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  1. Re:This is political, not technical on Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (thelocal.no) · · Score: 1

    It's valuable for broadband.

  2. Re:How will they handle the tough decisions? on Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh give it a rest. It hasn't even happened yet and you are predicting massive oppression from a project specifically designed to route around censorship.

    It's as if you scan every story looking for how you can work the cis white male oppression angle in. The fact that you have to stretch so hard to do it suggests that there isn't any real oppression to complain about.

  3. Re:The plural of anecdote on ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Plenty of left leaning accounts get hit too. Especially on YouTube.

    In fact it's so bad that the alt-right on 4chan have weaponized it, organising mass flagging campaigns against people and videos they don't like.

  4. Re:Javascript to the rescue again! on Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Some banks seem to see JavaScript as a security enhancement. My banks both use the same off the shelf web interface, and it asks you for numbers from a secret code when you log in. That page maxes your CPU and responds very slowly to input, because of some JavaScript that is trying to break key loggers and browser exploits.

    Fortunately it works with JavaScript disabled.

  5. It would be great if we could have portable macros too. MS Office, Libre Office, Google Docs etc. all capable of opening and running the same macros.

  6. Re:Publish them... SHOW us all this "Evidence" on CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nothing burger? You should tell that to Michael Flynn, Peter Smith (oh...), George Papadopoulos, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner.

    Considering some of them have already admitted their crimes, it's odd that you forgot to mention it in your summary.

  7. Re:Haven't we heard this before? on CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    So you will be happy when someone leak's Trumps tax returns, right?

    In fact, you must be lamenting that they didn't make more effort to hack Trump's campaign (I wonder why) because you could have saved a lot of hassle with all the dodgy dealings that are only coming out now.

  8. Even if people don't admit that they were duped, just knowing that will make them more careful next time. And that's the point of it - to understand what happened and come up with ways to stop it happening again.

  9. Re:A lack of imagination? on Space Is Not a Void (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of sending humans, apart from just because we can climb that mountain, is to stop us being dependent on the Earth for the survival of the species.

    At the moment we are one asteroid away from extinction. And we know it's happened before.

  10. Re:... and also think of ... on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Give us an example please.

  11. Re:Or maybe you're a lying piece of garbage? on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    I get that you are obsessed with democrats, but I'm not a supporter,I don't even live in the US... No need to project.

  12. Just wait until Trump gets impeached or loses the next election. They will turn on him just as quickly as he turns on his former best buddies.

    They always turn on each other eventually. Always.

  13. Re: 75p's worth on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it's voting for Thatcher and Brexit that mainly did it, along with kicking the ladder away on your way up with the introduction of student loans and protecting your housing assets.

    A boomer told me that the environmental damage done by pollution had been "worth it". For his generation perhaps, not for us lot who have to live with it and clean that shit up.

  14. Re:Ad on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    When did she use the force like Luke did in ANH? He never used and mind tricks or force pulls, the things she did. Oh the other hand he made that impossible shot, with coaching from Obi Wan. Ray only managed to crash into the ground and that building.

    And are you really saying that shooting small animals from a civilian aircraft is much like taking a shot that the best rebel pilots mostly couldn't even get to, let alone make on the first attempt?

    Anyway, both of them did some extraordinary stuff... It's almost like that's what fantasy movies are about, the kid who turns out to be a hero or a princess.

  15. Re:Simple solution for Google & Facebook on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem that unreasonable to want to be paid for the content. Google needs it, they need revenue to keep producing it... It should be possible to find a mutually agreeable solution.

  16. Re:449ml? Where?!? on Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK it's standard practice to ask if you want a large glass when ordering, the same way they ask if you want to super size your McDonald's.

  17. Re:Or maybe you're a lying piece of garbage? on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Fucking hilarious. I can out your what-about-ism, and you immediately say "what about the Democrats"!

  18. Re:... and also think of ... on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Nagging women for sex is sexual harassment dude.

    Or are you saying they nag you when you have sex with them? Have you tried one of those sex education videos where they teach you techniques?

  19. Re:Ad on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ray seems like less of a Mary Sue than Luke was.

    Both were part time pilots, but Luke was able to fly a fighter down that trench and make an impossible shot that the computer couldn't, while being chased and shot at by Vader, yet Ray immediately crashed into the ground and then a building.

    Luke infiltrated the Death Star, escaped from storm troopers and immediately decided to become a hero with no second thoughts or doubts. Ray nearly gave up and wanted out, it took a force vision to turn her back. She actually did very little in the film, and barely managed to bring the fight with Ren to a draw despite him having been shot by a powerful weapon and not actually trying to kill her.

    The problem with the EU is spoilers. Much of the build up is speculation, much of the enjoyment is being surprised and seeing something new. You still have the EU books, it's not like they burned then all.

  20. Re:Ad on Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Critics who are also fans of the franchise seem to love it. They say it moves the universe forwards and is better than the last one.

  21. Re:A debugger does this on Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, poking code is often the fastest way to do stuff on those older systems where memory bandwidth and CPU clocks are very limited.

    We called it speedcode back in the day. Say you wanted to calculate and plot a load of points on the screen. Normally you would calculate the coordinates, store them and then later pass a reference to some plotting function. To do it faster you could turn calls to the plot function into an unrolled series of instructions, and instead of reading the coordinates every time just poke them directly into the immediate instruction op-codes.

  22. Re:Not a surprise. on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that when Amazon or Google does eventually get hacked it's going to expose vast amounts of highly sensitive data.

    That's fine if the data is properly encrypted. That's a big if though.

  23. Re:what a maroon on Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He used publicly known exploits, so if he didn't get there first it was only a matter of time before someone else did.

    Since most people wouldn't even know their device was part of a botnet, this is the best outcome. They will return it to the shop as defective or get a software update from the manufacturer.

  24. Re:Not aggressive enough. on Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production (electrek.co) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A better option is to mandate efficiency standards for buildings. The builder can meet them any way they like. In practice solar plus battery is the most cost effective option, but they can still choose the supplier and configuration.

  25. Re: 75p's worth on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    Project fear is turning into project we warned you... Unfortunately the only thing to do now is reduce funding for age related services and benefits, and move it to the younger generations. It's not fair that they pay the price for this stupidity.