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  1. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Mickey and the Roadster Racers are both still being produced and with new episodes airing on Disney Junior semi regularly. Both shows are quite popular with their target audiences (little kids) and have piles of licensed merchandise you can buy. Everything from bed sheets to kid sized sofas to toys to underwear.

  2. Re:Genetic Modification Not Necessary on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The screwfly solution exploits a rather unique quirk of the screwfly itself. The females are only able to mate once. If a sterile male reaches a given female first, boom, no fertilized eggs from that female. If you release a large enough number of sterile males into an area they win the race to the females most of the time by sheer numbers and the population crashes in short order. After a few cycles of this total eradication is easily achieved. With most other insect species if a sterile male mates with a female a naturally occurring fertile male can come along 5 minutes later and ruin the whole plan.

  3. That entirely depends on if the judge believes your or not when you say "I cannot recall the password."

  4. Well they are limited by the law. For the most part they can only order stuff that relates to the matter at hand. And the power to actually enforce their orders is in the hands of the executive branch, people who do not work for or answer to the judges. This is intentional, and for this very reason. This is also what the appeals process is for. A higher court can always throw out some crazy ruling by a lower court. But basically, yes. This is why appointments to federal judge positions are kind of a big deal, you don't want some crazy guy issuing court orders that make no sense.

  5. Well the password itself isn't incriminating. Its just a string of gibberish characters. So he can be compelled to provide it. Now what it unlocks may be incriminating. But since the password is a key to a door and the evidence is on the other side of the door the key and the evidence are not the same thing. That line of separation means that the 5th doesn't apply to passwords.

    And when a judge orders you to do something in a trial, such as provide a password to your drive, and you decline, that's contempt of court. Simple as that. And the court has great power to punish contempt. (theoretically up to life in prison) Which is what is happening here. He is being punished for disobeying a judge. His guilt/innocence in the kiddie porn matter has not yet been determined.

  6. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/538/ XKCD gets it right yet again.

  7. Re:That's nice, but... on Hundreds of Cisco Switches Vulnerable To Flaw Found in WikiLeaks Files (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If they bothered to generate a keypair on first boot, then SSH. Problem solved. The F5 LTM does this. Why can't a switch? Besides, its not like a Cisco console cable is "special hardware". Especially in the networking world. If you work with any amount of Cisco gear you probably have 20+ of the things just lying around on desks and stuffed in drawers. Hell, I have crimped my own Cisco compatible console cables on many occasions, its not like the pinout is a secret or anything. There is absolutely no reason for any piece of serious network hardware to ship from the factory with telnet enabled.

  8. The fact that we aren't talking about time or energy requirements that are on the order of lifetimes of stars or the mass energy of a star should tell you that it broken.

    This is probably the best layman explanation of cryptographic security I have ever seen. If the numbers involved in breaking something crypto related can be expressed in easily understandable terms without doing something like this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

    Then the crypto thing you are talking about is broken and shouldn't be used.

  9. Re:Are two hashes better than one? on Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1 (googleblog.com) · · Score: 2

    Taking the MD5 and the SHA1 of something isn't significantly more secure than just taking the SHA1 of said something. This was demonstrated in 2004 here: http://link.springer.com/chapt... This was then further elaborated and improved upon here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/07... So, don't concatenate hashes kids. It doesn't do what you think it does. Using a proper hash from the start is the only safe way to do things. Even if nobody has figured out how to do it yet the math conclusively shows that breaking SHA1+MD5 is not significantly harder than just breaking SHA1. This is why TLS 1.1 and earlier need to go away.

  10. As I understand it that is why Uber is something you do three or four times a week when you happen to have free time and are already in the area with the car that you already own. You know, a side gig, separate from your regular full time benefit providing job. Something you do to earn an extra $60-70 per week so you can go to a nice dinner once in a while or save up for a new TV a bit faster or something. Sure Uber should be faulted (and punished) for selling a false picture of lease terms and personal profitability, but this guy has to be faulted as well for quitting his job to go try and make a living on something that is simply not meant to be able to provide a living on its own. Not every job is able to provide a living wage because some jobs just aren't worth that much. Simple as that. Maybe that means that those job shouldn't exist (automation/minimum wage) or maybe it means that the government should pay the difference for people working those jobs (socialism). Maybe there is some other solution that hasn't been thought of yet. I don't know.

  11. Re:It is a server OS but now nerfed on Windows 10 Gains 14% Desktop Market Share in 2016, Edge Continues to Struggle (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you're going to do things that belong on a server you should run a server operating system rather than desktop? Like Windows Server or, better yet, Linux?

    Win2k and Windows XP were Microsoft's answer to that, giving people a server operating system based on NT instead of a relative toy like Win98/ME. MS Windows 10 has gone back to the approach of a toy that just happens to be built on what used to be a server operating system.

    No. Microsoft's answer to that was Server 2000 and Server 2003. Win2k and XP were built on NT4 Workstation, an OS intended for client machines, not NT4 Server, which became the aforementioned Server OS's. Windows client OS's were never intended to be used for server like tasks. Use the correct tool for the job and install a server OS if you are doing server things, be it Windows or *nix.

  12. Re:some rules on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    Not even need some specific open-sourced firmware. Just any home router / NAT / firewall can do that. Don't need smart devices, just smart people to configure it properly...

    Hi. Welcome to the internet. You must be new here.

  13. Bullshit. There is no such restriction on freedom of speech.

    Here is my question, have you ever seen a study (double blind) on the safety of the full schedule of vaccines. Here is the CDC version ...

    http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/sc...

    22 Vaccines from Birth to 15 months alone. You are so 100% sure that 22 schedule is safe and effective? Without Proof or even evidence? That is sciency, not science.

    Bullshit. Sure there is. Try yelling "FIRE!" in a crowed movie theater and see how long it takes you to end up in trouble for inciting panic and causing a clear and present danger to those around you. People in trusted positions of authority on medical matters are doing the same thing when they discourage people from getting their vaccines.

    Also if you had even the slightest understanding of science and ethics you would know both why such rigorous testing cannot be done and why it isn't necessary. We have mountains of historical data showing that vaccines work.

    Your uneducated ravings on this topic are pseudo sciency BS at its worst.

  14. Considering that the only way to really test a vaccine is to give one group of people the vaccine, another group of people a placebo, and then expose both groups to the disease I think you can see why vaccines cannot be tested in the traditional sense. Doing so would be horribly unethical. Unless you would like to volunteer for a new HIV or Zika vaccine trial. No? Didn't think so. How about a rotavirus vaccine trial for you infant son/daughter? Still no? Darn.

    However we do have mountains of evidence showing that vaccines do prevent the occurrence of a disease in a population of people. Ever wonder why there hasn't been a case of smallpox, arguably the deadliest disease humanity has ever known, since 1977 despite it plaguing our civilization for thousands of years? Its got nothing do with with eating more natural food or people getting exercise. The same goes for polio here in the states, and measles, and a bunch of other things that used to kill and cripple people all the time. Did you know that it was common practice not to name kids until they were about 5 as recently as the early 1900's? It was to try to avoid getting to attached to them while they were young because so many kids didn't make it to that age until the advent of vaccines against common childhood diseases.

    Your flagrant disregard for ethical considerations and clearly established historical data that gets in the way of your world view sounds an awful lot like religion to me.

  15. Re:Make that the next eight years on The FBI Recommends Not To Indict Hillary Clinton For Email Misconduct (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    William H Taft - Intensely disliked even by his own party to the point that over half of them backed a third party candidate instead (Teddy Roosevelt).

    And you seriously can't see this happening with Trump? Really?

  16. Re:Vulnerability Warriors meet EOL on Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless of course that router is in a hospital or medical insurance office. Then someone very well could die due to incorrect treatment or lack of treatment.

  17. HTTPS Privacy Rules on Rights Groups Push For Strong Broadband Privacy Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    HTTPS is the only real answer. Rules like what are being proposed are hard to enforce. But properly implemented authentication and encryption will make such rules unnecessary.

  18. Re:I have been roling my own for years on Benefits of a Homebrew Router (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a pfSense router built on a C2758 Atom CPU (specifically this board: http://www.supermicro.com/prod...) paired to a couple of Unifi APs (http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Enterprise-Unifi-UAP/dp/B00HXT8R2O). Its the best home network I have ever had. And that is including some DD-WRT stuff that I used to use for wifi in conjunction with some actual Cisco gear that I used to use. (ASA 5505 firewall, 3745 router, ect...) I can't see myself ever going back to a consumer grade wifi router. Sure its total overkill. But being able to set up a Site to Site VPN to my friend's place and an OpenVPN server for remote access without having to worry about CPU usage is pretty nice. Being able to have separate SSIDs and corresponding VLANs for guests and my kids and such is also nice. The Unifi APs give better wifi than any consumer grade device I have ever used. I am seriously considering upgrading to dual band AC models.

  19. Re:Eligible for upgrade? on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apply an activation crack or join it to a domain. Either one will do the trick just fine.

  20. Re:SHA1 and Secure Hashing of Data on Deprecation of MD5 and SHA1 -- Just in Time? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that you say you are "encrypting" something with SHA1 tells me that you are not qualified to work on any product that uses encryption. If you must do something like this at least use bcrypt or pbkdf2. SHA1 and SHA2 are both not the best choice for what you are doing.

  21. Re:It Depends on Why You Are Using Hash Codes on Deprecation of MD5 and SHA1 -- Just in Time? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And TLS 1.0 and 1.1 both use md5(data).sha1(data) to sign the initial handshake. And since concatenating hashes provides no real additional security this lets an attacker muck around with the initial TLS exchange and perform a protocol downgrade attack by defeating TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV and/or also choose the symmetric cipher used in the TLS session. While its not a full plaintext recovery of the TLS session contents it is certainly not a good thing.

  22. Re:You shouldn't use one hash. on Deprecation of MD5 and SHA1 -- Just in Time? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually concatenating hashes together doesn't do much for security at all. In fact it does almost nothing. See: http://link.springer.com/chapt...

  23. Re:Let's Encrypt is only for encryption on Malvertising Campaign Used a Free Certificate From Let's Encrypt (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    99.99% of internet users are not like you. They do not understand, nor do they care about, how TLS and certificate authorities work. If they see a little lock in their address bar then they are "safe" as far as they are concerned. To most people a StartSSL cert is exactly the same as an EV cert used by a banking site. The fact that one creates a green address bar or whatever and the other does not is totally lost on them and makes no difference. Granted this is a problem. But I don't think it is one that can be solved via technical means. Lets face it. Most people just don't know enough about how the internet works to be able to use it safely.

  24. Re:Don't fix what ain't broke on Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think the VA is a model other healthcare providers should be trying to emulate.

  25. Re:Amazing on Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    This closely mirrors my own experience with Republic Wireless. I have been using their Moto G on the $25 a month plan for about a year and it has been flawless. The only wifi networks I use are at home and at the office (and the occasional free wifi at a a coffee shop, hotel, or the like) but that covers something like 70% of my phone usage anyway. I stream Pandora over the cell network every day while commuting to and from work and I have never even come close to data cap. Call hand-offs between wifi and cell and seamless and the phone is very smart about avoiding bad wifi connections or access points with blocked ports. The only real downside is the limited selection of phones. The Moto X, Moto G, and Moto E are all they offer so if you are in love with the latest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy you are out of luck. However the Moto phones are reasonable high end, mid range, and entry level devices respectively.