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  1. Re:My Sentry safe model 1250.. on A Robot At DEFCON Cracked A Safe Within 30 Minutes (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    with how the police are trained in usa.. it might be better off if they come 4 hours later and the situation has chilled out already and the sun has come up so the poor sods don't get spooked so easliy.

    seriously you should just demand the police education gets tripled or quadrupled to match countries with less police shootings and less gun fatalities. and the pay level is the highest in the world for coppers so there's that too, it's not like it's not compensated for.

    also, you got some stats to back that up?

  2. Re:Sounds like they watched a few Richard Feynman on A Robot At DEFCON Cracked A Safe Within 30 Minutes (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're an interesting read for anyone who doesn't want to be an idiot, really.

    even if you figured out some of the stuff yourself, reading surely you're joking gives you at least some hope in humanity and in that, no, people aren't that different despite few decades of time passing - but you don't have to let it get to you too much.

    aaaanyways also this is kinda why proper safes have delay locks.. with a home safe I would be more interested in if it keeps the stuff safe in an event of fire or whatever(the reason for the name "safe" vs. a lockbox).

  3. Re:All companies are, except one. on SpaceX Is Now One of the World's Most Valuable Privately Held Companies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    valuations are dime a dozen.

    it can be argued that xiaomi is more valuable due to them having more steady products line.

    anyways, if you were wondering what defines a startup, it's the simple "has not paid off the investors".

  4. sounds like a racket though. on Solar-Eclipse Glasses On Amazon May Not Meet NASA's Safety Requirements (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    look, you could buy a pre certified glass, put it on some cardboard and not meet the requirements. it might pass the safety requirements though as a device, if it was put into them, but the short blurb makes it like they wouldn't.

    besides than that what you will find is ISO 12312-2 "compliant".
    oh the days of just using smoked glass.

    the device might pass the safety checks - it just doesnt have the paperwork... that doesnt mean that it will make you blind.

  5. you can't leave after the riot police comes. on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you can't leave after the riot police comes.

    and if the protest was organized, then you will be apparently prosecuted for tens of years in prison.

    basically, feds could get a few stools in there to riot and throw the lot of them in prison for decades? even if there was no bodily harm or whatever even done by any of them except the stools.

    your prison sentences in usa are stupid. 20 year old woman meets a 14 year old "boy" in a bar of all places, potentially 50 years.

    stand near a protest: decades potentially.

    shoot the woman who called 9/11: nothing.

    vehicular manslaughter while drunk: basically nothing.

    and we all know nobody of them is going to do 75 years, its just the usual tactic to get them to confess so evidence isn't needed.

  6. Re:LoL..dumb people shouldn't get their money back on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    actually the founders should be debted.

    because this is just another case of saying that you have magic tech and then not having it. ..besides the tech wouldn't even have been so magical. delivering a photography drone would have been shit easy. ...not a good one, but hey, even a crappy product would have made it not a fraud.

  7. nothing to do with enron. on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    this isn't an accounting scam.

    this is just lying about tech that you lie that you have and then asking money from people. this is a pretty old scam.

    they are most often nowadays sold with personality cult and shit like that. for example the ceo might(usually does) say stuff like that "because i'm not an engineer i'm not limited by what they think as possible".

    the amazing thing is that people give money to these things, solar roadways, ultrasonic charging etc.

  8. Re:Or cheese on A New Study Shows the Moon's Interior Could Contain Water (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    oh we have the technology.

    we just don't have an actual practical profitable reason to do it. really that's the gist of it.

  9. Re:How Can It Work ? on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    umm.. dude.

    the generator is the brake. they just need to dump the energy somewhere. and yes it is massive.

  10. Re: Rumor on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    you mean that pizzagate actually happened or what?

    I mean seriously. surely you would have some actual examples.

    the problem is that last year like 95% of fake shit and made up rumours were indeed republican/trump made up shit, so what the fuck should a fact checking site do? ignore pizzagate because it's "political"? what the fuck is political about debunking a blatant absurd lie?

  11. Re:"simply be held a data-hostage" on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 2

    it's not whining..

    it's just that in finland they could get an entire month of nonstop 3g/4g streaming for 10 bucks.

    anyways, I suggest just keep buying prepaid sims, even in usa. one per day or whatever.

    another option: tailgate a greyhound bus. maybe the wifi works in that particular bus.

    and for americans I suggest you write your congress representatives or whatever and tell them to do something about the data cartel your operators have going on. yes, there is no excuse for your data limits except operator profits. you cannot excuse it with either higher or lower population densities, since elsewhere both of those work out just fine.

    the whole thing is legacy for you getting screwed over with subsidizied phones.

    and on top of that your monthly plans are STUPIDLY EXPENSIVE.. with those rates you should be all having unlimited 5mbit/s stations.

  12. Re:Strange bedfellows on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm just a little bit skeptical about the price and.. ..well. in the blurb it uses sneaky word tactics. see how it says that a price drop is expected. and that would make it cheaper than nuclear.

    (presumably nuclear with nuclear plant profits though calculated in, making it kinda like "cheaper than oil" when oil has plenty of profit built into it, making the price flexible downwards as soon as someone has a better energy source)

  13. If you were a professional developer working in this area you would know, just because you a foul mouthed whiny little kid in your mothers basement isn't a reason to spoon feed you. Go do some basic research if you are interested and learn about the limitations inherent in the TCP checksums, this isn't some mythical hidden or difficult to find information, stop being lazy and educate yourself rather than bitching about others.

    maybe you dumb fucks don't understand that even this site probably used https and how many layers of crc checking do you really need?

    I mean the issue at hand was trusting information that comes from the client side. integrity checking that information does not help at all when what was missing was SANITY CHECKS. integrity of the data was JUST FINE.

    seriously.

    you guys sound like the kind of dumb fucks who think that adding a signature that is done at the client end into a http post adds ANY SECURITY WHATSOEVER when what you really would need to do is to sanity check the input - not that it has a matching hash to the data the client end sent on purpose.

    seriously, I have seen in the industry people actually think that if you do that then only your client app can send data - when they are giving that client app to whoever user to analyze. it doesn't apply just to web pages....

  14. well, how could they predict.. on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    that apparently USA selling companies would put in misleading advertising(ddwrt compatible) on devices where you cannot put ddwrt on.

    look, the simple choice: ORDER FROM ASIA. like come on, you're ordering shitty cheap shit all the time from dx etc anyways..

    I mean come on, it is more of a consumer issue anyways.

  15. Re:Capacity planning on Disastrous 'Pokemon Go' Event Leads To Mass Refunds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The cell companies let anyone use their bandwidth and as everyone has a cell phone already, why should we need to pay for someone to tell us that our customers can get on line for free?????

    ..you only need to tell the cell companies. hell, you can even get them to sponsor and give _you_ strbaight up money.

    what you need to do is just tell them that on this day blabla at this place blabala there will be 30 000 people and they will cart some cell-in-box vans over. thats what they do for festivals etc all the time.

    what was more than likely was that the event was handled by some social media presentative/pr side of niantic who of course don't understand anything about technology

  16. .. not really.

    no amount of client side checking fixes the problem that the customer can alter anything that happens client side.

    what you're describing is some sort of crc/data integrity check which doesn't really help you with if the data is on purpose wrong.

  17. Re:Sony doesn't want developers? on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Usually it's desirable to get SDKs into the hands of programmers.

    ..when you ask money for said sdk, then not.

    dunno if they have some other sdk for download only content though.

  18. it's just things he said on Researchers Have Figured Out How To Fake News Video With AI (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    out of context.

    with a rendered bobblehead? why the fuck would you need that.

    just take them out of context and boom, there you have it.

  19. THE ARE WINDOWS 10 COMPATIBLE on Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    but they work with windows 10. they don't work with the "creators update" windows 10. the error message says they don't work with windows 10. but they are already in windows 10 using windows 10.

    you see, the cpu they have does have drivers for windows 10. just not for the windows 10 preview(creators update) it was updating to. you see, since microsoft decided that windows 10 is just windows 10 you will have hardware on the market that is windows 10 compatible that does not work with windows 10 eventually. and software that needs windows 10, that you then try to run on windows 10 but fail. then you call your software support hotline and ask wtf, and they will ask you if you have windows 10 or windows 10.

    basically... when microsoft said that windows 10 will be the final windows what they actually meant is that for couple of years they will brand all their windows releases as windows 10 regardless of it being the same thing or not - and that sure as f is the fault of microsoft. SO IS FUCKING MESSING WITH FEATURES AVAILABLE IN THE PRO VERSION YOU DON'T FUCKING CHANGE HOW YOUR PRODUCT WORKS WITHIN THE SAME VERSION NAME WITHOUT PISSING OFF PEOPLE GODDAMN, so actually it is entirely microsofts fault. 100%.

  20. Re:Lenders Hate This One Weird Trick! on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    well in resold debts, they usually tack on some bullshit fees for doing the hard work of changing the paperwork to be in their name and collecting it.

    ie, work that they skipped doing.

    and anyways, maybe it's a good business to sell fake loans to these collection agencies since they apparently don't check _actually_ if they are owed the money.

    (not maybe, it is)

  21. are what was used in the elections mostly.

    not any interesting computer hacks. the biggest hack was just the revelation that people will believe fake news if it suits them and if not then not so if you flooded the market with fake news of ALL KINDS then people who wanted to believe in trumps views being true and clinton being a kidnapper then then those people could just pick and choose the right news to believe. it's a shotgun approach of fake news and a social hack, like trumps promises - look, all of his promises simply couldn't be true because they conflicted with each other and same with the fake news, but that doesnt matter if you flood stupid people with enough to choose from. it's even easier if those stupid people think they're smart.

    i say news but I really mean twitter and fb posts like pizzagate.

    it's not like trump would even needed russia for that or that it would have helped either.. but who knows.

  22. Re:Seems like drm should be a PLUGIN to me. on EFF Officially Appeals Tim Berners-Lee Decision On DRM In HTML (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    it makes open source browsers impossible.

    without a eme plugin i suppose.

  23. did you guys try adjusting it? for less blurry/more blurry whatever floats your boat.

  24. it's stupid because the on ramp is easier than eve on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    it's stupid because the on ramp is easier than ever..

    if you bother to make one google for it.

    its just an advertisement

  25. Re:Backwards? on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    NTFS supports data streams which OneDrive uses

    seemed to have fallback to work just fine without them.

    now if they would release the patch to just remove it entirely from view when it is not connected to anything.