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  1. You are literally saying there is a chance you can break the encryption by guessing the right number from -infinity to +infinity...

  2. This isn't the movies. AES128/256 is effectively impossible to break through brute force. You have no idea how many PBKDF2 iterations were used before even the encryption was applied, let alone how large or random the chars were in the password used. The universe would end before you got anywhere close

  3. Re:Sort of on Bitcoin is Worth Less Than the Cost To Mine It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    better ways to handle that problem

    Ok, then let us all know. Let us all know your better way to achieve transactions in a distributed, trustless system?

  4. Nobody tied themselves to IE10 (that doesn't even make sense). IE11 is still around, and it isn't going anywhere due to the ubiquitous ShDocVw component. And VB6 is still supported and probably will in backward compatibility perpetuity because all it requires is the runtime and a handful of legacy libraries that will ship with Windows regardless

  5. Also Steam uses WebKit across all OSes

    No it doesn't -> https://imgur.com/bZa5nWY

  6. I guess that why she didn't move around a lot

  7. Re:Cortana = Clippy on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not far off. Clippy was an example of the Microsoft Agent platform. With it came the Speech API (SAPI) which had both a text-to-speech and a speech-to-text engine. You could think of Cortana as Microsoft Agent 3.0, in spirit

  8. Re:So, it will still be required on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just going to be like any other component on Windows. It is part of the platform, so anything built for Windows can safely assume it can use it, like anything else (MFC, ShDocVw, etc),and sure, you *could* remove any of these, but it will break anything that tries to use it.

  9. Re: Still better than that Spyware Win 10 on Windows 7 Enters Its Final Year of Free Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Alright, so you enjoy having unnecessary obstacles

    I'm already plagued with that when I use Linux

  10. Re:No Fucking Way on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is a sound design for a vehicle. You can't just take one of something that already exists and every manufacturer pretty much ever new to the scene spent a decade+ working out the gremlins of their original designs

  11. Re:Simple solution: Charge per stream on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they do this already. And Netflix has officially stated that it is ok if you share your password with friends and family because you pay for and have a limited number of simultaneous streams.

  12. Re:I'd eat vat grown or irradiated beef before thi on The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Soy is an amazing filler. You don't need to eat just flavored, soy product. Soy in in plenty of sausage/hotdog wiener style meat. Chicken nuggets. Bubba Burger (not really that good). It isn't a replacement for steak or loin chops, but jammed into a beef and bean burrito or hot pocket, you have a tasty, high protein, high calorie meal.

  13. Are you achieving ketosis, or are you just "cutting out carbs"? Because beans and rice are amazing sources of complex carbs that will keep your energy levels high, your poop train regular, all with minimal calories per volume

  14. entry level gaming laptops in the $400-$500 range.

    The AMD APUs already found that sweet spot while Intel struggled to have even a sufficient frame buffer

  15. Re:That's one reason. History of COM, ActiveX, Act on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just before the release in Windows 95, something interesting happened.

    Your timeline is skewed. Active Desktop took place in Windows 98 with IE4. Then you go with

    So here's Microsoft with a billion dollars invested in a system for embedding pics in your documents and your desktop, suddenly not needed because HTML does documents with embedded pics and sounds so much simpler. What can Microsoft do to save their investment? They route they chose was to rename COM to "ActiveX" and pitch it as a web technology.

    That isn't what ActiveX is at all. It was an extension of COM to allow scriptability to the system. IDispatch. COM objects could now be usable in a type indifferent scripting language. They shoehorned this into the web, but it was and is a very large part of the Windows Explorer Shell. A common platform. Something Linux still struggles with.

  16. You can't actually believe that was a legitimate post

  17. There is certainly value of putting immutable data on a blockchain. Maybe it isn't such a good currency. Bitcoin was an experiment to begin with. To tout that it and its kin are "worthless" is naive

  18. Re:Prediction for 4096-bit RSA? How about EC? on Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have nothing. You aren't fooling anyone in this neck of the woods. Take your propaganda elsewhere

  19. Re:Prediction for 4096-bit RSA? How about EC? on Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Prove it. You are the one making the assertion

  20. Re:Windows will run on a Linux kernel too on Microsoft is Building a Chromium-powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10: Report (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is more to Windows than being compatible with Win32. Windows is more serious about backward compatibility than Linux possibly ever was

  21. I suspect they are upset because blacks are supporting Trump in large numbers and the DNC is unhappy they "don't know their place" anymore. DNC supported slavery, opposed civil rights act, opposed blacks voting, and now oppose blacks getting jobs

    WTF?

  22. Spot on. The fact that the comment you are replying to is modded +5 Insightful is frankly amazing, in the most literal sense, and not in a good way

  23. Re: Of course on Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter anyway because the signature isn't there to verify the user. It is there to signify you accept the card holder agreement

  24. but a brain implant with a direct connection to neurons could give you not only text input, but also thought control over light, appliances, etc

    That is science fiction at this point

  25. Re:Long Past. on GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You use HotDog?