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  1. Re:Whats the issue? on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you serious? We're talking about legal residents who where prohibited, overnight, to enter the country without any other justification than a whim from Trump. No changed jobs, expired visas, incorrect documentation or lack of vetoes were part of the equation.

    The sad part is that the ban seems to be in place only because those 7 countries are mostly Muslim. None of them were involved on any kind of terrorist activity on US soil while other countries which were, notably Saudi Arabia and Turkey, are inexplicably left out of the executive action signed last Friday.

  2. Amazing how much he fucked up in just 10 days on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, ban legal, visa-holder residents for 90 days? Was he expecting that not to turn into a shitshow?

    This is what happens when you let Bannon write foreign policy.

  3. Re:Can someone explain in laymans terms how.... on Scientists Finally Turn Hydrogen Into a Metal, Ending a 80-Year Quest (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Metallic hydrogen is been theorized to be a room temperature superconductor. It's yet to see if we'll ever have a practical application for it, given how hard it is to make it happen in the first place, but interesting nevertheless.

  4. The photo on that article! on Scientists Finally Turn Hydrogen Into a Metal, Ending a 80-Year Quest (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the best thing ever happened to me. Love you, Ars Technica.

  5. Re:Higher measurement on New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The best facts. Tremendous. It's true.

  6. Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not release any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds, and social media content.

    It is easy to get confused by that writing if, you know, understand English.

  7. Re: The article suggests only 1.8 on Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting In April (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This. For a "write once, run anywhere" Java is horribly dependent on VM version and host OS. I've honestly code more portable in Perl than Java.

  8. There're plenty of well paid IT jobs without Java. Fully agree with your recommendation of keeping up to date on new languages though.

  9. Can't believe Java ever allowed MD5 to begin with on Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting In April (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever since Dobbertin found a hash collision in 1996 RSA labs themselves were already recommending alternatives such as SHA-1. This was just around the time Java 1.0 was released.

  10. Re:The Lava Pixel v1 looks quite interesting. on Low-Cost Android One Phones Coming To The US, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, that's a lot of phone for the price. Wish it was available in the rest of the world...

  11. The Lava Pixel v1 looks quite interesting. on Low-Cost Android One Phones Coming To The US, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it seems impossible to buy it on either the US nor Europe. Any ideas on the pricing?

  12. Re:Fake news != Flawed news on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The law says that a player cheats when they "alter the elements of chance, method of selection or criteria which determine:

    (a) The result of a game;
    (b) The amount or frequency of payment in a game;
    (c) The value of a wagering instrument; or
    (d) The value of a wagering credit."

    My point is, they did not. They did not surreptitiously switched the shuffler nor the deck of cards; they openly asked about it and the casino agreed to the terms.

  13. Re:Fake news != Flawed news on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess a lawyer could make a decent case out of it. Technically the casino altered "the elements of chance, method of selection or criteria" for the game, not the players.

  14. Re:Fake news != Flawed news on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's abundantly clear that the players did all of this with the intent to trick the casino. They didn't do it out of some superstitious belief that it would help them win. They did it knowing it would help them win. And that's not allowed.

    Why not? The casino agreed to do it.

  15. Oh, he's the best. A huge ass kisser. Tremendous!

  16. He can't. That's the real story here.

  17. Re:This should be the only comment on Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No. There's nothing worth hacking because it was a cheap, political personal site. Exactly what's expected of a guy with zero IT background.

  18. p>"Thus historian Vincent J. Cannato concluded in September 2006, "With time, Giuliani's legacy will be based on more than just 9/11. He left a city immeasurably better off — safer, more prosperous, more confident — than the one he had inherited eight years earlier, even with the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center at its heart. Debates about his accomplishments will continue, but the significance of his mayoralty is hard to deny."

    You might be correct, in that Giuliani was not hired because of competence, but you are completely incorrect implying that Giuliani is wholly without competance.

    I did not imply anything. I was very clear: Giuliani might or might not have been a good governor, but he has zero competence in cyber security and computers in general.

    I do work on IT and security. That does not qualify me to design a bridge.

  19. Not really a big deal. on Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Robert Graham explained it succinctly: http://blog.erratasec.com/2017... .

    The real story here is that Giuliani is now a goddamn cybersecurity advisor, not that this personal site is crap. The guy was hired not because of competence but because he spent the entire campaign kissing Trump's ass.

  20. Sorry, but that sounds like utter bull. Took me two minutes to search several (more reputable) sources debunking your claim, but Snopes has a very good explanation: http://www.snopes.com/california-motor-voter-act/.

  21. I'm not American, so bear with me here.

    I kept hearing about "millions of illegal voters" in CA, even from Trump himself. How is this even possible? Don't you need to register before you can even get to a voting booth?

  22. I hope he stays afloat.

  23. Re:512TB of address space means nothing on AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 512 Terabytes of Memory Address Space (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:512TB of address space means nothing on AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 512 Terabytes of Memory Address Space (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    512TB, sorry.