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  1. Re:Pretty useless anyway. on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Caught by a video ?
    Tht will not happen.
    You cannot be identified among 270 million other people (or 7 billion).

  2. Re:partial security / insecurity -- what's the poi on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    >> ....having their chip pulled off and replaced with the chip from a dummy card, ....., so that the customer receives their card and activates it
    That happens only in the broken US system.
    In EU you typically can only activate your card with the right PIN, and only on an TM which checks the chip.

  3. USA is 20 years behind on tech on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    >> It was silly for the card networks and banks to chicken out on implementing Chip + PIN.
    This. The USA is only 20 years behind on tech

  4. Big data backup on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not ?
    raid level 4-6 makes inexpensive redundancy.
    Why would google not use a similar scheme to make an "online backup" without the expensive double storage need of conventional backup ?

  5. That is probably what is meant with a "top notch" smartphone

  6. Re:Essentially on Torvalds Opposes Tying UEFI Secure Boot to Kernel Lockdown Mode (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's the basic explanation :
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/3...

  7. Re:Inappropriate -- Why be secretive about it? on Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Google found out a way to legitimize this kind of crap :
    https://malwaretips.com/blogs/...

    Seriously, google, WTF ?
    We did not ask for your snake oil AV, only for a browser.

  8. First stop mass extinctions on Should We Revive Extinct Species? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Before experimenting with DNA for 1-2 species, we should stop the mass extinctions in the first place.

  9. Full stack = Big crash on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    If a developer fills the stack, the software will crash.

  10. Facebook and google are spying on us all ??
    No way that can be true !

  11. NSA!
    Go NSA!
    Go NSA!
    Go NSA!
    Go NSA!
    Go NSA!

  12. Google on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Next thing : Delete Google.

  13. Nope. The broken one is the Raspberry's clock stretching.
    The AVR conforms to the standard. There might be other slaves affected.
    And broadcom seems really not interesting in fixing this trivial prob that makes a roadblock for rapberry.

  14. Adblocker on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I banned ads altogether from getting into my browser.
    Don't care if they are regular ads or "crypto ads", whatever that may be as a special kind of ad.

  15. More importantly, the systems should be required to be certified througout for have a functionnal safety SIL level 3 or 4.

  16. Re:And then a hero comes along on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> This dude is a fucking inspiration.
    You have a strange kind of inspiration when you fuck.

  17. Is the I2C still broken ? can it now communicate with AVRs and other slower peripherials ??
    https://github.com/raspberrypi...

  18. Re: So this comes with a min wage increase right? on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not yet.

  19. Give up Vid on KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    "Keepvid" becomes "Give up Vid"

  20. Re:Ads on YouTube? on YouTube Will 'Frustrate' Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not the case.
    A big chunk of the people today navigate the Internet ad-free. You should try.
    And that's proven to be good for your mental health, for your bandwidth, and for your IT security.

  21. Re:Ads on YouTube? on YouTube Will 'Frustrate' Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope.
    A church has no such thing as "customers".
    What you describe is probably not a church.

  22. Re:and the logical followup on YouTube Will 'Frustrate' Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use only Youtube with your TV, use a whitelist instead.

  23. Re:and the logical followup on YouTube Will 'Frustrate' Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >> Seriously, just get YouTube Red and call it a day.
    Nope.

  24. Re:and the logical followup on YouTube Will 'Frustrate' Some Users With Ads So They Pay for Music (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >> That would make ad blocking virtually impossible.

    Nope.
    That would make Youtube non-useable.
    OR
    That would lead to innovation in the adblocking technology.

  25. Re:HEIF ... on Microsoft Brings Native HEIF Support to Windows 10 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    >> HEIF is a container that can contain anything
    Nope.
    Can't contain my beer.
    Back to PNG.