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  1. Re:Firefox will be fucked by malware like this, to on Chrome Extension Caught Hijacking Users' Browsers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that Firefox requires each new revision of the extension to be reviewed, so you can't just sneak in malware.

    It could happen, sure, reviews aren't perfect, but it is a lot less likely, and if you're a malware author, probably not worth buying someone off for that low probability.

  2. GIMP project's official statement on SourceForge's on SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] · · Score: 1

    GIMP project's official statement on SourceForge's actions:

    https://mail.gnome.org/archive...

  3. Re:Hypersonic weapons lead to nuclear war ? on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    Looks like Hawaii just squeaks in since it was annexed the same year as the war, even though unrelated to it.

    And, yeah, these days the US prefers to work through proxy governments.

  4. Re:Hackers Are Pampered on In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite · · Score: 1

    I contemplated working out the surface area of north korea, estimating amount of available plant matter.
    Then maybe doing simulations on just how much a typical poverty stricken family might have access to assuming that there wasn't some thug there preventing access...

    Then I realised that I really just didn't care enough.
    So, fine, whatever, maybe you're right. You're operating pretty heavily on assertions though.
    Rabbits have been a fine food source in places like France for a very long time though, and a good source of protein if indeed all you have is grass and twigs.

  5. Re:Hackers Are Pampered on In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite · · Score: 1

    I was using straw in a general sense hoping people would abstract â

    Ok. Let's say any high cellulose greenery of which the natural world is full.

    Last I checked, North Korea is not, in fact nothing but bare rock.

    Things rabbits can eat that humans will extract little to no nutrients from:
    twigs/bark
    grass
    leaves
    thistles/weeds

    Here's the thing.
    North Korea actually should be able to feed itself. It is profoundly disfunctional due to its political system and therefore, well, full of wild stuff.

    Rabbits can eat that. So, unless the rabbits ate the country to the ground (unlikely with hungry people around), at least there'd be *some* source of food out there that doesn't require intensive agriculture.

    But, yeah, even if North Korea wasn't any good for farming, there'd still be tons of stuff for a rabbit to eat.

  6. Re:Hackers Are Pampered on In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite · · Score: 1

    'cept rabbits can eat stuff you can't. Straw for example.

    Similar to why some areas in the world really do have to raise cattle or goats. There's nothing else that will grow there a human can eat. (then there's http://www.ted.com/talks/allan...)

  7. Re:It DOES have permission on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Google could in fact be sending it all home without using sync (which is off) but seems a rather risky thing for them to do if caught.
    Anyway, isn't just Waze doing this.

  8. Re: Split an app into multiple parts on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    could be a whitelisted set of approved ad providers, and restricted requests

  9. Re:It DOES have permission on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. It's absurd how many apps require all these permissions to be installed.

    If you want the app, you agree to that.
    I still haven't upgraded Waze since their new "social" integration required a ton more privileges, mostly to phone private info. And this despite running XPrivacy - I just can't be bothered to go through the whitelisting for it, when current version works well enough. Ditto the updated Google Search app.

    It'd be nice if apps had a base set of privs then expanded sets that could be allowed on install or later by request to the system/user. Also it'd be nice if the privileges were a lot more restricted, like "Use Ad Service to show you ads" instead of "Use Internet"

    So, I installed a little Fisher Price Animals app for kid, and set XPrivacy to "ask" mode. On startup, XPrivacy popups popped up indicating the app wanted my Localisation, Phone Identity, Telephone (calling/numbers - probably just so the app could know when a call was coming in if a kid was playing, but still, the sort of broad category Android requires for something like that), Sensors, some Shell cpu thingy I couldn't be bothered to figure out, but that it seems to run just fine without, and, Shell lib calls for the animal sounds.
    But, yeah, you allow broad categories, some inoccuous, some just 'cause they want to know how many users they have or something, and, surprise!

  10. Re:What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Eh. There's a hell of a lot of variety of beer nowdays. You're probably thinking of a doppelbock there.
    There's a legend about monks brewing it to help get them through fasts.

    But I'd certainly not recommend using that approach to pacifying babies to moms â

    Usually if you keep a baby fed and changed and comfortable they are pretty calm. Teething can be rough..
    Unless they have some other problem like thrush or something.

    Looks like I might be wrong about the hops tho...
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

    Anyway, apparently alcohol in milk falls off at the same rate as in blood, so probably the easiest way to do it is enjoy the beer immediately after a feeding.

  11. Re:What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Hey, I've been following this ever since I saw his comment, mostly due to my interest in the beer angle.
    But, while you're right that fermenting is important for the digestibility of tofu, it has no impact on the phytoestrogens.

    Ditto beer fermentation, the phytoestrogens in the hops make it through the process juuuust fine.

    I think the large number of pseudoestrogens out there is due to the fact that estrogen is a pretty simple molecule and a hell of a lot of stuff in nature gets confused by the body as being it.

    If you're pregnant, you're generally advised to avoid a bunch of these estrogen mimics.

    By contrast, it can be handy in women who are breastfeeding. One of the ways to help with production is apparently drinking hoppy beer. (obviously not just before feeding the kid)

  12. Re:What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Mhm. That's one of the sources of water supply problems.
    BTW, since you mention BPA in particular...
    http://www.scientificamerican....

  13. Re:What they don't tell you on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    "Now the latest and weirdest one. Soybeans. Seen how many American men have tits now? Even ones who aren't obese?"
    "Our friend the phytoestrogen, brought to you by soybeans and peas."

    I'm going to bet for the typical American guy that's probably more due to hops in their beer than tofu.

    'course, there's various estrogen compounds in the water supply too, so, maybe that as well?

  14. Re:Latest version on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's fair. But, I really do like the addons, and most of the time, the browser features.
    So, I suspect if this addon got abandoned, I'd probably just put up with australis or whatever the flavour of the day at that point had become.

  15. Re:restarting pulseaudio fixed the stuttering prob on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, unsurprising that restarting Firefox had no effect. Stuttering seems to be pulseaudio thrashing wildly in its buffers. I've had it happen with our game too. Can also leave application windows hanging as they wait for audio closes.
    It is possible that just pulseaudio -k might have been enough without the restart, even.

  16. Re:Latest version on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    Welp, then downgrade or whatever can be an option if-when that happens. For now, I'd prefer using the addon over dropping back that far.
    Hell, there's always ESR to drag that window out even further if indeed the addon gets abandoned.
    But given how many people (me included) are annoyed with Australis, I expect the addon will have a reasonable shelf life.

  17. Re:Latest version on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Latest version on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    Haven't noticed that personally. Have you tried killing off pulseaudio? I occasionally get weirdass audio problems with pulse that get fixed by that.

    I guess a full on logging out and logging back in might do the trick too.

  19. Re:Latest version on Firefox 33 Integrates Cisco's OpenH264 · · Score: 1

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...

    CSS3 variables I think has been getting the most attention.

  20. Re:More government control, that's the ticket on Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes · · Score: 1

    BTW, the caveats on health habits, immigrant populations, rural areas inaccessible to doctors in the US etc, France has a stillbirth rate twice that of the US. That's probably related to lack of extraordinary efforts for preemies.

  21. Re:More government control, that's the ticket on Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes · · Score: 1

    Oh, BTW, those 2 are pretty much same thing.
    Child mortality drives life expectancy waaaay down. Is like, countries where life expectancy is 30. Isn't like people die at 30. If you made it to 30, most of the time you'll make it to 70. Is just that so many kids die it drives down the average.

    There are calculations of life expectancy excluding under 3 or somesuch, but they are hard to find, and not as comprehensive.

  22. Re:More government control, that's the ticket on Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes · · Score: 2

    I've also read, although I'm too lazy to google for it, that where the US gets hit hard is infant mortality.
    While part of that is immigrant population, poverty, another interesting factor is supposedly the US tries a lot harder to save preemies that would simply be considered stillborn elsewhere and not counted as infant mortality.

  23. Re:So this is what happens when Brendan Eich leave on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    Oh, and BTW, I find that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
    works pretty darn well if you want to watch YouTube in Firefox without plugins.

    You might have to fiddle with the addon pref "YouTube video loading method" and possibly hit the http://youtube.com/html5/ opt-in page first, but it usually just works.

  24. Re:So this is what happens when Brendan Eich leave on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    Well, here you are standing on principles. :)

    You wanted to watch Youtube vids, so you run Google Chrome, which has even more liberal implementation of this DRM.

    You didn't boycott Youtube.

    So, this is why Firefox is implementing it. They no longer have the leverage. Google Chrome is bundled with Flash, with Adobe Acrobat, with Oracle Java. It is pushed on every google website people interact with - Search, Plus, Docs, Youtube, Translate. There's the google app store, ChromeOS, Android...

    I doubt Brendan would have held out against this either. Firefox' choice is to accede to its users, or become even more marginalised.

    I'm glad they are using their limited remaining leverage to try and at least ensure user privacy and security and offer something that is cross-platform, with an open source auditable wrapper and actually works under Linux.

  25. Re:Frequent hurricanes? on US Climate Report Says Global Warming Impact Already Severe · · Score: 1

    You'll get such things in any old red noise, which plenty of aspects of climate are.
    I'm asking you what the cycle is... what is the length of time for example that you're claiming, and what do you think might be triggering it.

    There *is* a sharp spike in ACE, and it might be related to, oh, who knows. Maybe the unusual strength of the solar cycle the past couple of cycles. Or maybe, oh, PDO or something.

    But those aren't even necessarily cyclical. We don't know why the sun goes into depressions from time to time, and it might be simply chaotic.

    The graph I was looking at, was really short. I'm curious how you could reliably extract any kind of cycle from just looking at it. So I wanted to know what your justification was.