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  1. Re: FirstNet (AT&T) Provides Priority Access on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably do but nobody knowledgeable got involved with their IT planning. Even on throttled networks I wonder what consumes so much data that responses are delayed. You can do streaming voice over as little as 8kBps and data over less.

  2. Re:Review copies on People Keep Trying To Scam Their Way Into Free Video Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes time to modify your games for that purpose. With modern game development being a point-and-click thing with few really good programmers, modifying your game leads to all sorts of trouble. For maybe 5-12 reviews these games actually get it’s not really worth it.

    Large houses will often trim to only the “best parts” of the game. Hence many YouTube and modern reviewers (such as the late TotalBiscuit) will either deride or ignore trimmed versions.

    The best thing is that people noticed about a decade ago that these scams and piracy often help the small developer through word of mouth and exposure. People bitching about piracy are often poor (as in bad) game developers like EA and Ubisoft.

  3. Re:The only problem here I see... on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    No they don’t. Plenty of JS and Android based TI emulators. Give a student a $25 Android with a locked down environment.

  4. Re:The only problem here I see... on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    Textbooks and educators often teach solely TI ways of programming the calculators. Whether an exam allows others is largely irrelevant at that point.

  5. Dude, those configurations are recommended on current gear (IOS 15)

  6. Re: Don't no-show on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    What law? Discrimination has to be pretty overt to qualify for a legal case.

  7. Re: This suggests a serious weakness. on New VORACLE Attack Can Recover HTTP Data From Some VPN Connections (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hence why in encryption, we typically pad the data stream to a fixed size regardless of input packet size. Yes, this kind of undermines the practicality of weaker (fast) compression but itâ(TM)s more secure. These kinds of attacks have been known about for quite a while and standard test questions in any encryption course.

  8. Misses the point of NFS on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NFS is unencrypted exactly because of the overhead it brings and the fact that within a small network the risk is relatively small to non-existent.

    NFS has a number of assumptions that WAN links don't provide (eg stability). Use a different protocol if you want security and stability over WAN.

  9. Re: Climate has never stayed constant on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Itâ(TM)s not about getting through, most do believe that there is a problem. The solution space however is less defined. Short of killing off a lot of people there is not much of a permanent solution. Technology is helping us, although a lot of extremists want us to go back to 80% of the population farming (which would bring back the feudal systems).

    Other solutions are leftist âtake everything from everyone and let the government do its thingâ(TM) (aka communism/Marxism) which if you havenâ(TM)t figured it out yet is always going to end up worse except for the people killing parts, we cannot trust the government do to the right thing and do it efficiently.

    So is there an economically sound policy that would help? So far we havenâ(TM)t found it yet. It must be a solution that is cheaper (for it to be more energy efficient). Short of taking away regulations to make more and cheaper nuclear power there isnâ(TM)t much.

  10. Re: Meanwhile on Analysts Say We Are Headed For a Flash Memory Price Crash (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard drives have reached a density plateau. 12TB is pretty common these days but reading/writing 12TB at 10MB/s is ludicrously slow. I am currently deploying 6TB because itâ(TM)s the closest rebuild times come to acceptable (24-48h). Having a RAID6 rebuild in 3-5 days is too risky.

  11. Working with vendors insisting on Cisco gear: outdated protocols (MD5, RC4 and 56-bit DES is standard if you want to use the âaccelerationâ(TM) module.

  12. You can only demand what the value of the gold was at time of theft + any interest or other benefits it would’ve brought you until the time you got it back + some punitive damages.

    Only if you can prove you were selling it at the point of all-time high (I had an armored truck on standby and instructions with my accountant) can you recover any of that value.

  13. Re:Sounds great on Putting Stickers On Your Laptop is Probably a Bad Security Idea (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is that "people shooting at police" is generally not the guy walking with his holster on his hip.

  14. Re:Sounds great on Putting Stickers On Your Laptop is Probably a Bad Security Idea (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually second-amendmenters have it a lot easier dealing with police and similar (at least in the US) since they tend to be a lot more respectful and straightforward about their weapons than others. Also, most of the police/military forces agree with expressing at least your second constitutional right (not so much the first one).

  15. Wait, this was a mystery? on Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been able to snap spaghetti in two for ages, parents of small children around the world have known for ages. I didn't even know it was a problem.

  16. Re:New Works for Me on Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how the first sale doctrine works though. You can resell what you purchased and any rights conferred on you (any remaining warranty etc) come along with that purchase.

    Car dealers like to pull that trick. Selling you a 5 year drivetrain warranty when your CPO has 7-8 years remaining on the manufacturer's warranty.

    New or used though, a company cannot impose its will on dealers it does not have a direct contract with. It is legal to sell product and resell it in any condition you wish, with or without markup. I don't see this going too far.

  17. Re: Crows Will Cheat on Theme Park Deploys Trained Crows To Collect Litter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Europe has all that and still a huge littering problem. The US has none of it and comparatively little littering problems. You will also see that cities that have problems with littering follows a certain ideology.

    In the area I currently live, we have signs saying: "Litter: $500 fine" (and in some areas like wildlife areas $1500) and they are enforced. In the city nearby, the fines are $100, the leftist mayor says those laws "target minorities" and littering is a huge problem.

    In large cities they are often not enforced but they can be ridiculously low like Chicago ($50), San Francisco ($100) and Detroit ($165).

  18. Re:Crows Will Cheat on Theme Park Deploys Trained Crows To Collect Litter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's what I thought too. The crows will eventually learn that small rocks and sticks will trigger the system.

  19. Re: Rural broadband problems on FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is that we've been paying the providers all those added taxes and fees that do not actually get collected by the government but go into funds for the ISP to buildout rural areas but nobody enforced this. Spectrum promised a lot of states when Charter and TWC merged that they would take their newfound profits and invest in building out unserved and underserved areas and thus far they haven't built out 100M to a single community that didn't already have it.

  20. Everything 99.9 Mbps and under is already considered underserved. Hence why NY is telling Spectrum to get out of the state.

  21. Not sure if you noticed but conquests have been going on by US and Russia.

    Just because they are resolved more by small forces doesn't mean it's not a conquest. You don't have to conscript millions of people to fight a war anymore, a few thousand (Russia, US, China and Israel all have done this multiple times in the past century) can kill multiples of thousands, disrupt an economy and take over an entire country.

  22. Re:Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with the fact that it's sensationalism but if they're native to a place, they tend to have predators. You're close enough to Australia to know what invasive species can do without effective predation or natural controls.

    The best thing though since they're "cloning" themselves, is that the variation in the species will be low and you can target genes relatively easy in order to kill them.

  23. Re:One very expensive scarecrow on Engineers Teach a Drone To Herd Birds Away From Airports Autonomously (techxplore.com) · · Score: 1

    When used properly and if they're not fully stationary (and often moved so they're not part of the landscape), they do keep most birds away.

  24. Re:Post the source code on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Storage space on-die is going to be limited, you can simply wait it out, at some point the buffers will have to flush. If you want to surreptitiously record anything, you're always going to leave a digital fingerprint.

  25. Re: Post the source code on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Encrypted traffic is still traffic. If you expect a phone to be radio-silent yet continues to stream (the minimum usable compressed audio is ~5kB/s which isn't trivial to hide).