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  1. Re:People are stupid on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the USB standard does not say that devices should be automagically trusted. That is a feature of most OS designs, but not of all of them. Some OS designs are in fact sensible and secure. Some hardware also have electrical fuses and filters on the USB lines. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which hardware and OSs can be trusted and which cannot.

  2. Re:USB keyboard. Your computer DOES run the comman on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    On BSD at least, you can lock the install to a specific USB keyboard ID, so then it won't accept a random HID.

  3. Re: People are stupid on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one could buy ones like that with 64 GB printed on Ebay for many years already, but I finally found true 64 GB ones in the shops this year only.

  4. I plug it in and format it with ext4. Never had a problem.

  5. How do you make 16 GB memory from 15 G transistors?

  6. Re:A bit behind the times on New State of Matter Detected in a Two-Dimensional Material (phys.org) · · Score: -1

    Uhmmm, the dual slot interference experiments for example.

  7. Re:Electrons?? on New State of Matter Detected in a Two-Dimensional Material (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Wrong. The wave-particle duality and the dual slot experiments showed that electrons are divisible a long time ago.

  8. The incredibly expanding mountain cabin on 20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com) · · Score: 2

    This guy's shack was searched multiple times and each time the police retrieved a treasure trove of incriminating documents. How all the crap would fit in the small shack and how they could have missed it in the previous searches, was never explained though.

  9. Comparable to Chrysler on Tesla May Need Cash To Deliver On the Model 3, Says Analysts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Those kind of figures would instantly put them on par with a smaller manufacturer such as Chrysler. Great if they can pull it off.

  10. Re:That's why cutting school funding makes cents! on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wind mills have been generating weirdos for centuries. Cervantes wrote his books in 1605 already and people are still tilting at wind mills.

  11. Re:Like Trump supporters. on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the problem was that the writers primarily used white chalk? Maybe it is time to use black chalk on white boards instead? That picture however, clearly showed blue chalk being used. The horror.

  12. Re:Modern charlatans turn ignorance into profits on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, but I certainly do not 'come from a monk'.

  13. Re:Nothing new on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wrong. Scientists are happy to admit when they are wrong. Descartes' scientific method relies on setting up an enquiry that can be falsified.

  14. Boko Haram on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need no education. Or as some wise guy said: If you don't read, then you are uninformed. If you do read, then you are misinformed. If you can't read, then you are an ignoramus.

  15. The law books are full of unenforceable laws. This one is nothing new and won't be the last. In Canada, local regulations are trumped by Provincial acts, which are trumped by Federal acts, which are trumped by the constitution.

  16. Good for disabled people on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Eventually, the privacy issues will need to be addressed properly though.

  17. Indian guage on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    5 foot six is common in India. Anyway, that only determines the length of the axles and the sleepers, nothing much else. There are bazillions of gauges in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:3200 years ago on Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Ach, you almost made me snort my Coke...

  19. Re:Sugar is sugar... on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, water that will replenish the fillings in your teeth... Seriously, in African countries, lead pipes were removed about 100 years ago already. WTF is wrong with America?

  20. Sodas are also fruit juice on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Check the labels. Sodas are mostly lemon and lime juice.

  21. Well, Linux distros assume that you know what you want to do. They do not prescribe to you. OrangeFS is not exactly a garden variety tool. If you knew anything about anything, then you might have heard that Linux runs on a wide variety of platforms, including massively parallel super computers. OrangeFS is for that. So, it is not for your gaming rig in your mother's basement. Maybe you should go out for fresh air more. There is a whole real world out there, with many beautiful and interesting things.

  22. Re:OrangeFS on Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    OrangeFS is a derivative of the parallel FS originally used for Beuwolf clusters.

  23. Re: But of course the distributions... on Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you have it the wrong way around: How long till FirefoxOS runs systemd? TIFIFY

  24. What is facebook?

  25. Re:the War on Cash on Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A bank is simply an IT business with ridiculously high usage fees. The 'war on cash' is another way for banks to skim money off every transaction.