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  1. Re:Some young earth creationist will argue coheren on London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    lol sure it does, that is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat and claiming that that somehow challenges the conclusion that magic is not real. bad science is bad science regardless of who created it and even if what they found was evidence that a triceratops existed 40,000 years ago that in no way challenges the old earth hypothesis any more than finding a living one today would challenge it, it would merely challenge the hypothesis of when a triceratops became extinct.

  2. Re:The £2.5 million should not be paid by Vo on London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 2

    The interesting thing with the VW case is it doesn't appear to have happened with any exec level involvement, appears to have been a decision made within an engineering team (at least according to everything I have read on, and I read a lot given I owned a VW at the time)

  3. you aint poor if you can afford to drive and park in London!

  4. By making older/more polluting cars more expensive to drive it does tend to have a negative impact on those types of cars sales and encourages new cars to come in under those pollution limits in order to achieve more competitive pricing. basically it uses free market to make polluting less attractive without causing mass riots by outright banning them. In the meantime you have a small income to use as desired.

  5. Re: How is this different from any firewall on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    still nothing new. Firewalls that have builtin app/protocol/stateful inspection smarts are a dime a dozen and have been around.... well for at least as long as I have been professionally playing with/configuring firewalls (17 years). The same goes for devices, hell my home router even detects connected device MAC's and names so you can select them for rules.

  6. Re:Ironic since Google ships their earnings elsewh on Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    For the Nth time, Google does not shift US profits overseas.

    oh really? http://www.huffingtonpost.com....

  7. Re:Is this Soviet Russia? on Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    if it isn't technically illegal then Google have no right to be acting as judge and executioner, especially since google engage in this exact type of practise themselves to avoid taxes all around the world precisely because it is not *technically* illegal.

  8. Re:Price? on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how you can think cost effective is the same as ability to grow enough. perhaps English is not your first language?

  9. Re:price? on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    He lives right next to his source and was self harvesting. now put that farmer 100 or 200 kilometres from the source and have someone else producing and transporting it, also when scaling you aren't going to find enough to be sustainable just lying around on the beach..

  10. price? on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    biggest challenge I would have thought would be ensuring cost effectiveness, a key part of producing Cattle feed is getting the cost right. processing seaweed surely can't be cheap?

  11. Their are really two types of people that believe in it. Those that are being tricked and believing the bullshit in which case this is great news. The second type are those that regardless of what evidence to the contrary exists they will continue to believe and anything the government or anyone else says is in on some massive conspiracy, basically they are just like the anti vaxxer nutters. This is neither good nor bad news for them as they don't listen to reason, science or the government anyway.

  12. great news on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how the fuck is it "Not good news for people who trust homeopathic drugs."? so telling people the truth because it goes against their misguided beliefs is bad news? personally I will take a dose of truth over being continually deceived any day.

  13. irreversible on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Since when has ANY treaty been irreversible. I think Trump is borderline insane but their is no such thing as an irreversible treaty as Trump can simply ignore it.

  14. Re:it's stupid and could be WAY "better". on A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    what's puzzling is that why it doesn't just get full access as YOU COULD JUST REDIRECT THE STUFF TO SOMETHING THAT CAUSES WINDOWS TO SEND THE MS ACCOUNT PASSWORD AND USERNAME IN PLAIN TEXT.. and while at that create a tunnel that stays once it gets plugged to real internet.

    because to send it to the MS account site you would need to man in the middle the SSL tunnel which in turn requires you to have either compromised the computer already with a fake CA to be trusted or have a compromised public CA. basically nothing at all remotely interesting with this attack.

  15. Re: A better terminal for an iPhone on Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, Apparently he has a relative undergoing serious medical treatments where he needs to be able to respond in seconds to questions yet he goes off on hikes? hardly sounds rational or intelligent.

  16. Re:Disclosure would have been nice. on Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When you are talking about listening to a piece of music to identify it a quarter of a second is completely insignificant.

  17. Re:Implementation not protocol on 1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Oauth 2.0 isn't all that complicated at all and to be honest it is you that should be going out and learning it not the developer. For most developers Oauth is just a library they have been told to use in order to secure their app, just like if you asked them what a syn/ack is they would also look at you dumbfounded. As a sysadmin you should be learning at least the basics of common simple protocols.