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  1. Re:Idiots. on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Less than a minute to patch.

    Considerably longer to ensure that anything that might have been taken (like their certificates' private keys) is nullified.

  2. Re:Honest? on Canada Halts Online Tax Returns In Wake of Heartbleed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Testing does back up the bank's claims. RBC, CIBC, TD, Scotia, BMO, CWB, PCF, Tangerine, all of them show as unaffected on Filippo's tester.

  3. Re:In a cochlear implant users own words: on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 1

    Was that loss from birth or did it develop later? Rush lost his hearing when he was in his 50s, probably as a result of his Oxycotin abuse. If yours was the former, that might explain your better results.

  4. Re:The internet of things...that might get you kil on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    today we spend a bunch of money on new stuff that duplicates the functionality of old stuff. recently I spent $15 on an LED bulb and $15 on a dimmer lamp socket so I could have a dimmable lamp, something we had with the first electric lamps 100 years ago, and something we've had with oil lamps for 300 years.

    And the new stuff does the same thing while needing about 1/5th as much power as the old stuff.

  5. Re:It will have a better field of view on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    Or cars designed by stupid people where it isn't physically possible to adjust the mirror far enough to eliminate the blind spot.

  6. Re:Voltage != Power on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Realistically, how many amps is thing thing going to allow?

    They're saying 5A at 20V.

    Realistically, I wish the USB-C connector could start at 5 volts but negotiate to 12 volts to offset voltage drop.

    That's mostly what it's going to do. It starts at 5V, and negotiates up to 12V or 20V.

    Here's the whole presentation - https://intel.activeevents.com...

  7. Re:Voltage != Power on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 2

    That's in the presentation.

    The voltage will be negotiable up to 12V or 20V, but the default will remain at 5V. With the right cable, you'll be able to move up to 5A at 20V. They're calling it "USB Power Delivery".

  8. Re:Why not just cool the blood? on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    I suspect that the low temperatures would make the blood too viscous to flow properly.

  9. Re:Transaction Fees Change on Researchers Find Problems With Rules of Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Informative

    The minimum fee set by default on the client the Bitcoin Foundation maintains (Now called "Bitcoin-core") was changed.

    Any other clients or anyone who feels like doing their own compiling can set the minimum fee to anything they like, including 0, but there's no guarantee their transaction will ever get included in a block if they set it very small.

  10. Re:The Slippery Slope on Level 3 Wants To Make Peering a Net Neutrality Issue · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Comcast want to be able to offer Netflix to its users?

    Of course not. They want to offer their overpriced video-on-demand/PPV service without having any pesky competition.

  11. Re:MAC filtering and PSK on WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MAC filtering does nothing useful. You're shouting your MAC from the rooftops any time you're connected to the network, so cloning it is exercise in triviality for any attacker with an IQ greater than their hat size.

  12. Re:Blocking sites by accidents isn't the issue. on Some Sites That Blue Coat Blocks Under "Pornography" · · Score: 1

    Bluecoat "features" SSL MITM bullshit.

  13. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    I don't find it that surprising. It's basically Abrahamic 2.0/2.1 vs. Abrahamic 3.0

  14. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1
  15. Must've been playing Simcity on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    Expect some complaints from the Below-Average Bowlers League over this.

  16. Re:One of the penalties on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 1

    This is Australia. Mandatory voting means not participating requires a bit of effort.

  17. Re:So it seemed simple at first... on EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    So can they make two standards, USB2 micro and USB3 micro?

    The USB 3.0 microUSB port is fully backwards compatible with the USB 2.0 microUSB port.

  18. Re:Hold on... on EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger · · Score: 3, Informative

    The "other jack" is a USB 3.0 microUSB port. It's backwards compatible with the USB 2.0 microUSB port.

  19. Re:How much of this is caused by antivax supporter on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    This doesn't make sense, the childeren that are vaccinated shouldn't be influenced by the children that are. Otherwise why vaccinate at all if it's not even effective stopping you from getting it.

    1. Not everyone can be vaccinated. Persons with immune system conditions, allergies, etc.
    2. Not everyone is ready for vaccination. MMR, for example, can't be given until 12 months.
    3. Vaccines aren't 100% effective. There's always a small percentage who simply fail to acquire immunity.

  20. Re:Educated guess on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    The Presidential limo isn't military. It is diesel though (Duramax 6.6L V8, same engine as a Chevrolet Kodiak), so you'd just fill it with JP8.

  21. Re:It's GM? on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    The Presidential limo has been a (completely custom) Cadillac since Clinton took office. Bush 1 was the last president who used a Lincoln, which was originally Reagan's, who used 3 different cars (2 Lincolns and a Cadillac).

  22. Re:Stick to GOLD on Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gold is not hard currency. That term really should really only apply to diamonds.

  23. Re:What about Infrared light? on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thermal emissions from body heat are a fair ways into the IR range, around 8000-15000nm. For reference, human vision peters out around 700nm. I believe it's only possible to detect that with specialized sensory organs, such as pit viper's eponymous thermal pits.

  24. Re: Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    Continuous monitoring makes it easier to manufacture a plausible source of the falsified evidence.

  25. Re: Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    Honesty schmonesty. Deny, deny, deny is what Ford did, until the actual video was basically on the national news, then, and only then, did he admit to anything.