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  1. Re:Regressive Leftist? on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    First off, I'm a liberal. Voted for Hillary, although my heart belonged to Bernie. I'm not afraid of Trump, though, so I'm apparently not a very good liberal.

    Haha you sure aren't! You sound exactly like a centipede (member of the alt-right). Why would someone who is socially about 16 lightyears to the right of anyone with a D beside their name have any interest in Hillary or Bernie? Maybe you're fiscally liberal, but there's some conflict between being fiscally liberal and socially conservative, which is why it's a vanishingly rare combination.

  2. Re: How to get it in future? Where is it lodged? on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The "professional victim" is a nonexistant bogeyman, always has been. Its claimed existence is the last refuge of indefensible victimizers and their supporters.

  3. I think you're conflating pragmatism with evidence-based policy, which can accompany any ideology that's not extreme enough to deny facts.

    As I said in the post above, what we call "pragmatism" is really just moral flexibility combined with political ignorance. It's believing that making what you perceive as purely logical decisions while not understanding politics amounts to "apolitical leadership," when it's really just politically ignorant leadership.

    What you call an ideologue is a person who has codified the practical applications of their ideology at some point in time into a dogma that they follow with ISIS-level rigidity, something that I don't think exists in the real world. There's no friction between any ideology and change other than through the inherent shortcomings of a particular ideology - for example, many forms of conservatism and libertarianism have a lot of friction with the reality of climate change because they believe that the free market can solve any problem it creates without government intervention. More extreme forms simply deny the facts that conflict with the ideology.

  4. I'm saying I want people to recognize their ideology; that it's impossible not to be ideological, and "pragmatic" leadership is really just moral flexibility combined with political ignorance. At some level pragmatism does have a coherent ideology though - often one that simply places economic growth or security above all else.

  5. Pragmatism is, in effect, an ever-changing magic 8-ball of ideology, and is very much capable of messing things up. The closest thing to non-ideological leadership that's actually possible is being ideologically ignorant enough to see ideologies you agree with as purely logical.

    It scares me whenever someone thinks non-ideological leadership is possible, because it's the political equivalent of saying "Let me swing this broomstick around in a china shop with a blindfold and shooting muffs on, I can't break anything while doing this, probably because I have Jedi powers."

  6. Re:Run Tor in a VM without audio support on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That'll work but it's overkill. This particular technique can be defeated by muting audio at the OS level - even just for the browser.

  7. Re:Stupid Apple on Android Was 2016's Most Vulnerable Product, Oracle the (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Give 'em a chance, they've held the championship three times with OSX - immediately prior to this round in 2015, and in 2008 (tied with Firefox), and 2006.

  8. Re:And still the 1% problem on Bitcoin Breaks $1,000 Level, Highest in More Than 3 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, there are indeed real Scrooge McDuck vaults in widespread use. Well, they don't have all the money in a pit with a big diving board over it, because you would kill yourself by diving into it and the money would be inconvenient to retrieve, but from a financial standpoint the concept is exactly the same:

    http://www.financialsamurai.co...

    http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/22...

  9. Re:Keynes failed prediction, the 15 hr work week on Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not Parkinson's law, it's runaway inequality. The workforce continues to be more and more productive as it receives an unchanging or decreasing amount of compensation (in absolute terms - or an ever-decreasing share of the profits in relative terms), while the gains go to the 1%.

  10. I was correcting people who refer to robots that look like women as androids before it was cool :-P

  11. Pretty accurate on Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories (iknowwhatyoudownload.com) · · Score: 1

    More than 3/4 of the stuff listed for my IP are things that I've downloaded.

    Also I'm certain there was a similar site to this that launched a couple years back, I remember the results from that one were hilariously inaccurate though.

  12. Sucks to be them on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just enjoying my still-operational DRM-free games from GoG over here...

  13. Re:I always remind this sentence... on Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Probably not, but as a ponytailed uberhacker he would be getting more than his fair share of NSA surveillance and he would probably be pulled aside in airport security often. Think Moxie Marlinspike, Nadim Kobeissi etc.

  14. Re:Also, there's Gab.ai on Twitter Is 'Toast' and the Stock Is Not Even Worth $10, Says Analyst (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hahaha you wish, your sad little movement is already fracturing and crumbling and retreating into the bunkers, Austria was the beginning of the end for you, expect defeat in France. The alt-right cracked apart on the "heil heard 'round the world" when all the dumb sheep that were blindly following you finally realized that they were indeed being led around by a bunch of neo-nazis, and when it becomes clear that Trump tossed all your promises like a used kleenex the minute he got what he wanted out of them (Lock up Hillary? Drain the swamp? Build a wall? Seeing a pattern? Where's that Muslim ban? You elected a corporatist first and foremost) it will finish off the movement in the US.

    You see, the good news is that it turns out the alt-right actually aren't the new nazis, they're the new KKK, destined to soon be just some frustrated men having sad little meetings and committing the occasional hate crime.

    Nationalism will not simply be marginalized for another 70 years, but will probably be put in the dustbin of history for good, as a concept it's increasingly obsolete and unworkable in today's world, as the UK is discovering.

  15. Re:Also, there's Gab.ai on Twitter Is 'Toast' and the Stock Is Not Even Worth $10, Says Analyst (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Also, there are probably even other choices that aren't a den of centipedes.

    (But if you're concerned about Twitter's policies against hate speech, by all means self-segregate yourself onto Gab.)

  16. Re:Can animations even do this with modern display on Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope the LCD's framerate is plenty fast enough.

    That said, I'm surprised this guy survived using the web for this long. I always thought epileptics used modified browsers to avoid being killed by these gifs, particularly obnoxious advertisements, and intentionally obnoxious websites.

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

    If those endpoints are everywhere and change frequently enough, blocking by IP becomes impractical.

    I suppose this chat application has central servers with IPs (or maybe domain names) that never change...if VPN providers can change endpoint IPs quickly enough to thwart blocklists, the Signal servers should do the same if they don't want to be trivially blocked by IP. Of course this requires some mechanism for distributing new IPs but that's been done before.

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

    Sounds like this secure chat application's traffic is unique enough to be identified and blocked by firewall rules, perhaps by an identifiable header or a unique port number. I call that fucking up.

  19. Re:Nothing odd here, no sir... on Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A criminal? That's the thing that filled me with dread throughout the movie, the best evidence we have that he actually stole the phone himself is that the language was set to Arabic immediately and never changed. It's quite possible this guy just bought a used phone from the actual thief who also spoke Arabic, and this movie is exploiting a man who simply unknowingly bought stolen property. The 4 days of inactivity soon after the theft makes more sense in this scenario.

    Getting back to the matter of the SIM card being reused in another phone, I think you're confusing the order of events.

    If you watch starting at 18:30, the owner speaks of the phone going offline. Directly after, he calls the "thief" - the only phone number he would have for the "thief" would be from the SIM that was in the stolen phone, but that phone is offline, so the SIM must be in another phone.

    Then he shows his attempted meeting with the "thief" and then after the 20-minute mark, he recaps the phone going offline where the SIM card is removed. Not a new incident.

    But he's a possible murderer for doing weird stuff with a phone while Egyptian! Next time some innocent brown person gets sent to Gitmo should the blood be on your hands? Will you be a potential collaborator in torture too? By the coocoo logic you used on me, you would be!

  20. Re:Nothing odd here, no sir... on Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He kept the same SIM card in a new phone (as you can see in the movie that the phone's original owner calls the guy at the same number long after the phone has been offline), making changing the phone itself rather pointless. The phone was probably either damaged or pawned. Better put the guy on a watchlist for being Egyptian, poor, and possibly clumsy though!

  21. Re:In other news... on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, since when does the vast majority of porn have anything to do with human trafficking?

    Can't wait to see the ad with sad music and black and white photos of over-surgery'd porn stars who need to be rescued from their California mansions XD

  22. Re:No problem on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one good thing that came out of this election, the complete hypocrisy of "religious voters" has been exposed for all too see. They elected the poster boy of sinful behavior.

  23. Re:so... on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure whether this argument is the most overused strawman in US political discourse, or a widespread symptom of being unable to differentiate racist vs. legitimate criticisms, perhaps coupled with a tendency to use racist criticisms.

  24. 40c a minute for a $100k car owner? on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I think it would take at least $4 per minute to provide any motivation to the kind of person who can afford a Tesla.

  25. Re:I learned all I need to know about bones... on Lack of Penis Bone In Humans Linked To Monogamous Relationships and Quick Sex, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    LMAO I don't know that guy didn't crack up or throw a fit XD