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  1. Re: Is Breitbart actually fake news? on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Somebody tried to tell Putin, Erdogan, Maduro etc. and got 6 feet.

  2. Re: marking theonoin.com as fake news ... on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    There's often some truth in what's declared as fake news, and some is true and politically incorrect. So labeling sites as fakw news sites will achieve the result that people stop their critical thinking, introduction of the ministry of truth and making people in general falling victims to scams easier.

    Don't handicap people by making their life too easy. (Paraphrasing Heinlein)

  3. For home use then gaming performance counts, in business TPC-C may be more interesting.

  4. Bleeding edge performance always consumes a lot of power. Doesn't matter if it's computers or cars.

  5. Re: Only apps can app apps! on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    You will need a bigger teabag.

  6. Re: They all phone home on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    And the answer to the question in the last sentence is therefore: YES.

    What's in telemetry data is something that has to be investigated further.

  7. Re:Secure this on Should the Internet Be Secure By Default? (esecurityplanet.com) · · Score: 2

    In an insecure world the best security so far is end to end encryption. Allowing or relying on the ISP to provide the security is just setting a security on the link for that ISP, but when it goes to the backbone it's lost, so is the next ISP.

    Unfortunately not all end services that we use are secure because they include data from other sources, often ads embedded in web pages. And the web browsers we use today allows for cross-contamination. This is how sites today detects ad-blockers, they see that the cross-contamination fails.

    There are also other types of security, DNSSEC is one that should be applied. But some ISPs interfer with it.

  8. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Astroturf time?

  9. Re: south asia ? Australia on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Aboriginies seems to have adapted to Australia.

  10. Re: Volcanic Winter anyone? on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    So you mean that a nuke in yellowstone may solve the.problem?

  11. Re: Weather on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction, 1896.

  12. Re: Weather on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Arrhenius must have been 1886: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  13. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Air conditioners also warm up the outdoor air.

  14. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    A lawn in the desert is a waste of good water in an area where you need to save water.

  15. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    But today it's the cause for extreme pollution and traffic in the major cities.

  16. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Make room, make room: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...!

  17. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Less humans in the world would solve the problem.

  18. Re: Wrong. on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    We will all die sooner or later, so why not make it painless and quick?

  19. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Raising temperature may lead to more rain. But not necessarily where you want it and when you need it.

  20. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, it's what fever for the human body do - it can slow down bacteria and make virii less agressive so that the immune system can kill off the diseases. In this case humans are the disease for earth.

  21. Re: There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't because they can't afford to pay for it. If they are lucky they can afford a piece of cloth to wear and replace it when it's worn out and a piece of bread each day.

  22. Re:I don't give a shit what he thinks I need on 'Real People' Don't Need End-To-End Encryption In Their Messaging Apps, UK Home Secretary Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can shorten it to "Only assholes want to smoke".

  23. No, she meant "small" people.

  24. By the same analogy as the title real people don't need locks on their houses/apartments and their mailboxes.

    Removal of the encryption will just give malicious attackers new ways to fake IDs and trick people into releasing their financial data.

  25. Re: Crossing non-subscribers' land on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    The government is responsible for carrot and stick action to tell the network providers where and how to build.

    If a provider get a tax write-off for rural investments and a tax hike if they lack rural presence then the government is serving the fringe population.