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  1. Re:Don't forget on SourceForge Eliminates DevShare Program (sourceforge.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fuck racists. Anything but total race- and gender-blindness is not acceptable.

  2. Re:Fuck Mozilla on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    What will you use then, Google Spyware that lacks key privacy-related extensions?

  3. Re:Proud to have self-destructing cookies installe on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    For web fonts and similar 3rd party assets you want Smart Referer. Unless the primary website's address or id is encoded in the URL, this stops such tracking.

  4. Re:Please Explain on Open Source Pioneer Michael Tiemann On the Myth of the Average · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And here you made a basic mistake: the assumption of dimensions being independent is obviously false. Someone tall usually has long hands, and so on. Most dimensions have a rather high correlation.

  5. Re:Stop. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    then what's a better term for speech intended to intimidate a particular class of people?

    So you agree that those SJW hatemongers should be banned?

    On the other hand, banning both sides does sound tempting...

  6. Re:Not 12 euros... on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 2

    Uhm, you're missing the word milliard. And yeah, we need two scales with confusing names about as much as we need systemd.

  7. Re:I'm surprised they actually pulled this off! on Arnnon Geshuri, Newest Wikimedia Trustee, Forced To Resign · · Score: 1

    UTF-8 support in slashcode has been implemented since ages ago, it's purely a matter of deployment.

  8. Re:Why just Gmail? How far do you want to go today on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    Up to recently, SMTP traffic had only opportunistic encryption, ie, was trivially readable by any attacker. But fortunately, most server software gained support for DNSSEC/DANE, which, while not perfect, is _massively_ more secure. Unlike breaching CA-cartel certificates, breaching DANE pretty much requires suborning the TLD the target uses. Thus, as competent admins configure their MXes for DANE, bulk monitoring of email traffic shuts down.

    On the other hand, any government with some clout has warrantless access to big email providers. So for now, we need to use small or individual mail servers.

  9. Re:Why just Gmail? How far do you want to go today on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is a strong reason to never use gmail or the likes.

  10. AMD is vital. All recent and semi-recent Intel CPUs include AMT which is a backdoor that can control any aspect of the running system without being detectable in any way by the operating system. It includes a completely separate sub-processor that has full control of the machine while being invisible to the main CPU.

  11. Re:For a more complete changelog: on Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 2

    The KernelNewbies website alive? With a changelog the day of the release rather than half a year later? Must be fake.

  12. Re:I'm curious on PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    In postgres, this can be wrapped in a RULE so it's transparent when inserting.

  13. Re:Physically feasible? on The Three Possible Classes of Interstellar Travel (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Disregarding science-fiction babble like in this article, the fastest we can get to Proxima Centauri is 80k years assuming no fundamental breakthrough, or 100 years with ultimately advanced technology that's not known to be impossible with our current knowledge of physics.

    Writers of such articles tend to forget that every gram of fuel needs to be accelerated by previous stages, and even worse, all the fuel needed for deceleration must be first accelerated all the way then decelerated partway. This puts a hard cap even if you magically got 100% efficiency.

    But fortunately, such writers are also forgetting that physics isn't the only technology field that advances. I'd expect that both stopping aging and sentient AI are no more than 100-200 years away. Just don't forget to take playing cards with you to spend time during than 80k years long trip.

  14. Re:Don't worry on List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 (narod.ru) · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you do nothing but use a a desktop, systemd is unlikely to hurt you. But for anything more complex, it's a disaster.

  15. Re:Seems reasonable on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Or even worse, the lessee has an Israeli/atheist/etc girlfriend. Still no problem?

  16. Re:Can we get DANE support already? on Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates · · Score: 2

    There's an extension for both Firefox and Chromium that validates DNSSEC and DANE.

  17. Re:Intermediate formats on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean, like GIMPLE?

  18. Re: I know blacker stuff on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Your comment was almost, I mean this close to,.....nevermind just please stop breathing to save the air for others that need it more.

    Can you point which of those wretched individuals you love so much you think their souls are not darked than the material in the article?

  19. I know blacker stuff on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Right, and how does it compare to souls of Satya Nadella, Tim Cook, Obama or Bush jr?

  20. Re:Wow.Win 10 TP won't boot now. on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can turn back the system clock to make it boot (then NTP it to the proper value). Too bad, it still refuses to update, throwing an error.

  21. Re:You have it *on*?!?!? on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On any sane OS that's still the case.

  22. Re:Why x86? on iPad Mini-Style Specs, On the Cheap, In Android-Based ASUS ZenPad S 8.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not about age in years, it's about the amount of accumulated cruft. x86 is designed for 16-bit real mode, then leftover opcodes were taken by useless 286 protected mode, then you had 32 bit protected mode crammed in, and then an unclean move to 64 bit. ARM in comparison started with clean 32 bits, and its 64-bit variant has no opcode compatibility.

  23. Re:Why the 4th amendment no longer works on What Congress' New Email-privacy Bill Means For Your Inbox · · Score: 2

    This is why it's vital to run your own email server. It's not hard -- "apt-get install exim4 sa-exim" will give you a decent state that's working out of the box (you can adjust it further if you know how), requires hardly any maintenance, and can be shared with friends/family who don't know what a "server" is.

    If you run your own mail, any secret warrants (or warrantless expeditions!) are out, except for man-in-the-middle attacks (ordinary SSL being no-good because it's trivial to silently disable). And those can be stopped once DNSSEC+DANE support becomes mainstream. In Debian, this means postfix or exim from unstable/testing. If you configure your mail server for DANE, everyone with a DANE-capable MTA will send mail to your box securely.

  24. Re:Additionally... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    like plum butter, peanut butter and almond butter

    I don't know the laws of other countries, but at least in Poland it cannot include the word "butter", so no, no peanut "butter".

  25. Re:Additionally... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    In civilized countries you can't call "butter" anything with plant oils in it, "chocolate" something with no or trace amounts of cocoa, or "mayo" something not made with eggs.

    The US lacks proper consumer protection laws, and attempts to fix that meet with attacks from peddlers of fake stuff...