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  1. Not two-factor on Android Banking Trojan Masquerades As Flash Player, Circumvents 2FA · · Score: 1

    It's not really two-factor if one of them comes from the same machine being used for access.

  2. Same old debunked simpleton arguments... on Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    from Worstall. Yes, science's products are a public good, but doing science is not that same as having access to the results. Otherwise a lot of countries would be benefitting significantly from it which clearly are not. Just having scientists coming from other places and scientists returning from other places and live in the UK has a huge intangible benefit. Reading about an idea from elsewhere isn't at all the same as working with a person who hatched or worked with those who hatched the idea elsewhere.

    Worstall is just a Brexiter trying to support what he wants with shallow, faulty arguments that he thinks will fool a lot of people. Don't be one of them. Why do I have a strong reaction to him? Because he sounds so much like some nutcases in the US who spew faulty arguments hoping to mislead or at least confuse the masses.

  3. What's new is that this should be an eye-openerâ"if KAOS doesn't create and gain reasonably wide acceptance for a fully anonymous cryptocurrency soon enough, then CONTROL will get theirs widely accepted and a competing currency will not gain wide acceptance among merchants. And we'll be stuck with something a lot easier to track than paper.

  4. Re:One major gothcha! on Biometric Tech Uses Sound To Distinguish Ear Cavity Shape · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same. Or a zit inside, which are painful enough with being denied access because of them.

  5. Re:Well... on Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easier for someone that smart to actually make money hiding behind a corporation.

    FTFY

  6. Re: well that's changed the calculus. on Google Docs Can Now Export EPUB (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Keith Alexander absolutely is not Illuminati. He's a green lizard-like extrasolar alien wrapped in a human costume. Like the Visitors.

  7. sour grapes? on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he was forced to settle for Poli Sci because he couldn't handle Algebra.

  8. Re: finally?? on Raspberry Pi 3 Brings Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Yep, you got it. For those of us with a life who only have time to learn details of one device, it's the best all-purpose deal going. Best at any one thing? Nope, but pretty good at a lot of things and has very broad support. Don't like it? Don't use it. I'm not trashing 'duinos, they just aren't for me right now.

  9. Another revealing himself on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    So Larry Summers thinks we need less freedom and more control. All that does is say something about himself, not the rest of us.

    Eliminating large bills just pushes people to cryptocurrency faster.

  10. Irony on Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I do realize that I'm contributing to the noise associated with Gates.

    Gates has never demonstrated that he's skilled or knowledgeable about anything unrelated to accumulating money, so why would anyone care what he thinks? Report what Bruce Schneier, an independent and recognized expert in security and technology, thinks instead.

  11. What we need are additional WiFi bands that work almost the same way as the 2.4 and 5GB bands.

  12. Swell. on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the athletes preparing by having vaccinations will suffer temporarily reduced performance as a result of those vaccines, whether during their practice before the games or during the actual games. Holding the games in places with toxic air or disease-laden water needs to stop. Promises of "sure, we'll clean up in time for the games" just don't cut it.

  13. Re:WOW on TP-Link Begins Lockdown of Firmware In Response To FCC · · Score: 1

    Unambiguously.

    If interference was that important to the FCC, they'd make more spectrum available to all. Think about how measly the b and g spaces are compared to all that spectrum reclaimed from upper UHF TV channels. But companies who rely on cell frequencies bribe better than those who rely on WiFi.

  14. Good, Bad, and Ugly on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Suppose the autos still equipped with 5 speed manuals or automatics got finer control over valve lift and dwell at all RPMs and conditions? There'd be significant improvements, no doubt about it. BUT suppose an engine and CVT were carefully designed to work together for maximum efficiency. I seriously doubt that there's that much to be gained over computer-controlled mechanical/hydraulic variable valve timing and lift. Notice that most Subaru models are now available with CVTs and many manufacturers are touting 8 and 9 speed transmissions.

    I can imagine having both a camshaft and individual actuators where the cam opens the valve the minimum amount of time and duration and the electric or hydraulic actuator supercedes it much of the time. Then if the actuators failed there'd still me a limp-home mode. What about interference? Don't do it. There are plenty of efficient engine designs that don't have it. It's already bad news when mixed with timing belts.

  15. Sounds like the effect's going to be like moving from the old Netflix with hoardes of obscure DVDs to the "popular" online movies available. 3 books, but only 1 audio from the full catalog per month? Boo. Who wants to listen to the same junk as everyone else? Bad news, at least it sounds like it.

  16. Re: Kids on Why Some Cities Get All the Good Jobs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 2

    I think there is too much focus on a few high-speed passenger trains, yes, at the expense of speeding up all passenger trains. But every little bit you speed up Northeast passenger service, you cut back on airline congestion. The bigger problems in the US are that, outside of a few areas like the Northeast, freights and passenger trains share tracks. Passenger trains are then delayed, delayed, and delayed. What we need are separate tracks for slow and fast trains almost everywhere. Oh, and speeding up all freights makes no sense. No, combine high value-to-volume and value-to-mass freight with relatively fast (120mph+) passenger service and leave the bulky (and often hazardous) stuff on slow freights trundling along at 45mph.

  17. Still trying to figure out what "antique based software" is.

    I'd been wondering how AnyDVD managed to exist in the current "tools are evil" environment. For the owners, it's sort of like a double-bonus: 1) have to live in the Caribbean, 2) get to live in the Caribbean. Reminds me of the guy who sold C-band satellite receivers that did the job without the subscriber cards who was chased away to the Bahamas. Poor thing.

  18. Wrong primary goal on AT&T To Begin 5G Wireless Field Trials This Year (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Much more useful would be availability more of the time in more locations. Higher bandwidth occasionally in some places is for entertainment (and irritating even then) and isn't very useful for those other things to which AT&T is referring. In the old days, they complained about having to provide service in non-lucrative areas, now they just don't and say they did.

  19. Re:Illegal phone running on Federal Bill Could Override State-Level Encryption Bans (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlawing encryption may mean average citizens won't have it, but it'll be the beginning of an enormous arms race between govts and citizens. The War on Encryption, yes, will make the War on Drugs seem easy in comparison.

    One factor at work is that justices obviously aren't going to bother to learn about anything that wasn't around when they started law school, so it's going to take quite a few years to fix that.

  20. Sell excess energy to foreignors, sure, but not as electricity across the Mediterranean. Since this plant operates at very high temperatures, use a bit of that high-temp heat to produce/reduce something, in effect shifting the energy content to Morocco. Keep Matthew McConnaughey there, we already have too many Lincolns.

  21. Might explain on Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise · · Score: 1

    some things about those who do nothing but lift weights.

  22. Solution: static ads from 1st party on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you're complaining about me not watching ads on your site, how about showing me ads FROM your site, not a third party's; and static images and text, no video, no animation, no scripts, no multipage GIFs. Certainly never popups/unders/etc. I do NOT object to static images and text, for which I'm already paying the bandwidth to download.

  23. Not in the US on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    That would be a ridiculous idea in the US, with more and more and more fat trucks and SUVs that already can't fit in half the roads' width.

  24. lack of money, influence on Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii · · Score: 1

    Those who install telescopes out of view of inhabited areas generally don't throw large sums of money at politicians. Those who build cell towers near inhabitants generally do, if needed, and generally get their way. Those who wish to strip coal from the tops of mountains generally do as well, and generally get their way. See a pattern?

  25. Re:I feel so conflicted... on K-12 CS Framework Draft: Kids Taught To 'Protect Original Ideas' In Early Grades · · Score: 1

    Trojan horse curriculum. Hey, let's get the people to pay for their own brainwashing! Sounds like Alex P Keaton when he found his brother being taught to share in preschool.