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  1. Re:How did they go through all those emails? on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They wrote a program that eliminated duplicates so they just altered a Hello World program to say: no new emails found.

    The interesting thing is that Podesta has more incriminating emails in his Inbox that aren't even fully released yet than Clinton and her direct aides supposedly do combined. Even a cursory look over 30,000 emails by a team of 100 agents would take longer than 2 weeks, hell, millions of people pouring over the ones Podesta had revealed only the major criminal activity so far, there are so many nuggets in there if you just search for the major players (such as the interplay between the AG and the Clintons) that a single headline per day would take well over two presidential elections to finish.

  2. Re:This stuff drives me nuts on User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    When someone can read your passwords of your disk, the point of encryption is already moot.
    A) FTP is typically plain text anyway so you could just wireshark it
    B) you can replace the binaries and have them emailed any time they are entered
    C) you can install a keylogger

    This "user" could've just as easy encrypted his entire hard drive or user directory. Still wouldn't have helped though.

    I would seriously reconsider taking a "secure" anything from anyone that can't bother to think their own security through.

  3. Re:Neat that it's possible, but insignificant on A New Process Turns Sewage Into Crude Oil (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's almost half a percentage and it takes care of the sewage problem. It seems the process is simple enough that having one near a large city might be both useful and cheap, perhaps even farms could find it useful. Hopefully we can eventually get off crude for all our energy needs and all sorts of biodiesels might make up where oils are still necessary.

  4. Winning strategy found on Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Zergling rush kekeke.

    Not sure how you can defend against an AI that can simultaneously and individually control 200 units. Kind of like the mutalisk and pathing in SC1, SC2 is broken in many ways where it's easy for an AI to win simply by brute force and having superhuman unit control. Even Koreans and other high level players make many mistakes in optimization and strategy and simply make up by being physically faster than their opponent.

  5. Re:POWAR TO THE PEOPLE! on UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval (aljazeera.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    How does the constitution demand the overturning of an election (eg. Gore v. Bush)? ObamaCare has been tested in a partisan courts with 4-5 rulings according to party lines.

    The entire government is controlled by politicians that are bought and paid for by other interests, even the judiciary, which does not allow for any fair and honest review of our laws. Just look at the DMCA, DHS and infinite copyright extensions for instance, it's clearly unconstitutional yet it hasn't been overturned.

  6. Re:Black hat hackers kill on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Some people are criminals, what else is new? If only people weren't thieves, I wouldn't need locks on my door. Computer virus propagation on corporate networks is simple negligence, there is no reason after nearly 40 years of viruses that an entire system can be brought down with a simple criminal act.

    This is similar to someone cuttting the power or water supply to a hospital and for some reason we have thought about and funded all THOSE failure modes but lo and behold the magic computing devices, they have never been able to operate without a complicated desktop windowing system, a system that directly connects all of them to a bidirectional sewage system AND a skeleton key the entire world owns.

  7. Re:Maybe they shouldn't be using the largest... on Computer Virus Attack Forces Hospitals To Cancel Operations, Shut Down Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do work in the business, we run my department completely on Mac and Linux, not only that but we have almost no proprietary software. All of our core software is open source with only a few things like certain visualization software that isn't.

    The problem isn't choice, the problem is nobody cares that your hospital is a billion dollars over budget, government and insurance will pay for it. Another symptom is the "head count problem", a CIO is successful if it can reduce the amount of people working for it and as such it's liability.

    The reason everything is shifting to being outsourced is liability, if a contractor or a vendor screws up, the hospital doesn't have to notify anyone and the contracting company (a glorified shell company) in worst case can just change it's name or cease operations, even better if your local laws don't apply to the contractor. Either way, nobody is held responsible or embarrassed.

  8. Re:How many fueling accidents have there been? One on SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Soyuz T-10-1, Vostok-2M, Falcon 9, Nedelin disaster, VLS-3 and STS-1 were all major explosions, sometimes killing people on the ground during fueling or other preparations.

  9. Re:pre-existing on Google Joins Mozilla and Apple In Distrusting WoSign and StartCom Certificates (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's complicated. They're basically whitelisting all StartCom certificates before a certain issue date. However, WoSign silently took over StartCom and started sharing infrastructure and keys for about a year. When Mozilla investigated them for backdating weak certificates, they split up the operations again trying to 'fix' the situation and fired WoSign's CEO.

    Since they were sharing infrastructure for about a year and it's not sure how many certificates were backdated a browser can't be sure when WoSign's key(s) and StartCom's key(s) were used to sign the certificate and whether or not it was backdated.

    So they can't "trust all pre-existing certificates" but they can trust certain ones (the ones they are sure were definitely issued and signed by StartCom before they were taken over).

  10. Re:Release it sooner? on Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Are Exploiting Newly Discovered Flaw In Windows OS (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It must not be all that important if it can wait another week. According the Clinton campaign, Microsoft is aiding the Russians and they are to blame for Hillary putting classified e-mails on servers, Exchange should've known that a C in subject lines are for Classified information.

  11. Re:What do you call a russian Manchurian candidate on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    An op-ed based on a Twitter picture of supposedly an edited word document?

  12. Re:What do you call a russian Manchurian candidate on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Citation please on the modifying. Wikileaks is one of the few true old-style journalist organizations.

    If anything, Clinton is big business' Manchurian Candidate. At best Trump will be "George W. Bush II", I don't see him completing much of anything which may be a good thing for a change. The wall won't be built even if he wanted to WJC and GWB already tried it, at best it will create some jobs in a small Texas town and that will be the height of it's success. ObamaCare will collapse with or without him. Hillary will be investigated and exonerated regardless (since an investigation requires Congress, not a President) and I'm not sure what the rest of his platform is, if he even has any.

    The Middle East will continue being a mess, with a little bit of luck, he's incompetent enough after all, Russia will continue to expand their control in the region with as much success and damage to their own image as the repeated US invasions in the region caused. The Korea's will continue to be at war and 'the bomb' and any of their efforts will continue to be a 'success' in NK media alone.

  13. Re:This kind of story requires far reaching access on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    The story also says that they couldn't ping the server but a particular server in Russia and a few elsewhere in the US could. ICMP traffic isn't broadcasted nor 'passively monitored'.

    DNS is cached aggressively at most if not all gateway routers, sure you can aggregate some (anonymous) data about DNS requests but this talks about an internal machine frequently requesting a particular DNS address with specific time periods. At best, you can say a particular NETWORK requested a DNS address a few times per day (whenever the TTL expires). They are pinpointing it to minutes of the day.

    They knew this particular server handled a 'small load of traffic'. Again, you can't "see" how much traffic a server handles without either controlling it or control ALL points it traverses outside of it.

  14. This kind of story requires far reaching access on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 0

    The way it is described, these 'computer scientists' would require full access (as in being able to copy entire ports) to a whole swath of routers in and out of the offices (and it would be hard to believe a large organization has just one connection to the net) and/or far reaching access to US and Russian-based servers such as the DNS servers they use as well as the means to trick any caching DNS servers to continue requesting new domain information (setting TTLs to very small numbers).

    Either this is a very confabulated story or someone at an NSA-level agency is talking.

  15. According to the summary this only seemed to matter with Uber and not with Lyft. If you see such discrepancies you start to wonder about methodology and sample size.

  16. Sign up for a seller account, sell items and check of the box "let Amazon handle the sale". You ship it to their warehouse, they sell it, obviously the fees are quite a bit higher that way and they do have some restrictions/limitations.

  17. Re:Except on Family Sues Amazon After Counterfeit Hoverboard Catches Fire, Destroys Home (wtsp.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends on who is on the bill of sale. If I see "Amazon.com" on my credit card statement, Amazon sold it to me. In Craigslist case, CL is not selling anything through their site, they're just listing. E-Bay is a bidding site that also makes it clear who you are actually purchasing from but depending on how they handle the sales, E-Bay COULD be on the hook. Amazon will handle all sales for sellers including warehousing and shipping, Amazon is a store just as much as Wal-Mart is.

  18. Re:My district dumpstered the surplus computers on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't sound too surprising here is the logic:
    - Computers are purchased on a grant and/or lease. When the lease/grant is over, the computers have zero value. They should thus be destroyed since any usage after that would be considered value and is not permitted by the grant and/or taxable and/or give money to the bank.

    - You get big grants (or discounts) from Microsoft/Google/Lego to teach "their" stuff. It doesn't really add up to a discount since Lego Education is roughly 5x more expensive than regular Lego's ($300 for a small 100 piece Duplo kit). There is most likely a no competition clause in your contract with them. Same for office supplies, computers etc. we have a contract with Dell, Apple, Staples, a local furniture company etc. Apple is the only company that actually gives a discount, all the others crank their prices up.

    You think that Microsoft/Gates/Facebook is actually interested in getting people interested in computers? No, they just want to teach kids how "their" ecosystem works, so they become productive line workers.

  19. Re:All I want to know on Microsoft Offers $650 To MacBook Users Who Switch To A Surface Tablet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you haven't worked with O365 then. It takes away the pain of running your own Exchange server as well as all logging and troubleshooting capabilities and when you talk to MS, they just say that's the way it is intended:
    Global limit of 3 IMAP connections to the service: as intended
    All your users are on the same (overloaded) server: as intended
    Sent/Draft folder not syncing between devices: as intended
    Syncing your folders from IMAP to O365 fails after a few hours: as intended
    Your UI changes every month: that's intended too
    I can't get to the log files: that's intended
    I still have to run Exchange and Windows Server on premise so it can sync mailbox attributes: that's intended

  20. What idiot would fall for this? on Microsoft Offers $650 To MacBook Users Who Switch To A Surface Tablet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's trade a nice $2500 laptop for a $600 paperweight. Even 5 year old MBPs have higher resale value and have way better performance than their product and they're not even offering that much for it.

  21. Re:Why do you need more than 16GB? on New MacBook Pros Max Out At 16GB RAM Due To Battery Life Concerns (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, not much. Swapping out to PCIe is plenty fast. The main reason would be longevity of the hardware. If you can prop in 32GB now, you don't have to update 5 years from now. I see people with 7-10 year old MacBook Pros upgraded with memory (more than the max specified) and SSD and they still work plenty fast.

  22. Re:Vote-flipping Evidence on Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying if I'm in the process of robbing a store and see the clerk pocketing some of the cash, I can come clean about the robbery and won't be prosecuted since I saw a crime while committing a crime?

  23. Re:Vote-flipping Evidence on Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you still committed a crime and could be prosecuted for that so it prevents anyone from effectively presenting the evidence since it was illegally obtained.

    The difference between a cop and a citizen obtaining evidence illegally is that one goes to jail for doing it and the other doesn't, I leave it to you to figure out which one.

  24. Re: because Photoshop doesn't exist on Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' (msnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have such 'friends', perhaps you should find other ones. If I want to show everyone I voted for Mickey Mouse, then so be it, that's my right to say so and even offer 'proof' of it. It's also legal for me to publish that I voted, then get another ballot and vote for something else or never turn in the ballot or vote for multiple people. And if someone can pressure you into voting, perhaps it's better that you don't vote.

    It should also be legal for me to record that I vote for a certain person and then the machine changes it (as is happening all over the place). THAT'S the primary reason these laws are effected, so you can't prove voting machine shenanigans.

  25. Re:Souther Spain was ALREADY a desert in the 80s on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to comment the same. If you ever get to visit Spain (especially the south), it's very similar to Nevada. It's a huge desert.