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  1. Re: Assassination? Or Hoax? on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, i would not be surprised if thete is a Trump II.

  2. LOL. No.

  3. Re: One-way street on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, yes. If they put 100.000 on my account by accident, they get that amount back. Tegardless that I made some extra in interest. In fact, that is the law where I live.

  4. Re: This article doesnâ(TM)t make sense on How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is you that is misguided to think that you can be happy with what you have.

  5. Re: "We promise. Honest!" on Top Genetic Testing Firms Promise Not To Share Data Without Consent (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not a customer of 23andMe and yet I would want YOUR data to be protected even if you do not care.
    First they come for your DNA., but ...

  6. Re: Why change what's working? on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This gies for both parties. They are both happy with it. There are plenty of ways to break up the two party system. Getting rid of winner takes all is one. Getting rid of computers in the voting system is just a minute detail.

  7. Re: Reminder: This is not going away. on Leaked Chats Show Alleged Russian Spy Seeking Hacking Tools (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is that in the US a plea bargain does not mean you are guilty, just that you say you are. Those things are not the same.

  8. Re: So, why is it *not* the Ukrainian government? on US Indicts Ukrainian Hackers Who Stole Millions of Credit and Debit Card Numbers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In Belgium we had a white hat hacker we got some publicity. Some people said he was not a real hacker as he just used Psswrd and got in.

    He stated that that made it even worse.

  9. Re: At least they did something not evil on this o on Google Categorically Refuses To Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Try filetype:torrent the next time you look for a Mettalica song. https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

  10. Re: Good... on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was lousy using dead trees. I am wondering how much worse I would have been with a phone. Yes, I was easily distracted, no I do not have ACDC, or whatever they call kids that like to run and be distractef. (We call themm kids. Yes I know YOU are correctly diagnozed.)

    Having a window was distraction for me. Some teachers where able to chalange me and I thank them for that. A phone would have made it much harder.

    For those that disagree: peope rather look at their phone and kill somebody than drive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

  11. Re: But I thought... on Apple May Include Support For a Second SIM Card in New iPhones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of phones who have dual SIM tat are not Samsung or Apple. The downside will be that everybody will able to read your data, except the US, instead of everybody.

  12. Re: data migration, vendor pseudo lock-in, and int on Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Data is done. It is called GDPR. yet as with many things (metric, pin on cards) they will not do it because if the US did not come up with it, it must be bad.
    At least that is how it feels a lot of the time.

  13. Hey, leave them alone. They propose it, so they get re elected, while it will be either shot down, watered down ir become the opposite to what they said.

    That is how both sides do it, so please leave them alone and do not disturb the water in the bucket. It might spill.

  14. Re: Microsoft isn't stupid on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The end user was never their customer. Sure, some bought it directly, but that was not important enough to matter.

  15. Re: Practicing for Nation-wide Implementation on Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, so you have no idea what socialism is..

  16. Re: Mark Zuckerberg is a Criminal on Zuckerberg 'Sold More Stock Than Usual', Faces Lawsuit From Angry Investors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So he did what any capitalist would do: sell to the highest bidder. Let the market sort it out, right?

  17. Re: Excuse my Schadenfreude on Zuckerberg 'Sold More Stock Than Usual', Faces Lawsuit From Angry Investors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He would only lose if he sells. I often hear people say they lost, because a share went down. That is not true. You have a loss when you SELL for less than what you bought it for.

    Few years back a friend of mine told me he lost a lot, because shares tumbled. He held on to them and will be selling soon, making a profit. Not as much as thoretically possible, but still.

  18. I read this at work. Now I have to go to HR with an empty box. Thanks a lot..

  19. Re: Another way to save memory on Mozilla Is Working On a Chrome-Like 'Site Isolation' Feature For Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Use Ip Hole or similar where possible. It will be great on your (guest-)network. You can also installl it on your local linux portable.
    Or if you bind already, add the domains and point them to 0.0.0.0. Plenty of lists out there. I use http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...

  20. Re: Why allow wireless charging? on The Next iPad Pros Will Shrink and Lose Their Headphone Jacks, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I use an android and started to have issues with the USB charging. Bought magnetic cables and loved them so much I now use it where I can.
    Having a cable at home and at work and in the car, connecting and disconnicting to charge has never been easier. No more fumbling or being afraid it breaks. You can have Aplle, usb b and usb c heads that you leave on the device.

  21. Re: Alternative yet similar headline on The Next iPad Pros Will Shrink and Lose Their Headphone Jacks, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I thout he died a while ago and had already lost his mind. But as people worship him, perhaps he has Rizen again.

  22. For cables I use USB magnetic cables. I even use them on my Raspberry Zero devices. One cable for everything.
    And I refuse to buy something without a headphone jack.

    I am in a different country, so I have one cable with me and a charger, while I have an ipad mine, an android device and a PC with me.
    The charger and Android are USB micro chargiing and the ipad is, well, different.

    Very convinient if you have multiple devices. Mac, usm mini and usb c devices mixed? No problems

  23. Re: I hope this gets laughed out of court... on Shareholder Sues Facebook After Stock Plunge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and if that is based on lying,then there is a reason to sue. If that is the case, I do not know. That is for the court to decide.

    Car example': if I buy your car and you say it was never in an accident and it was: reason to sue. If you say "buy as is" and I did not see the car was in an accident: .no reason to sue.

  24. Re: US & Israel are always the GOOD GUYS? on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I live in Europe. With China and Russia I know there is a difference between politics and the people. In the US the politicians are elected.
    So I rather live in Russia or China than in the US.

    I have visited the US (no, not all of it) and would not like to live in the 80-ies as that is where it looks like it has stopped evolving.

    Fun fact: when I landed in MJFK, the border control reminded me to my visit many years ago to East-Germany. Both inreason why, what and how. The efficiency was almost funny. When I finaly got a paper, i had to give it to the next guy 20 meters on. And all the while several people where sitting around and doing nothing.

  25. Re: Practicing for Nation-wide Implementation on Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correlation is not causation. And here it is even dangerous to say so, because people will think: we are not socialist, so we do not have to worry about this.
    East-Germany was not socialist. North-Korea was not socialist. Yet both have/had high levels of spying on their people.
    Germany now uis and does not have this level of general spying like the US has.

    In the US companies can buy data from each other. Illegal in Socialist Europe. The UK is pretty well on its way.

    So no not drag socialism into a discussion where it clearly does not belong. It distracts from the real issue. (But then, perhaps that is part of FUD)