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  1. Re:Clickbait Nonsense on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    They could still only allow content that has stayed up on the page for 3 days without changing.

  2. Contactless pickpocketing on London Launches World's First Contactless Payment Scheme For Street Performers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like a great way to do contactless pickpocketing?

  3. The price of the genetic testing on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The price of the genetic testing will be about $3.50.

  4. Elliptic Curve Cryptography? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wasn't elliptic curve cryptography supposed to be resistant to quantum computers?

  5. Only people who don't block ads had any positive impact, everyone who blocks ads anyway just gets broken audio on websites.

  6. It's blocking audio on websites whose sole purpose is to play an audio file, and there is no way to turn it off. So it's without user permission, but in a different way.

  7. Re: Umm... how's this possible? on GitHub Accidentally Exposes Some Plaintext Passwords In Its Internal Logs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes me nervous enough that I think basic hashing and encryption should be done at the client side as well. This would stop everything that isn't tampering with the site itself.

  8. If you're doing something parallel enough that vectorization speeds it up, you might as well do it on a GPU instead. Even an integrated GPU is much faster than vector instructions.

  9. Re:How about on AV1 Beats x264 and Libvpx-Vp9 in Practical Use Case (facebook.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    H.265 is only usable by Big Media Companies and Pirates. Media companies are vertically integrated and can deal with the horrible licensing fee situation, and Pirates simply don't care.

  10. Re:How is this different than Cygwin? on Microsoft Releases New Tool To Get More Distros on Windows (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cygwin is slow to create or fork processes, while WSL is much faster there. So things like autotools, config scripts, or make run a lot faster under WSL than Cygwin.

    Also, there is more software and library availability for the Linux distros than on Cygwin.

  11. Re:Use a separate browser for Facebook on Mozilla Launches Facebook Container Add-on To Isolate Your Web Browsing Activity From Facebook (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. If you load any third-party content from FB's servers from the same IP address, they can tell.

  12. Re:This is the problem with blockchain on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Non-ledger data shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, but then you have the problem with steganography as a way of embedding secret data in there.

  13. Re:How related is related on Twitter Will Ban Most Cryptocurrency-Related Ads (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the first. This is targeted towards pump and dump schemes involving near-zero-value obscure cyrptocurrencies with tiny userbases,

  14. "Machine Code". It's the actual instruction binaries that get executed. It's only assembly language while it's in text form.

  15. Re:put back what we want on Your Love of Your Old Smartphone Is a Problem for Apple and Samsung (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You use a micro SD card to not be constrained by 8GB of internal storage which mysteriously has 6GB used with nothing loaded on there.

  16. Re:Another new standard on Vulkan Graphics is Coming To macOS and iOS, Will Enable Faster Games and Apps (anandtech.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Metal" was the new standard that Apple was trying to push, "Vulkan" is the actual standard that got adopted by other people.

    This means that people no longer need to go through the pointless process of converting their Vulkan code into Metal.

  17. Re:Monolothic kernels only? on OpenBSD Releases Meltdown Patch (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It affects every situation where memory is flagged as unreadable.

  18. Who writes these taglines? on Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who writes these taglines? This is clearly not a Meltdown patch at all, so it shouldn't be mentioned anywhere.

  19. Makes me glad I switched to Transmission, no BS there, just a simple torrent client.

  20. Re:Fearmongering bullshit article seeding FUD on Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown CPU Flaws Emerges (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    There is precedent for huge malware, look at Stuxnet.

  21. Re:Fearmongering bullshit article seeding FUD on Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown CPU Flaws Emerges (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Isn't there this thing called Metasploit, where exploits get added in there, then malware just uses whatever exploits it wants to?

  22. Not just encryption on Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just encryption that cameras need, they also need a cryptographic signature to indicate that the image it took is fresh from the camera and has not been edited since the photo was taken. (Obviously this can be defeated by photographing a photoshopped image, but still...)

  23. Under 9000 on Bitcoin Plummets Below $8,000 For First Time Since November (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's under nine thousaaaaaaaaannnnd!!

  24. Re:Lorem Ipsum on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The lorem ipsum text actually means something though... (some words were removed)

    Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

    On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

  25. Re:Software should just give up on Spectre on Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not even snooping on random processes, Spectre is about using a scripting language to figure out memory from the current process. So at worst, Javascript can use cache timing attacks to figure out your saved passwords.