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  1. Amazing on Google's New .dev Domain Opens To All (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The internet has come a long way from the days of .com, .org and .net," writes Engadget. "Now, you can get domains ending in anything from .cool to .ninja."

    What progress!

  2. Re:I think my bank stores passwords in plain text on Millions of Utility Customers' Passwords Stored In Plain Text (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you realize how insecure that is? Take any four characters, hash them, and check them against the 640K database of hashes per customer. If they are all in the password, you'll get a least one hit.

    It reduces the task of cracking the password to a fucked up form of bingo

  3. Re:I think my bank stores passwords in plain text on Millions of Utility Customers' Passwords Stored In Plain Text (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they are hashing a bunch of combinations of just a few characters of the password, these characters could be easily brute forced, salted or not! After knowing these combinations, brute forcing the rest of the password would be as easy as hell

  4. Re:whoda thunk it? on Study Shows How LSD Interferes With Brain's Signaling (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After you screw-up your brain, you cannot possibly use your brain to accurately assess anything.

    It's not a permanent effect, so you could accurately assess the results after the trip. If it prevents things you've been suppressing (which the experiment results point to be being true and done by the thalamus) you could easily fix that eating disorder/social anxiety/depression/self sabotage/or whatever other problem you have that you have been hiding from yourself.

    I've never tried LSD myself, but I can see why some people who have problems might find benefit in it. (I'm too much of a geek and don't know how to get it, and I like my life enough not to mess with it.)

  5. Sounds suspicious on Google Has a Plan To Eliminate Mosquitoes Around the World (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Phase 1: Male Mosquitoes infected with wolbachia breed with females and produce eggs that never hatch

    Phase 2: A strain of wolbachia is developed to cross the species barrier and infect humans

    Phase 3: Mosquitoes bite humans and transfer altered strain of wolbachia to human hosts who then breed and only give birth to still-born children

    Where is Venom Snake when you need him...

  6. That book is all lies

  7. Car? There's vodka!
    Rent? There's vodka!
    Movies? There's vodka!
    Clothes? There's vodka!
    Groceries? There's vodka!

    I'm not seeing your point here...

  8. This sounds like reverse plot harvesting. Someone from the future goes into the past and sells plots from reboot movies from the future to people in the past, ie. Ghostbusters Reboot, Star Trek Reboot, Mad Max Reboot, etc. The Hollywood writers and directors in the past then improved the plots, creating what we call the "original" versions of these movies. It makes more sense then the currently held narrative that the reboots were created after the "originals". After all, how could the revised version of a script be so bad compared to the version it was based on?

    So, by occum's razor, time travel must be possible.

  9. Re:Just to clarify on Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You realize you are treating Facebook, a private company that unabashedly sells your private information to the highest bidder, whether you have an account or not as long as your friends do, as a appropriate arbitrator of justice. Good move.

  10. Re:Just to clarify on Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The title:

      "Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interface On Behalf Of Democrats"

    was strangely cut off in my browser to just:

      "Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interface"

    The site admins should really work on fixing this.

  11. > These are First World problems, people! Get a grip and maybe even marvel at all the technology that's available to you now.

    Reading people's complaints about First World problems is also a First World problem. So I suggest you get a grip, sir!

  12. Re:Perfect on Apple's 2018 iPhones Are Rumored To Not Include Headphone Dongle In the Box (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Charge my phone, charge my watch, and now my headphones, too? That's FOUR things to keep track of how much charge they have! How could I ever be expected to remember to do that, let alone want to?

    Also, what about forgetting they're in and going for a swim, or a shower? What about bumping into someone or tripping down the stairs and losing them forever?

    What if I want headphones that have noise cancellation, or want earbud types? How much do I want to spend on specialized headphones that also have bluetooth machinery inside? With wired sets you could just plug them in and they were guaranteed to work. Now, what if the bluetooth implementations between the phone and the special headphones I got are incompatible?

    They suck!

  13. Re:Perfect on Apple's 2018 iPhones Are Rumored To Not Include Headphone Dongle In the Box (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I wouldn't be worried. First, they are receivers, not transmitters. Second, they have to communicate all of 3 feet. That's quite a difference from a cell phone that has to transmit to a cell tower miles away.

  14. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Better pesticides? Most insects live directly or indirectly off of crops from farm land.

  15. Re:The direct result of overpopulation on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    > More humans helped into this world through aid and relief efforts for irreversible damage to the environment, or a sustainable future for those that will be left of us.

    We can have both. Just do nothing and wait awhile and most of the humans will die off, leaving a sustainable future for those that will be left of us.

  16. Re:Domain isn't what it used to be on Top-Level Domain .App Is Now Open For General Registration (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    > Then along came google and we began to see invented names like Skype. In fact who had even heard of a "google" until then?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  17. You know nothing about aesthetics! Untold horror and mental anguish is inflicted on those who care when you post a comment containing a "'".

  18. Re: Well... on Coinbase: We Will Send Data On 13,000 Users To IRS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.bitcointaxsolution...

    I am not a lawyer, and this is for entertainment purposes only, (by showing how dumb a human being I can be). I've spoken to a couple of tax attorneys on this and the consensus seems to be that you treat btc like any other stock. In general you have to use FIFO tax rules.

    Any sale of btc, even a trade to another cryptocurrency, is counted as a sale must be reported.

    The consensus also seems to be that wash rules don't apply. That could change, but ignoring wash sales will probably not cause any penalty (just a recalculation if taxes due if they change their mind on this).

  19. Re: Political reality on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    When the whip factory closed, people working there were useful to help build the next idea someone dreamt up, therefore satiating their desire to earn a living. With human level AI robots, though, it wouldn't even be worth the hassle of dealing with people problems of education, getting sick, needing sleep, etc.

    I agree with the rest of your comment, though. It seems nowadays politicians are turning their backs on people, and instead looking for their place in the new world order, where only the rich and their machines have a future. By trading the power if those they represent for personal gain, the politicians can ensure their place among the super rich.

  20. Salon the climate change enthusiasts on Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Salon, for god sakes, is mining cryptocurrency on its readers' machines? The same Salon which believes that climate change is going to end the world is profiting on the waste of energy used to support PoW cryptocurrency? How can they possibly justify this and their left leaning viewpoint at the same time?

  21. Re:Bad business models are not my problem on Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    > If they want to put up an offer when the web page loads that's fine. I can take the offer or leave it. (and I assure you I will leave it) But if they simply go ahead and start trying to mine bitcoin on my computer without asking me first, now we have a fight.

    From the Fucking Summary:

    > However, unlike that incident, where hackers took control of visitors' computers to mine cryptocurrency, Salon notifies users and requires them to agree before the tool begins mining.

  22. Do you know who also is stifled and oppressed? Child geniuses. Yet they s seem to shine through the shit anyway to go on and invent the world we live in. This tired excuse that if only the world was exactly fare we would see an equal amount of productivity between men and women us bullshit. Extreme cases, of course, should be stopped.

    But the people that support afrimative action should be shot. The idea that a cat call would prevent a woman someday if finding the cure for cancer is ludicrous. We all suffer, some shine through. Others do not.

  23. Yea, my Ford Kia has no problem choosing what gear to choose between the 2, which I call "fast" and "faster". At 40 mph, it feels as smooth as it does at 25 mph. That, and only have 120k miles on it, makes it's rusted out shell a stealthy dream to sneak up on those and show off the car's true power.

  24. People hate TLJ buy it was TLJ was my favorite Star Wars movie as a kid. We had all three on a SLP VHS tape and we kids would watch the whole series back to back. When the third one came around I was enthralled, whereas with the first two I mostly paid attention to my legos.

  25. Re: Show me your papers, citizen. on ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US · · Score: 1

    Trump's always to blame for anything and everything, right? I see your conditioning by the media has worked flawlessly.