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  1. Off course the ultimate proof is that they elected one as president.

  2. Especially if the data is not anonymized. Given the tricks that data criminals can use, the size, frequency and IP addresses of the messages might tell a lot without even trying to decrypt the message. And if they can decrypt it, oh boy...

  3. The "without credit" might be wrong, but if volunteers* are paid voluntarily for a job well done, it is a bit daft to complain about it.

    * There probably are a lot more volunteers outside the wikimedia foundation who contributed. I think no penny goes to them. Not that they expected to.

  4. Re:Quite scary... on Self-Healing Material Can Build Itself From Carbon In the Air (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Quite so. For a material to be self-healing, it first needs to know if it is damaged. So a really self-heeling material has to have some intelligence. This can off course be very crude (like damaging outer cells releasing some kind of hormone that triggers the building of new ones), but without it you are literally creating a monster.

  5. Re:who owns airplane black box data? on EU Ruling: Self-Driving Car Data Will Be Copyrighted By the Manufacturer (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1
    Not exactly. An aircraft's black box is a sturdy device that stores data for a certain amount of time (say a few hours). This means that:
    • Old data is automatically deleted
    • The data is not sent to a central server, so it is not collected, unless the aircraft has an accident
    • A special company has to get the data from the device, so you cannot "accidentally" (the Google argument for wardriving entire continents) collect the data.

    In other words, there is no data to be owned, and in the case of a crash the data must be made available to investigators. But nobody asks if the data is owned by the pilots, the manufacturer or the airline.

  6. Re:FYI on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They put the finger print in XML.

  7. 2nd 18th century on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 4

    ... for having workers who need food stamps and other public assistance to make ends meet.

    So, in effect, nothing has changed in 300 years. This is work ethics from the steam age.

  8. so we understand the importance and significance on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    so we understand the importance and significance of it

    You clearly don't.

  9. Re:The question is .... on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to spoil the effort, but making people pay with their first-born has already done according to a very old book.

  10. Re:do I just hang out on lefty sites on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One does not exclude the other.

  11. A family featuring an organization diagram with a lot of positions crossed out is usually called a syndicate.

  12. Re:Facebook, who is it good for? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought you were quoting Bruce Springsteen and others.

  13. Welcome to the modern law of supply and demand. The suppliers have become the customers of other corporations, and the people who pay and think they are the customers (people buy Windows 10 as part of a new computer) have nothing to say anymore.

  14. Re:"natural gas reforming, not a carbon-neutral" on First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While it is not ideal, the door towards an ideal situation is now more open. The production of H2 is a separate problem, which can be solved separately. They're just not finished yet, but they are more ready for the future.

  15. Re:I smell a rat on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, geography was not my primary interest at school, but I think Saudi Arabia gets a nice amount of sunshine. As the world divests from oil, they sure can divert the investments into solar energy.

    I think oil products won't get away entirely. Plastics can still be the best things to use in sterile environments (operating rooms), or in aeronautical structures. But throwing plastic away into the ocean or even burning oil as fuel will be an increasingly stupid idea.

  16. Re:Rei, come on in, you're needed! on Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that most of us bash Tesla's abuse of power and privacy, not the fact that they make electric vehicles.

  17. Yes, it does. But if the EU complains now, Microsoft claims copyright on the misbehaviour under the new rules and sues the EU. Even a link to the previous eviction is forbidden!

  18. Re:The FPV industry was destroyed in EU already on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Mobile phones are weaponized. I read somewhere that most "suicide" bombers are detonated remotely by mobile phone, because too many of them were too afraid of committing suicide.

  19. Re:Buggy Whip Science on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you start now, by the time you actually complete a degree, AI will have taken your job.

    I guess there are things that even an AI refuses to do, because it does not want to blunt its intellectual powers.

  20. Re:We know what will happen... on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    I rather think that a Microsoft-sponsored rocket will be called "Windows 10" and that the headlines in the paper will make a lot of jokes about crashes and restarting, and the "cloud"

  21. Typical attackers on Worries Arise About Security of New WebAuthn Protocol (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA etc. are not really typical attackers

    I think they are very typical attackers. Kids fooling around won't operate on a large scale. Anyone else does. It does not matter if these actors are intelligence agencies vacuuming up all internet traffic, half-legal copyright "cops", or downright criminal organizations that are only after your *coins and banking details. The main difference is the amount of time it takes for these data to fall into the wrong hands.

    That said, it might be perfectly possible that criminal organizations are trying to promote backdoors as well in open standards.

  22. Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency

    Did he do it himself or did he let his minions do it?

  23. First law of security on John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "If someone can acces, anyone can."

    This is the first law of security. You can make unauthorized access difficult, but never impossible.

  24. Democracy? on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    stuff sounds dangerously like democracy or something

    Rest assured. These polls are not known to the average European citizen. Only lobby groups check them, or mobilize others to check them. At no point was there a referendum or something like that.

  25. "It's incredible that it stayed hidden off the US East Coast for so long."

    Well off course it stayed hidden. It did not want to be destroyed like most other coral reefs around the world. If I was treated like that, I would stay hidden as well.