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  1. Enforce through Public Suffix List on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Until ICANN requires those offering registrable subdomains of a domain registered in one of its gTLDs to pass the identity requirement through to their subscribers or risk getting kicked out of Mozilla's Public Suffix List and comparable lists within the ICANN-controlled .org gTLD. If your domain leaves the PSL, your subscribers won't have their cookies separated, nor will they be eligible for a healthy number of domain-validated TLS certificates from ACME CAs such as Let's Encrypt (source).

  2. Re:Voter id example? on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    In the US, the same people currently complaining about fake news sites also tend to be the ones who fight voter ID programs.

    I thought it was more of an issue that voter ID laws preferred specific forms of that supporters of one party are more likely to carry over those that the other party carries, such as firearm permits over student IDs at an accredited high school or college.

  3. Re:Where is that spam checklist when you need it on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    nothing prevents me from cheaply and easily registering a company named John Smith. And John Smith would be a corporate person.

    Except for charter laws requiring a corporate person to be named as such. Depending on the form of the company and the jurisdiction in which the legal person is domiciled, a name might have to include a term such as "Corporation", "Incorporated", "Limited", "LLC", "SpA", "AG", "GmbH", or "KK" (Kabushiki-gaisha).

  4. PGP WOT depends on the airline industry on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    How does one make a PGP public key "verifiable" without spending loads of money to fly hundreds of miles to key signing parties?

  5. A month's subscription for a single article on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    when most people would gladly pay for a video or music subscription, or even buy digital content like games, they throw a hissy fit when they hear of a news paywall.

    On Netflix or Amazon Prime, one is more likely to binge several complete series. News articles, on the other hand, are found through general-purpose web search engines or through citations shared on social media and viewed one at a time. Having to pay upwards $4 for a month of access to each of ten different sites in a day just to read only one article from each site adds up over the course of a month to a total that non-professional readers cannot afford. Settling for subscribing to only one news source locks the reader into that news source's biases and keeps the reader from fact-checking on other sources, which are (conveniently) also paywalled.

    Scripted series also have a fairly long shelf life (notwithstanding fear of water cooler spoilers), so one can switch among Netflix during one month, a different service in another month, etc. Amazon has tried to counter this by making Prime an annual commitment. News, on the other hand, goes stale fairly quickly.

  6. The last time that sort of federated paywall was tried, it was called the Adult Check platform, presumably because when people are adults, they can pay for nice things. Each subscriber paid $10 a month or so, and each participating publisher got a share of Adult Check's revenue based on its page view count. It was successful for several years until the publisher of a magazine called Perfect 10 successfully sued Adult Check for processing payments for several publishers that were using photos from Perfect 10 without permission.

  7. More potential for discriminatory discretion on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    Income is counted equally among all wage earners. Conviction for crime, on the other hand, is subject to police and prosecutorial discretion that have in the past proven prejudicial against less prestigious ethnicities.

  8. Black Friday because weekends and Christmas on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is Black Friday even a thing outside the US

    Friday and Christmas are the same across all countries using the Gregorian calendar. Black Friday is the Friday closest to 30 days before Christmas, or 31 before Boxing Day.

  9. What Linux app for iPad Pro? on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Upgrade to the iPad pro, you can get a blue tooth keyboard and the Linux app.

    Since when is there a "Linux app" for the iPad Pro? I thought the strict W^X policy of iOS made a virtual machine impossible. Or are you referring to SSH, VNC, RDP, or another remote desktop means? That requires a continuous connection to the Internet while in use. But perhaps if price is truly no problem, you can buy the 4G iPad Pro on a carrier that offers an unmetered cellular Internet plan instead of the Wi-Fi-only iPad Pro.

  10. Re:Then what's the point? on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Third, the recommendation is "how we shipped it". You don't need to document that.

    Then why did Microsoft ship PowerShell with scripts off and Edge with scripts on?

  11. The four execution policies are no scripts (default), only scripts signed by trusted publishers, only scripts created locally or signed by trusted publishers, and all scripts. But in practice, most individual developers distributing scripts to the public through GitHub aren't going to be able to afford the CA racket. Nor will they be able to simultaneously satisfy CAs' private key nondisclosure requirements and GPLv3/LGPLv3 requirements for "Installation Information". Thus most scripts distributed through popular source code repository hosts will be unsigned, and effectively everybody will end up setting the policy to unrestricted to "just make it work, G.D. it".

    So in practice, what protection does execution policy afford if most users of PCs not joined to a domain will end up setting it to unrestricted? Where if anywhere does Microsoft recommend which execution policy is appropriate for common situations?

  12. Re:phrased questionably on LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If EU members' data must be stored within the EU, and Russian members' data must be stored within Russia, what allowance does the law make for storing data about interaction between EU members and Russian members?

  13. And does it have a toolkit (TK) for making graphical interfaces to your scripts? Then it'd be TCC LE/Tk.

  14. Be a man and make an alias on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You could try making an alias that gets detailed help. Call it man.

  15. Re:I still don't want it on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You can likely take a .bat file, rename it to .ps, and have it run just fine.

    Wouldn't that try to render a page in a PostScript interpreter and then send it to the printer (or vice versa, depending on the printer model)?

  16. Re: This is a BAD idea support wise on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    not too hard to google that stuff from your cell phone with a $50/mo voice and data plan

  17. If by "anything", you mean unsigned scripts, well, sort of.

    Then how do you sign a script without paying hundreds per year to the CA racket? Last I checked, code signing had no counterpart to Let's Encrypt or even an affordable Comodo reseller like SSLS.

  18. Re:Not the worst that can happen on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Which widely used computers encrypt RAM?

  19. Re:Lots of love today... on Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither candidate for POTUS in 2016 won a majority of the popular vote.

  20. To fight Oracle on Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My first thought was that Microsoft and Google were joining to fight Oracle. If Microsoft and Google make the .NET Framework appear more open than the Java platform and less of a legal risk, Java will become deprecated in new designs. Then that's one fewer Rich American Called Larry Ellison that we have to worry about.

  21. 10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" on Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the guy who posts "M$FT"....

    Before MS-DOS, Microsoft was known for interpreters of line-numbered BASIC, where all string variable names ended with $. Someone probably just forgot the

    10 LET M$ = "MICROSO"

  22. Re:And the backup was where again? on Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you carry your external backup drive with you when you travel with your MacBook?

  23. Is there a reason that a Skylake system cannot include a second memory controller used to turn the other stick into a 16 GB swap partition?

  24. Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board

    if Apple keeps going on like this my next computer will be a self-built running Linux again.

    Do you know anyone with a self-built laptop?

  25. Re:Interesting use of the word "indiscreet" on In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is latency free. Even the original NES through a CRT TV has 2 frames (33 ms) of latency: average 0.5 frames to read your button press, 1 to process game logic and send the results as a display list to OAM, and average 0.5 to display a particular sprite depending on how far it is from the top of the screen. I think the intended claim is that the LTE Advanced air interface combined with PlayStation Now-style servers in data centers will reduce input-to-video latency for subscribers in major cities to levels that keep the experience enjoyable.