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  1. Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    > Just FYI, Indians hate Muslims.

    Who doesn't? Even muslims hate muslims (sunni vs. shia).

  2. Re:Envy is one of the seven deadly sins on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh well, I'm from Europe and new railroads being much more expensive and much less profitable than first estimated is certainly not an unknown phenomenon here. I know 2 Dutch railroad projects that were massively over budget and much less profitable than estimated (a freight transferline), and a complete failure (a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris, which is now used by normal trains but no further than Brussels).

  3. Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    People in India are mostly hindoes, not Muslims. Most muslims went to Pakistan after the former Brittish India became independent and hostilities broke out between hindos and muslims.

  4. More likely he'll be assasinated on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The chance that Obama will send a sniper or drone is much more likely. He and Hillary are trying to heat up the cold war with Russia for a long time now, so this might be a nice attempt to further it even more. Especially because Putin can't let something like that go because he will be looked at as weak if he does.

  5. Re:All it accomplished is... on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Again? I'm already on that list for liking Wikileaks on Facebook.

  6. Re:This will never happen, even if I want it to. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's exactly how it DOES work in many EU states, especially when the ruling class doesn't like the outcome of a referendum: for example the referenda in Ireland about the EU "constitution" was done over to get an other outcome, and the outcomes of referenda in The Netherlands about the same and about the treaty with the Ukraine were more or less ignored.

  7. The problem for them would be that Trump probably doesn't care much if this leaked, so he can not be blackmailed this way as long as there are no minors involved. And I thought the democrats were so respectfull to u usual sexual orientations, and see them now crying about piss sex. UImagine the uproar if someone would suggest Trump was gay.

  8. Yes, but unless the existence of quantum computers is proven they will not be used much because they have disadvantages over existing algorithms, like huge keysizes.

  9. That's where end to end encryption is invented for. Apple, Google, etc. can not read the data themselves.

  10. Re:$250 is mid-range now? on Nokia Finally Returns To The Smartphone Market (In China) (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlocked of course.

  11. Re:Does it really matter? Its market share is too on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Thet's way more than windows phone.

  12. Re:In the beginning.... on Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017 (linux.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    And then the devil created systemd?

  13. Re: Still not "that great" on T-Mobile Eliminates Cheaper Postpaid Plans, Sells 'Unlimited Data' Only (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I pay 17,72 Euros/month for unlimited data and 190 minutes or sms (which I don't use all). The situation in North America on mobile contracts seems really bad. Even with prepaid data I would not pay nearly $100/month.

  14. Why would anyone believe Clapper, who has been cought at lying under oath before the congress before?

  15. eMule takes already care of that with it'sd KAD search protocol. Decentralized directories already exists, just not (yet) for torrents.

  16. Re:I was talking about this with my brother on Microsoft Is No Longer Selling Any Lumia Windows Phones On Its US Store (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Too late. In some large companies the MS-indoctrinated IT guys would force windows phones on the employees, but when BYOD comes in those windows phones disappear quickly.

  17. Putin said that he wanted to see Trump's reaction first before making any action. What he is saying is actually: "Obama, you're not relevant anymore, I'll handle this with the new president".

  18. Well, actually the accent is correct. When I worked as a graduate student with a Russian guest professor I was surprised how much his accenyt matched that of all those spy movies.

  19. Re:Retaliation on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sanctions for the next 22 days. Then Trump can reverse them and earn that Nobel peace prize Obomba got.

  20. Fortunately there are many more manufacturers than Samsung who make Android phones.

  21. Retaliate for 20 days on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 4

    After that, the Democrats will protest the peace initiative from Trump to defuse the new cold war with Russia and call for more war.

  22. Re:Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just as much evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

  23. Re:Morons shouldn't hire lawyers on VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge (deseretnews.com) · · Score: 2

    > VidAngel will only lose if their legal arguments are inaccurate

    You mean they'll loose when they can't pay all the lawsuits anymore. Hollywood is good friends with the current administration, that doesn't eactly help VidAngel.

  24. Problem solved already with Signal 3.25.2 release on Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently Egypt (and the UAE) were just blocking the server. Moxie just released 3.25.2 in the beta channel to circumvent this. These changes in build.gradle show it's quite easy to circumvent such a block:

                      buildConfigField "String", "TEXTSECURE_URL", "\"https://textsecure-service.whispersystems.org\""
    + buildConfigField "String[]", "CENSORED_COUNTRIES", "{\"+20\", \"+971\"}"
    + buildConfigField "String", "UNCENSORED_FRONTING_HOST", "\"https://www.google.com\""
    + buildConfigField "String", "CENSORED_REFLECTOR", "\"signal-reflector-meek.appspot.com\""

    In case those countries banned Signal from Google Play I just uploaded 3.25.2 to apkmirror.com (I don't know when they'll publish it though).

    If all else fails, you can still use the fork Silence, which uses tghesms/mms encryption that Signal dropped in 2.7.0. Blocking sms will fuck off all kinds of industrial controllers so that's not really an option.

  25. Re:You fucked up, Open Whisper Systems on Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They just have to block the server, that's sufficient. No deep package inspection needed.