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Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) 173

Posted by BeauHD from the highly-secure dept.
An anonymous reader writes from a report via BleepingComputer: Yesterday, Microsoft released new standards that consumers should follow in order to have a highly secure Windows 10 device. These standards include the type of hardware that should be included with Windows 10 systems and the minimum firmware features. The hardware standards are broken up into 6 categories, which are minimum specs for processor generation, processor architecture, virtualization, trusted platform modules (TPM), platform boot verification, and RAM. Similarly, firmware features should support at least UEFI 2.4 or later, Secure Boot, Secure MOR 2 or later, and support the Windows UEFI Firmware Capsule Update specification.

Comment Re:Free speech of NFL players (Score 0) 1219

by coinreturn (#55292771) Attached to: Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded

The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is advocating for FIRING people for exercising their first amendment rights.

The President does not lose his First Amendment rights, when he becomes President.

That is government suppression of free speech.

Nope. As long as he is not doing anything about it in his official capacity, it is not.

That may by YOUR opinion, but a legal case can EASILY be made that he is using his OFFICE to suppress speech.
Businesses

Private Valuations Aren't Grounded in Reality, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) 74

Posted by msmash from the magic-trick dept.
Unicorns aren't real, and neither are the valuations ascribed to many of the startups that say they're worth $1 billion or more, study finds. From a report: About half of private companies with valuations exceeding $1 billion, known as unicorns, wouldn't have earned the mythical title without the use of complex stock mechanics, according to a study by business professors at the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. The tools used to negotiate a higher share price with investors often come at the expense of employees and early shareholders, sometimes drastically reducing the actual value of their stock. The chasm between public and private valuations is a topic of increasing prominence following several disappointing listings. Among them is Blue Apron Holdings, which is trading well below the price venture capitalists paid in the last fundraising round. An often-overlooked explanation for the divide is buried in investor contracts. Blue Apron, which delivers meal kits to customers, gave stock preferences to Fidelity Investments and other backers in 2015 in exchange for a $2 billion valuation. The shares included a provision to receive additional equity if an initial public offering is set below a target price. Investors took advantage of the mechanism after Blue Apron's mediocre IPO.
Government

Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) 330

Posted by BeauHD from the un-masking dept.
mi writes: When American spies capture our communications with foreigners, the identities of Americans on the other side of the conversation are generally protected -- if not by bona-fide laws, then certainly by rules and regulations. A transcript of the conversation should have their name replaced with labels like "U.S. person 1". The citizen involved can only be "unmasked" with a good reason. In 2011, Obama relaxed these rules, making it much simpler even for officials without any intelligence role to obtain the identities. Predictably, certain top officials of the Obama Administration abused their access to get this information: "The [House Intelligence] committee has learned that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration," [Intelligence Chairman Devin] Nunes wrote. "Of those requests, only one offered a justification that was not boilerplate."

Comment Re:Anyone else use the Shopify POS App? (Score 1) 285

Another example to doubt this claim: if anyone uses the Shopify POS App, you probably see that as you do more transactions with the swiper, the app gets slower and slower...and if you close and restart the app, it works fine again. Maybe this is true with some Apps, but I don't think you can say with all Apps...

That's due to crappy programming. They probably have a huge memory leak in their code. Killing the app reclaims the leaked memory. That's a whole other story. The article is about power savings, not crappy apps.

Comment Re:It's probably not one person. (Score 1) 565

by coinreturn (#54873269) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address

The problem is that there are so many people that just a typo will do it. This is why big email aggregators are a bad idea (there are reasons why they are a good idea, of course, or they wouldn't exist, but this is one of the reasons why they aren't).

Unfortunately there is no way to prevent these--there's no test that will reveal them as errors.

No, some people are just doing it wrong. Don't use your fucking name! I use @gmail.com. Got that way back when gmail was invite only. I've never gotten someone else's email by typo or duplicate.
Businesses

Amazon Report Predicts Pet Translation Devices By 2027 (cbslocal.com) 143

Posted by EditorDavid from the dog-dialects dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Devices that can talk to our pet dogs and cats could be less than 10 years away, according to a report Amazon commissioned that was co-authored by futurist William Higham. "Innovative products that succeed are based around genuine and major consumer needs," Higham wrote, noting the tremendous amounts already spent on our pets, and concluding, "Somebody is going to put this together." Amazon already sells one dubious device that converts human voices into meows using samples from 25 cats, according to the Guardian. (One reviewer who tested the device wrote that "the cat seems puzzled.") But Amazon's report also cites the work of Con Slobodchikoff, a professor emeritus in Northern Arizona University's biology department, who spent 30 years studying the behavior of prairie dogs. Slobodchikoff discovered prairie dogs have different words for colors and for species of predators, and is now already raising money to develop a translation device for pets.
Although Slobodchikoff concedes that "With cats I'm not sure what they'd have to say. A lot of times it might just be 'you idiot, just feed me and leave me alone.'"

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