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  1. DuckDuckHack on Can DuckDuckGo Become the Anti-Google? (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    I hope they enhance the workflow for DuckDuckHack. Currently, it's in maintenance, which I hope doesn't comply with Google's definition of that word (eventual abandonment). I like the ability for the community to contribute to DDG's improvement. Hopefully this continues in some form.

  2. To follow up, you must be one of those who wholeheartedly agrees with Stalin when he said, 'A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.' Try pulling his dead, rotting dick out of your mouth.

  3. If you advocate allowing millions to die painful deaths and standing around watching, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and off yourself? No? Didn't think so. STFU, you sociopathic fuck.

  4. What's needed is a way to prevent or mitigate cytokine release syndrome—(colloquially known as a cytokine 'storm')—that can result in a fatal outcome due to systemic organ failure.

  5. Re:Alcohol has always been used in population cont on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, fewer people died of cancer in medieval times, but mostly because other diseases that we have eliminated today got them first.

    That and almost no ability to perform any diagnosis other than palpation of tumours close to the surface, or ones that were visible to the naked eye (melanomas and such). But then any cancers that werediagnosed would never be effectively treated anyway.

  6. With regards to (2), the phone companies are protected by their Common Carrier status, so it's probably going to take a change to phone protocols to prevent spoofing. e.g. Change how VoIP-to-VoIP calls are made so they also send a datagram encrypted with a private key owned by the caller.

    That's what the STIR and its sister protocol SHAKEN hope to implement. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, telcos are dragging their feet to roll the technologies out because they like the revenue that spammers pay (a dollar is a dollar is a dollar) and would rather save on the implementation costs.

  7. Yes, India. India is the major source of this problem. I'm in favor of cutting trade and business with them until they clean up their act.

    Agreed. If Trump wants to impose tariffs where it'll actually do some good, he should start with India, the Philippines, and various Caribbean islands (the latter two also being hotbeds of illicit call-centre activity). Maybe if they're faced with high tariffs they'll start policing this growing problem more seriously.

  8. Re:Insufficiently scrutinized? on The Man Behind the EU's Copyright Law is 'Surprised' By What's in the Proposal (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make it any less disturbing.

  9. Cloud for standby/backup only! on Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Memorise that mantra. Cloud infrastructure should never be used as a first resort. The savings are illusory.

  10. You can switch insurers

    You mean the same way we can 'vote with our feet and dollars' and switch broadband providers? Even before ACA, there were usually only a couple of insurers in any given area. Choosing between duopolists isn't much of a choice.

  11. ...with Ajit Pai fellating Verizon and tickling its balls?

  12. Multiple e-mail accounts...duh on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Who uses only one e-mail address these days? Stupid article.

  13. I watched a presentation on it and have been playing with the Github repo. It looks very promising.

  14. the collage bubble will soon burst

    You're thinking of the diorama bubble. 2D art objects can't burst.

  15. That's the way *all* of Big Business operates. It's not restricted to Amazon.

  16. Re:What about fixing the student loan risk? on LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio (sbnation.com) · · Score: 1

    This is entirely the fault of black men failing to be fathers.

    Maybe if minorities weren't disproportionately incarcerated for low-level offences and given the max sentence they'd have the opportunity to be fathers. Kinda hard to be a parent from behind bars.

  17. No OS is immune to social engineering. The only solution is extensive training and a change of the human culture.

  18. Re:Anti-trust is too unwieldy - KISS on Why Startups Aren't Pushing the Feds To Break Up Big Tech (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In absolute terms, corporations saved immensely after divestiture: leased circuits all got cheaper afterwards. However, my 71 year-old mother still tells me stories of having to talk long-distance with an egg-timer next to her because toll costs were so expensive for most consumers. LD calls were usually reserved for urgent news such as a wedding announcement or a death in the family. More casual news was spread via a hand-written posted letter.

  19. Re: America elected an anti-government on HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Or we could just use Ranked Choice Voting.

  20. Re:Open the I.T. closet door... on 80 Percent of IT Decision Makers Say Outdated Tech is Holding Them Back (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    More room for the GILF's.

  21. Re:Open the I.T. closet door... on 80 Percent of IT Decision Makers Say Outdated Tech is Holding Them Back (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've gone retro. I swear by Hai Karate.

  22. Re:Misguided Like A Japanese Rocket Launch on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    YES, the entire web needs to be encrypted. Why? Because a hostile government (or any other bad actor) can compile a dossier on you based on the sites you visit.

  23. Unfortunately, most businesses still consider such breaches a mere cost of doing business. The frequency and severity of breaches is constantly increasing, so an inflection point is rapidly approaching.

  24. full of empty air and wasted space

    More space = more powerful convective cooling.

  25. Yep. Kinda like the ill-fated iAPX 432 (Intel's first stab at a 32-bit x86 CPU). Certain supporting technologies had to mature in tandem, and they finally did four years later when the 386 came out.

    If they were smart, Intel would buy up all the Mill Computing IP and base a new architecture off of that. They should think about it whilst they're still sitting on a decent pile of cash.