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  1. Re:Judge tells man to lick own elbow on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one way for Apple to make sure they continue being in business. "Yes your honor, we have calculated we can do this in 500 million years, to do so, please have the government mandate our business' existence for said period of time"

  2. Re:Try all combinations on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They are ALL set so 10 failed passwords wipe the phones (although it would take you 2 hours to do so as it progressively time locks). You can't just hack an Apple iPhone like you do an Android; they have designed a very good security chip and to circumvent it would require insane amounts of engineering.

  3. Re:Cam shafts work without the battery on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    That really depends. Most 'japanese' brands (Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi) have interference designs. For Ford and GM vehicles it really depends on the engine, they have some interference, some non-interference.

  4. Re:Who handles their IT? on Hackers Demand $3.6 Million From Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It actually isn't all that bad for most systems, the worst part of it is that hospitals always tend to 'buy' solutions from "vendors" (aka sales people) in the healthcare space and they manage to screw every single rule, contract and regulation up. HIPAA isn't actually all that bad, it's relatively easy to conform to and consists mainly of out of best practices, the problem is when the FDA gets involved and says you can't update your machine without another round of approval. At that point, you can see why Windows XP, Solaris and old Linux (2.2) are still being ran everywhere.

  5. Re:Restore from backup on Hackers Demand $3.6 Million From Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why you make sure you have an up-to-date image and use an OS that doesn't default to open.

  6. Re:It's good to be an elite on At X, Failure Is Not an Option: It's a Feature (Astro Teller's 2016 TED Talk) (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with firing everyone that makes a mistake is that you create a culture that just goes with IBM/Microsoft/contractor because you can just shift the blame. You spend insane amounts of money without actually innovating or doing anything that progresses your company. In the end your company goes bust because it can't compete with entities that are more agile and are innovators in their market.

  7. Re:The UBI ignores human nature on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    My SO while pregnant was eligible for a "limited" amount of food stamps every month (because her income was too high for full benefits and I make more than double the minimum wage (that's the limit before you stop being eligible)).
    WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SPEND IT ON. We still have cereal, peanut butter and cans of food from that period, not the cheap value stuff either, Kellogg's brand stuff (because that's the only brands you are allowed to spend it on).

    We ate with a family of 2 adult + 2 kids off 1 person's "limited" food stamps with only supplements of meats/fish and "luxury" foods. We practically had most of the fresh fruit/veggies, all basic breakfast and lunch foods (breads, cereals, toppings) as well as drinks (milk and juices) the only things we really had to buy was dinners and speciality foods. I have no idea how a family with 2 sets of food stamps can spend it all or go hungry, we got with our "limited" about $4-500/month in food and an additional $200 to spend at "farmer's markets", sure that's not enough for a family of 4 but that's pretty close and it could be done if you're thrifty.

    And yes, you could potentially 'pay' under-the-table with those checks, although it's highly illegal, nobody checked the identity when we paid or you could give some foods you don't regularly eat away (2 jars of peanut butter every 2 weeks is a bit over the top, luckily those keep forever).

    So between that, financial assistance, unemployment, transportation and employment assistance (yes, they will pay for taxi/bus to get someone to a 'job'), medicare/medicaid and housing assistance, you will notice we already have a Universal Basic Income. Sure you have to jump through some hoops to get it all in order (holy hell, the amount of paperwork alone is worth a small forest) but if you use your head, you could definitely do it and many people already do it.

  8. Re: Capable of Supporting 1000 times its own mass? on New Shape-Shifting Polymer Holds 1,000 Times Its Own Mass - Watch Out Plastic Man! (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Per square inch? Typically these forces are measured over a specific area otherwise, with sufficient material I could make any statement hold true - wet paper will hold thousands of pounds too if you spread the material out enough.

  9. Re: Shifting the workload onto other people? on Best Way To Mine Bitcoins - Allow Errors! · · Score: 2

    Because that would defeat the whole purpose of this method. This method only works faster by simply offloading the actual checking (recalculating the hash) onto the network (which has to do it anyway but now you've increased the workload on the network with a ton of false positives).

  10. Re:Make IT a real profession on Hertz Is Pulling a Disney · · Score: 2

    a) You haven't been to a hospital recently. I randomly googled lists of doctors' names: http://www.healthgrades.com/ho... It is hard for foreign doctors to get accredited though, often they will have to take courses for US-specific stuff.
    b) Many people don't like life-event specialists that aren't 'similar' to themselves. Therefore, a lot of doctors etc. will remain natives. IT professionals are considered to be the plumbers of electronics, not the doctors.

    You're right though, this is very short term thinking. Even though it may save them some money short term, it will pack out to be way more expensive once anything actually needs to be done but by then the cost-cutters will be long gone or they may actually be called in again to 'fix' it.

  11. Re:Nothing? on Hertz Is Pulling a Disney · · Score: 1

    The 50k is what is reported, the 5M in renovations on their private island doesn't show up.

  12. Re:What's wrong with your cell phone? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    Well, in real life, most Androids get a half day of work regardless of the battery you put in it due to a number of continuous background "stuff" that happens and each app doing it's own thing ignoring any central preference. iPhone's in my experience don't have that problem. Google's suggestion (that self-admittedly don't apply to all devices) is to "force apps to shut down", iPhone apps usage of background resources is extremely limited.

  13. From what I understand, the diary as published wasn't written by Anne but by her father largely/loosely based on her diary. Her father subsequently published "Anne Frank's Diary" years later with the Anne part being mostly emotional marketing. It wasn't "Diary" authored by Anne Frank; it was "Anne Frank's Diary" by Otto Frank. He also re-published editions a few times as necessary to extend copyrights or refresh the market; real diaries don't have multiple editions.

  14. What's wrong with your cell phone? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    Get a more reliable cell phone (either a simple feature-phone or iPhone), a car and extra desk chargers. You should only need those extra chargers if you're like me and you forget to charge your phone 2-3 days in a row or you're actually continuously (10h+) dialed in on the phone. There is also a low power mode on iOS which can be manually turned on and disables all non-essential features.

    Not sure how you manage to have a phone with less than a half day of life. Paying for a pager and having your customers learn how to use it is ludicrous, even if it's a voicemail, most people will refuse to 'talk to a machine' regardless.

  15. Re: But they're not white, so it's OK on Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    SJW are just another form of religious extremists and religious extremists in general don't criticize each other for being extremist. You can't convert one extremist into another, so you leave them alone and convert those on the edges of what is acceptable and normal in societies.

  16. Re:Keep mouth shut. Get another job. on Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues · · Score: 1

    Most companies are engaged in criminal behavior at some point in some form. Whether it be ducking the IRS on technicalities or shorting their HIPAA/PCI/... compliance, it is almost impossible to be engaged in business in the US and not run afoul of some sort of idiotic law or regularity and there are always the asshats that will point them out and hold their ground. Those asshats are unemployable once they get their 15 minutes of fame.

  17. Re:don't believe his lies on FBI Gripes "We Can't Read Everyone's Secrets" (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it actually works if you have hours of time to do it. There is a progressive time lockout. So after 3 attempts, you get 1 minute timeout, this gets progressively worse as after 8 and 9 attempts it's an hour per attempt so you'll spend ~2-3 hours on the process.

  18. Re:Can it boot without a blob yet? on Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it can. EFI/BIOS is relatively 'known' and open source implementations are available. If you don't care about microinstruction fixes which get loaded later in boot (but I think they are not considered binary blobs), you could probably get a working computer with a little bit of effort.

  19. Re:don't believe his lies on FBI Gripes "We Can't Read Everyone's Secrets" (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The way the chips works, it isn't really that simple. The PIN unlocks a larger cryptographic hash. If you enter 10 wrong pins, the chip deletes it's "memory" of this hash.

    The crypto-chip and the key verification are one unit, any form of tampering (opening the device, removing the chip/power etc) could probably trigger a wipe as well. I think the only way of doing it (if there are no tamper controls), would be to use perhaps an electron microscope and remove layer by layer of the chip until you can read out the actual memory bit by bit. That is something a nation-state can do for very high profile cases (when stealing a president's phone for example) but it's cost prohibitive for anything else or to do it en masse. And as soon as such an attack gets used, chip makers would probably find ways to get around that as well.

  20. Re:Read the article, people on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If both were drunk, aren't they both guilty of sexual misconduct? Legally, they would both be rapists; when you give someone the "privilege" of being accountable for their own actions, these things go away pretty quickly.

    Either way, it's not up to other researchers/scientists to investigate this kind of crap, go to the police and/or sue if you think you were raped.

  21. Re: This crap again? on The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If someone's drunk you may not even be permitted to let them go. If someone is visibly incapable of going anywhere safely, then you can confine them until they either get better or get medical attention.

  22. Re: How accurate is this? on Hearthstone Cheats and Tools Spiked With Malware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, you only get a small bit of gold after every 3 games won and you can't earn more than 100 gold/day (on top of quests). Besides getting to the 'golden' hero there is very little financial incentive to go with the bots, just play the damn game for an hour/day and you'll get all the gold you need.

  23. Re: The downside on Google Display Ads Going All-HTML, Will Ban Flash In 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Almost every browser allows you to control auto-play. The benefit of plain HTML is that it's just a regexp to filter out auto play from videos rather than flash which puts you at the behest of Adobe to whatever they think is best for you OR you completely disable the plugin.

  24. Re: BREIN are complicit on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    BREIN is a government-sponsored shake down.

    They have collected on music royalties, even for songs that never signed onto a label or labels connected to them but never pay out.

    It is quite literally a single man organization (1 office) that produced some anti piracy ads and manages to spend millions of euros per year.

  25. Re: Batteries just don't store enough energy... on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they still do that? I know back in the day that was a big issue as buildings were developed around cheap airport-vicinity spaces.