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  1. Depends on what they are doing on Estimate: Academic Labs 11 Times More Dangerous Than Industrial Counterparts · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is anything like my university, the chemistry labs keep blowing up due to students trying to make illegal drugs off hours.

  2. Re:Ubuntu explicitly favors GnuTLS on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    I don't use LDAP :)

  3. Re:Deliberately introduced? on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    Doubt it, GnuTLS is not really used for anything important.

    If you want a conspiracy, you can ask why OpenSSL still has insane defaults like allowing SSLv2.

  4. Re:xubuntu seems to be completely dependent on gnu on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    Gtk links to it for some reason, so any distro XFCE of Gnome based would likely have trouble removing it.

  5. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 1

    58% Russian speakers in 2001, and 12% Crimerian Tartars. In 1991 there was 0% Crimerian Tartars. It is likely more have returned since 2001, and more Ukranians have moved there as well.

    Even with 60% Russian-speaking Crimerians, it still only takes 20% of them to consider themselves Russian-speaking Ukranians, or prefer a less corrupt government, and a fair election would never lead to joining the Russian federation. Of course a lot of the conflict in Ukraine has been about election fraud by the pro-russian parties, and the Crimean parliament makes the former Ukranian president look like an uncorruptable choirboy, so the fair elections depends a lot on foreign pressure and observers.

    Still 1.8 million people would make a fair new small European country, and would give something that Putin could sell as victory and the West couldn't really complain about. An already autonomous state electing to be more autonomous?.. Everybody can live with that, so it would be the diplomatic outcome.

  6. Fortunately not OpenSSL on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 2

    Thank god it is in gnuTLS that is not used by any applications serious about security. Just checked, only printer drivers seems affected in my Debian installation.

  7. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 1

    It is not just tit for tat. Iraq also drained US resources and willingness to act. It is the two latter issues that has caused the US to lose power. Hypocracy has no effect in real politik. Without the economic resources and public support necessary to actually deploy US troops, the US military has effectively been reduced to a paper tiger by 13 years of republican policies.

  8. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 1

    I don't annexation is necessarily guaranteed. If enough pressure it put, the question will be put to vote, and with only a small majoriy of Russian speakers in Crimea, it is stastically implausible they would ever have a full majority to join the Russian federation. It would only take 10% of the russian speakers to consider themselves russian-speaking ukrainians or simply prefer a less corrupt government (the recent protests were also support by many russian speaking ukrainians).

  9. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the parliament threw him out. The mob never did anything but protest and get shot at, until members of his own former party stopped supporting him, making room for a majority against him. The new government is as legally elected as the former! There was never any revolution, just protests, that triggered insane behavior from the president that let to him losing his parliamentarian basis.

  10. Re:30,000 year old nope on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 2

    A virus isn't living in the first place.

    It is made of living things and reproduces by attacking living things turning them into a selfdestructive mockery of live. Virus is not fully alive, it is UNDEAD.

  11. Re:Food. on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    I agree, but it has actually nothing to do with them being organic. The organic part is quack. It just often coincides with more non-mainstream types of produce and sometimes slightly better treatment.

  12. Re:Food. on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1, Troll

    AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce.

    So quack food?

  13. Re:Bullshit on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Youtube can and only does block a video on an individual request (from the copyright owner or a society responsible to gather fees) regarding that video.

    Not in this case. Youtube is the one who has decided to default block all music in Germany and claim GEMA asked for it. Read the article for instance, this is the lie they have been forced to change.

    GEMA can not block a piece of music or a video containing that music, which it has not the authority to collect fees for (granted by the rights owner).

    They don't. Youtube blocks them.

  14. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...let's see:

    1) GEMA (presumably) has the legal right to license the music.

    No, not in most cases.

    2) GEMA has not licensed the music, and ordered Google to remove it.

    Only in less than 10 cases, the other one million blocked videos have been blocked by Google as collateral punishment.

    3) Google removed it, and explained that it has been removed due to 1 and 2 above.

    And everything else and then proceded to post a deliberate lie on the videos. A lie that was only taken down in some cases after the real copyright holder after talking to GEMA asked Youtube/Google to stop lying and unblock their content.

  15. Re:May be it should say on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 0

    Even better "This video is not available, because FUCK YOU GERMANY".

    That is the real reason. Youtube are blocking those videos, not GEMA, and it is fully within Youtube's right not to do business in Germany, but they shouldn't lie and blame anybody but themselves.

  16. Re:What do they expect it to say? on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    It isn't Youtube wanting to block it, that's why GEMA had to get a court order to get them to do it.

    Only for a handfull of videos. Most of the blocked videos are unrelated to GEMA and has never been requested blocked by GEMA. Hence the court-order that Youtube can no longer lie and pretend this isn't purely something they are doing as part of their negotiations with GEMA.

  17. Re:Bullshit on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Actually they don't even collect fees for 99.999% (yes 5 nines), of the videos youtube has randomly decided to block in Germany.

    GEMA requested less than 10 videos blocked (unless fees are paid), but Youtube has blocked ALL videos containing any elements of music in Germany. The videos currently unblocked are those where the owner has gone first to GEMA to figure out why they asked it to be blocked, are told by very tired GEMA people they have nothing to do with it, and go to youtube, then forced Youtube to stop lying and unblock it germany.

    Currently this leads to the odd situation of only music from bands touring in Germany are unblocked on Youtube as the bands one by one force Youtube to stop their unilateral German blockade.

  18. Re:Well shit - that explains a lot on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's GCHQ you say? Fine, the United Kindom (and the United States!) has signed, since 1948, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights [wikipedia.org]

    The US voted for the declaration, but they never signed it into law. The US has issues with especially human right number 1, the one without which the rest are useless. The right to live.

  19. Re:Are you sure? on South Park Game Censored On Consoles Outside North America · · Score: 1

    Conversely, publishers don't sell an "unrated" version of a particular game in Germany or Australia because it would be illegal.

    Please don't make shit up.

  20. Re:Makes sense to me... on The Neuroscience of Computer Programming · · Score: 1

    Language and logic shares the same part of the brain, the one dealing with deep structural analysis. Language is partially duplicated elsewhere but those are no exact and mostly deal with picking out general mood and your name.

  21. Re:Dennis Ritchie instead! on Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp · · Score: 1

    +1 insightfull.

    Sorry no points left, but it needs to be said.

  22. Re:Obviously.. on Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp · · Score: 1

    Why, you want to lick him or stamp on him?

  23. Re:OOXML not included in old Office either on Microsoft Circles the Wagons To Defeat ODF In the UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, they lying. They are called Microsoft after all. There some things you can still trust.

  24. Re:What FB fails to see... on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 2

    Err. without advertisement.

  25. Re:What FB fails to see... on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 0

    What you don't understand is that an unmonitizable product like Whatsapp only exists in the first place with the business plan to be sold and ruined by someone like Facebook in the first place.

    Free products with advertisement are customer platform builders for a business plan of selling the entire business not to make a profit.