MertsA

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931.
by MertsA 10y ago
Sweden postponed it for 4 years, I would want my lawyer too given the circumstances.
932.
by MertsA 10y ago
According to https://justice4assange.com Sweden regularly questions people within the EU yet they have refused to question Julian Assange even though they are free to interrogate him inside the embassy whenever they want. Sweden
933.
by MertsA 10y ago
Doesn't matter. Secure boot just requires that the bootloader is signed with an approved key. Most major distros already have this down as Microsoft will happily sign any bootloader that isn't a glaring hole for a small sum of mon
934.
by MertsA 10y ago
Eh, honestly compared to other operating systems it's really not. Windows 10 is starting to get there.
935.
by MertsA 10y ago
In my mind, I really don't even see any reason to believe that there is significant bad blood between the actual employee that was fired and FSF. The only side of this story that we have is Leah's and she's already outed the
936.
by MertsA 10y ago
Well, we don't really know all of the facts but it apparently wasn't a problem when she was hired, wasn't a problem when they highlighted her for Lady Ada Lovelace day, and it wasn't a problem that kept FSF from giving h
937.
by MertsA 10y ago
The only thing that's mandatory in systemd is the init and the journal. Everything else is optional.
938.
by MertsA 10y ago
So what you're referring to is that he had some unit started within some user's scope and then killed the scope which promptly stopped his unit. This behavior was actually not the default on most distros until not too terribly lon
939.
by MertsA 10y ago
You need to understand what systemctl disable is really doing. "Enabling" in systemd means look at the unit file and see what target should start it when enabled and then it goes and adds a symlink to that target. Masking is repla
940.
by MertsA 10y ago
The Falcon 9 also can't throttle low enough to be able to hover when empty. It could do it with extra fuel but that's only because the extra fuel would add more mass, it would have to land before it became light enough that it sta
941.
by MertsA 10y ago
So my knowledge about how forward secrecy works in TLS is spotty to say the least but the server still has the decryption key in memory AFAIK. Why not sidestep the issue and just create a secure channel between the server and whatever middl
942.
by MertsA 10y ago
100Mbit can save loads of money if you're fine with used hardware. You can get old Dell Powerconnect 3548s for next to nothing and it's a decent managed switch for SMB use. They're cheap to the point where you don't care
943.
by MertsA 10y ago
Honestly we already have standards for tethering over USB... Still crazy, but it could actually work.
944.
by MertsA 10y ago
Why do you suggest that rules out sabotage? What better way to cause a rocket to explode than to rupture a high pressure tank inside the oxidizer tank right after it was fueled.
945.
by MertsA 10y ago
I think it's fair to point out that shotspotter specifically has been criticized for being highly inaccurate in practice.
946.
by MertsA 10y ago
Or more scarily, have you ever had a passenger in your car and you're not 100% sure if they had drugs on their person? Have you ever had police search your car with a drug dog or consented to a search with a drug dog? Both of those com
947.
by MertsA 10y ago
They do keep records. The article that you were referring to was about how the NY police claimed that the system that they store those records in couldn't handle something like calculating the total amount of cash seized across all rec
948.
by MertsA 10y ago
For the last 100 feet, yeah sure, you'll need someone to handle the package. But my box of PCI express network cards didn't get a boot print on it in the last 100 feet. My box of a replacement drum unit didn't get thrown abou
949.
by MertsA 10y ago
Yes but there are plenty of cases where police departments aren't even bothering to get the service address from the ISP. Look at the case of the farm in Kansas or the house in Atlanta, The police don't have some independent sourc
950.
by MertsA 10y ago
What he's saying is that it's not good enough to be able to control the car 90% of the time. Either it needs to be robust enough to operate safely without human intervention 100% of the time or it needs to somehow enforce that the
951.
by MertsA 10y ago
>would also cook the planet in a toaster oven. That energy is normally converted to heat anyways so it's not like it's that much hotter. Solar panels are going to absorb more light than vegetation would but either way, it'
952.
by MertsA 10y ago
As an example, the strut failure in the falcon 9 a while back didn't explode from the failure, that was the flight termination system that actually caused the fireball when things started going south.
953.
by MertsA 10y ago
But why not do both? It's unreasonable that there is a mountain of CAs out there that never sign certs for .us but they still have the capability to do so. The more CAs that can sign a cert for my domain, the more chances that someone
954.
by MertsA 10y ago
Do you have a source for the claim of caller ID spoofing being illegal? AFAIK that's only illegal if you're using it to further a fraud.
955.
by MertsA 10y ago
Just to chime in on the matter, there are actual legitimate reasons to spoof a caller ID. There's even legitimate reasons to spoof a caller ID that you don't own. Right now I've got a couple phone systems that are set up to s
956.
by MertsA 10y ago
It was fiber taps between Google Datacenters overseas. The implication being that if your location history, emails, photos, secret diary, or what have you is transferred overseas at any point then you automatically have no more rights to pr
957.
by MertsA 10y ago
It's more easily mitigated by not placing a useless button in a high traffic area.
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by MertsA 10y ago
As far as placebo effects in cars, a lot of newer cars are putting in "sound enhancing" tubes to pipe sound into the cabin from the engine bay to make the car sound more powerful. VW went so far as to actually play engine noises o
959.
by MertsA 10y ago
I think the outrage is over the fact that MS broke any use of the command wget or curl and also, it doesn't even provide a compatible alternative to what they were aliasing ala busybox.
960.
by MertsA 10y ago
I'd expect that there would be some regulations surrounding fire safety but Tesla went so far as to use ceramic and steel for the floor pan. I've never heard of any other vehicle using ceramics to create a firewall. Even just the

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