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Comment Feds already filed suit (Score 4, Informative) 165

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department late on Sunday filed suit after California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to restore open internet protections known as net neutrality in the state after the Trump administration repealed the rules in December 2017."

 

Comment Re:It's simple.. (Score 0) 463

... So, no, congestion won't get worse, because congestion is a result of human behavior...

Wish I had some mod points for you. Well said. Too many people don't realize that simple fact that "stop and go" is a human problem - not a technology or engineering problem. We are sitting in traffic because the poor drivers in front of us follow too close, can't merge, can't say within the flow of traffic, don't signal, etc.

We can try to engineer around the problem but as long as humans are at the wheel, congestion is a fact of life.

Submission + - Flawed Malwarebytes updates causes network connectivity problems (malwarebytes.com)

marquis111 writes: Malwarebytes pushed out a database update yesterday that caused its web link blocking engine to randomly flag all traffic as malicious, thus causing the computers running it to lose connection to the network, which also precludes those affected computers from receiving an updated database file that fixes the issue.

Submission + - The Monsters Who Laugh at Injury and Death on YouTube (vortex.com) 2

Lauren Weinstein writes: The monsters are everywhere — self-righteous sickos who laugh at other people’s misfortunes — the same kind of diseased personalities who slow down in traffic to take photos of horrific accidents and urge distressed persons on the edges of buildings to jump to their deaths.
And they’re online as well. Oh man, are they online. Worst of all perhaps, they’re extremely well represented among the tech community where I’ve spent my entire career, such as it’s been.

Perhaps this helps to explain why so many techies are so disdainful of non-techies, why so many software designers call the people using their systems by the pejorative “losers” rather than users or customers.

Submission + - South Korean law bans mobile crapware, anti-adblock and more (boingboing.net)

AmiMoJo writes: Last year, Korean rules regulating abusive practices by online services went into effect. Under these rules, online service providers are banned from installing or recommending software that "is not critical to the primary functions of telecom equipment" (that's all the shovelware your phone comes with); from "Imposing unfair terms or limitations on service providers seeking to use another telecom service provider" (no net neutrality violations, no search-rank twiddling); from "Misleading consumers by unfairly commingling advertisements with other information" (native advertising, advertorial, etc); and from "Unfairly limiting the ability to delete certain advertisements" (anti-adblock).

Comment Re:Cloudy with a chance of rain. (Score 1) 62

This is what I'm talking about:

"Default security settings for S3 buckets usually allow only authorised users to access the contents; however, UpGuard reports the bucket was configured via permission settings to allow any AWS "Authenticated Users" to download its stored data."

Alteryx or whatever the fuck their name is set moron permissions and exposed their sensitive data. Amazon can only do so much to engineer around pure stupidity.

Submission + - New York Times launches Tor Onion Service to overcome censorship (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: The New York Times has announced that it is launching a Tor Onion Service version of its website. The new, more secure way to access the site will open it up to people around the world whose internet connections are blocked or monitored.

It also caters to a growing breed of people who are concerned about what their web browsing habit might reveal and who have turned to Tor to protect their privacy.

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