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  1. 100% awesome, I'd be proud to ship those bad boys :)

  2. Break through idea! on How To Stop Amazon From Listening To Your Alexa Recordings (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't put a microphone, that sends all the recordings to another person / company, in your house. NO ONE who owns a Alexa, Google Home, or any other "smart" speaker, can complain about the way their data is handled or used. The moment you put a smart speaking in your house, you swore off any data privacy that you might of had available.

  3. How could that logic work? on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If having earbud in, even if the phone is dead, constitutes distracted driving, then by having the phone in the car to begin with, you'd be guilty. In fact if this logic follows then by having any item in the car, that's not solely for the purpose of driving that car, you're breaking the law.

  4. \Who care and it doesn't matter on Facebook Ad Platform Could Be Inherently Discriminatory, Researchers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    At some point everyone will be discriminated against, even if by accident, so it doesn't matter. Unless someone at Facebook is intentionally routing traffic or ads so it's exclusionary as a form of hate, then it doesn't matter.

  5. Containerization and VM's on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Each messaging application should be in it's own container, and or on it's own VM.
    2) You should keep multiple browsers and use containers in that browser.
    3) Make sure you always use TOR and VPN's when navigating to non-work sites.
    4) Use remote servers when possible for all non-work related material, and connect to them over TOR.
    5) Backup and Wipe your data / information before any meeting or time you need to share information.

  6. 100% Agreed - this is exactly how I handle the issue.

  7. Buy a proper keyboard and shutup on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Go out, get a proper mechanical keyboard and shut up.

  8. Since everyone uses a random password that's different for every single site / service, this doesn't matter. If you're dumb enough to share your passwords between sites and services, then you're an idiot.

  9. The real issue that we allow parents to override medical professionals and scientists. Unless you can demonstrate, with valid medical testing, that your children is allergic to, or would have medical complications, from a vaccine, you should not be allowed to reject a vaccine.

  10. Stop blaming tech companies on The Washington Post Decries 'Toxicity' in Videogames (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    People can only get what you give them:

    1. Limit what you make available.
    2. ALWAYS use a VPN, if not a multi-hop VPN.
    3. RECOMMENDED use a TOR Bridge or Proxy.
    4. NEVER post addresses, numbers, pictures or personal information online.
    5. Get off social media and delete social media accounts.
    6. Use a good Firewall / IPS IDS solution.
    7. Monitor your logs continuously.

    The XBOX sits inside your network, so if you're not monitoring it, you don't get to complain about what it's making available..

  11. Re:Not Theories! on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    It's a conspiracy, not a theory, you can't just append theory to anything you want. A theory is defined as:

    1) A coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

    2) A proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact.

    3) Mathematics . a body of principles, theorems, or the like, belonging to one subject: number theory.

    If conspiracies want to be promoted to theories, they need fulfill the the definition of theory. A theory is not something pulled of the air, and asserted without fact or evidence, which is how it's used when it's appended to conspiracy. If a conspiracy get promoted to theory, it isn't a conspiracy, so you can't even have a conspiracy theory, it's nonsensical statement.

  12. Not Theories! on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A theory has a meaning in science and society, and there is no such thing as a anti-vaccination theory, because no evidence has been presented to agree with the hypothesis that vaccinates cause things such as Autism.

  13. Thank the libtards on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason they're asking these questions is to make sure they have a diverse work force, instead of a qualified workforce. It's more important for a company to be a mix of culture, then it is for a company to have an able and qualified staff, because skin color diversity makes the libtards happy, and that's all that matters anymore, because if you don't make them happy, they'll just #metoo your ass and waste massive resources over hurt feelings.

  14. Email rules for the sensible person on 'No, You Can't Ignore Email. It's Rude.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Always send your PGP Key early on in the email thread.
    2) Always use someone's PGP Key to encrypt an email message.
    3) Always digitally sign your emails.
    4) Return emails within 3 hours.
    5) When requested to setup secure mail for an employee or client, do it!
    6) Never use Outlook, it's a pile of crap.
    7) Always recommend Open Source tools.
    8) Always recommend a secure email provider.
    9) Never leave emails in your inbox that can be sorted, labelled and filed.
    10) Be rude when it's called for, never protect feelings over common sense.

    Following these rules, will leave you successful.

  15. Fair enough :D

  16. Ignoring that fact that you should NEVER save sensitive or incriminating information on your personal mobiles devices, without employing some form of encrypted volume, this is a home run!

  17. Re:Letsencrypt and CRON on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, I've never used it, I just use a CRON task.

  18. Re:Letsencrypt and CRON on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Letsencrypt is free ......

  19. They intentionally collected mass amounts of data, for the sole purpose of tracking and distributing that data to other companies. If they didn't want the data shared they would of either not collected it, or made the data functionally useless to the other parties, through encryption, hashing or other means of obfuscation.

  20. Letsencrypt and CRON on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no reason this isn't automated, run a CRON job every 30 days that refreshes the TLS certs and move on with your day.

  21. You should always be using a VPN and if possible TOR, across all your platforms. VPN's have become so common place that even technology illiterate people know they should be running one. A website should be allowed to track what you let them, and if you give them your IP without any filtering, they should be collecting that and preforming analytics on it. In my case Facebook gets confused constantly as my VPN switches my location every 15 - 30 minutes, and it notices, usually kicking me out and asking me to approve the location change.

  22. Racist? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Cashless businesses can't be racist, because the refusal to take paper money doesn't show hatred to a racial group

  23. C/C++ are not the problem on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you ask for the 11th number, your program, if written correctly, will check the input and then return you either nothing or an error, because you don't return what you don't have. Blaming "memory unsafe" languages instead of the developers whom use them, is like blaming the car for getting into an accident and not the driver.

  24. Adobe shouldn't be held responsible on Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If the videos / video clips had a value of $250 000, then why didn't he have them safely backed? Maybe Adobe shouldn't of cleared the entire cache folder but who is honestly dumb enough to store files in a cache folder as means of protecting them? Using a cache folder to store your video files, is no different then using the recycle bin, on Windows, then blaming Microsoft for deleting all your files when you emptied the trash.

  25. This should fall on the police on Drive-By Shooting Suspect Remotely Wipes iPhone X, Catches Extra Charges (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The phone was seized but left connected to the cellular network, allowing anyone who had access, to wipe the phone. The correct procedure, even if it's not official, would be to cut off all network access from the phone, so that no one or no service can access it. The fact the police didn't make this common sense move, should make them liable for the tampering and not the person who wiped it.