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  1. Re:Any non-end-to-end encryption is crap on Gmail Becomes First Major Email Provider To Support MTA-STS and TLS Reporting (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Encrypting email "end-to-end" (i.e. at the MUA) leaves the envelope unencrypted, because the MTA needs that info to deliver the message. SSL prevents snooping of the envelope info between MTAs.

  2. Re:Wnat to know what is at the bottom of this slop on Chinese Scientists Have Put Human Brain Genes In Monkeys -- And Yes, They May Be Smarter (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:It makes me feel good when I'm early... on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. -- Franklin P. Jones

    I talk to myself but I don't listen. —Elvis Costello

  4. Re:Queue Exploits on Google Makes Emails More Dynamic With AMP For Email (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How does AMP exploit queues?

  5. So much facepalm on ASUS Releases Fix For ShadowHammer Malware Attack (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They just now started using cryptographic security for their system software updater.

    And don't worry, the malware only "targeted" a small group of users. Never mind that malware ran with full admin privs on your computer undetected for months. You're totally safe because it didn't "target" you specifically.

    <facepalm>

  6. Re:Why? on CSS To Get Support For Trigonometry Functions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Savior of the Universe!

  7. Re: Reality imitates art. on China's CRISPR Twins Might Have Had Their Brains Inadvertently Enhanced (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Lulu and Nana Wiggins?

  8. Vehicular internal combustion engines are far less efficient than combined cycle gas turbine power plants. Not sure what the overall efficiency is from power plant to car wheel, but it could very well be better than a directly gas powered car.

  9. Re:Cool. on The World's Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy is a legit one-name wonder.

  10. Re:dark matter could collapse on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    The angel's name is Survival Bias. She has rescued me personally from certain death many times. Those she neglects to save are not represented here.

  11. Why not embrace Mozilla, and help them extend Firefox, then ... um ... what's another e word?

  12. Find solace in the fact that after these guys faked the polls for them Trump/Cohen cheated them out of their payment which is standard Trump Organisation practice. The lesson here is, never do business with anybody whose business practices you haven't thoroughly researched.

    It's simpler than that: If someone hires you to cheat, expect them to cheat you. (Get payment up front, then you can cheat them!)

  13. Re:Starting to put my conspiracy hat on. on First 5G Remote Surgery Completed In China (ubergizmo.com) · · Score: 2

    As far as I can tell the big difference between 4G and 5G is not usable bandwidth per device, but total aggregate bandwidth per cell. So your 5G phone probably won't download anything faster (or maybe it will, who knows) but the 5G network will support thousands to millions of high-bandwidth devices in each cell area. This makes all kinds of creepy shit possible. So far IoT has been limited by WiFi availability, and controllable at the WiFi router. With 5G there are potentially no such limits, particularly if the mobile electronics can be made cheaply enough. Every device, from appliances to cars to toys, can be phoning home at high bandwidth constantly, with no way to filter or monitor them.

    You thought the Intel ME was a security nightmare? Wait until every CPU has an embedded 5G module!

    This seems like a good time to stock up on tinfoil.

  14. Re:Wasted power via inefficiency on top of existin on Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Is In Production (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How the fuck was Jack going to MOVE the GIANT gold from the castle in the sky, genius?

    Yeah, you'd have to be some kind of Einstein to figure out how to use mass-energy-induced space-time curvature to accelerate heavy objects along a geodesic from the sky to the ground.

  15. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually one must admit that one has been arguing with a brick wall, and leave the wall in peace to do its job of holding down the floor.

  16. Re:Fucking stupid on GPU Accelerated Realtime Skin Smoothing Algorithms Make Actors Look Perfect · · Score: 0

    When your friends threaten to kill you, there is something wrong in your life.

  17. People who want ECC memory want it for a reason. Pointing out yet again that most people don't need it much most of the time is not helpful.

  18. "Oops! It was an accident! We never meant to get caught!"

  19. Obviously by putting a phrase like "should i vote" in the search box they are searching for pages that contain the phrase "should i vote," i.e. forum topics in which people ask that question and presumably others answer.

    There's nothing weird or worrysome about it. People are not trying to have conversations with search engines. They are using search engines to search for pages containing a specific phrase, as intended.

  20. Re:Intel shills LIE about spectre on Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Next year, AMD's Zen 2 (ryzen 3) utterly wipes out Intel- and Intel will never recover. But Intel sits on a literal mountain of cash, so expect ...

    ... Intel to buy AMD or license the Zen architecture. Or maybe just steal it.

  21. Re:Makes me wonder on New LG Gram is the Lightest 17-inch Laptop Ever at Just 3 Pounds (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Batteries, Heat Sinks and Cooling Systems.

    But that's ok, you don't need any of those, do you?

    Also screws, brackets, access panels, sockets, separate PC boards for DRAM and flash, etc.

  22. Re:Wrong, opposes regulation - not net neutrality on Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's wait and see if this cancer metastasizes before we start thinking about treatments.

    Net neutrality is not surgery. Shutting down Comcast and sending its management to prison, that's surgery.

  23. Re: This is nothing new on New Gmail Bug Allows Sending Messages Anonymously (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, telnet to port 25 on the recipient's domain's MX host.

    (Good luck finding a recipient whose SMTP server allows direct connections from your IP address.)

  24. There are many concerns - punishing asylum seekers for seeking asylum by permanently stealing their children and placing them in torture camps being the most obvious (and to you shitty apologists itching to claim that because ICE separated a handful of families, suspected of child trafficking, during the Obama regime, this means it's normal or Obama's fault that the Republican regime has used it instead to deter asylum seekers by doing it to literally thousands of refugees, I sincerely hope you all die in the most painful way possible, you are utterly shitty people and the world would be better without you) - I have about the US immigration system right now.

    That is one hell of a sentence. Took me three tries to parse it. In summary:

    There are many concerns I have about the US immigration system right now.

  25. Re:E.D. and squandered breadcrumbs of power on Influencers Are Being Paid Big Sums To Pitch Products and Thrash Rivals on Instagram and YouTube (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Another instant classic from epine.