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  1. Huh. Never thought much about it...but AWS... on Bitdefender Finds 'Hypervisor Wiretap' For Reading TLS-Encrypted Communications (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who has used 3rd party "web hosting"... should know this. At least my current web host has the decency to pretend they can't see my files without my password when I ask for support. :)

    I hadn't thought about it much, but Amazon, through the sheer scale of AWS is trusted with a whole lot of data. What does their ToS say they can do with it?

  2. They just promised to cut XP support... on Dropbox Cuts Several Employee Perks as Silicon Valley Startups Brace For Cold (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So... for some offices that I work with, who happen to have an old XP machine kicking around for accounting or some other random task... guess what file sync service they are NOT going to be paying for in the future?

  3. Actually skimmed article... $10 switch = no VLAN on $10 Router, No Firewall Blamed In $80M Bangladesh Bank Hack (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Near the end of the article is the better info...

    The SWIFT connected computers should have at least been hived off into a separate VLAN. They weren't.

  4. Who said it was battery powered? on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds a lot like the diesel-electric "hybrids" that power trains. Diesel generators generate electricity to power electric propellers. It makes sense to me... of course I know nothing about this stuff. If my assumption is correct, a nice benefit would be that aircraft could use cheaper fuel rather than jet fuel (which I assume costs more per litre... I think it does, if only because of lower volumes).

  5. I suspect a generic SQL injection filter... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was stumped working on a website on a shared ColdFusion server, where the webhost decided to install a SQL injection filter. Random form posts and URLs that used various SQL reserved words like, well, LIKE, or SELECT, or whatever started failing. That wasn't fun.

  6. Re:Everyone's phone, DSL and copper on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. Is there an app for that? I was always amazed by those modems that you put the handset onto some microphone thing? (Slightly before my time, so I only saw them in the movies, I started with a 2400 baud ISA modem...)

  7. Re:Google needs to look at itself!! on Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bottomless pit. I've personally banned hundreds of advertisers with crap "download" banner ads - I suspect they're automatically created AdWords accounts, or some variant of dirt cheap labour.

    I want the ad revenue, but not at the expense of my visitors getting mislead - that's bad for the sales side of my website.

    Come to think of it, it's been about a month since I did a purge in my AdSense account... I'd probably be shocked and appalled at the new batch of crap ads...

  8. Re:Balancing Act on Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? · · Score: 2

    I imagine that in some jurisdictions competition affects pricing - though, not mine. I get crown corporation, monopoly provider car insurance - it might actually be a fair price. There are pro's and con's to it.

  9. Strongly discouraged... on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    I strongly discourage any friends or family that I notice are using local ISP email accounts from doing it. I wouldn't trust it to keep the good email. LOL, for a while, our local cable co was spam binning their OWN newsletter. I do a lot of work with an opt-in email newsletter, so I've monitored a test email box with the cable company for years - it's bad, bad, bad. Coincidentally, they've recently changed something, and now a lot of spam emails don't even hit the junk folder, they simply vanish.

  10. Re:Pinto on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    So... you're against trucks running late yellows and reds while leaning on their horns? Yeah. I drive a car on one of the major truck routes in our city... it freaks me out how often trucks run the lights... and I keep an eye on the rear view mirror every time I'm the first car to stop at a light.

  11. Re:IMHO... someday they'll have a 100mi range mode on Tesla About To Start Battery-Swap Pilot Program · · Score: 1

    But, my point is that a 100mi range car, that I can temporarily upgrade to 2-300mi range, is a FAR better value than a 100mi range car that has no such option (if they're about the same price). In fact, I wouldn't even consider a strictly short range vehicle over a gas car, if I only had the budget for 1 car. In addition, Tesla will probably continue to have the best charging network for these vehicles. I'm not saying that all Gen3 would be medium range, I think they've stated 200mi range for the launch edition, I'm just saying, that I wouldn't be surprised if an even cheaper Gen3 option with a smaller battery became available in the future. Who knows, maybe a few generations of batteries later, and the battery swap will be able to give a Model S a temporary 400mi range (with a taller battery, maybe).

  12. IMHO... someday they'll have a 100mi range model.. on Tesla About To Start Battery-Swap Pilot Program · · Score: 1

    I actually did read the article which seemed to think this was all a ploy to get additional green credits. While I'm sure this is a factor, here's my theory. Some day they'll want to release a cheaper model (which isn't even a secret) but with a lower battery capacity, say 100mi. More than enough for most people on their daily commutes. But, give the option for a battery swap to the 2-300 mile battery for the big trips. They get to trim a few K off the cost of their most entry level edition, and the buyer can still use their car for a big roadtrip, they just have to rent the big battery for the cost of a tank of gas!

  13. Re:Call Comcast? on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    I'm not 100% sure, but Gmail does require something different for IPV6 email than IPV4. I ran into this a few months ago when my VPS provided "helpfully" added IPV6 support. It was either DKIM or maybe it was encryption...

  14. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    This is what we do in Canada with the federal GST (or HST in some provinces). People with lower incomes get a quarterly cheque, roughly equivalent to what someone would spend on the tax during a quarter.

  15. Where are they going to fab the chips? on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 2

    This is kind of interesting... but they don't have a modern fab in Russia, do they? It'll take a lot of foreign parts to build a domestic fab...

  16. To check your OpenSSL version... on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    To get your version, run:

    openssl version

    Yes, I looked it up... in hindsight, I guess it was kind of obvious and I should have been able to figure it out. Anyway, it's done. Hope it saves someone a few seconds....

  17. A buyout is unlikely... halfsies on battery plant? on Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Apple, Model X · · Score: 1

    Nice rumour mongering on this one. I'll suggest it's battery related. It's no secret that Tesla is planning the worlds largest LiON cell plant. They're planning on being the largest user of LiON cells on the planet... I'm guessing that Apple is right up there too. Tesla will need partners... some with cash, some with tech. Apple fits the cash bill...

  18. Re:"Download Now" ads... on FileZilla Has an Evil Twin That Steals FTP Logins · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's not that easy to remove "all" of those annoying, misleading, "download now" ads. My website shows ads through Google AdSense (i.e. the biggest ad network out there) and despite my going through every week or two to ban entire misleading advertiser accounts, there are always new "Download" ads waiting in the queue from new accounts. I've literally blocked hundreds of accounts by now - 5 or 10 every week for a year or two.

    I feel bad for my random users that get caught by the adware (or worse) that is available on these sites; but, there's not much I can do about it.

    I think it's time Google did some work on this - there must be hundreds of AdSense users like myself blocking off advertisers, they should be using their magic to disable accounts entirely from their system after a few people flag bad ads...

  19. Re:So make the power reliable... on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 1

    Ditto to this. I work with some smaller retail stores... I used to recommend UPS's on the POS computers, but after discovering a model of Belkin entry level UPS's that would cease completely if the battery got too old... we stopped using them. Changing the battery on a scheduled basis is impractical, having remote staff successfully swap a UPS would cause more problems than the UPS's would save (most power outages don't break anything if you have write-back caches disabled).

  20. Sounds like he visited torproject.org recently... on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 4, Informative

    I read the PDF (shock).

    It sounds suspiciously like they just checked the logs to see who had visited Tor related websites and then went and interviewed the handful of people who happened to visit these sites within a few days. Maybe interview those who had exams in the 4 listed buildings at the designated time?

    Or, possibly, they just checked who had used Tor in the last few days on their network - can you ID a Tor packet by looking at it?

    It doesn't sound like they needed to crack Tor.

  21. ACK. The MS Captchas... on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 1

    This is embarrassing... but also terrible interface design. I once spent 10 minutes trying to solve a Microsoft captcha. It turned out that the page was designed such that pressing "enter" to finish the captcha actually triggered some other form option. I tried multiple browsers. And finally... decided to try clicking the submit button with the mouse.

    I wasn't too impressed.

  22. It worked for the RIM Playbook... on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 2

    RIM launched their first (and only) tablet without their premier email product. That worked out super-well for sales too.

    Seriously, I didn't know the RT had no Outlook! It really was useless for business.

  23. Re:Ah... Shaw. Their email has caused grief for ye on Massive Email Crash Hits Canadian ISP Shaw · · Score: 1

    Oh, sorry, I meant that in a good way. I meant that a lot of people need a desktop email client, and in the past Hotmail and Yahoo didn't offer that, whereas Gmail has had it for years.

  24. Ah... Shaw. Their email has caused grief for years on Massive Email Crash Hits Canadian ISP Shaw · · Score: 0

    I've been working with a Vancouver based retailer's email newsletter for years. Around here, Shaw is by far the worst of the bigger email domains on the list for deliverability - at least on any of the big webmail providers, recipients can white-list the email address we use to send out emails. Further, some emails will be completely deleted and not put into the junk folder at all. And emails that are suspected spam, will be deleted after only 7 days - don't go on a 10 day vacation.

    I could go on, but suffice it to say that I if I notice an associate or friend or family member using a shaw.ca email address, I will often strongly suggest that they move to any of the big webmail providers.

    BTW: Gmail provides IMAP and POP access, which is a stumbling block for those who want a desktop email client. I'm not sure about Yahoo or Hotmail.

  25. It's not that hard... every iOS device... on Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine · · Score: 1

    This isn't a huge surprise to me. iOS is a real fraction of all web browsing now, Flash dependent web sites are a bad idea (now).