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  1. Re:What can we do with it? on 48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected (multicians.org) · · Score: 1

    Read up on how they did single-level store, whcih caused memory and the file system to behave a lot like one another. Then ask yourself about running Linux programs out of a persistant memory filesystem.

  2. Re:is it on purpose? on 48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected (multicians.org) · · Score: 1

    It was quite easy to crash a process: Multics itself was way harder to crash. It was substantially more resiliant than GCOS, which ran on almost-identical hardware. Hi-Multics.ARPA was usually up for months, between occasional maintenance reboots.

    --dave (DRBrown.TSDC@Hi-Multics.ARPA) c-b

  3. Re:Multics on 48-Year-Old Multics Operating System Resurrected (multicians.org) · · Score: 2

    The Honeywell salesforce of the day weren't quite sure how to sell a big timesharing system, and referred to Multics as "a machine big enough for everyone in Boston". They were very much into selling "one computer per company" instead, and flogged GCOS to all sorts of unsuspecting companies, including the University of Waterloo. The wouldn't have had a clue about how to sell one computer per person

  4. Re:The Canadian Supreme Court disagrees on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the one! And yes, there is great risk of a conflict with the content judgemnents

  5. Re:The Canadian Supreme Court disagrees on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're serious, physically visit a lawyer in Canada and demonstrate the unlawfull action in the presence of witnesses the lawyer may nominate. They'll tell you if you can sue the pants off ATT (;-))

  6. Re:The Canadian Supreme Court disagrees on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, move to Canada, you have the choice of Bell Helliphone or Rogers (;-)) But you can sue them.

  7. The Canadian Supreme Court disagrees on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In cases where the company is breaking Canadian law, contract language to force arbitration in California is null and void. A class action about “Sponsored Stories”, which uses the name and picture of a customer "without consent for the purposes of advertising" will go forward.

    The legalese is summarized at http://www.slaw.ca/2017/06/28/... and the full case is https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/s...

    It's primarily an arguement about choice of forum (country) in a contract.

  8. Re: Neonicotinoids are 100% Fatal to Bees on Large-Scale Study 'Shows Neonic Pesticides Harm Bees' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Nicotine is a really good protective excretion for plants that get nibbled on by insects. Tobacco conpanies would like you to buy them, and to hell with bees. After all, they're insects, and insects don't do anything good, do they?

    --dave

  9. The polite term for this, as used by academic philosophers, is "the lie direct"

    --dave
    [and yes, I was hired and emploed by Sun Microsytems as a a philosopher and logician]

  10. The papers are puffing it up as hard as they can on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a temporary restraining order against a company that fled BC to, perhaps, France, and is selling stolen networking technology. It's not an attempt to censor someone's opinions, but to hunt down a thief.

    There is tons of non-puff-pirce commentary, though:

    and also two dissenting opinions from the judges in the case, available to everyone at https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/s... where they question how long it should apply.

    I'm also pleased to note that one of the first steps cited by the court, in 2017 scc 34, was an injunction "issued by the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordering D to cease operating or carrying on business through any website."

    This is a great improvement, IMHO, over cases in the EU where Google was ordered to cease indexing sites which were not similarly ordered to cease their actions.

    --dave

  11. Re:Their math education was superior for generatio on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    I worked with a Russian-born testing theorist: she and they were really really good and worked insanely hard at anything that was amenable to an academic approach.

    --dave (hey, Safia!) c-b

  12. Re:Revenue of Elsvier on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not doing all that well: when I worked for a subsidiary who, IMHO, was one of their cash cows, they always wanted more than 30% ROI because the rest of their business was disappointing.

  13. The Orange Book will help, but it's not sufficient on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    We have confidentiality standards, but that's not all of security. Nevertheless, having a B2-level machine between two mutually untrusting worlds provides you with a good place to review incoming exceutables and outgoing information. Do it using two humans, one called a sysadmin, the other a security administrator. Both must sign off before moving anything from one world (category/level, container) to another.

    No go solve all the other problems in security (;-))

  14. lwn.net on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    to be precise

  15. The Go Programming Language on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Preferably the day it came out, as I was using C++ at the time.

  16. Some large companies have been rolling out CDN-like services to deliver active, not just static, content on ISP networks with lots of customers. I'm no longer in that corner of the business, but that could be as little as a financial deal to guarantee excellent SLAs to the end-user. Think of it as a workaround for net neutrality and/or anti-trust accusations.

  17. Re:Let the indutries set up councils to self-gover on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup: I actually found it amusing that the (Italian) fascists wanted a corporate government and little freedom, while the corporations want to run a government that guarantees them a free market. The German Fascists, on the other hand, ran a traditional government with representatuion from regions, not lines of business.

  18. Let the indutries set up councils to self-govern? on Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    And then you can have a supreme council, a council of the heads of councils if you will.

    This was briefly the government of Italy, with ministers of Agriculture and Forestry, Corporations, Finance and so on. This was called the Grand Council of Fascism, which see.

  19. I encountered this when looking into machine learning: the EU wants "no magic", and poses IBM's AI lawer some problems (;-))

  20. With a lot of caveats, of course, but basically an individual has the right to 'an explanation of the decision reached after [algorithmic] assessment'. Described in http://fusion.kinja.com/eu-cit...

  21. The vendor wants to sell a mugshot database on Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    After all, the CIA shouldn't be the only folks with one, that's money left on the table.

    It wil only be sold to nice people like airlines, of course!

  22. TekSavvy in Ontario on Ask Slashdot: ISPs That Respect Your Online Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Forced copyright trolls into court, very much against their will (;-))

  23. If the posting is a "what if" question... on Gizmodo Went Phishing With the Trump Team -- Will They Catch a Charge? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... the answer is "no"

  24. Re:Alas, the FCC shows little independence on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    They have some good techies according to Dave Taht && Vint Cerf, but the bosses are appointed, and have this odd, "pointy" harirdo (;-))

  25. Alas, the FCC shows little independence on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FCC, immediately after Mr. Trump's election, cancelled their existing plans and awaited new dirction from Mr Pai. They' were designed to be independent, but aren't.