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byMrEricSir
2014 @01:45PM
(#48602557)
Attached to: Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work?
Can we stick to "News for nerds", please?
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byMrEricSir
9, 2014 @06:22PM
(#48559907)
Attached to: CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations
That's clearly a fallacy -- the "effectiveness" argument requires you to buy into the false dilemma that the only way to get potentially live saving information is by torturing prisoners. Certainly the CIA has dug up plenty of information before and since that did not require torture.
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byMrEricSir
9, 2014 @03:31PM
(#48558327)
Attached to: CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations
Even if torturing prisoners was "effective," who cares? If something is immoral, good results will never make it moral.
67646751
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byMrEricSir
2014 @09:24PM
(#48552413)
Attached to: The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons
Unless you're advocating a new form of Creationism that I'm not familiar with, the universe wasn't built from human labor. Software, on the other hand, is -- and that's why it costs money to make.
Free software isn't free to make. There's a reason it's free as in libre but not necessarily free as in gratis.
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byMrEricSir
29, 2014 @05:17PM
(#48487439)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC?
If your wife is making more noise than the computer, spending money on computer parts won't solve the noise issue.
66944665
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byMrEricSir
22, 2014 @06:30PM
(#48441659)
Attached to: Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio
Does it come with dual hidden blades?
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byMrEricSir
2014 @03:17PM
(#48397961)
Attached to: GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support
Actually, GIMP still uses GTK+2.
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byMrEricSir
12, 2014 @12:22AM
(#48366097)
Attached to: ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption
Maybe he's suggesting to just use plain SSL without the initial plaintext exchange and initiation.
Yup. Nobody needed to reinvent traditional TLS/SSL secure sockets in order to send email.
What's wrong with STARTTLS? To quote the original RFC: "...a client that gets a 454 response needs to decide whether to send the message anyway with no TLS encryption, whether to wait and try again later, or whether to give up and notify the sender of the error."
So in other words, if you're writing an SMTP stack you have to handle a severe security edge case by parsing a string instead of getting an exception from your secure socket library. What could possibly go wrong! Oh right... there's a reason this is on Slashdot.
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byMrEricSir
1, 2014 @08:29PM
(#48365227)
Attached to: ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption
By stripping out this flag, these ISPs prevent the email servers from successfully encrypting their conversation, and by default the servers will proceed to send email unencrypted.
Look, most severs these days are configured in such a way that STARTTLS runs on a different port than the plain-text connection. The server will reject login requests until the STARTTLS handshake is completed.
So sure, a few old, badly configured servers will continue over an unencrypted connection. But take it from a guy who worked on an email client, this is not a typical setup these days.
(Also: STOP USING STARTTLS!!!)
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byMrEricSir
01, 2014 @07:57PM
(#48290295)
Attached to: Video Raises Doubts About Attkisson's Claims of Malicious Hacking
She's a former reporter who went off the rails and now only gets attention because of Glenn Beck and friends. This isn't Slashdot material.
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byMrEricSir
2014 @04:11PM
(#48245403)
Attached to: Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer
She almost certainly held down control and backspace by accident and blamed it on the government.
Yup. It's almost like there's a reason she's a former CBS reporter. But on the bright side, maybe she can get a job working for Alex Jones or Orly Taitz.
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byMrEricSir
15, 2014 @06:30PM
(#48155197)
Attached to: HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription
And it's just in time for the end of net neutrality, so you can be sure your ISP will charge you a premium plan to access HBO online.
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byMrEricSir
2014 @04:36PM
(#48144455)
Attached to: Can the Sun Realistically Power Datacenters?
A: Yes. It's called "evaporation." Next question, please.
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byMrEricSir
2014 @03:23PM
(#48076567)
Attached to: Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In"
The key difference between non-corporate open source projects and Microsoft or Apple is that companies have HR departments. Problem employees can be dealt with or even fired.
There isn't really an analog in your typical open source community. In fact, smaller open source projects tend to be so grateful for any help that asshole behavior is tolerated -- or even considered the norm. It's a sad state of affairs for the majority of us who want to contribute, but have no interest in dealing with a cesspool of assholes.
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byMrEricSir
9, 2014 @02:17PM
(#48021707)
Attached to: Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices
Android is open source and can be forked to work however you like. Windows, not so much.
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