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  1. Easy to fix on Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    That problem seems easy to fix: make prices decreasing exponentially in time. That way there is no profit to be made by being the first buyer.

  2. Sound in space on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    A widespread SF movies mistake is sound in space. While it is cool to hear spaceships roaring with Doppler effect, we can be certain it will never happen.

  3. In a nutshell, they collect personal data but ask us to trust them to never misbehave with it.

  4. TFA tells about intercepting HTTPS. How does a modem-router flaw allow that, since HTTPS is an end to end protection?

  5. Re:Why does gov't care about climate change protes on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What dissent? The protesters and the government agree.

    The french so-called socialist government betrayed left-wing voters so much that there are very few french people that still trust them (right-wing voters distrust the government anyway because it is labeled as left-wing).

  6. Re:Human right convention suspended on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    so did Toronto's G20.

    Canada is involved in European Right Convention?

  7. Re:Human right convention suspended on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    it is the job of the government to sometimes worry about things that the average person does not.

    I am not sure that taking judges out of the police processes is something the average person does not worry about.

  8. Human right convention suspended on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    French people seems to have reacted quite well to the killings, but french political leaders seems to be drowning in panic. They even suspended France's application of European Convention on Human Rights. From this link's France section:

    Some of [the measures], prescribed by the decrees of 14 November 2015 and 18 November 2015 and by the Law of 20 November 2015, may involve a derogation from the obligations under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

  9. Diesel lobby in France on London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the EU has trouble moving because there is a very strong diesel lobby in France. The rare cases where french politicians raise their voices at EU level seems to be when french lobbies pressure them.

  10. Untold requirement? on Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says that it is possible to trigger a request to the VPN gateway itself, by embedding a link to its address (example: <img src=”http://1.2.3.4:12345/x.jpg”>, and that request will show the real IP.

    But in order to get the real IP? the attacker must be able to eavesdrop the traffic between the victim and the VPN gateway, right?

  11. Even HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) is not a solution against this kind of mess, since intercepting software could alter the Public-Key-Pins header.

  12. Perhaps few people used tab groups because of the poor UI?

    I did not know about the feature and it looks appealing, but how was I supposed to guess the shortcut to access it? There is no menu item with it.

  13. First, french death penalty was carried using the guillotine. It replaced hanging in 1790 and death penalty was abandoned in 1981 anyway.

    Second, we have trouble to understand how years-old Snowden revelations could have something to do with today's events. We would be better looking at why Francois Hollande decided to supply weapons to Assad's opposition, helping IS to grow.

  14. Production version on Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation · · Score: 1

    Get the language into a production version

    I was not aware it was not production ready, and I now understand the fact is was not is a good explanation why it was such a pain to build. The thing embeds numerous third party libraries, and even the full distribution of LLVM.

  15. "mercliess" response on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    Francois Hollande has vowed to undertake a "mercliess" response to the attacks.

    It is difficult for a bomb to tell the difference between an Islamic State militant, and the average person living in an Islamic State controlled area. That means the "mercliess" response will probably be a bloodbath for a lot of innocent Syrian people.

  16. Dictator of engineering on Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dave Camp, Firefox's director of engineering

    At first glance, my brain quickly read "dictator of engineering" :-)

  17. Logo on Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Now the killer app to implement is Logo with a wheelchair as the turtle

  18. Re:Mistake from C language 101 course on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    At least in my "C 101" class they said using rand() is good enough.

    Good enough for what?

  19. Make sure projects are planned on Tech Pros' Struggle For Work-Life Balance Continues (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    Quote from TFA

    If we can make sure projects are planned and time is allocated for the right tasks, we can really improve balance.

    Good joke!

  20. Mistake from C language 101 course on Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Mistaking rand(3) as a source of randomness is freshman mistake. Did the malware author skip C language 101 course?

  21. Re:They can only improve on DARPA Is About To Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Drone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In this drill, the french submarine was playing the role of an hostile country. It was able to sneak below the US carrier without raising any alarm. Since it was not detected, it was able to sink the carrier and its escort. The article does not say if the submarine would have been able to escape from the field without being identified afterwards.

    A decade years-old submarine able to destroy billions of US Navy gear, that is no good news.

  22. They can only improve on DARPA Is About To Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Drone (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    The drones can only do better than current situation, where a french submarine was able to virtually sink a US carrier during an joint drill

  23. Re:"about 5 — 10 faster"? 5-10 WHAT? on Intel Skylake-U For Laptops Posts Solid Gains In Testing, Especially Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    5-10 poems?

  24. Cuba on Why New Antibiotics Never Come To Market (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder why new antibiotic development does not happen in Cuba. They have the skills, and by design they do not have the big pharma.

  25. Another non-binding resolution on EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    This is another non binding resolution. The EU parliament is a fake parliament, which cannot really force the commission into doing something (I understand it could revoke it, though, but I am not sure since it never hapened)

    The EU court of justice did the hard work, though, when it stroke down the US-EU safe harbor agreement..