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  1. There is a difference between speech and a contrac on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Speech as in âoetry this miracle cure, put hot sauce in your eyes to make you see betterâ is free speech.

    A sale as in âoetry this miracle cure, itâ(TM)s $25 hot sauce you can put in your eyesâ is a sales contract. You promise a cure and you either deliver or you donâ(TM)t. If you donâ(TM)t, itâ(TM)s called swindling, false advertising and a number of other things.

    You can say you have a miracle cure but when you exchange goods youâ(TM)re entering a legal contract.

    And thus, if you pay for this shit, pay it using a refundable method, whether itâ(TM)s a signed contract or credit card. The people too stupid to pay for it are also too stupid to know they can just call their CC company to cancel the sale, thus itâ(TM)s just a stupid-tax.

  2. Re:The reason for conspiracy theories on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The moon landing is extremely poorly understood by the populace and my predicate was that poor understanding and poor education is at the core of conspiracy theories. On top of that, the details of the actual moon landing may be common knowledge today, back then it was top secret stuff and beyond being able to land on the moon, little details about how, why and when this all came to be were available to the general population. All the people knew was that this was done by a brand new agency purely created for cold war purposes.

    The questions I posed are rhetorical, but you're right, this happens in America where you're free to buy 400lbs of guns and bring them to your hotel room. The problem is no-one on camera (politicians, reporters etc) wants to say that - yes, it's your right to arm yourself to the teeth - as long as you're not doing any harm - and the price we pay for freedom to guard against an overreaching government is to occasionally have someone go nuts with that freedom. But Americans are not willing to teach the cost of freedom.

    The second portion of that is a bit harder to understand, but it's in my opinion the ineptness of either hotel security or police forces to respond in an appropriate manner. Again, something you're not allowed to say if you have a job on television or a politician, but police forces are dumb as nails and are poorly managed, crisis response in general is poor, police forces - for all the power they have been granted including being able to flag suspicious bank transfers and purchases of thousands of dollars in weapons - in the US are poorly trained to handle the data and either negotiate or prevent these disasters. But yeah, those idiots in charge are all supposed to be held up as heroes (waves tiny flag). If I transfer $10,000 somewhere in the US or get a $300 hand gun, I get a nice and friendly visit from a suit, this guy was somehow able to amass thousands of dollars worth of money to pay for thousands of dollars worth of armament, the enforcement is lopsided for the low-hanging fruit, easy targets.

    The third part is a typical story line, the guy committed suicide, I'm not crazy so I don't understand why you would kill yourself without at least trying to make a stand and take at least a bunch of them down. If you're going to stick it to the man, at least do it well, but we also know cops are very triggerhappy and nobody is ever going to ask for a third party investigation. Again, the leap from "really? after you couldn't find him for an hour, he hears a knock at the door and shoots himself?" is a logical conclusion from people that don't understand mental illness.

  3. The reason for conspiracy theories on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The only reason conspiracy theories exist is because no plausible story exists to answer all the questions. People don't understand why these things happen and the government typically isn't all too clear about their prevention, response and subsequent investigation.

    If the government were fully transparent, it would quell the conspiracy theories. In this case, they should be transparent as to the reason that individual could buy and bring up 400lb of gear, break the window on a high riser and disable the security alarms all without getting noticed. They should be transparent about the reason it took police an hour to respond to a shooter situation or why they killed instead of capture him. We still don't know much about the person, but once again it will become clear over time that he was deranged, was taking some serious meds and that he was never institutionalized and otherwise fell through the ObamaCare cracks.

  4. Re:tied to Spring Security on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I've learned that, and this is especially so in Java, that you can start with a simplified framework but without a doubt at some point you'll be stuck on a complicated piece and you need a more complicated framework.

    This is the same for any framework, whether it be C or Java or PHP, at some point you need to get out of the 'simple' and into the 'hard' and the framework becomes 2 or 3 or 5 full-stack frameworks.

  5. Re:I trust advice from people who dislike Rust. on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost every *real* program out there in the wild is also found in C/C++ code. Even Java, Python and Rust is in the end written in C/C++ and they also have had their exploits. You can program securely in C/C++, you can program insecurely in Java, you can have efficient code in C/C++, you can't have efficient code in Java/Rust/Python.

    Whether your application crashes and gives root or allows full access to the data, it doesn't matter in the end how you do it if you need unauthorized access to the data.

  6. Re:The story smells on Kaspersky Lab Denies Involvement in Russian Hack of NSA Contractor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, all of it is in the summary.

    a) Look at your own answer: If he's not allowed to do it, how did it end up on his computer? Snowden supposedly did this a few years ago, they either haven't changed the rules or they still don't enforce them. If he knows it wasn't allowed, then why would he alert his supervisors when the antivirus went full-tilt and how would the NSA know that the malware exited the computer at all? The story doesn't add up - either it's an NSA-controlled computer and they monitor it's ins-and-outs or it's a personal computer and the contractor screwed up but you can't have full knowledge of what happened without having full control over the machine.

    b) Either way, you cannot get TS security clearance if there is even a remote possibility that you have an attachment to a country outside the US. In theory you can but I've worked with DOE-Q clearances, no investigation would clear anyone that has even resided outside the US for a few years, let alone have a heritage.

    c) It made clear that Kaspersky antivirus was installed and that the malware traveled over the Internet - what sane security researcher/programmer would install an antivirus with access to the Internet when you develop "cyberweapons"? Any mistake and you take down half the Internet in a matter of hours.

    d) Well that's what the story is insinuating. If they didn't know about the computer, then it makes no sense that they knew what happened. If they knew what happened, it makes no sense to still consider it a 'personal computer'.

  7. Re:The story smells on Kaspersky Lab Denies Involvement in Russian Hack of NSA Contractor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How moronic can you be, first you claim that it was his personal laptop, now you claim that they don't even allow personal devices in the same room. The story doesn't match up with reality.

  8. Re: $300 headphones on Bluetooth Won't Replace the Headphone Jack -- Walled Gardens Will (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Most car stereos in the last 20 years do actually, even stock ones, pull back the unit and there will almost guaranteed be an aux input either using RCA jacks or across one of the pins.

  9. Re:The story smells on Kaspersky Lab Denies Involvement in Russian Hack of NSA Contractor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    a still applies because after Snowden they still allow people to take stuff on personal devices
    b is in the summary
    c is in the summary, again, a contractor that creates hacking tools conveniently doesn't know that carrying around malware in your hypervisor environment is bad?

  10. Re:The story smells on Kaspersky Lab Denies Involvement in Russian Hack of NSA Contractor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I read the following:

    The paper reported on Thursday that the NSA contractor, a Vietnamese national who was working to create replacements for the hacking tools leaked by Edward Snowden, was hacked on his personal computer after he took his work home.

  11. The story smells on Kaspersky Lab Denies Involvement in Russian Hack of NSA Contractor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a) A contractor was allowed to take his work home on an unencrypted, unsecured laptop
    b) The contractor was a foreign national (hint: you can't get top secret clearance unless you're a US citizen)
    c) The contractor created viruses and malware directly in his "core" work environment, where I suppose he also keeps his e-mail and other stuff, not in a VM
    d) The NSA then also installed Kaspersky even though the NSA has quite publicly said Kaspersky is all sorts of bad (unsubstantiated)

    So the crux of the story:
    1) NSA is lying
    2) NSA is incompetent
    3) Both

  12. Cost and maintenance. Fiber optics is easy, power comes with an entirely different set of difficulties. Fibers get cut frequently and take months to repair, we only donâ(TM)t care because we got sufficient numbers in a cable and enough cables to be redundant.

  13. Surprisingly Elon is not the brains behind a lot of this. I wouldnâ(TM)t want him to design a car or a payment site or an above ground subway. Maybe the people that work for him can and some ideas (hyperloop and BFR) are ludicrous but it gets him eyeballs, free patents/tech and subsidies.

  14. Itâ(TM)s called being salaried. I come in when I want and leave when I want, as long as the work gets done nobody cares.

    I do get my 8 hours of sleep and an approximate 40h of work in per week.

  15. Re: Podesta's leaked emails proved Facebook... on Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The worst thing is that her own lawyer argued against Facebook disclosing or blocking ads from the âoeevilâ Russians. Something tells me the collusion with the Russians backfired on her.

  16. Re: Well, maybe Ireland will leave the EU next? on EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is a reason people like Trump and Farrage won.

    You may not agree but the majority of communities have real issues affecting them that DNC/EU leadership is failing to resolve and the Catalexit, Brexit (and more) is a symptom of overreaching governments.

    Read up on the role the US/EU played in getting Hitler in power, the issues in Britain, France and Spain are very similar to post-WWI Germany.

  17. In my security enclave, I automatically run patches on test systems as soon as they are released, I don't even have to do anything and monitors would let me know as soon as a critical event occurs.

    And then all I have to do is move the patches from the testing channel to production and they get deployed, but even that is something that could be scripted or automated if the testing doesn't fail.

    I literally spend less than 1% of my time on patching systems anymore and I manage almost 200 of them by myself.

  18. Re:Mail your creditors. on Equifax Says 2.5 Million More Americans May Be Affected By Hack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not how it works minion. You cannot opt out of the credit check unless you never want credit. All three of the companies share information with each other (and there are more than the 3 big ones) regardless of your consent.

  19. Re:If code is too hard to think about on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If your program is so complex that you don't know what it does at all times and how it can fail, it's too big. The core Unix tools are a few hundred lines in code yet you can build immensely complex systems with it by tying the inputs and outputs together and those things often go on for decades.

    I myself run a medical imaging receiving system with code that's been written in Perl approximately 2 decades ago and the Perl simply ties one program's output to a buffer where it then splits some strings and spits out a report. This is massively simpler, cheaper and orders of magnitude faster than the same functionality within EPIC (a big name provider of EHR).

    A lot of companies have lost that vision and are building monolithic monsters of code that nobody ever can troubleshoot, even code analyzers have problems traversing all of the possible trajectories.

    And if you're building a 911 system, you would think that you've at least got a number of fail overs.

  20. Re:Germany is helping... on Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The legal-technical reasons are a lot more convoluted. They're naturalized citizens and it's not a state. Those are big differences, naturalized citizens can't get security clearances, they can often not get federal student loans or federal jobs.

    Puerto Rico is for all intents and purposes a colony of the US. It's supposed to produce goods/gold/gems but there are no provisions to help them with an invasion, local issues or a disaster.

    On the other hand, Puerto Rico has also had a string of bad leadership, paying out bonds before infrastructure and that sorts was not just a thing the president or congress decided, but their own governors agreed to and played along.

  21. Re:Is he donating them? on Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless, he's expecting a profit from them later.

    Even if he's donating now, they will need to maintain them if they want to keep them. Who will be contracted for installing the solar panels the batteries need?

    He's only giving them half the solution, it's a great PR stunt but the batteries without panels are worthless and how many panels do you think are left after the storm ripped through?

  22. Re:But is it terrorism? on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never been to India or Middle East then, if you're talking about massacres, the average massacre kills 9000 people, not 50.

    ISIS massacred a few hundred Yasidi, with guns, in a single night. I don't think the US leads anything in that matter, it only leads when you only look at US media.

  23. Same behavior in Sierra on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 0

    And I don't believe it's a "problem" either, encrypted or any hard drive that's been used by a server (eg. as a raw volume for object storage systems) shows up as "uninitialized" when you plug them in but you also don't want a quick link to destroy the data on it.

    The only way to inspect the disk properly is to use the underlying Unix utilities where you then perhaps can see there is data on it, and yes, you can still destroy the data on it using command line.

    You can delete the data from Disk Utility, but it requires you to partition the disk first and then reformat the partitions, it's fairly similar to how fdisk works.

  24. Re:Where is the Raid 5 offload support on Super Fast NVMe RAID Comes To Threadripper (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    RAID5 is no good these days, use at least RAIDZ2 if your data is important or triple mirrors.

  25. Re:muilt node ceph better can do update with reboo on Super Fast NVMe RAID Comes To Threadripper (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Different solution space. Object Storage should be built on stable filesystems, like ZFS.