Comment You want this war to end? (Score 1) 111
Stop paying for it.
Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 111
Well, we know who has lost the argument...
Comment Bob! (Score 1) 20
They're finally going to unleash a Bob / Clippy mashup that does something.
Hilarious stories await us.
Sad ones too.
Comment Re:Are normal russian phones NOT spy devices? (Score 1) 23
They forked SailfishOS to create a domestic OS to avoid these kinds of problems.
Russian linux devs still contribute to that tree though Linus banned their ethnicity from his tree.
Since we're all speculating, probably their phone is clunky and some Generals kept their iPhones against advice or orders because they're more featureful and convenient.
We'll hear eventually.
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.
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