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  1. That's stupid. That would make virtualisation illegal because platforms like VirtualBox create a fake MAC address for every guest you spin up.

  2. Re:Humans are sexual creatures on Shareholders Sue Alphabet's Board For Role In Allegedly Covering Up Sexual Misconduct By Senior Execs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a whole load of crap. Responsible people act responsibly. Don't tar all of us with the "man is sexual creature" brush just because you can't keep your penis in your pants.

  3. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets.

    Oh, so it's Christmas. The religious aspect of Christmas is pretty much dead. Now it's all about the six months of commercial opportunities leading up to the day - and putting shame on the parents that didn't buy their spoilt brats a new $1,000 iPad to replace the one they just got on their birthday.

  4. Re:Simple solution: Charge per stream on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    All your problems are solved with 2FA. Enable 2FA on the main account holder and any subaccount holders. If you detect the same account/subaccount accessing two streams at the same time require a 2FA prompt before continuing.

  5. Disabling SSID broadcast just means packets with the SSID name in them aren't beaconed constantly & only occur when traffic traverses that network.

    Even for so-called "Hidden SSIDs" the SSIDs still get broadcast in AYT (Are You There) packets sent by previously connected clients enumerating the contents of their PNLs (Preferred Network Lists) while looking for an access point with better signal strength. You'd be surprised how many stores and shopping centres slurp up the AYT traffic to fingerprint who's visiting their premises at any given time so they can serve up targeted advertising.

  6. Good luck getting thirty minutes out of it - the i9-9900K sucks down 95W all by itself.

  7. Re:We're all screwed on USB Type-C Authentication Program Launched (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardware's been getting locked down for over a decade. What did you think UEFI and TPM were?

  8. Re:Target the customers on Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not poison, but a permanent dye of an unpleasant color would serve to make them undesirable on the black market.

  9. Likely be a SocioNext SC2A11 on Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    No kidding. It's an SC2A11B in the photo of the motherboard.

  10. Re:If it requires a "cloud" account, you don't own on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet people apparently love Cisco Meraki products with their "cloud updates."

  11. Good luck seeing it on A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's magnitude 8.8. Nobody's going to see it with their naked eye - the limit there is about M6.7. GoSkyWatch and a decent set of 50mm binoculars should do the trick.

  12. Re:Green light is green. on A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries · · Score: 2

    I always thought red light was red because it was angry.

  13. RTFA, that's nucleus!

  14. Time for the T-shirts on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 3, Funny
  15. Re:Modal dialog boxes on Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure I'd use Microsoft as a model of how to do anything. Whenever I'm forced to use MS-IE or Edge for a site they have this nasty habit of opening authentication dialogs behind the window that they relate to. You have to go hunting through the task bar icons to find the authentication dialog to submit so you can make progress.

  16. I never understood companies (or government departments) buying teams of fax machines to receive faxes. We've had these things called fax modems for decades already as well as software to receive faxes - some of them even integrate with Collabra, Exchange, Google Docs and that thing called Lotus (e.g.: GFI FaxMaker has been around over 20 years).

  17. Re:No signal on the Far side on China's Chang'e-4 Launches On Mission To the Moon's Far Side (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do they have another satellite? Because how are they going to get the signals back?

    It's communicating via the previously launched Queqiao "Magpie Bridge" relay satellite which is in a halo orbit around the second Earth-Moon Lagrange point (E-M L2). REFs:

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_4#Lander_and_rover
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_in_spaceflight#May
  18. Re:bank fraud? on Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you know a lot about the situation, since Wanzhou Meng is female.

  19. Re:Tom Cruise made a great movie in 2014 on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Edge of Tomorrow was my favourite Tom Cruise movie ever. Terrible movie, but Tom Cruise's character got killed... a lot!

  20. Correct. Although Apollo 8 took plenty of pictures of the far side of the moon it did not actually land there.

  21. IMO, the problem is the mere existence of services.

    When you buy a car you own it. It's sitting in your garage when you're not driving it.

    When you "buy" games, music or movies from a service you're not buying a physical product, you're renting access to a digital stream of bits. If you're not screwed by DRM immediately then you're screwed by it when the service goes offline or permanently out of business. There's no way for you to transfer your purchases between services or to some kind of escrow service so that you can retain access to the content that you've paid for. So you never own it.

  22. Re:It took many years... on Australian Fence of Sound Halves Roadkill On One Deadly Stretch of Road (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You should take a drive through central New South Wales, especially the Parkes to Tamworth stretch. I went through there in August and I don't think there was a kilometre without at least one dead roo on the side of the road. Due to the drought conditions they're coming right up to the side of road to eat what little grass is growing there in the exhaust fumes, then panic and jump into the path of oncoming vehicles.

  23. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the very thin details my bet is that the IronChat servers kept a copy of each user's private key in their user profiles so that they could sync them between mobile devices and still be able send/read messages. End-to-end systems shouldn't do that.

  24. Re:Just follow the money on US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?

  25. Good luck with that on Tim Berners-Lee Launches Campaign To Save the Web From Abuse (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In case you haven't noticed the print and video media innundate us with negative and politically motivated stories every hour of every day. I don't see how the internet is going to become any more saintly than the real world we all live in.