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  1. Re:Wavelength on Sunglasses That Block All the Screens Around You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    as a side note, I recently bought a pair of polarized sunglasses and was surprised discovering it obscure my Samsung smartphone OLED screen (super AMOLED on 2017 A5). I have no idea why Samsung put a polarizing filter on an OLED screen, but there is it.
    So, no cloacking of OLED display seems not an absolute for me.

  2. Re:I think the point of certificates and ... on Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure you can make such a statement.
    In fact, I know for sure it is false as expressed.
    If you are an european company with european employes or visitor (who are often EU citizens) and you provide them with internet access, and you warn them that you can intercept their trafic, MITM can be acceptable.
    ANSSI (Agence Nationale pour la Securite des Systemes d'Informations, french governemental agency for IT security) even publish a guide explaining how to install your MITM proxy (https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/guide/recommandations-de-securite-concernant-lanalyse-des-flux-https/)

  3. " I call it self-created because this is something the 99% can solve on their own. They don't have to spend as much of their income on things which quickly or immediately lose value."
    like food and rent...

  4. Re:Good advertising for Telegram on Russia Files Lawsuit To Block Telegram Messaging App (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It could be a propaganda operation, to encourage users from others country to migrate to a compromised system.
    Or not.
    But if you have enough paranoia to need some system like that, there is no limit to your untrust.

  5. Don't forget that all Google "products" are just experiments, valid only as long as they find benefit in them.

  6. Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    The same in 25 inches cost me less than 400

  7. Re:A UTF8 processing failure? on Mac and iOS Bug Crashes Apps With a Single Indian-Language Character (mashable.com) · · Score: 1
  8. France has also a long history of law writing and selective enforcement...

    The nearest of free speech legislation is a 1881 law about freedom of the press, where papers can write anything, as long as some publication director is personnally responsible of what is written. It is the basis for legislating blog posts, where a bad comment about a business on social media can cost an individual thousands of euros. As for revolutions, french citizens are globally reticents about arms, except for hunters, and they no longuer use pitchforks to work.

  9. Can anybody tell me where it is written in French law that there exist unlimited freedom of speech in France, as once envisionned in the USA ?
    (I accept any legifrance link)

  10. Re:News but few here probably have such phones on Millions Of Xiaomi Phones at Risk Of Remotely Installed Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
    Overall, I really can't understand why more people don't import Xiaomi phones ...

    because they don't (yet) support the 800 4G band.

  11. I'm quite certain the refrigeration system for nearing zero K is enough for needing some forklifts...

  12. Where on the list is the knife ? on Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time? (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Portable, personal, transformative, and with a legacy that changed (and terminated, at time) many lives.

  13. Re:Ugliest Logo I've ever seen. on HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    just look att the logo of lip :
    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip

  14. are they any non corean/chinese corporation that still manufacture phone ?

  15. Re:Two things on The Game Theory of Life · · Score: 1

    one can discuss, at length, and some will. The initial question I asked was : " are algorithms discovered or created? ". The only sure thing I can say (and I think any honest person would say) is : It seems an easy question, but there is no easy universal answer (even without going to theories where consciousness and self are emergent illusions)

  16. Re:Two things on The Game Theory of Life · · Score: 2

    Begin with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics. Then find from which position you stand whith your "simple answer". Then study the diversity of points of view and arguments, and see if you can prove their errors. If you can do that really well, publish. You will be famous.

    But saying mathematics is a language and the things described are not part of mathematics, or perhaps they are, and a poem cannot describe something... I feel you have some work to do before being able to convince everybody.

  17. Re:Two things on The Game Theory of Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "algorithms are made up"

    succint unproven "fact" for a question that can give work to philosophers for a few years.

    are mathematics (of which algorythms are a small part) discovered or created ? No one has a clear answer to that question.

  18. Re: Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    fine. I got to (re)learn something this evening. Thanks

  19. Re: Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    Die In A Fire, oh, no!
    too much CO2, and with global warming and all...
    What chord did I touch ?
    Of course everybody spend or waste his time as he wish. But please don't break the fabric and the principles of internet just for couch potatoes.

  20. Re:Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    it want to be a monopoly of video delivery, and don't hesitate to buy privilegied treatment from Comcast, to "indemnize" Comcast, but also to increase the cost of competing with it.

  21. Re:Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If it's Verizon, it's an ISP, and everybody know those are bad.
    But with Netflix, actively engaging again net neutrality and asking DRM in HTTP, it is also bad.
    So, the public is victim of two would-be/actual monopolists.

    The solution, I think, is no streaming.

    On a side note, video is really overrated.
    Days are only 24 hours, you use a few sleeping, you have better things to do than watching movies the rest of the time.

  22. Re:ALL telephones in Afghanistan ? on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    " USA and France are the only Western countries that has fewer active cell phones than people "

    false for both, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use

  23. Re:Curiosity on New Mars Crater Spotted In Before-and-After Pictures · · Score: 1

    Curiosity killed the cat

  24. Why is the coolest trophy ever... on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    ...not in liquid nitrogen ?

  25. Re:Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo has stopped. on Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones · · Score: 1

    don't know about the app. I just use it as my search engine in firefox on Android. And fiefox is my default browser. (and adblock plus works relatively well) I just miss RequestPolicy in firefox mobile.