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  1. Re:True browser sandboxing yet with this feature? on Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Browser fingerprinting techniques can still identify you this way.

  2. Re:Replace badminton on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    ...and are pretty unhealthy. Have you seen badminton players ? They have an arm 3 times the size of the other. Even compulsive masturbators are not that asymmetric !

  3. Re:Stupid question, easy answer on Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    the message, watch out China, we will be arresting your children overseas (no matter how old still viewed as children), top notch messaging American sure to win life long enemies and Canada, oh so fucking stupid.

    Contrast this with the top french CEO who was recently arrested in Japan for having skimmed a few millions here and there, and the reaction in France is closer to cheering...

  4. So, when is the hack going to be serious ? on Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked (linux.org) · · Score: 0

    One day such hack will redirect archive.ubuntu.org (or other) to a repository of hacked updates and millions of linux users will get massively hacked with no hope of cleaning up. As a linux user and admin I hope it won't happen, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

  5. Re:Maybe it was an advanced civilisation on 'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The beginning ? Do you mean during the Great Oxygenation Even when the high level of O2 could have sustained strange things like the Franceville biota ? Or during the Ediacaran when evolution went every which way ? Or when animals got out of the water ? Or started moving fast ? Or when O2 was high again allowing for gigantic insects ? Hard to tell...

  6. Re:Maybe it was an advanced civilisation on 'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think in 250My, plate tectonics has enough time to shuffle the mines all over again.

  7. Re:Maybe it was an advanced civilisation on 'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If there had been a civilisation like ours that far back, I wonder what kind of traces we would find. Is 'nothing' possible ? There'd be strange fossils of objects or constructions or even radioactive differences. Also all the coal from the carboniferous layer would have been burnt up already !

  8. Oh great, another change in 'design'... on Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    ...meaning I won't recognised where anything is yet all over again. AWESOME, I'm so thrilled by this. Last time I paid attention it was... let me backtrack a bit... when the ribbon happened in all kind of places where I didn't want it. And rounded windows (meaning instead of 5 pixels of margin, it now took 20 or so). It let me to look for alternatives and one thing let to another, I haven't been on Office or Windows for a decade and a half now.

    And the more recent 'design' changes like 'all white and grey icons' or 'cards', well, I just ignored that unrecognizable garbage by using another OS. ON. THE. DESKTOP.

  9. Oh yeah, even exists in original 3D !!!

  10. Re: Interesting, "combustion cars" on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My 250HP Tesla 0 to 60 in 5 seconds

    Well, if you do that often, you'll pay in tires what you save in gas... A tesla owner once told me he has to change his tires every 4000km !

  11. Re:I'm Canadian and even I know the Republicans ar on House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    How the wind blows both ways...

  12. It's okay to be ignorant of something. It's something else to flaunt it like a super power.

  13. Italians are always friendly... as long as they aren't driving !!!

  14. Re:Materialism isn't the issue on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh ?!? It's a latin phrase, so it's been in use for 2000 years, it's nothing recent to say the least. And I don't see what's effeminate about it.

  15. Re:I don't deal with ads on Real Life Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration From Social Media (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Spray paint or Molotov cocktail ?

  16. Re:Assuming.... on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes. The brits have always wanted the butter with the butter's money. They kept asking for 'exception' on all the disadvantages while keeping all the advantages of EU. They should have been kicked out of EU long ago. Well, it's done now, I wish them well, but I'm not holding my breath for them.

  17. Then that's just 'impending the flow of traffic'. The jaywalking stories I've heard about in the US are more along the line of 'crossed the road out of the designed crosswalk'...

  18. Re:Wait'll the idiots behind swatting find out on Can The Police Remotely Drive Your Stolen Car Into Custody? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    In my car you have to unscrew the driver seat first (with a custom tool) before you can access the fuse box...

  19. In Europe we simply call it crossing the road, there's not even a word for it in the languages I know. Why do americans and chinese criminalise jaywalking ? WTF do they think is wrong with simply crossing a road when no cars are present ? I don't get it.

  20. Re:I'm not sure what's odd about that on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a friend who had written his own accounting software in the 80s on a 6502 PC. Once there was a discrepancy of a few $ at the end of the month. He spent an entire month backtracking the error through software logic, then software debug, then finally assembly until he found the exact place where a single bit had flipped in memory. Took him a month.

  21. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    MS13 assassinating the leaker at the behest of DNC

    I did not follow this stuff closely, so I did a quick search. Were you referring to this ? [copy pasta from wikipedia]

    The 27-year-old Rich was an employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and his murder spawned several right-wing conspiracy theories,[2] including the false claim that Rich had been involved with the leaked DNC emails in 2016, contradicted by the law enforcement branches that investigated the murder.[3][4] It was also contradicted by the July 2018 indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence agents for hacking the e-mail accounts and networks of Democratic Party officials[5] and by the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion the leaked DNC emails were part of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[3][4][6] Fact-checking websites like PolitiFact.com,[4][7] Snopes.com,[8] and FactCheck.org stated that these theories were false and unfounded.[3] The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post wrote that the promotion of these conspiracy theories was an example of fake news.

  22. Re:Sleep apnea? Lose some weight on Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been trying to gather courage to get the surgery for the last 30 year ! I just can't stand breathing through my mouth (it gets dry and uncomfortable in seconds) so I sleep with something pushing my nose to a side or the other, to free one nostril (basically I sleep on my belly with the nose pushing against my hand or the mattress). I know I should get it done, but I've had surgery for a broken nose 30 years ago and the wake up stage and later 'emptying' was so unpleasant that I just don't want to do it again.

  23. Re: The "How are you?" trap works the same in Germ on How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Very similar with smiling by the way: Americans do that all the time, Europeans not so much.

    Yea, but they do it by showing their teeth, which is scary to most other cultures, even animals!

  24. "Dans le cochon, tout est bon." goes the saying...

  25. But they didn't draw maps and they didn't make this discovery known to the rest of the world. There's the difference.