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  1. Re:Deprecation shouldn't start at the browser on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 2
    If you set it up such that mails from, say, VeriSign are sent directly to , then you're DOING IT WRONG and you deserve what you get if a mail accidentally gets dropped because Bob got fired last year.

    One obvious solution is to run your own mail server and create <certificates@example.com>, a forward to <bobfromaccounting@example.com> and finally a bit of logic such that a big scary warning is sent to the administrator account for the mail server if the forward should ever fail. Whatever you do, the account that the CA is sending mail to should NEVER have to change for any reason and it should always be assigned to some person in the company.

  2. Damned if you do... on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1
    MS's employees in Ireland might be criminally liable in the EU if they transmit the data outside EU borders. They might really really like Microsoft, but to the point of being willing to go to prison for the company? I think not.

    We could potentially end up in a situation where the main branch of MS screams at the EU branch from across the Atlantic and no one over here is willing to comply.

  3. Re:What assholes on Oracle Broadens Legal Fight Against Third-party Solaris Support Providers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I... eh... what? Oracle owns MySQL, not PostgreSQL

  4. Obligatory music track on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This discussion needs a soundtrack and we're so lucky that the perfect one already exists. I'm of course talking about one of the most "what do you mean it's not awesome?" pieces of music ever made, Canvas Bags by Tim Minchin.

  5. Re:I don't mind on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 1

    "Ascending some stairs," you say? E-LE-VATE!

  6. Re:facebook is an american company on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And facebook does business in Italy? So Italian courts have jurisdiction over facebook. They can argue US 1st amendment all they want, it's just not relevant.

  7. Re:No issue. on Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox · · Score: 1

    The worst kind of 3rd party javascript is the stuff from *.cloudfront.net, where * appears able to be any random string. It (and amazon web services) are the bane of trying to keep a neat whitelist of domains for NoScript.

  8. War on general purpose computing on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    And so another salvo was fired in the war on general purpose computing.

  9. Re:Hangin's too good for him on Suspect Arrested In Spamhaus DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I wish we lived the Schlock Mercenary universe where people could be executed for grand spamming.

  10. Re:TeX Sucks on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future · · Score: 1

    If you don't want your images to float, then don't use the figure environment. The whole point of figure, table and other floating environments is that they float. If you don't want it, just use \includegraphics. See also: TeX.SX: How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?

  11. Re:mixed feelings on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future · · Score: 1

    Don't. Put. Periods (or spaces) in filenames for anything to be read by TeX. Stick to [0-9a-zA-Z_].

  12. Re:Huh? on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 2

    Define "best"

    Is it best because a user making a legitimate parody or review is likely to get a strike on their account because the automated ContentID system cannot tell the difference between a straight copy and what ought to be fair use?

    Is it best because hateful crazies can get your account closed with a flood of phony copyright complaints?

  13. You dirty rotten criminal! on Adobe To Australians: Fly To US For Cheaper Software · · Score: 1

    Importing UK Blu-rays into USA? Did you also import a player for them? Otherwise, I don't see how you're not in violation of federal law (i.e. the DMCA) whenever you're watching one of them (Blu-ray region codes).

  14. Drones, you say? on Go To Uni, Earn a Degree In Drones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can get a diploma in Zerg showing I can drone hard? Awesome...

    *Reads submission again*... oooh. That kind of drones. That's a lot less awesome.

  15. Re:Well no shit on Planescape: Torment Successor Funded In 6 Hours · · Score: 2
  16. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And that map isn't even complete. It's missing some 100 mile radius disks centred at inland international airports.

  17. Re:I consider that a pretty good analogy... on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 2

    That's a fixable problem. For example, you could read this article by phk in ACM: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2030258

    In particular note:

    Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality or code by the licensee, then your liability is limited to a refund.

  18. Re:Wat on Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Typical noob...

    cat ~/mail/contacts/* | grep [...]

    You earned yourself a Useless Use of Cat Award!

  19. Re:Greengrocers apostrophe? on Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. People would do well to read Bob the Angry Flower's guide to the apostrophe... you idiots!

  20. A name for this on More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You · · Score: 1

    I really like the name that phk (of FreeBSD and Varnish fame) came up with for permissions required for apps like that: chernobyl bits.

    It has a really nice ominous and "this is wrong and you shouldn't do it" ring to it.

  21. Re:Donations aren't Always Bribes on Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota · · Score: 1

    It is corruption because whenever money and opinions intermingle there is always a shift in perception on the part of the recipient. We humans are social animals. We cannot help but think "he helped me, I should help him".

    Even if it doesn't sway the recipient's opinions, it causes the perception that it has. Part of the reason why Congress has such a low approval rating (lower than the US going communist for crying out loud!) is that people perceive that representatives are bought and paid for by special interests and whatever personal opinions and principles they might have had have been sold for filthy lucre long ago.

  22. Re:I reject your patent, M$. on Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique · · Score: 2

    No. The patent system grants monopolies in order to encourage people to share the knowledge that goes into the things they invent. The fact that there is money to be had from licensing patents is an incentive against people locking up their inventions as trade secrets that die with their inventors.

    Of course with software patents that sort of doesn't work because you can keep the actual implementation of your idea under wraps, so society doesn't really benefit much from granting a monopoly in this case.

  23. Re:Not impossible on Aussie Case Unlikely To Solve Piracy Riddle In Fast Broadband World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is... I don't think a free and open internet is possible together with strong, enforcable and actively enforced copyright laws.

  24. Language pack FAIL on Mozilla To Support H.264 · · Score: 1

    Mozilla still haven't fixed Firefox to be able to handle automatic updating of language packs. Every time I update Firefox here, it reverts back to the language I installed it in (the rest of my family isn't as good as English as I am), so I have to manually go and get the newest en-GB.xpi.

  25. Re:Privatisation of taxing on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you ever heard of ASCAP?