Comment Re:epic is to big to fail in this market! (Score 1) 24
epic is to big to fail in this market!
They're like the mafia
Comment Licensing Agreements (Score 1) 174
From the article:
"But these movies are not gone for good. ET has learned that a some titles have encumbrances with various legacy deals, but will rejoin the platform permanently after those licenses expire with respective partners."
https://www.etonline.com/disne...
I never thought I would post a news article about "Entertainment Tonight" on Slashdot
Comment Our company requires webcams... (Score 1) 145
We require webcams be activated for conference calls. Exceptions need to be approved by the host or your manager, but it's an exception... not a rule. If you're not on the webcam, your manager gets an email about it..
Comment Re:What;\'s a conference call? (Score 1) 145
Yup, same here.
Submission + - Supermicro fails at IPMI, leaks admin passwords (cari.net)
drinkypoo writes: Zachary Wikholm of Security Incident Response Team (CARISIRT) has publicly announced a serious failure in IPMI BMC (management controller) security on at least 31,964 public-facing systems with motherboards made by SuperMicro: "Supermicro had created the password file PSBlock in plain text and left it open to the world on port 49152." These BMCs are running Linux 2.6.17 on a Nuvoton WPCM450 chip. An exploit will be rolled into metasploit shortly. There is already a patch available for the affected hardware.
Submission + - Continuous system for converting waste plastics into Crude Oil 1
rtoz writes: A MIT spinout company aims to end the landfilling of plastic with a cost-effective system that breaks down nonrecycled plastics into oil, while reusing some of the gas it produces to operate.
To convert the plastics into oil, this new system first shreds them. The shreds are then entered into a reactor — which runs at about 400 degrees Celsius — where a catalyst helps degrade the plastics’ long carbon chains. This produces a vapor that runs through a condenser, where it’s made into oil.
Much of the system’s innovation is in its continuous operation
This company aims to produce more refined fuel that recyclers can immediately pump back into their recycling trucks, without the need for oil refineries.
Currently 2 Trillion Tons of Plastic waste is sitting in US landfills. So, there is a huge demand for this technology.
To convert the plastics into oil, this new system first shreds them. The shreds are then entered into a reactor — which runs at about 400 degrees Celsius — where a catalyst helps degrade the plastics’ long carbon chains. This produces a vapor that runs through a condenser, where it’s made into oil.
Much of the system’s innovation is in its continuous operation
This company aims to produce more refined fuel that recyclers can immediately pump back into their recycling trucks, without the need for oil refineries.
Currently 2 Trillion Tons of Plastic waste is sitting in US landfills. So, there is a huge demand for this technology.
You Are Not a Lawyer 693
Paul Ohm is starting a new "very occasional" feature on the Freedom To Tinker blog called You Are Not a Lawyer — "In this series, I will try to disabuse computer scientists and other technically minded people of some commonly held misconceptions about the law (and the legal system)." In the first installment, Ohm walks through the reasons why many techies' faith in the presence of "reasonable doubt" is so misplaced. "When techies think about criminal law, and in particular crimes committed online, they tend to fixate on [the 'beyond a reasonable doubt'] legal standard, dreaming up ways people can use technology to inject doubt into the evidence to avoid being convicted. I can't count how many conversations I have had with techies about things like the 'open wireless access point defense,' the 'trojaned computer defense,' the 'NAT-ted firewall defense,' and the 'dynamic IP address defense.' ... People who place stock in these theories and tools are neglecting an important drawback. There are another set of legal standards — the legal standards governing search and seizure — you should worry about long before you ever get to 'beyond a reasonable doubt.'"
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