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  1. Re:To make hiding the malware easier. Slow no cach on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work very well these days, for a lot of sites. HTTP 2 allows requests to be pipelined on one connection, with compression. With dynamic content and browsers selectively blocking certain content (mostly ads) it gets tricky.

    Having said that, it would be a good idea to randomly pad packets.

  2. Re:Fix my ignorance on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    You can just use Let's Encrypt, or free CDN services like Cloudflare.

    For personal sites it doesn't matter, your Google rank will barely be affected, if at all. For anything else the bar is so low it's probably zero effort as you wanted the CDN anyway or need at least some secure pages for log in etc.

  3. Re:FAKE PIRATES on Movie Ticket Sales Hit A 22-Year Low in 2017 (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Name one year when the majority of movies in cinemas were not dreck. It's always been that way. In fact, if anything critics consider this something of a golden age... Which when you look at sci fi and action from the 80s and 90s seems credible.

  4. Re:YVR on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a monorail in Tachikawa that competes with buses. Buses stop more often and go to more places. They provide different services and so are rarely competing for the exact same journey.

  5. Re:Cash on hand on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber's fate really depends on their ability to get a fleet of self diving cars running before everyone else. Taxi diving is a profession that will be automated away in the next decade or two, along with truck driving, and the only way to survive is to own the fleet and capture the market early.

    So far Uber looks pretty far behind the competition, but if someone offers to sell them the cars they might be okay.

  6. Re:Ars is bad at predictions on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Motorola was a great success for Google. They got the patents they wanted, and Motorola is doing fine with reasonably priced and good phones that took over the spot Google vacated when they dropped the Nexus line.

    SV issues will be resolved in court. Various discrimination and employment cases will eventually come to a head.

  7. Re:Twitter has 3500 people on Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They can only make money by selling ads and providing extra services to business (i.e. helping them manage their social media stuff).

    So they need lots of sales staff, commercial support staff, accountants etc on top of the engineering division.

  8. Re:To make hiding the malware easier. Slow no cach on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just governments spying on you, but your own ISP and advertisers too. We have already seen lots of ISPs doing MITM attacks that insert unwanted content into pages.

    Being able to see that you connected to Wikipedia is very different from being able to see that you looked at the Wikipedia page on STDs or pressure cookers or Casio watches.

    Organisation level caching is overrated these days anyway, since so much content is dynamic anyway. The benefits far outweigh the costs, especially considering that people who really need caching can just install their own certificates on their undoubtedly centrally managed computers.

  9. Re: Sex trafficking is a supply and demand problem on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read those guides they usually admit that their "technique" is really just asking literally hundreds of women until they find one drunk or stupid enough to sleep with them. And if they read their description of the rapes they commit, they don't even seem to enjoy it.

  10. Re:Sex trafficking is a supply and demand problem. on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Rejecting effective solutions for the sake of consistency is dumb.

    Often the trafficked women cost more because they can be forced to do stuff other women won't. They were clearly offering something more or no one would have taken the risk of sending their work ID and using their work email when they could have just used locals anonymously.

  11. Your theory is that she slept with him to further her career, but then decided to sabotage it by extracting money from him... Doesn't sound like a great plan, especially as she was just one of eight people who got hush money and her other complaint at Amazon got her project dropped.

    Considering everything that Weinstein has simply admitted to, why do you need to invent improbable theories that make him the victim?

  12. Re:Pass the Turing test and self aware of funding? on Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Literally everything is about SJWs for you. That tells us more about your state of mind than anything.

    Can't we just have some fun on New year's Eve?

  13. Wouldn't have stopped Weinstein. He could easily afford expensive prostitutes, but that wasn't what he wanted. It was about power, forcing young actress to do things with him.

    Same with trafficking. They want certain types of girl, otherwise why take the huge risks (sending your ID or using a work email) when for $50k a year you are not going to have difficulty getting laid?

  14. Re:Sex trafficking is a supply and demand problem. on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We need to start an open source sexbot movement. They will fulfill an important need, but can't be under the sole control of corporations who have already shown themselves to be untrustworthy by spying on customers and using DRM.

    Start with GNU vibrators that support remote control over secure net connections. Sarah Jamie Lewis has already made a great start on this. In time we need to make sure that Free high quality blowjobs are available for anyone to download. VR should be a target too.

  15. Re:The Dutch have done this for a while. B-) on Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    You were doing quite well until the end when you gave your deception away. You compared Germany to France, not how Germany has improved from where it started from. You selected France because it has the largest proportional of nuclear power in the world, but neglected to mention that they have decided not to fund any more of it and that decision nearly made two of their nuclear operators bankrupt. In other words, it was a corporate welfare programme and now they have a better, cheaper alternative.

  16. Re:Reporting on this is terrible on Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    The fault lies with the police for giving too much weight to low quality intel.

    Did they try calling the house first? Did they not have bullet proof shields and cover to protect them long enough to determine if the guy was really armed? The video is pretty damming.

  17. Re:Reporting is intentionally terrible on Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    It's bad in other countries too. A lot of people get murdered by armed police in the UK too, it's just fortunate that we have fewer cops carrying guns. Sadly tasers are on the rise, and training is poor - it's shocking (no pun intended) how many people get tased in the face.

    The training it partially at fault. Some of it was shown in TV a few years back. They had a video of a man holding a stick projected on a wall. The cop was about 10m (30ft) away. She told him to stop and put down the stick. The man raised his hands, so that he was holding the stick above his head in a way that might be intent to run towards her and strike or might be him trying to surrender. She shot him without hesitation. The presenter of the documentary was visibly shocked, but the cop was praised for her performance.

  18. Re:I publicly transport you to a shitcan arth1 on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I really hope you didn't just dox APK. It's that information public?

    Let's not do this on Slashdot.

  19. Re:Merge problem on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    In the UK the sequence is mirror, signal, maneuver. In other words, look to make sure it is clear and safe to move, then signal your intent, then move.

    People who signal as a way of "asking" to be let in cause confusion. Are they asking, or are they about to move and cause an accident? If I'm unsure I use my horn, it's the only safe thing to do since the person behind is usually tailgating.

    Is it different where you are? Either option would be okay if everyone just agreed on the correct use.

  20. Re:In other words, there's an optimal distance. on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Many cars have indicators to show when you add driving efficiently. The EU is also mandating front collision avoidance in new cars. Wouldn't it be great if they added a "correct distance" indicator?

    Just a little green light that tells you when you are the ideal distance from the car in front. Just a hint, like the efficient driving one.

  21. Re:Nothing more annoying on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    It's incredible how many people can't even maintain a constant speed on a motorway/highway. If you turn on cruise control you quickly find that people randomly accelerate and decelerate.

    I also find that when trying to overtake people they often speed up. I think it's unconscious, at least I hope it is because otherwise it's a really stupid thing to do.

  22. Re:No. Best practices are the only way. on Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything to do with an "initial coin offering" is a scam.

  23. Re: Dumb metric on Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017 (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Anything about diversity or Trump brings the snowflakes out... So I'd guess the Damore debacle.

  24. That pretty much sums it up. The first three movies had less than 1 minute of dialogue by female characters other then Leia, who was damseled twice and the second time in a bikini. Now we have some movies with some women in better roles and it's an all out assault on men, an insult to the entire gender.

    In fact thinking any it, Rey is the only female force user we have seen for more than a moment on screen. Maybe that's what the shirt is referring to, given the title of the first movie in the new trilogy.

  25. Re:Not worked up, just frustrated. on 'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You spammed this comment twice in this thread. It's not even accurate.