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  1. Re:Machine learning? on DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect · · Score: 1

    i'm not really sure this argument is worth having with you though, because i doubt you have enough intellectual capacity to appreciate the argument, since it requires a low iq to believe in racism. by believing in racism, and all of the logical fallacies that come with it, you have objectively proven to me that you are a stupid person. i don't respect you

    Yes genetic variance between individuals of the same race dwarfs variance between races. Everyone really is a unique special snowflake especially when environmental and tribal conformity is excluded from the equation.

    Some do not understand or at the very least do not find these ideas intuitive. (Have a feeling my insurance agent is one of them)... So you feed trolls and call people morons and stupid people and say you don't respect them.

    Racism is unfortunate but what saddens me the most is general category of lack of tolerance and need to stand in judgment of others.

    I don't understand how tolerance of other tribes can be viewed as mandatory when tolerance for people who think differently or are "not as smart" as you is optional.

  2. Dual use nature of sticks and stones on Security Researchers Wary of Wassenaar Rules · · Score: 2

    This document appears to be a comprehensive list of all the technology in the world worth using.

  3. Re:Thank you - just PR for his presidential run. on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 1

    It was during the discussion of a completely unrelated bill, and wasn't even an official filibuster.

    If you take Rand at his word the point of his speech was to have votes on amendments to "USA Freedom Act". Actually Filibustering the USA Freedom Act would seem to me to be counterproductive to those ends.

  4. Has my vote on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 1

    Listened to the entire thing in the background yesterday. More than anything I really think he just wants a vote on his amendments. A real filibuster would kind of be too late in this case if the actual goal is to have votes on amendments to fix USA Freedom act.

    It could just be self-promotion and all but lets not forget he did the same thing over drones a couple years ago and in my view he seems to actually care about his cause.

  5. Random observations on 'Logjam' Vulnerability Threatens Encrypted Connections · · Score: 1

    NSA owning VPNs is not surprising given pathetic state of VPN technology as currently deployed. Widespread use of group keys, PPTP and challenge response authentication. A tragedy of nonsense NSA would have to be negligently incompetent to not take full advantage of.

    It isn't like this is a big secret or that people don't know better. The bells have been ringing for years ... dare I say decades in some cases yet many in a position to know better simply don't care.

    What is interesting to me distance between EC and RSA in terms of relative key size vs security seems to be shrinking by quite a lot.

    Honestly I never put much stock in differences between precomputation vs having to start over.
      I know practically it makes it a lot easier to do a lot of damage but from my perspective if you have the resources to pull off something just once even if that effort can't be reused the technology has already failed.

    I have not been able to quite figure out what they meant when they said TLS is broken. I understand the part of being able to negotiate parameters with a TLS extension yet at the end of the day if you are able to break lowest common denominator crypto so bad you can compromise handshake then secure negotiation must also cease to be secure.

  6. My question would be: To what extent do Internet nodes (with empty buffers) start forwarding a packet after reading its IP header, rather than waiting for the whole packet to be received?

    About never.

    Not doing this ubiquitously would really increase end-to-end packet latency, which the cited paper argues is more important than speeding up protocols for getting a lower-latency Internet.

    There are problems with this approach. First of all higher bandwidth of the interface the less you get out of it.. A 1500 MTU packet vs 10GB or 100GB PHY is not going to be detected by the most 1337 gamer with her 8000000 dpi x-ray laser mouse and super mega ultra polling keyboard.

    The bigger issue is this only works reliably when switching between instantaneously free/equal capacity links otherwise if you don't buffer at all your going to suffer some serious packet loss.

  7. Re:I don't understand.. on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 1

    .. why we would want to use microwaves for this. Fiber is shielded, and capable of higher throughput.

    No idea. Optical frequencies are hundreds of thousands of times higher than Microwave.

    Only HFT goons care about added latency of speed of light thru glass and non-geodesic paths.

    This might just be my dislike of wireless in general, but I don't see how this could solve latency issues...

    The authors are idiots... all the time and pretty graphs wasted babbling about TCP and DNS while as near as I can tell skimming through their paper not one single mention of the underlying reality the Internet is a packet switched network. It takes time to sequentially store (collect), query associative memory and forward (transmit) entire packets thru the dozen or so hops it typically takes to move data across the net.

    The way you beat down latency is to make the network look more like a circuit switched system. Get an optical delay loop long enough to read IP headers and physically switch the path.

  8. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 2

    The FBI isn't claiming anything. The affidavit simply states that Chris Roberts told the FBI agents he was able to hack the avionics of the plane.

    This is the part I'm most interested in. Did Chris really say these things or did the FBI want to hear a specific narrative and perhaps twist or misunderstand his remarks about what he believes is possible into "something he did"?

    Chris isn't talking and I'm disinclined to accept FBI statements at face value. I will be very interested in hearing Chris's account of what he actually said to the FBI.

  9. Lowering expectations on How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook · · Score: 1

    20 years ago I was impressed when I was first able to move entire windows around the screen in real-time on a Pentium 90mhz machine running NT 3.5.1.

    Today I half heartedly expect articles to talk about the responsiveness of calculator applications.

  10. Sounds good to me on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 1

    I rather like the old Internet before it was completely invaded by hoards of "sociopaths" who discovered easy ways to profit by making peoples lives miserable.

  11. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 2

    Think what you will, but wasn't there physical evidence that the boxes in question had been tampered with? It's difficult to play the innocent victim of a grand conspiracy after 1) you describe to the authorities how to compromise a system

    This guys raison detre is spreading the word about how these systems can be compromised. The question is whether he actually did it for realz.

    and 2) said system has been tampered with exactly the way you described, by someone sharing your physical space at the time.

    People are adept at finding evidence supporting their presuppositions. A disease whose only cure is actively searching for evidence contradicting your assumptions.

    He supposedly was in seat 2A... from search warrant:

    "He said he was able to remove the cover for the SEB under the seat in front of him by wiggling and squeezing the box".

    "After removing the cover to the SEB that was installed under the passenger seat in front of his seat..."

    "A special agent with the FBI advised that the SEBs under seats 2A and 3A showed signs of tampering. The SEB under 2A was damaged. The outer cover of the box was open approx. 1/2 inch and one of the retaining screws was not seated and was exposed".

    So I'm really confused here the statements are not self consistent. The seat in front of 2A is 1A... wouldn't that be the SEB that showed signs of tampering?

    2A is under his seat...and 3A is under the seat BEHIND him.... so he not only screwed with his SEB without anyone noticing but got up moved to the seat behind him and screwed with that one too? In first class of all places? Does this make any sense?

    Did the agents conduct a survey of the condition of all SEBs on the aircraft and other similar aircrafts? Is the condition of the panel abnormal? Do they even know? Did they even check?

  12. Good on GCHQ Officials Given Immunity From Hacking Charges · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe all of this government sponsored asshattery will encourage more people to get off their asses and invest more effort into fixing all of our broken shit.

    If governments want to piss away their capabilities hacking their own people because they can then let them do it and fuck themselves over.

  13. Never talk to LEAs without a lawyer and recording on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    LEAs are not rational actors. You will get fucked if you assume otherwise. Your hubris can and will be used against you.

  14. Re:Proxied ads on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    The workaround will be to proxy ads from the server. I bet that the ad networks will develop the technology for all the major frameworks. That will hurt servers' bandwidth, threads and CPU but it will make harder for ISPs to block ads because the URLs won't give away much.

    Never going to happen. Site owners are not trustworthy.

  15. Re:Do not want on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    So they are going to peek inside my network packets, looking for ads? And modify them, in order to remove those ads?

    Practically all advertising platforms push ads from their own servers not the website you are visiting for the simple reasons it is easy to do and more importantly ad networks don't trust site owners due to obvious direct conflict of interest. It is trivial to block most ads without inspecting traffic. A few ACLs in an ordinary router or blackholing several dozen domains in DNS would do the trick quite effectively. No exotic proxies or DPI required.

    Sorry, but I don't need yet another big brother looking at my private stuff, whether itâ(TM)s for my own good, for maintaining the order of society or for the sake of whatever replaced the STASI nowadays.

    The Interesting thing some types of filters are quite effective at denying capabilities to cross-site-stalkers which can enhance rather than degrade your privacy.

    I don't even care about advertising it is the considerable number of assholes who think they have a right to follow everyone around everywhere they go on the Internet that can eat static as far as I'm concerned. Most people have no clue because they can't see it... but anyone can get one real quick by spending a few minutes with wireshark while visting their favorite websites.

    Besides, what if Iâ(TM)m using TLS? Are they going to require me to install rogue certificates just to make their inspection more comfortable? No thanks

    Any ISP who forces filtering on their customers or requires installing rouge certificates to use their service is obviously inexcusable. From TFA it is not clear that ISPs actually intent to have the filtering be anything other than opt-in. It seems to be more about hyperbole and hersay than objective reality.

    Telecom companies had better learn already that with the advent of the Internet, their trade is to sell dumb pipes, competing with the others over the price of that service; the good times when they could milk their customers for âoevalue added servicesâ is over.

    Competing with others... ROFL...

  16. Random thoughts on ad blocking on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    At the moment the plan is to provide customers with the ability to opt in to an ad-free experience; it's not clear whether there would be a charge for this.

    ISPs should only be screwing with customers packets if users ask them to. Don't see a problem with opt-in filtering services generally as long as they remain opt-in. The Internet is a hostile environment and people have the right of self defense.

    *IF* ISPs actually intent to extort money from content companies the respective governments where such ISPs operate might have something to say about that.

    Described as 'the bomb', a system-wide block on ads is designed to "specifically target Google, blocking advertising on its websites in an attempt to force the company into giving up a cut of its revenues," reports the Financial Times. There is a suggestion that ads could be blocked on an intermittent basis simply to get Google's attention and cut better deals for telecoms companies.

    I don't know what to make of this. It sounds like carefully worded propaganda to lead people to make assumptions based on hearsay alone. Do ISPs plan to drop "the bomb" or not? .. "there is a suggestion" ..... suggestion?????!? ... Is there evidence?

  17. Re:run constantly on her COMPANY ISSUED iPhone on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    If it was her own device then I would not install it. But a company device. Then she can just turn it off when she is off the clock. And then get her own phone.

    Read the PDF of the compliant linked from TFA.

  18. Re:Garbage collection on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    Warmer means more energy use in the summer due to A/C. The summer high can be as much as 40 in Tokyo.

    What is the COP of an AC unit vs typical Natural gas or resistive heat source? 3:1? Pick a number you think is fair.

    In total cooling degree days for the past year NYC is sitting at 70% of Tokyo (1154 vs 1604) in heating degree days Tokyo is 50% of NYC (2581 vs 5168)

    While your correct about energy use in the Summer it constitutes only a small fraction of overall energy cost which is much higher in NYC due to climate differences.

  19. Re:Garbage collection on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    *Much* warmer?

    I wouldn't say a a difference in the single digit range is *much* warmer. They both have humid subtropical climates under KÃppen climate classification.

    This is insanely incorrect and misleading. For the last 1 year period your looking at about 2.5k heating degree days in aggregate for Tokyo vs 5.1k for NYC using 65f as base for both. It's a massive 2x difference.

  20. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    The solution: leave the phone at work when you are off duty.

    According to the complaint they were required to have the phone with them 24x7 to answer clients.

  21. Re:Ebola on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    I understand avian flu wasn't the best idea since people feared birds. But what's wrong with Ebola?

    They also end up fearing Ricola.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Enough already on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 1

    A decade and some change ago first noticed marketeers slithering out of the woodwork to belch their dreams of SAAS into the ether. The dream is not a statement about architectures of the future it was always focused explicitly on raking in regular predictable revenue.. A concept customers have and continue to reject regardless of state of supporting infrastructure.

    From where I sit the proof is in the pudding. I openly encourage our competitors to offer online subscription only services. We are making bank on those jumping ship from competitors. The very first question majority of our new sales prospects are asking "Is this software we can install" or "Is this something I buy or rent" in all cases the correct answers they are expecting to hear is always "Install" and "Buy".

    There will always be applications that make sense to have online yet the logical demarcation lines for the most part are already well established... fatter pipes isn't going to move the needle.

    From an architectural perspective turning browsers into dumb clients is completely idiotic but leave it to the Internet meme machine to continually march their fellow lemmings thru the path of least resistance and keep piling on layers of crap over crap never to fix a damn thing.

  23. The future of whatever on What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center · · Score: 1

    I find lack of interest in Media center hard to believe despite intentional action on Microsoft's behalf to kill it. The media extender market collapsed because MS simply made it impossible for extenders to exist. What if there was a cheap HDMI dongle that could stream from media center? None of this would be an issue and they could have existed if MS didn't continuously fuck over multiple companies producing hardware for media center.

    I've had a TIVO for a while and in the last month they pushed an update that removed all RSS video feeds which was more than half of what I ever watched. The rss feeds don't require TiVo infrastructure to support they just removed it because they could and felt like it and now I'm fucked.

    Anymore I'm beginning to realize that I don't really care about video broadcasts. If I never see another broadcast in my life I would be ok with that.

    With all "convergence" memes going around and basically replacing everything with "Internet" I just hope the remaining people who care don't let a handful of mega content companies Netflix/Hulu/Youtube..etc. own everything. A DVR with some manner of "RSSP2P" backend would provide anyone with content to distribute a cheap way to do it not controlled by anyone... which I believe is important over the long haul if for no other reason than keeping mega content honest.

  24. Re:Whats the point of FBI pretending to care? on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 1

    To break it you need to break the secure chip, which means either finding an exploit, or grabbing your local scanning electron microscope and beating the chips tamper resistance measures (wire mesh etc).

    Most of my message was dedicated to the security chips of which ye speak and why I believe they don't present much of a barrier to well funded TLAs.

  25. Whats the point of FBI pretending to care? on James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption · · Score: 2

    The government has all the power here. They can easily OFAC the crap out of any security chip that can't be owned by side channel attacks. Judging from laptop TPM scene where vendors have gone as far as enumerating list of vectors they don't even try to defend against... seems to me like open season for anyone with the resources to pull it off.

    Anything protected directly by user entry into a smart phone is bound to have no usable entropy by itself anyway.

    Failing this we have baseband processors with full read write access to OS memory to reduce material costs. I would be surprised if there was a consumer baseband on the planet without capability of being field "upgraded" by Agent Smith... at least from various accounts of ancient feature phones being turned into bugs.

    While I don't doubt encryption will make things more difficult if/when it catches on you can bet the feds will invest in beating it and they will win at least for the subset of people who don't really care about security.

    I have a feeling the bigger issue with ubiquitous encryption for TLAs is that when everyone uses encryption then the ability to use the fact that encryption was used to justify suspicion evaporates... that's what I think they are really afraid of.