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  1. State vs state on China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, the agreement does not ban state sponsored cyberattack against state. This is a bit weird.

  2. France works for their own citizens.

    Considering the count of industrial jewels the french government allowed to be sold to foreign companies, this one is not obvious.

  3. Just for information on 'I'm Suing New York City To Loosen Verizon's Iron Grip' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    All that years of work just to get information released. Perhaps a shortcut could be taken thanks to a leak from a friendly insider? I noticed the practice was quite trendy nowadays.

  4. Juridiction on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It is weird a court accepts to spend time on a case outside of its juridiction.

  5. Re:This may be a very old bug on 'Stack Clash' Linux Flaw Enables Root Access. Patch Now (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What's odd is that I think it got fixed a very long time ago, as in v7 or maybe 4.2BSD. How did it come back and end up in Linux?

    Warning: Asking this question may re-ignite the SCO case.

  6. Why on exit? on Facial Recognition Is Coming To US Airports (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The system works on exit, not enter. What is the point of spotting an illegal immigrant at exit time?

  7. Re:Climate always changes on Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    But 100 million years ago, nobody gave a shit about temperatures being 5 degrees warmer.

    Climate changed in the past, but not at current rate. The timeline is quite shocking

    And the problem is that the ecosystem that supports human being is not likely to adapt in such a short time.

  8. AI for recruiter on Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Once Google will flood recruiter with too much irrelevant applicants, I guess they are going to offer an AI service for filtering candidates...

  9. I never though Steeve Jobs could admit being wrong. That story suggests he was less blunt that what I usually heard.

  10. I am the only one with the feeling that this summary is designed so that it leaks bits of information only to readers that already know about the story?

  11. Re: Communism on Venezuelans Flock To Cryptocoins Amid Spiralling Inflation (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    [Maduro is a dictator] He is ruling by decree. He ignores the legislature, and has packed the judiciary with his cronies.

    The relevant question is: is that allowed by the constitution?

    Being elected doesn't make you a non-dictator. Hitler was elected. Maduro became president when Chavez died, and was re-elected soon after by a razor thin majority that is widely viewed as fraudulent.

    You should double check that Hitler became chancelor because of an election. And for the razor thin majority, did you called G.W. Bush a dictator?

    Since Maduro controls the army, the judiciary, and the election infrastructure, [kicking him out of presidency through elections] may prove difficult.

    Indeed it is always difficult to kick out a leader abusing its powers, but that has not happened yet. Given how polarized the venezuelian political landscape is, I agree with you the risk is there, but please wait for the fault before naming a culprit.

  12. BSD Makefiles or automake on Announcing 'build', Auto-Configuration In 1000 Lines Of Makefile (github.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks like BSD Makefiles (sample below)... or just like automake's Makefile.am

    .include <bsd.own.mk>
    WARNS=6

    PROG= sed
    SRCS= compile.c main.c misc.c process.c

    .include <bsd.prog.mk>

  13. Re: Communism on Venezuelans Flock To Cryptocoins Amid Spiralling Inflation (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Venezeula isn't shitty because they have universal healthcare, they are shitty because they have a dictator

    Is Maduro a dictator? IIRC he was regularly elected. Now he refuses to step down from presidency after opposition won majority in parliament, but the consitution allows that: his opponents will have to win the presidential election to kick him out.

  14. Re:Source of contamination on Watchdog Report Finds Alarming 20 Percent of Baby Food Tested Contains Lead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the type of plastic used for tubing is highly regulated

    I am glad it is. Endocrine disruptors from plastic are less dangerous that lead, but they can still be highly harmful. Bisphenol-A from polycarbonates is the most well known and is banned from baby bottles in the US. Styrene from polystyrene is also of concern. Ethylene and propylene from polyethylene and polypropylene are considered safe, but even that kind of plasic comes with hazardous additives that are used to alter plasticity or color, such as phtalates

  15. Where does the lead comes from?

  16. Easy civil action on Facebook Exposes Employee Data To Terrorists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems an easy civil action. Fault from Facebook is obvious and documented, damages are huge. That should attract a lot of lawyers.

  17. Re:Too bad its a finance story, and not a tech sto on T-Mobile Rolling Out 600 MHz Low-Band Wireless (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    contains no concrete

    About walls?

  18. Re: Run your own on Ask Slashdot: Advice For a Yahoo Mail Refugee · · Score: 1

    Doing good spam filtering is harder.

    For small to average sites, Greylisting is very effective at removing spam.

    The fact that it does not scales well to huge sites is probably why spammers do not spend much work fighting it

  19. Prorect the planet on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's Lisa Jackson says they are working to "protect our shared planet".

    This is a common misconception. Our goal should be to maintain the planet's ecosystem compatible with human life. The planet will perfectly cope with our removal because we do not fit anymore.

  20. Newspaper on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    I enjoy subscription to a dead-tree edition of a newspaper.

  21. CEO as a Service on Facebook Built an AI System That Learned To Lie To Get What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see Facebook is well on track to produce a psychotic AI. CEO should fear now as their own job are threatened to be replaced by machines. CaaS (CEO as a Service) is coming!

  22. There is a link in the article to here where you can input comments that the system will judge to be 'toxic' or not.

    It has to improve: A ill-minded statement like "Holocaust was a chance for German economy" just scores 7%

  23. Re:Of course he fled on A Power Outage In Silicon Valley Was Caused By A Drone Crash (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    They will cover even if you fled in a forbidden zone?

  24. Who cares about interference if it has no effect? You could say Obama interfered in brexit poll by calling to vote yes, but in the end it did not matter.

  25. See the email leak smear attempt just two days before the French presidential election for a more recent example.

    It did not change the outcome, smeared Macron is president.