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  1. Re:It's e-mail, it's never going to be 'secure' on Outgoing White House Emails Not Protected by Verification System (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Your example SPF record ends with "~all", aka SoftFail, meaning that receiving servers will still accept mail from other (unlisted) addresses and will likely not even flag it to recipients as being suspect.

    If you want receiving servers to reject other mail, assuming they're even doing SPF checks, then the SPF record should end with "-all" instead.

  2. Re:Just found out these were available on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    But they still don't sell any of their hardware to Australia, so thats a bit of a missed opportunity for Steam.

    Not true. I bought a Steam Link and Steam Controller from EB Games about a year ago thinking it would be nice to play games on the big screen in the lounge. If you wanted a Steam Machine you could still buy the Alienware Steam Machine from Dell, but you'd have been better off buying a regular PC with more performance for the same price.

    I found mouse/touchpad on the Steam Controller to be painful to use and the charm wore off after a couple of weeks. Now it's packed away.

  3. There is no Delete Facebook on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the #DeleteFacebook movement is hilarious. Clicking the Delete button in Facebook achieves absolutely nothing.

    Facebook already has your data and clicking the Delete Account button doesn't do anything other than remove you from a few public lists. I know this because I "deleted" my account back in 2010. Over the years I received several warning emails from Facebook that someone had been trying to login to my account and that I should login to change my password. I logged in with my old credentials recently and everything was still there as it was.

    #DeleteFacebook is a typical modern knee-jerk reaction that makes you feel good at the time but doesn't achieve anything worth a damn.

  4. Re:Cloud Safety [Re:Hype! Hype! Hype!] on Intel CPUs Vulnerable To New 'BranchScope' Attack (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If cloud isn't inherently less secure than the traditional approach then why do Goog-azon-zure run separate GovClouds for government and military customers?

    Ignoring network considerations the main reason cloud is less secure than local servers is because of shared infrastructure. Unless you're paying Goog-azon-zure top dollar for dedicated servers your instance is going to be sharing physical hardware with other customers. Side-channel attacks like this allow Nefarious Scumbag A to get one instance and feret out secret data from other instances on the physical machine.

  5. What ever happened... on State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

    Can't the police, FBI and State Department be charged under the CFAA every time they use this device? "Oh, but we were doing it to serve the law!" is not an excuse otherwise White Hats would be immune from prosecution.

  6. Re: Just before I turn off my computer... on Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    Al Gore has proposed potential solutions. What have you done other than stick your head in the sand?

    My goodness, such harsh language!

    While Al Gore was dramatizing sea level rise to the world he was buying himself water front real estate more cheaply. Al Gore Buys $8.9 Million Ocean-view Villa

  7. Re:He is sorely missed on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Privacy means people know what they're signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly.

    Which is completely correct, but having Jobs saying it is complete bullshit.

    Every time there's an upgrade to iOS and macOS there's a 60+ page legal contract you're supposed to agree to before you can continue. How many people have the legal qualifications to actually read and fully understand that? (Almost none) How many people just click "I Agree"? (Probably all)

  8. Google Plus? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean Google hasn't killed Google Plus yet? And it's free?

    If something's free then you're the product.

  9. Re:It really shouldn't be that hard on William Shatner Criticizes Facebook Hoax Ad Announcing His Death (people.com) · · Score: 1

    There has always been bad information on the internet, it's just that now it's easier to hide the source.

    It's not just the internet. Let's not forget Richard Wilkins back in 2009 reported that Jeff Goldblum had died on set while filming in New Zealand. Jeff Goldblum is still alive and well. There have always been such gaffes and there always will be, internet or not.

  10. Re:Raytracing does not produce photorealistic imag on NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail of Gaming Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    No. While at first glance the video demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70W2aFr5-Xk) is very pretty it's clear they've gone overboard to make everything they possibly can reflective. That in itself defeats the attempt to be photorealistic.

    Aside from the ultra-reflectivity of everything in the scene the most annoying glitch on display was the bursty behaviour of the blooms on the metal edges of the tables, evident because they've used a (relatively) low-poly mesh for something that should be smooth curves.

  11. Re:Network AND storage over a shared USB 2 bus? on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Launched (raspberrypi.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Moore's Law 'n' all.

  12. Re:64 bit OS ? on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Launched (raspberrypi.org) · · Score: 1

    It will get a PoE hat, but that hasn't been released yet.

  13. We've already had a Google Plus come and go. Are Google projects so short-lived that they're recycling names now?

  14. I can just barely see the pixels in the Sony Playstation VR headset, which is 1080p, especially when moving my head slowly or holding it at a slight angle.

    A 4K screen would probably be overkill for such a small problem (3840 x 2160 = 8.2 Mpixels).

    A 20 Mpixel screen would just be a waste of technology - and money, no doubt.

  15. The rest of it will naturally follow as really expensive media gets squeezed to go to lower prices.

    No it won't. You can by out-of-copyright DVD movies in supermarkets for $2 each - that covers production costs, logistics and retail mark up and still leaves room for profit! How do you justify the rest of the ticket price on DVD/Bluray movies?

  16. The thought of Hollywood funding a Trump re-election is a joke, though, even if he gives them everything they ever wanted.

    Hollywood's so passé. Nowdays it's Mickeywood. You can't ever take The Mouse!

  17. Re:Hardcoded passwords on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3
  18. Why do you need it? on FBI Again Calls For Magical Solution To Break Into Encrypted Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Phones and tablets synchronize everything to the cloud. Why can't they use the existing warrant system to get the data they need from cloud providers (albeit still encrypted, but they can attack that offline), or are Apple/Google/Microsoft hosting everything in Ireland now with a big FU to the USG?

  19. Re:What does the network adapter have to do with i on Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I also don't get it: at what point does Windows decide a newly plugged-in USB network adapter should get all traffic routed to it instead of the existing cable/Wi-Fi connection?

    Because this is /. and I didn't read TFA, here's the answer to my own question:

    "One of the things we saw was that even when a machine is locked, you can choose the network to which that machine is attached," he notes.

    That's just fucking stupid.

  20. Re:What does the network adapter have to do with i on Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I also don't get it: at what point does Windows decide a newly plugged-in USB network adapter should get all traffic routed to it instead of the existing cable/Wi-Fi connection?

    If the weakness is Cortana always listening and able to be directed to a non-SSL web site why not attack the Wi-Fi access point or the modem/router?

  21. In my experience all these quartz china clocks run fast, some a few seconds and others gain a whole minute a week.

    I can top that.

    I still have a 1980's era Radioshack clock because it has a large LED display that's easy to read from across the room at night. It can gain five minutes overnight when running on the 9V backup battery if the mains power goes off - which isn't uncommon because we live in a mountainous area and people are always skidding off the roads into power poles.

  22. Re:PSVR is getting there on Oculus Rift Is Now the Most Popular VR Headset On Steam (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    PSVR Has some pretty large amount of Sony backing...

    I really wish that were true. Sony's doing all sorts of stupid things here such as only bundling the Aimtroller with games (originally Farpoint, starting tomorrow Bravo Team) and not permitting it to be sold separately.

    And then there's performance... Even with a dedicated accelerated framebuffer/GPU for the PSVR drawing stereo images to its 1080p OLED display game publishers are still dumbing down titles for it. Elder Scrolls Skyrim is a perfect example of this: instead of updating their graphics engine they chose to be cheap and use lower resolution textures and reduce the draw distances; as a result the PSVR version gets 6.8/10 scores on IGN versus 9/10 for (regular) Playstation versus 9.5/10 for PC.

  23. Re:The video is cool on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this sounds like Get Off My Lawn, but... Jeans these days are shit, the denim is such low quality. I once had a pair of Target jeans I bought for around $20 last me nearly a decade. Nowdays just gardening over the weekends I'm lucky to get a month out of jeans before they start tearing themselves apart.

  24. Timely on Japanese Scientists Invent Floating 'Firefly' Light (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Way to go, Slashdot. This news was a thing almost two months ago, https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/so...

  25. Re: this is a laughably easy conversion to make on Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Some retarded banks and insurance companies still require faxes of legal documents because - signatures. They can't understand/deal with electronic documents that have an electronic signature in them.