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  1. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm missing something. Why does the lack of open source drivers mean old phones can't run new OS versions? I can't root my Galaxy S3, download a Cyanogenmod Nougat build, and flash it on there?

  2. Re:I, for one on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Impressive! You can tell how good a driver I am without even knowing anything about me. But I can predict the future; I knew you would say something snarky and condescending.

  3. Re:I, for one on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You must drive around different humans than I do, because they surprise me now and then.

  4. Re:Of course, nonsense on Who Americans Spend Their Time With (theatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    There's not much guidance and wisdom that can be imparted to a baby. And hopefully as the children grow up, the parents grow in wisdom and maturity as well. If you wait until you're in your 40s to have kids, A) it could be much harder to conceive and B) you'll be in your 60s or 70s when they're teenagers. Maybe that would be fine but it sounds tiring to me. I think mid 20s to mid 30s is the perfect time to start having kids.

  5. Re:Well, at least` on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no idea. Does it?

  6. Re:Well, at least` on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Since apparently the system is based on the assumption that the animal is going to stay on the ground, that doesn't sound that hard to believe.

  7. Re:I, for one on Lawmakers Want To Move Fast On Self-Driving Car Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know the risk any better with imperfect human drivers?

  8. Re:merge merge merge on Comcast and Charter In Talks With Sprint To Offer Wireless Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Choice is exactly what they don't want you to have.

  9. Re:We need to update the space alien on Sorry, But Anonymous Has No Evidence That NASA Has Found Alien Life (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Or as Major John Sheppard said, "Is he supposed to be naked like that?"

  10. Re: Aliens would be great for NASA on Sorry, But Anonymous Has No Evidence That NASA Has Found Alien Life (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is, he pretended well enough that people were willing to vote for him. He said he went to church, he said things like "God bless America", and so on. If he had regularly said things like "I don't believe in God", the election probably would have gone very differently.

  11. Re:Not sure how that works on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    MapQuest is on page one for me, Bing maps on page two. I didn't see openstreetmap on the first three pages.

  12. Re:I think I should create a macro on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it's also possible normal encryption would not look random if it's done badly. I'm assuming it's a good algorithm with a key escrow system or something similar. Certainly service providers could not reliably detect the difference between strong and backdoored encryption using just DPI, unless everyone in the world is using the same back door scheme, and it works as you describe.

  13. Re:It's not all free on New Study Explains Why Trump's 'Sad' Tweets Are So Effective (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Many major news networks gave him a lot of coverage, not just Fox. CNN in particular covered him extensively.

  14. Re:The Genius of Trump’s Tweets on New Study Explains Why Trump's 'Sad' Tweets Are So Effective (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You know how ads work right? That isn't the TV network attacking Trump, someone bought the air time.

  15. Re:Just give me back GoogleTalk on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Slack? That has Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and web clients. And it's very nice, and has a free tier. The main thing the free tier doesn't include (from my perspective anyway) is group audio and video calls - two party only.

  16. Re:The Genius of Trump’s Tweets on New Study Explains Why Trump's 'Sad' Tweets Are So Effective (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the media have been unfriendly to Trump then they must be really really stupid, because they gave him billions of dollars worth of free coverage during the campaign.

  17. Re:I think I should create a macro on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like explosives where you can track large purchases of certain chemicals, unbreakable encryption uses the same computers, same development tools, and same bits that fly across the internet for everything else - virtually indistinguishable from "legitimate, ordinary traffic."

    Only if you use steganography. My understanding is encrypted traffic is easily distinguished from clear text.

  18. Re:I think I should create a macro on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think DPI would be sufficient. Strong and backdoored encryption would both look like random bits. You couldn't tell which is which without decrypting everything in real time, which is impossible. Maybe a backbone provider could decrypt ROT13 in real time but not much more than that.

  19. Re:I think I should create a macro on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't rely on book encryption. I've seen enough TV to know the police will always have a brilliant investigator who will find a clue that tells him or her what book to use.

    You have to pick a book that is personally significant to you right, not just a random one from the library?

  20. Maybe you have a different idea of what lower class means. I don't think those people are flying.

  21. Re:It's just a video game on Netflix Launches New 'Interactive Shows' That Let Viewers Dictate the Story (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a Borderlands game like that, and I guess the same game studio has made other choose your own adventure type games.

  22. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    By extension, locals with limited exposure to another race will judge that race based on the limited sample they are exposed to

    Judge that race as what? As inferior. That's racism.

  23. Try Wyoming, it's hard to find anything but country radio.

  24. Re:Conclusions by rationale on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but "I hate Muslims"? "Kill Muslims"? Some of the search terms seem pretty clear cut. And no, someone looking to understand the mindset of people who hate Muslims is probably not going to google "I hate Muslims". More likely something like "why do people hate Muslims".

  25. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    You really think the tiny, tiny number of people who purposely enter random search terms are going to have any effect on the trends of the billions of searches on Google every day? And so what if people search for song lyrics? What effect will that have on any correlations this guy or anyone else is studying?