also makes distribution difficult. Then fuel cells proved to be very touchy and plagued with short lifetimes, especially if the hydrogen wasn't laboratory pure. There's a reason fuel cells never took off and it's not a massive oil conspiracy, it just never made sense.

  12. Re:Fury Road on 2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced (sfwa.org) · · Score: 1

    Watching Jessica Jones is a commitment. I would not be surprised if more of the committee saw Fury Road. Also, JJ is only available on Netflix, which further segments the audience.

  13. Re:The Day the Earth Stood Still on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the remake of The Thing turned out better than the original. But then they remade it again and made it worse.

  14. Re:Reading between the lines on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Isn't it pretty rare for the oddsmakers to get it so right? If this "Swarm AI" can repeat its performance on the Preakness and Belmont then I'll start to pay attention. Thus far we don't have enough data to separate and entirely new paradigm of cognition with dumb luck.

  15. I'm pretty sure Mr. D from 63 wants to execute Snowden too if he's making that argument.

  16. Oh yeah, I'm sure they would have been totally on board with being hacked if he had asked.

    This is democracy at stake here, we can't afford to let some incompetent and potentially corrupt officials dictate the terms. Nothing less than the next President of the US is at stake here. It is absolutely in the countries best interest for these sorts of vulnerabilities to be discovered and patched before the election, otherwise you can never trust the election. I don't care that it hurt their feelings that their system was wide open to attack and practically begging for someone to manipulate the vote, this needs to be fixed before November.

  17. Re:I was running one within the past two months. on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I still have a machine from that era, but when I'm honest with myself there is very little reason to run it anymore. For the amount of computing power you get out of it the power consumption is ridiculous and pretty much anything it can do can be done much faster on a $35 Raspberry Pi for much less power. The Pi ends up paying for itself in lower electricity bills quite quickly. About the only thing it's still good for is installing super old distros to run ancient applications (like old Loki ports) that are impossible to run on modern hardware and don't work properly in VMs.

  18. Re:Embedded, SCADA on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you installing Ubuntu a lot on SCADA controllers? My impression is that most equipment like that keeps the OS it shipped with and maybe a couple of updates from the vendor directly if you're lucky.

  19. Re:Is there any difference? on NVIDIA Shows New Doom Demo On GeForce GTX 1080 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    The cell phone that recorded that video was probably capturing at 30fps, so the quality bump should be undetectable.

  20. Re:oh crap on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    People pay enough money to support whole teams of players for Baseball, Football, Football, Basketball, Hockey, etc... Why should this be surprising? I'd argue that many e-Sports are more exciting to watch than traditional sports, especially for games like Golf.

  21. Re:Simple question on Aging and Bloated OpenSSL Is Purged of 2 High-Severity Bugs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    A few reasons.
    1. LibreSSL has no FIPS mode. FIPS mode is kind of dumb, but it is required in some environments.
    2. LibreSSL was effectively OpenBSD only for some time. The compatibility shims have been written for other oses now I think, but it hasn't been available for as long as you think.
    3. Swapping SSL libraries is a major change, beyond what is appropriate for a point release. Conservative distros 9LTS type distros especially) will be using OpenSSL for years to come because it's too big of a change to attempt outside of a major version bump.

  22. Who is in a position to take over North Korea if Kim Jong Un dies? Blowing up this party convention will create a tremendous political vacuum in the country and you'll quickly discover who is the best connected and most ruthless of the remaining governmental leaders.

    It is seductive to think that you can assassinate a few "bad men" to solve the world's problems, but if you don't think about the fallout of your action you're more likely to make the situation worse. You transform an unfriendly country with a hateful leader into an outright angry country with an unpredictable and ruthless leader. Even if the leader was hated nobody likes some foreigners coming in and killing their countrymen.

    If you're planning to assassinate a political leader you had better have either a suitable successor prepared or a full scale invasion force ready to force the successor.

  23. Illegial site poorly administered on Audiophile Torrent Site What.CD Fully Pwnable Thanks To Wrecked RNG (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    News at 11.

    This doesn't seem like particularly shocking news, nearly all torrent sites are poorly run.

  24. Only 10,000 times lower? on Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm surprised the concentrations are high enough to only be 4 orders of magnitude off from a person actively taking the medication. I would have expected it to dilute a lot more than that over the course of irrigating a field of crops, picked, processed, cooked, and finally ingested.

  25. Re:You can stop it. on Ford Spent $200,000 To Dissect a Limited-Edition Tesla Model X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those would all be awful. They would make selling the car on the used market a nightmare.