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  1. Re:Win7 was my last Windows OS. on Windows 10 Is Just 'A Vehicle For Advertisements', Argues Tech Columnist (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The command line still after all these years is so utterly broken ...

    But ... but ... you can now resize the cmd window by dragging the window border! Isn't that amazing?!

  2. Re:Emergencies? on Hyperloop One Reveals Test Track Progress (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    a) true, the pressure is 1atm. On how big area? What force does that mean?

    b) the scenario that is, in my opinion, dangerous, is a rupture of the capsule that is pressurized to 1atm surrounded by near vacuum. Followed by a collapse of the tube that results from the pieces of the capsule flying in all directions.

    However the biggest problem I see from my chair is keeping a relatively fragile tube stretching hundreds of kilometers airtight, undamaged and secure from pissed farmers, drunk idiots, gun fans, vandals and other similar factors.

  3. Re:FYI: No ISO download on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    I just keep some windows VMs around. On Win2008 server it failed outright. On W10 it exhausted the disk space after a short while. So I started to look around how big the beast actually is. The HW requirements says - up to 40GB; based on selected features. The offline installer can be forced to download less if you restrict it only one language (who would want a localized IDE??), e.g. with "--lang en-US" - which trims it down to ~19GB ... I think I'll pass for now.

  4. FYI: No ISO download on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    But you should be able to create an offline installer

  5. Re:Second Korean war lololo on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... but few people with any sense ...

    Unfortunately top officials of USA nor NK do not fall into that category.

  6. Nice explanation. However you are describing a scenario where you have 256- bit key and you have to loop through all possible keys and try to decrypt the ciphertext with it - brute force attack. Yes, in such scenario 256-bits is plenty good enough.

    There are other attacks that you do not cover. Such as the key was not selected in random or there is non-brute force attack. Or symmetric cryptography is not sufficient in the given scenario and you need to use public key cryptography where the key has different properties ...

  7. What about signed code? on Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1 (googleblog.com) · · Score: 2

    I occasionally use a signed .jar in the company intranet. Reading TFA, I wondered what hash is used to sign that? It seems that jarsigner is not willing to divulge, so I had to write a little piece of code aaand ... yup, it's SHA1!

    How common is this? Is loads of software now susceptible to attack by replacing a original code by a malware with the same SHA1?

  8. Re:Article advocates red terror on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    So if my health is screwed up by a charlatan, then I can sue him for money? Amazing idea.

  9. Re:Article advocates red terror on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If the profession is completely unregulated, and would allow unlimited immigration of medical specialists from anywhere in the world, combined with loosened importation of medications, malpractice reform ...

    How do you expect this "malpractice reform" to work? Isn't malpractice the reason why regulation was created in first place?

  10. Re:EU Governments need to ban Windows 10. on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. You are banned from a ton of things for safety of yours and everyone around you. Starting with explosives, toxic compounds, biological weapons, ... Windows 10 fits right in.

  11. Re:slashdot == political paparazzo tabloid on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Never have we had a President that was so hilarious before.

    It's all fun and games until it blows up. Just like fireworks. You just have to watch it from safe distance. Except I'm not sure what is the safe distance from Trump. Next solar system?

  12. Re:For the US, not for a political party on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is so divisive half the country is basically pulling in the opposite direction to the other,

    Can you say: divide and conquer ?

  13. Re:There is no labor shortage on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no labor shortage.

    Out of curiosity: do you admit that there can be money shortage?

  14. Re:House out of Thumb Drives & DVDs? on Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Well you'd know the answer to that if you Read The Fucking Article.

    Blasphemer!

  15. Re:How do I block this? on Microsoft Targets Chrome Users With Windows 10 Pop-up Ad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    I didn't buy my computer to be a MS advertizing machine. I bought it to work.

    You apparently bought the wrong product.

  16. Re:It's about landmass on China, Europe Drive Shift To Electric Cars as US Lags (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    Not that I"m against electric vehicles, but

    Gasoline: Approximately 9.5 L/100km (average for 2015 model year)

    Are you counting in trucks perhaps? Because I don't have a problem to stay below 7L/100km. In fact below 5 L/100km if driving long distances. This is on a benzine car. With diesel, it is even less.

    times 2.31 kg CO2 emitted per L gasoline burned = 21.9 kg CO2 per 100 km traveled

    Burning gasoline produces ~3 times mass than you started with? Mhm, I was not aware of that.

  17. Re:Dear Microsoft on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    HP-UX. And others.

  18. Re:Google can tell me the definition of hypocrisy on Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As for "all-pervasive surveillance", Google does collect huge amounts of data, but after two years of trying pretty hard to test Google's defenses against internal employee hacking, I have to give Google an A+. .... I personally have not seen 1 byte of user data that I did not need to do my job, and I am easily in the top 1% of nosy Googlers.

    So what are you saying? That Google collects the data and then promptly throws it into a black hole? Or Google collects the data but there is no human intervention and that makes it fine? Or that Google crunches the collected data and just sells the distillation to the highest bidder and that makes it fine?

  19. YES
    Next question?

    What about Betteridge's law?

  20. Re:In other news... on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... because there's no way this can be enforced, and any circumvention would be trivial.

    The "enforcing" does not mean that "there is porn block installed on each computer in the state". It means "during a search for jaywalking we found you have no porn block installed on your computer!"

  21. Re:Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That may end the $100 aspirin but what about lung/heart/joint surgery? Diabetes? Hemophilia? ...

  22. Re: Better be ready to be beat up when layed off w on Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you've eliminated all the workers, and nobody has a job any more (no job = no money), who exactly is going to buy your company's products?

    Why would the concept of "buying" even exist?

  23. Re:Freedom of Speech matters more. on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone can post horrible racist shit to people, and then ten people can post about what a douchebag the racist is, and make him look like a shithead

    Just like in open source someone can look at the code and fix the bugs. Except seldom someone actually does. Just like seldom someone actually challenges stupid/dangerous speech. (I personally blame lack of education in the public.)

    EU is just trying to legislate the problem away. That's what they do. If all you have is a hammer ...

    I think everyone would gladly hear better proposals and why they should work.

  24. Re:Look up laws on booby traps on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a device who's only purpose is to destroy something and it goes and destroys something, well you are pretty likely to get in trouble for it.

    Destroying something is sometimes a legitimate thing to do.

    If have a hammer and I use it to smash a harddisk with confidential information because that hard disk is being replaced by a bigger and newer harddisk, then smashing the old harddisk is a legitimate purpose. If you decide to use the hammer as fuse, I warn you to not use it as fuse and you do that anyway - who can blame me?

  25. America is the only place in the world where it is legally permitted to criticize anyone and everyone.

    Yeah, in US everyone can say anything. And look what did that brought to you ...