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  1. Re:Trust noone on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    This. We need to get distributed verification systems into all the mainstream browsers. Once the popular free browsers have it the commercial browsers will follow suit so they don't lag too far behind. Then we can transition from CA certs to self-signed certs. The CAs only had their good industry record to stand on and now that's gone, there's no possible reason to stay with them.

    Sound crazy? HTTPS as we know it today started as a feature some dude tossed into Netscape Navigator.

  2. Re:PGP-based system? on Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad · · Score: 1

    How would handing out PGP keys be any different from using self-signed certs? Although it's obvious now that self-signed certs would definitely be an improvement.

  3. Re:No big deal on .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain · · Score: 1

    Yeah only darknets are absolutely safe.

  4. Re:No big deal on .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain · · Score: 1

    They attack whichever site the front end is on - including any sites that redirect straight to an infringing domain. So if you're running 70stvtorrents.com with the backend on 70stvtorrents.es or something like that, whether the interface to the site itself is on the .com or it just redirects to the .es, the .com will get taken down.

  5. Re:Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPa on Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany · · Score: 1

    The article's outrageously biased. Most PalmOS PDAs without keyboards (that was, most of them) had the same basic form as the iPhone - a rectangle with a big screen taking up most of it - going as far back as the late '90s:

    https://www.technologyreview.com/files/10990/0507palm_x600.jpg

    And then they cherry-picked some tablets with handles and ruggedized ones with silly-looking corner bumpers. Most tablets and convertible laptops again had the iPad-like form years before: Big rectangle, screen taking up most of it. See here:

    http://web.siat.ac.cn/~baoquan/img_research/tabletPC.jpg

  6. No big deal on .UK Registrar Offers To Let Police Close Domain · · Score: 1

    Every domain has its own set of political issues, including .com/.net/.org, which the US ICE can take down if you even link to copyright-infringing material. You just have to know the risks and choose the domain that's least likely to run you into legal trouble depending on the content your site is hosting.

  7. Re:Nothing to see here on Floating Houses Designed For Low-Lying Countries · · Score: 1

    See also:

    http://www.walmart.com/ip/Swim-N-Play-Inflatable-Water-Wheel/14003676

    And yes they come in adult sizes too.

  8. Re:Of course it's free on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

    If cows had money they'd probably give it a try.

  9. Re:Looks like a toaster on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 1

    I was just going to say it looks like a shiny chrome mould of the inside of a rectum.

  10. Re:Looks like a toaster on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 1

    Or some random chome chunk form a 1950's buick

    You're thinking of a taillight surround, maybe this one?

    http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/pictures.ubh/2007/03/15/fs_1954_Buick_Skylark_taillight__ruggles_.jpg

    There's another '50s car that has almost an exact match, can't find it now though...

  11. Re:Asia on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 1

    What's the old joke about trains running on time again?

  12. Re:Asia on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 1

    They get a few very rich and powerful people.

  13. Re:Asia on Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office · · Score: 0

    The punishment is a massive fine IIRC.

    Still, I consider it a shithole on par with North Korea due to its laws and political system (do they still have a "benevolent dictator?" That's fine for open source projects but not for countries that I can't fork my way out of), even if it looks like a nice place. I have a relative who works at LucasArts and I don't know how he lived there for so many years, I'd have a perpetual case of the creeps.

  14. Re:Start with a decent Website instead on Window Shopping With Gesture Recognition · · Score: 1

    Exactly, this could be useful for advertising (in which case it doesn't need to be interactive), but a website with a good product catalog would solve the problem. Best of all, that way the person doesn't need to be standing at your storefront and can look at your products any time they like! Amazing!

  15. Re:Can it save the habitat too? on Using Stem Cells to Save Endangered Species · · Score: 1

    If it makes you feel any better, any time you hear about improving women's rights in impoverished countries, that's bringing population growth under control.

  16. Re:Death With Dignity on Using Stem Cells to Save Endangered Species · · Score: 1

    In your first two paragraphs you argue that man has not had a massive effect on this planet's ecosystem compared to any other species, because natural events have caused mass extinction in the past.

    No the original argument was correct. Compared to any other species that has ever existed, the influence of humans has been massive. Compared to natural events that no species had any control over, yeah not so much.

  17. Re:Compromised on Lenovo To Offer $200 Budget Tablet · · Score: 1

    OH NOES NOT WIDESCREEN!!!11 That might "look silly!"

    No seriously what's the problem? More screen real estate is better, and I would think the ability to change between widescreen for movies and browsing and a super-tall screen for reading would make it more versatile.

  18. Re:They all do it! on Lawsuit Claims Windows Phone 7 Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    My point was that none of these providers (as far as I can tell) offer this service out of the box - but they all collect location data out of the box.

  19. Re:Another reason not to develop android apps on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 2

    I had a joke app like this on my old PalmOS devices. It didn't have any real scanning functions, it had configurable messages you could bring up after a "scan" by pressing one of the scroll buttons on the PDA. I programmed messages into it like "No intelligent life found" and "Biohazard: Extreme bacterial infestation detected" and "Methane eruption source located"

  20. What plays in my head every time I hear.... on Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point · · Score: 0
  21. Re:Despinning the press release... on Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point · · Score: 2

    Zero to space junk denialism in less than half an hour :-(

  22. Re:Less than a "PC" on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure his point was that it's unfair to compare the OLPC, a full netbook with built-in controls and a display, to the Raspberry Pi, which is an ARM dev board - like a tiny (but full-featured) PC mobo with the CPU and RAM installed.

  23. Re:Wait, what? on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    insurance.aes256 IIRC.

    And it was supposed to contain at least this information, but possibly more.

  24. Re:Retaliates? on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows about DeBeers price fixing. The executives don't even travel to the US out of fear of being arrested.

    Area 51 stuff would be awesome geek fapping material but it's really not in the public interest to leak that stuff. They're not torturing people and laundering money through there (well, probably not).

    Berlusconi's love life, everybody knows about by now.

    Big Oil probably doesn't have secret plans for a highly efficient engine, and it's already public knowledge that they bought up the patents on automotive-scale NiMH batteries, but that's outdated tech by now.

    If I could direct the Anon army to a target I'd say they should go after info from US financial institutions, especially since that idiot Daniel Domscheit-Berg probably deleted the BoA material. Get info from lobbying organizations around the world, lobbying is just a nice name for bribery. Or go after more info on the US' secret prisons where innocent people get tortured and held indefinitely on suspicion of being terrorists (although I'm sure many of them really are terrorists, but you can't just hold them forever with no evidence). That's the dirt that needs to be uncovered.

  25. Re:Put an end to the crime and criminal supporters on Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails · · Score: 1

    The US government is under little threat from mere handguns or even assault rifles. They have tanks, attack helicopters and UCAVs.