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  1. Re:A headphone... on Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    many laptops have built-in speakers that you can't easily disconnect

    Don't they usually come with a MIC you can't easily disconnect?

  2. Re:One question on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Given that we know the DNC and Hillary conspired to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, I think she's rather less trustworthy.

  3. What's the point in using electronic machines at that point? There will always be "some doubt" about the electronic results. Just count the paper ballots manually like the UK does.

  4. Re:Feel so conflicted. . . on Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Or maybe you think that Trump's self-interest is still less disastrous than Hillary's cold, calculating ruthlessness.

    But no, just dismiss anyone you disagree with as "stupid".

  5. Re:You Trump voters have been played on Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What you morons don't understand is that even if Trump lied about 90% of his promises he'd STILL be better than Clinton. Trump voters are not gonna be disappointed that they didn't vote for her.

  6. Apparently it's the Chinese. They've suddenly taken a great interest in Westerners knowing what is "valid" news.

  7. Emulating Windows 10? on A Windows 10 Alternative: Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS Linux Distro (betanews.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    lol, one of the major reasons I want to use Linux is because it ISN'T Windows 10. The UI is far worse than Windows 7, for desktop PCs.

  8. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I fully supported Trump's ban on Muslims, actually. It's a shame he won't go ahead with it. Go ahead and test me for being Muslim. I'm not.

  9. Re:You get what you pay for on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    And now there is. In fact for a lot longer than 5 to 10 years, the BBC have been far-left regressives and pro-government shills. Nowadays they've gone so far off the deep end that more and more people are finding it impossible to ignore. The lesson is: don't assume that a licence-funded broadcaster is more impartial than a commercial one.

  10. Re:You get what you pay for on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Ummm, The Guardian is one of the most biased far-left feminazi piles of shit ever known to print media.

  11. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lots of Muslim terrorists originate from Britain. That's what you get for allowing tons of Muslim immigration with little-to-no vetting, and demonizing anyone who disagrees.

    Disclaimer: I'm British.

  12. Re:Finding myself more saddened than passionate no on Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    political discourse in this country is that it has for too long deteriorated into something that is sad, deplorable

    How ironic that it's actually some of the Clinton supporters who are being deplorable.

  13. Re:What's really stunning is this on President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Clinton has been building up to this election over the last 30 years, and had Bubba as her advisor, a charismatic dude who won two presidential elections ... and raped a bunch of women.

  14. Re:Bullshit defense on Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comey is the guy who's come out and said Hillary Clinton is basically innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. You'll forgive me if I don't have too much faith in his opinion.

  15. Re:The whitewash continues on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I accept what the head of the FBI told Congress (under oath), that Secretary Clinton is too stupid to understand what she was doing was illegal. OK, fine.

    Why the fuck would you accept that?

    Hillary Clinton is a seasoned politician. The idea that she didn't know what she was doing was illegal is utterly farcical.

  16. Re:complacency and feedback on Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Care to name a few? I wouldn't mind using one of them it is was decently maintained. Google has been getting pretty arrogant lately. Oh, it would be really nice if the fork allowed disabling the per-tab close buttons, which Google refuses to do in Chrome.

  17. Re:And with StartCom dead... on More Than 50 Percent of All Pages In Chrome Are Loaded Over HTTPS Now (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a bit stupid to support HTTP for domain validation? The whole point of HTTPS is that you can't trust the identity of HTTP as it's vulnerable to a MITM attack yet it's just fine for getting an automated cert.

  18. And with StartCom dead... on More Than 50 Percent of All Pages In Chrome Are Loaded Over HTTPS Now (onthewire.io) · · Score: -1

    ... it's a racket for SSL authorities who charge for their certs. Unless you want to install onerous ACME software on your server. Suckage.

  19. Re:All MS has is an operting system on Windows 7 and 8.1 Are Gaining More New Users Than Windows 10 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    But when you edit stuff in Office online, you're unshackled from Windows. Which is nice.

  20. Re:Screwed either way on Here We Go Again: Microsoft's Popping Up Ads From the Windows 10 Toolbar (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Give it to me.

  21. People who use W10 are so locked in to MS, I honestly wonder whether they'd stop using it even MS mandated that everyone's lockscreen be goat.cx or something, or whether they'd find a way to like it.

  22. That's an argument for offering shorter cert lifetimes, offering automation, and defaulting to it. It is not an argument against offering year-long certs for those of us who prefer them. And frankly I consider integrating their software into my existing website to be a royal pain, so much so that I will be paying Comodo for a yearly cert instead just to avoid it. I'm fine with manually replacing my certs every year. I basically have to replace a few files on my system and reboot a few services.

  23. Gah, I didn't mean OCSP above, I meant ACME.

  24. Yes I've heard those arguments, and no doubt OCSP will work for some people. However in my view they are taking a very preachy approach by flat-out refusing to issue 1-year certs, rather than just recommending the shorter-length ones. It's the kind of "our way or the highway" that the UX people at Google and Mozilla take with respect to their browser interfaces, and I consider it the height of arrogance. It turns me off the whole damn organization.

    Let's Encrypt could easily have offered a 1 year option. It's no real skin off their nose. They could even warn that "these may be 0.0001% more of a problem because when you (virtually never) need to revoke them it is harder). But they shove their ideology of short cert lifespans down your throat despite MANY requests from users to do otherwise.

    So yeah, screw them. I would indeed prefer to pay for a year's cert. It is a great shame that LE had to be so intransigent.

  25. It still doesn't mean they have to PERMANENTLY stop trusting them. They could have given a path back to being trusted rather than robbing us of free year-long SSL certs.