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  1. Re:..and Mueller is just getting warmed up, folks on US Charges Russian Social Media Trolls Over Election Tampering (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the original claim was: "The Russians hacked the election", indicating that Trumps victory was illegitimate.

    This has eroded to the point of "Some people on the internet were trolls in the buildup to the election. Some of those people were Russian nationals".

    Social engineering is one kind of hacking technique...

  2. Re:"Crypto" Bandwagon on Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    This. Crypto is an important prefix that we still need. Not a shorthand for cryptocurrency.

    Also, there is no advantage to using cryptocurrencies for online gambling. Current online gambling sites use a virtual token system driven by a simple database that is extremely efficient and runs on a trusted system anyway.

  3. Re:We deserve it :-( on Crypto-currency Craze 'Hinders Search For Alien Life' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The flourishing of criminal finance and mass energy waste? Those are the only flourishings cryptocurrency has produced.

  4. We deserve it :-( on Crypto-currency Craze 'Hinders Search For Alien Life' (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Collectively, a species that invents something as terrible and pointless as cryptocurrency, and adopts it to the point that it causes a shortage of an important piece of technology, deserves to remain isolated :-(

  5. A perfect example of post-truth lunacy. There is an objective truth on any factual matter. You're not entitled to "your truth" and I'm not entitled to "my truth," there's just "THE truth."

  6. The existence of fake news is just a symptom - the cause is that there is a large fraction of the population that doesn't care if their news is fake, so long as it aligns with their views, because they prefer that over real news that doesn't. There will always be "fake news" in the presence of widespread, mainstreamed conspiracy nuttery. That's basically all "fake news" is - infowars/prisonplanet thinking and writing gone mainstream.

    If you try to erase it from every website out there, it will fall back to chain emails. If you somehow purge it from every form of electronic communication out there, people will make up their own fake news and spread it by word of mouth and dead-tree newsletters. To fix this, you have to treat the cause rather than just the symptoms - the fix has to be in the education system. The US will be stuck with a generation or two consisting of nearly 50% tinfoil hatters until they die off, and they're set to receive more until the education system teaches people at a young age the value of facts, the danger of lies (including lying to oneself), and how to tell fact from fiction. Voters who think they're entitled to their own facts are a cancer to any democratic system.

  7. Re:Wait a minute... on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    RACIST is simply a tool to dismiss something that one doesn't like.

    Deplorable nonsense, "racist" means "unfairly discriminates based on ethnicity," which you demonstrate your knowledge of by using it later in your own post:

    However, crying racism often leads to actual racist thoughts,

    Thoughts you don't like and would like to dismiss? Or thoughts which unfairly discriminate based on ethnicity?

  8. Re:Wait a minute... on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he gets it, you demonstrate why the modern racist line of thinking is effective at spreading their views. A cursory examination finds nothing inherently, blantantly racist about any individual part of it, but the components work together to form a racism-rationalizing machine.

  9. Re:What did you expect? on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I think he's saying that Google shouldn't be surprised at vile things showing up in a box populated by unmoderated entries from Random Internet Fuckwads. I'm not. They should moderate the entries if they don't like it.

  10. Spaceborne country club for billionaires. Annual membership fee: $10m. That way you only need 300 members.

  11. Re: Simple : Throttle Down their Connection on Major Websites Are Planning a 'Day of Action' To Block Repeal of Net Neutrality (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we recreate all these problems for Ajit?

    https://www.freepress.net/blog...

  12. Re:The people opposing NN on Major Websites Are Planning a 'Day of Action' To Block Repeal of Net Neutrality (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Promising people jobs from the '70s that aren't coming isn't populism, it's mendacious demagoguery, the latter is a subset of the former, they're not the same thing.

  13. Re:Have they cracked the Chromecast protocol? on VLC 3.0 Adds Chromecast Support and More as the Best Free Media Player Gets Even Better (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Awesome, now how do I turn a live feed of my phone's screen output into a file, for when I'm not just playing a preexisting file, which I already use SMB for? Ideally with minimal lag, for the aforementioned video chats.

  14. They are anonymous. Your name is not on a wallet address:

    https://thetinhat.com/blog/pri...

    If it were, people couldn't use BTC for buying drugs on darknet sites, receiving ransomware payments, funding North Korea after being stolen, etc.

  15. Re:Sediment use? Already Jesus was smarter than th on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well first, that was supposed to be a metaphor for faith, and second, the world's tallest skyscraper is now built on sand, so any practical message in the metaphor is just another thing in the Bible that's hilariously outdated, like its complete lack of criticism for the institution of slavery.

  16. Re:So the Russins have better security... on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it's a fun little factoid that he didn't illegally reveal classified information in the process of revealing above-top-secret information to an adversarial power while bragging about obstructing justice. And he didn't use emails either! Email security is serious business.

  17. Re:THOUGHT EXPERIMENT on Twitch To Ban Users For 'Hate' on Other Platforms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Farmville 2 on an old Windows Vista PC. He would arrange the crops to draw Stormy Daniels' boobs.

  18. Re:Have they cracked the Chromecast protocol? on VLC 3.0 Adds Chromecast Support and More as the Best Free Media Player Gets Even Better (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not files I have a problem with though, it's trying to stream arbitrary video and audio from my phone to another device, as if they were connected with an HDMI cable. Could be for viewing pictures, a video chat stream, or a web browsing session...anything, really.

  19. Re:So the Russins have better security... on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there's a difference between a classified system and classified information - it's much easier to control a system than information. Hillary put classified information on a non-classified internet-connected system. There's no way to actively prevent someone from doing that, you can only monitor for it and clean up after it. For example, Donald Trump could spill classified information to the Russians in a meeting and OH WAIT

  20. Re:Have they cracked the Chromecast protocol? on VLC 3.0 Adds Chromecast Support and More as the Best Free Media Player Gets Even Better (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I use SMB on my home network. I thought a software-based Chromecast implementation could be handy basically as an alternative to wiring the phone to the TV (since my phone runs LineageOS and doesn't have the binary blob drivers for HDMI output).

  21. Hard to hide on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they'd got their operation up and running, neighboring towns would grow suspicious as all of their lights dimmed at the same time.

  22. Have fun sharing your buttcoins around with no legal way to convert them to or from cash. Will you enjoy just watching them, like movie files?

  23. "Volatile" on Nvidia Will Focus on Gaming Because Cryptocurrencies Are 'Volatile' (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's an efficient way to write "about to be squished like a bug by regulations, due to massive criminal finance capability that has amazingly been overlooked so far."

  24. Have they cracked the Chromecast protocol? on VLC 3.0 Adds Chromecast Support and More as the Best Free Media Player Gets Even Better (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Chromecast protocol is heavily obfuscated and has secret encryption keys. Have they cracked it, meaning I can look into VLC's source code to see how it works and port it to other things, or are they tacking on a closed-source blob to enable this?

    I actually lost interest in the things when I learned how they work. Chromecast isn't really a media streaming system, it's more of a URL sharing system.

  25. If the guy who did the killing did so because the person who was killed was aiming a gun at the killer, then it's kind of important to have that information, don't you think? Otherwise you might think the man was a murderer rather than acting in self-defense. You're arguing that all of that information should be hidden.