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Comment Re:No data, no problem (Score 3, Insightful) 121

Seriously? No, the cases still happen -technically- both in your post and DT's rhetoric. Not hard to understand - whether you measure or not illness still occurs, disease transmits. Same goes for ocean chemistry or forest fires.

The last line of the post you typed is *actually* just saying the boring claim: "If we stop testing we'll know about fewer cases"

Comment Re:Or . . . (Score 1) 24

No, 'print release' by PIN is extremely common and not usually done through 3rd party software. Click and enter the PIN in your OS print dialog and then printer holds onto the job until someone comes and scrolls the 'pending' jobs list and enters the right PIN. Literally a common eorkplace feature for 20 years, Microsoft OS calls it 'Secure Print'.

Not sure about other poster's random Brother but mine also more of a light duty prosumer/SOHO model that lacks a keypad, alphanumeric info is entered one character at a time via the up/down/enter/back keys.

Comment mystery process image is privacy-edited (Score 2) 54

... And the other thing that would scream to me was the output of their forensic tool which looks to me like the output of netstat basically shows a raspberry_pi host. I'd be WTF, why is there a pi on our internal network? Not why is lightdm sending a packet on the pi.

lol thing that screams at me is that 'forensic tool' image has obviously had the IPs removed for privacy. "[redacted]", "[raspberry_pi]", and "[mail_server]" all are clearly placeholders put in for publication are not 3x actual hostnames the researchers found on the bank network.

Comment Re:Hard not to be jaded (Score 2) 26

... 'f***k it we are just going put Sharepoint where some threat actor can reach it...

You know the NNSA also has a lot of unclassified documents, right? Sure, even unclassified stuff can be sensitive, but what gave you the impression there was any classified data on the public-internet-connected Sharepoint server?

As for ranting about foreign nationals.. what makes you think NNSA did not follow their strict policies about how/when foreign nationals are provided access to classified files (are you a military rep from France or UK who has treaty agreement rights to benefit from weapons data? are you a collaborating academic from an approved country participating in a legit project with approved need-to-know? etc.)

Comment real-world WASM much worse (Score 2) 187

I don't know, I currently have a project running Go code in Python via Wasmtime and the experience with WASM is very shit. Headache is so bad, it almost would have been worth porting the entire Go tool to Python.

For every one typo the compiler catches in my library adapter Go code (already more annoying than Python which has excellent exceptions, hints, & no compile step just edit and rerun vs scrolling the nearly unreadable WASM build failure log)... there are literally 10x runtime errors from data inputs with somehow an even more useless stack-trace and error output. I just give up and rerun the inputs through the native Go. Seriously bad real-world dev experience.

Comment Re: I don't think so (Score 1) 71

Come to think of it though they probably knew the mail had been sent because it was probably run of the mail junk mail and that information gets sold like anything elseâ¦

Bingo. Yeah, background checks literally just search credit files/lexisNexis which in turn are just collections of cheap available lists.

Next most likely option, the h1b applied for a credit card using that address or gave it to their employer for payrole who then turned around and rented it out to ADT or anyone with two nickels to rub together that asked

Comment Re: Won't miss it (Score 1) 18

Wait. Titanfall *had* a single-player mode?

I remember buying it new way back for 360, playing multiplayer for maybe a month (fun for sure, but pretty repetitive after two weeks or so), and then resold the disc for someone else to enjoy. Literally do not even remember seeing a 'story mode' menu option.

Comment Re: What does Chrome have to offer? (Score 4, Insightful) 180

Among technical people many, if not most did choose. Chrome launched during a period when Firefox had stumbled and started to bloat with features and memory usage. It started with tech folk intentionally using chrome for personal browsing until mindshare was so great around maybe 2012 that people stopped testing web content on Firefox and just built things for chrome.

Comment Re: Ok but... (Score 0, Troll) 180

Because microsoft functionally had a monopoly on the OS used on essentially every single citizen's computer at the time and was convicted in court of the same.

If Google's functional monopoly on ad sales and search is as bad (OS is viewed as more difficult for a citizen to 'switch' from, vs browser or web search engine less so) is still up for debate.

Comment Re:Can someone explain... (Score 1) 74

Can someone explain why anyone thinks "you can't use a modified version of this contract" is legal?

Because copyright law. If someone gives you their copywritten item you abide the terms of their licensing, else forfeit right to their work (subject to fair-use). If you do not have any right to a work (or have lost a previously granted right), you certainly cannot create modified versions to distribute to further parties.

AGPLv3 the license does not protect itself .. it protects the use of some other creative work.

Comment Bad example, does not threaten GPLv3 (Score 5, Informative) 74

Yeah I agree. These defendants really need a lawyer. Crucially, Neo4j corp did not receive AGPLv3 licensed code from someone else and then try to relicense that. Instead Neo4j holds copyright on entire project & has been very careful to require any contributors sign a Contributor License Agreement that doesnt assign copyright to the corp, but does establish 'joint' copyright.

https://neo4j.com/developer/cl... They even have a special revised CLA for IBM employees to sign before sending in PRs https://dev.assets.neo4j.com/w...

Indeed, as you say, by holding full copyright they can dual license or freely relicense new versions of the project at-will. If anything, these forkers should be going after any weaknesses in that CLA and contesting if neo4j really can do whatever they want with only joint copyright (assuming the forkers are also contributors). Otherwise they should respect the copyright holder and only build their forks off the AGPLv3 Neo4j Community Edition, any features they added themselves, and not appropriate any of these non-free "Enterprise Edition" code releases.

Comment what? (Score 1) 109

Um, did you even read that link? It says US wanted peace negotiation, Trump mouthpiece wanted victory through war.

Seriously amazing. Link clearly spells out that US thought peace was not being negotiated realistically (Demanding Putin step down) and so US encouraged that condition to be dropped so fighting would not continue & negotiation could succeed.
It then ends with a Trump spokesperson (get this: uneducated, unrealistic and inconsistent), claiming US is wrong to push for better negotiation and should only push to win through military victory.

Comment Contracting waste (Score 1) 87

... Like, why the fuck is Osh Kosh making custom-made postal trucks instead of buying off-the-shelf vehicles from Toyota or GM? Because Osh Kosh is a government contractor that's why. And this is entirely due to rules made up by the government itself. Just look at what's needed for IT contracting to see why there is so much government waste.

Bad example, IT contracting is labor intensive because it's *easy* to arrange data however you dream up inside the commodity hardware you buy.

US Postal service in my state *does* deliver mail via an ad hoc mix of commercial minivans, dodge step-vans, and the antique Grumman trucks. The entire point of the Next Gen delivery vehicle was because they know that the commercial vans are not good fit for mail delivery from hands-on-experience with the limitations. So the government tasked several government specialist contractors to create new non-commodity hardware that would work as an effective mobile-workplace with visibility unavailable in an off-the-shelf vehicle.

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