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  1. Re:give me a break. on Tunnelled IPv6 Attacks Bypass Network Intrusion Detection Systems (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can use the entire 10.x.y.z range internally, that are more IP's than I'll ever need.

  2. Re:give me a break. on Tunnelled IPv6 Attacks Bypass Network Intrusion Detection Systems (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I just deactivate IPv6 at all dual stack machines, that should fix this (and a lot more issues that the idiot who implemented IPv6 first instead of use it only if no IPv4 available created).

  3. Re:OS/2 Warp 4: Better than modern Linux. on After 25 Years, 'Lost' OS/2 2.0 Build 6.605 Finally Re-Discovered (os2museum.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember having crashed OS/2 only once: when I deliberately ran it out of memory to see what would happen.

  4. Re:OS/2 Warp 4: Better than modern Linux. on After 25 Years, 'Lost' OS/2 2.0 Build 6.605 Finally Re-Discovered (os2museum.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > systemd

    Well, that's your problem. Try a Linux distribution that isn't systemd infested like Slackware. That's where I went after working some years with OS/2 2.1 - 3.0 on my home machine, after I realised that I was tuning the OS/2 setup more and more in the direction of Linux.

    But OS/2 was fun compared to DOS, I could run the simulation programs I used in my graduation work in 4 DOS screens simultaneously at night and ahve them all be finished in the morning.

  5. Re:Ubuntu Phone on Windows 10 Mobile Needs To Be Put Out of Its Misery (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And iOS is only large in the USA. If the current trend continues, the market share of iOS will be in the single digits soon.

  6. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You work in the Bay area?

  7. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Brits want less islam they shouldn't have all those Pakis in just because Pakistan was once part of their empire.

  8. Re:Author is deluded on Facebook Copied Snapchat a Fourth Time, and Now All Its Apps Look the Same (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    IF. On the other hand, the existing WhatsApp and Messenger users are usually annoyed about the changes, so they might loose users too.

  9. Re:Since when on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    The heretics were much worse. Fortunately we were able to kick the most extreme elements of those out of the country to the western colonies, who are now called the USA.

  10. Re:No need for backdoors on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the real difference between a religion and any other belief system like nazism, communism or neoconservatism?

  11. Re: no thanks on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They might try blocking. WhatsApp could in return implement domain fronting, like Signal does, and they might have to block more than they like: https://whispersystems.org/blo...

  12. History taught us that if one deals with MS, it should be "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice".

  13. The next step qill be that it becomes deadlow if you're still using XP or windows 7, and show a popup that for a decent performance you ned to downgrade to winspam 10.

  14. It will just be used by politicians: "Hillary is a crooked warmonger!" "Trump is an narcissistic idiot!". There, 2 lawsuits comming in.

  15. Re:Bullshit. on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But that's gay child sex, that's discusting.

  16. Yeah, if for nothing else downloading the pirated copy saves you the trouble of removing the DRM yourself.

  17. Re: TRIGGERED! on Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I can build an even bigger library with a lot of fabulous classics for $0 these days. I can sometims even download the pirated copy before Amazon starts selling it, like with the last part of the great schools of Dune trilogy.

  18. Re: Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    Brasilian Portugese is in Android translations a separate language from European Portugese. They seem to differ more than American and Brittish English, maybe more like Dutch and South African.

  19. Re:Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    Why should the language be "neutral"?

  20. Re: Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    When I had to work together with a Chinese postdoc when I was an undergrad student, it took me 2 weeks before I could understand him. Until then, we had to communicate in writing. However, it would have taken both of us much more time to learn Esperanto to a level we could communicate with the same precision.

    Funny that a Russian guest professor had the exact same accent Russian spies use in classic spy movies. One thing that Hollywood apparently got right. I had no issues understanding him.

  21. Re: Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's precisely why it would never work: the lack of cultural attachments. English as second language is much more usefull. Some people, who have English as their native language may have an advantage, but apart from some SJW's noone cares.

  22. Re: Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 2

    That sms popularity seems to ba a US thing, where unlimited sms is the norm, but only there. But Signal is then your solution: includes an sms client. Unfortunately they skipped encrypted sms so I now use Silence as sms app, a Signal fork that retained encrypted sms. Encrypted sms can be usefull as a secure backup option.

  23. Re:Why do you believe that? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    Why Esperanto? English is already available as the most-spoken 2nd language of the world. OK, only if you count Engrish too but still.

  24. Re:Stop instant messaging on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SMS is expensive in most countries, and if younwant to add pictures, MMS is even more expensive. So that's not an option. The success of WhatsApp in some countries, with a near 100% coverage, comes from the fact that they were first in a market where the telcos earned tons of money with sms. Now that Facebook is trying to bloat it into Snapchat it remains to be seen for how long though.

  25. Re:Stop instant messaging on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    Not everyone's use case can possibly be covered with one application. You want a ton of non-core options and no security at all? Go for WeChat. You want strict e2e encryption, which makes your app blocked (or at least they try to) in some countries: take Signal (who seems missing in the picture, together with other secure messengers like Wire and Threema).