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  1. The answer to malvertising on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make sites responsible for the ads they carry. The address networks (Google and whoever is left that they haven't bought yet) will then be forced by the customers with enough power to start taking responsibility, which will incentivise them to do more about the problem. As long as we allow companies to pass the buck, advertising will remain an opportunity for criminals to exploit.

  2. Re:One (two-part) word: Coca-Cola on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    To be fair, however, there were at least three variants of Coca-cola that all went by that name in just the past 40 years.

    There's half a dozen variants on the shelf of my closest convenience store today.

  3. Re:Big Mac on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    I'll see your Big Mac and raise you a Coca-cola.

  4. I'm thinking the same... Tokyo had better put a stop to all their expensive construction projects - 2016 will be the year the Olympics died.

  5. Re:Better vs. Perfect on NIST Prepares To Ban SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Until tokens gain the ubiquity of phones (which seems unlikely)

    Since tokens can be generated by software on phones, even obscure and obsolete phones, tokens are already more[1] ubiquitous than phones.

    [1] hardware tokens can be taken into secure areas where mobile phones are banned.

  6. Re:Encryption on Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK they can detain you for hours on a whim. Make sure you miss you fight.

    The things that happen when you're on the way to an important football game...

  7. If this Automotive industry's main group for coordinating policy on information security and "cyber" threats has published anything, where is it? All the website has is an "Executive Summary". All this seems to be is a single consultancy company, whose sole revenue is government consulting, launching a marketing website to gather automotive execs' contact details so they can widen their customer base.

  8. Re:Globalism strikes again on SoftBank To Buy British Chip Designer ARM For $32 Billion (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    MIPS is also UK owned.

  9. Re:Standard of living on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK it is most definitely up. Apart from 2011 and 2016, the average increase in rail fares has been above inflation, but the way the average is calculated puts undue weight on off-peak fares, which are often held static while peak commuting fares have been skyrocketing. Taxes on fuel have also pushed up petrol and diesel prices compared with the market fluctuation of raw oil.

  10. The Queen's Chain is largely a myth [nzherald.co.nz].

    This is the propaganda put out there by the politicians who got us into this mess. Prior to the mid-late 1980's, there was a defacto Queens Chain on all beaches, lakes and major rivers, even if a historic land title existed on a tiny fraction of that land. After these land titles started being sold to overseas interests, that is when access started being restricted, and the government failed to act then and hid behind this "Queens Chain is a myth" propaganda.

  11. The law in NZ has always allowed private ownership of beaches, and other foreshore property, and still does assuming you can convince the current owner to sell it to you.

    The law in New Zealand used to recognise the "Queen's chain" as belonging to the people. Private ownership of beaches is a recent thing that came along with the sale of all the profit making government departments to foreign companies.

  12. Re: So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the desire to usher in the apocalypse is not shared by mainstream Republicans.

    I'm having trouble figuring out if you're joking, or you're just unfamiliar with the contents the the book of Revelations. In case of the latter, some of the pre-requisites for the apocalypse are that the Jewish people gain control back over Jerusalem, and then Satan will summon up his armies against Jerusalem which will trigger the second coming.

  13. I guess he hasn't heard on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    They poor guy still thinks he is in the running to be Trump's sidekick in the upcoming circus. Someone better break the bad news to him gently.

  14. Re:South Park episode on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    Contracts have to be equitable. Given how many hoops companies make you jump through to cancel (I tried cancelling a mobile phone contract through the online feedback form once because there were no details anywhere of how to actually cancel, and got a response back saying I can't do this online, please call this number..., after waiting 20 minutes on hold, twice being cut off while on hold, on my third attempt I managed to get through to someone who told me I can't do this over the phone, they need it in writing and promptly hung up without giving details of where to write to - so I just cancelled payments and weathered the debt collectors in the end), I'm pretty sure a decent lawyer could get any broad terms allowing AT&T to cancel it at will dismissed as well.

  15. Re:The bullshit is fresh and steamy on Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Also it doesn't make sense to compare Edge to browsers that don't run on the same platform, so wtf would you include Safari - it doesn't make sense.

    You mean this is another story about Windows CE/Mobile/Phone/RT or whatever they are calling the platform that nobody uses these days?

  16. Re:South Park episode on TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent · · Score: 1

    I wonder what would happen when they take you to court to recover the outstanding amount. Would a judge rule that they gave permission for you to not pay by making payment trigger acceptance of unfavorable changes to the ToS, and force them to reinstate service under the originally agreed terms?

  17. Re:Where has all the insight gone? Long time passi on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is very much driven by technology - the focus of journalism has changed in the past years from proper journalism towards click-bait, with journalists judged by the number of shares they get. At the same time, Google News, Facebook and other players are filtering what you see into a personal echo-chamber that doesn't challenge your personal opinion.

  18. Re:I wish that was accurate on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    You may not want to use C, but there are at least 4 compilers available for PIC16 devices, so it isn't really a good example of the "many" devices that do not have a C compiler, which the GP would have us believe is the reason for a sudden resurgence of interest in assembly language.

  19. Re: Not convinced on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not calling anything. It doesn't take a function call just to assign a register value to another register's value. Most embedded C compilers let you do that with C syntax, as if they are normal C variables.

  20. Re:Explanation is bogus on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    There are still 4 bit microcontrollers.

    Yes, but only in certain very simple, high volume applications that demand low operating power (as opposed to low standby power where modern 16 and 32 bit microcontrollers will suffice), and code is typically just carried over from one model to the next, needing very few assembly programmers to support it. So I don't think 4-bit microcontrollers is the reason for assembly programming suddenly being in demand again.

    The long arithmetic example may be more likely, with all the BitCoin farms being built out in China, even if this is something that you do once and put in a library (or just use something like GNU MP to start with).

  21. Re:I wish that was accurate on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Many? Can you name 2?

  22. Re:Explanation is bogus on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    I would pick a different vendor for the processor. Lack of a C compiler is going to be the least of your support worries.

  23. Re: Not convinced on TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly (tiobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually #include <vendor.h> ... BX = AX; or maybe _BX = _AX; will do it in most embedded C compilers.

  24. C is not a virtual machine. It doesn't have an environment on the target. Unless by environment you mean a stack, but I've even seen a subset of C used (carefully) on stackless embedded systems with RAM and ROM measured in bytes.

  25. The legislation for the confirmation referendum would need to be carefully constructed to avoid a situation where a low turnout results in the previous result being overturned by another slim margin. Some condition like: the first referendum result may only be overturned if a greater absolute number of voters carry the winning vote than voted leave in the first referendum, or if remain gets a 2/3 majority even with a lower turnout.