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  1. This is why there is BitChute on YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  2. The Last Temptation of Christ on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    by Nikos Kazantzakis. Merry Christmas.

  3. Re:Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but you were using the free trial cd for msdos. It runs way better on os/2.

  4. Car that ignores police orders? on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    okay, I'm sold.

  5. there are alternatives. I have been using various combinations of Tox, Signal, and others for a while now, but still fall back on Hangouts due to it's penetration. You knew you needed to take your communications back into your own hands at some point. This is just what everyone needs. We don't need to feed the hive mind anymore.

  6. Re: Cisco bad, Ubiquiti good on Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes yes. Don't read the dribble.

  7. "We received a Letter Against today". "OMG, was it signed, too"? "Yes it was"! "Oh crap, we are screwed now"!

  8. Remember when you thought privacy existed? on Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    You can argue about encryption algorithms and faster computers, but the real issue is time. Anything that traverses the wire becomes part of a permanent record. They copy and store every single bit, knowing that they cannot crack your encryption today, but in the future it will become trivial. So at best you're talking about mitigation. Everything you've ever said or done will have to live up to the impossible moral standard of the world communist courts of the not so distant future. There will be no deviation from the hive mind of public opinion which you will be happy to oblige.

  9. Legacy Communication System on Seattle Startup Vets Takes on Google with Helm, a New $499 Personal Email Server (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    We will never get rid of e-mail. It will be necessary for the foreseeable future and have a much longer lifespan than say, fax. But anyone who can see the writing on the wall with respect to privacy will/has started moving away from any public public or even private public messaging system for as much of their important communication as possible.

    Using systems like Tox, Signal on your phone, or something that you have control of needs to be a priority in your life -- and as part of that, you will have to become an advocate (evangelist really) for others to get on board.

    One big weakness is people using social networks as communication systems purely due to their convenience and ubiquitousness. There are/have been attempts to make privacy oriented social networks (diaspora, etc.), but the nature of shouting from a mountain top does not lend itself well to privacy.

  10. As the Blade Runner "sequel" showed, if your star is notoriously difficult to work with (sorry Sean, that's just the perception), they can simulate you now.

  11. I loved XMMS. Is there a good player for linux? I haven't enjoyed Rythmbox, Media Player, and even VLC is powerful but not a great interface like winamp & XMMS.

  12. Better idea!
    -- IMPROVED GENERATION 2000 FORK: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.

  13. Re:I thought this was a joke on Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet they'll build a censored search engine for China's Communist Party.

  14. I thought this was a joke on Alphabet's Intra App Encrypts DNS Queries To Help Users Bypass Online Censorship (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    at first. Google? Fighting Censorship? Give us a break.

  15. all the time. Have carpeting too. The case is open often and a beer is balanced somewhere nearby that it probably shouldn't. Not the same as forgoing a seat belt at all.

  16. Re:Stop buying cheap phones on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. Everyone will abandon smart phones for quality of life and the environment. No seriously, smart phones are never going away. But I'm happy for you!

  17. Stop buying cheap phones on Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    will provide the greatest mitigation to this condition. I currently use a Pixel that I purchased directly from Google. The battery will die completely before the phone becomes obsolete from a software perspective. It is only the second smart phone I have owned. Before that I probably went through 7 phones since the 90's.

  18. I Love the EFF, but on EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    why are they raising this complaint again just as Microsoft 'leaks' details of their Win 10 Cloud 'Chromebook Competitor'? I'm sure any effort by MS to provide a lightweight browser-based OS/laptop will be just as nefarious as a Chromebook, but honestly, the Chromebook does what it does perfectly, and MS only knows how to bloat things up and make them unusable.

  19. NDISwrapper! on Broadcom Releases Source Code For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Yall can kiss my ass foreva!

  20. Duke Nukem violates SCO's patents on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    it turns out. Lawyers are discussing right now.

  21. Still looking for p2p Video Conferencing on Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype · · Score: 1
    We are still in the hosted communications world and I haven't found an application as easy to use as Skype that is p2p.

    I want secure p2p video conferencing that I can control and know there is no middle man involved. Cisco might sell it to me for thousands of dollars. I like free better. I looked at Qnext yesterday, which wasn't bad..

    Any ideas?

  22. Call this one a Dupe on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really there is nothing new in this 'story' so I'm calling it a dupe. The title includes 'Stashed $150,00 in Shoe Boxes'. Is that news? Is someone trying to build a case? Because we all know its a terrible crime to put cash in a shoe box. Come on. There is no useful information here.

  23. "Never ask a Navy man on The Science of Caddyshack · · Score: 0, Troll
    if he'll have another drink. It's nobodies God damned business how many he's had already, right?"

    "Wrong! Your drinking too much Your Excellency."

    "Excellency. Fiddlesticks! My name is Fred! I'm just a man like you."

    "Your not a man your bishop! For God Sakes!"

    "There is no God."

  24. That's no moon on When On the Moon and Mars, Move Underground · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's a space station.

    Mars however is an actual planet but with many underground cities.

  25. Re:Porn? on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 1

    A lot of it is just made up like like those bigoted Barrack Husein Obama posters.

    Huh? Which one's are those? That's his name..

    These are not people engaging in legitimate free speech..

    Ah, herein lies the problem doesn't it? What if I said this was legitimate? Who is going to make that call? You?