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  1. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    You've missed. It's not about the technical definition. The "key" is the passphrase. The passphrase is pre-shared. The shared secret is the key, and that is the passphrase.

    The crypto key is what you are describing, not the pre-shared key the user uses.

    The failure to communicate isn't our misunderstanding of the technological terminology, but your inability to put the technical terminology aside and listen to others.

  2. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    MAC address filtering isn't very secure, but it's better than nothing. It's like the door chain. They are easily cut, can be kicked open easily, and don't really improve security, but it makes you feel better. Aside from brute force, the glaring hole is that someone can snoop your network and see all the valid MACs on it, even if encrypted. Then, when any of those devices are gone (like your cell phone on WiFi in range), clone the MAC of the missing device, and you are 100% in, if MAC filtering is your only authentication. At best, it will deter a casual snooper, but will only add a tiny delay to a targeted attack.

  3. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    PSK is Pre-Shared Key. The "key" in that is the passphrase. You pre-share it by putting it in both devices before you try to pair them. The PSK isn't the session key. As you say, that's generated for the session.

    And nobody was talking about what is "transmitted" so unclear what that has to do with whether the PSK you enter on the "passphrase" space on the router is a [PS]Key, or a passphrase. It's both. The terms are used interchangeably for that setting. And yes, that's confusing as "key" is used elsewhere for a different purpose. But that doesn't make your car-key not a key because it doesn't look like your house key.

  4. Re:Don't really understand. on Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware · · Score: 1

    There are no apps installed in "android". There is an android fork called TouchWiz or ColorOS that includes those apps. Why have desktop environments in Linux? After all, they can just download it themselves later, if they wanted it.

  5. Re:Don't really understand. on Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware · · Score: 1

    The same ones in the US and EU that determined that the IE pre-install was anti competitive, and consumer-harming. But the hammer coming down on MS was hailed as a good thing, but coming down on Samsung and Oppo is a bad thing?

  6. My point was that so many people were getting hung up on "use taxes are silly" without even realize they were talking about use taxes. The tax should be valid, it's valid everywhere. It should be ignored. I was born and raised in a state with use taxes. I didn't learn what a use tax was until after I had left. Neither I, nor my parents, ever paid a use tax, despite having owed one, many times.

    Chicago's move is rational. It placed a use tax on entertainment, then argued that streaming entertainment is entertainment, not a "purchase" (which would fall under a different use tax). They are 100% correct, and the move is 100% legal and consistent with existing law and rulings. It's just that Use Taxes in general are silly and ignored. They only work when the state claims a nexus and converts it to a sales tax.

  7. Personally I think 9% is outrageous. It had better come with a set of Monster network cables

    http://taxfoundation.org/blog/...

    9% is high, but not the highest. There are places with higher, and I'm not sure in that graphic whether they count hotel taxes and other such surcharges as "sales tax" and that's more like this one is aiming, as an "entertainment tax".

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

    Use taxes don't depend on the service purchased being local. Note, Texas law prevents Tesla from selling a California Tesla in Texas across state lines, as well as "use taxes" being supported in court many times.

    *BOOM* headshot..

  9. Chicago will probably say you owe, but you'd likely win in court, if you chose to fight.

  10. Netflix isn't being charged or collecting the tax (yet). This is a Use Tax, which has been ruled legal 100 times before (perhaps hyperbole, perhaps not). This just clarified the long-used Use Tax to include digital services. The customers use Chicago, so they owe.

    Or more specifically, Netflix content travels over Chicago right-of-way.

  11. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, I'd try to undo your current flamebait mod.

    People who object to racism pointed out claim there is no such thing, even when it's pointed out. The Charleston shootings weren't about race, but were about a single mentally ill person with no ties to race.

    One of the problems is that cameras are racist. The default settings work for me as a pale white person, but don't work for a dark person.

  12. Re:Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It may have only resulted in a nicer palace for Castro, but the embargo on Cuban tobacco helped make the country poor. We'll never know what they would have done with the money. The evil of the US trumped the evil of Castro.

  13. Re:Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 1

    Cuba would rather have Chinese backdoors than the US/French/Israeli backdoors.

  14. Re:Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 1, Informative

    You mean, thanks to the USA embargo, where force and threat of force to keep the smaller nation down harmed the smaller nation, and stunted its growth?

  15. Re:No on Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers · · Score: 1

    they're certainly not designing lessons, teaching classes, or exploring subjects

    Why do you know that every teacher who says they are, must be a liar?

  16. Re:Port it away from Java... on Microsoft To Launch Minecraft Education Portal For Teachers · · Score: 1

    I had a science class in 4th grade teach architecture with pencil and paper. Why would teaching it in Minecraft be any more or less valid?

  17. Re:How does that compare to desktops? on Study Suggests That HUD Tech May Actually Reduce Driving Safety · · Score: 1
    Oil pressure makes me miss my Porsche. 3 gauges for oil. Pressure, level, and temperature. Not a single idiot light that waits until after there's a major problem, and doesn't let you know about useful things like is it warm, and such. Though, my pressure gauge was broken (it read "low" almost all the time, a known problem with that year, from a newer sensor that gets gummed up).

    I did actually use the oil pressure gauge in the Mercedes today, though... I really need a new wastegate diaphragm.

    Must be a Diesel. Did Mercedes put a turbo in a non-Diesel? They seemed to only use superchargers for the AMG models.

  18. Re:How does that compare to desktops? on Study Suggests That HUD Tech May Actually Reduce Driving Safety · · Score: 1

    I had an 85 mph speedo on a car that I've had at 140 mph, and I've had a 200 mph speedo on a car that had trouble hitting 100. The joke is that cars have optimistic speedometers to make owners feel like they are faster, and they give up usability for "My speedometer goes up to 11".

  19. you seem to think that the people who are actually working on the problem are stupid.

    Nope, I just think the idiots here are idiots (not that everyone's an idiot, but the idiots are, by definition).

    So how do wash the wings right after takeoff?

    How do cars wash their headlights? How do gliders do it? How do in-flight de-icing systems work?

    THe point is some idiot asking a stupid question with 1,000,000 answers can't think of any of the answers, so he assumes the answer is hard. It isn't. Doing it cheaply, reliably, and with no weight may be harder, but those are implementation details, not big picture.

  20. There is no IoT on Stanford Starts the 'Secure Internet of Things Project' · · Score: 2

    Everyone I've seen selling IoT things have been selling "non-Internet connected network of things that we call IoT because that sounds cooler". The IoT is when the devices are connected to the Internet. Not when they are connected to a proprietary private network owned, controlled and managed by a single company, and "Internet" access is through a paywalled proxy. My home power meter is "IoT" and there is no way to access it from the Internet, directly or indirectly. Though the reports the power company pulls through their closed and private network are shared time-delayed in emails and paper reports sent out.

    Similar are the mobile-phone network IoT car-based devices, a number of which will "IoT" when back at base, through secure WiFi to a private server, with no data in the loop *ever* traveling over the Internet (unless the customer buying the solution goes out of their way to send things over a WAN, that's still not Internet connectivity, just using the Internet for a private WAN).

    The level of control around IoT at the moment prevents any IoT from working over the Internet. The IoT is when every device in your house is connected (probably IPv6, with a /56 for your personal items), and you can reach your own stuff from anywhere. When the "lock your door remotely" is app-based and locked into your Samsung phone, and Samsung home server, and lock from a short approved list that pays Samsung (sorry, the last IoT home demo I saw was one of Samsungs), that's not IoT, that's a Samsung home automation solution.

  21. Re:How does that compare to desktops? on Study Suggests That HUD Tech May Actually Reduce Driving Safety · · Score: 1

    There should be a tachometer there.

    Given that most cars are automatics, there's no need for a tach anymore.

    And the tach should be on the HUD, a bar at the top of the windscreen running from right to left that turns red at 90% of redline, and flashes at 100% of redline. The reason the tach is front and center (and big) is so that you don't have to look at it. Your peripheral vision can pick up the location with sufficient accuracy for timing shifts and such. The speedometer should be in the same spot so you can watch the road with peripheral vision while staring intently at the speedo to determine whether you are just before or just after the desired speed.

    It needs to be huge because the 0-200 mph speedos (if it's on your speedo, your car can do it, right?) have the hashes from 0-70 take up about 1/3 of the usable space (which is of about 2/3 of a circle). As bad as NMSL was, at least 0-85 MPH speedometers were useful for helping you decide if you were on the legal or illegal side of 55, without having to break out a protractor. Though, that doesn't apply to Porsche and a few others that kept the same 0-200 speedo, but didn't print numbers or hashes on the last 2/3.

  22. Re:With an advertisement for RHEL... on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    the man goes full comando and updates everything live without testing.

    That's an assumption on your part. Sure, it may be implied, but isn't confirmed. I've seen places large enough that their OS provider would test on their behalf. So he can claim "no testing" and the answer is it was tested. Well tested. I've seen it done before.

  23. Same way as many cars wash their headlights? There are piles of answers to the question. A temporary surface used for takeoff that's retracted after takeoff, removing all the bugs with it.

    I can think of 100 ways to solve this, so when people make it sound hard, that just proves they are dumb. Yes, not all are good, and at most one would be optimal, but give me a few million dollars, and I can make more headway.

  24. Re: I'm skeptical of the 5% claim on Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter · · Score: 1

    it's long, straight, and round. What level of lift does it provide? http://www.airliners.net/aviat... and other sources indicate it's trivial.

  25. Re:I'm skeptical of the 5% claim on Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter · · Score: 1

    So? If that's the only requirement, then the fuselage should be pitted, yes?