Comment Re:Commercial Speaker's Own Name? (Score 1) 164
That site is blocking VPN clients (sus) but here's another one you can pick up at CVS:
https://www.cvs.com/shop/ijoy-...
Imagine how much jet fuel was wasted on being stupid.
Comment Re:Stupid Passenger, but why was it an issue? (Score 2) 164
This is an example of "sometimes you can be too careful".
Submission + - Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (science.org) 3
schwit1 writes: By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
Comment Re:Completely wrong and misleading headline (Score 2) 50
Exactly, we would have had cataclysmic earthquakes if the summary were correct.
The poles have shifted dramatically in recent decades and the field has weakened substantially leading to bright auroras in Florida and Hawaii at low KP numbers.
Models have the North Pole arriving at the Bay of Bengal sooner than anybody would expect. Christmas will be awkward until we change our vocabulary..
Comment Re:I'm just not interested in more Star Wars (Score 4, Funny) 91
Very similar here.
Somebody said the new movie has a fifty year old baby as a main character which is supposedly their key demographic.
Submission + - Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are (futurism.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: New research out of Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that the types of Wi-Fi routers we all have in our homes come with a major privacy vulnerability that can be used to identify any human body that comes within their range.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 38
It's 12/days old
but this is the first I've heard of it.
I'll suggest folks light up his torrent before the sharks start circling (and to help his bandwidth costs).
"This belongs in a museum!"
Comment Re:Fine (Score 1) 54
Can we keep the Rust team busy with porting them?
We can't allow this to stand having MCA token ring drivers in C.
Comment Re:What about Wine? (Score 3, Informative) 54
i386 arch will be around in some form approximately forever. This was a weird hybrid model for lowmem amd64 devices.
Comment Re:It's really Microsoft endagering everyone.. (Score 1) 36
Your theory fits all of the strange behavior data we have.
Good thinking.
Comment Music (Score 1) 22
The music was incredibly tight on the trench run scene, perfectly choreographed with the action.
Imagine how different Williams's score would have been with bland editing.
Comment Re:Tech industry is right wing? (Score 2) 68
They think center-left is ultra right-wing.
Some mostly sensible people consider themselves center-left and feel hurt that the he Valley types are calling them fascists.
It's all complicated by the 1D spectrum model of the French Parliament being applied to politics broadly.
The Left Authoritarians really hate the Right Authoritarians while the Left Libertarians and the Right Libertarians mostly get along.
It sort of makes sense becauae violence is inherent in the former while cooperation is inherent in the latter.
But the angry aren't usually educated im polisci at all and just operate on the Friend/Eny distinction of their tribe's momentary collective preferences, which can turn on a dime.
The Valley oligarchs will also switch allegiances instantaneously if they perceive advantage in profit or control with shifting winds.
Comment Re:All data should be fuzzed by the browser (Score 1) 111
They keep adding timing noise to these API's as attacks show up but this really speaks to the need to have the noise in the core I/O libraries, not inside each new API.
If it's writing to disk in any way it should go through a code path with timing noise.
It would be easier on the feature developers too.
Probably in the network API's too. Have a turbo mode in preferences at one end of a privacy slider, maybe. Default should be safe but the browser benchmark people incentivize the wrong thing. "You get what you measure" and stuff.
Comment Re:This is why gambling is illegal. (Score 2) 43
It's an overseas market too.
Lots of defects in the case.
Somebody said his legal defense is that if Congress can do it he can. If true it could be an impactful case.
Submission + - I found a second vote.gov -- and it's registered to the White House
As_I_Please writes: The Drey Dossier reports that the National Design Studio, an office created by executive order and which reports only to the White House, has been building copies of federal agency websites like vote.gov, passports.gov, login.gov and others.
What [the National Design Studio] is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.
Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.
NDS Infrastructure Map — my live working github map of every National Design Studio subdomain I have found, filterable by status, registrant, and parent domain. If you want to retrace this investigation or watch new subdomains appear in real time, start here.
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