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  1. Re:Another day, another Android security hole on LG G3 'Snap' Vulnerability Leaves Owners At Risk of Data Theft (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    My Note 2 is still on KitKat and has numerous security vulnerabilities which Samsung don't give a shit about fixing.

    To be fair, your KitKat Note 2 is using the latest Chromium webview that even Android Marshmallow is using (because Google is doing an end-run around the manufacturer updates for some of its component updates).

    I'm not sure why the LG G3 is not doing the same with SmartNotice. It looks like LG G3 is purposefully going out of its way not to use it for its SmartNotice functionality, despite the fact that it is indeed using the right most-up-to-date version of webview for everything else.

  2. Re:The elephants in the room on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    You're completely ignoring every company that runs an Exchange server

    A couple of points. Open source tools and blacklisting services have become pretty good at filtering spam, and archiving email. This has only turned email into more of a commodity business.

    Also Postini wasn't just about spam filtering. It was also about company-wide email archival and regulatory compliance. That being said, after the NSA debacle and the ever increasing demands of the NSA being in control of everything without judicial oversight, any foreign-based companies still using Postini or MX Logic would really look bad in their own country if they were to continue to do so.

    It doesn't really matter if Google offers to host your data and its servers in your home country anymore. The US/UK/Australian/Canadia governments have clearly shown that it do not care about national boundaries when it comes to surveillance and archival.

  3. Employees of those major companies were blacklisted from seeking work at other major companies.

    [citation needed]

    They would still get through the hiring and interviewing process, but then they would get automatically and systematically rejected with no reason given.

    [citation needed]

    I already gave a citation to the other person who asked the same question.

    The least we can do is to blacklist him from positions of importance.

    Based on the word of a single former employee. No further evidence. No criminal investigation. No conviction. Purely on the *allegation alone*.

    This guy is a criminal.

    Got a conviction record? Oh, there was no trial and he wasn't convicted of anything? Gee, this sounds a lot like libel.

    No, there were no criminal charges. That is what irks me too.

    I suppose you can also sue me for libel for saying that OJ Simpson was a murderer and a criminal even thought he was "found not guilty" by a jury of his peers.

    Also sue me for for libel for saying that the brother of Nicole Brown Simpson and the rest of her family were complicit in domestic violence during the marriage for accepting money from OJ Simpson to keep quiet about the fact that he was beating her. In my opinion, the family of Nicole Brown Simpson shouldn't have won that civil case either. The judge should just have awarded all that money to non-profits instead.

  4. I can't find the exact example I remembered, but I did find this.

    See second page, section 1.
    http://www.lieffcabraser.com/c...

    In other words, yes, there were "no cold calls", but some of these agreements went much further than that.

  5. Isn't it closer to "Why 6 Republican Senators Are Repeating Cable ISP Lobbyists' Talking Points on Why You Don't Need Faster Broadband"?

    May be they have a point. May be we should aim for slower internet and lower ISP subsidies.

  6. Re:No Context on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So people are a little butt hurt. I don't see what this has to do at all with anything.

    Employees of those major companies were blacklisted from seeking work at other major companies.

    They would still get through the hiring and interviewing process, but then they would get automatically and systematically rejected with no reason given.

    The least we can do is to blacklist him from positions of importance. This guy is a criminal. You don't put criminals in charge of organizations that you care about.

  7. Re:Knowing Wikipedia editors ... on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Thus far, the count is 187 for removing him. There is one vote from Guy Kawasaki for keeping him.

    And since he's still the VP of HR at Tesla Motors, the remaining 12 votes are from editors not wanting to get blacklisted from getting a job at Tesla Motors.

  8. It takes guts to stand up to government, especially the U.S government.

    As long as they don't say one thing publicly and a different thing privately.

    During the Democrat primary debate, when asked specifically about that, Hillary Clinton implied that the Tech companies were on board (despite them being publicly against it). If she were lying, I wouldn't be surprised. But then again, there could some truth to what she is saying.

  9. Re:Seems like freedom of speech to me on German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What do the emails look like? Is there any "speech" from the user, or do they just plug in an email address and amazon does all the "speaking"?

    I assume it is like most commercial Share buttons.

    Amazon pre-fills the form pretending to speak on behalf of the buyer, but that person can edit that text however he/she wants.

  10. Re: Already here - it feels unfair to some on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    This happen if the trespasser didn't expect to meet someone pointing a gun.
    If this behavior is normalized the trespasser will bring a gun of his own. Then it is just a matter of who shoots first.

    Sure, this is what may happen if they're robbing a bank, or a drug dealer, or an armored truck. That being said, if your house is like everybody else's, the criminal can just target a different house where the occupants are less likely to be armed (or simply try a different crime which is less likely to involve a gun, like identity theft for example).

    In the end, many things are a gamble. I actually live in California, where owning a swimming pool is actually much riskier for your own family than owning a gun. And yet, people are still get swimming pools if they can afford them. For many people, the positive benefits of owning a swimming pool actually outweighs the potential worst case scenario of it. It's the same story with guns. And although I don't own a gun, if I had a stalker, or if I lived in a bad area of town, or if I lived in the country side at least 30 minutes away from any kind of civilization, I definitely would consider owning one.

  11. Re: Already here - it feels unfair to some on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Guns are a deterrent.

    If a criminal trespassing on your property leaves because you're pointing a gun at them, then your gun has successfully done its job.

    This is what occurs 99.99% of the time. Shooting someone (or yourself) with a bullet is really the exception, not the rule.

  12. Re:Media bias and misrepresentations on Why I'm a Defender of YouTube (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    An accurate representation of what he said was "some illegal immigrants are criminals", which is true simply by the law of averages, with the implication that if they went through a vetting procedure we could perhaps filter out the criminal portion.

    The problem with even that statement is that it doesn't jibe with my personal experience at all.

    None of the illegal immigrants that I've met are criminals (although, I do realize that my experience is anecdotal and isn't worth a shit statistically speaking, and that I have no way to tell who is a criminal and who is not).

    That being said, I find that illegal immigrants are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators since in many cases, they can't even go to the authorities for help and they're targeted because of that. And as to rape, yes, there is a lot of rape that comes with illegal immigration, but that's mostly illegal immigrant Mexican women crossing the border that are getting raped or raped and killed in the process.

    And to me at least, when I hear about a significant portion of illegal Mexican immigrants being rapists, I am wondering where the hell Trump has gotten that from.

  13. Re:Canadian-French multilingual keyboard on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    One possible solution is to improve the software itself.

    I am French (living in the US) and I've actually stop using my PC when I need to compose a message in French, because I am actually much faster typing in French when I use my Android phone with SwiftKey.

    And no, I don't really use its Swipe feature. SwiftKey has access to years of my Gmail messages, my texts, my Facebook account, and my Twitter account. And yes, it's not for users who value privacy from corporations (or the NSA I suppose). But I just need to enter one or two letters, and not only can it guess the word I'm trying to input, it can also guess the next words I am going to use.

    And it's loaded with a French dictionary, so it does the accents perfectly, but at the same time, it allows me to use more than one language dictionary at a time, so if I use Frenglish, or purely Englsh, or if I use French with location names in English, it doesn't fight against me to do so (like a traditional one-language-at-a-time PC/Mac spell-checker would).

  14. Re:Challenge accepted. on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the cars are entirely autonomous, AND automatically sedate the driver upon entry, I think they'll have a hard time achieving this goal.

    They're only talking about new Volvo cars. The old Volvos will still be dangerous.

    Obviously, that means they're planning to shut down production and liquidate all their assets by year 2020.

  15. Re:Another good idea that will get shut down on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    I think Chromebooks/Chromeboxes would be better. Android doesn't support printing very well. Chromebooks do. Keyboard support and mice support is not great. At least that's my opinion, I have owned several Google TVs and one Android TV.

    Switching user also on Android takes too long, much longer than on a Chromebook, making that feature almost worthless for kids that need to switch accounts quickly. This didn't work well with my family. I am sure it will work even less well in a school environment with many more kids trying to use those devices.

    Multi-windowing is coming too on Android. It's already here for Samsung, LG, and some other brands, but it is still very primitive. Despite that Android can work for some non-touch devices, it is still primarily designed for touch in mind.

    The opposite is true for Chromebooks. Despite the fact that many Chromebooks come with touch screens now, Chromebooks weren't designed with touch in mind. In fact, if someone wants to buy a Chromebook, it's usually much cheaper and it actually consumes much less battery power if they only buy a non-touch version.

    I would expect there to be other reasons as well, but that's what I've got so far.

  16. Re:It's not just about IQ on Twins Study Finds No Evidence That Marijuana Lowers IQ In Teens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Stoners become stoners because of lack of motivation, not the other way around. They're paranoid because they engage in an illegal lifestyle and the law is literally out to get them.

    The illegality of it wouldn't explain my roommate hiding under the coffee table for three hours. We were living in Berkeley, CA (which at the time time, made possession of a little bit of marijuana a misdemeanor explicitly not enforced by the police by decision of the city council).

    This is not to say everyone reacts this way. Most people don't. Also, I've only witnessed this effect to only be short-term. I wouldn't know if some people are affected longterm (except for speech, which seems to change and slow down for some after frequent and constant use).

  17. Re:Another good idea that will get shut down on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    If I could find an android desktop os that would work on intel chips, I would switch our school district over in a heartbeat. All of our students are well versed in the use of Android.

    I am sure that your school district cafeterias can be found to be corrupt as well, but that doesn't mean you should just give up and supply all your students with high-sugar-based candies and soda pop every day instead.

  18. Re:Another good idea that will get shut down on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    If I could find an android desktop os that would work on intel chips, I would switch our school district over in a heartbeat.

    As an Android developer and an Android fan myself, I just have one question for you.

    Why in the world would you even do something like that?!?!!!

    Android is absolutely great for consuming media and playing games, but it certainly doesn't educate kids, nor does it cure cancer.

  19. Re:Well not completely unmanned on Service Provider Builds National Network of Unmanned Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, I'd hope they would have security guards at least. Otherwise it makes a pretty tasty target.

    Don't worry. Unmanned is just the latest buzzword for CTOs who want a smaller head count.

    can dispatch techs when on-site maintenance is needed

    Yes, there will still be technicians, security guards, and janitors that have physical access to the data center if needed.

    So this Press Release slash-advertisement really doesn't mean anything that hasn't already been done. Call me when they put their data centers thousands of feet underwater, or when they put their data centers in space, or on the moon.

  20. ones so well-known that they are routinely challenged by services such as CloudFlare

    Also, I am constantly challenged by CloudFlare, but I live in the US.

    At least, they could have mentioned a less crappy service.

  21. Re:Good luck with that on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, when there is an accident involving a loved one, I want to know as soon as possible. I don't need someone to cushion the blow, if that means that I'll have to wait an extra hour to learn about it.

    This law doesn't even intend to protect the privacy of individuals, or penalize looky-loos, since it's really only about timing of the release of the pictures (and not anything else). If I were cynical, I'd say that this idea was more about lessening the burden on emergency services, police, and hospitals not wanting to deal with hysterical family members too prematurely.

  22. Or the bureaucrat could have been lazy and decided it was easier to deny the request that get the information. Never ascribe to malice what can easily be ascribed to incompetence.

    You're assuming that there was even detailed paperwork to begin with and that the dolphin wasn't just incinerated/buried as soon as they found out after 30 seconds that the dolphin wasn't carrying signs of rabies, drugs, or weapons of mass destruction, despite what the New Jersey police officer said in his report when he discharged 38 bullets into the animal in self-defense, mortally wounding it.

  23. Re:silly premise on Hackers and Heroes: A Tale of Tech Communities In Two Countries (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Also in the US, I don't think that people like Steve Wozniak or Richard Feynman were targeted for very long by law enforcement officials.

    Now don't get me wrong, I am sure that the FBI kept a file on both those individuals. It's just that they both became part of the establishment (even they chose not create their own political party).

  24. Re:Those pesky civil rights... on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Marco Rubio panders to the older generation of Cubans that have fled Cuba.

    Politicians like him just wouldn't exist if only the second generation of political asylum seekers were allowed to vote in this country.

    As it stands, political asylum seekers lose their wars, come to this country, we give them citizenship, and they co-opt our politicians to fight their wars for them (since they only care about one issue when they vote, and that's about getting revenge on the country that originally f___d them).

  25. Re:UX to increase user base, in turn for HW compat on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    As someone who tried to learn gimp, then bought PS, PS is far, far easier to learn than GIMP.

    I guess I didn't want to risk buying, if I wasn't able to learn how to use it during its free 30-day trial.

    Not having the worst fucking GUI paradigm ever helps quite a bit.

    It's not the worst. Blender is the worst. This is not to criticize the capabilities of Blender. I have huge respect for the project itself. It's just that its usability is truly the worst.

    I guess you could say Gimp is second worst, but I really don't think that Photoshop is that far behind in terms of usability. After all, people have gotten used to the Macromedia tools and the Adobe tools (thanks to company-sponsored piracy of their own tools). But now that option is pretty much gone. I must be blind, but I don't see any reason of why Photoshop might be easier to learn than Gimp.