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  1. Gabe Newell eloquent words on the topic on Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way To Stop Piracy Is To Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

    The proof is in the proverbial pudding. "Prior to entering the Russian market, we were told that Russia was a waste of time because everyone would pirate our products. Russia is now about to become [Steam's] largest market in Europe," Newell said.

    From: http://www.escapistmagazine.co...

  2. Re:Huh? on Kubernetes' First Major Security Hole Discovered (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize that since version 3, OpenShift is a distribution of Kubernetes under the hood, right? Here is the CVE for OpenShift for the k8s vulnerability from today

  3. Re:Systemd is Bad right? on Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org) · · Score: 1

    Your comment is only stunning if you are unaware that Ubuntu was using Upstart rather than init before switching to systemd.

  4. Re:yes they should on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the whole point of the hard drive copy. Who cares if it deletes a copy. Make another try again.

    This plus write-blocking, welcome to modern disk forensics.

  5. Re:A summary would be nice on Google Testing Project Loon: Concerns Are Without Factual Basis (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  6. Re:Take back Slashdot on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Forgive my skepticism for improvement, since you were the person who let this tripe hit the front page yesterday

  7. Re:BMI is a poor tool on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    From your linked article:

    The results of our study, involving a large sample from the US population, demonstrates that BMI has a limited diagnostic performance to correctly identify individuals with excess in body fatness, particularly for those with BMI between 25 to 30 kg/m2, for men and for the elderly.

  8. Re:Also, Adhesives are rare... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The fishing packing factory is filled with aluminum trays in the basement.

  9. I have a printer that uses outdated crypto sitting on a VLAN only accessible from by internal computers. Because the powers that be have decided that it's insecure, I have to turn off https.... I just want to make sure that my recipe printed from my tablet before hauling my butt from the kitchen to the office.

    Show a scary warning or something. But slightly weak crypto is better than pushing people to not use it.

  10. Re:Now they just need to allowed on Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That might spiral exponentially out of control.

  11. Re:Math is fun on The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A...


    decimate

    verb

    1. kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

    "the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness"

    2. historical - kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.

  12. Re:Yesterday's news on Ellen Pao Drops Appeal of Gender Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    The difference there was the large change in a nonprofit being bought out by a for profit conglomerate with largely different goals. I am sure if it was bought out by a conglomerate Bezo or anyone else owned there would still be negative reactions. Being the scandal ridden Murdoch - News Corp, was just an added target for people to be upset at.

  13. Re:$400/mo for 10,000Mbps, $45/mo for 50 on Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents · · Score: 2

    Because there are a great deal more costs than the bandwidth. You know running cables and a operating an ISP. A 50Mbps symmetric fiber to the home line for that is great price.

  14. Which one is heart? on Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' · · Score: 4, Funny

    With our powers combined, we are Captain Codec!

  15. Re:What does Science have to say about this? on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    I have a halogen lamp in my office to counteract the mechanical ballast overhead lights that drive my eyes crazy. I know exactly what you mean.

  16. Re:What does Science have to say about this? on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe they it they are just sensitive to radiation in the visible spectrum. The obvious answer is to stick them in pitch dark rooms to help them learn.

  17. Unpractical on Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For this attack is great if you have to identify the model/gyroscope and have done testing to get a value of the resonant frequencies of the gyroscope before hand and send a sound loud enough to disable it. 140 Db causes permanent hearing damage and that only makes it effective to 40 meters. I hardly think a system that deafens everyone in a large radius to take down a drone for the off chance that you even know the frequency to disable a drone is hardly practical. And if like the ones tested in the article you can attach a speaker to the device before hand, I doubt you even need to think about a system like this to disable the drone.

  18. Missing the big picture on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    False accusations suck, but that's not even it's primary use. But it would be naive to not consider the ramifications beyond. It could mean that search results for Tienanmen Square or Falun Gong could be missing world wide because Chinese law bans results for those pages in their jurisdiction. Every country wants their laws to apply to everyone else, but doesn't think of the consequences then of having to apply everyone else's laws to themselves.

    Even more so, seems silly that the remedy to a false accusation is to delist a page from a search result. Seems that libel statues would apply that you should direct at the content publisher not the search engine.

    The world will be a much scarier place if we don't have freedom of speech because some people could tell lies.

  19. Re:all those feetses in datacentres... on As Cloud Growth Booms, Server Farms Get Super-Sized · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Point Of Sale on Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    That'd be a quick way for them to get a lawsuit judgement worth far more than the support contract.

  21. Re:A sane supreme court decision? on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    In the majority opinion disagreed and that was what Alito was arguing for in the dissent. The court said that it did not matter whether the dog arrived first or not, but that it was unacceptable because it added extra time in addition to what was the police's actual mission in guaranteeing safety on the roadway in traffic stop.

    Majority: "We hold that a police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures."

    Alito & Thomas: The only question here is whether an officer executed a stop in a reasonable manner when he waited to conduct a dog sniff until after he had given the driver a written warning and a backup unit had arrived, bringing the overall duration of the stop to 29 minutes.

  22. Re:News @ 11 on Optical Tech Can Boost Wi-Fi Systems' Capacity With LEDs · · Score: 1

    I think you took away the wrong lesson. The idea is to keep increasing the frequency and transmit power. I look forward to a future with gamma ray emitting wifi AP death rays.

  23. Re:The "real" law on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Civil rights act of 1964 says absolutely nothing about not discriminating against minority, but that you can't discrimate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The cases are harder to win, but the majority is still protected class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

    DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN
    SEC. 703. (a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer--

    (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or

  24. "Highly Qualified" on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 2

    I have not read too much on this, but listing these areas as core areas might have an opposite effect than intended. One provision of the NCLB act was that teachers need to be "highly qualified" and left that up to the states to decide what that meant. To my knowledge most states requirements for "highly qualified" teachers is that for "core subjects" they hold at least a bachelor's degree in that field.

    The outcome of this is that many of these classes could be dropped because a Math teacher who had a minor in CS would no longer be considered highly qualified to teach in that subject. By raising title of these subjects but not having any standardized testing on the subject would likely cause schools to drop those areas in order to keep the arbitrary percentage of "highly qualified" teachers teaching classes in order to keep funding.

  25. Re:So lemme get this right: on Cisco SPA300/500 IP Phones Vulnerable To Remote Eavesdropping · · Score: 2

    Even more than within your LAN, the best practices should put the phones on a separate VLAN with nothing except for the call manager to communicate with them. If you are putting smart TV's and printers on the same VLAN as your phones, your doing it wrong and trying really hard to do it wrong.