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  1. No, regulate them! Alternative is - RÉN R on Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is world-wide competition to be the social network of the planet. Chinese or Russian platforms will take over the void immediately if Facebook is killed. No, let's find another solution.

  2. aka iOS 10 lost 50% of market in under 2 months on iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    whichever way you look at it.

  3. The OP is clearly an iPhone user on Push Notifications From Popular Apps Are Becoming Increasingly Useless And Annoying (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Those began to wake up and see their favourite platform is lacking at best.

  4. Please let us disable Bixby Button first! on Samsung's Bixby Voice Assistant Is Finally Coming to the US -- But Only As a Preview (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the left-side hardware button do in the US version of S8 and S8+? Because having non-disableable Bixby on it is VERY annoying.

  5. Does the Internet connection subscription count? on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe mobile phone is first, then Internet at home.

  6. Spotify. Second, tho I hate it - Netflix on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    Spotify. Second, tho I hate it - Netflix.

  7. This is completely a non-issue with the ISPs on Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 0

    The simple answer why we don't hear an answer to "Have you or has your ISP fixed your bufferbloat yet?" is because the ISPs have been usin cut-through routing and forwarding that do not suffer from the buffer bloat. Modern internet does not suffer from this problem. Maybe your home lab with a Linux router does, but that is of no concern of the ISPs.

  8. Customers, you had one job! /s on Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 2

    Allright, a device that is like a home appliance will not be treated as something in need of updating, ever. I think those 31% will never re-update the devices after that first time.

  9. I'm contemplating on cancelling Netflix just for their shitty quality (that is so visible on a 4K with HDR colors screen! And I'm on a 350Mbit/s connection so it's not the bitrate). Added this to what you mentioned regarding hard to find _interesting_ and being settling on _something_ is not making the service compelling enough to stay subscribed.

  10. Have they deleted the other half accidentally? on Half of American Adults Are In a Face-Recognition Database (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    or why only half?

  11. Maybe they did! Maybe those were Chinese! on The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    *drops the mic.*

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

  12. Buying on release day would actually be okay on No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, a lot of people pre-order games and make the devs to commit to a certain release date no matter how many confirmed bugs they still have.

    STOP PREORDERING GAMES!

  13. Why didn't Comodo go with Free SSL trademark? on Comodo Attempting to Register 'Let's Encrypt' Trademarks, And That's Not Right (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    Some stats from the CEO's first post:
    Free SSL: mentioned 9 times, 7 of them in one paragraph;
    Comodo: only 3 times

    Seems they should leave Let's Encrypt alone and go with Free SSL instead.

  14. Probably it is on par, but with much higher speeds on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Coz wired connections in US are expensive and slow amongst the large group of people who're switching.

  15. No, encryption is between the phone and cell base on Your Phone Number Is All a Hacker Needs To Read Texts, Listen To Calls and Track You (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the encryption is between the phone and base station, not inside SS7 network.

  16. Opposing nuclear energy is very short-sighted on Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? (gallup.com) · · Score: 1

    Opposing nuclear energy is very short-sighted and without constant R&D and improvements of existing reactors will let other countries to surpass technology-wise in the nuclear field. Also demand for electricity will only go up especially as the transportation moves away from petrol to electricity. Effort has to be put into creating tight regulation rules and investment into safer reactors instead of bluntly opposing nuclear energy as a whole. We can start talking about abandoning nuclear energy when solar or other safer technologies mature, however we are not there yet and we need electricity now.

  17. Article is misleading, they meant China on US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    or did they?

  18. It's not lowering the price, on France Seeking $1.76 Billion In Back Taxes From Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it's converting to metric system.

  19. Google can do that on Google Threatens Action Against Symantec After Botched Investigation (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Chrome (45-50% desktop+mobile browser market share) can stop trusting all certificates signed Symantec and display security warnings encouraging users to change Certification Authority. Aside of essentially losing the future certificate business, many customers will require refund for already purchased certificates. So yeah, Symantec will just comply with whatever Google says.

  20. Irreplaceable? Pretty much forever for Oracle on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    You cannot create a competitive product and grow big enough without being sued to oblivion.

  21. Re:Yeah right on Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected · · Score: 1

    Oh yes. The company I work for provide computer and information security solutions. We help people fight for digital freedom. We educate how to detect and remove spyware from PCs. We provide ways to reach information that is otherwise censored. Check it out - https://f-secure.com/freedome. We're blocked in China.

  22. Re:Yeah right on Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected · · Score: 1

    anyone wanting their website to be usable in China would now be best hiring a CDN within China.

    There is a catch with this. Your origin servers must reside inside China or be connected to the Internet via Chinese ISP that will move your data first to China.

  23. Doctor Sheldon Cooper on CERN May Not Have Discovered Higgs Boson After All · · Score: 1

    *Doctor Sheldon Cooper

  24. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do we need this? I've been in unix for over 20 years and never even heard of kill -1.

    Casual...

  25. Re:Guy is an idiot. on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    You are confusing freedom with getting away from accountability. Tor being monitored by law enforcement is a very good thing in general. That simply enables them to do their job. Therefore for civilized countries it's definitely helpful.

    Unfortunately not everywhere law enforcement is doing just that, catching criminals that is. In many countries they are used to maintain questionably legitimate governments and their established regimes. In those cases Tor and VPN services are the tools of freedom and their lack of transparency helps to spread information that otherwise would've been blocked.

    Now think about it, do you as a citizen of a free country think that a) pedofiles, hitmen, large drugs distributors and all credit card thieves should be totally safe doing their business right under noses of law enforcement who you're paying your taxpayer's money while they can't do shit with that encrypted traffic; or b) provide an unreliable communication channel to the rebels or oppressed opposition of some other countries while their government would in the end just block everything by default (hint: China)?

    The thing is, HTTPS and VPN are mainly used to protect your privacy and they have been working really well. While Tor is mainly used to avoid accountability.