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  1. Re: It's 2 part on Who's Responsible For IoT Security? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you can query the serial number using a variety of ways e.g. SNMP or whatever else the devs leave laying around.

  2. Re: Per port firewalls. on Who's Responsible For IoT Security? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You're doing security wrong if you think NAT is a "solution" to properly securing IPv4 or IPv6 networks.

    My entire subnet of workstations has public IP, some still run DOS, OS9, WinXP etc. but you still can't access them from the Internet or even within the subnet.

  3. Re:Ridiculously high prices on Amazon Tests Two-Hour Booze Delivery In 12 US Cities (foodandwine.com) · · Score: 1

    As a matter of practice, in the inner city it is very common. Some food benefits do not have restrictions on purchasing alcohol and most stores will simply trade the value. I've seen it done plenty of times across plenty of corner stores in plenty of cities across the US. I'm sure not all of them do, but most will. There are plenty of stories of journalists finding EBT cards being used at dog tracks, casino's and bingo halls.

    Most states simply don't enforce and fewer stores do. Even major stores like Wal-Mart, even though they won't sell alcohol on food benefits, will allow you to scan multiple EBT cards and checks even under different names. If you've ever waited in line behind one of those people, I commonly see 2 or 3, but I've seen people running 5 different EBT cards.

  4. Re: How many trees? on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how much land that encompasses. Besides the fact that humans take up ~50% of the land mass and 1/3 of the water sources for primarily agriculture, you got a deficit of 25% land mass even if you cover every portions of land (e.g. Sahara) with trees.

  5. Re: Time to plant trees on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you weren't stealing them from a farm?

    Wild berry bushes are very lean and the story matches my experience. They're a lot sweeter and firmer wild than farm grown bushes, but you won't get hundreds of dollars worth, at best you'll get a cup per bush and there is no rows of them, you have a single bush amongst all sorts of other things.

    Farm berry bushes have less or no thorns and the berries are bigger and the bushes are close together.

  6. Ridiculously high prices on Amazon Tests Two-Hour Booze Delivery In 12 US Cities (foodandwine.com) · · Score: 1

    The main problem with Amazon food delivery (and apparently booze too) is the cost. They need to make back their delivery charges, obviously, but the costs mentioned in the article are 25-50% above retail in liquor and corner stores which is already 15-25% above supermarkets. And the only reasons corner stores stay in business is because they accept food stamps as payment for liquor whereas larger retailers like Walmart don't.

  7. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, public universities take money from the government to extend services to the public. Hence there are various safeguards in place, eg. you can't require people to register their names to use your libraries, even Internet services have to be able to be used anonymously, political organizations have to have reasonable and equal access to your services etc.

    Private universities don't have to abide by a lot of the rules unless they take government money for grants where the rules have to be followed again.

  8. Re: Now you see on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    What part of "SJW's ain't got no humanity, so the only rights SJW's get is the right to stop being SJW's".

    You see the problem?

  9. Re:Census Records on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Because it has value. Public record data is free. Facebook, unlike what most people think, doesn't actually provide a social networking platform, it is a data aggregation and ad delivery platform. And targeted ads are much more lucrative than non-targeted ads, first of all, it gives you more space to publish ads and second because advertisers pay for it.

    This sort of matching behavior is just a coincidence, it matches you, because if you do connect to family and friends, your network becomes more valuable.

  10. Because people need identification? on Why Are There So Many Knobs in Audio Software? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if you're just mixing 2 channels together, it doesn't matter much, but if you're mixing live music, we need identifiers that are unified across various systems. Sure you can put a color on a virtual DSP but not everyone will have the same color selected. In some cases, you actually have emulated real hardware and in some case the hardware is actually real hardware.

    To replace everything with grey knobs is worse, hence why we have this.

  11. Not sure, it doesn't seem like many people gave the US any sanctions when they actually did use them so the point about sanctions is grandstanding by bigger nations, thus the argument is moot.

  12. Probably someone at the government level just noticed the loophole and pulled their gun on Apple. Sadly there is nothing you can do as a company in the US if the US unilaterally decides to kill off your business in a particular country, it doesn't even go to regular courts and any attempt to publicize it will be treated as you're a treasonous SOB by the news media.

  13. 300 miles; For what load? on Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest thing that is missing is how many miles does it do unloaded, half loaded etc. if it does only 300 miles unloaded then it's not even good enough for small delivery trucks. Pulling several tons of product costs energy, a lot of energy. The diesel tanks on some trucks can take up to 400 gallons and those batteries are about 100 times less dense per volume of energy.

  14. That's not what's happening though, in your analogy they only offer the cheaper model because they know nobody will buy the more expensive model.

  15. Re: Shut the fuck up poor people! on AT&T's Slow 1.5Mbps Internet In Poor Neighborhoods Sparks Complaint To FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    And many apartment complexes do just that. If you find a complex, often it will boast 20/20 or 100/100 internet services (around here at least) even though TWC only gets me to 20/1 if I pay a lot of money.

    They contract with Level3 or another fiber company and invest the $100k to get it hooked up.

    If I owned section 8 housing, I wouldn't do it either, it doesn't matter how much your property is or isn't worth, you get a stipend from the state for it and hope it burns out so you can collect the insurance.

  16. Re:Why does it matter? on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc
    Encouraging non-discrimination for men is discrimination how? If it drives away people with that mindset, all the better, we don't need them regardless of the quality of their code.

  17. Since many hosting services use Amazon as a backend, I'm wondering how much Amazon actually stored. 2PB in and of itself isn't that impressive anymore, you can fit it in half a rack or less with current densities.

  18. Re: Evading taxes? on IRS Now Has a Tool To Unmask Bitcoin Tax Evaders (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The majority of "poor" people do indeed commit the moral equivalent of theft. They all have enough income to drive around in an Escalade, smoke weed and cigarettes, buy plenty of junk food, cell phones even I can't afford, they all have $200/mo cable packages.

    There are very few truly poor people in the US and those people (homeless, veterans with PTSD) hardly get any help from the government.

  19. Look at rclone and Duplicati on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeNAS and rclone should give you all you need. If you're looking particularly at only-cloud, look at Duplicati. Then pick a storage plan, not sure what you expect as far as availability, throughput and cost but there are Google, Amazon, Box, Dropbox.

    I would recommend rsync.net, not only do they have native rsync, they also have native ZFS send capacity.

  20. Re:Just rely on your senses and stop wasting on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Correctly pickled foods should be good for decades, it will eventually become mushy and nasty-looking but if your pickled foods waste, it wasn't pickled right in the first place and again, if you see molds growing or it smells funky, don't eat it.

  21. Re:Just rely on your senses and stop wasting on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Is that you Tyler Durden?

    Lipstick is primarily wax, not animal fat. The animal-makeup is mostly a PETA thing, there is no independent scientific source that confirms it because chemically speaking it would be ludicrous. Most (cheaper) makeups contain monoglycerides and diglycerides, the majority of animal fat is triglycerides only the most expensive makeups contain it and there it is generally rendered from coconut oil.

  22. $65 is still a steal - if you want those channel on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, not a true comparison, because no cord cutter wants to watch ESPN(U) and FX, Netflix, Amazon, Twitch and YouTube have way better content for much less.

    Even so, if you want all the channels, TWC comes in at $65/month as a promotional price. True cost for TWC (now Comcast/Spectrum) Full Package Cable + Internet + Phone after all the discounts have ended is $220/month - not kidding that is over two-hundred dollars per month for the package that includes ESPN and FX; HBO is another $25/month. It's not unlikely to have people paying nearly $180/month for "basic cable" and $300/month for 'premium cable' once they've included all the sports and movie channels, DVR rentals etc.

  23. Just rely on your senses and stop wasting on Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as wine or tea having too many antioxidants. Wine becomes vinegar and dry tea becomes less potent, but either is still usable years after "expiration" (just don't drink it).

    If you need a label to tell you your food is off, your food isn't off. Most foods are edible way past it's printed expiration date and if it's expired it turns weird colors and smells bad and we have very much evolved noses particularly sensitive to the byproducts of wasting food (which is why we notice sulfur and many acids (like vinegar) but cannot smell carbon monoxide or natural gas)

    I don't know of any cosmetics that would go 'bad', they pretty much all contain pure alcohol or some other non-spoiling products, I'd figure they dry out and become unusable or in the worst cases grow molds (and thus weird smells) before they become dangerous.

  24. Re:Most likely they'll encounter interstellar debr on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    That's assuming they'll find the record in the first place and know it's not just a 'weird lid', then they should also be able to hear and see in very similar wave ranges to us or know how to translate it.

    Us humans barely understand our own technology that's older than a few 100 years, the Antikythera mechanism, Stonehenge, Inca's and Egyptians all had very basic tools and crude calculations compared to ours and we barely understand both what they had to say and what they did with it, most of it still being a mystery.

    Even if V'ger came back to earth after an alien race found it and sent it back, would we even understand the technology we made, if they encode the information in their form DNA or bacterium, would we find it and decode it?

  25. Re: So it's dead? Lost out to Go, Swift & Rust on Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org) · · Score: 2

    I can see that Mozilla is getting better at writing programs... Firefox now takes up only 1.2GB of RAM.