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  1. Re:Pervasive surveillance v.s. censorship on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? Who has to register what now?

  2. Re:If it's a choice between on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The comparison would be more apt if you said that he's someone who bought out Fox News to present his favorite content. It's not like he created a new office, he took an office that existed and runs it.

  3. Re:Proxy on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    How's this relevant?

  4. Re:True Issue on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The issuer is doing its job. The job of the issuer is to verify that the domain name is properly pointed at the right IP-Address. What else would you consider the issuer's job?

    That you think www.mybank.com.cn is www.mybank.com is YOUR problem. Not the CA's.

  5. Re:Lock != Legit. on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    And how should it? Who'd know what you WANT to connect to but you yourself? Maybe you do want to connect to https://www.comparethemeerkat.... and not https://www.comparethemarket.c...

    (and yes, they both exist and the former is an advertising gimmick for the latter)

  6. Re:Certificate Authorites are not giving us value. on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The same level of encryption but not the same level of authenticity. What a CA issued cert says is that the server that you're connecting to is actually the server you're connected to and that no MITM is happening.

    That doesn't make www.bankofmurrica.com any more a page that you should enter your BA-credentials at, but it certifies that you're really talking with www.bankofmurrica.com and not www.bankofmurrica.com.wallawalla.thingamajig.hackmeimcute.cn.

  7. Re: lock AND the url on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    U xpect ppl to b abl to reed?

  8. Re:If it's a choice between on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked (and please correct me if I'm wrong, we're using a slightly different system) he was part of the executive branch.

    I don't know about your country, but in mine that's part of the government.

  9. Re:Y'all spun completely off topic on this one... on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not supposed to believe. This isn't religion, it's science. The measurements are available. You can do the research yourself, provided you have the required knowledge. If you don't, you're free to get it, the information to learn is available.

  10. Try looking at inflation adjusted numbers, they don't look any better.

  11. Re:If it's a choice between on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm... so Trump isn't part of the government? What is the president good for, then?

  12. 10%? Not enough. 50%! on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Up the tariff! Create domestic jobs!

    Huh? No, not in production. In repairing and second hand sales. Because when a new phone costs about 2000 bucks, repairing your old one for 100 suddenly becomes very compelling.

  13. Re:"people could handle that very easily" on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the net effect would probably be that fewer people can afford a new phone and will try to find second hand phones.

    So, in a quite roundabout way, it would actually create domestic jobs. In the second hand sales industry.

  14. Re: "people could handle that very easily" on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it? Unless you can also lower the security and environmental standards to the dangerously low levels you find in China, 10% are a far cry from what you'd have to pay more for domestic production.

  15. Re:2nd amendment rights on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ponder for a moment who takes over if you off the annoying orange.

    That's what every VP since Johnson has been: An assassination deterrent. Sure, you could off the asshole on top, but then an even bigger loony takes charge.

  16. Nah. Oven cleaner all the way. Or that ad about not "passing gas" would be awesome.

    And when they parade the near-death concentration camp skeletons, run commercials for slim fast.

  17. And a funeral with some ads for real estate agents.

  18. Re:How about AI for content on NBCUniversal Taps Machine Learning To Tie Ads To Relevant Moments on TV (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Why worry about the few minutes between the ads, concentrate on the bulk of the broadcast!

  19. Any speech on C-Span will be sponsored by a female hygiene product manufacturer. Or the one that makes the container it comes in.

  20. It would sure beat the life of many people that spend their time in small cubes. At least distances in one dimension would be bigger...

  21. Re:The Seas AREN'T Rising.. on Rising Seas Give Island Nation a Stark Choice: Relocate or Elevate (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Want to buy a passport?

  22. Just carry a life size poster of chairman Xi Jinping with you wherever you go. Of course only to show your support and loyalty to The Party.

  23. Re:It's so obvious on AI Mistakes Ad On a Bus For an Actual CEO, Then Publicly Shames Them For 'Jaywalking' (scmp.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Looks like for the average Joe, whether you're fucked by government or by corporations doesn't really make that much a difference.

    "But I can vote for another government!"

    Yeah, that's the difference. With government, you can actually choose the name of the dick that gets to fuck you.

  24. Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    Find one that recommends you move away from Windows 10. Then you have found one that actually wants to solve your problems instead of seeing you as a perpetual cash cow.

  25. We could now put funds towards avoiding a catastrophe that may or may not happen within our lifetime, or that of any descendants that at least remember us by name.

    Or we could put funds towards avoiding a catastrophe that WILL happen within our lifetime, with no descendants to curse our name if we don't do anything.

    Your choice. For me, well, I don't give a fuck either way, lacking descendants.