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  1. Re:Responsible? on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Per definition her e-mail was public record and should've been turned over to the proper archivists, they have the job of filtering out private e-mails (if any). She knew about it and when the investigation started, she destroyed the evidence. You don't use BleachBit on a live Windows server, if you've ever worked with Exchange, all e-mails are stored in binary blobs. You can't destroy 'just the bad', you have to destroy the entire system.

  2. The problem is not cost, it's the duopoly that legally restricts other companies from doing business on public property. The other issue Google has is they are operating in higher cost of living markets where there is already some competition (duopolies mean at least some competition) so prices were already relatively low and speeds relatively high and all the cable companies had to do was just put in some new numbers to match Google. If they would've gone into more higher risk markets, lower income cities with true monopolies (where TWC or Comcast is the only game in town with very old infrastructure) they would've made a bigger dent; TWC wouldn't be able to just bump up numbers if they actually had to replace the 70s copper wiring.

  3. Re:What's in a G... on AT&T Says LTE Can Still Offer Speeds Up To 1 Gbps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a standard that has set the speeds for 2G/3G/4G/5G. What providers in the US sell is really (still) 3G (20Mbps) and when your phone says 3G it's really 2G. 4G should give you ultimately 1G down/500M up.

  4. Re:Nobody is asking the right questions... on WikiLeaks Published Rape Victims' Names, Credit Cards, Medical Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But this isn't communication with your lawyer or your doctor. This is what one government tells another government about its own people as a form of exchange of intelligence (backchanneling). You can bet your buttocks that each and everyone of these "individuals' records" are there either in order to discredit a leak like this or those people have some role to play in the bigger scheme of things. These are not going to be ordinary rape victims but Prince Abdullah's rape victims, these are the medical records of an intelligence agency's agent or some local warlord.

  5. Re:Who cares? on AT&T Says LTE Can Still Offer Speeds Up To 1 Gbps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    Real servers in real datacenters have no data counters. You pay for your peering and perhaps a minimum bandwidth and a burstable bandwidth. The "cloud" and consumer data services use the metric of data transfer limits and they are purely artificial intended to milk the consumer. You can't buy a 50GB/mo line because that's just not how the hardware works, you buy a line with a bandwidth measured in Mbps and most providers will then oversell that to their customers and if they run out, they buy more lines (or upgrade the hardware). You can't just upgrade a line from 500TB/mo to 1000TB/mo simply by giving money.

  6. Re:Elect Trump for Honest Government on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Clinton has already stifles the media and wants to eliminate not just the entire bill of rights but individual states' constitutions and the Supreme Court.

    The best thing to do is for everyone to vote for one of the other two people currently on the ballot.

  7. Re:Management is the biggest vulnerability on Software Exploits Aren't Needed To Hack Most Organizations (darkreading.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of those are perfectly good questions to ask your IT department.
    - Requiring more complicated passwords does not improve security significantly as people start using simpler (to crack) passwords and writing them down (or worse putting them on a cloud-based notepad app)
    - Requiring 3 month changes is likewise going to result in simpler passwords
    - Allowing user domain accounts to have any credentials on any servers unnecessarily results in issues like having a single credential login to SSH on any server. You should only need your accounts authenticate against specific applications and do proper filtering (eg. only authenticate against cn=managers,ou=sales, not your entire LDAP tree).
    - A 2007 IBM server should be able to handle plenty of directory services. LDAP is almost as old as the Internet, it's "light weight" and a single set of servers should be able to handle thousands if not millions of queries per minute. Off course, if you're tied into a single vendor *cough*Microsoft*cough*, you should've calculated the true cost in 2007.

  8. Re:Seems stupid... on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Percentage of total child abusers:
    White 51%
    African American 25%
    Hispanic 15%
    American Indian/Alaska Natives 2%
    Asian/Pacific Islanders 1%

    Yeah, exclusively a white problem. Again, fits the demographic and other criminal curves.

  9. Re:Seems stupid... on Chicago's Experiment In Predictive Policing Isn't Working (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is that possible - if 50% of all crimes are committed by black people, less than 50% remains for each of the dozen or so other ethnic minority groups or whites in the US. Additionally 100%? Look at a map of convicted sex offenders and they're pretty evenly spread between black, white, Hispanic and other neighborhoods. Sex offenses are pretty evenly spread across populations because pretty much all men are attracted to pubescent females, it's a rather primitive reflex.

  10. Re:Intentional MITM / Reverse Proxy on How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Obviously it would.

    On the other hand, blindly trusting a single SSL chain for an entire corporate network is just as bad, you only have to compromise a single system within IT to be able to infiltrate the entire network. If you're a "customer" on the network, do you trust your central IT department to not be complete idiots?

    In smaller corporations that might not be a problem but in larger networks such as Universities and metropolitan-sized networks this quickly becomes a major problem especially when you know the network core is already co-opted by the NSA.

    So you're (slightly?) better protected against common threats at the cost of being easily compromised by a targeted attack. I personally think your network is only as protected as the weakest machine. Network security is a bit of an oxymoron, treat all devices on your network as hostile and protect them from each other, the network is just an extension of the Internet.

  11. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.thecourier.co.uk/n...

    The problem is that they are theoretically only up to 50-something% efficient and that is 'at rated wind speed' but as you know, the 'rated wind speed' is a single (constant) speed but the wind is never constant.

  12. Re:Points based systems are inherently racist. on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    And what do you think the system consists of? If the members of a collection don't have a property of being racist then the collection can't have the property of being racist. It's a nice way of making an excuse for behavior without having a valid target for blame.

  13. Re:14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE USA on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The core of the argument is sound though. It costs ~$500k to put up a 100kW wind turbine. With energy at about 12c/kWh, each hour at full power would generate only $12 and would thus break even after 5 years of full-time, full-power wind however the largest turbines catch wind only 20% of the time and are only 30-45% efficient, smaller ones even less. So you're looking at 50 years before they break even. That is off course if they never needed maintenance, these turbines are specced for 20-30years of service WITH maintenance but most of them last only half that long.

    Wind power is a loss at this point in time unless we jack the price of energy like Germany does, we need way lower costs and way higher efficiencies but for that we need rare earth magnets and the like. Solar is better (less maintenance) but it still doesn't compare to a well-maintained nuclear plant or other forms of clean energy.

  14. Re:Points based systems are inherently racist. on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 1

    The civil rights movement was about racism and segregation in public places (eg. public transportation, governments etc). It's STILL legal for non-public private business to deny you services because you're black (or more likely because you're gay which happens to be the case in some southern states) - the civil rights acts only cover privately owned places of public accommodation although some states have wider and prior definitions it wouldn't cover facilities like Facebook or Amazon.

    Yes the civil movement helped put an end to ALL businesses segregating but that was just a byproduct of public opinion, businesses that continued segregating eventually went out of business (although many churches and social clubs still exist that explicitly deny services based on race)

  15. Re:Points based systems are inherently racist. on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 2

    If you have institutional discrimination, don't support the institutions that discriminate. If a shop keeper doesn't want you to buy in his store because you're black, don't go there and tell others so they don't go there either, eventually they close shop.

    If Facebook doesn't WANT black people in their workforce and has a policy to discriminate against blacks (which would be illegal but that's besides the point), don't support them.

    Institutional racism has largely been outlawed and is otherwise untenable for any business. The problem here is that certain minorities have communities that actively denigrate STEM fields and science in general. This is done primarily by black churches and communities that rather focus on "their own" than working towards a homogenous society. Talk to ANY successful black person (Neil DeGrasse, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman...) and they ALL say how difficult it was to work against their own community to get where they wanted to be.

    If you want to say Facebook and Apple etc have a low percentage of black people or the entire business world has instituted racism, you should also be pointing out they have a low percentage of Amish, Fundamental LDS or Jehovah's Witnesses and the business world has institutional bigotry against late 19th century religions. The fact is those religious groups have an active ban against higher education, have poor integration in society and science does not align with their world view.

  16. Re:Much rejoicing... on Transfer of Internet Governance Will Go Ahead On Oct. 1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I though the transfer was away from the US Government.

  17. Re:Put the business logic in the database on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bad programming ideas: separating "business logic" from the rest of your program. Not sure what the difference is between 'business logic' and the rest of your programs that run your business but a lot of people seem to want to separate them out.
    Any database implements a turing complete language, it's generally a really bad idea to do anything there. Although to save time, I've often implemented SQL triggers and the like to do clean up that I didn't want to figure out in the program.

  18. Re:The Bubble Sort on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I always see people implementing some sort of bubble sort (often badly) in higher level languages like Java, PHP and Python. I don't understand why, there is a perfectly good sort method in most if not all languages yet every idiot programmer seems to want to reinvent it.

  19. Re:Already Have Fiber and Broadband at the curb on Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    These companies only lay cable when the tax payer pays for it. There are federal, state and local funds that pay for these wires. If you don't give those incentives, the companies won't bother. The problem is that often these companies have 40-100 year monopoly rights in exchange for increasing services defined in the 90s (what do you ever need 10Mbps to the home for) because you know that won't be abused or reneged on.

  20. Re:Holy shitballs, all the sci-fi books were right on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh, that's the sound sarcasm makes as it passes you by

  21. Re:Where is the catch? on Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Donations. If you get a really good education and you make it big, universities will hit you up for charitable donations, big donations may even get your name on a room, department or building and you get tax and other benefits such as student internships (free labor) or unique access to a hiring pool (you can pick and groom individual students that do really well for example). Places like Harvard don't really need the student to give them money, the money is just a filter, the multi-billion dollar endowments and donations to the endowments alone cover all of their expenses.

  22. Re:Holy shitballs, all the sci-fi books were right on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing stopping us from building a probe that goes that fast except for the expense (more weight) and some engineering (bigger/better shielding, more efficient rockets, bigger fuel production). We have the tech for it, we just don't have the political willpower to do it, I mean, who really wants to have a nuclear reactor going up in the air, something goes wrong and the US will be turned to dust and be inhabitable for 1000 years.

  23. Re:I don't get it. on Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    ECC does not always detect these issues. There are a number of other mitigating techniques with variable success. Whether or not this technique/exploit is useful at all in the wild is another thing.

  24. Re:Define "cloud" on Skype For Windows Phone Will Stop Working in 2017 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    After they took over Skype, they started killing the app off in favor of their "own dog food". First they killed off Linux support, now "Skype for Business" on Office 365 accounts simply links to the (horrendously inferior) Lync, an offshoot/clone of the infamous MSN Messenger. So yeah, they're integrating the Skype business from a P2P into the Lync Server. In a few years you'll once again have a Microsoft Messenger and Skype will be fully assimilated.

  25. Re:And that is why you follow the law. on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not destruction of evidence if it isn't evidence yet. It's the job of the police to do proper search and seizure, if they tip a criminal off it's their own fault.