I'm fine with the dieresis in "Universal Coõrdinated Time"; the small caps for Arpanet and other agencies is weird, but OK; however, "three hundred and seventy-two days of twenty-three and a half hours each" was annoying to read.

But TIL that David Mills is blind :(

You have to be the one who decides which piece to move, and where to move it to. You can't have someone else help you decide. You can't have a computer help you decide (and computers are so much better at chess than humans these days).

That's the registrar lock, aka clientTransferProhibited, which as TFA notes, was already enabled for the domain in question. The article is about also enabling the registry lock, aka serverTransferProhibited. Registrar lock means your registrar (e.g., Dreamhost or GoDaddy) can (be social-engineered to) unlock your domain. Registry lock means someone would also need to contact the registry for the TLD and convince them to remove the lock. (E.g., for a .com domain, that would be Verisign, no matter who you used as your domain registrar). And at least according to the article, it takes more work/manual review to remove a registry lock; it's not something a low-level call center employee can do by clicking a button.

Honeywell just re-badges Dahua equipment, and Dahua has had some serious vulnerabilities too. (I actually use Dahua stuff myself; their cameras are pretty good. But I keep them on their own VLAN, away from the internet.)

I think you missed an important part of the first paragraph of that Wikipedia article: "A necessary condition for n to equal such a sum is that n cannot equal 4 or 5 modulo 9, because the cubes modulo 9 are 0, 1, and 1, and no three of these numbers can sum to 4 or 5 modulo 9." So no, not any integer; there are an infinite number of integers where we know that there is no possible solution.

Or maybe the summary is wrong? I know that's really unlikely on an esteemed site such as /., but there's always a first time, right??

It is in fact impossible for the sum of the cubes of three integers to total 4 or 5 (or any number that has remainder 4 or 5 when divided by 9). We now have solutions to the equation where k is from 1-100 excluding the ones where k mod 9 is 4 or 5

Just because someone made one minor mistake about the shape of the connector doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about. The rest of his post was accurate.

This new form of ice is arguably different from the other 17 forms of ice; as the fine article says, "Depending on whom you ask, superionic ice is either another addition to water’s already cluttered array of avatars or something even stranger. ... 'It's really a new state of matter.'" But as far as ice I through XVII goes, lots of molecules have multiple crystal structures depending on conditions. For example, scientists care a lot about graphene these days; it's a form of carbon, just as graphite and diamond are. Phosphorus comes in different forms too: white, red, black, violet. Same with silicon dioxide: take quartz and heat it up and it'll turn into tridymite; heat it and squeeze it under high pressure and you get coesite; etc...

Sounds like you don't know what HDCP is. Yes, the glowy thing does do the decryption itself if it can receive HDCP content; that's the whole point.

Does your browser say that https://yro.slashdot.org/ is secure? Because Slashdot uses Let's Encrypt. If your browser doesn't show it as trusted, you're probably using root certificates that are 10 years old, and you should update them.

Cable is fiber to a few miles away from your house, where it gets converted to coax and you're sharing that fiber with maybe 1000 people. FTTH is fiber until a box on the side of your house or in your garage, where it gets converted to Ethernet (or coax, but that's not as common), and you're sharing that fiber with maybe 30 other people. They're very different.

The translation in TFA didn't even get her name right (it is Meng Wenzhou).

No, it's Meng Wanzhou. The translation in TFA isn't perfect, but it's fine; definitely a lot better than Google Translate ("Hello, I am Meng night boat.")

So "Gemini Advisory" says card fraud is up, huh? But Visa says that fraud is down. Who's right? I don't know, and don't feel like looking into the details of both reports. It's likely that both are right, and they're talking about different types of fraud. My understanding is that overall, fraud is down significantly, but some types of fraud are up, such as card skimming at gas pumps (since the chip conversion deadline for those is still in the future and very few of them support chips right now.)

Sorta related, but not the same. De Bruijn sequences contain all possible strings of length n using an alphabet of size k, whereas this is about the shortest string that contains all possible permutations of the string 123...n

E.g., if n = 2 and the alphabet contains "1" and "2" (k = 2), a De Bruijn sequence would be 1122, which contains 11, 12, 22, and 21 (it wraps around. 11221 if you want to make it explicit.).

But for this problem, if n = 2, the shortest sequence is 121, which contains 12 and 21. It doesn't need to contain 11 or 22, because those aren't permutations of 12.

> It is compiled to native vs the .net VB which is not.

This is an outright false statement. VBA is not compiled to .Net.

What's false about it? nten didn't say that VBA is compiled to .Net; he said, "It [VBA] is compiled to native."

Parent needs to be downvoted.

Nope.