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  1. They do. The difference here is that chrome will detect repeated errors and then show a different warning.

    A MITM attack would otherwise show up as an error on the SSL trust chain. This warning is saying "hey you got a lot of trust issues recently, you sure someone isn't meeting with you?"

  2. Re: EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You often ask for citations, but rarely give them.

    That's because he also often criticises and rarely makes claims of his own. But it is the claims which require the proof not the question of validity.

    Become a better person. Learn how to self-reflect. Learn critical logic.

    The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

  3. Re:No, not subject to US law on Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    and absent an extradition

    Projecting.

    The thing is most things need to be a crime in the home country in order to qualify for extradition, so that is kind of a pointless statement. It may have been a crime in the UK, but it didn't affect anyone in the UK and there was no damage done in the UK, it wasn't discovered by the UK, and if it wasn't for the American victims the UK would have zero interest.

  4. No on Can Blockchain Save The Music Industry? (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blockchain technology so far has failed to achieve ... anything. It does sound like everyone just wants to throw it at everything and hope it sticks to something.

  5. Re:3x on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is a "3x screen"? Tried Googling, results unenlightening.

    Disagree I just searched "xxx screen" and found the results not only enlightening but also quite arousing.

  6. Re:Oh joy.... on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 2

    Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Solving "all of the other of the world's problems" would result in no progress ever again.

    That said this specific thing is quite stupid.

  7. Re:No, not subject to US law on Should British Hacker Lauri Love Be Tried In America? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He was in the UK at the time and subject to UK law so he should only be tried in the UK.

    But he specifically attacked US entities. Effectively if we follow your reasoning this is becomes reduced to a state sponsored attack on the US by the UK. Now if he attacked indiscriminately against computers of various origins that just so happened to include US computers then I would agree with you.

  8. Re: EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    everything

    Yep. It's one of the reasons why our infrastructure isn't falling apart, why we rank very high in satisfaction, health, happiness, why internet is blazingly fast and dirt cheap, why public transport can be described as excellent...

    Governments aren't for profit entities funnelling cash to a couple of shareholders.

  9. Re:can't admit a mistake on Leaks Reveal New Features In Apple's Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Same way as the headphone jack, microphone, speaker, usb socket, buttons, camera, temperature sensor, barometer, pulse oximeter and fingerprint sensors on the back work.

  10. Re:How is it different from Red Hat's distros? on Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    There's other differentiators as well. With Red Hat pulling out, Ubuntu throwing a lot of weight behind a ZFS kernel module, and Debian staying in the dark ages, SUSE is now the only major Linux vendor putting serious effort into BTRFS.

    While I don't use SUSE, their continued existence is something that benefits others too.

  11. Re:China appears to be shooting for EV dominance on China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations (247wallst.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of it is just due to western manufacturers falling behind.

    This indeed! We're starting to see electric buses deployed where I live. The company? BYD. Lovely quiet Chinese electric busses. There's even two BYD cars outside my building. I think the guys on the floor above us work for them.

    Private fleets are going electric too. Schipol airport in Amsterdam has an electric bus fleet ... BYD again. Sydney has an electric bus fleet ... BYD. Brisbane Australia is getting an electric bus fleet too, Toro but apparently that's a joint venture with BYD.

    The Chinese are eating the west's lunch and gaining a serious first mover advantage here while Volvo, MAN, etc are resting on their laurels.

     

  12. Re:China appears to be shooting for EV dominance on China Builds World's Largest EV Charging Network With 167,000 Stations (247wallst.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that's a really bad idea and I'll tell you why. I found a small situation not representative of the entire scenario that isn't low hanging fruit and therefore the entire project is a bad idea

    Did I quote you correctly?

  13. Re:bulletproof boob implants? on An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Would make for an interesting boobjob too. "faster Faster FASTER! OWW no SLOWER Slower slower!"

  14. "They showed icky details, including the parts WE DON'T NEED TO SEE like the scary circuit boards 'n' stuff."

    "Mommy, Make Them Stop!!"

    The circuit boards were the only good thing. Now some Chinese nerd in a beard driving though wherever the hell he was driving (I'm sure he said in the video) is a complete fucking waste of time that could have been better spent by showing more pictures of the "scary" details.

  15. Re: Not impressed on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was under warranty. I said phones are disposable and just because they cost $600-1000 doesn't mean I'd shed a tear if it broke as I have spare phones just laying around, and when the contract is up I get a new one automagically anyway.

  16. Re:Bug 1325692 causes data loss and is WONTFIX on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow really? You expect restore last session to populate forms and are surprised that it's classified as WONTFIX? What other major security flaws do you want to propose today?

    In any case if your complaint is a bug won't be fixed in time for a major overhaul release that too will land on deaf ears. Priorities are a thing and addressing bugs that allow an extension with just a handful of users to disable some functionality of the browser will be prioritised accordingly.

  17. Re:Please stop this madness on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    True only if "webextension" keep enough functions of old firefox extensions capabilities.

    And there's only and handful of extensions that don't work with webextensions. But no doubt someone will mention {insert favourite non-webextension here} as if to make a counterpoint. But then it's quite telling the number of people who complain about webextensions and then say they will move to a platform where that is actually the plugin API in use.

  18. Re:Please stop this madness on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stop removing features and start fixing the bugs and improving performance

    Funny that's exactly what they are doing. Part of the reason of switching to webextensions is to get a massive performance boost while at the same time limiting the damage that plugins cause such as lockups and memory leaks.

    Browser should be an application which stays off the way and just shows the web pages efficiently.

    Disagree. A browser should be a window manager, a download manager, a bookmark manager, a privacy manager and have a usable UI while achieving all of the above.

  19. Re:please try on Could 'Re-Engineering' Earth Help Ease the Hurricane Threat? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretending that stabilizing CO2 levels will stabilize the distribution of arable land is a ridiculous lie.

    Why call out one variable? We're talking about climate here.

  20. Re:Now I understand on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Reading the ordeal and expense that is putting a microphone jack in an iPhone, I must say that now I understand the reason why Apple took it away. It's simply not worth it!

    What a stupid comment. This ordeal and expense is entirely the result of doing something with a device that it wasn't designed to do. If you're at the design stage of the device this would have been incredibly trivial. Hell they would likely just have copied and pasted this part of the schematic from the previous iPhone and called it a day.

    But it does really call out all of Apple's bullshit excuses such as no space for a headphone jack, trying to make it thinner, etc.

  21. Please, try to develop an attention span.

    My life is limited, my time is limited. If I wanted someone to bore me for 20min with completely irrelevant details while I waited to get to some form of conclusion I'd talk to my mother.

  22. Re:Not impressed on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    You don't care about the warranty on a $1k purchase? Liar. Or idiot.

    On a disposable device like a phone? Not at all. Hell when my last phone died on me I just threw it away and used another smartphone I had laying around for the 3 months until my contract expired. If I wanted it fixed I could have paid some Chinese dude $50 to fix it for me.

    Or are you saying that you don't get a new phone every time it comes out? If so you really are a very fake Tim Cook.

  23. Re:Not impressed on Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    You can already use $900 earphones that only have a Jack for input on an iPhone 7 using Apple's dongle that Apple bundles with the iPhone.

    Hurrah Dongle!

    Anyone who buys $900 headphones and doesn't use an external DAC is an ignorant fool.

    Dumb comment. The modern integrated DAC chips have excellent performance. Beyond absolute trash sources in headphones 99% of the sound improvement is to be gained in the device producing the sound, in speaker setups less so as doing things with higher power is hard. Not to mention the idea of carrying around a DAC when people were critical enough of having to carry around a dongle is just plain stupid.

    destroys the phon's resale value

    Debatable.

  24. Re:Not Significant Accuracy on AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent. 100% accurate given the goal to detect all instances of one outcome in a pre-chosen binomial distribution. Your choice!

    Cool. 9/9/2017 12:30pm. Noted in my calendar as a new record for the dumbest comment I've seen on the internet.

    Don't trust that people actually know what they are doing.

    And you do?

    Yes I do actually. I tend to trust that people who devote their time to become experts in a topic are generally more reliable and trust worthy sources than blind uneducated opinions.

    The paper isn't peer reviewed. The study has not been replicated. The methodology is lacking. The statistical significance can be explained by many outside factors.

    So why don't you help. That's what science is all about.

    To describe this in a phrase: Junk Science.

    Sure when you put arbitrary labels on science but don't understand the process I see how you could come to that idiot conclusion.

    To describe people that follow science as you do: Religious.

    Cool. 9/9/2017 12:32pm. Noted in my calendar as a new record for the dumbest comment I've seen on the internet. Honestly I didn't think that record would be broken within 2 minutes but but clearly you're an expert at this.

  25. Re:Massively Flawed on AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    these idiots failed to account for a common practice among hetero women on dating sites

    I'm sure this is a big concern on their statistics on male pictures.

    All subjects caucasian.

    Not a flaw, just a variable reduction for the purpose of the study.

    No attempt made to account for (or even acknowledge the existence of) bisexuality, transgendered individuals, or asexuals, the latter of whom likely wouldn't be on a dating site.

    So no attempt to account for something which likely reduces the results of their accuracy (which wasn't perfect) combined with a trait that would automatically have been excluded based on the source material? Whoop de fucking do.

    No attempt made to account for economic status and history

    Errr so gay people only look gay if they are rich?

    No attempt made to account for cosmetic surgery or other such treatments.

    Something that would likely emphasise the exact traits they were looking for?

    Honestly they had one criteria: judge if people look gay based on self reporting in a way likely to achieve the correct response rate of the target group, and the computer did it better than a person.

    You're looking for things to complain about by making the study something that it isn't. In other news the damn IPCC study on climate change can't answer why my finger hurts when I cut it with a knife. Clearly the climate science is flawed.