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  1. Re: That car behind you... on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    In the UK, modifications such as you suggest still need to meet the vehicle roadworthiness test for the car to gain its MOT certificate - can't hit the road without one of those, so the work is definitely regulated.

  2. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 1

    So he just handed a fuckton of information over to unvetted people?

    How is that not the same as releasing it? Its still Snowdens responsibility. But I can see from my down modding above that certain twats dont want it pointed out that their messiah has flaws, and isn't the perfect little shit they profess him to be.

    As for Argentina having a claim, sorry but there is no such thing as a claim based on geographical vicinity, and imperialism doesn't come into it as Argentina was created through imperialism in the first place, And the British claim predates the creation of Argentina anyhow.

  3. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Pointing out that justified intelligence actions are being damaged is a side show? What world do you live in? Snowden can justify releasing information about immoral intelligence gathering, but what about when the intelligence gathering is legitimate and within the purpose and intent of the agencies involved?

    Releasing details about legal intelligence operations is throwing the baby out with the bath water and puts Snowden in a very different light - he justifies his actions by saying he wants to raise awareness of illegal actions by the various government agencies, and yet he has also released details of actions which don't fall into that category.

    Hardly a "side show" when it calls into question his justification, now is it?

  4. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 0, Troll

    Snowden isn't exactly all white as snow either - look at the shit that just came out from Snowdens bag of goodies about the UK spying on Argentina between 2006 and 2011.

    Argentina invaded UK sovereign territory in 1982, got the shit kicked out of them by the British armed forces and thrown out of that territory, but has been very vocal and belligerent about it ever since. There has been successive escalations from Argentina ever since, including blocking medical flights, forcing South American companies to stop trading with the Falklands and other acts. Oh, and the repeated claims of ownership over the islands themselves. Just last week they again tried to claim jurisdiction over the Falklands by threatening to prosecute any oil company that drills for oil in Falkland Island waters.

    So, Snowden, in what world is spying on such a nation in such circumstances not justified? Why would you release details on justified intelligence gathering operations?

  5. Apache Cordova on Visual Studio 2015 Can Target Linux; Android Apps Anywhere Chrome Can Run · · Score: 4, Informative

    All of the CTP and preview releases have been shipping with Apache Cordova and an Android build target using mono for the underlying .Net implementation. Been like this for the past several months, targetting Android has been well known amongst .Net developers following VS2015.

  6. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    So we are back to a third party, only this time involving lists that need updating and collating...

  7. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    Ok, how do you get the general population to "use self signed certs correctly"? Go on, convince me that you can.

    If its hard, people won't do it. Thats why email encryption has never caught on while https usage has. So if you want to do away with third party CA usage, then you need to come up with something that is better security wise, but is no harder to use. If its any harder to use, you are already well on the back foot convincing people to use it.

    Sorry, but I completely disagree with your assertion that self signed certs are the solution to anything at all.

  8. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, with the third party out of the equation, how does one know that the security certificate you receive from random-site.com is the one that random-site.com intended you to receive? This is where going to two entity encryption fails, because the web has no inbuilt ability to verify the communication with the website is as secure as intended without going to a third party.

    Just allowing self signed certs won't solve anything, because most people who use the web won't bother with any independent verification (which you would have to do offline or on a different internet connection for it to mean anything anyway) - fuck, do you remember how long it took to beat "look for the padlock symbol" into people in the first place? All it will do is what people have been bitching about for similar other approaches for years now - people will get so many pop ups, they will stop caring and just click OK.

    The CA system isn't the best solution in the world, but its better than most suggestions, including allowing self signed certs for general communication.

  9. Re:Another puff of hot air from our Obama-in-chief on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 1

    The Apache can carry up to four troops on its payload wings - its been done in several situations where troop carriers were way way too vulnerable, especially in combat rescue scenarios.

  10. Re:As a proud Trekkie! on We're In a Golden Age of Star Trek Webseries Right Now · · Score: 1

    The acting can be a bit stilted, but maybe you all have forgotten the first season of TOS.

    There is a 50 year difference in expectations between TOS and today.

  11. Re:I dunno...maybe you could check the LAW? on EU Commission Divided Over Nation-Specific Content Blocking · · Score: 2

    Protecting the what? Bah ha ha ha, er, yes, I'm certain there is a "European film industry." (Cough.)

    James Bond, Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc etc ;) All mostly filmed in the UK.

  12. Re:Web developer headache? on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 1

    No, that isn't why people are stuck on old versions of IE - I work for a major UK insurance broker, we have Windows 7 here and we run IE 11, however the major UK insurer (household name) that I deal with on the web side of things is also on Windows 7 but they use IE 8. Scary eh? When I build a new insurance website, the only people I'm dealing with who have IE issues are these people.

    Most people are stuck on an old browser for reasons other than they are too cheap ass to pay for an OS upgrade.

  13. Re:Spartan? on Microsoft Rolls Out Project Spartan With New Windows 10 Build · · Score: 1

    Why aptly named? The Spartans had nothing to do with the Trojan horse mythology, that was the Trojans and the Greeks.

  14. How about a minefield? on Secret Service Plans New Fence, Full Scale White House Replica, But No Moat · · Score: 2

    Doesn't have such a negative visual aspect as a perfectly secure fence, doesn't involved major works such as a "medieval" moat etc? Would look like theres nothing there.

    Fairly cheap as well.

    Or turn over the outer lawns to rabid badgers.

  15. Re:Gimick on At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series · · Score: 1

    The street circuits are mainly used because they raise greater awareness that a race is being held than if they went to an existing race track and relied on traditional marketing for the races.

    Also, how about you take your undue criticism and stick it - how about you come up with a better formula and make it work? The entire point of starting it now is because the technologies aren't mature enough - getting manufacturers to push development in order to win races is what drives the technologies here (see how much stuff has come out of F1).

  16. Re:So a the cars are the same model? on At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series · · Score: 4, Informative

    The cars are stock for the first season for cost reasons, for the second season there are several chassis builders and several power unit suppliers signed up, so there will be a better spread of performance amongst the pack.

  17. Re:It may survive a court challenge... on FCC Chairman: Net Rules Will Withstand Court Challenge · · Score: 1

    I'm personally not so sure about it surviving a court challenge anyway - the FCC decided suddenly to substantially change the regulatory system for an established, massive market, bring in a huge swathe of new rules and regulations for existing major players. I don't feel comfortable where a government agency can something of that scale to an established market without any new laws passed.

  18. Re:Wrong target on Google Loses Ruling In Safari Tracking Case · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's go with that logic next time a major healthcare website is hacked and your private data is suddenly plastered everywhere.

    Or, let's realise there is no restriction on how much blame there is to go round, and we blame Apple for having bugs in their software, and we blame Google for going out of their way to exploit a bug in Apples software.

    Google deserves to be slapped down for this.

  19. Re:LOL .... on US Air Force Overstepped In SpaceX Certification · · Score: 1

    Its probably a line item off a program accounting invoice, where everything purchased for the program is billed at the same amount - 1/xth of the total program cost. So that toilet seat might have come out at $30k, but so would have the jet engine on the next line.

  20. We already did this... on Broadband ISP Betrayal Forces Homeowner To Sell New House · · Score: 1

    ... and we don't need to do it again.

  21. Re:Actually... No. on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    Revenue != usable, spare income.

    For the past few decades, apart from a spike in 2010, Coca Colas profit margins have hovered roughly between 15% and 20% - so a 15% increase in cost base would have left them borderline profitable or unprofitable for quite a lot of that period.

  22. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Yes he did, in a 707 which had no envelope protection or anything of the ilk.

    My point was rather about killing the flight computers than doing barrel rolls tho :) You can do a lot more in simulators with the hardware state than you can in real life.

  23. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    Try doing that in the air...

  24. Re:Boorish on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How the fuck does that "make me wrong"? Because I didn't specify what nationality the "well known car manufacturer" was? In what world does your post contradict my post? It adds information (that Lexus is a brand of Toyota, a Japanese car manufacturer), but it doesnt negate any of the information in my post.

    Or are you one of these people who always has to show that someone is "wrong", somehow, in some way?

  25. Re:Modular design... on Facebook Sued For Alleged Theft of Data Center Design · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on taking the standard Slashdot approach of taking such a broad view of the claim that you must be in orbit when considering the case.

    BRG feels it can show in court that it can prove that Facebook was approached by BRG with its design methodology for modular data centres, that it can prove that Facebook went on to use BRGs design methodologies in a directly related project with agreement with BRG, and they also feel that they can prove that their design methodologies are special enough in the competitive space that they should fall under the protection of a court.

    BRG isn't suing the thousands of other modular building companies out there. Just Facebook for this one, very defined case.