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  1. Re:Time to replace on Airlines Suffer Worldwide Delays After Global Booking System Fails (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...until the manager's flight is canceled, and [s]he is standing in an airport full of people in the same situation, including FAA regulators and Rand Paul.

    Then there might be sufficient motivation to refactor.

  2. If the whole system is this fragile, it will be more cost-effective to select a stronger platform and development tools, and begin redesigning it now.

    I hear that ADA works very well for building reliable software that doesn't exhibit surprises or unexpected behavior.

  3. Oracle will burn you at the stake in license fees if you use any VM other than their Xen port. A DBA's nightmare is some idiot mandating VMWare or HyperV.

    Expensive packages dictate the system. Cores get ripped out, VMs disabled, and the system is otherwise extensively corrupted to obtain the cheapest licensing configuration.

  4. Re: HepC isn't a retrovirus, though on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. Very few people ("long term non-progressors") create effective antibodies that can successfully control the infection. These new antibodies are actually tweaked and did not emerge from any person. The antibodies are manufactured and shipped for injection, and they must be refrigerated. Assuming they are human-derrived, they will last in the blood for a month. These are likely "monoclonal antibodies," and drugs that use this technique have names that usually end in -MAB. They're quite expensive.

  5. I am betting that NTRU Prime will likely be the post-quantum asymmetric winner of the NIST competition.

  6. E-521 is not weak... on Distrustful US Allies Force Spy Agency To Back Down In Encryption Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...at least, according to DJB.

    To be fair I should mention that there's one standard NIST curve using a nice prime, namely 2 ^ 521 - 1; but the sheer size of this prime makes it much slower than NIST P-256.

    I do understand, however, that it is difficult to produce an implementation of any of the NIST curves that are invulnerable to side-channel exploits.

  7. Re:Is someone paying them to be this stupid? on Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers To a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    A more likely scenario is civil damages exceeding the value of the corporation, followed by chapter 7 bankruptcy.

  8. SFWeekly is calling for all Equifax employees to be executed.

    In all seriousness, the Equifax credit freeze does not work very well, and their freeze needs to work over Experian and TransUnion (and Equifax should pay for it).

  9. Re:Sabotage on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    Boarding the pod will likely involve security. Driving up to a rural section of tube will not.

  10. Re:Your point being what? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    No, I don't think so. Even at high speed, you rarely hear of fatalities from trail derailments beyond the first 3-5 cars.

  11. Sabotage on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps a more salient question is sabotage.

    Explosive charges attached to the tube that detonated five seconds before the arrival of a pod would likely kill everyone on board.

  12. Bioavailable Serotonin on Researchers Find Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    If you would like to naturally increase your bioavailable serotonin, then the short answer is to take tryptophan supplements with niacin.

    When tryptophan passes through the digestive system, it can take one of two pathways, processing into either niacin or serotonin (and then a portion into melotonin after further processing).

    Taking niacin with tryptophan will maximize the serotonin pathway.

    However, use great caution with these supplements in the presence of an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, i.e. the main ingredient of many anti-depressants) - this combination can be fatal.

  13. Irix was a much friendlier player with Motif and made it look good and work well. As I'm still using the Irix filesystem in CentOS - there was certainly better technology in Irix than Solaris.

    And Sun really couldn't challenge anyone on the high end until Cray was forced to give them the e10k. And why was Cray forced into this? Because SGI bought them.

    Sun got SGI's table scraps. I will grant you that NFS and a number of other important technologies came from Solaris, but Irix was nothing to sneeze at.

  14. Gain? Oracle Linux ZFS is what they will gain. on Oracle Finally Decides To Stop Prolonging the Inevitable, Begins Hardware Layoffs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How long do you think it will take Red Hat to jack in ZFS once the license is compatible?

    It would probably appear as a technology preview within a week.

  15. ...is the tool that I use for Google search. I see no reason for Google to associate my account with my search history, nor should they retain my activities beyond what I explicitly permit. It is prudent to take steps to blind them.

  16. I am very glad that Bing has become so very friendly to Tor in the guise of Duck Duck Go.

    Many searches that I test between Bing and Duck Duck Go are identical, and Bing is listed as a search provider for Duck Duck Go. I do not know if Microsoft is an investor in Duck Duck Go, but it would not surprise me.

    Many harsh things could and have been said about Microsoft, but at this point they are the champions of anonymous search, and a far better corporate citizen in this regard than Google.

  17. About security? Certainly. on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Note8 With 6.3-inch Infinity Display, Dual Rear Cameras (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My Nexus 6 running LineageOS got the full August 5th security update on August 11th.

    My "gifted" Galaxy S7 is still sitting on the April update.

    I will not tolerate my vendor denying these updates to me. I will never run a Samsung phone as a daily driver again.

  18. CDMA was actually invented in Russia... on US To Review Qualcomm's Complaints About Apple iPhone Patents (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...by Dmitry Ageev:

    The technology of code-division multiple access channels has long been known. In the Soviet Union (USSR), the first work devoted to this subject was published in 1935 by Dmitry Ageev. It was shown that through the use of linear methods, there are three types of signal separation: frequency, time and compensatory. The technology of CDMA was used in 1957, when the young military radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich in Moscow made an experimental model of a wearable automatic mobile phone, called LK-1 by him, with a base station. LK-1 has a weight of 3 kg, 20–30 km operating distance, and 20–30 hours of battery life. The base station, as described by the author, could serve several customers. In 1958, Kupriyanovich made the new experimental "pocket" model of mobile phone. This phone weighed 0.5 kg. To serve more customers, Kupriyanovich proposed the device, named by him as correllator. In 1958, the USSR also started the development of the "Altai" national civil mobile phone service for cars, based on the Soviet MRT-1327 standard. The phone system weighed 11 kg (24 lb). It was placed in the trunk of the vehicles of high-ranking officials and used a standard handset in the passenger compartment. The main developers of the Altai system were VNIIS (Voronezh Science Research Institute of Communications) and GSPI (State Specialized Project Institute). In 1963 this service started in Moscow, and in 1970 Altai service was used in 30 USSR cities.

  19. ...and software too: on Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    A responsible Android OS vendor should:

    Provide five years minimum patch support, just like commercial Linux
    Supply an add-on browser based on Firefox Focus (or the Privacy Browser in F-Droid)
    The browser should integrate Tor, and be able to click into a fully-compliant Tor browser mode
    OS can run all device traffic through Tor
    OS wraps in Copperhead kernel and userspace changes
    OS includes AdAway (Google might refuse access to Play over this)

    HTC in particular is now doomed forever to second-best hardware since Samsung now fabs the Qualcomm Snapdragon and will always have first pick. HTC might be able to supplant Samsung even with inferior hardware with a supported, secured OS with extensive (Tor) privacy features.

  20. Better idea: open the source on Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Why let a product die? Put your "Vibe Pure" on Github, and let F-Droid package it for you.

  21. UNIX pre-RISC was the bottom of the barrel. on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It was, after all, designed as a stripped-down MULTICS that could run on constrained hardware.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. How can this be? on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Samsung fabs Apple A#, as well as Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM processors in addition to their own Exynos ARM. ARM processors in general are much less expensive/lower margin than x86.

    If Samsung is only making a foundry manufacturing fee on Apple and Snapdragon, how can their "operating income" be larger than Intel? Exynos can't be that profitable.

  23. So this means non-5GHz routers should be open? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    So:

    1. 1. Are non-5GHz routers still manufactured?
    2. 2. Are they still unlocked?

    My cable modem is capped at a speed that easily fits within 802.11g - I don't have/need a 5GHz-capable WiFi router.

    I need to keep running Tomato.

  24. Overheard at the FSB... on US Agency Revokes All State Discounts For Kaspersky Products (thebaltimorepost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "...they're going to use Symantec? Score!"

    https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/a...

  25. Note this is a Chinese company... on End of the Line For Remix OS as Jide Shifts Its Energy Towards the Enterprise (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    ...and Lenovo is a customer.

    Beijing Chaozhuo Co.,Ltd. - appears to be a startup and mentions an angel investor.