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  1. Re:Another fake reason to leave on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    The arguments of the leave side during the referendum were often based on false information (lies) with £350m bus being a grand example.
    They conveniently forgot to mention the +£800m in lost trade...
    Bent bananas and cucumbers are another example of how fake the British tabloids are, they can definitely be sold in the EU but not as 'Class 1' products.
    Let's see where these bent cucumbers end up after a cold Brexit :)

  2. You have a point, the number I gave might have been for those actually drafted which was only 10% of those available.
    I remember he number of 1.86 m. very well as we had great discomfort fitting in the armoured cars designed in 1956 for the average men of that year.

  3. Weird, only 14.5% of US males being over 6'.
    I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"...
    (I'm from the Netherlands)
    Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
    What happened between say 1935 and 2019?

  4. Re:I don't believe it for a second on Saudis Gained Access to Amazon CEO's Phone, Says Bezos' Security Chief (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    At certain levels the Saudi's are very close with the Israeli's who in turn are among the best building this type of espionage stuff.
    Do't forget they have the same enemies, Iran and the Palestinians.

  5. Re:Worst culprit for Android devices are carriers. on Android Users' Security and Privacy At Risk From Shadowy Ecosystem of Pre-Installed Software, Study Warns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    These carrier apps are a typical effect of living in a judiciary not having net neutrality.

  6. Pleas links to the streams or it didn't happen :)

  7. Re:How will you kearn the health effects on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nothing lefty in sight, the right is even more likely to go for low hanging fruit.

  8. Re:Oh for fucks sake, no. on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sad mods that think you are trolling.
    In many civilised countries vaping is under the same regulations as smoking and rightly so, it emits bad vapours and to kids makes it look like smoking is acceptable behaviour.

  9. Re:As they should be! on Europe Frightened By US 'Cloud Act', Fearing National Security Risks (straitstimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Please differentiate between the company (under investigation) and the provider of services.

  10. Re: As they should be! on Europe Frightened By US 'Cloud Act', Fearing National Security Risks (straitstimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Then sue Company X, not secretly or not secretly go after the storage and mail provider.
    When you (the court) has a good case foreign governments and jurisdictions will cooperate.

  11. Re: As they should be! on Europe Frightened By US 'Cloud Act', Fearing National Security Risks (straitstimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You a very wrong
    This is data belonging to the company and when a national government legally orders the company (not the ISP or storage provider!) to hand over the data to a court it is immaterial where the data is stored.
    The problem here is the US believes it can access data belonging to others without going through the owners, just because it is stored on US operated servers, even in other jurisdictions.
    Yesterday I heard German police depts. are storing their body cam footage on Amazon and now questions have been asked in the German parliament for exactly this reason/fear, US lack of legislation allows all kinds of people access without proper legal oversight.

  12. For a measure of 'better'. Over here in Europe we have standards regarding privacy and ownership of data.

  13. 14 comments 5 hours after posting sounds like a loud Duh.

  14. Re:Will it help? on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, and what about those that believe Facebook/ Printerest is the internet?

  15. Not new on Scientists Dressed Horses Like Zebras To Figure Out Why They Have Stripes (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Zebra-style horse blankets have been available since a couple of years and precisely for this reason, get less trouble with flies.

  16. Re:Foldable bluetooth keyboard similar and cheaper on A Psion Palmtop Successor Has Arrived and It Runs Android and Linux (pocket-lint.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Linux mode + attached keyboard that make it nice.

  17. Re:The FDA is not here to help you. on FDA Warns Supplement Makers To Stop Touting Cures For Diseases and Cancer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Idiot.
    Anything advertised as medication should be regulated, it's got nothing to do with the origin, be it straight from nature or from a complex industrial process.

    I suggest to make a nice smelling tea from the pretty Lily of the Valley, I guarantee it will solve all your physical problems!

  18. Re:How is this not illegal? on Apple Just Endorsed AT&T's Fake 5G E Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would anyone step in?
    Your president lies on a grand scale and for like-minded he is the example to follow.
    Oh sorry, this 5G E is not a lie but an Alternative Truth.

  19. Re:Avats fault of doing MITM on Mozilla Halts Rollout of Firefox 65 on Windows Platform After Antivirus Issue (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations have an IT department and are in a much better position than private users to check and approve of browser updates, this does not need to take many days or even longer.
    Historically Microsoft products are the main target of viruses and other unwanted issues, abandoning this monoculture is one way to avoid being in the group of low hanging fruit for the scammers. Looking a little further back MS was the main instigator of non-standard browsers (IE6)
    Yet I'm not agreeing with MS to go Chromium.

  20. Re:FFS the moon was not created by an impact on Earth's Oldest Known Rock Was Found On the Moon (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    At least this one AC hasn't finished his education...
    And is missing any concept of imagination.

  21. It starts with curiosity on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    To be a scientist you need to be curious about the unknown or unexplained.
    Once you can formulate a new approach and explain an answer to these questions you become a successful scientist.
    Even for yourself but especially for the laymen the explanation might look surprising, who cares, you found the solution.

    And very likely a new question has now arisen.

  22. In other words, you are still feeding the monster they are.

  23. Re:Clean out your FB Ad Preferences on Most Facebook Users Don't Know That it Records a List of Their Interests, New Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.
    Worse is they keep track of people not subscribed but who's names cropped up in the address books a lot of idiots shared with Facebook.

  24. Interresting and useful but why Gnome? on GNOME Internet Radio Locator 1.6.0 Released (gnome.org) · · Score: 0

    If I understand the description it works based on a map from which to pick a particular station which I find an interesting concept.
    But most people rather search for the sort of music or information a station carries and already know the names, the geographical location is of minor interest and on the internet even less.
    I use KDE's KRadio and it does all I need, installing a whole bunch of Gnome dependencies is not something I need.

  25. Re:Except the far-right ADF you say? on Hundreds of German Lawmakers Targeted in Mass Cyber Attack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Make that 'outside of the USofA'.