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  1. It also saves a lot on plane tickets from Moscow.

  2. Who will be resposible? on Firefox Will Try To Show You Saved Archive Of a Page Instead Of 404 Error (ndtv.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who will be responsible for that content of child porn, copyrighted material, secrets that will harm the wellbeing of the nations as well as there might be other reasons I took of a page for whatever reason.

    What if it was taken down by court order?

    This is dangerous and stupid at the same time. Whoever asked if this would be a good idea proved that stupid questions exist.

  3. Re:Roaming charges is a racket of tolls and taxes on Japanese Olympic Champion Racks Up $5,000 Bill Playing Pokemon Go in Brazil (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why they are working to ban it inside Europe. I have seen situations where it is cheaper to roam than it is not to.

  4. Re:Malicicously. Crafted. Ad. on New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not even care about THEIR precious earnings if there was no threat to my property.

  5. Do not secure the data on Australian Census Stirs Up Storm of Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You can not secure the data. You can keep it secure for a while. Even for a long time, but not for always. At some point the data will become available. Be it by a hack or a change in the law or some other rando, reason.

    So what they should do is make the data available right away in such a way that identification is not possible.

  6. Re:How about humans? on Researchers Discover How To Fool Tesla's Autopilot System (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy me a device and some cocaine and hookers worth 90.000USD. In fact, forget about the device.

  7. Re:Man, talk about pricing yourself out of busines on Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If those proud parents wanted to post anything, they should have signed a contract with the IOC and outbid all the combined broadcast companies in the world.

    They had the same opportunity as every other entity. And the attendeed should just be lucky they are allowed to go. Complain and they can go home. Do you listen to your pigs complain when you bring them to the slaughterhouse? They are property.

    Are you a comunist or what?

  8. No more drunk dialing my ex on Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    As my eyes will be all red, I won't drunk dial my ex.

    (It is a joke, I don't have an ex. They are all still with me. In my basement.)

  9. For me it is a moral question. I do not want to pay for it, so if I would pay for it, so ME that would be wrong.

    I just use google and it would take almost no time turn that into a webpage.

  10. Google accepts the worde "filetype:torrent" without the quotes in your request. e.g. metallica filetype:torrent

  11. Re:No TV on TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you need an update for your tv if you don't use any of the features. Remember: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

  12. True. How many years was Amazon operating at a loss?

  13. The change of passwords is a technical solution for social beings. As anybody knows, in security it is only as strong as the weakest link. Yet people in IT keep forgetting to take human beings and human behaviour into account as well as other things.

    1) Humans are not good at remembering random things. Yes, there are ways around it by using the first first letter of your favorite song and add some number or other ways.
    2) Humans are not goot ate remembering a list of random things. So now you have one song for one website. Now you also need to have a different song for every other website AND remember what song belongs to what website.
    3) People are lazy. They do not WANT to remember all these things if there are other ways to make things easy. We are specialized in looking for shortcuts, even if it takes a long time. Don't want to walk? Ride a horse. Don't want to ride a horse? Invent a car. Next step is the self driving car.
    So if I can get away with using 8 characters, why would I use 9?
    4) People look short term, not long term. I can use an easy password for all the places and that works today, so I do it.

    As long as you do not factor in human behaviour in your security procedure, you WILL fail. The reason most do the change of password is to divert responsabilty from IT to the end user.

  14. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Their website http://thegintub.co.uk/
    On that website:
    Fancy a chat with another table just give them a call but house rules mean you have to buy them a drink

    When you go to Contact, you see their phonenumber.

  15. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They have a landline. Took me 30 seconds on Google to find it. 0776116xxxx Took that long because the first few articles are about the news they have a Faraday cage.

    So if you are in a situation where you need to be accesible, you could give the number to your babysitter and they can call them and ask you to go outside and phone back the babysitter.

    And no I would not place any payphones in the back, or anywhere else, because the whole idea is to NOT use a phone.

    The few times that friends had a situation where they might get a call, we tell that up front. "Listen, it could be that my mom wil be calling, because of the situation of my dad." That way people know it might be happening. Otherwise the phones stay off.

    In that situation I would also tell my friends that I will not be going to that specific bar, because I need to be available.

    However these situations are seldom. I can not be on full alert all the time, so in reality it would mean I might not go this week, but from next week on, it will be ok not to be reached for a few hours.

    And I could always give that number to people who need it. I even had my dad call me in the bar I was at one random evening. He did not phone me, he called the bar, just because he thaught it would be funny and it was. He called International Information, as he lives in another country, to get the number.

  16. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    And the whole thing is to NOT make any calls, but to interact with the people around you.

  17. So because you flossed it worked? I have some snake oil for you.

  18. Now would be a good moment for the Republicans to post all their emails to show they are nothing like that.

    (Not sure if this is sarcasm, cynicism or wishfull thinking)

  19. Re:Don't spoil it [for us] - Devs on Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I am old to have teenagers and young adults and I dilike watching sports and like watching people play games. And not even the games you talk about. I like people play City Skylines.
    OTOH I do not like it live. I rather like to watch channels that are somewhat edited and that goes for almost all content, including TV.

  20. Re:Government mandated monopolies and collusion on Charter: City Giving Google Fiber Unfair Edge (courier-journal.com) · · Score: 1

    You will see a lot of changes, but not as an end-user. The companies will just devide the cake a bit differently.

  21. Re:I love a nice firearm, but don't really care on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't like firearms and I would never own one and I ALSO don't care. This is only an issue for a minority of the American public. The rest of the Americans and the rest of the world does not really care an at most think 'nice' and then go on with their lives.

  22. 7/8.1 users is 86.42% of the users on PSA: Windows 10 Is Still Free For Those Who Use Assistive Technologies (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    OK, I understand that you dislike metric, but using Imperial (7/8) together with metric (8.1) is just plain silly.
    Use either one or the other!

  23. Pre-installation on One Year Later: Windows 10 Now Runs On Over 21% of All Desktops (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    There are some people (most here) that will install an OS. They will have their reason for selecting the OS that is according to their needs. They will buy the hardware that supports that OS and those needs.

    The rest will buy a PC and run whatever it runs. Microsoft and Apple know this. For a long time this was enough. People buy the PC and with it they get an OS. Times have changed. It is all about making money by renting out things. Instead of paying 1USD for something, they rather you pay 15 time 0.10$ because they make more money that way.

    That means that things need to change. The OS needs to change. And that means pushing out the current OS as fast as possible.

    Hardware also lasts longer. You can now easily do almost anything on a PC that is 5 years old. In the past you needed to upgrade every 2 years. So now they will concentrate on new machines and start killing off the service to the old ones.

  24. Re:Fingerprint Randomizer on New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    I believe that Google uses them. I delete everything when I start browing on YouTube. I do not log in, yet the results are clearly influnced in previous searches and the like.
    I also block doubleclick and other sites as much as possible.
    As Google is all about getting data, why would they NOT use it?

    OTOH they are unable to read the prefered language of my browser and rather give me a language depending on location (Fun if you live in Belgium), so perhaps they ARE too stoopid to do so.

  25. Re:Get a credit card which notifies on each charge on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    In Belgium it is becoming standard. This is enforced by Visa and MasterCard. This also means that if you don't have a cellphone, you can't buy things online.
    Not all websited use this, but then the risk is with the merchant.