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  1. Re: What do you need? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I personally would love a laptop with a desktop class processor even if it only have a half hour battery life.

    The HP Z-book is very expensive, but falls into this category and is well made.

  2. 28th May 2014 Truecrypt says 'switch to Bitlocker'

    Well, it's lucky we didn't!

  3. He doesn't have the power to "scrub the web."

    He doesn't need to 'scrub the web', he can just 'build a wall' around the offending material to prevent the wrong people from accessing it. "I'm very good at this, it's called construction, it's what I do."

    In this case, the construction would be taking a leaf out of Russia's book and enlisting the help of Huawei to build his 'wall' for him.

  4. Re:As much exectation of privacy as you can afford on Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    As.... much... expectation of... privacy as your.... zootopia... sloth friends... can... tolerate... on....
    ....
    ...
    tor

    ha.... ha.... ... ... ha....

  5. TOR and tails

  6. Re: Rule the waves? on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In TFA, Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord, said:

    "We will have this gap of several years without missiles. Well, that's fine if you don't have to fight anybody in the meantime."

    Well (speaking as a British Citizen) that's fine by me. Britain doesn't 'have' to fight any wars at the moment. We enter existing conflcts, or initiate conflicts without international mandates based on provably false intelligence.

    And of course the UK navy has other ways to destroy ships. Ship-launched TASM (Tomahawk Anti Ship Missiles), ship-launched Spearfish torpedos, helicopter launched Sting Ray torpedos and so on. The last large military vessel to be sunk by our navy was engaged by a nuclear submarine which launched a torpedo (General Belgrano sunk by HMS Conqueror in 1982).

  7. And probably printed in China

    ... by underpaid children.

  8. Re:This doesn't seem like much of a risk. on Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which means that if an attacker can secretly gain physical access to a (non-libreboot) machine and modify the BIOS, then someone else later running tails on that machine could be compromised by this exploit? Is this correct?

  9. Re:Yeah, there's inaccurate news on Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    DST. It's, like... one... louder...

  10. Re:In that case I'll use a bluetooth keyboard inst on Smartphone WiFi Signals Can Leak Your Keystrokes, Passwords, and PINs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "The way users move fingers across a phone's touchscreen"

    Type with thumbs!

  11. "I don't know what's worse. The fact that this has happened, or the fact that we have a name for it."

  12. Real video editors use Steenbecks.

  13. ProRes 4444/4444XQ are higher bitrate than ProRes422/422HQ, but they are lightly compressed and not especially demanding on the CPU provided you have the disk throughput. I can edit 1080p 4444/4444XQ on a 2013 macbook air.

    Read this whitepaper. It shows that a mid-2014 macbook pro can decode 2 streams of 4444XQ 4K p24 and 16 streams of 4444XQ 1080p24.

    The more highly compressed codecs (eg H.264/AVC based codecs) demand more processing power to encode or decode.

    Most pro editors/DITs use RED rockets if they need to handle R3D files.

  14. Re:Does anyone have comparitive stats on Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    comparative stats:
    If J5 GTA mods start getting pulled from youtube too, there's a problem.

  15. Re:use tails on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously? · · Score: 1

    Burn Tails to a USB drive. Boot that for anonymous access.

    Using a laptop with Libreboot instead of a BIOS with Intel ME etc.

    Issues like the lighteater attack mean that Tails can be vulnerable when run on a computer that has the Intel Management Engine.

    Also, log on to public wifi and use Tails to randomly assign the MAC address. Tails will generate plausible MAC addresses.

  16. Re:Let me be the first to say on Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    A-10 Warthog. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every mother****er in the room, accept no substitute.

  17. It's got a previous-generation headphone jack. That takes courage!

  18. Re:Please explain this? on In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No fake iphone 7 is complete without batterydrainer.app (TM)

    Guaranteed to halve your iphone 6's battery life!

    Extra realism!

  19. It depends what country you're nodding in. A nod means 'refusal' in Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Sicily. (Source: Wikipedia

  20. Re:A matter of time on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right.

    100 channels for 24 hours = 2400 hours per day.

    Even if you watched for your entire 16-hour waking day, you could only watch 0.66% of your television's output.

  21. Re:Shooting innocent unarmed black man on CIA 'Siren Servers' Can Predict Social Uprisings Several Days Before They Happen (sociable.co) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The human race has already developed cheap, portable supercomputers, many time more powerful than the CIA's 'supercomputer' that are expert at predicting social unrest. I have one in my possession right now.

    By simply 'walking' around the target district and simply 'talking' to people, you'll get a pretty good sense of whether social unrest is going to happen.

    Why does everything need to be done by remote control using computers?

  22. If there was an island of clumped floating trash in the South China Sea it would be converted into a military base.

  23. I think the whole 'password hack' is a Yahoo ploy to make it sound like they have a billion users.

  24. Try buying carpets in the UK. Measured width in yards, length in meters.

  25. As soon as you see a phrase like "defray the costs of the buildout" used to translate "we've turned your wifi off to make some money", you know they're struggling to justify what they're doing..