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  1. Re: Muh Russian Hackers on Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you control the mine, you can control who gets the product. The fact that the entire administration cooperated should indicate something to you.

    Not in the case of uranium. Uranium is a critical national resource, and by treaty with Canada cannot be sent anywhere but the US.

  2. Re:Muh Russian Hackers on Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile Hillary had backing from dozens of foreign state actors, AND she actually sold Uranium to the Russians, which is worse than anything anyone has even accused Trump of.

    Oh, FFS. How many times does this have to be explained? The US Government (at least 7 different agencies, not simply SecState) approved the sale of 30% of a Canadian uranium mining company to Rosatom. No uranium is being shipped from the mines to Russia. The only result of the deal is that Rosatom makes some money from the mining operations. You Trumptards just can't seem to get your facts straight.

  3. Re:Wow! So many architectures! on Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...but no x86_64.

  4. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not asking permission, simply informing of the fact.

  5. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Also Hawaii - newly-purchased firearms must be presented to the local Police along with bill of sale/receipt. They do record serial numbers. Also, Hawaii is a "may grant" state as far as carry permits are concerned - and the local cops never grant permits without a compelling reason. Makes one feel safe walking around knowing that people you meet on the street are, most likely, not armed.

  6. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And why would I register a drone?

    If it's unregistered, you don't know I have it - so if you don't know I have it, why would I feel compelled to register it? You wouldn't know either way.

    And let me guess, you're going to charge or tax me for the privilege of registering it. Right?

    You fail.

  7. Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, register all drones. What about guns? I don't see how the 2d Amendment prohibits gun registration (it talks about the right to "keep and bear" arms, not "keep and bear anonymously"), so if everyone has to register their drones, why shouldn't they have to register their guns?

  8. It's usually the opposite - you have to get "basic digital cable" in order to get Internet service.

  9. Right. Tobacco and weed should be treated in the same way: prohibit manufacture (of cigarettes, cigars, etc.), promotion (advertising) and sale, but permit cultivation, possession and use. If you want to grow and process your own tobacco (or weed) and consume it on private property, that should be perfectly OK - but nobody should be allowed to develop a business around it.

  10. The site operator's business model is not my problem.

  11. Re:What if it was an Islamic volcano? on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.

  12. Re:Telescope Atop A Dormant Volcano on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A dormant (actually, Maunakea is classified as still active, even though it hasn't erupted for 5000+ years) volcano that already has 12 observatories on it? I'm guessing not much.

  13. Re:TERRIBLY SLANTED STORY on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. The TMT cannot be built on any of the existing sites because (a) none of them are large enough to contain the observatory's footprint and (b) they are in use. The Governor of hawaii, in order to (attempt to) appease the protestors, has decreed that 3 of the existing telescopes will be decommissioned before the TMT becomes operational, but not before it is built. The TMT is to be built on an entirely new site to the west of the summit ridge in order (partially) to not disturb the sight line of the summit from sea level. Please don't state as facts things that are not true.

  14. Anything these jerks are against... on Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser (adweek.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the advertising industry is opposed to this move, then I'm all for it. Fuck them.

  15. OK, the drawing accompanying the report could have used something other than a "camera" icon for the DVR under test, and yes, it was probably an "Anran" DVR. Having said that, Dr. Ullrich has a PhD in physics from SUNY Albany, and the SANS Institute has been a well-respected source of systems administration and network security education since the mid 90s, at least.

    I really don't understand why GP felt the need to throw shade on the producer of the report, rather than address the findings themselves, but whatever.

  16. Re:We need to go back to simplicity. on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    (don't you just love the pages that only allow you to use 1/4 of the width of your screen for content with the other 3/4 being vast empty space, and yet you have to scroll for days to find the bottom?)

    Kinda like /. lately - the content used to fill the window, but now it's all squeezed to the left and a deeply-nested comment

    winds up
    looking
    a bit
    like
    this

  17. Assange was not arrested by the US. As I recall, he was arrested by the Brits for failure to appear in court to answer the Swedish request for his return to Sweden on rape charges.

  18. Re:Simple solution on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But, the Executive Branch cannot act without governing legislation from Congress (which is what the Right kept screaming about for the entire Obama Administration, every time he promulgated an Executive Order). So, unless Congress directs DoJ to investigate voting fraud, the Executive has no authority to do anything. And the States are correctly refusing to hand over their data to some nebulous "Commission".

  19. It's just a python script. It could probably be easily tweaked to run on MacOS.

  20. Not only that, the Gyrfalcon User Manual (Page 6) says:

    1. Extract the files from the 'upload' directory in the tarball (see section 2.3.1). Both the gyr64-linux
    (or gyr32-linux) and the encrypted config file (in the example, .gfconf) are needed. The
    executable can be renamed to suit the operation.
    2. Upload the files to the target using whatever means available. Place them in the 'Working
    Directory' (as specified in the configuration).
    3. Change to the working directory and execute gyrfalcon as root:
    $ su – (if necessary)
    # cd /gyrfalcon/working/directory
    # ls -a
    . .. .gfconf gyr64-linux
    # ./gyr64-linux /dev/null
    #

    So, someone who has root access to a Linux system can get the SSH keys of any user of that system. Well, duh....

  21. Re:Simple solution on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no federal elections in the United States.
    US Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 4:
     

    1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

    So, unless Congress so authorizes (and even then it's questionable), the Executive Branch of the Federal Government has no damned business at all in getting involved with elections.

  22. Re:All just posturing on Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This, exactly. Trump has never had to answer to anyone (except maybe his father, early on) in his entire career - no Board of Directors, no shareholders. He has no idea how to "manage" an enterprise where his word is not the absolute law.

  23. BASIC on the Dartmouth Time Sharing System in 1972 (teletype machine - at least it wasn't punch cards). Then FORTRAN (that was on punch cards), followed by C, Pascal, LISP, etc...

  24. Re:Censorship made easy on Google Releases an AI Tool For Publishers To Spot and Weed Out Toxic Comments (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How about an algorithm that immediately blocks and deletes any comments referring to "cucks", "alpha males", or "SJW"?

  25. Re:Facebook use plummets during business hours on Facebook To Autoplay Videos With Sound On By Default (androidandme.com) · · Score: 1

    I know everybody likes to hate on PulseAudio, but on my work machine (CentOS 7, KDE 4.14) I have individual control for each media stream, so I just keep the one for the browser turned down - that way I can still listen to music.