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  1. Re:What's a good web-based alternative? on KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have Windows 10 you can always Win-G and use the built-in screen recorder. Not as convenient as downloading the clip directly but it gets the job done.

  2. So, in 10 years everyone on this planet will have internet access

    We're actually nearly there already thanks to cheap smartphones

  3. You drive 2 miles? You could cycle that in less than 10 mins, 15 if you don't want to break a sweat. It would also be a very reasonable distance for a public transport system.

  4. Re:Thank god on New York's Subway Is Slow Because They Slowed Down the Trains After A 1995 Accident · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How's the traffic this morning?

  5. Re:Gallant works on smart roads.... on California Bullet Train Costs Soar To $77.3 Billion, Will Take 5 Years Longer To Complete · · Score: 1

    Gallant knows that other western countries have been making decent high-speed rail networks since the 60s that are considerably faster than driving, and decent city public transport systems that are often faster than traffic too, and wonders what's taking the USA so long.

    Goofus doesn't realize this and instead of insisting on decent public transport from the government is just waiting on the pipe dream that technology will eliminate the traffic jams he sits in every day.

  6. Yeah, but we all know how those conversations would really go down :)

    "You don't know what this is? Let me google it with bing for you."
    "You don't know what this is? Let me google it with Microsoft Search for you."

  7. The difference is the batteries Apple uses are WAY BETTER than replaceable batteries, I did not miss that at all moving away from flip phones because I had to replace the damn things every six months and lets be honest - NO ONE wants to carry a spare battery with them. But if you did feel so inclined the infinite variety of the external phone charger is vastly preferable to the fixed size and capacity of the replaceable battery. Apple would not go back to them because the world has moved on to the better idea, the sealed battery - going the other way is low end in every possible respect.

    Yeah, literally none of that sentence is true, is it? An iphone with easily removable batteries could literally have the same battery cells as is does now, just with an extra mm here and there for things like the removable back and for the battery contact pins.

    Being removable doesn't change anything about the battery, and I never had to replace a phone's battery after 6 months even back when the used NiHM.

  8. And who said anything about doing that?

  9. Taking 30 screenshots per second when preparing a tutorial video for some application might be more invasive.

    Do you want to grant this application access to your screen content?
    [ Yes ] [ No ] [X] Remember this answer

    Gee that was hard to fix wasn't it?

  10. Re:Good on German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes (heise.de) · · Score: 1

    We don't generally restrict obsessive real world collectors either.

    We do generally restrict products that are compulsive though, such as tobacco and (the relevant one) gambling...

  11. Re: But how else will kids develop a gambling habi on German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes (heise.de) · · Score: 1

    The thing is there is a difference between a blindbag of random physical items that you purchase in person at a store verses a lootbox of random virtual items that is purchased online and opened instantly. Especially if those lootbox items are not able to be resold on an open market. I'd say that's a fair place to draw the line.

  12. Clickbait has rights too you know!

  13. Re:Mobile devices with meltdown? on Many Enterprise Mobile Devices Will Never Be Patched Against Meltdown, Spectre (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Meltdown? On my smartphone? It's more likely than you think.

  14. Some ARM CPUs are also vulnerable.

  15. Re:Recommended watch: Slaughterbots on 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2
  16. Re:Put ice in a glass. on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re: That's funny... on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but my point is I can turn my phone off without having to unlock it, at which point a pin is required, and LEOs have the technical ability to bypass pins on at least some phone models.

  18. Re: Passwords on Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but generally it's better to use an existing cryptographically secure system then trying to roll your own, as there's always the possibility of making a mistake and making the previously secure random less secure.

    Also OpenSSL doesn't exactly have a perfect security record!

  19. Re: Passwords on Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I said /dev/random, not /dev/urandom :P /dev/random is supposed to be cryptographically secure on its own, and as you're only generating occasional passwords with it there shouldn't be any problem of exhausting the entropy pool.

  20. Re:Scrambled with SHA-256? on Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    if they think that you use SHA-256 to __scramble__ data, then obviously they know jack shit about security

    Those are the words of ZDNet, not Imgur.

    Imgur said the passwords were encrypted with SHA-256, which of course is even worse! Probably didn't use a salt either...

  21. Re:Passwords on Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually once I got this to work I invented a more elaborate version that encrypted with a per device private RSA key, randomized the number of sha512 hashing stages and so on. But that only matters if you think an attacker can work out what openssl rand returned on your device, which they probably can't.

    Why not just read cryptographically secure random bytes from /dev/random ?

  22. Re:Proper kitchen design needs no robot... on Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can hose down the floor, countertop, and drawer faces, same as a restaurant kitchen.

    Or if you want to take it one step further

  23. Re:Laudry yes! Dishwashing is actually pretty easy on Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    So five steps done by a human:

    Why would you do step 2 and 3? After you rinse just put them straight in the dishwasher, mine always had no problem dealing with dry residue.

    Also if you want to kick it up a notch have 2 dishwashers and alternate them so one always acts as storage for clean dishes and the other for your used dirty dishes. Rinse and repeat!

  24. Re:Is this racist or economic? on Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Lake Grove, New York, which has a population of around 11,000 and is 89 percent white, has an Apple Store. By comparison, nearly 1.5 million people live in the densely-packed Bronx, which is only 21 percent white.

    What is the average income of the top 11,000 earners in the Bronx vs the average income of Lake Grove?

  25. I mean, at that point what's the advantage of having ARM CPUs over an x86 chip?