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  1. Re:BS on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly -- what is the false-positive rate of this approach?

    If you throw trillions of data sets compacted into a 50-d cube, sure you will find some in the neighbourhood of your target. Probably it is not just one person, but many thousands.
    Both machine learning and mass surveillance have to be gauged by the false positive rates, the false negative rates and cost (monetary and otherwise).

  2. What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this?

    This article, "No encryption was harmed in the making of this intercept", may be clearer in what the Australian politicians meant: https://risky.biz/bannedmath/ There are solutions for companies outside breaking/weakening the crypto while still allowing law enforcement to follow through with warrants.

  3. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    This is an EXTREMELY non-standard behavior and as such, unexpected by the user community at large.

    The counter-argument was that it is not supported by distros already, for many years, for other reason, so there is no good reason for systemd to support it.

  4. Re:I was just discussing this ... on Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The climate change in this one is much, much faster than that of any previous extinctions.

  5. Re:I was just discussing this ... on Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Dinosaurs went extinct in a mass extinction that had 70% of species dies off that almost ended all life on earth. ELEs are scary. And that happened, what, once in the history of earth.

    Five major extinctions happened, only one of them had an external cause (asteroid). For the others, climate change was one of the main reasons.

  6. That's exactly what ESA's ExoMars mission will do.

  7. Re:Not related to their mark on Bruce Perens Warns Grsecurity Breaches the Linux Kernel's GPL License (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    I think my legal theory holds water.

    Lets say I release (sell) v1.0 of my software to person A, B and C under GPL2. Then B does something I don't like, but I can't do anything about it, because they received the software and can propagate it further under GPL2.

    The following year, I sell v2.0 of my software to person A and C under GPL2, but don't sell it to person B any more. They do not have any right to receive it from me. If A or C pass it on to B, they are free to do that. But I can put arbitrary restrictions on to whom I give my software, if it is a new version -- I can decide for every release.

    There is no addition of terms or restrictions of the GPL needed. It's just who you release your software to. Now if A is the general public, all restrictions are basically moot.

  8. Re:The real problem we have is on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In the long run, however, it will probably be a self-correcting problem, if you know what I mean.

    Death is inefficient; it will just be a miserable life that everyone endures, in heat (think Thailand/Columbia), smog (think Beijing) and garbage. People will stay indoors (home, office and malls) most of the time, if they can afford it.

  9. Is this the same shitty reporting like last time with France, where the ruling only applies to .ca/.fr servers, not .com (but regardless from where it is accessed)? In that case, why should contries not be allowed to dictate the legitimacy of content served under their TLD.

    In any case, with the US seeking jurisdiction to get access to servers worldwide one might ask, to what degree are countries allowed to execute their jurisdiction onto US servers?

  10. From TFA:

    To begin with, there are over 25 subtitle formats in use, each with unique features and capabilities. Media players often need to parse together multiple subtitle formats to ensure coverage and provide a better user experience, with each media player using a different method.

    But it does not say exactly what is the vulnerability, maybe that is still embargoed.

  11. Gentoo has openrc by default, you can switch over to systemd if you want.

    BSDs are developing systemd-bsd for a dependency-tree based init system.

  12. Re:HTTP is faster to connect on No More FTP At Debian (debian.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even though I guess once connected, the file transfer protocol should be more efficient.

    There are huge differences between FTP servers in terms of their delivery.
    But today's Apache delivers static files extremely fast, by telling the kernel to move a file data onto the network card, so the data are never actually moved to the application. That's fast, and you can still play proxying, cache-freshness and other HTTP tricks on top of this.

  13. RAID on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 3, Informative

    RAID systems can protect online data (to a degree), but what about offline storage?

    Still RAID is a good choice for your redundancy of choice.

    Or paper: http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#1

  14. Re:no worries, i thought you Gnu! on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, you can use your mouse with elinks. Even right-clicking works, open in a new tab, background downloads ...

  15. Re:ProtonMail users on ProtonMail Adds Tor Onion Site To Fight Risk Of State Censorship (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    PGP with a normal email client does nothing to protect your "metadata", i.e. who you are, who you communicate with, the subject line, date, etc. All you can do is use TLS/SSL and hope that the email servers communicate with each other encrypted without NSA backdoors (i.e. they have a copy of the TLS/SSL private key).

  16. Re:It *can* be right... on Scientists Predict Star Collision Visible To The Naked Eye In 2022 (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    13 minutes

    What's the imperial equivalent unit of time measure?

    1 tea.

  17. Re:most places have speed limits on Faraday Future Unveils Super Fast Electric Car (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But it can go to super fast super fast!

  18. Re:Maybe just profit taking? on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet it rebounds and will go through some oscillations every time it crosses 1k until folks get used to the idea that it can go to /higher than 1k then it will creep up and probably take a dip at 1.5k and/or 2k

    The way to bet is to buy some :)

  19. Re:Previous article on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Both articles actually state that Bitcoin strongly anti correlates with the yuan.

  20. Previous article on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
    Probably a lot of people took the news of a 1000$ high as a chance to sell now?

  21. Re:Wait a Trump minute... on Linus Torvalds Announces Ridiculously Small Second Linux 4.10 Release Candidate (softpedia.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You mean GNU/Linux, so off-topic. Changes in Linux the kernel are not needed to bring Linux to the Desktop. What is needed is a way to distribute software that works for small programming teams -- without tuning packages for every distribution or complicated installation instructions for users. See Torvalds rant that getting his diving software out is easier on Windows&Mac than it is on Linux.

  22. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    That percentage is number of reports, not commited crimes (and also includes tourists). The difference goes away if you control for socio-economic status. So congratulations, you are not against immigration, you are against poverty and for education.

  23. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the government is quite popular and Merkel is going for a 4th term. It's because they managed the refugees. Mandatory German lessons, set then up with some prospects, made sure they were distributed reasonably.

    People are happy that Germany did it's bit too help when others, including the counties directly responsible for the crisis, did almost nothing.

    Don't confuse slashdotters with facts.
    Doesn't matter that crime statistics show that refugees are not more likely to commit crimes than citizens. Doesn't matter that immigrants have been shown to bring a net profit to social services because they pay more than they take. Doesn't matter that they take labour that citizens do not want to take and have been shown to be a net benefit to the market. Doesn't matter that these are the educated liberals of Syria that are extremely helpful in identifying ISIS collaborators because who attacked them and killed their friends and relatives. No, like every refugee situation before (Hungarians, Cubans), lets be envious instead for every euro they receive and every job they can hold.

  24. Re:bug cannot be exploited remotely on 5-Year-Old Critical Linux Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You could be ssh-d into the machine as a user, and this will give you root privileges. No physical proximity needed.

  25. Re:Clearly Global Slowing is a problem that must b on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    was!