Re: TightVNC development is active AFAIK
Ah, the 1.x version is no longer supported and that's what Kaspersky studied. There is a version 2.x. I'll make this clearer in the piece.
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If you look at the logs, you'll see the AI thought Elaine was, at times, a static object - it didn't expect her to move into its path of travel. She did, though, because she was a person crossing the street. Something the AI didn't take into account at all until the final second or so. Or so it seems.
And don't call me Shirely.
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Sure, I get what you're saying. Though, you are describing just one scenario (Sprint dies, leaving just T-Mob, Verizon and ATT). There are/were other options, such as, someone else more competent takes over Sprint and turns it around or merges it with someone outside the big 3.
Softbank's mismanagement of yet another business shouldn't let them off the hook. We shouldn't sleepwalk into super-consolidation.
PS: Doom and gloom is our jam. We're an antidote to much of the tech press which is usually hopped up on happy hype pills.
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Er, yes, you absolutely do get to gripe about it - how you were coerced into doing something you really didn't want to do simply just to work in the career of your choice. Some of us just fill out an application form and go through interviews. Some people have to, well, you get the idea.
This is exactly the sort of thing you should complain about. Loudly. Repeatedly. Until the abuse stops.
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From the paper:
"the lowest well-measured black hole masses [5 to 6 M☉ (4, 5)]. Whereas some models of black hole formation indicate a lower mass limit of ∼4 M☉"
The Chandrasekhar limit is about white dwarf stars, which can eventually collapse into black holes, though it needs to take on mass to do this. The limit of 1.4 is the maximum limit for a stable white dwarf. If you want a black hole out of one, it needs more matter, it seems.
See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4887.pdf
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There was a reference to DNS caching in the article, though I took it out as it was potentially confusing: a reader privately pointed out to me that the TTL of .amazonaws.com domains is in the order of a few seconds, much shorter than I assumed. Next time I'll check the TTL...
So if you are caching the queries somewhere, great, but ensure they are cached for a while and not dumped within a minute.
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Edit: I've added some brief advice to the update in case it's needed by anyone in future.
Er, well yeah, it's called Hacker *House* ;) Lots of small biz is run out of people's home offices. That's basically what it was, a small infosec training outfit run out of a home office.
I completely get why people see this as being a bit weird - not a terribly fixed address, etc. We're doing a piece today or for Monday on WTF's really going on.
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Funny that the 'graph's Silicon Valley office is right next to El Reg's US base in San Francisco. Can even report we've been out drinking with them.
They can't be much older than 35-ish, aren't a bunch of stereotypical Tele grumps, and yet suitably skeptical of American tech. No complaints here.
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By C-like, we mean, it compiles like C, it kinda looks like C, and it's supposed to be a systems language. On reflection, it does look like Python, too.
The lines are blurred and fuzzy.
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PS: The indentation doesn't bother me because it's Python-ish, and also it gets rid of the whole argument over where to put any scope-containing braces - on a newline or same line.
If you yank a package from the Ruby Gems repository, it can't be automatically and easily installed by the Ruby toolchain, used to build software that integrates with, in this case, Chef. You have to get the source by hand - except you can't, because the Github repo was also removed.
No different to pulling software from the Debian package repository, and yanking it from wherever the code is hosted, eg: Github.
Why do dependencies in this manner, so automatically? Well, that's the modern way. Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, whatever you're using, the libraries you pull into a project have their own dependencies, which have their own dependencies, and you don't want to be merging updates by hand into each of them.
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Look, we talked it over in the office. There are parts that are baffling - why can't the cops or Feds just question the guy, or check phone records, the usual stuff.
But then in this day and age, nothing surprises us anymore: incompetence and misfortune and difficulties strike at every level.
The article is presented as is: reporting what she has claimed, and what she wants implemented, which to us seem pretty basic measures.
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I wouldn't be so quick to judge the mental state of someone who went through the ordeal they described.
Also, talking to the police involves formal interviews, lawyers, identifying the suspect, collecting of DNA evidence, perhaps even court appearances - not particularly nice experiences versus lodging a complaint to an app maker.
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Uber claims it is not covered by the law. In its SEC paperwork, it describes drivers as customers: people using its app marketplace to sell rides to others.
This is partly how it plans to challenge the law: insist its operation doesn't fall under the law, then fight to ensure it does not fall under the law.
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Lucky you - quite a lot of Android users are still waiting for v10...
Also: don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you think we've got something wrong. We can't read every comment, so we may miss this sort of thing. I've made it clear Android 10 is just out.
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No, it's a brain burp on our end. We meant unprotected DNS queries, not HTTP. HTTP on the mind. It's fixed.
Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.co.uk if you see anything wrong, and we'll fix it up right away. It's hard to spot requests for clarifications buried in the comments hours after publication: there's so much for us to go through while we're trying to get articles out the door.
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