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  1. Re:Very disappointing on US Judge Blocks Programs Letting 'Grand Theft Auto' Players 'Cheat' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, you can't design such software without testing on a real server. In practice, it would still be hard to prove.

  2. Re:Science has a pretty good record on World Is Finally Waking Up To Climate Change, Says 'Hothouse Earth' Author (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Plenty of people are saying they don't trust vested interests, eugenics-loving globalists who want us all to stop reproducing and consuming.

    Yeah, I'm sure it's those vested interests and not the global energy and manufacturing industries.

  3. Re:Most people... on Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Grand Theft Auto?
    https://kotaku.com/idiot-steal...

    Plenty of people blaming games for all sorts of thigns.

  4. Re:News for nerds. on Amazon In Running To Acquire Landmark Movie Chain (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They probably just want a theater to show original movies in so that they are eligible for awards (that then attract new subscribers). Any increase in profitability is purely coincidental.

  5. No, but if you're going to steal an album rip, maybe don't go for the 32Kbps version.

  6. Re:Front-Page Posts Out of Order on Child Drownings In Germany Linked To Parents' Obsession With Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Slow news day. So slow it's retrograde.

  7. Way to miss the point. They're bad at stealing is the point. If you're going to rip off a browser, at least rip off the current version with all the security patches.

  8. For the shell. Looking deeper in the installation directory, you find Chrome icons and chrome executables:
    https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/1...

    And if the directory names are anything to go by, it's a 2 years out of date version of Chrome at that.

  9. Should also expand that to mention that it appears to be based on a Chrome 49 build, which is 2 years out of date.

  10. There are screenshots of the installation directory showing trademarked chrome icons and a chrome.exe executable.
    https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/1...

  11. Internet Explorer licenced Mosaic from spyglass.

    licensed

    Chrome came from webkit which came from KDE's khtml

    And Chrome is commercial software unlike Webkit and KHTML. The updated open source parts are available in Chromium, which this company could easily have used but didn't.

  12. Because they didn't use Chromium. They actually bundled the commercial Chrome software inside.

  13. It could have been and would have been at least halfway legitimate. But it wasn't. Chromium has its own icons but their program has the Chrome icons buried within it that aren't for open use. Chromium's executable is chromium.exe, not chrome.exe - and they had no reason to rename that.

  14. Re:Oh, here we go ... on Trump, Seeking To Relax Rules on US Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those rules made it clear we were classifying it like an act of war. Going back and saying it's OK implies that we are going to be aggressive and make offensive attacks. Put two and two together and we are the crazy third world country with an unstable dictator.

  15. Re:Oh, here we go ... on Trump, Seeking To Relax Rules on US Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump is essentially authorising hostile actions against foreign entities without oversight and planning.

    More like Trump is explicitly telling other countries that it's OK to try and hack us. Because it goes both ways. It's like Net Neutrality. Before it existed, there might have been some general intellectual agreement about what was OK and what was not OK. After it was repealed, that's an explicit statement that doing the formerly banned things is explicitly OK. It doesn't revert back to undefined or there would be no motive to repeal.

  16. Re: Oh, here we go ... on Trump, Seeking To Relax Rules on US Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What will make lots of people like me?

    Sex or cloning.

  17. thwart intellectual property theft on Trump, Seeking To Relax Rules on US Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    thwart intellectual property theft

    Really? Our military is going on the offensive to help Disney? Don't they have enough money and resources to take care of themselves?

  18. Re:Great idea but won't change a thing on Google Releases a Searchable Database of US Political Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Transparency is great if the amount of information is small enough that you ever hope to digest it all. It's terrible when it's a useless sea of information that you can never understand fully. If you leave it to the media to digest, then you have to fully trust them.

  19. Re:Gee, can't imagine why... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is, in the feudal, USSR, or North Korean models - there is no way to climb the pyramid

    The only way to do that in the US is on the backs of other people. You have to trample and climb over others (this is how pyramids work - without people on the bottom there is nothing to hold up the top). Those people on the bottom cannot pull themselves up by their own bootstraps to get out - they have to pull you down to get there. Some people recognize that as inhumane (that someone still has to be on the bottom) and want to make sure that even those people on the bottom that were used to climb up are not left without the ability to have food to eat and a place to sleep at night.

  20. Re:happening for thousands of years on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This metastudy has all the resources you might need to conclude that science has in fact been done.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  21. Re:Don't worry, they're a swing state on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Did you read your own link?

    If the bloom moves inshore, nutrient runoff from land may promote bloom expansion. A bloom can linger in coastal areas for days, weeks or even months.

  22. Re:They forgot..... on Engineers Say They've Created Way To Detect Weapons Using Wi-Fi (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would think x-ray steganography would be a lot more useful. That is, unless you're arranging your contraband items in the shape of shorthand.

  23. And what will prevent them from externalizing costs like environmental destruction/pollution? Certainly not more freedom.

  24. Re:Thus countering... on Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Great plan. How are you going to turn those turbines? With steam? Unless that's a closed loop system, that's more water vapor you're adding to the system. Probably more than will be captured by the chiller. And even still, the waste heat generated will outweigh the chilling generated and you've just directly contributed to global warming by heat emissions alone.

  25. Re: Include magnesium in the energy balance on Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If it was bound to CO2 before, I hardly see how it matters.