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  1. Re:A friend was recently sucked in by one on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That reeks of scam, either intentional or by sheer fact of delusion on the part of the people doing the offering.

  2. Re:Crypto currencies are not ICOs on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    On the whole I agree with you.
    I accept bitcoin as payments, but I will not hold them, nor do I try to pay with them. I just cash out for either Dollars or Euro, depending on what I need at the time.

  3. Re: apples new face unlock will make it easy! on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    which is what I do in high risk environments.
    but I am looking for a security / risk trade-off that makes the fingerprint reader slightly less of a vulnerability.

    But I do agree with the premise, that if you really care about the device security you should be using a PIN / passcode that will remain secure.

    My wishlist:
    register finger(s) for instalock, and if you bounce that finger on the reader 5 times it initiates secure erase.

  4. Re: apples new face unlock will make it easy! on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    nah, needs to be whatever hand usually grabs phone. If it's usually in your right pocket you want to be able to trigger panic as you're pulling it out of your pocket.

    That or a setting for "After n failed attempts require PIN" setting, then set n == 1 or 2 and just use a finger that isn't programmed.

  5. Re:apples new face unlock will make it easy! on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    no different than print unlocks. You can be compelled to give your print (face) so just turn it off.

    What I wish is that there was a stock way to program a panic print, such that you enter that print and the phone locks requiring a PIN to unlock. Set your middle finger to be the panic print and when you pull your phone out of your pocket near a risk situation just touch the sensor on the way out. A distinct vibrate could let you know it took.

  6. Re:Garbage in.... on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm game...
    Mike from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" comes to mind. I could give random garbage men trillion dollar paychecks.

  7. Re:Profs using public terminals and No surprise he on Student Expelled After Using Hardware Keylogger to Hack School, Change Grades (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    or with U2F being so easy these days (Authy, Google Authenticator, Yubikey, etc. or even SMS if needs be) why not require it on sensitive portions of the system.

  8. indeed.

  9. nope, and he fits the stereotype of "stupid greedy crims get collared".
    what we didn't hear about is the other student that changed all his grades up by one point. He's passing now, and no one bats an eye because it doesn't stand out.

  10. Re: Ice or water deposits on Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It would just take longer and more vaporised regolith. Some glass will adhere to the sides of the fissure, then eventually it will build up. There is, of course, a breach size that above which is impractical to seal with vapor deposition, and I would assume it to be anything over a decimeter or so.

    I should also add that once a seal is achieved there should be an overpressure test of at least 5x working pressure.

  11. ^^Thank you, this is a correct statement.

    And to GP Post, yes I did mean far side (and possibly too much Pink Floyd, but I will neither confirm or deny that).

  12. Aerocebo style on dark side maybe.
    Always shielded from earth's EM noise is a hell of a plus.

  13. What precisely would humans do there?

    Science, and build catapults to hurl rocks at the earth ala "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

    In seriousness though, science and redundancy to the human species if the colony can be made fully self supporting... though repatriation to the earth might be impossible for any generation not undergoing prep for it from near birth.

  14. Re: Ice or water deposits on Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sealing it isn't all that hard.
    Install primary bulkhead mounts and temporary face.
    Vaporise regolith into a vapor of (mostly) glass and use that to pressurize the interior.
    By default the escaping gas will condense and create a glass fill of all cracks.

    Not hard, but not low energy either.
    Optionally use inert gas to charge the space while aerosolizing some type of epoxy, but that will be more material intensive.

  15. This.
    Set conservative default for the majority of users:
    95% by single js page for over 60 sec.
    in about:config allow the thresholds to be set.
    Also allow whitelisting of sites.

  16. Re:Ad company defends business model on Google Engineers Explore Ways To Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    yup.
    I could see a cookie that turned mining on and off for a site that would be legitimate:
    Hey help fund the site you have three options:
    * buy a sub and we'll hide all ads and mining operations
    * show ads and don't mine
    * mine BTC and don't show ads

    Default to showing ads and have a link for selecting what the user wants to do.

  17. Re:Employers do that? on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    I did the same. My base pay was only 3/5 of my total compensation.

  18. Re:Simple fix on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My ex did a paper as part of her masters about sex workers. A surprising percentage of private room bookings did not involve a sex act so much as a counseling session. These girls were discreet and honestly cheaper than a shrink.

  19. Re:Article is too long, superefluous on T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a fair amount of experience etc. with this. Like I said, not 100% and as to being sly there are two MOs:
    1) like you said, sly, spread out, not searching blocks of numbers
    2) crash and grab, dump as much as fast as possible before getting caught.

    If they recognised the value and wanted to get at the data as long as possible, then yes #1 is how they'd go, and reviewing the logs wouldn't be all that reliable.

  20. Re:Article is too long, superefluous on T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking they looked back in access logs and didn't see any sequential or high rate queries. While that's not even remotely 100% it is a decent indicator of not having been majorly exploited.

  21. Re: Just virtue signaling on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    From TFC(ite):

    A local Facebook forum also had numerous comments about the situation, including questions of whether it was appropriate for chefs to cook ethnic food that wasn’t from their ancestry, such as a Korean chef running a sushi joint, since the cuisine is Japanese;

    AAAAhhhhhh hahahahahaha
    So by that logic fire all the mexicans that work as short order cooks *everywhere* because Denny's and the ilk aren't mexican food??
    Also, did all those SJW's have an issue when it was an Irish Pub? "Cloud Davidson" does not sound like that Irish of a name, in fact Cloud is French:

    The name Claud is a French baby name. In French the meaning of the name Claud is: From the Roman clan name Claudius, derived from the latin meaning lame. F: Claudette, Claudia, Claudine.

    I think he should have kept it open, you don't like me? then don't eat and drink here! But likely would have killed his business, as from what I've seen SJWs can get rather nasty.

  22. Re:I think it has promise on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I fully expect that they know a general rule of thumb for always needed supplies and such, but I was thinking more from the aspect that while they're gearing up to go, there can be less or unskilled people dropped in with the recording and Tx gear then the final loadout could be adjusted based on what's seen to be needed.

    Obviously I am not a member of an ERT that deals with such things, and I am blessed that my part of the world is relatively boring from a geologic and atmospheric perspective; but aside from the obvious: throw money to the NGOs, what can tech do to compliment and assist? I think this was a good idea, and even if my initial thought isn't ideal, how about putting the glasses on the politicians so they can see immersively that funds for relief are needed?

  23. I think it has promise on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real cool part was lost because the message delivery felt like a PR stunt using devastation in PR.

    What this really is good for:
    Using Oculus like this is a way that professional relief planners and project managers can determine optimum load-out of emergency supplies before leaving the warehouse location, when it's much easier to add/remove/change the loadout on short notice.

    There's nothing quite like *seeing* the environment. back-pack street-view cameras on dirt bikes comes to mind...

  24. Re:Mondays are the worst if you make them that way on Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of talented unemployed people who’s sense of entitlement is preventing them from being productive citizens.

    I see you've met my ex... 6 degrees (all 4.0)... finally got a part time job at HD after I was laid off and she couldn't mooch as much in support anymore.

  25. Re:Mondays are the worst if you make them that way on Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that's a fair point.

    However there is a distinct difference between what you experience and something soul crushing. My epiphany moment was sitting in a dental chair, getting an emergency root canal, with an infection bad enough that there was no way to numb it short of either knocking me out (and I had no insurance so...) or "direct infiltration of lidocaine" into the tooth as he was drilling.

    Drill - ouch - pause, insert needle - *OUCH* - wait repeat.
    It was absolutely horrific and I would have said or done anything to make it stop...
    But I was able to console myself with "At least I'm not at work".

    Holy fuckballs Batman! that was a flash of light sky opens moment of just how miserable I was. I found another job that would get me by while I looked for a better job, then quit.
    I have made a point to enjoy my work environment ever since, being willing to leave on a moment's notice if and when the environment was not to my overall liking.