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  1. Re:What will I do now? on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, don't forget digital signatures. Use them when available but double-check with checksums. With proper chain of trust, checksums are just as good as digital signature although. Signing is just signing a checksum with PKA/RSA logic which constitute a way to establish trust in the checksum, that is about it.

    But then again, you have to download the content first ;-(

  2. Re:What will I do now? on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If the checksum matches, then you can download and verify.

    If the checksum matches what? Since if I understand you correctly, you haven't downloaded anything yet. The only way to see if a checksum matches is to first download the content.

    Most of the time, checksum webpages are not even hosted on the same server as the download links which seems logical to me.

  3. Re:There are three stories here.. on Arctic Stronghold of World's Seeds Flooded After Permafrost Melts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Give him a chance, he just learned the word masturbate, hence the confusion.

  4. yeah, those mj seeds sure make you forget to do things...

  5. Re:What will I do now? on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: You have to do the checksum anyway after you have spent the bandwidth. There is no way to trust a server in advance.

  6. Re:What will I do now? on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    What if your Ubuntu site had been hacked? Verify checksums from different sources. I also use signatures when available, combined with checksums. ABC baby you and me!

    Example:
    $ sha256sum jdk-8u121-linux-i586.tar.gz
    f7d6cf1468c5e71ff097bec0189caccdd8e709a2a88a2c9849ad6200c0f33d4c jdk-8u121-linux-i586.tar.gz

    Now just google for:
    f7d6cf1468c5e71ff097bec0189caccdd8e709a2a88a2c9849ad6200c0f33d4c

    You get the idea.

  7. Re:Working as intended on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 1

    I just confirmed with my very outstanding, I mean; they are the best, that submarine detection systems at Mar-a-Lago triggered the honeypots. Same for Virginia but with some classified detection system where people are as well the best cybers around.

    Based on all that, we definitely have the best cybers on-hand.

    Get over it!

  8. Re: One bunch should be happy... on Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    count me in! I guess it was too easy...

  9. Re:Wrong Headline on Drone Pilots In China Have to Register With the Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to know a lot about the matter. Do you own a registered drone? If so, will you let me operate it please? That would be really cool...

  10. Re:Working as intended on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 2

    Indeed, indeed. What they detected were honeypots.

  11. Re:great on Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Our company is looking for an experienced driver. Salary is 1500$ a week.

    Please contact us for further details.

  12. 0.55 pounds on Drone Pilots In China Have to Register With the Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    China's Civil Aviation Authority has announced that drone pilots will be required to register any unmanned aerial vehicle heavier than 0.55 pounds with the government starting on June 1st.

    Hmm... Ok, sounds like 250 grams.

  13. Re:What will I do now? on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    couldn't you just verify the checksum? Heck, signatures should be available too...

    It doesn't really matter where you download it from...

  14. Re:She did the right thing on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it convenient to know if you invite me to meet your sister.

  15. A lot of people die prematurely due to unrelated causes. Also, nothing beats the smell of diesel in the morning!

  16. Re:Microsoft does need to share some of the blame on Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You spoofed your MAC address? Very clever...

  17. Re:First Comey now this on FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on PopeRatso! It is much easier to pretend to be the Pope or even god.

  18. Re:Net Neutrality is a pile of crap... and it stin on FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    what's missing is procedure, enforcement, oversight, penalties, etc. All of those things are necessary if the rules themselves are to have any meaning.

    Hey! Thanks for that!

    -blackwater skyops

  19. You should have mentioned mercury sedimentation/concentration whether it comes from natural origin or not. Natives living out there have been been found to have unusually high mercury level in their body after the dams were built.

  20. I meant hydro power, sorry. But still; Don't mix capacity and production! Production isn't that good when dams are empty even with infinite capacity.

    **Hydro power**
    Production:
    In 2008:
    Quebec: ~180 TWh
    US: ~280 TWh
    In 2011:
    Quebec: ~190 TWh
    US: ~345 TWh

    Capacity:
    Quebec ~35 GW
    US ~100 GW

    Here is some more links:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Well, some must have figured out how to communicate with them because Quebec produces more than half the quantity of electricity that US produces itself and sells a lot of electricity to US because it wouldn't know what to do with all that production otherwise.

  22. Just install a giant agitator the size of the reservoir over it, powered by the dam. That's what I do with sugar in my coffee.

    Problem solved!

  23. Quebec is still pretty cheap and beats Germany at electricity from renewables: 97%

    http://www.hydroquebec.com/res...

    https://www.mern.gouv.qc.ca/en...

  24. Also in Quebec, it is 97% renewable electricity and Quebec is several times bigger than Germany in area. So they have been deserving a /. article for years I guess...

    https://www.mern.gouv.qc.ca/en...

  25. yep, passphrase and really good entropy wise and easy to remember.