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  1. Not even TOR is perfectly safe on How Can You Decide Which VPN To Trust? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI, among other three letter agencies, has been known to operate end points in the TOR network. TOR is a useful, but not entirely sufficient way to stay anonymous on the internet. If that's your goal, you have to use TOR, a good VPN, and a dedicated operating system such as TAILS. And you have to properly configure each of these at all times. Anonymity on the internet is hard, and requires careful stagecraft. And even if you do everything perfectly every time, it still might not be good enough.

  2. Mozilla has been committed to social issues since before there was a Firefox. What do you think the whole "Take back the web" thing was about? They are trying to keep the web free, as in freedom, for everyone. If that's not a social issue, nothing is.

  3. And we all wore onions on our belts... on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Long, long ago, you could buy keyboard overlays for programs like Wordstar that had all the keyboard shortcuts labeled. I remember that because I'm old. *sigh* Good times, they were not.

  4. Re:It was also reported on ProtonVPN Passes 1 Million Users and Launches on iOS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd be more worried about the Big Bad ISP cutting off access for torrenting bootleg anime.

  5. There's a reason Astronauts live in Houston on Texas Lawmakers Press NASA To Base Lunar Lander Program In Houston (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The astronaut training program is based at JSC and the nearby Ellington Air Force Base. Therefore, astronauts have to live nearby. The location of Mission Control doesn't really affect that.

  6. Like driving without a seat belt? Really? on Slashdot Asks: Do You Need To Properly Eject a USB Drive Before Yanking it Out? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    First, this is nothing like driving without a seat belt. If I yank a thumb drive from my computer without "safely" ejecting it, I am not going to suffer any personal injury. The worst that could happen is I maybe have to reformat the drive. Big deal.

  7. I think the Milestone 18 version of the Mozilla browser was the first one that was stable enough for every day use. I've been using Mozilla/Firefox ever since. That would have been back in 2001 or so. Before that, I used Netscape. I've been a Microsoft hater since the first browser wars when MS tried to corner the entire web with IE 6. (Funny how quaint that idea sounds now.)

  8. Re:iHeartRadio guy in charge? on A Group of Public Radio Companies Acquires Podcast App Pocket Casts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure; people have been sounding the death knell for public broadcasting for decades now, yet it doesn't die.

  9. Re:Dear NPR/PRI stations on A Group of Public Radio Companies Acquires Podcast App Pocket Casts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Meh, just don't take away my RSS feeds! I listen to several NPR shows that way.

  10. Re:Impediment was the domain name on On This Day 25 Years Ago, the Web Became Public Domain (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    In many ways, things are even more accessible now. I know that idea goes against the zeitgeist, but hear me out. I purchased my domain name from gandi.net for a reasonable sum (in the tens of dollars), and I run my personal site from my home cable connection (Comcast). I do this by using afraid.org for dynamic DNS (free) so that I don't have to pay for a business class connection with a static IP. That's fine, because I'm running a personal site, not a business. Furthermore, all of the software I use is free and open source. I don't pay for any of it. The hardware I run it on is cheap and easily available. My server is an old desktop running a LAMP stack. Yeah, it's not enterprise quality by a long shot, but you know what? I have a real -- however minuscule -- presence on the internet for not a lot of scratch.

  11. Re:Money to burn I guess on Sergey Brin Is Reportedly Building 'Massive Airship' In NASA Research Center (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine Sergei Brin gets paid to go to trade shows.

  12. Re:Cox has low customer satisfaction? on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Our family regularly exceeds our monthly cap, and Comcast has yet to charge us for the overages. So we have that going for us, which is nice, but Comcast is still an ugly boil on Satan's teat. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  13. Vaporware? Ghostware. on Startup Still Working On 'Immortal Avatars' That Will Live Forever (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Marius Ursache will still be working on this long after he's dead.

  14. Re:Need to order a drone strike against these trai on NSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No kidding. Besides, how often do you get to use "It's its" in a sentence?

  15. Re:Grammar this on 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He'll need a friend named Fish.

    Fish's & Chip's

  16. Re:Has that ever happened, even once? on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: 1

    Eh, Congressweasels can be bought for shockingly little. Even a slap on the wrist fine is likely to be much larger than what the ISPs pay in political contributions.

  17. Re:Enemy of the good on 'Why The US Senate's Vote To Throw Out ISP Privacy Laws Isn't All Bad' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Republicans tell us that government is the problem, and now that they are in power, they intend to prove it.

  18. Shh, Grandpa, it's just those damn kids on the lawn again. Everything is all right, you can go back to sleep now.

  19. Re:qualifying can be good on A Norwegian Website Is Making Readers Pass a Quiz Before Commenting (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    Though perhaps the requirements for police officers could be more stringent. Their pay could be higher, too, which would attract more qualified people. The same holds for public school teachers and a wide variety of public service employees. It blows my mind that the richest country on Earth can't seem to do that, and people are okay with this.

  20. Re:"Links to books" on A Norwegian Website Is Making Readers Pass a Quiz Before Commenting (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 1

    Like this, perhaps?

  21. Re:The cloud on New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    "The cloud" is just code for "other people's servers". You can use open source to create your own cloud system, and there are many open source technologies to do that.

  22. Re:Gay Pride on New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Go fuck yourself.

  23. Re:Attack Software on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you think ten years in Leavenworth sounds like fun, go right ahead.

  24. Re:Just another mindless attack on Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? The man is a flaming shit bag full of stupid. He can't even form coherent sentences, for crying out loud.

  25. Direction arrows work for movement in SL, too.