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  1. Re:Nuclear war risk on North Korea Launches Missile From Submarine (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the chance of the US attacking NK is much larger that the other way around. With ICBM's, NK might have reduced that chance significantly.

  2. Re:Nuclear war risk on North Korea Launches Missile From Submarine (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But at least he tries to reduce the risk of a conventional war started by the US on some trumped-up charge for the sake of regime change. If the charge of, say, weapons of mass destruction, is real, I'm sure the US does not want to risk it. Sure, they would probably win the military conflict, but some of their own major cities might be levelled too. And after years of guirilla war the US invaders would be kicked out anyway. See Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq for previous examples.

    Of course, this all assumes that people with some common sense will be the countries leaders. I'm affraid what might happen if a war monger like Hillary Clinton will be the next president.

  3. So you're saying they are very vulnerable to a social engineering attack?

  4. Re:Guarantees? Banking secrecy, anyone? on Can Switzerland Become a Safe Haven For the World's Data? (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, those banks usually also had a presence in the US so they could use that to pressure them. Anyone with more than 2 brain cells won't put a legal presence of such a data-protecting company in the US or EU.

  5. Re:How can this be checked? on Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats (gsmarena.com) · · Score: 1

    It didn't show any translations in human readable form (and I didn't make a screenshot).

  6. Re:How can this be checked? on Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats (gsmarena.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I had to re-authenticate other devices (PC and tablet) by scanning a QR code from the main device (phone). This might be indicating that a key exchange is taking place.

  7. Re:Acceptable ads = clickbait shit on Using Adblock Plus to Block Ads is Legal, Rules German Court -- For the Fifth Time (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you want to get rid of ads on Android you need root anyway, if only for the option to disable the adservice in Google Play Services thereby making a lot of apps (not only the browser) adfree.

  8. Re:Small footprint? on Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Released For Windows (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    I did write version 2.2 for that exact reason. I'm still running 2.2.1. Some software is just finished.

  9. Small footprint? on Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Released For Windows (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Size is relative it seems. uTorrent is less than 1MB, and still fully functional (if you can find a 2.2 version somewhere). But I read webinterface, and we all know web "programmers" are not known for their efficient products.

  10. Re:Where do inmates get money for calls? on Court Stops FCC's Latest Attempt To Lower Prison Phone Rates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "We have the highest rate of incarceration in the free world"

    Free world? The US is one of the more unfree countries in this world. This is one of the issues that makes the US unfree. Except when you have lost of money of course, but that holds for most countries.

  11. These new emojis are awesome on K-12 CS Framework Calls For Teaching Kids Responsible Use of Avatars and Emoji · · Score: 2

    With the new species-selectable emojies in WhatsApp I can now show a white cop shooting a nigger and a white smiley after the deed. Just what they were intended for. :-)

  12. US is a wheening child on U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering the massive sabotage they inflicted in Iran, why would the Iranians even care? I assume Iran can now indict some NSA employees?

  13. I follow the development of Signal (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android) and its fork SMSSecure (https://github.com/SMSSecure/SMSSecure). They had a similar problem too, where the developer of material-dialogs decided to remove all old versions of his library after an interface change, resulting in breaking builds (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4138). Both projects solved it initially by hosting their own version, and then remove the library completely.

  14. Re:Keep saying there's no Islamic terrorist proble on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Really? How about Numbers 31:07-17 (King James version):
    Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
    But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  15. Re:Before the idiot 'Murican gun nuts start up.. on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how this is in Belgium, but I just read an article that most people in my country (The Netherlands) are now atheists. In fact, there are more atheists than all religious people combined. Christianity is losing members very fast here.

  16. Re: Don't take away everyone's freedom on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I prefer to have freedom FROM religion. Religions that make people commit suicide bombings, human sacrifices or wars should be banned. That includes at least all religions originating in the Middle East.

  17. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's about Europe. Donald Tusk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... perhaps?

  18. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not really, AIDS is much harder to cure than getting rid of muslims is.

  19. Re:Don't take away everyone's freedom on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It will have positive consequences: unemployment rates will drop signigicant in the EU. Except for people who work in a prison, many of them will loose their job.

  20. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Well, people die of _something_. And since we have virtually wiped out infection diseases, cancer and heart diseases are the main remaining causes of death.

  21. In that case, on;y the bribes become more expensive.

  22. Re:Sweden gets what they deserve on Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se) · · Score: 1

    You should hear some Americans talk about that skirmisch they call "civil war".

  23. Re:interesting and I wish them luck on Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    At least you don't have to re-fix them when a new version comes out. :-)

  24. Not surprising on Facebook and Whatsapp Discontinue Support For Blackberry (canadajournal.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Blackberry is dropping support for BBOS itself. The current BBOS 10 seems to be in maintenance mode and their new device will run Android. And the remarks of their CEO that companies should add a backdoor for "lawfull interception" scared away all customers who valued privacy and destroyed the "it is secure" argument when considering Blackberry.

  25. Re:Uber confirmed for technologically incompetent on Uber Seeking To Buy Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe in the US, where the streets are car-friendly and drivers usually behave very predictively. And there they still drive very slow. Now try that self-driving car in Paris, Rome or Manilla and see if it even dares moving when it calculates the chance of a crash.