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  1. Delete Google on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Google employees watn to delete Facebook? LOL! Delete Google! I've been weaning myself off it for a while now. Duck Duck Go for me - and use Google sparingly when necessary (no logins, Ghostery, delete cookies). Ok, it won't make me invisible to them - but seriously - fuck Google.

  2. Google ads infect Google Android on Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    When are Google going to wake up and take security of their mobile OS seriously?

    Their security model is broken - completely. They just need to start over.

  3. Zika on Malaria Has Been Eliminated In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Just in time for a new virus - Zika

  4. Re:I won't pay that price until on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    Not Amazon, but Apple

    http://appleinsider.com/articl...

  5. Re: How will they enforce it? on Government To Bring Forward Law To Close BBC 'iPlayer Loophole' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Physical subscriber addresses change all the time. It isn't the ISP's job to keep track of anyones subscription services. What if a subscriber wants to watch iPlayer while out on a 3G or 4G network from his mobile device, or while away from home. They have paid - so why shouldn't they be able to? What if you connect to your friends WIFI and use iPlayer, but he doesn't have a license? Trying to swat VPN's is like a game of wack-o-mole. And this doesn't even consider the privacy implications. The plan is unworkable. It would be simpler to just offer a login/password combination for each subscriber (if they want it). Even that will not thwart those who don't want to pay - there will be a Kodi plugin to stream content in no time you can be sure - in fact most of the good stuff is already available to stream.

  6. Re: How will they enforce it? on Government To Bring Forward Law To Close BBC 'iPlayer Loophole' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that will work. Best they can do is a login password system like sky have. This is also open to abuse though.

  7. How will they enforce it? on Government To Bring Forward Law To Close BBC 'iPlayer Loophole' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people who use iPlayer already pay the TV license. Those that don't probably will find other ways of not paying.

  8. Please direct your complaints to your local Scottish embassy.

  9. It would be British airspace. Scotland isn't a country.

  10. The Bombe at Bletchley on Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build · · Score: 1
  11. We are the cyclists on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 2
  12. Nokia 108 - one month standby time on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? · · Score: 2

    Available in single or dual sim - and an incredible 30 days (yes, one month) standby time.

  13. ....millions of people have been saying - I wish my tablet was thinner.

  14. Re: Uhhhh on Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. French did this 30 years ago on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 2
  16. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.... on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 1

    Beware of Greeks bearing gifts....

  17. Male plug in the device? on Reversible Type-C USB Connector Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    If i look at the pictures correctly, the male portion of this interface is in the device, while the cable is essentially 'female' inside? Who's bright idea was this? The male side is much more likely to break.

  18. Re:Good luck with that on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 2

    Did you read the article? The processors are based on ARM.

  19. Re:Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would love to be a fly on the wall in the Star Chamber where all the MSM other than Fox news conspire together.

  20. Fox News? on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 0, Troll

    /. is really going downhill....

  21. Security on Microsoft Rumored To Integrate Android Apps · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they can run Android apps with the same OS level security as iOS, and the same level of app vetting as the Apple App Store - they may be onto something.

  22. Water is H2O - the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other stuff. I don't see 'N' in the H2O equation. Humans cannot survive with pure oxygen. This is bogus.

  23. Re:The $1M Question on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    What's going on now is already a death sentence for cloud computing.

  24. The $1M Question on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 1

    Do the NSA have the private root CA keys to make their life that little bit easier. Most of the top CA's are based in the US. Could they even refused if asked?

  25. Why? on Russian FSB Can Reportedly Tap Skype Calls · · Score: 2

    Why would someone with something to hide use Skype?

    Seriously - if you've got something to hide, use something to which you have the source and can control the encryption used.