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  1. Re: Far too late in the game...pun intended on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 2

    Remember when you could "jailbreak" your iphone by just going to a website? You know "jailbreaking" the device is gaining full root access right?

    Sure, xbox has the RROD and such... but Apple never had the newton and other total failures?

    What happened with apple's previous console?

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

    Remember when you could root somebodies Android by sending them a MSM? That was fucking last month, and still works on 90% of all Android phones.

    Remember Ouya? Well, people can at least remember Pippin 2 decades later. Hardly anyone had even heard of the epitome of Android gaming.

  2. Pippin was a failure! on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 1
    And so was:
  3. Re:This sort of thing will be a problem on Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors · · Score: 1

    Hopefully not with puppies! But you can just imagine kids pissing about pushing stuff in front of self driving cars and watching them do an emergency stop then just standing in front so it won't move and giving the occupants the finger. And to anyone who says they won't - kids already play chicken with human driven cars.

    Hey, that would be an improvement on kids throwing heavy objects off of bridges, sometimes killing occupants. Or using laser-pointers.

  4. Re:Jane the virgin on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    Apparently "Jane the virgin" is actually a remake of a 2002 tv show, so it looks like somebody _did_ manage to get that show on TV more than five years ago.

    Somebody got a show on non-US TV, and it was a success. And that's what got it on US TV. That neither proves somebody could have gotten it on US TV 5 years ago, nor that somebody in the US could have come up with the idea on their own.

  5. TV s dead! on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can tell because there is so much of it.

  6. Re:We all know this on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt that's the "easiest" way, but I'll grant you it's one way.

    The consequences for scientists who falsify their results is real and severe, even though it may not involve jail-time.

    Unless they run into Ken Cuccinelli - well, unless he fails.

  7. Re:Lies, big lies, and statistics on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    Ask Al Gore the king of carbon cap trading.

    Ask the people made out like bandits on ethanol mandates.

    You sound as if you don't like it when people turn their knowledge into money.

    We often find that in people who have no hope of ever making money that way.

  8. Re:The reason for these laws on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the implication: if Germany wants to grow up and become a free and democratic nation, it needs to get rid of these remnants from its dark past.

    Woaw, slowly, did you just advocate killing all the Nazis?

  9. Re:Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    The intent of Nazis was to deprive them of their ability to influence society, then of citizenship, then of property, then to be deported, then... "oh, hell, why are we going through all this hassle? We know how we want jews, so let's go right to the end of it: the final solution!"

    One thing that has always bothered me about that whole mess: Why bother with Zyklon B at all?

    Why not just have a trap door open up that tosses them directly into the incinerator while they were alive? I would guess psychology...

    No, it's because building an incinerator like that actually costs more. Do you actually believe they didn't calculate all this through?

  10. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    Apple astroturfers with mod points churn my stomache.

    Actually, that's your ulcer. You still keep too much of that hate inside - go full postal.

  11. Re:Germany wants a lot... on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    No. Commercial issues are distinct. But in general saying "This Foo is from the Ming dynasty" when it isn't should not be and is not illegal by itself. Selling it under false pretenses is correctly illegal. Notice that what is happening here involves not just speech but money changing hands.

    So selling books that deny the holocaust should be forbidden. Yeah, makes sense.

  12. Re:How about Armenia? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Hey, Germany, does denial of the Armenian holocaust count?

    If so then WTF is anyone considering Turkey for EU membership?

    Where you asleep at the wheel in April? Even ignoring that Germany is the major opponent to Turkey's EU membership.

  13. Re:Can they be more specific? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Can they be more specific about what they want banned?

    Easy - they want the stuff banned that Facebook says themselves they would ban.

    Don't tell me you didn't know that Facebook actually has policies for what stuff they will censor, no matter where they where posted from?

  14. Re:Germany does have a unique history on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Nothing unique about Germany's history.Holocaust-like things happened in many other places too, and Lebensraum doctrine was part of German culture long before Hitler and still will be long time after.

    You have Germans confused with Zionists. "A land without a people for a people without a land"

  15. Re:PC-BSD is a better approach for desktop users. on A FreeBSD "Spork" With Touches of NeXT and OS X: NeXTBSD · · Score: 1

    http://itsfoss.com/97-percent-worlds-top-500-supercomputers-run-linux/

    97 Percent Of The World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Run Linux

    Percentage of Supercomputers on the Desktop: 0%.

  16. Re:Possible scenario. on 3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Nope not even close.

    The 1980's started this mess due to an insane Right wing British prime minister "Mrs Thatcher" seeing global warming as a good excuse to close Coal mines to kill the power of the Mine workers Unions.

    end of story..

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com... - errm, yeah.

  17. Re:It was FICTION, sheesh! on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    No, it did not strip the statement of context. The actual original quote, from an article titled "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past", was "Children just aren't going to know what snow is." The entire article, from the year 2000, quotes various authorities who all agree that milder winters are here to stay while explaining the consequences of those milder winters. And even if we take your quote as what he meant, he was completely wrong. Snow has not become a rare event for British children.

    Odd that there is no actual time frame for that quote, ehh?

    Here is another quote from that article: "Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. "We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time," he said."

    And people like you blame him because that happened 10 years early.

  18. Re:I'm sure they are right.... on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    That's because the vats majority of C02 doesn't come from cars. It comes from the power grid and industrial processes. According to the EPA transportation is only 13% of total C02 production

    For values of 13% that are actually twice as high.

  19. Re:I'm sure they are right.... on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    You do know that underground coal mine fires in China produce as much CO2 as the US vehicle fleet, right?

    Is what you "know" right however?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire#China : "It has been estimated that some 10-200 million tons of coal uselessly burn annually" assuming metric tons that makes 436 million metric tons (or Tg) of CO2.
    http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climat... : U.S. Transportation GHG Emissions by Gas, 2012 (Tg CO2 Equivalent) - only the CO2 produced by passenger vehicles: 759.8.

    Where I come from that's almost a factor of 2 more for US cars (and only cars, not even light duty trucks . which may include some SUVs and of course poseur trucks) compared to China's underground coal fires.

  20. Re:Risk vs. Reward on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    Geoengineering, for example.

    Geoengineering? we can't even clean all of the garbage out of the ocean that is accumulating there. You going to engineer the Amazon back into health? Replace the ice that is no longer recovering? Put back the methane that is escaping as ice recedes and ocean water warms? De-acidify the ocean? While continuing to burn coal and petroleum and pour pesticides into the earth and ocean thus acidifying the ocean and destroying the fertility of the earth?

    No, no - the obvious solution is to block incoming sunlight. Anybody pointing out that plants need sunlight just hates progress.

  21. Re:"Action" cheaper than "Inaction" is a surprise? on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    Actually estimates are that the carbon trading market will be $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

    Estimates by the same people who claim that Al Gore became rich with carbon trading ten years ago?

  22. Re:Do you even computer? on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 1

    SMS? This is an apple script exploit on a mac PC. not a mobile device. Nowhere does the article explain that SMS is an attack vector and unless iOS is vulnerable as well,I do not see how it could be.

    Actually, if you watch the video, the only thing you can really see is that Malicious App sends a SMS with the password it "stole" - via Twillo obviously: https://www.twilio.com/sms. But hey, clickbait is clickbait - and it worked. Oh, did it work.

  23. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 2

    The actual "exploit" is _bordering_ on the old school "look at all the horrible things you can do if you have root access" exploits as though root access itself is the exploit.

    Except for the fact that this does not need root access, did you actually read and understand this or did you just jump to Apple's defence?

    So far, so right. It's actually far more complicated than simply typing in your Admin password: https://support.apple.com/en-u...

    And the moral to the story: A) never trust the word of a security researcher who wants to sell you something, and B) you don't have to be a complete moron to be a Apple-Hater, but it sure helps.

  24. Re:Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apologist? It's a bug. Real one. Even some gurus are going to get stung by this one.

    And you greatly overstate the difficulty of joe dumbass user googling to find out how to allow non-apple apps.

    Apologist.

    Yeah, exactly the same bug as giving an idiot like you access to a computer. Your post if proof of that. And no, this has nothing to do with" allowing non-apple apps" - not even with allowing any apps to run. Which you would have a chance of knowing if TFA didn't hide it behind a lot of scaremongering. But it's actually there. But hey, you at best only read the summary anyway, right?

  25. Re: Wait for it... on "Extremely Critical" OS X Keychain Vulnerability Steals Passwords Via SMS · · Score: 4, Insightful
    https://support.apple.com/libr...

    Note that the default is "Deny" and the only other options is "Open System Preferences" where you have to grant access to the app/script

    I can totally see how this could happen without the user noticing.