I suspect that all the automatic exploits on SSH these days are expecting x86, if for no other reason than that the botnet people don't want to have to support too many architectures. I have an old Mac G3 (the blue tower) running 10.4 that I am still using as an internet server (I plan to retire it in a few months when other stuff isn't a priority), and every now and then SSH is wedged and won't connect remotely. I suspect one of those "automatic exploits" every now and then manages to hit a bug in that version of SSH which locks it up without a proper crash.

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If this is true, you needed to be modded up. EDS is the IT services company that was started by H. Ross Perot, and if they're only asking it for the customer-facing people, then why the fuck hasn't it already been in place for years?

But TFA says "R&D", which doesn't sound like the kind of stuff I would expect from the EDS folks.

If they are doing that, then they are definitely being assholes. If they don't have to proxy the connection, then it's not costing them bandwidth. If they are running a service to let you find or connect to your box (due to stuff like not being on a static IP), that's a little bit of effort on their part, but not much.

If their only contribution is requiring you to go to a web site to connect to a box when you could have reached it directly with older client software by typing in its IP address, fuck them.

When they originally announced the SLS and Orion, they were planning to shut down ISS to pay for it. At the same time, ISS was going to be its main destination.

He3 isn't even usable in first-generation nuclear fusion, it's one of the less easy things to fuse. We probably won't even be able to begin using it until 25 years after we do finally get fusion working. Suggesting that He3 is a good reason to go back to the moon right now, especially as the first reason, is the clearest sign of a true space-nutter.

I think "copper top" jokes from The Matrix are more applicable here.

Is that really true? Or does the entire stream get proxied through Sling's servers because it's not trivial for something behind NAT to be a server?

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The original pitch for cable TV in the 1950s was basically "we make the antenna work so you don't have to", especially for people who lived in an area where mountains obstructed the signal. Cable-only channels came much later, in the late '70s and early '80s when satellite TV happened. And they already had ads on them.

Well you know how that works, you have to pass the law to find out what's in it, right?

This is not a unified character, it is Japanese-only. Some program (apparently LaTeX) is using the wrong font because it thinks it is part of a mathematical equation, even to the point of showing the wrong font for the character in a font character viewer window.

My guess is that it can be used in certain numerical contexts, sort of like "No." ("number") in English. It can mean a quantity as in "n no x" (ippiki no neko), and maybe some other contexts. So something, probably an application, was coded to think of it as used in numerical contexts. The specific instance is about LaTeX, which is one of those ancient apps like emacs that is so old it had to create everything from scratch, so it's possibly specific to LaTeX or some port thereof.

Slashdot does support Unicode (assuming your browser can be convinced to post in the right encoding). It just happens to have most of the code points (basically everything above U+00FF) blacklisted.