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  1. No news on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It has been known for years that quantum computers will break RSA using the Shor algorithm.

    The interesting question, which is not answered in TFA, is: what algorithms are resistant to quantum computers? Do we have some available in TLSv1.3?

  2. Who takes the risk, and the benefits? on First Government Office in the US To Accept Bitcoin As Payment (orlandosentinel.com) · · Score: 1

    Government relies on Bitpay cover the risk associated with volatility. Bitpay will make nice benefits or huge losses depending if bitcoin is rising or crashing vs USD. Is it just government promoting speculation?

    Perhaps... except that Bitpay only guarantee the rate for 15 mn, and bitcoin transaction can make much more time to be processed. Hence government also takes a share in the volatility risk.

  3. The level of democracy for countries is obtained from Freedom House, It has nice maps where Tibet is distinct from China. I know some people advocate for that, but it is the first time I see it on a map.

    I wonder what US people would think is some organization featured a map with Indian reserves as distinct countries.

  4. This is getting ridiculous, especially given that Disney does not produce any new movie featuring Mickey mouse. They should just remove public domain, that way they would not need to add insult to the injury every 20 years.

    Just one question: what happens once the works are not protected anymore in other countries? Will Indian and Chinese company produce legal US knock-off for worldwide consumption except in US?

  5. Almost: when you get a higher education level than your parent, your can expect to improve your wealth over the previous generation. But for millennials the transition is mostly done. Parents have a college degree, so do the children, and they can expect to achieve just the same level at best.

    And for US millennials, it is even worse: they start with same education levels as their parent, but with a student debt.

  6. Any BSD box on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    A plain PC with two interface running a Linux or BSD system will do the job fine. And since it was not cited yet here, NetBSD can run that as free as secure as the other ones.

    A disadvantage (or advantage, YMMV) is that it requires learning some bits of Unix system administration.

  7. You mean support about the fact that education level of later generations has been rising in all developed countries? Your national statistics bureau should have numbers about that.

  8. I am cognizant that almost every generation thinks that the next generation is a bunch of lazy whiners who should get off their butt and do something useful. This makes me want to question my analysis. But even when I question it, I still come to the same conclusions.

    The environment is different for millennials that it was for your generation. You told your parent could not help you, which means you had the opportunity to surpass their wealth and education levels.. Millennials have the opposite perspective: at best they can expect to maintain their parent's level.

  9. On par with employers on In a Poll, 43% of Millennials in 36 Countries Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs Within Two Years (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Millennials just give back the consideration they get from their employers. Companies treat human resource as a fungible asset at best, or as an undesirable cost at worst. No surprise employees are not loyal to their employer in such an environment.

  10. Re:Why? Microsoft on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Would someone argue that I'm using Microsoft GNU/Linux?

    I would say you use GNU/Windows NT

  11. I wonder if that kind of robot could help explore the highly radioactive areas of Fukushima Daiichi.

  12. If we judge by results, Russian trolls are a failure. US foreign actions are quite hostile to Russian interests.

  13. Re:EU flag on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because setting up another company to re-sell the products to Iran is so incredibly difficult.

    Tell that to multinationals like Airbus or BNP Paribas that had to pay million-dollar fines. They had enough lawyers to create as many shell companies as required.

  14. Re:EU flag on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No EU company doing business with US will dare selling anything to Iran. We already had cases where US courts issued huge fines only because US dollars were involved.

  15. EU flag on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is this story illustrated with the EU flag? Neither Iran nor USA are part of EU.

  16. Here is a proposal for a simplified facial recognition algorithm. It features 0% false negative, at the price of an acceptable false positive rate

    bool is_suspect(char *picture, size_t picture_len) { return true; }

  17. Since all California-based multinationals modified their practice for EU's GDPR, asking them for provisions covered by this legislation should not cost them much (except in lost data sales, of course).

  18. Save your time, skip the article. It has no details on how Google fight scams, it just tells us it happens.

  19. Twitter has shut down the original without even trying to sell it, which suggest nobody wanted to invest on it. Odds to get funds for a v2 seem scarce.

  20. It is easy to log passwords without knowing. If you use mod_security for Apache, have a look for Authorization headers in modsec_audit.log

    The sanitiseRequestHeader operation is supposed to clean that up, but there are situations where it is not run

  21. Re:Horrendous headline on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is fertilizers even the problem here? What does land management have to do with the ocean?

    I am not sure this is the relevant mechanism for great barrier reef, but land fertilizer overuse is a probable cause for Algal bloom, which in turn will heavily damage ecosystems through hypoxia

  22. Re:Horrendous headline on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "$379 million boost" doesn't mean anything by itself.

    TFA actually lists projects that get funded.

    • A$201 million to improve water quality through reducing fertilizer use and adapting new technologies and land management practices
    • A$100 million for science research to restore the reef and boost its resilience
    • A$58 million to fight the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish
    • A$45 million for sea country management, coastal clean-up days and to raise awareness
    • A$40 million to enhance reef health monitoring
  23. Re: Fipronil on EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What can be grown in Iraq without pesticides cannot be grown in most of France without pesticides.

    France has always been a major producer in Europe, even before pesticides existed. Removing them would require a cultural revolution from farmers, but it is technically feasible

  24. Gates said if he had a magic wand for the U.S., he would fix education, and for the rest of the world, nutrition.

    Well,while there, Gates could also tackle US nutrition problem. It is not the same as developing countries, but it is still the elephant in the room.

  25. Re:Bullshit on Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have the proposed mechanism: blue light causes your body to produce less melanin, which means less protection against natural sunlight. It is a hypothesis worth testing, anyway.

    The story is about melatonin, the sleep-related hormone, not about melanin, the skin pigment.

    Hence this is not about sunlight protection, but about weak sleep quality, which is already known to be statically linked to cancer