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Comment Re:Need help (genuinely) to understand (Score 4, Informative) 140

I've always thought that a Presidential Executive Order is not something a Judge has authority to override.

Because the presidency is not a dictatorship. A president can issue an illegal/unconstitutional executive order. However, our court system, as part of our systems of checks and balances, has the authority to block illegal/unconstitutional executive orders.

Submission + - Sourceforge and Slashdot "meltdown" (theregister.co.uk) 1

williamyf writes: As many of us Slashdot regulars experienced, the site was essentialy down for two days. Yes, the main page was up, but we could not log-in, and the story stream essentialy dried up.

TheRegister was the first site (to my knowledge) to catch on the news.

Was this meltdown caused by another try at beta?
Or was it a failed experiment on UTF-16 support?

Or, more seriously:
What happened?
Which ISP hosts /. and SF?
What lessons could be learned from the meltdown?

This thread may be a good opportunity for the powers that be to get in touch with us...

Submission + - Cisco fixes undocumented SSH support tunnel in its Umbrella product (umbrella.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Described by a recent security blog post, Cisco hid a SSH backdoor in its Cisco Umbrella product, which they were using for support. Affected organizations can install version 2.1.0 of their virtual appliance which has the backdoor removed.

Comment Driving business away from the US (Score 1) 265

This would undoubtedly drive business away from US companies that provide information services to users overseas, we is precisely what we need for economy. Make America Great Again(tm)!

Joking aside, how is a drug investigation a matter of national security? If you're going to claim you need some power for national security reasons, then only use it for national security reasons. Don't then turn around and use it to prosecute drug offenses.

Comment Won't go anywhere (Score 5, Insightful) 135

As much as I feel for the families of those who were killed, there isn't much you can do. This lawsuit just feels like a desperate attempt at answers where they don't exist.

No court would expect the operators of social networks to pour billions of dollars into moderating their platforms. They can remove content when its found and reported, but it is completely unreasonable to expect the operators of social media platforms to keep their platforms free of terrorist material while at the same time keeping it open enough to be usable.

Comment I used Oracle's Cloud by force... (Score 2) 55

We were forced into buying credit for their cloud to settle a licensing compliance dispute. The credit was only good for 12 months so we gave it a try.

It completely sucks. Nobody should ever use it. Just use AWS, Google, or Azure instead, they've actually got mature cloud models, unlike Oracle.

Comment Well, I thought we had settled this (Score 3, Informative) 282

I guess other countries have to come to their own conclusions, but at least in the US this has been settled. If you don't want something available publicly, put authentication on it. This isn't hard guys.

You're linking to a party that is legally hosting the content, how is that infringement?

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