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  1. Re:Tails and remote storage on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    Correct; so you always power down before traveling. Problem solved.

  2. Re:Complete Deniability that data exists on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    All correct. But TrueCrypt's hash security is a,lso aging and rapidly approaching (if not already at) the marginal level. VeraCrypt has also fixed this.

  3. Re:Laptop on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    You mean VeraCrypt. The TrueCrypt driver now has known critical vulnerabilties.

  4. Re: Securing your laptop? Only one way... VeraCryp on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    VeraCrypt whole disk encryption. (Successor to TrueCrypt.) Duh!
    Make sure it's powered off when you're traveling, and avoid malware infection. Then, you're all good.

    If you're worried about compulsory password requests, then things get a bit more complicated. You can use the plausible deniability feature of VeraCrypt to accomplish this, but deniability also requires rigorous adherence to modified computing practices.

  5. Sounds like an unfortunate accident. Whoever was flying the drone is probably very disappointed their drone crashed and they've lost their Amazon drugs and hacksaw blades.

  6. Re:Well there goes the cipherhood on Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Say goodbye to asymmetric encryption.
    Symmetric like AES can still survive quantum attacks with a doubling of key length. But all the current asymmetric algorithms are in peril once quantum computers exist.

  7. What's the Weissman score? on Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the Weissman score?

  8. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Inanimate does not mean what you think it means!

    Dictionary Definition

    inanimate [in-an-uh-mit]

      adjective
    1. not animate; lifeless.

    I said it meant "not living." You pasted a definition saying "lifeless."
    Seems you misread my post, as I used the word exactly as prescribed.

  9. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Inanimate means not living, guy.
    Don't say fucking a robot is like fucking a dog.

  10. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    Yeah, OK, but even so, those bans are aimed at human participants. We're talking inanimate objects here!

    I can still fuck an apple pie if I want to, right?
    And a woman can fuck a banana? (Which this lady completely ignores with her chauvinist blinders on.)

  11. Re:Windows update forcing me to 10 on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the offer to help, man.
    But I meant to migrate off Windows for the future once I can't run a Windows 7 PC under security maintenance anymore. That looks to be the last version of Windows I can tolerate running due to the disastrous nature of Windows 8 and the intrusive nature of Windows 10.

    As for this PC, I've deleted the folder again and blocked several updates and all seems good enough for now.

  12. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    What next, will she outlaw my freedom to fuck an apple pie if I want?
    Or a woman to fuck a banana?

    Note what a femi-chauvinist she is, completely ignoring two huge groups of people in her thinking: heterosexual women, and homosexuals (of both genders), both of which are equally eager sex toy consumers.

    Small-minded, ignorant, and antiquated thinking.

  13. Re:Bigotry Shmigotry on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Many states used to control and ban what a lot of adults could do in the privacy of their own homes with other consenting adult humans. Almost all those laws have been wiped clean, and now, in the name of progress, this researcher wants to control what I can or can't do with a machine?!? Will the prude and pious attempts of puritan fanatics to control our sexuality, outlaw harmless "perversion," and squelch sexual freedom never stop?!

  14. Re:Windows update forcing me to 10 on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    I long ago uninstalled and hid KB3035583 also to hide that annoying toolbar icon, but I still got the new Windows 10 download yesterday. :/

    FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! Apparently, I need to put serious planning now into migrating to another platform before Win7 EOL's.

  15. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    Any way you slice it, this is probably going to be a big deal to Uber!!

  16. Re:Windows update forcing me to 10 on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Any idea which of yesterday's patches is to blame for the new download? I had previously blocked:
    KB3022345
    KB3068708
    KB3075249
    KB3080149

    But I still got the new download yesterday!!

    I agree! TOTALLY pissed off about these bullshit secretive "security update" messages that are just unwanted bloatware, perhaps even spyware.

  17. Which update to uninstall?!?! on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    I had previously uninstalled and hidden the following:
    KB3022345 - Created a new Windows service called the Diagnostics Tracking service. (Retracted)
    KB3068708 - Update to 3022345.
    KB3075249 - Enhanced the User Account Control (UAC) feature to enable it to collect more information from the elevation prompts.
    KB3080149 - Update to 3022345/3068708.

    However, I still got the new massive download yesterday. Which update is to blame and needs to be uninstalled? The article doesn't say!

  18. Re: Why do they need to? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 2

    Correction: It seems I did manage to uninstall and hide 3 of the above, except KB3022345, which was "retracted," so maybe that's why?

  19. Re: Why do they need to? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 4, Informative

    2 of the 4 KBs are not be displayed :P so it is impossible to uninstall them...

    Can anyone provide more info on this?
    Is it true? The list of KBs I know to avoid are:

    KB3022345 - Created a new Windows service called the Diagnostics Tracking service. (RETRACTED)
    KB3068708 - Update to 3022345.
    KB3075249 - Enhanced the User Account Control (UAC) feature to enable it to collect more information from the elevation prompts.
    KB3080149 - Update to 3022345/3068708.

    But it's true I tried to uninstall them and only saw 2 to uninstall and hide. I thought however that it was because some were updates/replacements of previous ones.

  20. Re:Why not have more public restrooms? on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    That's what they have in Paris... free, self-contained public toilets that have one toilet and that spray themselves down inside between each use. They have a little sensor that detects when people pass in/out. Very forward thinking! (But a low throughput because of the cleaning cycle between users.)

  21. Re:Solutions? on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    1. Piss in the establishment in which you bought the drinks. They have toilets.

    Once people leave, people still might need to go at a later point. I lived places where it took up to an hour to get home from the central city area, especially when mass transit was slowed to a crawl.

    2. Do not drink to the point you cannot control your basic bodily functions.

    Even a single beer or coffee can make many people have to go suddenly go an hour later. Being drunk will make you do stupid things that doesn't reflect sane available options. But there are plenty of non-drunk people that could benefit from public restrooms and have to deal with consequences when there are none.

    3. Behave like an adult and find a solution that is superior to a 4 year old.

    This isn't actually a third option, just vague padding.

    Exactly!
    Well said. Thank you. =)

  22. Re:Solutions? on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    Suppose I decide to not get drunk, or to pee at the bar instead of outside. Thus, I have implemented your solution and it works splendidly, and the public urinal outside goes unused as a seeming waste of public resources.

    See? You both had half of the answer to the problem. So quit talking shit about the other guy's idea.

    No, because the point I am taking objection to is that only drunk people pee outside. If you've ever taken a long stroll through a city, you've no doubt had to pee. This has nothing to do with being drunk. And if there are no public options, people go with what's left. Most men (and women for that matter) I know have peed in public when they weren't drunk.

    As for his first bullet point, after drinking even a moderate amount of beer (or a big cup of coffee for that matter), I can pee at the bar before leaving and have to pee again 20 minutes later. Now what?!

    **My point** is... drunks and/or "people who don't pee before leaving the restaurant" do not comprise all people that need to piss in a city. Nor do the homeless, as others keep mentioning.

  23. Re:Rain on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    Rain usually falls downwards, thus sparing walls (and ceilings for that matter) from impact. LOL
    If it's blowing rain, well your pants are already as wet as the walls to begin with. (You do realize that legs are walls share the same angle of incidence to any falling rain, right?!)
    It's called physics! :-)

  24. Re:Solutions? on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 2

    This has been a problem since the start of civilization... if you don't provide public facilities, the sewage ends up running in the street. It's not a matter of drunk people. EVERYBODY PISSES! And I've not found many businesses that will let you just come in and use their toilets. Finding a relatively secluded place to pee when you have to seems like the adult solution to me. The other alternative being suffering excruciating kidney pain before finally pissing myself, which would end up in the street anyhow. Cities should provide FREE public toilets. **THAT** is the solution.

  25. Re:Hurr durr on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OP Here... The editors' left out the last line of my submission:
    "Time will tell if this works better than the firehose employed in India." https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      It's a hilarious video of a solution that has been tried in India, where a water truck goes around and blasts street pissers with a firehose.