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  1. Re: how in the actual fuck do you pronouce on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Try 'fuck' :)

  2. Re:I'm always amazed when someone will do somethin on FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive On Charges Related To Dieselgate (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Guaranteed loss of job vs small chance of landing in jail.

  3. Laws that limit freedom of expression are tyrannical in nature...

    Shouldn't that be:
    Laws are tyrannical in nature.
    ?
    Should we therefore get rid of all laws?
    And before you can shout "There ought to be a law", people had to shout "There ought to be a government", so should we get rid of governments also now?

  4. Thanks for your valued opinion.
    Any reasons for that position?

  5. Re:Stupid feature anyway on Browser Autofill Profiles Can Be Abused For Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    I do save passwords, but in a separate vault. I pick them up (copy) there and paste them when needed.
    My 'vault' is a VM with no internet access under QubesOS installed on an encrypted HD.
    Of course there are backups on USB sticks, encrypted.

  6. Re: mental illness on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter a bit whether he/she was/is mental ill.
    The FSF has clearly stated that the 'parting' was for reasons that have nothing to do with mental illness.
    So can you please take this discussion away and put it where it belongs, alt. illness.mental.gender-dysphoria or so?
    It's off-topic. Thanks.

  7. Re: angry 'majority' kickback on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    Already happened: Trump. (Or was it the Russians? :)

  8. Re: like hacking is a problem? on US Government Offers $25,000 Prize For Inventing A Way To Secure IoT Devices (ftc.gov) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be if 'things' were designed with safety in mind.

  9. Re:Easy Solution - Hold Manufacturers Responsible on US Government Offers $25,000 Prize For Inventing A Way To Secure IoT Devices (ftc.gov) · · Score: 1

    Then leave the customer out of the loop.
    Program a communication protocol into the big corp's internet modems/routers and into the IoT-Devices which will communicate with each other.
    They will negotiate firewall rules for in the modem/router which 'will keep us safe' against everybody that attacks us 'because they are jealous of our lifestyle and democracy' (ugh).

  10. Re:Don't you know? on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the 'mushroom cloud' that Rice didn't want to see over Manhattan, and the fake story about yellow cake, and indeed anthrax, by Colin Powell for the UN, that motivated the people to agree with the war.
    The fact that Hussein allegedly had used chemical weapons already gave them the moral ecuse.

  11. Re:Norway switching off FM ? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, after a little under 3 months from now we'll have that cleaning too.
    After that we'll know who forgot that will be April 1st.

  12. CO2 is good for plants. Extra CO2 could strongly improve food production.

  13. 7, if you apply enough baking soda.

  14. As soon as you use the baking soda in baking a cake or in neutralizing the acidity of ascorbic acid by mixing it with baking soda (2 g ascorbic acid : 1 g baking soda) then the CO2 will be liberated again. So no, it's not really 'permanent' capturing.
    However, if the traditional way of making baking soda (I'm too lazy to look that up) involves burning fuel in order to get the CO2, then it is better to use the already produced CO2 from the coal fired plant.
    And you don't even need specifically a coal fired plant, any fossil fuel burning plant will do. I guess this is partly meant to make coal look a bit better.

  15. And sorry about the consistent italic

  16. Of course not all funding will be terminated, but most of it, and researchers looking for funds will surely go for the more secure way.
    Every population has a bell-like curve at the ends of which one can find out-layers. Also here.

    If one owns and/or controls enough of the news agencies and communication channels then yes, it is possible to suppress and/or manipulate the majority of the news you don't want the general populace to hear/read about. That's being proven all the time, so that's no issue, see the Fake news vc. 'fake' news 'debate'.

    And of course it's not possible to suppress every bit, although the fact that the last 20 years there hasn't been any significant global warming isn't well known is proof of a good attempt at it. You hear about climate deniers and about their claims, don't you?

    ...conspiracy theory...

    sigh...
    Why not call me an anti-semite or Hitler adept, the same shitty non-argument from someone who knows he's at the wrong end of the discussion but can't give up out of cognitive dissonance...

  17. Re:D-Link doesn't learn or doesn't care (or both) on FTC Takes D-Link To Court Citing Lax Product Security, Privacy Perils (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Not so long ago I looked for a firmware update for my D-Link and found it on their website.
    HTTP!
    So I sent an email asking whether it would be possible to send it over an encrypted channel, or at least get a PGP signature.
    The reply was that kind of corporate content-less off-topic help-desk level shit that we are used to receiving, so I spent a phone call to the company.
    Got a giggling girl on the line who assured me that there was no problem with that, there hans't ever been one and there wouldn't be any in the foreseeable future.
    So I told her her manager was stupid, that I was stupid to have bought that brand, and that I'd never buy that brand ever again.
    According to her that was ok, no problem.
    I think they are rightly sued now...

  18. Re: Who would ever guess that password, though? on FTC Takes D-Link To Court Citing Lax Product Security, Privacy Perils (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't catch the sarcasm in his voice? :)

  19. Re: "Leonardo da Vinci who identified" on Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    The dumb stories about 'silver' mercury fillings is that mercury doesn't leak out of them "because it's bound in the matrix". What a crap. There is laboratory video evidence showing under convenient lighting conditions a continuous stream of mercury vapour coming out of the amalgam Chewing with it will only increase the emission of mercury vapour. I thought it is pretty clear that mercury is a dangerous neuro-toxin. Ergo, you don't need a 'evidence-based' research project to know that any device leaking mercury has no place in the human body and is inherently damaging. So how in heaven's name is it possible that the 'scientific medical community' hasn't picked this up and scrutinised the tradition-based use of mercury in dental fillings? And regarding your suggestion that evidence based medicine is now 'used in medicine': that's right, there is some evidence-based medicine being 'used'. However, your well chosen use of the term 'now used in medicine' in no way assures that medicine is indeed 100% based on scientific evidence. On the contrary, much of the reported results of scienctific, including of course medical, research is plain false [plos.org] and mostly untrue [thelancet.com]. And your last remark is totally baseless as enough 'anecdotes' represent a case.

  20. It's not even really a debate among climate scientists at this point.

    This really is funny. Very funny.
    Ever heard of Darwin? Natural selection?
    There's some kind of natural selection going on that exactly causes the phenomenon you just described, it's called funding.
    Most climate scientists would immediately 'select' themselves out of funding, hence out of existence (as a climate researcher) as soon as they don't preach the AGW gospel anymore. Or worse: writing a counter-AGW research proposal, good luck with that!
    This, and only this, is why you see so many AGW followers among the climate scientists and it has little to do with science.

  21. Got alu-hats?
    Then put one on, now.

  22. Re: "Leonardo da Vinci who identified" on Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only can they be wrong, they also can be plain stupid.
    Like with their response to the findings of Ignaz Semmelweis who designed antiseptic procedures that could have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of women yet was laughed and ridiculed straight into a straight-jacket and off to the mental hospital where he committed suicide.
    Or the disbelieve that fell part to Barry Marshall who suggested bacteria as the cause of many gastric ulcers, although already one hundred year before that (I think it was) Pavlov noted down in a book that something in the stomach of a dog 'looked like bacteria'. But no, nothing beats a dogma like "bacteria can't survive in an acidic environment".
    I'm sure there's more like this, 'silver' (in fact 50% mercury) fillings come to mind...
    Soon there will be HPV vaccines, cholesterol lowering medications etc. etc.

  23. Re:"Leonardo da Vinci who identified" on Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called 'scientific medical community' and you're supposed to highly respect them for all their 'knowledge'.

  24. So now we have to buy aluminium hats for our clocks???!!

  25. Re:I thought MIT people were smart on 3,000 Ride-Sharing Cars Could Replace Every Cab in New York City, MIT Study Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the study was paid by Uber?