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  1. Hahaha, you obviously don't live in southern Germany. The CSU is only in Bavaria (since after the war) and Bavaria still thinks it is a separate country from the days of the Empire.

    Even people in northern Bavaria (Franken) are not even considered real Bavarians (sorry, in German) https://www.welt.de/reise/deut...

    The CSU is only part of the CDU because otherwise they would die out as a regional party.

  2. This was 1 GB of emails. Actually, I believe it would be very difficult to fake that many emails, simply because the chances of detection are so high. For example, if just one email is found with a timestamp when Surkov is demonstrably not sending an email because 100 diplomats from different countries are sitting with him at a state dinner, it would throw the entire GB into question.

    10 emails are easily faked but 1 GB is actually probably easier to hack than fake.

  3. Re:Quantity vs Quality... on China Has Now Eclipsed The US in AI Research (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not in this field but since a considerable amount of research in this area is done by companies in the US (Goggle, Apple, etc etc). who might not want to publish their results, does this mean the US is less productive or simply reached the phase where such knowledge is actively implemented?

    How do the results look if you look at granted patents?

    Just curious, as I said, not at all in this field.

  4. Re:Compatible with EU rules? on From Bicycles To Washing Machines: Sweden To Give Tax Breaks For Repairs (mnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Germany has been doing this for years but in the form of a tax refund. You get all of the VAT back for things like the gardner, house cleaning or plumber but only up to 2k€ or so. Supposed to discourage undocumented work (and help Germany collect the labor income taxes).

  5. today's lack of freedom on Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 90s, I lived in San Francisco. There was (and still is) a well known race called Bay to Breakers. While there are serious runners, the race is best known for thousands of people in costumes and various states of undress, including naked or body paint.

    A drop dead gorgeous friend wanted to run in body paint but was afraid to run alone and asked me if I would join (in body paint, of course). Being gallant, I said sure (ok, perhaps part of me wanted to see her naked in body paint).

    If you did this today, you'd immediately be posted all over Facebook, so many people decide not to engage in harmless fun anymore.

    I really feel sad for the younger generation

  6. Re:A effective attack and defense on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Arizona certainly is

    http://tucson.com/news/local/new-poll-has-trump-clinton-tied-in-arizona/article_01a67ecc-6e07-11e6-a2c4-6b0510540d4c.html

  7. shortsightedness and quarterly investors on Google's Not Investing in Young Startups Anymore (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    mystified by the reluctance of some portfolio companies to avoid a stock market flotation. "They would benefit from the rigor and discipline that the public market requires," he said.

    Maybe an idea which needs a year to properly develop an idea is justifiably afraid of quarterly meddling at the beginning.
    That's discipline to avoid that short term trap

  8. Re:How people stayed cool before a/c on What Air Conditioning Can Teach Us About Innovation and Laziness (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    As a boy in Florida (think 37-39 C at night but 98% humidity), I used to sleep in the upper bunk and would jam one foot between the posts and headrest and sleep hanging (yes, head down) to minimize contact with the bed. Look at me, I'm perfectly normal today ;-)

  9. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Converting the data to an unusable form ....

    You said it yourself: "Converting". But it was unusable before (ie., encrypted) and is still encrypted. Hence, no meaningful conversion took place.

    How about this: You could set up the system to unpack itself but with an algorithm that takes 20 years. It was locked before and now it is decrypting itself. You were asked to open it and you did.

    All good things take time...

  10. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    That won't help you. Unless the "wipe" included fake usage and history, that's tampering with evidence and a crime all its own.

    I think you have a good point that wiping a locked device might be construed as tampering with evidence. But what if it just reencrypted it a second time, maybe even with a random password but one you just don't know ?

    IANAL but you didn't erase anything, it was locked before and now it is still locked. Maybe even do it so they could brute force in 10-20 years time?

    Conveniently after the statute of limitations has run out.

  11. Re:dont know on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    should be suing for 2 million euros over this copyright beach?.

    I think a copyright beach may well be worth 2 million euros.

  12. I am still waiting on Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    for them to find intelligent life on this planet...

  13. My brother also has the same Y chromosome as I do on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    As well as my father (obviously, that's who I got it from) and my paternal uncle, etc. At the risk of offending sensibilities, how do they correct for a relative cockolding, since they only look at the Y chromosome? And in a typical little village 400 years ago, there might only have been 5-10 or so unrelated Y chromosomes floating around.

  14. Re:Terrorism! on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny how these "Terrorist tracking programs" fail to track the US government, the Saudi government and a bunch of other western governments when these happily finance terrorism. But god forbid you try to rent a US movie with a foreign credit card to watch on Netflix or Amazon Prime, you terrorist you.

    whether one agrees with him/her or not, who the hell marked this as a troll ?

    There is a great deal of evidence that the US and SA funded terrorists.

    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I thought Slashdot was here to encourage exchange of opinions, even if unpopular with people living in the US or Saudia Arabia...

  15. Re:Now how am I going to get my ex-gfs nudes? on Yahoo Fixes Bug That Could Compromise Email Accounts When Opening an Email (klikki.fi) · · Score: 1

    Always make backups, preferably to an insecure cloud service.

  16. imagine you had an implant that... on Sensors Slip Into the Brain, Then Dissolve When Their Job Is Done (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Made your muscles twitch faster and you ran in the Olympics. And then it disappears.

    Now I guess they will also have to do MRIs of everyone in the Olympics?

  17. Re:Fraud Detected In Headline? on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    According to wikipedia: fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain

    In the article, it says " under scrutiny for alleged data manipulation". In addition, since the article states that "these papers have been used politically" (the potential gain), it sounds like they they are investigating potential fraud to me.

  18. Re:And Performance on Antivirus Software Could Make Your Company More Vulnerable (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Every antivirus tool probably has a missive database of every known virus, even from 20 years ago it's checking every file against (with any hope a file hash binary search).

    Could you please replete that?

  19. that the "Cloud" is nebulous....

  20. Re:Beijing? Surely you mean Peking on Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time (gwu.edu) · · Score: 1

    There was a turtle by the name of Bert
    and Bert the turtle was very alert;
    when danger threatened him he never got hurt
    he knew just what to do...
    He'd duck! [gasp]
    And cover!
    Duck!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover_(film)#Plot_summary

    you're welcome

  21. Re:I don't think I'm worse for believing... on NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You believe in someone who engages in elf slave labor? All the reports I've seen say that they have to toil endlessly in Santa's toy shop when the old man could just go out and buy a few 3D printers.

    When will this injustice end?

  22. Re:Germany on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Germany. If the original poster had said, Steetview sucks in Germany or the pics are old, I would be the first to agree. But he said no Streetview which really is wrong.

    And I totally agree with the hypocrisy that you point out.

    The funniest thing you notice here. Tough German data protection, and hypocrisy, you say?

    Custom license plates are limited to two letters and 4 numbers after the countyor city abbreviation. So what do most custom plates say? The driver's intials and birth year.

    Then they drive around advertising their birth year and initials.That is schizophrenic.

  23. Free shuttle bus service is the same on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So companies that provide free shuttle bus service to their business or a set of businesses like a mall are somehow different than this?

  24. Re:Germany on German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a reason Germany doesn't have Google Streetview.

    Bull.... Here is a streetview that I just randomly selected in Berlin: https://www.google.com/maps/@5...

  25. Re:eGolf is agreat car on Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I have personally driven from NY, NY to San Francisco (when I finished university and went to my first job and took all my stuff with me). According to Google Maps, this is a 44 hour drive. I took 4 days to do it, allowing myself some sleep at night (a safe and normal thing when driving such distances).

    If the infrastructure for EV were there (what the article is encouraging) you would recharge at night so why on earth would you need to drive there on a single charge? Diesel cars can't do this either.