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  1. Law did not pass on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The senate had to pass back the bill to the house of representatives to accept its amendments, and the government has called it quits for the year in order to avoid allowing asylum seekers to be transferred from island prison camps to australia to receive medical care

  2. this is arguably more of a privacy issue than security issue. while cloudflare represents a large attack vector, they are certainly have better security than you ISP. as to where all that DNS information goes, whether it be google or cloudffare, it is not hard to guess.

  3. Re:Will it help route around censorship? on Security Researchers Express Concerns Over Mozilla's New DNS Resolution For Firefox (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 2

    only as long as the thing you looking for is not censored by cloudflare - and even then, only the most basic censorship.

  4. just china sending a message

  5. and the consequences? on How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees To Help Them Hijack SIM Cards (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    presumably, at some point there is an investigation and the employee has to explain why they "SIM swapped" dozens of customers when that is not their normal job? getting caught is an inevitability.

  6. Disabled by default? on Google Quietly Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature for 99% of Chrome Desktop Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    99% of users? I am on the latest chrome and it was disabled for me. Check at chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process

  7. Nice sentiment, but on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: -1

    This is really just wishful thinking

  8. Re:In the EU on One of Estonia's First 'e-Residents' Explains What It Means To Have Digital Citizenship · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. "NB! Please be aware that e-Residency does not confer citizenship, tax residency, residence or right of entry to Estonia or to the European Union. It is not a visa or residence permit. The e-Resident digi-ID card is not a physical identification or a travel document, and does not display a photo." https://apply.gov.ee/

  9. Re:Let's retire 'drop' on Apple Releases macOS High Sierra; Ex-NSA Hacker Publishes Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    this is an annoying feature of the new slashdot regime. "in other news..."

  10. Re:government or technology restriction? on Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming To Smartphones In 2018 (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I had always heard the lower accuracy from gps was a government imposed restriction or limitations of the protocols not a technical one. is that simply an old myth? I know nothing about the tech personally.

    What you are talking about was called Selective Availability and it was disabled in 2000 by Clinton's executive order and never used since then. Current GPS precision is limited by ionospheric scattering and reflections of signal from buildings, it is indeed a matter of having enough satellites in sight to filter out outliers, and smart signal processing, to get better precision (while 30cm is probably possible only by also having a decent INS onboard and integrating data for some like, like 10-20 seconds, with sensor fusion with the INS).

  11. archive.org should be smarter on Should Archive.org Ignore Robots.txt Directives And Cache Everything? (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    archive.org should ignore robots.txt as a means to prevent archiving material. archive.org should however be smart enough to know what can be ignored, based on content.

  12. actual referenced article on China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications · · Score: 1

    actual referenced article, not lousy BusinessInsider. http://moodle.epfl.ch/pluginfi... Roadmap.pdf

  13. Re:Republicans... on Prisoners Freed After Cops Struggle With New Records Software · · Score: 1

    i was going to mod up your captcha, but the mod points have been mistakenly set free!

  14. Re:Dear Slashdot on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  15. sure it can be improved on I Want a Kindle Killer · · Score: 1

    of course there is room for improvement with the kindle - but not with any of the things suggested in TFS. the reason why apple and other don't make a competitor is because the margins are low. the profit is in the books.

  16. Re:Snowden has jumped the shark on Snowden: NSA Spied On Human Rights Workers · · Score: 1

    They are "human rights" organisations because they seek to have governments held accountable for upholding their legally binding international treaties that compel governments to offer basics human rights to their citizens. They are not representing any political ideology, but are independent and international, not seeking to be elected for any personal gain. The closest thing we have to elected officials with such a mandate is the UN. Like all organisations relying on donations, political and non-political, they have a natural incentive to behave in such a way that will increase their donations. There are few organisations in the world independently wealthy enough to allow that kind of absolute freedom.

  17. oh god. shut up! on Judge (Tech) Advice By Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    can we please stop posting this asshole's diarrhea?

  18. Re:Inbreeding? In a Small Tribe? I'm SHOCKED! on Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding · · Score: 1

    The summary clearly states inTERbreeding, the title turned it into inbreeding which is more or less the opposite. But this is Slashdot where the editors can't write and the posters can't read.

    except that TFA includes the quoted title from the summary...

  19. ping times on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    seriously, he's complaining about 80ms ping times? i just pinged google.com and it is over 1000ms. life goes on.

  20. Re:I don't understand the problem... on The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation · · Score: 1

    syncing

  21. why only 1500 people on Most Americans Think Courts Are Failing To Limit Government Surveillance · · Score: 1

    why do these stupid surveys only ever ask 1500 people? is that the minimum number set?

  22. this summary terrible on James Bond's Creator, and the Real Spy Gadgets He Inspired · · Score: 1

    seriously, it is full of mistakes. why is it so hard for editors to edit?

  23. Re:Frankly, you're clueless on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points today. This is hilarious!

  24. Re:Cultural Differences on Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages · · Score: 1

    cultural difference of a dirt bag politician.

  25. Re:I agree with the man on Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages · · Score: 1

    he's a low-life politician, not a career diplomat. these posts get given away to former cabinet members to keep them from causing trouble. best to ignore him and whatever facebook pages contain his name.