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  1. Re:What is the use case? on Netflix Axes Apple AirPlay Support (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Credentials sharing. I'm wiling to send a video stream from my device to the Hotel TV (though, given the sophistication of malware these days, any interaction might be unsafe). But there's no way in hell I want to put my Netflix credentials into some random hotel device.

  2. Re:What a stupid idea that was on Amazon Stops Selling Press-to-Order Dash Buttons (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For almost all of my dash buttons, I placed a single order, to get the cost of the dash-button back on a product I would have ordered anyway. Though, just yesterday I did place a 2nd order for AAA rechargeable batteries. Not sure if the kids are losing them, or I'm just replacing non-rechargeable with rechargeable.

  3. Re:Torvalds rant: X86 development vs Arm Developme on Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're in an area with high geek density, posting to Craigslist and just leaving them on your front porch or equivalent may be a good way to get them in the hands of people who'd make better use of them, if that's a goal of yours.

  4. Re:Get back to me... on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    NREL seems to indicate an energy payback for PV panels being https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04...

  5. Re:A command they all need to honor on Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test (loupventures.com) · · Score: 1

    And review/write the kernel code for and back doors or bugs which could allow malware to take over the device...

  6. Alexa... on Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test (loupventures.com) · · Score: 2

    Alexa, define 'begs the question".

  7. Re:99.999999% of Users NOT at Risk? on Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary is stupid. It has nothing to do with 2FA. Basically, the app use's Android's accessibility features that allow one app to "drive" another app as if it were the user touching the screen. The malware uses that ability, after duping the user to open the Paypal app and authenticate (*however that needs to be done*), to drive the already-logged-in Paypal app in such a way as to transfer money to the malware author.

  8. You needed to say, "I need to speak with your manager, because this is BS and you're violating the law here."

  9. Completely incredible... on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones."

    Take a look at a google image search for "motherboard" and see if you can find an RJ-45 socket that doesn't have a metal shield around it for RF blocking.

  10. Re:Just a handy reminder on Police Use Fitbit Data To Charge 90-Year-Old Man In Stepdaughter's Killing (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it really sync'd with her PC, or with her phone. Either way, any modern PC will come with settings for automatically syncing with a NTP cluster, not a single server. Plus the clock in the fitbit is likely fairly accurate, controlled by a quartz crystal and unlikely to drift more than 30 seconds a month.

  11. No, though you can set flags on the build to disable debug readout of the software/data.
    It's no Yubikey, but it's $12 in quantity 5, and it's way safer than no U2F device at all...

  12. Well, they recommend that when you build the software, you create and install the key into the software (presumably on a secure, non-networked machine, like you use to create your certs) and so even if the chip is fully secure (it's not) you could still have a backup of the key.

  13. This usb-connector sized ARM computer can run the U2F stack: http://tomu.im/
    At $12/each (quantity 5) they aren't the cheapest out there (Amazon has 2 for $10), but they are fully open source.

  14. Procreation seems to be decreasing as a problem. In modernized countries, birthrates are barely replacement, if that. If the world continues to modernize, population will likely level out at something sustainable.

  15. No: "Cement manufacture contributes greenhouse gases both directly through the production of carbon dioxide when calcium carbonate is thermally decomposed, producing lime and carbon dioxide, and also through the use of energy, particularly from the combustion of fossil fuels."

    The act of making cement, regardless of the CO2 clean-ness of the energy still produces CO2.

  16. Apple acquired NeXT on December 20, 1996, so you could say it's been from then since they continued to support NeXT products for a while at least.

  17. https://developer.nvidia.com/e...
    TLDR: 10x better power efficiency than the TX2 and 20x the performance.

  18. Re:Emacs VM on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    CRISPR

  19. Emacs... on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    Same as my operating system.

  20. Whoosh again...

  21. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I think I made the right decision, given that the bad decision to drive that fast at that hour on that road without deer whistles had been made already :-)

  22. Re:I probably would have hit her on Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I came around a corner to a momma deer in the middle of my lane. I was going too fast to tighten the radius (which would have also brought me into currently unoccupied, but not necessarily for long oncoming lane), so I widened the radius onto the wide shoulder.

    Where the baby deer was illuminated by my lights. At that point is was either try to swerve back to momma, or off the road, down the embankment into the oak trees. Where the rest of the deer were.

    The baby deer didn't make it, but I'm pretty sure I made the best of a bad situation.

  23. Re:One thing Musk seems really good at is hiring on Tesla Model 3 Torn Down, Hacked and Set On a Dynamometer, Exposing Unusual Tech Details (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Nissan has sold far more Leafs. I’d say that made them desirable, at least to many.

  24. Re:Rich people and their wasteful whims on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You can "build low-PPM TCXO oscillators" and you can't find a job that keeps you from being "one of the POOR PEOPLE" in this economy?

    WTH?

  25. Re:Rich people and their wasteful whims on Jeff Bezos Shares Video of 10,000-Year Clock Project (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How much money is wasted on the NFL? NHL?