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  1. Correct, slack is a bad replacement for email. What you're missing is that fish are a bad replacement for cars.

  2. Re:OMG that's a dodgy check on Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    While I'll think I'm probably on your side... You have to be aware that it's not always that simple. Donations come with stops attached and/or legitimises the donor.

    For example, MSF recently had to reject 1 million vaccines, on principal: http://www.doctorswithoutborde...

    It's unfortunate that Americans have to choose between trump and Clinton. But it's obvious they have to choose Clinton.

  3. I see what you did there!

    Some people noticed. Things like png support and proper resizing have made it a vastly more useful quick tool post-XP.

  4. Yes, I do. Exit nodes know where the next hop is, obviously, but not the end point.

    Calm down, climb down, and admit you were wrong.

  5. Do you have any idea how tor works? The exit nodes specifically don't know where the end points are, you need ISP/NSA level monitoring to correlate flows.

  6. Re: these new companies trying to get around old l on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The car pool lanes are there to reduce traffic and/or pollution. EVs are allowed to use them to encourage people to buy EVs and to reduce (at least local) pollution.

    How does using then negatively impact other drivers? Not using then just increases traffic in the normal lanes, for no gain by anyone.

  7. Re:At least two other OSs will "optimize" Kaby Lak on Why Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen Will Only Be Optimized On Windows 10 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Jeeze, the pair of you. Number 1, from TFS:

    Of course, older versions of Windows and alternative operating systems will still install and run on Kaby Lake and Zen. They are x86 processors, after all.

    And number 2, yes of course an OS could have a whitelist, but as the GP points out, Win7 gold doesn't.

  8. Re:The "response" should be an indictment. on Non-US Encryption Is 'Theoretical', Claims CIA Chief In Backdoor Debate (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    But he didn't lie. And he's not stupid (see thread above). An idiot, yes. But here's what he said: "American *companies* dominate the market for encryption *apps*". Absolutely true. Then he said something about "theoretically, foreign companies could [have strong encryption and] dominate the market." But they don't. And they won't [dominate the market].

    Because people don't give a shit about encryption, they're not going to stop using their iphones or facebook. Hardcore terrorist can already use whatever encryption they like, but they don't- they use pain GSM SMS. He knows that. This isn't about that. This is about making sure the average American doesn't use encryption on a day-to-day basis.

    I'm sure I had a point in there somewhere.

  9. Yeah, but only cos the ADFS limit was ten characters!

  10. Re:dvd is useful - please fight on DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I just know that homophobia is not a phobia. Simple really.

  11. Re:dvd is useful - please fight on DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No one except you is using the word phobia to talk about disliking gays. If you don't get it, that's fine, everyone else knows what the perfectly cromulant word means.

  12. Re:dvd is useful - please fight on DVDFab Has Ignored Court's Shut Down Order, AACS Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Homophobia is a word. It does not mean fear of gay people. Are hydrophobic coatings afraid of water? No. http://www.grammarphobia.com/b...

  13. Re:Why not a wall on UAE To Build Artificial Mountain To Improve Rainfall (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a British vs American thing, mainly. Us brits have thrown of the French trailing 'e', while you lot persist with it as you are stuck under the Gallic thumb ;)

  14. And what filesystem do you put on that ramdisk that allows access from 10,000 different machines, simultaneously? And how does that single machine connect to the network? Do you have access top a machine with 1PB of RAM? We have a few 1.5TB machines, but our filesystem is more like 1TB. Basically, this has nothing to do with ram disks, other than that the servers will have huge gobs of ram cache.

  15. Re:Where are the gun nuts when you need them? on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think he actually wants the gun loons to start a civil war. Read between the lines, or at least, read the lines.

  16. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    No. I don't need to. I don't carry a gun.

    Jebus. Making me state the obvious.

  17. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 2

    'simple acts of momentary carelessness' are precisely why we need gun laws. That fact you think carelessness regarding guns is acceptable is very telling.

    You're right, gun laws don't do much to help hardened criminals. But neither do they make 'more bad people manage to get guns' - they increase the proportion. And you know what? That's a damn good thing. Gun=criminal. Simple.

  18. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    South Korean: "Please Kim, stop murdering us!"

    Kim Jong Un: "No."

    Syrian: "We'd like a new government, and we're gonna do it by force with our many, many, guns!"

    Assad: "I think not."

  19. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    And are you suggesting attacking your local or federal representative with a gun would be more effective?

  20. Re:Traditional backup could become irrelevant on BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Old cars may be sturdier- but that is not safer. Crumple zones are a thing.

  21. Re:Rsync is not for backup on BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Owner, group, mode, acls, xattrs, times... What metadata doesn't it backup? And what are the other issues? Genuinely interested as I do use it for hardlink incremental backups all the time.

  22. Again, why did other drivers have 'no ability to stop'? That's entirely their fault.

  23. Re:Just imagine it.... on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Spoofing the key server and CA that signed the key server's cert does not magically generate all the keys.

  24. Re:Newbie question on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 1

    Can you name one distro with gnu?

  25. Re:Deny ALL Cookies on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Clue: all sites in the EU are legally require to get cookie consent the first time you visit them. So unfortunate developers have to put something in. Of course, if you deny cookies... You get the pop-up every time, something far more annoying than the problem it was trying to solve.