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  1. Agents? on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Are those agents that tie you down to a board with leather straps and proceed to repetitively submerge you into a vat of cold water?

  2. Re:Cox Vs RIAA on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    First /24 of the second half of NETBLK-PH-RDC-68-2-0-0. Try a traceroute to something, preferably in another country. For me, the "fun" started when the IP of the CMTS and the router after it changed to 1918/6890. No luck with tech support. Luckily the arin record does have a good deal of contacts I may write to.

  3. Re:Cox Vs RIAA on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As another Cox customer I can tell you that their recent transition to carrier NAT is a clusterfuck.

    While my CPE is being assigned an IP address that is outside of RFC 6980 space I can't complete a inbound handshake consistently, as I do receive more than one SYN/ACK on the other end or don't receive any. It works only when I have recently sent a packet with that source port.
    I also receive SYN/ACK packets from hosts I never sent SYN to. And because my router is configured to blacklist unasked inbound connections for an hour the first time, increasing it to 5 hours on repeated packet, or just outright permanently blackhole the source if it sends some nonsense as sending me SYN/ACK without me sending a SYN first, I can't open anything on the popular internet, like facebook, twitter, Netflix, news sites and such any more unless I purge my blacklist first. And it is quite unlikely that someone is trying to SYN attack popular websites and choses to spoof my IP, right at the time when they changed the last 2 upstream routers from me to have interfaces within RFC 6980 address space. My outbound SYNs now also at random times are not answered, but if repeated in a minute or two the handshake completes just fine. Before this change, my blacklist averaged around 15 temporary entries and grew with ~300 permanent entries in 6 months. Since this change, my blacklist has grown to 6000 permanent IPs within 1 week and the temporary entries average 300. I get around 20 packets per second inbound consistently without sending any outbound traffic (blocked and routing removed)

    The only way that makes any sense is if they are either incompetent and have configured their NAT and assign the same non-RFC 6980 IP address they have assigned my CPE to other CPEs of other customers and I can only speculate that they are throwing some sort of anycast in the mix there as well, but the fact is that they are misrouting/misNATting packets - I get someone else's packets every now and then, and I'm sure someone else gets some of mine. Or, that they are doing that on purpose, trying to fool me, thinking that if I see a non-special address I won't get to know that I'm NATted, and they are trying to use the same address as both the local and the global side of the NAT. And as a residential customer I can't even reach a competent technical support who can understand my compliant.

    I wish they weren't trying to hide the fact and putting in a complex setup and have just given me a plain 10. or 192.168. address, so I don't have to deal with this shit. I can live with a regular NAT upstream just fine.

  4. Re:Shouldn't have upgraded to W10 ! on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the IT staff most likely don't have a scrotum you insensitive clod. Why aren't they getting their fair share of hanging.

  5. Re:Macbook does have skylake, TFA is baloney on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A cat will sit on my lap without difficulty, it doesn't mean the cat is a laptop.
    When you have to pack 17 days worth of clothing and a laptop in a proper size carry on bag, then you will see why 15.6" does not qualify as a laptop.

  6. Re:Don't buy a Mac for Specs. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Meaning way less, compared to other fashion/status symbol brands.

  7. Re:Don't buy a Mac for Specs. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All you say is right for desktop chips, an you are giving the multiplier unlocked version as examples, but for laptops you don't get those. There just isn't such a clear cut benefit in the mobile processors, which is what I was comparing. Apple has other strategies than TDP reduction to increase battery life - sadly doing those non-removable plate batteries, but still results are ok.
    They don't care any more if they are the best performing machines, haven't cares since they entered the Chinese market as a fashion/status symbol. And for that they work ok, and are way overpriced compared to an LV or MK bag.

  8. Re:so once again... on New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Revocation isn't a fantasy. All of the US government will beg to disagree with HSPD-12 and CACs.


    You are right about negligible discernible benefit to average users, because the browsers, in their infinite wisdom and dick measuring are shipping root and intermediate CAs trust certificates by the truckload.
    You are really wrong about the delay being unnecessary - it is necessary for security, but you are right, the average luser is "gimme, gimme, gimme", even there is a label on something that it is hacked and leaking, they will still install it themselves just for that one entitlement stoking function.
    You are doing it wrong if it is single point of failure. There are many ways to do it right, at the expense of couple of more delays and a sane checker. The one built in Windows or the browsers, isn't .

  9. Re:That's the problem. It's internet, Windows thin on Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you know.. go to any Starbucks, label your machine "free movies" or make a battery powered hotspot with a captive portal page that sends them to the cifs share and start collecting hashes.

  10. Re:so once again... on New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Doing it by domains is wrong. That's why hosts don't work, that's why uBlock doesn't work in all cases. You should have a master operator console on the interpreter, inside all that DOM shite, and be able to confirm execution of each script separately, even those that is inline in the original HTML.

    But.... browsers are in a disk measuring contest on how fast (convenient) they can load a page, so the average joe (luser) says "Whoa.. this browser is fast".. For fucks sake, there is an idiot at Chrome who disabled certificate revocation checking, because going and fetching CRLs and OCSP and actually making the check costs about 200ms per host that is in the page. The did provide some small CRLs for few big CAs, inside the browser itself, but if you wanted any sort of checking for those they didn't you actually had to go and make changes into chrome://settings/. It might have changed later on, but that was the time I dropped that stupid browser.

    It's just time to drop all HTML/web stuff by the side of the road, let the dog piss on it, leave and never look back. But... there are money to be made....

  11. Re:so once again... on New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Usenet and IRC work really fine without JavaScript. Native apps (e.g. on mobile) too, though that's another beehive.

  12. Re:Don't buy a Mac for Specs. on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I would touch skylake only with a 2 meter pole. That skylake that takes pictures all the time and sends them to Microsoft. I stop at Broadwell, in 8 years I'll switch to AMD or whoever is playing on the market. Or go back to pen and paper. Skylake is a pest, and since I'll stick with Windows 8.1 until it is supported and Windows server 2012 R2, and never go to 10, no skylake.. As for the Mac OS.. they fucked up the memory management in 10.7 and later, though at least on UI side 10.9 is the last usable one. Yosemite is leaking memory like crazy, El Capitan can't work with 24h time... Who the hell removes the zero hour and replaces it with 24th.. According to the new apple, the day starts at 1 after midnight and continues till 1 after midnight on the next day.. Not to mention the UI is completely fucked up. It almost seems like Apple and MS held meeting together on how to fuck up their OSes to a level of something Chrome OS like, so they can also push everything else to the cloud. The current versions of those GUIs are so fucked up, that I feel better on TTYs on the console or terminals running in Window Maker, and that also helps me keep away for the shite browsers have all become with HTML5 and javascript.
    There is almost no meaningful improvement in performance between Ivy Bridge and Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake parts. You may be getting slightly better performance for a somewhat lower TDP, but it is not like you are getting even 30% increase especially on the mobile processors. Real world performance on stuff like x264 tends to greatly disagree with synthetic benchmarks that show 2x, 3x performance increase. In reality if you get 10%-15% you are lucky. And for 10%-15% it is hardly worth it to throw out good systems and buy new ones.

  13. Re:Macbook does have skylake, TFA is baloney on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    15.6" is not a laptop form factor. Even 14" that is not 4:3 is not a laptop form factor. For a real laptop it has to be the size of A4/Letter sheet of paper and no larger, only thicker.

  14. Re:a way for schools to charge more? on Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, really is that the easiest method? The way I was though at school. It is basically the same in reverse order of magnitude. Far less additions

    36.5 x 192 = 7008.0
    73*0*
    328*5*|0
    365|00
    -----------
    70080, rewind decimal point by one place The star indicates carryover to the left, and the pipe indicates zeros added for alignment.

  15. Re: Old news on Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, uBlock origin can stop it. And to the ghost lurking around here - no, this is one of the things hosts have no chance to stop ever. I've been contemplating for a while to privoxy my traffic and return random values for battery, canvas, fonts and other fingerprints just for kicks.

  16. No, but my cat can certainly enjoy it, if it is a video of flies and other small little critters. Her eyes are much better than mine.
    On the other hand I need to look carefully how much stipend I can give her.

  17. Re:Space Balls: The re-re-release on Japan Starts 8K TV Broadcasts In Time For Rio Olympics (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Cameras these days are 25Mpix.

  18. Re:"Sleeping with amber-tinted glasses..." on Can Blocking Blue Light Help Bipolar Disorder As Well as Sleep Issues? (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what kind of eyes you have people.
    Anything above 3200K in artificial lighting looks unnatural color cast to me. I know daylight is supposed to be somewhere between 5000K and 5800K, yet, for me to see the same way in noon sun as I see in artificial light, I need the artificial light to be around 2700K (if led/fluorescent, and then it I see flickering and banding) or around 3200K (if tungsten/halogen), otherwise I see much more blue cast that noon sun, which bothers me like hell. On the other hand, 6500K on a monitor looks kind of poopy (I have no other way to explain that particular shade of brown) tint on the white color and I do prefer monitors closer to 6800K.

    I do get to wake when the sun is below the horizon, so while there is blue light in there somewhere, there is definitely an orange/reddish tint to the light I see on the walls that wakes me up.

    And I can't even stand blue light on its own.

  19. Why is this considered a jailbreak (a good thing) and not lauded as a remote code execution vulnerability that it actually is. If one web page can execute code, that means another web page can execute different code, installing a backdoor to your network, etc.

  20. Re:1 seat 2 pilots on Solar Impulse 2 Plane Takes Off From Egypt On Final Leg Of World Tour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So in other words you are saying while pilot A was flying the plane, pilot B was stored in a place where sun doesn't shine ... I mean inside an aluminum cylinder.

  21. The 960 is power inefficient as hell

  22. Re:So basically... on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    Almost and exactly should never appear in the same sentence qualifying one another. Ever!

  23. While it is true that in 2005 I had a phone capable of doing something line 280kbps tops, or whatever the multichannel GPRS topped at, I had two connections at home, one of which was 24/7 256kbps (50% guaranteed, always achievable in practice), and came with 45 or 50 catv channels, for something like $17/mo, and a secondary connection over copper LAN that provided 100mbps in country peering traffic and 25mbps international traffic with 30 simultaneous TCP sessions limit (shared but in practice 98% achievable) on pay by the hour basis. 10 hours were $6.

    That was somewhere in Europe.

    2005 was just the time when fat pipes across the ocean and DWDM was installed an masse at carrier networks and CAT5 copper became cheap enough to pull to residential.

  24. It's probably somewhere in a SCCM and for whatever reason they count each start of the installer as a new instance. It is not uncommon to reimage less trusted machined each night, if not after each user uses them. - Deploy image, push all software via SCCM, done.

  25. This too. A mobile phone can be a preferred but not a primary communication device. It is a secondary device to a wired analog phone line (POTS)