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  1. Re:Redhat = embrace, extend on One Solution to MITRE's Overworked CVE System: Build a New One (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So in the interests of full disclosure and transparency I (Kurt Seifried) am writing this email as an individual and member of the DWF System, and not as an employee of Red Hat. Please note that although I have a day job at Red Hat I also (like many information security people) work on other projects in my personal life, either because they are not work related, or because it's simply not appropriate to work on the project as part of my day job (in this case it's less about Red Hat, and more about the fact that as a Red Hat Employee I am a member of the CVE Editorial Board).

    Seems clear RedHat has nothing to do with this

  2. Nuclear FUD on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Brought to you by the coal industry.

  3. As much as the quotes the author pulled, when he writes the quote below in the article you can't help but notice he's working from a pretty biased viewpoint:

    Disaffected college students are rebelling against the hegemonies of leftist dogma and political correctness that rule their campuses

  4. I haven't advocated anyone update, but since I'm the 'computer guy' in the family & friends network I've gotten a number of random comments along the lines of "I updated, I don't like it". I've yet to hear anyone speak positively of Windows 10.

  5. Hardly, this isn't the 90s anymore where we trained ourselves to continually hit ctrl+s. Personally I often have browsers open, applications open and don't restart for weeks. More importantly I often have applications & debuggers open.

  6. Re:A small issue on A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd say the republicans want to keep them around so they can pay them less than minimum wage and drive wages down.

  7. I dunno, if you ask around most people don't like it. Arbitrarily rebooting for updates and losing open data tends to do that to people.

  8. Aren't they typically clocked lower? Probably the more important reason would be that Xeon will probably be 2-3x the cost at a given performance point.

  9. Re: Solution looking for a problem? on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The CPU in macbooks is pretty weak. I'm not sure how much benefit they would even see with an external GPU.

  10. Re: No one plays games any more on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised to see fast paced fps games revive, publishers have worn out interest in the slow modern 'realism' shooters by releasing them every year.

  11. Re: No one plays games any more on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're confusing single player games with multiplayer games like quake.

  12. Re:Waste of $25 on CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats · · Score: 1

    Living in Ottawa my OTA antenna gets 3 channels (Global, TVO & CBC). Growing up in a rural community 20-years ago we had twice that. Unfortunately since Bell & Rogers own most of the TV stations they've pulled back on broadcasting.

  13. Re:Cost should be $0 on CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unfortunately at least in Canada, the satellite/cable companies also own most of the channels. Then on top of that they also own the sports teams for complete vertical integration.

  14. Re:It was a good idea... on CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats · · Score: 1

    For IPTV its pretty understandable that they would need you to use their own network

  15. Re:wrong solution on CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats · · Score: 2

    The vast majority of the empty space doesn't have access to internet or cellular however. As a Canadian I've never heard it suggested we would build or nationalize internet, I'm not sure where you're hearing that. The city of Ottawa used to own a fiber network supplying hospitals and government buildings with internet access, unfortunately that was sold to Rogers.

    The real solution here is to breakup Telus, Bell & Rogers - disallow companies from owning infrastructure and dealing directly with consumers. This would provide competing infrastructure as well as make it less expensive for new consumer players to enter the market.

  16. Re:wrong solution on CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats · · Score: 2

    Markets don't actually work like this in capital intensive industries with individual consumers. Individuals don't have the power to negotiate and corporations decline to compete. This is why the US and Canada have very expensive TV, internet (also slow) and phone.

  17. Re:Front end? on Google Says Angular 2 Will Support Python, Java (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing precompiled templates. (e.g. for a search engine)

  18. Action vs Speech on EFF's Cindy Cohn On Why 'Code Is Speech' Is Key To Apple vs. FBI · · Score: 1, Troll

    Its weird to me that they could compel someone from a corp to open a safety deposit box but write a few lines of code would be a no-go.

  19. Re:Pretty much a non-issue due to licensing. on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it that is not the case, a derivative work is one where the changes are not considered transformative.

  20. Re:Pretty much a non-issue due to licensing. on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder however if printing the design would be considered transformitive. There was a case a while ago where an 'artist' was printing instagram photos, adding a 1-2 word caption and that was decided in his favour.

  21. Re:Pretty much a non-issue due to licensing. on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, this reminds me of the bogus uproar about Flickr selling prints of images licensed for commercial use under CC.

    There is a different issue about photos however, unless Thingverse requires uploaded photos to adhere to a permissive license then the ebay store copying them would be violating copyright there.

  22. Not sure whether it is the case here, but apparently there are some older SSL accelerators companies are still using that only support sha1. Similarly some corporate reverse proxies only supporting sha1.

    There is an about:config option which allows you to turn off sha1 certs if you like, I turned it on a while back.

  23. Re:Apples Mischaracterization Hurting Encryption on Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case (delimiter.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Oh look Apple fanboys with mod points.

  24. Thats Good on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    I was always worried about being kidnapped by lasers to another planet.

  25. Apples Mischaracterization Hurting Encryption on Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case (delimiter.com.au) · · Score: -1, Troll

    And this is why Apple should not have mischaracterized removing arbitrary device restrictions as creating a golden encryption key. Its very much like last year when a wide variety of companies referred anything they didn't like on the internet as being a network neutrality problem. I guess Apple is choosing fake marketing over protecting privacy and encryption.