Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 418
Can the USA Legally Quarantine the Coronavirus? (LegalEagle’s Real Law Review) . The short version is that in cases of medical emergency they can restrict assembly.
Comment SQLite and LMDB (Score 1) 85
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database and SQLite might also be good choices for some. Both MariaDB and PostgreSQL has sure gotten better compared to where MySql and Postgressql where two decades ago.
Comment Scientific and Standard SI Units (Score 2) 148
Système international is built on seven base units: second, metre, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela. The system also specifies names for 22 derived units, such as celsius, henry lumen and watt, for other common physical quantities.
Kelvin is a base unit, Celsius is a derived unit. Science is a process. You can use pounds, slugs, gallons, Fahrenheit are still be doing science.
Comment Re:Well, that's going to make life difficult for N (Score 1) 119
They'd click on the link that said remedial IT training
Comment Re:It's all fun and games ... 'til the data breach (Score 1) 58
Yes you can't change them so don't use biometrics for anything that requires them to be secret.
Biometrics and Social Security Numbers should at best be used as identifiers not as authenticators.
Comment Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP (Score 5, Insightful) 107
Probably about time since WPA has been out since 2004.
Comment Re:gas gauge in us do not show the true size (Score 1) 88
the customer also does not want to see it drop below "F" so quickly after filling up as they don't feel like they see the satisfaction of a car that is sipping the gas.
I didn't know they did that will FULL. I thought my gauge was miscalibrated. I noticed that it stayed on FULL for a bit and then started dipping. I didn't know that effect was intentional, I thought it was broken.
I didn't know they did that will FULL. I thought my gauge was miscalibrated. I noticed that it stayed on FULL for a bit and then started dipping. I didn't know that effect was intentional, I thought it was broken.
Comment Re:Cool (Score 2) 93
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt . There is maybe a 2 out of 3 chance that Jesus is pure fiction. That means there is maybe a 1 out of 3 chance that the myths, legends, and fables were based on a real human.
Comment Re:Why are we still coding? (Score 1) 20
Coding is more like creating blue-prints. Compiler is the equivalent of the framers, plumbers, electricians. cp is the assembly line that turns out thousands or millions of exactly the same application.
Comment posix_fadvise and posix_madvise (Score 2, Informative) 900
posix_fadvise and
posix_madvise seem to be standard posixy way to give hints to the cache. madvise(..) and fadvise(..) also exist granted some of the kernels don't properly use the hints.
Comment Re:I sense a Black and White coming (Score 1) 107
The title of the article was wrong, it was supposed to read "Spore delayed until Q2 next evolutionary cycle."
IE Devs Criticize Bank Security Vulnerabilities 214
mrcaseyj writes "A post on the IE blog criticizes some banks for no longer using secure connections for entire login pages and only encrypting the password as it goes back to the bank. This prevents simple password sniffing but doesn't prevent a man in the middle attack from replacing the unsecured login page with one that has disabled encryption. This is especially a problem if you are using an unencrypted wireless connection such as at a coffee shop, because hackers can easily use the airpwn package to intercept the login page and steal your password. An easy remedy for when a secure page isn't available is to enter a bad username and password which usually brings up a secure page telling you to try again. But can you really trust your money to a bank that doesn't even offer the option of a secure login page?"
Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus 361
LadyDarth writes "During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed."
Windows Vista Released To Manufacturing 172
Many readers wrote in to make sure we know that Microsoft execs have signed off on the code and Windows Vista has been and released to manufacturing. As APC put it, "It's good to go — or as good as it is going to be until the first round of patching begins." CNN has a good roundup of Vista's long development history.
Security and the $100 Laptop 144
gondaba writes "The One Laptop Per Child project is actively recruiting hackers to help crack the security model of the $100 laptop to avoid the obvious risks associated with what will effectively be the largest computing monoculture in history. From the article: 'The key design goal, Krstic explained, is to avoid irreversible damage to the machines. The laptops will force applications to run in a "walled garden" that isolates files from certain sensitive locations like the kernel. "If we discover vulnerabilities, the security model must hold up enough that even a machine that is unpatched won't be easily exploitable. This gives us a bit of diversity to avoid the monoculture trap," he added.'"
