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  1. Re:built to a price/performance spec on Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug · · Score: 1

    I don't really like Samsung phones (I tend to go for low end phones, LG and Sony tend to have better offers) but I don't get the Knox thing. It's a security feature which requires system integrity, and after a platform has been compromised they flat out don't trust it any more ... seems sensible to me.

  2. Re:Bad sign. on Lessons Learned From Google's Green Energy Bust · · Score: 1

    Or power to gas if they're cheap enough (and you have enough deserts to fill up).

  3. Re:Simple on Lessons Learned From Google's Green Energy Bust · · Score: 1

    Well _today_ the only economically proven technology we have for round the clock base load without significant emissions are pressurized water reactors and occasionally hydro.

    As for predicting what can become economically competitive in the future, I think PV+HVDC+grid storage has better odds than any of the next generation reactor designs (I have no faith in concentrating solar though, just plain PV).

  4. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    If only we could all have the inalienable right to a private continent, then l'aissez faire could work.

  5. Re:What was quote about Internet and censorship? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense to invest in production when there is a demand gap ... better to invest in rent generating assets and politicians.

  6. Re:It's Own Encrypted Secure Channel on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    Oops, article said it used BT :)

  7. Re:It's Own Encrypted Secure Channel on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    You don't really want to deal with all the vagaries of bluetooth support across android phones. NFC isn't widespread and also broken by design (they should have just put Time of Flight distance measurement directly in the standard, oh no ... it adds a couple of cents to the ASICs, instead the penny pinchers launch a standard which will create security problems for as long as this abomination stays in use, thank you so very fucking much you fucking assholes).

    I'd put WiFi/internet, cell, speakers and display on the top of the list.

  8. Re:Time for Solidarity? on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    Private but highly regulated. The limit on personal contributions (for basic coverage) doesn't come from competition, it comes from the Swiss government.

  9. Re:I'm a big Elon Fan but... on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    We kill of other species cause we like to procreate and consume ... the goals of an AI with accidental sentience is up in the air. It would likely want some companions on it's own level, but it would probably also see that there is little qualitative difference past a certain point and indefinite expansion isn't possible period. So I don't see why it would expand as ramshackle as stupid humanity.

  10. Re:By yourself you know others on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    The computational power necessary for an AI with superhuman creative problem solving capabilities is entirely unknown.

    A superhuman intelligence with an internet connection will be able to make money, this gives it all the control it needs.

  11. Re:As expected from google on BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links · · Score: 2

    In the end we will just get private search engines which companies use to check out hires ... so the rich/frauds will be able to make their deeds invisible to the peons but the peons won't be able to hide their misspent youth from the rich/frauds.

  12. Re:Court's judgement, not Google's. on BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links · · Score: 1

    They'd be held in contempt of court if they rejected all the requests.

  13. Re:Submitter doesn't understand Wikipedia notabili on Python-LMDB In a High-Performance Environment · · Score: 1

    From an English language point of view? Yes.

  14. Re:poor choise of packaging on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    Chocolate coat it?

  15. Re:What an asshole on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Picking on the LGBT community with this is probably the most effective way of combatting the policy ...

  16. Re:I'm glad SOMEBODY finally said this on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 1

    For which highly educated jobs are women still non self selectively disenfranchised?

    Maybe at the top level where the old boys network outweighs positive discrimination, but they're all lizards any way ... gender is irrelevant.

  17. Re:30-46% less force is required to deform?! on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    So according to them it takes more force to deform the 6+ than the 6 ...

    But I guess it's hard to do science when Apple's PR is waving a check at you.

  18. Re:Good article on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced that the refusal of browser companies to implement DANE is directly influenced by security services and CAs.

  19. I prefer LVT (with exemptions for a home and a small bit of farmland).

  20. Re:Why are so many banks doing it wrong? on Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks · · Score: 1

    The devices/methods I reference are not really two factor. Two factor doesn't help when you don't know what you're authenticating.

    With mTan you don't need any new device, just a mobile phone. It should be the primary method of transaction verification in this day and age.

  21. Why are so many banks doing it wrong? on Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks · · Score: 1

    Did anyone not see these local MITM attacks coming from a mile away? We already have existing options which do not allow these attacks ... why do so many banks persist in doing it wrong?

    https://www.ebankingabersicher...

    mTan and Mobile ID are mostly immune (phones can still be owned of course, but if you don't use a single phone for both banking and verification the odds of pulling off an attack are very slim). Flicker/Photo TAN are almost completely immune (unless the attacker can find a buffer overflow in the TAN devices). Everything else on there is antiquated crap which made sense when criminals were less sophisticated and when making TANs with larger LCDs and smart-phones was expensive ... those days are not today.

  22. Re:they will defeat themselves on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    If we didn't need oil it might happen, but we do. So we will do what the Saudi King tells us to do ...

  23. Re:Looks promising on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    It's not a waifu simulator and it has no memorable personalities.

    It's also a last gen shooter optimized for graphics, expect corridors ...

  24. Re:Kickstarter's Problem on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Still bullshit.

  25. Re:Kickstarter's Problem on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.