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  1. Are there still people surprised by this behaviour?
    Facebook is since years known to invade users and non-users privacy.
    I belong to the last group and have to install various add-ons to escape their vacuuming of personal data.

  2. Which isn't much...
    "https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=LBP&to=USD"

  3. Once a criminal always one?
    I really appreciate people that change their bad ways and start to recognise mine and dine, including the right to someone's life.
    But by the fact you consider a converted criminal a snitch bring you down to their level.

  4. Re:They siezed the site on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why only small nations, unless you mean that place that needs to tell itself to become Great again.
    Yes The Netherlands has some great IT security people, just think about how they for several watched the webcam in a major Moscow troll factory.
    Until Trump blew the whistle...

  5. Re: Extremely thin on useful detail on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The past year we've (The Netherlands) had many fatal shootings of criminals and also innocent bystanders.

  6. Re:Firefox deprecated itself on Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds (gijsk.com) · · Score: 1

    Both allow access to the http part of the internet.
    Chrome has the added benefit it will track your use so you will receive better targeted advertisements.
    Meaning I'll stay on Firefox.

  7. Caught between a stone and a hard place on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since Microsoft (Win10) started spying on it's users the question is whether Google's spying is any worse.

    Without good legislation these large (US) companies will only increase their snooping, especially children that have no choice need to be protected against any harvesting of their data.
    See my sig.

  8. Re:"unspecified cargo"? on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh my, it seems APK has mod points :)

  9. Re:"unspecified cargo"? on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Provide e decent contract and no-one will look for help by a union.

  10. Re:Seeing a lot of talk about lunar flights on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, what struck me is he/they plan on shipping metric tons, in the end they will probably just be archaic US short tons.

  11. Re:He doesn't know what the cargo is yet on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    That's why he is going to build a local warehouse, even one day delivers will be possible.

  12. Forgotten Linux? on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Contrary to what is posted on the download page this font is also compatible with Linux.
    Maybe they forgot to mention it, maybe they realised Linux users have better brains and don't need this crutch...

  13. Re:Sure, it happens from time to time on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's not very nice.

  14. Re:Not just one--someone's entire life on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm presently in the US and bought a T-Mobile holiday SIM card with 2GB of data.
    In the shop they told me numbers are recycled after three months, well the last user of this number must have been doing all his or her finances using this number because in the first week I must have had 10 calls announcing all kind of measures if I would not fix this or that.

  15. First and last name confusion, recycled address on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I received the approval for a €1.5 million mortgage, including proof of income etc.
    It was mend for a doctor with my first name as his last name and I have an alias mail address with just my first name, in his case there should be a first name in front of the last name.

    Interesting to see how well some people are doing but then I send it back to the bank who apologised.

    For years I had been trying to get that nice and short mail address but it was already in use until one day it was available and I immediately claimed it. Later I heard my ISP locks released account names for 12 months before handing them out again.
    Not much later I was receiving commercial mails on my newly acquired address, one of them from a travel agency.
    Out of curiosity I followed the link in the mail to the account on the travel website but it required a password, I clicked the 'Forgotten password' link and received a new one.
    Once in the account I saw an address in Amsterdam where the man was living and also noticed it allowed booking of flights, hotels etc against a credit card associated with the account, scary!

    Again a little later I received a personal invitation to some event, I replied explaining I was not the person that previously used the mail address.
    This time I received a reply including the new mail address of the guy and I could finally report to him that his travel account was dangerously open...
    He told me he had forgotten this one and I handed him the new password and all was good.

  16. Nothing of value lost, not even money.

  17. And I can add one more: Sandoz.
    The question is more which drug company doesn't make it?

  18. The biggest advantage of the Canadian system is no-one is left behind.

  19. Re:What do you know the man is a comitted lefty on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You are talking about The Netherlands, by most measures they have one of the best health care systems and it improved a lot over the last couple of years.
    It's obviously not free but neither is it expensive, not half what the USA is spending for less cover and it is available to all.

  20. Re: Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is questionable, since over two years I am a user of this particular drug and regularly see it coming from different manufacturers.

    Good for me and other users because the patent ran out years ago anyone with the skill is allowed to produce and market it.

  21. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But it is another proof tax does not always kill the economy.

  22. For the stupid user only on Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing the low price of local storage this is only for those not caring for recurring cost, privacy, speed or reliability.
    I'll just stay with Kubuntu.

  23. Bah, facts are soo depressing.
    Please return to some alternative reality.

  24. Absolutely right, the consumer already pays his subscription to the bandwidth!
    These guys want to double dip.

  25. Re:The www prefix is obsolete on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The same thing goes for file browsers. Hiding extensions is wrong, and increases confusion

    Indeed, the worst is MS made it a default to hide extensions and many companies IT dept. can't be bothered to switch it back on through their group policies.
    This is just another way to get viruses installed by dumb users.