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  1. Re:Google, we are not surprised on Android TV Bug Gave Users Access To Strangers' Google Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Encrypted = paid. One of the attractions of Google Photos is that they give you free unlimited storage for photos up to 2048x2048 (and videos up to 1080p and 15 minutes IIRC). But in order to qualify, their servers have to be able to confirm that it's actually a photo, which means it has to be unencrypted.

    It's trivial to embed any data file you want into an image. You can even make it very resilient against recompression.
    There are plenty of instructional JPEGs floating around the web that are a valid JPEG picture with text drawn on them, typically instructions telling you what the file contains, what you can do with it, and how to use it. Typically, you just open it as a zip file, but there are plenty of other methods.

  2. Re:Gen X vs Millennials again on Netflix Makes Statement In Wake Of Steven Spielberg's Attempt To Block Streaming Giant From Oscars (deadline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure what the solution is

    The solution is simple. Stop watching shitty awards shows. Thankfully, the masses are starting to take my advice.

  3. In the US, you are WRONG!

    You can't create your own currency. Coupons are not currency (not even the ones with the "cash value: 1/20th of 1 cent" disclaimer that's added in so that the coupon sheet they distribute is "valued" at less than 1 cent). Video game money and Disney bucks and arcade tokens are for a specific purpose in a given venue, they're not a currency for general use.

    Facebook is pushing a Facebook-controlled proxy for the US Dollar for general use. If Uncle Sam gets one whiff of this weakening the government's control over the economy, a lot of high level people within FB will be woken up in the middle of the night by men with guns. The only way FB's shit will be allowed is if the government is ultimately in control (guarantees for the currency to be treated as a credit of a specific value of USD, disclosures of risk for any vehicles deemed to be investments, FDIC insurance for any vehicles deemed to be cash-like, etc.). At that point, it's no different from the existing money transfer / currency exchange services.

  4. Good luck with all of that, Facebook.

    Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies aren't pegged to other currencies and are treated like an asset (because they are). Most cryptocurrencies anyone cares about are also decentralized and not under the control of any one company or group.

    Trying to establish and run your own currency is one of the fastest ways to get a lot of guns pointed at you.

  5. Re:Um. . . . ok on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they won't actually give a shit, just like they don't now.
    The person at check in might give a shit, but he mentioned flight attendant. He's already on the plane, and all anyone cares about at that point, including the crew, is getting the sheep in the seats and getting the tin can off the fucking ground.

  6. Re:I am confused on YouTube Will Disable Comments on Nearly All Videos With Kids (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is to ban minors, and videos featuring them, from YouTube.

    That will never happen, though, because teens and tweens make up over 90% of all YouTube views and ad revenue.

  7. Re:Senate = non representative corrupt dictators on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Senate = non representative corrupt dictators. They don't represent the people.

    You are a moron. Senators are representatives of their state. If you want representatives of the people you go to the House.

    This is by design, for good reason.

  8. Re:You know, at some point soon... on Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    For what exactly are we getting for this increate of money paid in?

    Stranger Things, Bird Box, and content from Michelle Obama.

  9. Re:Install the updates when I turn my computer off on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Task scheduler, new task, set it to run on boot with admin privileges.
    shutdown /r /t 3600

    If you're actually sitting down to use your PC, just run shutdown /a or make a shortcut that does it.
    Alternatively, setup another scheduled task that does that on user login.

  10. Re: My computer restarts randomly at night on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what he said.

  11. Linux does alliterative animal names. You couldn't come up with something more senseless than that.

    Someone hasn't seen the list of Kingdom Hearts games.

    Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
    Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix
    Kingdom Hearts X (but it's not X, it's Chi)
    Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix
    Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue

  12. Fixed Headling on New FTC Task Force Will Take on Tech Monopolies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    New FTC Task Force Will Take Bribes From Tech Monopolies

  13. The fanbase was plenty flexible and accepted a crappy remake of Star Wars (A New Hope) when TFA came out.

    The fanbase supported Rogue One / Star Wars Vietnam even though it was full of crappy characters no one cares about in a setting no one cares about with a plot that was entirely pointless.

    The fanbase then went in on faith again for TLJ, but in lower numbers (mostly due to fewer repeat viewings).

    The fanbase thought the TLJ was so bad that they let Solo burn.

    The fanbase may or may not come back for Episode 9.

    Disney/Lucasfilm can attack its fanbase and shit out crappy movies that destroy the characters all they want. One day they'll realize that the fans they hate so much are the customers they desperately need.

  14. It made significantly less than TFA.

    Yes, the BR was the best selling BR. But it sold far worse than the BR for TFA did. FAR worse. They trotted out the "BEST SELLING BLURAY!!" stories to try and damage control. Look at the actual numbers. In fact, I dare you go post the hard BR sales numbers for TFA and TLJ.

    And then Solo came out. That did super well, right?
    And the toy sales for SW are going swimmingly?
    And the video games are raking in cash?

    Disney is absolutely terrified, and rightfully so, of Episode 9 (Rise of the Resistance?).

    If Disney had taken the money they used to buy Lucasfilm and instead put in low-yield, guaranteed (no risk, FDIC-insured) savings they would have been better off.

    Will Captain Marvel kill the MCU? I doubt it. I expect people to see it because of End Game, then tons of people will see End Game, THEN the MCU will be effectively over.

  15. Yup. Intel is using the security bullshit as an excuse to bow out and prevent the worlds from seeing how crappy their 5G modems/radios are.

    Intel is a dying company.

  16. Re: Why do you expect privacy on an airline? on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    A "courtesy title"? LOL! A title is a TITLE.

  17. Re:Now with enhanced "breaks" on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Last May, the product testing website failed to give the Model 3 a recommendation due to issues with braking, but ultimately reversed its decision after Tesla released a firmware update improving the car's breaking distance by nearly 20 feet.

    Ugh, you weren't even joking.

    ENGLISH!
    EDIT!

  18. Re: Why do you expect privacy on an airline? on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Diana. She lost her title of Princess.

  19. Re:I don't see why on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh bullshit.

    I went to the doctor years back for a respiratory infection that lasted more than a week and they threw antibiotics at me.

    I went to the same doctor (saw the same actual doctor) a couple of years later for a similar but more severe issue and specifically asked for antibiotics because work was ramping up the following week and being out sick would have been a major setback.

    Then I got the lecture about how they're overprescribed, how I'm an idiot that needs to be talked down to, blah blah blah.
    That fucking moron doctor threw them at me before, and now she was denying me access to treatment in a more severe case!

    Fuck em. I'll buy from aquarium supply stores and do it myself and save tons of fucking money in the process.

  20. Forced Vaccines on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    If you want to go on the internet and interact with other hosts else, you'll need to have all traffic inspected and signed by a trusted antivirus application running on your computer. All other packets will be dropped at the nearest border.

    Please install McAfee or Norton and let it read and manipulate all memory and traffic if you want to go online.
    If you cannot afford a license, one will be provided for you free of charge (we'll just pay for it with more taxes).
    It's the only way to protect us all. Thank you for your compliance, netizen!

    Yet when it's something even more important, more personally violative, and with more potential dangerous you morons are all for it.

  21. Re:Other ways to display data on Severe Vulnerabilities Uncovered In Popular Password Managers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And the chunk of memory showing how to draw those things will possibly be copied out by Windows.

    The OS has full control over memory. KeePass cannot fix this. There is nothing to fix. If your box is pwned you lose regardless.

  22. Re:'severe' on Severe Vulnerabilities Uncovered In Popular Password Managers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    KeePass also has a feature that obfuscates autotyping. TCATO I believe, for two-channel auto type obfuscation.
    It just doesn't type your password, it types characters, moves the cursor around, types others, pastes certain bits, etc.

    It'll fool the common sniffer software, but anyone with a full dump (including what was copied and pasted pasted - most software keyloggers don't do that, and in-line hardware keyloggers can't do that) can of course replay it to get the password.

  23. Hey, retard. Censorship doesn't have to be done by the government to be censorship.

  24. Re:Is this... on The US Cannot Crush Us, Says Huawei Founder (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Is it incredibly awful and you're only watching it because it's an easy way to test if your display chain is properly handling Dolby Vision through Netflix / over the network?

  25. Re:It sounds like... on Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Silicon Valley's Most Famous Blunder (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was ignoring Bitcoin for the first several years.