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  1. If you find an USB stick somewhere - aren't you curious about the content?

  2. Still Autoplay is one of the worst features ever from a security perspective.

  3. Re: older generations already had a term for this on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not really faking it completely but a matter of code re-use.

    Code re-use is fine if you know the code, but introducing security issues if you use the wrong code.

    To write good code you need to understand the problem it shall solve. The code itself may not be efficient or use the optimal features offered but if it really solves the problem without issues from the black box perspective then you can use someone more skilled to optimize it. This is the main problem in most cases - people are either coders without knowing the business they code for or they know the business but are unable to make decent code and just produce shitty powerpoints and excel sheets. Find someone that can do both and you'd get a great boost for the company.

  4. Probably not kill on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But it may make it change into the need to access the registrar to get further information whenever needed.

  5. Re: Betty Crocker on A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    But it slowly has gotten worse the last decades.

  6. Re: Great. Now I can steer my ..... on ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have narrowed it down for Texas then.

  7. Re: Betty Crocker on A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real (chronicle.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fake people leads to fake news.

    The problem is when people don't know anymore what to trust even in well-known media.

    Even 4chan seems trustworty these days, at least you are mentally prepared for traps when accessing that site.

  8. Re: A high ride is a good thing? on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Nothing new on the suspension front since the introduction of the Citroen DS.

  9. Re: Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Which in reality causes worse consumption.

    It would be more effective to scrap the CAFE rules and put euro tax levels on the fuel.

  10. Re: Where are the sandboxes? on Drupal Warns of New Remote-Code Bug, the Second in Four Weeks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do people use php?

  11. Re: Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering that the 16:10 I have is a 1920x1200 it's better than a 16:9.

  12. Re:Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a 16:10 display for my stationary computer and it's actually a lot nicer to work on than that darn letterbox opening wide screen that a 16:9 offers. It doesn't seem like it's that much of a difference but it really is.

    It all depends on what you use the display for when it comes to what aspect ratio is best.

  13. Anything that would annoy the illegal miner is fine by me.

  14. Re:Windows or Linux servers? on 'Drupalgeddon2' Touches Off Arms Race To Mass-Exploit Powerful Web Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not really a Linux issue, it's a PHP / Drupal issue.

    PHP is as it's designed a potential security risk and any code written is "dirty" since it's hard to validate and is a mix of code, HTML and Javascript. So even a slight error in coding in PHP can lead to "interesting" side effects.

  15. It's not possible to hide if the server admin runs tools like 'rkhunter'. That's how I saw that my server was impacted.

    And in my case it was a monero miner. I did dig through the stuff in the server and found out the hashed ID of the culprit as well and mailed the monero support with that ID. Haven't heard anything about it but if they cancel the mined stuff without notifying anyone then I'm good with that too.

  16. Being a sysadmin it's your job to patch the systems to catch security issues.

  17. Re: Drupal Consultants on 'Drupalgeddon2' Touches Off Arms Race To Mass-Exploit Powerful Web Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was running drupal and got hit by a monero miner so I scrapped Drupal and php.

    I see this problem as something rooted in php.

    I did a small analysis of what had happened and the exploit created a miner executable file in /tmp that was then moved to /dev/shm and executed there by some action. It had been active for just a few hours as a non-privileged process, so no big deal.

  18. Re:But of course on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    But an AI may not be able to embrace a new realm of new business opportunities.

    Humans have the ability to take risks and even though not all risks are worth taking you have to also realize that some risks can lead to great profit and progress. If nobody was willing to take risks then we wouldn't have gone to the Moon, crossed the Atlantic or even left Africa.

  19. Or a maze of one-way streets.

    Around here they just block the street halfway down with no turning circle so you'd have to back out. But it means that locals that have to go down the block have to take the long way around.

  20. Re:EU Type protection for all users on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Targeted ads are useless anyway. People encountering them gets the ads after they already have bought an item of that type.

  21. Re:Zuck's apology tour is over, back to business on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Most likely, but it may also lead to more serious implications here where Facebook can be blocked from the EU unless they conform to the EU regulations for EU citizens.

  22. And Jobs was really a bigger asshole than Stallman.

    One point is also that by having a number of hard to solve requirements for participation you limit the number of invitations and get time over for the ones that you like.

  23. Sorry, we are all out of Norwegian Blue.

  24. Re:Key word: touch of a button on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on which country that carries out the sentence.

    Or in a prison filled with batshit crazy gangs and you can't be a member of any of them.

  25. Re:Key word: touch of a button on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Solitary confinement for life?