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  1. Actually I was quite happy about them doing it on Marriot Back-Pedals On Wireless Blocking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know I'll get hammered for saying I was in favor of what marroitt did but here me out. When I travel, I'm terrified of connecting to hotel networks. I don't really know which of the many possible SSIDs that I see are the bonified hotel network. And since it's normal on Hotel networks to do some DNS redirection to hand you off to the authorization site, you really can trust anything that masquerades in that way either.

    Thus I'd gladly forego the trivial inconvenience of them blocking my wifi tether to my phone network (to bypass the hotel network), if they would take charge of their airwaves and block all rogue hotspots in their building. Peace of mind.

    Now the litmus test here would be, are they just doing that to make money by taking away something I have for no extra cost (my cell phone tether) or do they really have my interests at heart in squelching hostile wifi hotspots? And that's really easy to figure out. If they allow short range blue tooth then they haven't taken anything away from me. I can still tether just as well as I could before.

    So I gain peace of mind and lose nothing of value if they do this. Why should I not like this.

    Now I suppose someone could dream up an edge case like say a LAN party or maybe some poor-mans meeting where one fellow is hosting all the others on his little conference room server. But that's so narrow a case ocmapred to the millions of guests all of whom just want a safe casual ad hoc connection to check their e-mail. Lan pary people too cheap to pay for the connection can probably figure a workaround anyhow.

  2. new theory on Human Language May Have Evolved To Help Our Ancestors Make Tools · · Score: 1

    Speaking helps you pick up chicks, or nag husband to bring home fat bear kill to feed kids; both will also spectacularly advance the species.

  3. Re:Dewhat? on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    the presentation was confusing. It seems that you still need the mac address to be able to listen at all. but you can brute force scanning for all of them. you just don't neeed it for the decrypt.

  4. selling your vote versus the secret ballot on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The secret ballot has two purposes. one is it maintains your privacy and that's good for you. The other is it prevents selling your vote and that's good for the public. If I have a bitcoin ballot then I can easily transfer that coin to someone else to vote. thus I can sell my vote and the buyer knows for sure how it will be cast.

  5. transparency on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    the purpose of elections is to convince the public the election was fair. crytpography isn't transparent. worse in some forms of crytography it gains security from centralization of the key control making single point of attack more likely. It's much better when the public can see how the election works.

  6. safety, performance and concurrency on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    Pick 2.

  7. Re:not really a bug just a behavior on Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users · · Score: 0

    It IS worse. Whether or not to accept tracking cookies is up to me. Whether or not my email address gets confirmed as being active and in use is not up to me, because this search program is doing it.

    yes it is up to you. You can turn off spotlight in mail. Nothing breaks.

  8. Re:not really a bug just a behavior on Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users · · Score: 0

    conversely your mail.app won't necessarily have your tracking cookies. each leaks some privacy. they are just different not worse or better.

  9. not really a bug just a behavior on Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    any browser, especially ones that do pre-fetching, reveal the same details. pre-fetching can send your OS and browser details, even cookies, to sites you never visit. This isn't seen as a disaster and those are not deep secrets. Mail is doing this one step deeper by automatically pre-fetching all your e-mails. But seriously, most people delete there e-mails by clicking on the e-mail and hitting the trashcan. so that fetch happens. only some folks will devise strategies to actually not look at an e-maiul before deleting it. and for them , they can exclude e-mail from previe and spotlight.

    I already remove e-mail from spotlight just because I don't want e-mails poping up in my searches under an employees name. that could get embarassing if the employee is there while I'm searching for some document we created together.

  10. use the microwave. on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only will the microwave fixe it but it will charge the battery too.

  11. Apple iphone on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    The new apple iphone A13 processor will have 1GB of EWOM as well as a patented solid state turboencabulator.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. I hear that next year they are coming out with an Erasable Write Only Memory so you can re-use it when you run out of memory.

  13. Re:Apple not working on adding more RAM to iPhone on Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously, 1 GB of RAM? Still?

    I agree, with QEMM, 640K ought to be enough for anybody. Who needs 1GB.

  14. Milo Minderbinder on Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The byzantine balance of relationships between Samsung and Apple seem beyond even Milo Minderbinder's capacity for finding vested interests between mortal enemies.

  15. A superior simpler hypothesis of why this happens on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 1

    your post and all the other posts here assume that there is some means for the mother deer to tell if she has a weakling in the oven or not, and then also has means to choose to miscarry weaklings.

    Here's a less complicated hypothesis that has the same effect: Human's and chimps share >99% of their DNA. But an X and a Y chromosome are largely different. A human male baby is more similar to a male chimp than to his own mother. Whereas a human female baby is more simillar to her mother than a female chimp.

    there is thus a much stronger possibility of a male fetus having a negative immune reaction to antigens from the mother. Normally a healthy mother and a healthy fetus can tolerate some mismatch. If the male is more robust or perhaps simply more developed early in the development process then the probability of tolerating the mismatch is higher than for a less developed/less robust fetus.

    This is a simpler and more intrnsic mechanism that should be common across mammals.

  16. Salary versus wages on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Are they not on salary? if so there's already an exemption in place.

  17. Boiling oil on Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House · · Score: 1

    I think pouring boiling oil from the roof would be effective. I mean would you try to make a run for it knowing that they would not just stop you but actually try to pour boiling oil on you? hell no.

  18. should be banned or regulated on Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lyft and Uber drivers should have to follow the same not-free regs as taxi drivers. things like displaying a hack lic, certification of insurance or bonding, and penalties for systematic race discrimination are things that taxi drivers and their companies are required to follow. Undercutting these is not a good idea.

  19. Man in the middle versus E2E on Internet Voting Hack Alters PDF Ballots In Transmission · · Score: 2

    E2E encryption likely won't work. The router would set it self up as a proxy to allow a man in the middle attack. But you might be able to use encryption of the ballot itself, not it's transmission layer to avoid a problem. However this would be a pain in the ass since now the user has to somehow assign passwords and stuff.

  20. Senator James Inhofe on When We Don't Like the Solution, We Deny the Problem · · Score: 5, Informative

    Inhofe is now the head of the senate environmental commitee that oversee 100% of all climate change legislation and policies in the US.

    He wrote a book 305 page book entirely on the subject of global warming. The name of this book is "the greatest Hoax".

    http://www.amazon.com/Greatest...

  21. as a perl wizard.... on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 1

    all i can say is neener neeener neener

  22. Re:shift inter-locks on SpaceShipTwo's Rocket Engine Did Not Cause Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    what does the $ do?
    or is that some shell's version of backticks?

  23. overtraining? on How Google Can Get the Flu Right · · Score: 1

    we will see if this works next fall

  24. cell phones and notepads on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Analogously, cell phones are a throwback to old crank phones because you have to charge them before you use them. We used to have perfectly good powered land lines. Cell phones with their short battery lives and constant attention are for eclectic hobbyists I'm sure.

    And don't get me started about notepads when a paper and pencil pad can store your information for a century or more with no format changes impairing data retreival. current ipads are the equivalent of undecipherable babelonian cuniform clay tablets. Ludicrous anyone would want to go back to such fragile formats for information storage

  25. super user on Dangerous Vulnerability Fixed In Wget · · Score: 1, Insightful

    so dont run wget as root?