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  1. Re:Finally on Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit In Windows 10 Redstone (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    NTFS doesn't have a 260 character limit, it is 32k. The limitation is in windows itself and seems to be another one of those limits kept purely for backward compatibility where a shitton of apps can't handle long paths.

  2. Re:Worry about your own country on Stephen Hawking Calls Trump A 'Demagogue' Who Appeals 'To The Lowest Common Denominator' (go.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is Trump is going to be a huge negative for everyone. You can't drag the US into the Shitter without at least putting everyone else that is joined at the hip in with the turds he wants to swim in.

  3. teaching a kid to be a con artist, while probably fits in quite well with the real world, is a pretty sad state of parenting.

  4. All the SEC COULD do was warn people. Madoff was not running a listed company, it was a private fund and he was rather smart in ensuring he wasn't actually trading on the market and hence the SEC had no authority over him. Basically he was simply running a big con, The SEC warned people it could not be legitimate as he simply wasn't engaged in the market to actually make the returns he was claiming but as it is out of the market they regulate and watch over they had no authority to do anything but warn.

  5. firstly hedging isn't exactly selling short. Hedging is protecting a position of stock you actually own (completely legal), basically it is insurance. selling short is an entirely different kettle of fish. I would imagine selling short would breach all sorts of laws around financial responsibilities of a CEO and if the SEC didn't get him every shareholder would have an open and shut case for civil damages.

  6. The difference is if an analytics group make market predictions or announcements with the intention of taking market advantage of the reaction they will end up in a shit ton of trouble with the SEC. Same with a CEO, if he shorts a stock based on insider information he will go to jail. The SEC is not in the least bit lenient on these things

  7. Re:all growed up now on Anonymous Hackers Turned Stock Analysts Are Targeting US, Chinese Corporations (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the inherent risk. Their ethical radars are somewhat wonky to say the least, how long before they use the tactic of releasing false information about a company they dislike simply to crash their share price or worse abuse it to make a small fortune themselves. If they stick to the truth fine, but I just don't see them not being tempted to abuse trust.

  8. Re:It's still a nice victory on Android Is 'Fair Use' As Google Beats Oracle In $9 Billion Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that the jury instructions are dense and difficult to understand and that the Jury came back so quickly I think probably gives Oracle pretty reasonable grounds to appeal and have that appeal taken seriously.

  9. Re:Hang on on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't want them dictating what you can do then don't use there cloud services for fucks sake,. They are there services they can do as they wish, you on the other hand get the choice, you don't like strong security policies for online services then use one of the competitors.

  10. Re:LOLWUT on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No it is someone with an Anti-MS agenda that doesn't care his argument is idiotic, as long as it goes against what MS is doing.

  11. delusion submitter? on Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "This case yet again proves why "Web ransomware" will never work because even the worst Web hosting service provides automatic backups from where they could retrieve a clean version of their site."

    WTF, the writer of this post lives in a delusional bubble. Most sites don't have backup's, backups cost money. Ransomware exists because it is extremely successful, it only has to work on 1 in a hundred or 1 in a thousand to make it profitable.

  12. carnival is the cheap alternative when you can't afford a real cruise, consider it the backpacking of cruises. much lower staff to passenger ratios, less space, lower quality services and amenities.

  13. Re:the article is bullshit and FUD on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    yep, still it is doing a lot more than just transporting from A- B there is also almost as many sta. It powers all the cooking, facilities, amenities, cooling, lighting, heating etc etc. The comparison needs to be between how much a normal person consumes and emits per day not how much they would emit driving that distance.

  14. Re:I hate bad journalism like this... on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    1377 gallons per hour PER ENGINE. regardless his maths is wrong, but so is yours (at least you used the wrong numbers

  15. Re:It's protectionism on Microsoft Finds Legal Path To Launch Minecraft In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The US also practises protectionism in many markets with tariffs and subsidies. Including many current cases which are before the WTO.

  16. seems dumb on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 2

    The biggest risk is from someone accidently releasing it from unknown/unmanaged sources or from an intentional release for malicious purposes, in either case destroying what you know about doesn't help. You never know what the future may bring, perhaps smallpox will be the source of a vaccine for an as yet unknown variant. If we can't possibly keep it safely stored then we are fucked anyway as there are a shitload more deadly diseases that we haven't fully eradicated yet that we also need to store to do research on.

  17. Re:People don't need supersonic anymore... on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    be careful what American airline companies often call first class is everyone elses business class.

  18. Re:It's amazing on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    there are around 50 million flights per year. If you think we can build rockets and spacecraft that have a failure rate that is better than the current aircraft failure rate even with the billions spent on each flight you have a fuck load more confidence in them then I do.

  19. Re:Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Planes have broken up or crashed midflight many times for reasons other than bombs or missiles. catastrophic structural, electrical or weather or just plain old pilot error (e.g. when the tail was torn off flight 587 a few years ago because the pilot was too aggressive in his corrections for turbulence)

  20. why is this news on Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Many companies have been stitching photos together to make a single larger high resolution photo for a long time and by the looks of it many of them do a better job as well.

  21. Re:Malware Korean bank heist attack Bangladesh fra on Malware Bank Attacks May Be Linked To Sony Pictures Hack (blogspot.fr) · · Score: 1

    So how does that solve user X typing into a terminal that Fake Person A just opened an Account and transferred X Dollars in or deposited Y dollars in or has requested a transfer of Z dollars. Those systems ONLY provide the audit trail, they do nothing to prevent the actual fraud as until you know the people are not real or the real deposits never happened it is based on trust of those entering it into the system.

  22. Re:Malware Korean bank heist attack Bangladesh fra on Malware Bank Attacks May Be Linked To Sony Pictures Hack (blogspot.fr) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At some point you are at the mercy of those running the system. Operating System is irrelevant, it is the programs, the auditing and alerting that run on the system. Given how many people have been caught over the last hundred years doing similar scams from inside banks with fake accounts etc (and who knows how many more that got away with it or were hushed up) this is a people and processes problem in that as it was an insider with all the access, they needed to catch it faster as in the end it is near impossible to completely prevent an insider from abusing trust.

  23. north korea not really believable on Malware Bank Attacks May Be Linked To Sony Pictures Hack (blogspot.fr) · · Score: 1

    The FBI blaming the North Korean's always looked like at best a political motivated finger pointing of "we can't find who really did it but North Korea are currently pissing us off so lets blame them."

  24. Re:You can't ban an idea on The Pirate Bay Loses Its Main Domain Name In Court Battle (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    pretty sure your wrong.

  25. Re:You can't ban an idea on The Pirate Bay Loses Its Main Domain Name In Court Battle (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are 196 countries in the world and even more domain suffixes than that. The Pirate bay has had mirrors for a long time, one is even linked in the summary. They can also change the name as often as they like, simple posts to a forum will spread the word of the new domain name within hours (like what currently happens)