Yo, Father of the Smart Phone here: https://wolfsheadonline.com/bi... Been a while since I was on Slashdot, invented Kinect, infinite player networking, and solved multicore problems. I think I invented some other major multimillion/billion things, and debunked Asimov's nonsense of chasing his red herrings. I invent so many major inventions, I forget them... Absent minded professorism. I have a C3PO brain just waiting to be sold to market: https://web.archive.org/web/20... If you check these links, you'll see I am not making this up... I'm the world's leading research scientist and you probably haven't heard of me.

See here for an explanation: https://security.googleblog.co...

TL;DR is the entire TLD is on the HSTS preload list.

The problem with the monorail is that it was designed as spectacle, not as transit, yet even as spectacle it fails because it's so out of the way that most people never even stumble across it, and if you do take it, all you see are the backs of hotels. It's even priced as spectacle. $2.75 gets you anywhere in New York City via the subway and bus, but it costs $5 to take the monorail just to go 4 miles along the backs of casinos in Las Vegas.

The monorail should have been built in the middle of the Strip. The Strip is a dystopian nightmare highway bifurcating one of the most walked streets in the United States. It's so dangerous that in many places there aren't even any at-grade pedestrian crossings; you have to go up stairs/escalators set back from the strip, go across a bridge, and then back down, often being forced to detour through one or two casinos in the process. It's the ultimate triumph of automobiles over people for no goddamn reason at all.

The mass transit should have been run right down the middle of the Strip. Instead it was forced to the margins where it remains unused, when it was really the car traffic that should have been forced to the margins. Las Vegas should do a NYC-style "Summer Streets" a few times per year and entirely close down the Strip to car traffic for half a day and let pedestrians use it as they'd like, like Mardi Gras. Then people would realize what they've been missing.

FYI, the HSTS preload list is used by all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Safari, Opera, etc.). This is a good thing, of course; online security shouldn't be enforced conditionally depending on which browser you're using.

The linked article got it wrong. This isn't about Chrome adding TLDs to the HSTS list, it's about the TLDs' owner (which also happens to be Google) adding them to the global HSTS list.

But he also, uhm, got you to respond with invictive. And that's the trolls goal, so he won.

A partial fix to this is already part of many phones: call blocking. If a caller is not in your address book, it goes right to voice mail. I also have an app that automatically disconnects calls from unlisted/private numbers or numbers that are part of a community black list that you can add to.

You voted for a president who favored endless deficits rather than one who recognized this county is governed by the house. Negotiate with actual terrorists in Afghanistan and Syria? Sure. Work something out with the speaker of the house? No way.

seeing which MS exec could throw an Xbone the furthest.

I hate how deficient PC laptop screens are nowadays. They've somehow managed to get worse over time, not better. I'm still using an aging Dell laptop that's six years old because it has a 1920x1200 screen and I cannot even find a replacement that is similarly specced.

The only company that gets it is Apple, but their Retina display laptops start at $1,700, which is an absurd premium, and I'm not interested in running OS X anyway.

Here's what I've learned recently: If I ever discover a major security hole, do not even attempt to release it responsibly. Instead, layer up behind some proxies and Tor and leak it into a blackhat forum or IRC channel. That way the security hole will eventually get fixed, and I can't be prosecuted.

Well, not so much of a joke as an inevitability, but yeah, a lot of the great inventions seem obvious in hindsight. Yet, for some reason, no one figured it out for awhile.

If you've ever used Usenet, and you've used parity files to recover missing segments of data, then you know exactly how this technique works.

Frankly, I'm surprised it took so long for someone to apply it to lossy network environments. It seems obvious in hindsight.

Nice to see Stardock still pumping out handy Windows utilities as well as the occasional time-sucking 4X game.

To this day, I still use Multiplicity on several machines to access computers right next to each other without using a KVM or multiple mice/keyboards.

I wish I could get my low ID back but I lost access to the email address attached to it.