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  1. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, a full-auto AK variant would be the actual military weapon, as the standard infantry rifle in 100% of militarys since the 1950s is a full-auto weapon. But I didn't want to complicate things by involving the unconstitutional ban on post-1986 automatic weapons.

  2. Re:Astonished on A Third of All HTTPS Websites Vulnerable To DROWN Attack (drownattack.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with that approach. Ours was to require TLS 1.0. In situations where TLS wasn't supported, we used SSL 3.0 with CBC ciphers disabled. Of course, this worked for about 6 months before someone discovered that RC4 was vulnerable...

  3. Because it's currently 1960, so that happens all the time.

  4. Re:Better for everyone else on Draconian Aussie Science Censorship Law Takes Effect Next Month (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Today we have an unsustainable situation in which a tiny fraction of super-rich individuals own more property than the rest of the nation put together.

    The federal government is the largest, richest landlord.

  5. Re:yes they should on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That isn't the problem, but the real problem is that the private key is kept in NAND memory, not the flash memory (what they're calling the "hard drive"). The FBI isn't already doing this because it's really hard... mathematically hard. As in, unless they have quantum computers we don't know about, they won't be able to figure out what's on that phone for eons. And without the private key, it would be hard to even know the difference between the encrypted gobbledygook and the unencrypted data if you crack it.

    I maintain that they are pretty sure that there's nothing of value on that phone, and that this whole exercise was a ruse to gain government backdoors to encryption because, terrorism.

  6. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, try to live in the average American town-- just a few thousand people, max-- and own a horse.

    See how free you are to stable the horse at your house.

  7. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Maryland is wrong. Guns like the AK47 are military arms, and whether you think the second amendment describes a right of the people or not (the supreme court says it does) it describes a
    well-regulated militia, which requires military arms.

    Require a training course? Registration for military arms? Membership in a shooting club or militia? Arguably allowable. Ban the military arms we're supposed to keep and bear? Tyranny.

  8. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    If ubiquitous cameras save lives, they should be required.

    If metadata capture saves lives, it should be required.

    If full body scans save lives, they should be required.

    At least with vaccines, by and large the intrusion to our lives is minimal and short term. But we'd have to live with self-driving cars every day.

  9. Re:75% of American Horse Association riders say... on AAA: 75% Of Drivers Say They Wouldn't Feel Safe In An Autonomous Vehicle (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1
    See, you just compared what people want to ride in, to what else is on the road. Because it doesn't matter whether your vehicle is autonomous or not, there are still going to be nearsighted grannies and distracted teens on the road for quite some time.

    I don't care if it takes twice as long to get anywhere (30 MPH max), as long as I can turn my brain off and do something else I'm happy.

    Then take the bus.

  10. Absolutely astonished that anyone has SSL v2 enabled. You can pick any modern security standard (like PCI DSS or SSAE16) and it reads something like, "disable all obsolete or vulnerable protocols". I mean, I haven't had SSL v3 enabled on anything I'm responsible for since 2010.

  11. Re:Didn't work for us in the late 1970s on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't have enough power. I mean, most of those RF modulators didn't even have external power sources, and were only designed to work through a few feet of coax.

    If you'd tried to hack one of those Rabbit cable TV/VCR signal extenders instead, it at least would have been designed to transmit over air and maybe you would have had enough power to do something.

  12. Re:Impossible project on FujiFilm Discontinues Last Film For Millions of Polaroid Cameras (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    You've probably never heard of it.

  13. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. I bet a lot of CEOs with they had a free $1 billion to throw around.

  14. Re:Not Really 'CEOs': look at data on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    even worse, primary/elementary and secondary/high schools by which I presume they mean the head teacher

    No, the "head teacher" would be the principal in the USA and again, no, they're not a CEO equivalent. That would be the superintendent, who in any district in the nation would earn at least $250,000/year. Also, this list includes both private and public universities so, yeah, it's fair to include government enterprises.

  15. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's right. Because Americans are supposed to spend all their time and money fixing the rest of the world's problems, while letting the rest of world complain how horrible we are and try to dictate how we do things. I forgot!

  16. Re:I guess "oppressive" is relative on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    That would require them accepting the legitimacy of the Christian religion. MY HEAD ASPLODE

  17. Re:There is one big one that they forgot..... on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    BYU is a private institution.

  18. Re:I guess "oppressive" is relative on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    It must be really tough being a victim for 3 hours a week.

    Yeah, that's what I told the woman I keep chained in my basement. Seems she still hasn't bought into my claim that she's accountable for all my ex-girlfriends who dumped me.

  19. Re:There are limits to free speech on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    You can't shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre.

    Including if there's a fire, if you're a SJW. By the way, that "quote" doesn't mean what you think it does, taken out of context.

  20. Re:Not really on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    With public institutions, we don't even have the "hyper-capitalist" option as you state. Our tax dollars are given to these schools whether we like it or not. A private school is not directly funded by tax dollars. THAT IS WHY.

  21. Re:Consider the Source on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 2

    The John William Pope Center is a mouthpiece for a right-wing think tank, and is no friend of higher education.

    Ooh, another genetic fallacy.

  22. Re:All awful but the bias is interesting on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the genetic fallacy, but no thanks.

  23. Re:Not quite on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. Google might do their best to avoid cutting off service for AT&T, but mistakes happen. And if they do, they can point to the ordinance as a defense.

    Imagine if it were the reverse, you were a Google fiber customer, and AT&T wanted to move Google's equipment. Would you be worried that "whoops, we broke it" would happen when Deathstar came out?

    Regardless, the main issue is whether the town even had the authority, and it may be that the state reserves the power to regulate public utilities in this manner. Each municipality regulates its own easements, but that doesn't mean they necessarily dictate what happens with poles and underground lines.

  24. Re:Urs Hölzle - Moron on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Old 5.25" half and full height (and 3.5" in ye olde 1.6" form factor) did use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat. But besides modern power supplies being more efficient, he's asking for smaller platters stacked higher, not the large circumference drives of old. The smaller circumference is to reduce seek times, and that reduction of inertia is sure to address power and heat concerns at the same time. I'd be curious as to whether one of these tall, skinny drives would really generate more waste heat than the two or three smaller form factor drives (with two or three more motors and logic boards) it would take to provide the equivalent capacity.

  25. Re:And so ... on Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    My studio PC is blocked from the internet, so the fact that it's currently running an unsupported Windows XP is not a big deal*. It would be nice if Steinberg would make Linux drivers, but if I have to run an unsupported OS then I can wall it off.

    * although it's annoying, and it's really because finding a non-garbage capture card just to dump old VHS tapes is still a problem in 2016.