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  1. Re: Don't forget about SeaFile on OwnCloud Server 9.0 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Owncloud handle symlinks? Seafile can't seem to understand we need files, directories , and links. All modern filesystems work this way.

  2. Re: well that's changed the calculus. on Google Docs Can Now Export EPUB (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Your data is boring and average, just like almost everybody else's. Sorry, no 'special snowflake' award for you.

    If you plan to compete with Google or overthrow your local regime, then start to worry. If you're planning a bake sale for your local community organization, be a chum and let others edit.

  3. Re: The caped crusader on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably from the courts, which ignore the Constitution 97% of the time. What you say is true, in theory, but not in practice.

  4. Re:Aaaaand queue the lawyers on Verizon To Pay $1.35 Million Fine To Settle US Privacy Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This "fine" would only amount to fractions of a penny per user for years of what are essentially MITM attacks.

    The FCC is doing its job here - to keep out competition in the market and then to fool the customers into thinking that there's a government "doing something" so they don't have to themselves get upset about the malfeasance of these carriers. The fine represents a notional "Verizon was fined for its behavior", for future reference, without citation.

    Yes, yes, your seventh-grade social studies theory is much prettier than empirical reality.

  5. Re:Word based ban lists on Anonymous Claims Twitter Is Suspending 'OpISIS' Member Accounts (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its like 1990's internet all over again, banned words everywhere.

    Except this time, there's plenty of compute resources to match word closeness and plenty of world-relationship mapping databases that it ought to be fairly straightforward to semantically map (tranny,chrysler,failed) into a different bucket than hate-speech, automatically. Pure stop-lists are just lazy.

    Maybe the information-retrieval people aren't on this team.

  6. Re: Old news on How Common Is Your PIN? (datagenetics.com) · · Score: 1

    You are worthy of the nerd card. Very few others are. I bet that feels really good. You're special, for sure.

  7. >That's a lot of founding father grave spinning.

    See, Trump can use them to excavate the footing for his wall. He's a problem solver.

  8. I'd say that passes the Rational Basis Test.

  9. Re: Review notes on Amazon Backpedals On Encryption, But Fire "Still Sucks" · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wish the bootloader weren't locked but they don't prevent you from sideloading Play Store. I got one for $40 for my daughter to take on an international trip to use as a Hangouts device and I was totally satisfied with the value and got a second one for my own use.

    I think the "with special offers" idea is fantastic - I would have bought twice if they hadn't sold out (a whole Eneloop setup for $14?). By keeping them as restricted Android devices, they're keeping lots of potential shoppers away from Special Offers. I guess they've done the math on this and it says they make more from their app store than they lose from less Amazon shopping, but the $20 price difference indicates they are losing real profit for notional profit.

  10. Re: Would it really matter? on Record-Breaking 11000ft Flight Sparks Criticism In Pilot Community · · Score: 1

    Blendtec already tested LiPo batteries. Nasty smoke.

  11. Re: The article has some interesting highlights on Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    It might be true - some of them supposedly use core memory, which is probably vulnerable to all sorts of EM attacks.

  12. Re: Not really. on Anonymous Hacks Donald Trump's Voicemail and Leaks the Messages (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Quick sanity test: is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?

    Which definition of 'liberal' are you using? The word has been co-opted so many times, even in recent decades, that your question may not be useful.

    If you mean 'authoritan-socialist' then say that. (My best guess, but who knows? They're certainly not classically liberal).

  13. Re: Not really. on Anonymous Hacks Donald Trump's Voicemail and Leaks the Messages (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Most of it would be corporate-leaning.

    Establishment-leaning. Yes, pro- corporate, but also pro- State, banksters, regulators, NGO's, etc. Which isn't all that surprising since the corps pay them and the regulators don't shut them down if they dance on cue.

    http://www.econlib.org/library...

  14. Recovery ISO on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    All these people who just allowed the free upgrade - none of them would have a recovery ISO, right? Is it downloadable if they even have a burner or know how to make a bootable USB drive?

  15. Re: We don't want to be negative about Mozilla. on Mozilla Jumps On IoT Bandwagon (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, how depressing. So people at Mozilla *do* know how to fix the company but they're shut out of the decision-making process and the loonies are running it into the ground. That's even worse than nobody knowing what's going on.

    Wow, it's time to fork MoFo, apparently. Who can fund this? Really, a year of focused development on Electrolysis, memory, mobile performance, and the plugin ecosystem, with fewer than a dozen new hires to those teams, ought to yield a privacy-focused browser with enough usability to retain/gain users (and therefore become self-sustaining).

    We need a Mozilla[historical] organization to advocate for the free web, but the bozos in charge are squandering this very crucial role. I wonder who cares about Internet freedom enough to ensure this happens.

  16. Maybe Tim should suggest his users in Florida boycott David Jolly.

  17. "If it bleeds it leads." Fear, fear, bacon fear.

  18. Re: Have they thought this through? on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 0

    The risk isn't meltdown - it's emergency shutdown. Did you read TFS?

    If you care about A/C in the summer, you don't want all the nuclear plants shut down. That will actually kill people, not this fault.

    Obviously one fixes the wiring, but these regulators are apparently fools who can't handle probability and statistics. And they're in charge of nuclear safety? Woe is us.

  19. Re: No, HALF a watt. on Google Building a 100kW Transmitter at Spaceport America (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shush, we're hysterical with misinformation and misunderstanding.

  20. Re: Checks take a while to clear too on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Credit cards take a while to clear too - - chargebacks can be up to 6 months later. There's absolutely no guarantee that you will actually have the money until that six month period is past. Bitcoin actually improves the situation tremendously. The odds of a bitcoin double-spend are significantly lower than the odds of a credit card chargeback. Especially within wallet systems - say Mycelium to Mycelium - nobody in the peer-to-peer economy is worried at all about getting their money. It's something the established bankers make up to create fear.

  21. Re:Adi's correct on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone really, really want to crack an iPhone, they'd do it.

    Like the FBI?

  22. Re:Well there you have it, straight up on French Bill Carries 5-Year Jail Sentence For Company Refusals To Decrypt Data For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Public freedoms are no longer permitted.

    I think they're only saying that the public has no right to achieve privacy when their owners, errr, the government is concerned.

    And really, if you had a herd of cattle holding secret meetings you'd want to know what's up too. They're probably not talking about how great your hay is.

    And besides, the public agrees

    Who else would provide the hay?

  23. It must be very narrow to avoid being priored by VT100, X11, ANSI, heck maybe even 3270, all of which have been used to draw applications and present advertisements of some type (not necessarily product advertisements, but words have meaning).

  24. Time to remove that stupid "special offers" advertising.

    If you thought it was stupid, why didn't you buy the version for $20 more without the special offers?

    Personally, I'm hoping they did away with the crypto on the bootloader. Hahahaha, yeah.

    Really I think this is more about "stop buying our $40 android tablets and using them as Android tablets - they're just book readers!".

  25. Re:My immunity deal . . . on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy knew that he was doing something illegal in setting up a personal mail server for Hillary. They should heat up the deep fryer for him. Now as to Hillary, who gave the orders . . . well . .. you can imagine what I think about her.

    Yes, it's easy to imagine - if you want them to fry the IT guy so that he won't cooperate in their case against Clinton, then you must be an advocate of hers. Since they obviously gave him immunity in exchange for full cooperation, that apparently is a problem for your preferred outcome.

    I'm surprised based on your posting history.