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  1. Re:What's he on, today? on John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It'd be easy to test. Throw him a another phone and ask him to unlock it. But they don't need him to unlock it, so they won't ask.

  2. Re:It's Funny! After The Tears. on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 2

    Why not booting selecting the previous kernel on grub?

  3. Re:Rome was not build in one day on Pirate Bay Browser Streaming Technology Is a Security and Privacy Nightmare (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need them, just a torrent client that supports sequential download, and a player that supports incomplete files.
    The convenience is not worth the risk in this case

  4. Mr. Sampson discovered that he could open a Torrents Time video player inside this malicious page and serve the user the torrent files they wanted. This could let the user think they're accessing a trustworthy Torrents Time video player, when, in reality, the attacker could be delivering malicious code in the background while the user is watching a movie.

    So this is no different than downloading a torrent from an untrustworthy source... assuming anyone using The Pirate Bay cares about trustworthy sources. To execute the malicious code, you'd need to exploit the media player used by the application/browser.

    "XSS on The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents"

    So an attacker could theoretically get your pirate bay cookies, oh, the horror.

    I still prefer to use qbittorrent and mplayer for "streaming" but I can't see any major fuck up here.

  5. Re:"Messaging service"? on Whatsapp Will Become Free, Companies Can Pay To Reach Users (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) SMS are still not free in lot's of the world, and obscenely expensive in comparison to the data fees.
    2) e-mail is SOooo 90's, lot's of people not even check it any more.
    3) Default messaging apps (Google’s and Apple's ) are still not interoperable, some people never generate / are aware of generating an ID for those.
    4) Facebook is not universal, not all facebook users use facebook on the phone, and there is people actively avoiding it for multiple reasons.
    5) Whatsapp is free , just works TM and filled the niche first.

  6. Re:Let freedoms ring on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have not heard about cyberbulling Legisltion.

  7. Re:The Martian on NASA Chief Says Ban On Chinese Partnerships Is Temporary · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't put my thrust on that.

  8. Somewhere I read that giving scholarships to force women into tech, in egalitarian countries where they could actually choose another path, would result in those women leaving their major, producing workforce deficit because of those empty places that could have been filled by men.

    I think that it was a British study case in the Chemistry field, and these were made with public money. I wasn't able to find the source for it.

    I can't think why private funds would choose to involve themselves in that sort of failure.

  9. Re:Nokia and software on Nokia Wants To Make Phones Again · · Score: 1

    Apparently you never heard of the Burning Platforms memo.
    We'll never know if Elop was actually a mole inside Nokia,

    But just when maemo/meego was stable enough to depreciate Symbian after >10 years of development, they choose to throw everything away and go the W7->W8 way.

    This decision was made when Nokia still dominated the smartphones market (yes, Symbians were smart phones), android was a bag full of crap, and the Iphone 1 was prettier but inferior than the N900.

    I think W8 lumias were grate phones for people who don't care about apps, but arrived too late.

    Meanwhile in a parallel world, Nokia's meego might have stood a chance (or might lay somewhere between Palm and BlackBerry )

  10. Re:Cheap Knockoffs on Help Save Endangered Rhinos by Making Artificial Horns (Video) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that consumers seem to be between fool to believe in "mystical horns", but not fool enough to not DNA sequence them before paying.
    Once the market is flooded, a warranted non counterfeit horn will have a price high enough to keep the business alive. And the magic hand of free market will keep shooting rhinos to feed the Chinese market.

  11. Re: It won't matter on Help Save Endangered Rhinos by Making Artificial Horns (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well, your plane might crash, and you may wake up on a virgin island in an unknown location.

  12. Re:Almost on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 1

    Esc
    Ctrl + v
    Down Arrow (Repeat N times)
    Shift + I
    Shift + 3 <- Depends on keyboard Layout
    Esc
    (wait 2 seconds)

  13. Re:Jesus on Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" · · Score: 1

    There are some species that store sperm and later reuse it. So the Virgin Birth title immediately conveyed the meaning to me.

  14. Re:Atheists are believers on Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" · · Score: 1

    It's not banal when the Agnostic is trying to say in a politically correct way:
    "You have no evidence for your religion, despite searching for it, but it could totally still be true, the reality is that I Don't give a shit about it, so let's talk about something else"

    People know what they're getting into when they purchase a Religion. I'm not so sure what know about Homeopathy.

  15. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Didn't knew about both facts, thanks.

  16. Re:So, the other side? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Not everything is money.
    Median income is not such a bad indicator if you consider that services provided by the state can push up people living standard.
    ie, a poor person in the U.S. won't have access to healthcare (at lest the segment not covered by obamacare) or third level education.

  17. Re:Soverign debt on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    You realize that if a big chunk of the population are the ones that want that welfare, they might overthrow the government to impose a welfare state, turning you in...wait for it... Venezuela.

  18. Re:New buggy whip! on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    900 Euro... And you are right, it's a crappy board with shitty screen and stock Debian on top. BUT, there is no better offer in the market for that niche... The closest one is Jolla, I think.

  19. Re:I dont get why... on Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    For a lot of people internet = facebook.

    Google's business model biggest enemy is Facebook because it's a closed.
    That means there is a huge chunk of the internet that can't be indexed, and lots of eyeballs that won't ever be theirs.

    Promoting "open" social networking is good for them.

  20. Re:Eh, a 17-year-old? on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    2 years ago I told my nephew that I'd enlighten him about good old stuff (not that shitty Ben10 that he was watching), and streamed the fist Hellsing chapter from youtube only to remember that the first scene is a fellatio...

  21. Besides, look around you. By your argument only jocks get to breed. I'd say you're mistaken.

    You must be tired of hitting that strawman.

  22. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    Any source for this? (Really asking).

  23. Re:Maybe people are not desperate on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    Nothing involving microelectronics is produced in Tierra del Fuego. Goods are brought from Asia but ensembled here.
    Then raises Importations artificially raised to keep those "home build" products competitive.

    The reason to do that is geopolitical (populate Tierra del Fuego, to keep it out of Chilean ( and UK?) hands.

  24. Re:Maybe people are not desperate on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    plus 3G barely exists outside Buenos Aires from what I've heard.

    TFTFU

  25. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 2

    The math is not so easy, you need to consider the risk of being robbed vs the chance of being seized by the government.
    And the main reason people don't have their money in banks is not because they're afraid of the government ( people tend to forget about the pain ), but because tax evasion and informal economy.