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  1. Re:Trademarks protect purchasers, not sellers on EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Quality is subjective. You can't honestly insist there be some judgemental body that eats money deciding if something is "of the same quality"

  2. Re:What is the point? on 4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I call absolute bullshit

  3. Re:What is the point? on 4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the human eye even capable of perceiving the difference between 1080p and 4k on a desktop/laptop monitor?
    Absolutely.

    I realise some people are silly enough to output their PC signal to their TVs instead of getting a dedicated box, but surely they are in the minority
    Of my world view of people I know in real life and people I know online, a majority do just that

    The DRM involved in this is absolutely despicable
    Sure it is. But it is probably a necessary caveat in contract negotiation for netflix to be allowed to stream it

  4. Re: some rules on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    "Lol". So your consumer grade router will work on a whitelist only basis, and intelligently whitelist wherever you would be connecting from when connecting to your IoT crap, while filtering malicious devices from the same location? Please.

  5. Re:Ultimate firewall on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    If someone can access a device to which it can use port knocking, you already failed. Communication should only be done on the local network. If you wish to interface with it, set up a VPN tunnel to the local network

  6. Re:some rules on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    This is bullshit and I will tell you why. Most of this crap communicates over port 80. Block port 80 and you block it all. Keep it open and it is just as exploitable as it ever was. You would need something that could inspect the contents of the traffic. However, if it can inspect the contents of the traffic, you have already failed. All communications should be done over an encrypted connection.

  7. Ginsu is for sawing, not chopping

  8. Re:C++ support would be a dream come true on Microsoft Announces Visual Studio For Mac (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Better yet on Amazon Takes Counterfeit Sellers To Court For First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Rather than litigation, start labeling sellers as counterfeiters right there on their amazon listing. Add a sort/filter feature to eliminate aggregating them or shuffle the listings to the bottom

  10. Re:I'm curious on Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I use it. I like it.

  11. Re:Getting closer to holodecks. on Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:1993 just called, they want their codec back. on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 1

    MP3's started out as MPEG1 Layer 3. When the MPEG2 Layer 3 spec was finalized, there was some stuff that made it back into the MPEG1 Layer 3 spec.

  13. Re:1993 just called, they want their codec back. on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 1

    s/the first reference implementation was at the end of 1994/the first encoder reference implementation was at the end of 1994

  14. Re:1993 just called, they want their codec back. on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 2

    The MP3 format that we know today came to light in 1995 with the finalization of MPEG-2 layer 3. AS for actual implementation, the first reference implementation was at the end of 1994, and the first player somewhere in 1995.

  15. Re:no brain at all on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the point is, there is nothing legitimate about these websites, so there is absolutely no reason to allow anything on my network to connect to them at anytime, whether accidental or otherwise

  16. Re:List of domains? on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So an AC posted above 36 Domains: https://politics.slashdot.org/...

    365lifetimenews.co.uk, allforusa.com, americafans.com, angryamericanpatriots.com, berniemyhero.com, bigbluedimension.com, bigbluevision.com, bigbluevision.org, bluevisionnews.com, bvanews.com, christiantimesnewspaper.com, conservativestate.com, daily-politics.com, hardnfasttruth.com, globalnews4u.com, helping-mothers.com, magseriesusa.com, newscenterusa.com, openmedianews.com, press24.us, politicsbreaking.com, politicsintheusa.com, politicsinusa.com, spinzon.com, theamericanrevenant.com, usconservativetoday.com, usadailyinfo.com, usafreshnews.us, usalibertynews.com, usanewsflash.com, usanewslive365.com, usapoliticsnow.com, usapoliticstoday.com, usapowernews.com, usatodaypolitics.com, worldpoliticus.com

    Google searching for at least these domains only brings up this post and a reddit post with the same 36 domains: https://www.reddit.com/r/polit...

    Buzzfeed said "Over the past year, the Macedonian town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites" and "BuzzFeed News also identified another 40 US politics domains registered by people in Veles that are no longer active"

    But the list seems nowhere to be found.

  17. List of domains? on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a list of these domains that I am not seeing? I'll happily just block all of them.

  18. How is this not wiretapping? on AT&T Is Spying on Americans For Profit, New Documents Reveal (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this not wiretapping... especially illegal wiretapping in a messload of states?

  19. Wikipedia deletes shit they deem "no one cares about"

  20. Re:Oh Boy on Researchers Predict Next-Gen Batteries Will Last 10 Times Longer (newatlas.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Things simply use less power these days. Long gone are the times you needed 2x D batteries to power a flashlight.

  21. Re:Stateful Encryption Solutions on Quantum Researchers Achieve 10-Fold Boost In Superposition Stability (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    from multiple trusted key servers hashed together

    If you are relying on trust for encryption, then you simply can never trust it

  22. Do you ever wonder what the world will look like when everyone has their own personal quantum computer?

    It will happen around the same time I can run an economical fusion reactor

  23. You were eaten by a grue

  24. Re:Can't even match Cygwin on There's Bugs In The Windows 10 Implementation of Bash (altervista.org) · · Score: 1

    Cygwin's X server actually works

  25. Re:Obviously needs to change on Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is an Environmental Travesty (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The root cause could be it is bad by design