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Re:U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:41PM (#19383513)
Worth noting: 150 of the A320 count may be Germanwings Flight 9525 (unless you already accounted for this) - which was suicide by pilot.

Not really fair to blame the plane in that case.

Re:Slack down? on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:38PM (#17776198)
I was thinking IRC :D
Still using mine ($1999 model) and having a hard time justifying a replacement - especially with all the consternation about the keyboard.

I'm thinking about upgrading when they announce a 6 core, but I'd like to see the keyboard addressed - and a 4k retina screen would be a nice touch.

Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:28PM (#15547221)
And PCIe lanes.
Re:You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:09PM (#15485347)
I wish more people understood this.

There is no excuse to not have any documentation. One must always make an attempt to write a reasonable amount of documentation so there isn't a situation where there is no hope to understand anything except read all the source code.

But a lot of people (managerial types especially) expect docs will be "step 1 look here, step 2 look there, step 3 fix with this exact command"

Docs should explain how a system works, and perhaps some important places to look, but it's not a checklist to fix all problems. The consumer must still possess the ability, and will, to investigate and fix problems using their own critical thinking.

Re:Stockfish – Strong Open-Source Chess Engine on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:13AM (#13965532)
For anyone else out there who may be a chess imbecile like myself... it took me a while to figure out why black king doesn't take white rook:

It's because if they do, white has no legal moves, but king isn't in check. This condition, where a player can't move, but the king currently isn't in check, results in a stalemate (which is considered a draw).

Therefore, white's baiting of black into that position by sacrificing pieces is interesting.

Re:A textbook case in workplace discrimination on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:06PM (#13725984)
I agree. There was a report in December that they had lost $800 million in the previous quarter. It seems like utter insanity that:

1. They'd even bat an eyelash at paying retail for the needed quantity, and 2. They'd think it's even remotely ok to exclude a section of the team completely due to any reason (sex, race, size, whatever)

Yes, it's just a jacket, but this definitely smells of a deep seeded cultural problem due to how ludicrous it is.

Re:How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley on Friday June 10, 2016 @12:20AM (#11874280)
Cuban made his money selling broadcast.com to Yahoo! - which was literally radio on the Internet.
>We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again--there is no legal impediment to that.

Actually, I think this is the genius of the amendment system.

You are correct that it could happen. But unlike laws that can be passed or revoked by Congress by political whim, the barrier to creating or overturning Constitutional amendments is much higher and more difficult to pass.

Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @01:02PM (#9606052)
If you have philosophical objections over H.264 because of patents etc., then this won't help.

If you have the HTML player enabled, and if your GPU supports hardware H.264 decoding (most do these days), this plugin may help:

https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify

Otherwise Youtube might send VP8, which your CPU has to decode.

Yeah, and one major function of HVAC is to draw humidity out of the air.
You can freeze your credit. I don't claim it to be a comprehensive solution to a complicated topic like identity theft, but it helps, and is fairly easy and inexpensive to do.

http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-financ...

I have some certificates through RapidSSL, and when they send me reminders to renew, the e-mails come with this warning:

"Your certificate is due to expire.

If your certificate expires, your site will no longer be encrypted."

Just blatantly false.

Yeah, that's how I see it.

Since Apple's software isn't open source, it's possible they're lying. However, if they are, at some point the government is going to try to present evidence they gleaned through this lie, and that fact will leak out.

I think it would be an enormous risk for Apple to blatantly lie about something they put in black and white on their website. So I tend to think they're telling the truth.

Maybe one day, we'll get a real, bonafide, non-niche open source based phone where these things can be audited.

Re:Shellshock DHCP Remote Code Execution – Proof of Concept on Thursday September 25, 2014 @05:57PM (#8369981)
Just FYI to other owners:

Synology DSM 5.0-4493 Update 5 here: it uses busybox, so not vulnerable.

    synology> which bash
    synology> which sh
    /bin/sh
    synology> which ash
    /bin/ash
    synology> ls -l /bin/sh
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Jun  5 11:27 /bin/sh -> busybox
    synology> ls -l /bin/ash
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             7 Jun  5 11:27 /bin/ash -> busybox
Re:Shellshock DHCP Remote Code Execution – Proof of Concept on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:23PM (#8369534)
Thanks for the info.

Has anyone tried this with an OS X client to see if it behaves like the Linux system in the article? I know OS X bash is vulnerable to the exploit, but I don't know if their DHCP system handles environment variables in an exploitable way.

Re:OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009) on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @07:34PM (#7556744)
Yes. You arp poison the default gateway and route traffic through your own host instead.
Re:How I hacked Github again on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:26AM (#7200592)