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  1. Use Conversations on Telegram CEO Claims Apple Has 'Prevented' App Updates Globally Since April · · Score: 1

    Use Conversations or other program that uses standard XMPP protocols. Conversations has built in end-to-end OMEMO encryption.

  2. It's not the stuff! on White House Announces Tech Tariffs, Investment Restrictions on China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the point of my statement. The point is not the quality or quantity of stuff that I buy. The point is that buying things does not make you richer. Investing and selling stuff makes you richer. And the US is buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of stuff from the China every year. And every year the people of China are getting richer, and the people of the United States are now getting poorer.

  3. That is why I'm rich! on White House Announces Tech Tariffs, Investment Restrictions on China (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Low-cost imports make the importing nation wealthier.

    Yeah, instead of investing my money on making things to sell, I blow all my money on cheap plastic shit from China! Just like Warren Buffet. That's why I'm so rich!

  4. Your fallacy is selling false hope. on U.S. Passes 'Right to Try' Law Allowing Experimental Medical Treatments (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    if you're almost certain die without it, "20% chance it might work" is worth a try.

    The problem is that 20% chance is way too high. If you look at the number of drugs going through clinical trials, far fewer than 20% end up working in a full phase 3 trial, and even far fewer actually work well. I went to a pharmaceutical conference once and someone put up a slide listing 150 different drugs that had been in trials for lung cancer. All failed.
    The reasons patient groups and the FDA opposed this bill are (1) there is already a method of getting very sick people into clinical trials, and (2) it just sells false hope to a lot of people. Unfortunately Republicans are very good at selling snake oil to the American people.

  5. Elites fly. Give elites a faster way from downtown to the airport, they will take it.

  6. Regardless of the magnitude on US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the small magnitude of these ads compared to advertising by the Democrats and Republicans, it is still intriguing to read these ads and the lists of people whom they were intended to target.
      It is an interesting look inside the minds of those who would wish to manipulate us.

  7. Here is the difference on Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not advertising and selling a "cloud" service to other people to pay me to run their communications through my computers. Google and Amazon are making money off this. And now they are being picky about who does what with that service.

  8. I can't figure this one out. on Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this parent post a Russian pretending to be an American? Or an American pretending to be a Russian pretending to be an American?
    I'm thinking perhaps the latter, b/c I think the Russians are better at astroturfing that that.

  9. Yes, yes, and yes. on Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Multi-cloud? on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought there was only one cloud, "the cloud", and everything went there.

  11. Can you see a pixel anyway? on 8K TVs Are Coming, But Don't Buy the Hype (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    At these resolutions you have to be within about 2 feet of the screen to resolve a pixel according to my very quick calculations. (Check my calculations someone.)
    That is extra resolution you probably do not need.

  12. they had plenty of reasons to fear that someone like her might one day show up,

    No, they did not.

    Employees Say Violent Threats Have Been Going on For Years

    anger and paranoia aren't unique among the millions of people who create and post videos to the site

    These demonstrate that many people say obnoxious things, but that does not mean that they will actually do something.
    People ask why the FBI does not identify violent shooters before they kill people. I am sure the FBI gets tens of thousands of reports about such people, and very very few actually do anything. How do you tell the difference?

  13. Conversations, an XMPP client, now has OMEMO encryption built in. You can also use OpenPGP with it.
    And it works many different hosting providers. I recently changed the XMPP host for my domain from one provider to another. France could just make certain that they have an XMPP service provider, and bam, they are done. Don't reinvent the wheel.

  14. Yeah, it looks gerrymandered on Investor Tim Draper Pushes Ballot Measure Splitting California Into 3 States (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    If the splits were along lines of latitude, it might be worth considering. But the proposed map is obviously along lines to increase or reduce influence of certain groups.

  15. Sorry. As cool as your teeth are, gravitationally lensed galaxies are SO MUCH MORE AWESOME.

  16. It's OK! on Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links Come From Bots, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    That is fine, because only bots subscribe and read those feeds anyway.

  17. Good question. No. on FDA Worried Drug Was Risky; Now Reports of Deaths Spark Concern (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The FDA receives notifications of patient deaths all the time. The patient was taking a drug for hair loss when he walked in front of a bus and got killed? It may be reported.
    I know people who work for the FDA and deal with reports like these. It is a complex and never certain statistical task trying to interpret all this data.

  18. Re:This could have been avoided on Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    But most companies would rather try to save some money and effort doing things the wrong way.... .

    It probably would have cost Symantec a lot of money, not just some, to get BSD running on their router hardware. OpenWRT was written to run on hardware found in routers.

    In the long run that strategy is most costly.

    Evidence? What is "most costly" about releasing the source code for their hardware? Will people stop buying their routers just because the source code is available? Historically I have found this to the contrary. Routers that support 3rd party firmware tend to sell for more money than than the ones that do not.

  19. Can verify on Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was wondering why Facebook was accessing an unindexed file on my private web server. I figured out that my son sent his friend a link to that file via Facebook.
    Everything you do on there, they are watching.
         

  20. 50%=the positive predicitve value on Consumer Genetic Tests May Have a Lot of False Positives (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When 50% of your test positives actually have the condition that is a 50% positive predictive value, which is pretty good.

  21. For all the time he has spent there, he could have tunneled out of the embassy with a spoon by now.

  22. Just because Google and others are too stupid to use it, does not mean we have to be. I force my family to use XMPP apps (there are many) and GPG. They complain. I don't care.

    Recently my XMPP service provider disappointed me, so I just moved my domain to a different provider, just like I can do with email. Bam. Done.

  23. Re: Alternatively: on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 2

    When you use a VPN, you are routing to a different site, which might have no saturated peers in the chain.

    If your VPN can take a faster route than your Netflix, your ISP could choose, if they wanted to, to route your Netflix that way too. By choosing not to, they are in effect throttling your internet.

  24. It could totally happen! on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any moment now Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon might switch all their servers to "Windows Enterprise" edition.

    I can't even read my own stuff without giggling.

  25. You are obviously trying to conflate very different things.
    The indicted Russian agents were acting on the behest and funding of Putin.
    Steele was being paid by the Republican and Democratic (US) parties to perform his research. He was being paid, not the other way. That does not require FEC reporting.

    How is the weather in St. Petersburg, by the way?