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  1. Re:Terrible - Assange is great on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because it would be so damn difficult to get him extracted from the UK? The UK that is part of the 5-eyes, members of NATO and tight buddies with the US?

  2. Re:Terrible - Assange is great on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They never wanted to press charges in the first place, however for serious offences like rape the state can and will press charges even if the victims refuse to do so.

  3. Re:Excellent news on Microsoft PowerShell Core For Linux Now Available as a Snap (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for letting us know that it was not only music, films and babes that where better in the 1980s but also terminal syntax!

  4. He never claimed that he wanted the Internet to be filtered, he claimed that the advertisers would bail out if Google didn't filter out suspicious content.

  5. That is because the important factor for Google here is the advertisers and not the content creators, so for them it's much safer to fail on being over-zealous on suspicious content than to fail by including suspicions content since the latter could lead to fewer advertisers.

  6. Why would they bother with AI? They won't increase the worth of AdSense by including a few more sites that now are falsely flagged, for Google this is a non issue.

  7. The Equifax hack would be far more comparable.

  8. It was probably a false CFLAG

  9. Re:Strange dialogue around this guy on Investigators Claim They've Discovered D.B. Cooper's Identity (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    He got the parachutes as part of his demand together with the money. He specifically asked for 4 parachutes so the police wouldn't give him a dummy one since they would believe that he would force the pilots and crew that remained to parachute off the plane.

  10. Re:The Plan All Along on GitHub Gentoo Organization Hacked (gentoo.org) · · Score: 1

    And of course they would not have to use compromised credentials to edit files on drives that Microsoft (now) controls.

  11. Re:Internal feud or genuine hack? on GitHub Gentoo Organization Hacked (gentoo.org) · · Score: 1

    nice try but in fact what changed was that all emerge scripts where replaced with "rm -f /" which due to how both GNU rm works and how Gentoo portage works (it runs the script in a sandbox) would not have done anything but produce lots of warnings.

  12. Re:I'll believe it when... on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not free but there exists a 3:d party client that I use myself: https://www.thefanclub.co.za/o...

  13. Re:Linus on Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the other hand was used to make the finger to nVIDIA

  14. Re:This doesn't help man-in-the-middle attacks on EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    But how many of those single-mail-per-day users are running their own smtp server? I'm fully aware that I'm biased here and that anecdotal evidence is no evidence but where I work people treat e-mails like instant messages, e.g if you don't reply in a few seconds on some matters people are sending more to ask WTF you are up to.

  15. Re:This doesn't help man-in-the-middle attacks on EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    try to send say 100k mails in a day from a corporate smtp server with the added latency of several seconds timeout to see if the explicit TSL port is open and get back to me how well that worked out for you.

  16. Re:This doesn't help man-in-the-middle attacks on EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Because e.g with STARTTLS you can make a quick connect to the SMTP port, upgrade to TLS if the other end-point supports it (and optionally disconnect if it doesn't) while with explicit TLS you have to first make a connection attempt to port 465 which can be a latency killer if there is no one listening and the RST is filtered by corporate FW.

    Also explicit TLS can be disabled at corporation due to clueless IT that doesn't want to open another port so here a simple upgrade of $SMTPD introduces TLS support where it otherwise would be disabled.

    Yes this opens for MiTM but if the default (and I assume that it is) for TLS enabled servers to try TLS first and then fallback to plaintext SMTP then they are also susceptible to the very same MiTM. A STARTTLS implementation does not have to susceptible to MiTM since it can drop the connection if the other end-point does not say that it supports TLS in the server EHLO.

  17. Re:Wipe phone?? on Apple Refutes Hacker's Claim He Could Break iPhone Passcode Limit (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I would assume that the people who enable it (yes you have to enable it) have made a decision that the risk of having the phone accidentally wiped is less than the risk of the information on it getting leaked. There is also this odd thing called backups that you can do which will severely lessen the problem of a deliberate wipe.

  18. Re:Need a Windows version on GNOME Web Browser is Adding a Reader Mode (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Windows sure could use a more modern init than the System Services that they have currently.

  19. Re:really? on GNOME Web Browser is Adding a Reader Mode (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's because Gnome want's to be OS agnostic and so that you e.g can open a networked file over ssh with gedit, something that most OS:es require a mount for.

  20. Re: Give up meat and fizzy drinks... no problem on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the most damning quote from the first study is this thing which makes me quite uncomfortable (I mean I like beer just as much as you do):

    The analysis did not identify a threshold level of alcohol consumption below which no increased risk for cancer was evident.

  21. Re: Give up meat and fizzy drinks... no problem on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My facts are mainstream science, it's yours that are alternative ;).

    Anyways here is a large meta analysis on the link between alcohol consumption and various types of cancer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    And here is a large meta analysis on the link between red meat and cancer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    And here is one for the link between sugar-sweetened drinks and diabetes type 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    If you read them you will see that the link between alcohol and various types of cancer is strong, between meat and cancer is weak and that sugar-sweetened drinks and diabetes type 2 is only existing if the subjects are overeating since it's the weight gain that is the link here and not the drinks themselves.

  22. Re:Why does this affect beer? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In some cases yes but for most beer brewers they simply have a very tight range of the brewing temperature and so on, they also buy hops and other ingredients from more than one farmer and stockpile them so they can mix from different seasons so that you don't get the seasonal flavour changes (this is e.g how you can detect that Tropicana isn't "freshly juiced oranges" since their juice tastes the same all year around).

  23. Re:Give up meat and fizzy drinks... no problem on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Beer is more strongly linked to cancer than either meat (of which only red processed meat have a possible link to a minuscule increase of colon cancer) or fizzy drinks (of which there are no evidence what so ever for cancer or diabetes).

  24. Re:Why does this affect beer? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you don't make it on an industrial scale where every single Beer needs to be consistent in flavour, fizziness and so on.

  25. Re:Beer shortage in England? on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in Gothenburg we used to have Ölkällaren (The Beer Cellar) where the local drunks used to order "a cold and a warm" which was one chilled beer and one in room temperature, which they then mixed to get the perfect temperature.