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  1. Good point.

  2. The years-long interrogations and insinuations by Republicans -- resulting in no actionable charges of any wrongdoing

    That's the party line from the D side of the aisle, you know that, right? Think for yourself, don't parrot things you heard.

    objectively she was -- by far -- the more qualified candidate for the office of President

    When she was in office as secretary of state, she started the Libya war. Also she ran it poorly. She also did some good things, traveling the world building goodwill, but starting a war is a huge negative.

    and I don't know if he's really the "lesser of two evils"

    No kidding, that's because you supported the other person.

  3. Re:Dichotomy on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, presumably those same people absolutely stand against a law the also arguably infringes on Free Speech rights

    I don't think that should be presumed. If 97% of congress passes a bill in a bipartisan way, then they've probably done polls showing that Americans largely support the bill.

  4. The Blackberry with QNX was usable, smooth, and had a great programming paradigm. QNX is a great operating system.

  5. Microkernels work fine, they just take (up to) a 30% performance hit depending on the workload. So you are making a tradeoff between crashing when you find a bug and speed.

    I will tell you the problem with Android bugs is not in the kernel. This is a severe case of NIH. The biggest problems in Android come from Google themselves.

  6. not surprising on Japan Could Have More Than 3 Million Cryptocurrency Traders (coindesk.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not surprising, since they advertise bitcoin on the train and billboards all over the place.

  7. Re: Prison society on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, enlighten you? For one thing, "there are no deities in Zen" as a Zen priest once said. If you choose to be an awful person, karma will still get you though. In another way no man is an island and "you are me and I am you" so if you hurt me, you are also hurting yourself.

  8. Re:Probably hacked the record label, not YouTube. on YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced · · Score: 1

    If you hacked Youtube, the most likely option would be to call whatever API they used to upload a video. Use Google's systems against itself.

  9. To be logically more precise, you don't need to have a god to live forever (or strictly speaking, to have morals).

  10. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    You keep saying what good security is not. Often times, we can have perfect security. For example, you can avoid all SQL injections. Every single one of them. We know how to do it.

  11. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    See, you are wrong already. Because YouTube accounts can provide access to gmail, they can provide passwords to many people's bank accounts. As soon as you start thinking "we don't need to be so secure" you're going to screw it up.

  12. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    No, the way you are talking is like a cya consultant writing a bunch of disclaimers because he knows something will go wrong. You can do better.

  13. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Alright, so how do you define good security?

  14. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Most large companies have a team of programmers maintaining their web page. It's more than just an Etsy shop page. That's where security really starts getting tough.

  15. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    ok, so he has a company website, which needs to be accessible by the world. What then?

  16. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Air gaps prevent you from doing a lot of useful things. It prevents people from doing things they reasonably should be able to do with a computer. For example, I notice you don't have an air gap while posting to Slashdot.

  17. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    ok, so suppose an 'enlightened' CEO comes to you and asks you what he should do about security. What would you tell him? Hire a red team? Because that actually doesn't work.

  18. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    There are very few security problems that can't be solved with a good, powerful sledgehammer, but that's not going to fit most use cases.

  19. Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Security is hard, and there is no one who knows how to have perfect security. That's an unsolved problem.

    There are a lot of things you can do, easy things, but there aren't enough people who know how to do them. For example, not letting someone log in with an empty password. That is a solved problem, it should never happen. But even if every company tried to hire good people, there aren't enough good people to fill every company. So they hire not good people. Unfortunate.

  20. Re:Because, Reapers... and Cylons on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    I was entertained.

  21. Re:Event-driven I/O doesn't require Node on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    fwiw in the settings (on any particular video) you can have the video go 1.5x speed. Knowing that has made youtube much more tolerable for me when a transcript isn't available.

  22. Re: Galileo's Square-Cube Law on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    A global alteration of gravity? Like grue and bleen, the law of gravity itself changed? And that seems less likely than an meteor impact?

  23. Oracle is one of those companies that will make me smile when they die. In fact I will help stab. Et tu phantom? Oh hell yes. I won't twist the knife.

  24. Re: This was the choice made in the last two decad on Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be pointed out that recently a lot of people are doing well with Patron. So there is at least one other model that works

  25. Banks seem to favor "following the rules." Following the rules doesn't yield good security in software, because we haven't found the right rules yet. It's still a game of cat and mouse.

    "Following the rules" works for physical security, and accounting for thousand of other peoples' money, but we've had literally thousands of years to figure out what rules to follow in those cases. Following outdated rules in computer security is bad practice.