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  1. Re: Thanks for tuning in to /. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    It's your business when you can no longer access the information that used to be available on a website because the website's operator has run out of money to keep the information available.

  2. Re:Architecture and Design on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A fundamentally secure design might contact the server to request a unique key that merely has permissions to upload new photos to the account. It would store that key securely in the device's trusted keystore.

    What trusted keystore API is available on all major Linux distributions? Or on Windows 7?

  3. Re:Architecture and Design on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    BOTH LINUX AND FREEBSD ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAY THEY ARE NOT! THEY WERE DESIGNED WITH SECURITY AND STABILITY IN MIND FROM DAY ONE

    Then why do Linux and FreeBSD let any random process read and write all files in your user account just because the program has the executable bit turned on?

  4. Re:Or, just don't be stupid. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't download from porn sites or from untrusted sources

    How can the median user tell which sources are trustworthy?

  5. Re:Thanks for tuning in to /. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Watch other people take your advice to block ads and thereby drive the majority of websites on which you rely out of business.

  6. Re:No. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to see browser-based remote code and scripting die in a fire

    Would you prefer the overhead of running a native application in a Linux VM over the overhead of running a web application in a web browser? Or would you prefer not to be able to use a certain application at all because it is not yet ported to your device's combination of instruction set and operating system? Because those are the situations you'd end up seeing in a no-script world.

  7. A PC app can still read and write all your files on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if the os is stuppid enough to allow executables to be downloaded that way - AND - run it in administrator mode too.

    Most operating systems are "stupid enough to allow executables to be downloaded", except Apple iOS and those on game consoles. On any PC operating system, an application that you choose to download and execute will have read/write access to your entire home directory or user profile, without even elevating. This is how ransomware encrypts your files.

  8. MIT Technology Review has a paywall on United Nations Considers a Test Ban on Evolution-Warping Gene Drives (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    MIT Technology Review allows 3 page views per user per month before putting up a paywall, or 0 page views per user per month for users who use Disconnect, Firefox Tracking Protection, or any of several other privacy tools. Editors: In the future, please add "(may be paywalled)" when posting articles from technologyreview.com.

  9. How to organize a mobile "carpool" on Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I get T-Mobile in the US for $40/month with unlimited everything

    On T-Mobile's website, I'm seeing $70 for the first line, $50 for the second lines and a Netflix subscription, the third line free, and $20 for the fourth line. Your $40 per line figure is thus correct for three lines. So how would I go about finding others with whom to pool my money for a multi-line subscription?

  10. Re:Nintendo added to my boycott list on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The message that Nintendo is sending fans seems clear. Don't use, buy, play or in any other way invest your time or money in Nintendo, as their only interest is in bleeding you dry by whatever means they can.

    exactly, just bought a PS4 for my nephew and another one for me... I wasn't sure if getting a switch or a PS4 but this just help me made up my mind.

    I don't see how Sony is any better with the Connectix and Bleem lawsuits (which it lost but attorney's fees drove the defendants to bankruptcy), Geohot lawsuit (which it won), the XCP rootkit, reluctance toward cross-platform multiplayer, and the like.

    So the message that Sony sent fans seems clear. Don't use, buy, play or in any other way invest your time or money in Sony, as their only interest is in bleeding you dry by whatever means they can. (Etc., etc.)

  11. Re:Nintendo added to my boycott list on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Currently copyright is multiple generations long.

    The "three-generation principle" was allegedly established a century ago. See "The Copyright Term Red Herring" by Leo Lichtman.

  12. Re:USA has 4 carriers and 2 protocols on Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No carrier in the US uses 3G now.

    Does this imply that the coverage maps shown in carriers' advertising no longer include areas that have not been upgraded to LTE?

    (Even if so, frequency band support differences and explicit SIM issuer checks in phone firmware would remain a difference between US and European markets.)

  13. USA has 4 carriers and 2 protocols on Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The United States also has four main carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile), and numerous mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that use their networks. But US carriers also use two different 3G protocols (Verizon and Sprint on CDMA2000 and AT&T and T-Mobile on UMTS). Devices sold in a carrier's store tend to ship locked to one carrier, either explicitly through SIM issuer checks or implicitly through supported frequency bands. Devices sold in other major electronics stores (such as Best Buy) tend to have a separate section for each carrier with the phones that are locked to that carrier: these are the AT&T handsets, these are the Verizon handsets, etc. If you're with a carrier for a year, the carrier might make an unlock code available to you after interaction with a human.

  14. I get T-Mobile in the US for $40/month with unlimited everything (who still uses 3G?) with Netflix.

    Does this include unlimited use as a mobile hotspot, so that a prospective customer who owns both a phone and a PC can make room in his or her budget for this $40 per month recurring expense by canceling the fiber, cable, or DSL subscription for his or her PC?

  15. Re:Including third-party NES game publishers? on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony has been just as abusive toward George Hotz, and Microsoft is responsible for Windows 10. So which set-top gaming appliance's maker isn't abusive?

  16. Re:Including third-party NES game publishers? on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When pursuing ROM sites, Nintendo has authority to assert copyright over only its first-party games. Or what am I missing?

  17. Including third-party NES game publishers? on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Conversely, competitors now gain an extra chance.

    Does this include competitors making indie games for Nintendo's older consoles, such as Haunted: Halloween '86 (The Curse of Possum Hollow) and Micro Mages ?

  18. Music And Film Industry Associations on Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you afraid they'll mess with your online games of [...] "Mafia Syndicate game #154"?

    With Nintendo and affiliated companies bringing out new Mario and Pikachu movies, you're seeing "MAFIAA Syndicate" play out before you.

  19. Someone should start a pirate pirate site on Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is what they were going for... but it totally backfired. Pirates are fun and everyone loves them.

    I want to see a torrent site that carries only works that glorify sea piracy, such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Sid Meier's Pirates!.

  20. Re:What about let's plays and say music rights? on YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    If game developers want their games to be advertised on youtube or streams by other people playing them, they can choose to design their games to be compliant with these laws. Show those record industry copyright Mafiosi the middle finger and don't use their licensed music in your games. A lot of game developers appear to do this already. Use public domain or make your own music

    If I choose to make my own music, what can I do to protect myself from accidentally copying someone else's music into my own music?

  21. Re:Or youtube can stop stealing everyone's music on YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Or youtube can stop stealing everyone's music

    Let's say I write and record a song and use it as background music for a video that I upload. But if my song is too similar to an existing song, then I unwittingly "stole" someone else's music. What steps can a composer take to stop this "theft" from happening before the upload?

  22. That eases, but now the laptop user has to buy a cellular data subscription for the System76 laptop with which to remote into the MacBook or vice versa. That still costs hundreds of dollars per year.

  23. The viability of that bet depends on where you live, particularly how far you can see (distance to horizon), how fast storm systems move through your area, and whether your window points upwind of the prevailing surface winds. Where I live, I've seen weather change from plentiful sun to a thunderstorm in less than two hours.

  24. Re:Characteristics of winter sunlight on Better 'Nowcasting' Can Reveal What Weather is About To Hit Within 500 Meters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    #1 has described sunrise/sunset.

    The sun doesn't rise as high during winter as it does during summer.

    What is Winter Sunlight?

    To put it as short as I can: sunlight during winter, characterized by a lower sun, a shorter day, and often snow.

  25. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 1960s, Bela Balassa and Pete Samuelson proposed that if a developing country with decent labor protection starts exporting goods in large quantities, other countries' demand for its currency will reduce exchange rate disparity over time.