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  1. Re: In other words on No One's Bidding on The Shadow Brokers' Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone that have an interest in such tools already have them - or better alternatives.

  2. Re:GPL vs BSD-etc. on Ask Slashdot: Should An Open Source Hardware Project Support Clones? · · Score: 2

    And the chinese clone everything, doesn't matter if it's open source or not.

  3. Re:First of many on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The difference compared to systemd is that 'init' is small and have little overhead.

    Systemd is trying to fix stuff that isn't broken.

  4. Re:First of many on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Considering the overhead that Microsoft has added these days in their later OSes for their "telemetry" I don't see any problems to create a more secure architecture kernel even on x86. Of course it wouldn't be as fast as a kernel not having to work with protection boundaries.

  5. Re:First of many on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Now you got me worried, that may be a huge problem for public transportation.

  6. Re:Doctor Doctor Give Me The News on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 3, Informative

    SystemD a black box that have a lot of features that's hard to understand unless you dig through the source code trying to trace down why it doesn't do what you want and why it doesn't tell you anything about what's wrong.

  7. Re:Doctor Doctor Give Me The News on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    My pet peeve is the stating "nothing but".

  8. Re:The author has a certain level of understanding on The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    That's too long for some systems used where I work where the length has to be exactly 8 characters and not contain any "special" characters in order to allow the passwords to work also on some oddball systems.

  9. Re:Too big to comply on WhatsApp Won't Comply With India's Order To Delete User Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering that many corporations have outsourced their support (customer and internal IT) to India it's a very risky thing to annoy the government of India because they can decide to cut all network communication and then a lot of major corporations will hit the crapper.

  10. Re:Who said what? on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling the Pepe frog a hate symbol just makes it one. The reality is that it's just a stupid drawing.

  11. Block rules in firewall on Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    Block all IoT devices in the firewall from external communication.

    If they don't work you have purchased an insecure device.

  12. Re:How do you know? on Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it needs to connect to a subscription service outside your home it has the potential to become part of a bot net.

    Can you trust your thermostat to not browse your files?

  13. Re:www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    The hosts file is already circumvented by Microsoft.

    If you really want to solve this then it's to force Microsoft to change every IP address they are associated with.

  14. Re:In other words.. on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And this is what's most worrying, we don't really know what's in "Telemetry", and I have a feeling that it's going to be a problem.

    And we can't figure out which part of a future monolithic patch that actually causes the system to behave bad, some patches aren't even possible to uninstall without a lot of hard work.

  15. And we will see new problems instead.

    But ISPs seems to delay the introduction of IPv6 a lot, which sucks.

  16. Unfortunately it's not that easy, the target should be the ones building the botnets - make it a capital crime.

  17. Re:Incoming liberal asspain on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between the republican party representatives and the voters. I was referring to the representatives and party leadership.

  18. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At least given what we know today. But loopholes have been found before in other stuff that was thought impossible to break.

  19. Re:You'd think someone as smart as Hawking ... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And if we aren't alone but we are the first ones that have achieved a technological civilization? Is that also terrifying? Maybe, because then we might have the potential to repeat our history of colonization.

  20. Re:You'd think someone as smart as Hawking ... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the radiation passes out into space over the horizon, so Earth is certainly visible, even if it at a distance only is detectable as a noise level change.

    The limit of many TV transmitters are caused by the fact that Earth is round, and only direct wave is considered. A lot of the radiation at higher frequencies slips out into space except when you have a phenomenon called tropo ducting where VHF and sometimes UHF can travel great distances along the surface of the Earth.

    Then we can always argue that one reason why we haven't seen aliens is because we scare them - the same way colorful animals usually are dangerous we radiate a lot and we are pretty aggressive when you look at us. For an amusing read on that matter I'd suggest Pandora's Planet.

  21. Re:Incoming liberal asspain on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And maybe what both parties need to get out of the trench warfare that they currently have as well.

    He's not really a good alternative, but neither is Hillary. The difference is that Trump don't have many followers from either party while Hillary has a lot of Democrat followers and a few Republican.

    Both have a luggage of questionable actions throughout history but the stuff Hillary has seems to stink worst when you dig. Trump luggage is what you expect from a person in his position.

  22. Re:Lenovo is at fault, not MS (per the article) on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But it should be possible to turn off that crap in BIOS/UEFI.

  23. Re:Return it as defective. on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 0

    Things like that has a tendency to attract gunfire.

  24. Re:Two words. on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Such clauses need to be tried in court as well - a lot of EULAs aren't worth the paper they are written on.

    Was the EULA provided before purchase?

  25. Re:The Beginning of their Downward Spiral on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because for some darn reason the printer driver defaults to the US Letter format instead of the ISO A4 format that most of the world outside the US uses.