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  1. Apple and their dreams^w nightmares... on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In a post-Turing world, where 1984 will be ... like 1984.

  2. This is getting old fast on Kodak Announces Its Own Cryptocurrency, Watches Stock Price Skyrocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That sure is starting to look like the good pump & dump strategy with the ignorant masses who can't understand that these coins won't ever be secure or distributed...

  3. If RT is out... on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... How is Fox still in?

  4. Even worst, it's an unveiled fembot which probably has other extra rights compared to its human counterpart.

  5. Pretty simple since 2005... on Traditional PC Sales Continue To Slide (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Buy 4x the amount of ram people buy, be good for 10 years.

  6. Anything useful is cloned, yet another useless protection for things that SHOULD be cloned to get lower prices.
    Who gives a shit if your bag is fake? But who doesn't if we're talking electronic, meds, etc.

  7. Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered how many were left in the 100 range... :)

  8. Re: Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone! ;)

  9. Re:How are we defining 'Data breach'? on Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    indeed, it's a data buffet :D

  10. Let's have this libertarian experiment... on Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I almost wish one US state would become fully "government free", as a voluntary experiment, so we can see how everyone makes it!

    We could probably watch the 99% just die, get abused, then survive through their overlord without democracy and maybe, eventually, have a revolution and rediscover democracy...

  11. Re: First Patch! on Unpatched Magento Zero Day Leaves 200,000 Merchants Vulnerable (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that you?

  12. Cause I really wanted more overhead, licences and emulations layers to debug, yééé!

  13. Yeah uh ... no.
    That won't solve fake but valid certificates magically.

  14. The whole F-ing CA model is broken beyond repair...

    Can we get rid of this joke of a model that we're all relying upon for the rest?

  15. Re:This article though... on How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I'd be curious to see a graph showing UID posting for every, say, 10 accounts over the last few years. :)

  16. This article though... on How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And obfuscation can probably also hide their presence...

  17. Cute... on GCHQ Has Disclosed Over 20 Vulnerabilities This Year (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So let me guess, when say, Russia, or China, is know to have discovered a vulnerability and using it in the wild, they burn the bridge by "being nice" publicly?

  18. Hydroelectricity now clean? on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    I thought hydroelectricity was not considered clean by the USA, creating a weird situation with Quebec's overproduction exports (among others maybe)...

  19. I can understand why... on Bill Nye Disses "Regular" Software Writers' Science Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Those who did specialize in computer science early on, after high school let's say, tend to not understand physics / chemistry / biology / etc. as well, and it shows.

    That doesn't mean they are anti-science / anti-global-warming or anything like that, just that the rest depends more on ambiant politic than critical use of scientific knowledge when shown scientific studies...

  20. Confused? on New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering · · Score: 1

    What they really want is white box cryptography, but it seems computationally impractical right now.

    Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... did this and was broken!

  21. Security is a two way street on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    You do need HTTPS to protect mundane content: Saying otherwise is very short sighted...

    You might not care about the content, but the way someone, somewhere, is accessing it, does offer a lot of "value".
    It can allow a watchful eye to either accuse the reader of being outside the norm, criminal, not respectful and whatnot (reason why librarians fought hard for the right to lend books without giving the list to the state!) or allow them to caracterise, profile, target a person over time for many different reasons.

    Thus everyone should have the to right to read anonymously and willingly.
    Witholding this right from others is being complicit with opressors.

  22. Re:It's not stupid on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Encryption has a cost, it isn't free. It increases CPU utilisation and power consumption. It interferes with caching and reduces network efficiency.

    This is a dumb idea. A very dumb idea.

    https://www.httpvshttps.com/

  23. Re:Well... on Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page · · Score: 1

    By FOSS do they mean dump the source after release... like Android?
    I don't think that's the spirit, even though the licence says so.

  24. Re:I know you're trying to be funny, but... on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 2

    Meta godwin aside, I wish a major (market wise) fork would exist with grsecurity merged in by default, for example...

  25. Sudden outbreak of common sense? on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    I don't even understand why china, of all places, is not 100% Linux wall to wall already...