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  1. PHP Async sucks on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 2

    I've been coding PHP, Java and more recently JS for a while. I feel like PHP has dropped the ball when it comes to async programming compared to the others. I think that's one of the reasons why facebook forked PHP (hacklang.org) to make it async friendly. ReactPHP is slow compared to node, and the fastest PHP async framework, Swoole by Tencent, is still limited in what it supports. I've been trying vert.x on Java which isn't bad and not minding koa. I feel like they need to do more to support projects like ReactPHP with native extensions like Swoole.

  2. Remember amazon prime video, the "netflix killer"?

  3. Maybe extensions should be digitally signed like apps are with gatekeeper on osx, or authenticode on windows?

  4. My mother-in-law was hit with this one. As her "tech support guy", I then had to reformat her PC. They're very slick in gaining people's trust. They ask them to download the software and then read all their stored passwords out to them. Not only is it the money, but it also makes people feel stupid to anyone who finds out they fell for it. It's only going to get worse - what will happen once scammers can emulate other people's voices really well? What about fake photos too? Should old people no longer have a phone?

  5. Re:Two browsers? on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah pretty much what this guy said. That and the dev tools in mozilla aren't as good as the chrome ones, even though they're pretty good. I would like to change, but it's not practical because of the main market using webkit/blink.

  6. Re:Only for businesses. on Australia To Ban Cash Purchases Over $10,000 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not until they start RFID tagging currency.

  7. Re:Crypto Currency on Australia To Ban Cash Purchases Over $10,000 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    All crypto transactions in australia over 10k are required to be lodged with AUSTRAC - http://www.austrac.gov.au/medi...

  8. Facebook messenger asks for "wifi connection information" on android which would let them get instant access to arp cache if they wanted it. Go install landroid or something like that to see for yourself. You have to ask yourself why they are asking for that information in the first place.

  9. Apps can also access every other mac address on your network too by reading arp cache. MAC addresses contain device manufacturer identifiers. Browsers can be fingerprinted which is made even easier with JavaScript, even TCP/IP stacks can be fingerprinted. Almost everything can be fingerprinted and crosslinked or statistically analysed given enough thought. There are too many avenues for a big system to collect data on anyone if they really wanted to.

  10. 2020... year of the linux desktop

  11. Re:Who needs Google? on Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know... the APK store app I use that connects to play store and spoofs the device seemed to work okay. I haven't used it for anything other than minecraft, so I can't go into any depth about how well it works sorry.

  12. Re:Who needs Google? on Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah but to get the actual APK you can use stores that trick google into thinking it's a particular device to get the apk from google play store directly. For example, I want to play minecraft on the nvidia shield tv, but it isn't supported on play store, so I use a third party play store client to trick it into thinking it's a Nexus 9 or something compatible with the shield's processor. It's safer than trusting some dodgy apk site (I think?).

  13. Re:Every successful commercial social network on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    .. because hosting your videos and photos and so on isn't free unless you pay for it through advertising or selling your personal data.

  14. Re:Did anyone ask for this? on Oracle Releases Java 10, Promises Much Faster Release Schedule (adtmag.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't think letting it die in a fire would be a good idea. The bloat would keep it burning for decades.

  15. Re:You actually nailed the problem on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all coins work like that. DPoS coins, like Nano (formerly RaiBlocks) don't need miners. It still needs a small PoW to avoid spam attacks, but they're also looking at other ways of getting around that.

  16. Boredom in Barcelona on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    First they try and dump Spain for independence, now they dump Windows for Linux. Aren't they challenged enough?

  17. Re: It's all propaganda now on Calls to Action on the Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Aaron Swartz (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    No, I think that's a side effect of the lack of civil discourse and engagement in society. People abandon hope and let those bastards take over when they no longer care about working together on common ground solutions. What's a more practical solution? Nothing.

  18. Re:It's all propaganda now on Calls to Action on the Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Aaron Swartz (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    100% agree. And it's driving a wedge right through society. No rational debates, no respect, all agenda. Bring back the center.

  19. you are pretending to know less then... it's less than, you uneducated dickhead.

  20. Deeply disingenuous? Are you calling me a liar for not believing what I am saying? It seems kind of obvious to me he's a high value political target, and has been for some time. After all, they couldn't "just drone the guy".

  21. They wrote about his fear as a premise for the reasonability of the finding. "The Republic of Ecuador granted asylum because of Mr. Assange’s fear that if he was extradited to Sweden, he would be further extradited to the United States where he would face serious criminal charges for the peaceful exercise of his freedoms. Since August 2012, Mr. Assange has not been able to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy and is subject to extensive surveillance by the British police." http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEv... As far as I can tell, that reads to me like it's a major reason why they found he was being treated unfairly.

  22. Re:No, he's party to it on Ecuador Grants Citizenship To WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think wikileaks was the only problem here. Half the US media was a parrot for Putin. What about all that infowars alt-right bullshit? You can't tell me there wasn't plenty of that. For fuck sake.. they had interviews with Aleksandr Dugin on their show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... That guy has a large influence on how the Russians view the world and global order and idiotic ideas about Eurasianism. Go read his books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics). This is documented in Rand Corporation's research, though they downplay the crazy.. but the crazy has a big influence on Russia's sense of itself. https://www.rand.org/content/d... And wikileaks was a parrot for Russia? Are you fucking dreaming? What about facebook? What did they do to stop any of this? They're more than happy to let people post their opinions, because that gets them hooked on facebook, so they get more ad revenue! It's very simple. Putin didn't like Hillary because she's a globalist (go read the credits in Kissinger's World Order book - https://www.washingtonpost.com..., or watch Bernie's attack on her over it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...). Putin wants to end Pax Americana, and he achieved it pretty well by fanning the flames of dividing western society by manipulating through agenda setting content. We've been using facebook and all this social media bullshit to re-enforce the echo chambers that's leading to our demise to divide us politically. Once again, go read the foundations of geopolitics. Quote from the wikipedia article on the Foundations of Geopolitics: "Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics." Then you get trump and his slime bucket PR master, Roger Stone, orchestrate the biggest campaign of hate the US has ever seen. Well surely the crazies on the left aren't gonna put up with this.. so their cognitive dissonance goes ballistic because they can't believe that Trump got into power, so now they're in battle stations, pushing their radical left agendas by shaming the public, virtue dropping that basically quells descent from moderate views. Is it not simple enough? It's a mess of our own making, fanned by Russia, political opportunists, opportunistic social networks and our self-interested "It's all about me", materialistic, narcissistic, uncivil society.

  23. Yeah exactly.. then all the fox news, cnn and bbc drones start rampantly parroting the what they read. That's gotta cover at least 80% of all opinions or something, right?

  24. Fortunately our legal systems are good, but there's always an exception where justice is not carried out, and can be politically motivated. I can think of one particular case that happened in the state I lived in, where a famous novel where I am from called "nothing to do with justice", where a magistrate was jailed for a difference of opinion. Maybe go have a read of that and similar books.. politically motivated abuse of the legal system does happen. https://www.goodreads.com/book...

  25. Well the European tribunal of human rights thought his fears aren't unwarranted. Sounds pretty legitimate to me.