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  1. Re:Winter is coming on Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not confusing the final tax-day reconciliation (refund vs owing) with the actual tax burden, are you?

  2. Your browser has permission to overwrite itself? Seems like a bad idea.

  3. Re:Just pick a damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    They can opt out, but they can't go for permanent DST without Congressional approval.

  4. Re:More RAM waste for benchmark "wins" on Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious: does your Pi-hole MitM your HTTPS connections in order to do all that?

  5. Collusion? on Left To Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort To Collusion (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "and even if they do not communicate with one another"

    Well that can be the case with people, too, can it not? Except that when people do not communicate with each other, I don't believe that it can be said to be colluding, by definition. So why is it collusion when algorithms do it?

  6. Re:Okay, I'll bite on Firefox Will Soon Warn Users of Software That Performs MitM Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that mean all SSL connections have to wait for this other new connection to succeed?

    If that other service is out, do all SSL connections fail? Or is defeating this new "feature" as simple as blocking those connections?

  7. Okay, I'll bite on Firefox Will Soon Warn Users of Software That Performs MitM Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The linked article has no technical details.

    How does the browser know when the certificate isn't the "right" one? Presumably, the false certificate's root is installed as valid on the system. Will this warning come up any time a page is viewed that relies on a non-bundled root certificate?

  8. "No Web Server" on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 2

    There are plenty of domains in heavy use for things other than the Web. Classifying these as "unused" is probably not right.

  9. Re:Does content dictate category? on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 1

    "Ain't" certainly is a word; it's the contraction for "am not". Members of the British aristocracy still occasionally use it as such.

    Often it's used incorrectly as standing for different words. "He ain't nice" is incorrect, but "I ain't interested" is correct.

  10. A Slashdot article that links to the very previous Slashdot article??

  11. Re:How to use "several"? on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right that this usage is weird. The other posters are correct about what number range the word "several" might represent, but they're ignoring its connotation. You're exactly correct that it has the sense of "more than expected".

    "There are still several years left", or "This established feature has been there for several years" all make sense. "It was just several years ago" does not make sense.

  12. Re:Where is my remote root openssh exploit? on Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Being able to spy on and manipulate other VMs on your VM's host is a plenty big enough exploit.

  13. I'm pretty sure that Hillary would have been champing at the bit to sign on to this ridiculous accord. Trump is not. So... We lucked out?

  14. Re:paywalled on Amazon Plans To Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities, Report Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does:

    "CNBC's Brian Sullivan reported this weekend Amazon could split the proposed workforce and investments between Austin and Northern Virginia."

  15. Re:How much have ya got? on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Although in this case, IIRC, Rice has a big endowment, and tuition isn't very high anyway.

  16. How much have ya got? on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The trend lately is for colleges to set a ridiculously high price, then give "everyone" a discount. They're taking as much as they can from everyone. In what other field do companies get away with that? What a scam.

  17. Horrifyingly, the good option here might be Microsoft.

  18. Re:This is stupid garbage on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, bbc.com and your site do need encryption.

  19. Re:To be honest on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you not want any guarantees that your news is unaltered from the source?

  20. Re:Good on Researchers Find That Filters Don't Prevent Porn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I do want to censor. I am a censor. I want to keep my 10 year old children from seeing awful things they can't unsee.

    What is the best way to achieve this?

  21. Re:Special settings on OpenBSD Chief De Raadt Says No Easy Fix For New Intel CPU Bug 'TLBleed' (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like a VPS instance could easily use this to break into its host or to sibling VPSes.

  22. 6-row keyboard on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Still waiting them out on my x220, waiting for real keyboards to return.

  23. Believe me, somewhere in this hospital the anguished oink of pig-man cries out for help!

  24. Re:irs.gov on IRS 'Direct Pay' Option Not Working on Tax Day (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Gaming the system on IRS 'Direct Pay' Option Not Working on Tax Day (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, you can get an automatic extension, but you still have to pay anything you owe by April 15 (or 17).