Comment Re:Account security 101 (Score 1) 82
I guess I should have RTFA.
Comment Re:Account security 101 (Score 1) 82
Do not share your username and password with third parties.
FFS I can't believe a tech site like
Beeper (Mini) does not require an Apple ID or any credentials to be shared with Beeper. It performs validation via SMS
Comment Re: "Buy Word or else..." (Score 2) 120
Markdown is a good choice.
Submission + - Seagate To Pay $300 Million Penalty For Shipping Huawei 7 Million Hard Drives (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Seagate has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement with U.S. authorities for shipping over $1.1 billion worth of hard disk drives to China's Huawei in violation of U.S. export control laws, the Department of Commerce said on Wednesday. Seagate sold the drives to Huawei between August 2020 and September 2021 despite an August 2020 rule that restricted sales of certain foreign items made with U.S. technology to the company. Huawei was placed on the Entity List, a U.S. trade blacklist, in 2019 to reduce the sale of U.S. goods to the company amid national security and foreign policy concerns.
Seagate shipped 7.4 million drives to Huawei for about a year after the 2020 rule took effect and became Huawei's sole supplier of hard drives, the Commerce Department said. The other two primary suppliers of hard drives ceased shipments to Huawei after the new rule took effect in 2020, the department said. Though they were not identified, Western Digital and Toshiba were the other two, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said in a 2021 report on Seagate.
Seagate shipped 7.4 million drives to Huawei for about a year after the 2020 rule took effect and became Huawei's sole supplier of hard drives, the Commerce Department said. The other two primary suppliers of hard drives ceased shipments to Huawei after the new rule took effect in 2020, the department said. Though they were not identified, Western Digital and Toshiba were the other two, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said in a 2021 report on Seagate.
Comment Re:Would people install Linux on new Mac Hardware? (Score 4, Insightful) 37
I presume at least some of this support would apply to Linux VMs running on top of MacOS
Comment Re:Is this really newsworthy? (Score 1) 53
Freedom Mobile has revenues less than 1M CAD. I'm guessing they aren't the same folks running the national infrastructure.
Not sure where you got that, but they are the 4th largest mobile operator in Canada. They have 1250 employees, which assuming we spread $1M evenly among them, means they make $800/each, excluding infrastructure costs. Some googling tells me they're up around the $800M/year mark.
Submission + - Red Hat Suffers Massive Data Center Network Outage
An anonymous reader writes: According to multiple reports on Twitter, the Fedora Infrastructure Status page, and the #fedora-admin Freenode IRC channel, Red Hat is suffering a massive network outage at their primary data center. Details are sketchy at this point, but it looks to be impacting the Red Hat Customer Portal; as well as all their repositories (including Fedora, EPEL, Copr); their public build system, Koji; and a whole host of other popular services. There is no ETA for restoration of services at this point.
Submission + - US Appeals Court Dismisses AT&T Data Throttling Lawsuit (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court in California on Monday dismissed a U.S. government lawsuit that accused AT&T Inc (T.N) of deception for reducing internet speeds for customers with unlimited mobile data plans once their use exceeded certain levels. The company, however, could still face a fine from the Federal Communications Commission regarding the slowdowns, also called "data throttling." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said it ordered a lower court to dismiss the data-throttling lawsuit, which was filed in 2014 by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC sued AT&T on the grounds that the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier failed to inform consumers it would slow the speeds of heavy data users on unlimited plans. In some cases, data speeds were slowed by nearly 90 percent, the lawsuit said. The FTC said the practice was deceptive and, as a result, barred under the Federal Trade Commission Act. AT&T argued that there was an exception for common carriers, and the appeals court agreed.
Submission + - SETI has observed a "strong" signal that may originate from a Sun-like star (arstechnica.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia has detected a strong signal around 11 GHz (which is very unlikely to be naturally-caused) coming from HD164595, a star nearly identical in mass to the Sun and located about 95 light years from Earth. The system is known to have at least one planet.
If the signal were isotropic, it would seem to indicate a Kardashev Type II civilization.
While it is too early to draw any conclusions, the discovery will be discussed at an upcoming SETI committee meeting on September 27th.
If the signal were isotropic, it would seem to indicate a Kardashev Type II civilization.
While it is too early to draw any conclusions, the discovery will be discussed at an upcoming SETI committee meeting on September 27th.
Comment Re:Great! Now if only they would make upgrades eas (Score 1) 78
Do they really give out the hashes with no intention of letting you download the files?
Yes. As long as you have a Cisco.com account (free), you can view the filenames/hashes/release notes for all their releases.
Comment Re:Nutz (Score 1) 474
No it doesn't. This will use a separate SSID and external IP address from your home connection (as well a separate channel). While I don't agree with this practice, misstating how it works helps no one.
Comment Re:Simple and obvious solution: (Score 1) 104
I think you're overly optimistic about the performance of most routers...
Comment Despicable. (Score 4, Insightful) 195
'Nuff said.
How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 612
shawnz tips a blog post up at thebetaguy that details Windows 7's huge departure from the past, and the bold strategy Microsoft will be employing to maintain backward compatibility. Hint: Apple did it seven years back. There are interesting anti-trust implications too. "Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards compatibility issues; in short, it doesn't think about them at all. Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the Windows codebase; partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows."
Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition 501
Chris Blanc writes "Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more powerful and pervasive platform for all kinds of applications. 'Beard wants the new online/offline, browser/service to be more intelligent on behalf of its users. Early examples of this intelligence include the "awesome bar," which is what Mozilla calls the new smart address bar in Firefox 3. It offers users smart URL suggestions as they type based on Web searches and their prior Web browsing history. He's looking to extend on this with a "linguistic user interface" that lets users type plain English commands into the browser bar. Beard pointed me towards Quicksilver and Enso as products he's cribbing from.'"
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