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  1. Re: Activists as jihadists on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I really thought it was coined during G.W. Bush era. What are the anterior usages?

  2. Plug-ins? on Even For Businesses, Chrome Is The Top Browser (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of [enterprise] applications that only work in IE, because [those apps] use plug-ins

    But IE is going the way of the dodo, and Edge does not supports plug-ins, right?

  3. Wrong on purpose on Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect some will push a wrong flavor of UBI to better kill the idea.

    I see two ways to do it badly: first, an UBI too low to live on it, which makes sure people still have to beg for any job that can pay the bills. In the end, employers will even be able to pay them less because they already have UBI. Such an UBI is a social subsidy for employers.

    The other way to get it wrong is to make something without proper funding, and kill it as too expensive to be generalized.

  4. Activists as jihadists on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering activists as jihadists is the first step. Then you consider jihadists have been considered illegal fighters (a term invented to spare international laws on war), and you can send an activist straight to Guantanamo. Brilliant.

  5. What a stupid move from net neutrality opponents.

    It would have been easy for Trump appointed FCC to remove net neutrality because "we won elections and we are legitimate to act on that". Now with obvious cheating, the change will never look legitimate.

  6. TFA tells about 11 countries "with potential to launch cargo into space". What are the 10 others?

  7. TFA is not very detailed, it seems the journalist had a hard time explaining what the scientists did. Anyone has a better link?

  8. Re:While this is certainly of research importance. on SSD Drives Vulnerable To Rowhammer-Like Attacks That Corrupt User Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I do wonder, is there such an equivalent vulnerability in platter drives? Writing rapidly to the inside and outside of the platter so the heads scream back and forth over and over?

    The heads already scream back and forth on normal operation. If you create write patterns that increase head moves, I do not expect to see something else that trashed I/O performances.

  9. Monoculture on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 2

    Monocultures are vulnerables and should be avoided. This is true for operating systems, browsers, desktop productivity suites, and banana as well.

  10. Hostile environment on NASA To Make Announcement About First Mission To Touch Sun (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    It will be interesting to learn the improvements for electronics to survive such an hostile environment, with high energy particles, gamma rays, and intense heat.

  11. Incorruptible cop on Robot Police Officer Goes On Duty In Dubai (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    At least, here is the programmatically incorruptible cop.

  12. Re:Pay fines? on Robot Police Officer Goes On Duty In Dubai (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the robot cop accepts payment for fines, does that mean it's a mobile ATM? How long before it's stolen?

    If it patrols with flesh cops, that could be difficult.

  13. Specs are nice, but is Huawei wiling to sell me a machine without Intel ME or its AMD counterpart?

  14. Debt will be called in rescue for this accounting. But that is not a problem, since everybody in the World still wants to purchase US dollars.

  15. It seems Uber will always wait to be in court to consider laws as relevant for them.

  16. USA gets what it paid for on Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    While I do not consider hacking and psyops as acceptable behaviors, we must admit Russia's move are perfectly reasonable reactions to USA operations in its neighbor countries.

    There was eastern Europe countries joining NATO after NATO's official enemy USSR collapsed, then colored revolutions where US people chose governments, missiles installed in Poland, tanks deployed in Baltic countries... A lot of scaring stuff that would make any country leader nervous.

  17. Credential sent silently on Stealing Windows Credentials Using Google Chrome (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually when one attempts to connect to a network share, credentials are prompted. Why is it different here? How does Windows decides what credentials should be sent to the attacker's SMB server?

  18. Sure, CO2 emission reduction is highly desirable now. But since methane has more greenhouse effect than CO2, and since climate warming sets underwater methane hydrate deposits free, it is better to capture and burn it rather than leave it escape to the atmosphere.

  19. Why does average commuter need such engine horsepower?

  20. If we want to preserve antibiotics effectiveness, we need to stop giving them to not-yet-ill cattle. to prevent infection outbreak in industrial farms. The guts microbes of antibiotic-fed cattle will always grow resistant, and genes developed that way can spread to other microbes

    Of course that would raise meat prices, and consumption should decrease. This is a pain to admit for a happy meat-eater, but the alternative of kissing antibiotics goodby is not appealing.

  21. Re:Why remote on London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon ATC will be outsourced to India or H1B or something stupid like that.

    Running redundant distinct fiber paths from UK to India may be difficult.

  22. Why remote on London City First In UK To Get Remote Air Traffic Control (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Is there a benefit to being remote? They could have installed high resolution cameras on existing tower.

  23. TFA says

    This is not some situation where, for example, we are just greedy capitalists who decided to skimp on safety in order to have more profits and dividends and that kind of thing. It's just a question of how much money we lose.

    Losing money to win later is called investment. The profit increases as the losing phase shortens, hence we are exactly in the situation where greedy capitalists decided to skimp on safety to increase profits.

  24. While I am all in favor of the defendants, I cannot see how they could win that case.

  25. Economy would save us? on Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For one time, economy could save us, since solar is getting cheaper than coal.