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  1. This is part of the decomm process of Google+ I think, yes, it looks like they're spinning locations out of G+

    They've made no secret about G+ being a failure, but there are a lot of communities that do use G+, a lot exclusively, so it's going to be interesting where they go and how they'll hold up.

  2. Re:More advertising data on New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    You remember Latitude don't you? Latitude was location sharing, then they moved it to Google+ as part of their consolidation effort, to try to get people onto G+ and now they're spinning it back out again.

  3. Re:But what is the crime? on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Or a broker for that matter?

    Yes, I'm aware of front running orders, it's bad business, but that's within a broker, who's selling that market information before it goes to the market / exchange? Who has access to that data aside from the exchange?

  4. Re:But what is the crime? on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So that's a no then?

    At what point has the exchange given market data (Buy / sell orders) to someone before someone else?

  5. Re:But what is the crime? on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, have you got any evidence of this?

    > several honorable businessmen who payed a lot of money to have access to orders before they are sent to the stock market

    Any evidence of an unfair exchange at all? Anywhere?

  6. Yes, but each reply is it's own Message-ID, so while each mailbox on a store has a link to a single message, every response contains is a complete item (New Message-ID), not just the response.

  7. Re:Technology on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're only using a single input, sure it's a great way to get people to call in for support.

  8. Re:Technology on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're using TCP you can look at how long it takes to get an ACK from data send, basically a TCP ping. If it's outside of a certain range, it's probably on a VPN

    Anything over 50ms? Flag. Multiple connections? Flag Multiple accounts, same IP address? Flag

    The only way I can think of getting around this is to use your own host and use something like a VPN and TOFFEE.

  9. I'm not sure about this.... on When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like everything else, it's got it's good points and it's bad...

    The whole point of (Or maybe this is just me) of dealing with someone's death, is the actual letting go part, recognising that they're gone and moving on.

    Sure there are times when I miss my friends, and I think of them fondly, whether it's the way that they laughed, smiled, pulled pranks or whatever else, but I also recognise that they're gone. Having them there as a chat bot to talk to, for me, would just, I dunno, make me keep holding onto them... and I don't know if that's healthy...

  10. Come now.... Deep breaths little one, it'll be OK....

    New standard, one of the revisions of LTE or 5G perhaps?

    In a fault situation, what do you think happens?

    With the overlap of cell towers, that cell would either automatically shut down for adjacent cells to pick up the load, or it would be shut down by the NOC.

    The larger question is, how do you authenticate a tower? PKI? Does the SIM contain the cell network's root cert as well as it's cert from the HLR?

    Home Location Register, in GSM terms, there's a cert in the SIM which is used to authenticate to network, the other half of the cert is stored by the HLR which does the authetntication

    Does the running of a LIG (Legal Intercept Gateway) require you to give a copy of the network's root private key to law enforcement for them to fake cell sites? (At which point, the jig is up anyway)

  11. Re:Real reason for the delay on British Airways Passengers Delayed By Computer Glitch (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would people on a runway at London City affect computers at Gatwick or Heathrow airport?

    [citation needed]

  12. USB-C is a bad spec on New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections (techhive.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After Anker recalled their USB-C cables the other day, there was an article on The Register about it, the comments section had a great bunch of comments in it including: "it's a design error An electrical specification which allows multiple, software-controlled supply voltages, but does not require connected devices to tolerate the highest available voltage. What could possibly go wrong?" I can see a lot of fried TVs when people push 20A at 5V into their TVs because of a bad cable. Anyway, comments section worth a read: http://forums.theregister.co.u...

  13. Re:Azure, Exchange SQL et al on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Google, RackSpace and a million and one shell / VM providers....

    Microsoft has a large chunk of the market because they aren't Amazon (Redundancy) also, because people got burnt by their pricing in the early days.

  14. Re:Azure, Exchange SQL et al on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This unfortunately doesn't come anywhere near the functionality of PowerShell..... Powershell can manage into Windows evironments and with the ecosystem of admins out there posting powershell cmdlets and, well just powershell commands on how to do stuff, there isn't as much out there for people to start python over powershell.

  15. Azure, Exchange SQL et al on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reason for doing this I thought would have been obvious, but from the comments it doesn't seem so.

    No Linux admin, who administers standard Linux bare metal or VMs is going to install this, not in a million years, they've got bash scripts with GNU utils, or they learnt Python or Perl or something else years and years ago, they've no use for PowerShell...

    If however, you use Azure (MS *are* the second largest cloud computing provider), and you want to do web scale, Microsoft either needs to start giving out Perl and or Python modules, or they need to get PowerShell on Mac / Linux for people to be able to script their Azure / SQL / Exchange instances so that the admins and devs can integrate with Chef and everything else out there.

    With the amount of work that's gone into Powershell for it to be an admins platform, it's *easier* to port Powershell to Linux than what it is to rebuild powershell for Python or Perl or whatever else.

  16. One of the biggest sellers of smart watches is Pebble and they aren't there?

    If they're in decline, it's only because the Pebble 2 is going to get released soon and everybody is waiting for it.....

  17. Re:And Google (Niantic) is just loving the data... on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What is that you think they're going to gleam from that data given that they had the ingress data for the past three years?

  18. First on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Post?

  19. I want it to be more secure, not less on Google Plans To Bring Password-Free Logins To Android Apps By Year-End (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I want to be able to write rules, so that, if I'm at home (Geo-location) and connected to the wireless, then you only need a simple unlock code.

    If I'm out and about, I want it to be looking for my smart watch before it will unlock, or otherwise a yubikey (NFC).

    If you want to get into my work section of my device you need *all* the above. Bluetooth, NFC and a strong unlock code.

    If you don't have any of this stuff, no unlock. If you fail auth 7 times, full brick. Device destroyed.

    I don't want to reward people who would mug me for my phone, if we got to the point where the devices are a worthless lump without an unlock, then people won't steal from you. Remove the incentive, remove the crime.

  20. Re: Bodes Really Well for a Fair Trial on Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    *citation please

  21. Re: Bodes Really Well for a Fair Trial on Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when was Afghanistan not in the middle east?

    EVERYONE! Update your maps, an Anonymous Coward thinks Afghanistan isn't in the middle east.

    A quick Google will show you that the middle east also includes the 'stans, Egypt and Libya which are otherwise North Africa.

  22. Re:the above is wrong on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, what?

    Even the kernel isn't accurate at doing this. On heavily loaded systems I've seen 20ms wait before a packet is stamped before. Pre-emptive kernels and everything else means that a packet might be sitting on the network card or in a buffer without it being collected and stamped by the system. The only way to have accurate timestamps is to have something like a Napatech or Myricom card using a third party time source.

  23. Re:Interesting on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing your using standard ping there, well, the problem is that the packet being generated and the time sent and received times are coming from timers most likely in the app itself, it's doing the calculation, so if you ask the system for time 1 and it goes "00:00:00:00" and you ask for the time again and it says "00:00:00:01" it'll get reported at 1ms, but the packet may have entered the system a lot faster than that, it's only because you're using a 1ms accuracy time stamp that you're getting 1ms. Also, if you ask for a timestamp and the system takes a long time to respond to that request, you're timestamps are going to be out again.

    Accurately measuring all this stuff, there's whole sections of the networking industry built around it.

  24. Re:Next up, Low User ID contest on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    Reckon we can roll out taco?

  25. Re:why haven't they been disbarred? on Prenda Gets Hit Hard With Contempt Sanctions For Lying To Court · · Score: 4, Informative

    I do believe this is in the works, they have been referred, but the court can only judge this case. It can't disbar them, that's the bar associations job.