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  1. Re:ION on WordPress Now Powers 30% of Websites (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    whoops....

    "30 % of the web is vulnerable"

  2. ION on WordPress Now Powers 30% of Websites (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    In other news...

    "30% of the website is vulnerable"

  3. Re:" Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23" on Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "And the overwhelmingly vast majority of people will not notice any difference whatsoever and wouldn't know it happened unless somebody told them."

    If by that you mean people who don't look at their ever creeping upwards cable bill, sure.

  4. Yet another "don't click shit" on uTorrent Client Affected by Some Pretty Severe Security Flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "The attacker only needs to trick a user with a vulnerable uTorrent client to access a malicious web page. "

    Sys admins need an addon that just removes all links from a webpage. Know the URL you want or suffer.

  5. Hmm on Deep Neural Networks for Bot Detection (arxiv.org) · · Score: 2

    How does this resolve the case of my political uncle posting extreme ideas every week or two.

    Anyone outside the family would rightfully think he's a bot. He isn't, he's just that uncle.

    The first amendment protections required for a system like this would make it far too cumbersome for practical use. Yea, Twitter is proving the opposite case with their manual interventions, but there must be a middle ground

  6. Re:Protecting Profit on Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ^ This.

    I'm pretty sure insurance on deliveries covers any financial burden these supposed thieves are incurring.

    This is 100% squarely aimed at locking consumers into their eco-system, "in line with the rest of the industry" my ass. I haven't bought a locked phone in nearly a decade.

  7. "I hope it was a corporate device, potentially signaled by the "Please shut your laptop and don't reopen it" line."

    I hope it was too, otherwise the tech co's own us more than we should be thinking.

    Which means this employee/contractor/w.e was smart enough to disable the phone location tracking, but not smart enough to not use a company device? What?

  8. Re:This should be say to fix on the client side on Scammers Use Download Bombs To Freeze Chrome Browsers on Shady Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome actually does do this.

    When I use JS to initiate multiple downloads, Chrome detects this, stops it, and asks me to continue.

    This article is really about IE.

  9. Re:msSaveOrOpen on Chrome? on Scammers Use Download Bombs To Freeze Chrome Browsers on Shady Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was coming here to say just this.

    Only in IE do you use navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob

    In Chrome / FF / Safari, you use FileReader.

    So this sentence:

    "this new trick utilizes the JavaScript Blob method and the window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob function to achieve the "download bomb" that freezes Chrome"

    Straight PR move to cast shade on Chrome

  10. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Education. Good, quality education. Giving citizens the ability to discern with genuine rational what to consider and disregard whatever is in the public eye.

    You may not like the idea, but it really is the only solution to almost all of our modern day problems.

  11. Exactly, thank you for putting it bluntly.

  12. For those of us on 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of North America Found Sticking To Australia (livescience.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of us that aren't geologists and saw "Nuna", but read/expected "Pangaea":

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:What is really interesting is the market cap on Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tesla is more than just cars, and yes BMW is too, but Tesla is where it counts in the technological-sense. So investors are confident their investment will yield exponential returns from some new tech we havent seen or current/old tech we haven't seen utilized in a new way

  14. Re:This is huge on Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'Brain-on-a-chip' Hardware (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    For instance, when fed an input that is a handwritten ‘1,’ with an output that labels it as ‘1,’ certain output neurons will be activated by input neurons and weights from an artificial synapse. When more examples of handwritten ‘1s’ are fed into the same chip, the same output neurons may be activated when they sense similar features between different samples of the same letter, thus “learning” in a fashion similar to what the brain does.

    I'm by no means an expert, but this sounds very similar to current machine leaching techniques, just done via a different approach, albeit, from the article, much more efficiently.

    How does this bring us closer to "true AI"?

  15. Fucked up the abbrv but no, only if they want to do business with the state, not residents of the state.

    "to receive a contract from the state of Montana..."

    If a company wants to sell only to residents, they don't need a contract from the state.

    If they want to sell to the state, then they create a subsidiary and sign the contract under that company.

  16. After July 1, 2018, to receive a contract from the State of Montana for the provision of
    telecommunications services, a service provider must not, with respect to any consumer in the
    State of Montana (including but not limited to the State itself):

    Ok so, let's say for example, Verizon wants to say fuck you to NN, but still sell service in MN.

    They create a subsidiary for all MN government contracts that obeys the law, but then keep their main Verizon branch for all non-government "contracts". Boom, done.

    I put contracts in quotes because when prices go up every damn month, it is not a contract.

  17. "Ethical hackers"...

  18. "That is the price without insurance."

    What's your point? That insurance companies want their slice of the pie too? My mother's family pays more for insurance than for their mortgage. All of healthcare is 100% completely fucked from the financial perspective of a humane human.

    "Everyone has insurance in the US, so I'm told by Ms. Pelosi. It is required by law to have insurance."

    It was never a law to have insurance, persay. You were simply penalized if you put your health risk on the public instead of yourself. Regardless, it actually isn't mandated anymore (>=2019).

    "Don't you know that?"

  19. Re:Frameworks or Limitations of Javascipt? on 'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com) · · Score: 1

    No... Vanilla JS is just fine ty.

  20. Stop this nonsense... No it's not on What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The internet doesn't lend itself cleanly to state lines. It could be difficult for Comcast or Verizon to accept money from services seeking preferential treatment in one state, then make sure that its network didn't reflect those relationships in places where state lawmakers forbade them, said Geoffrey Manne, executive director of the International Center for Law & Economics, a research group."

    No. It's not "difficult" for Comcast, Verizon, etc to know where their property is and under what jurisdiction it is. It's not "difficult" at all.

    You can't have your cake (we don't know what going on on our networks) and eat it too (we know exactly who is using our networks, pay up).

  21. Not too optimistic on NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean the tech certainly doesn't exist now.

    But, with the advent of practical quantum computing, I would hope a lot of the math involved would become possible, unlocking more than just fusion.

  22. It's a cultural shift. More will follow. I suppose the true rational reason would be companies don't want to face the PR/financial backlash of anything that was held back being released.

    Or this could be the rarely seen phenomenon of humans being of genuine human beings.

  23. Re:Edge can't even do basic tasks! on Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Edge is NOT a browser for getting things done; ...

    Correction:

    Edge is for getting Chrome or Firefox.

  24. At 82 MH/s, 250 watts, you can pay for this puppy in just under 14.5 months!

  25. Re:2 words - liberal shithole on Tumblr Is Tumbling (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Double-edge sword.

    We are seeing the same break away from the right. Hopefully some decent, moderate group will meet in the middle.