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  1. Trading in Stolen Goods on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Something I'm surprised hasn't come up yet with these constant thefts - the exchange knows which coins were stolen, it is illegal to knowingly trade in stolen goods so these subchains ought to be blacklisted from trading in most countries.

  2. Re:Just. Fuck. Off. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    What do you expect, Gnome still thinks global menus are a good idea.

  3. If we assume the previous contract length indicates the length of the next one, agreeing to not use drones or automated vehicles for delivery doesn't seem to make much difference the chance that either is allowed in the next 5-years is zero.

  4. Re:Debunked on OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data To a Chinese Company Without User Consent (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't actually debunking, this is the manufacturer issuing a statement claiming differently. We need independent verification.

  5. And don't worry, Netflix will continue to give you suggestions based on you watching 10-minutes before turning it off for the next 10-years.

  6. I'm not sure that gifs are worse - streaming video / audio is one way sites track you. For the most part, I don't see video ads I see shitty videos from bloomberg, CNET, etc.

  7. Re:is this from the artist himself on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would be shocked if it wasn't Jack White making the decision. The record labels don't give a shit since from their perspective touring is just marketing for album sales / streaming.

  8. Why not treat video like a plugin and let users white list sites we will allow video to run at all on.

  9. Re:Encryption enables criminals on Senator Asks FBI Director To Justify His 'Ill-Informed' Policy Proposal For Encryption (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget if we're talking about communication the ideal is perfect forward secrecy otherwise if master keys are compromised attackers (e.g. Russia, NK) who have stored past encrypted data have access to it all.

  10. Re:Hail trump!!!! USA USA USA!!!! on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It reduces to 15% not 0

  11. Re:France and Germany now have to team up to compe on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    10-15 years ago China had no supercomputers on top 500, now they're #1 using their own chips.

    China now makes Intel Xeon processors?

  12. Re:France and Germany now have to team up to compe on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 2

    Eh? Germany already has a lot of tracks deployed, that 25000 km was China *catching up*, its also helpful that as an authoritarian regime they can pay next to nothing, ignore the environment and seize land for pennies.

    As far as exports, China's rail technology is effectively subsidized by the government, cheap labour, and lax labour laws.

  13. While GM is offering Android Auto & Carplay on most of their cars, they are starting to introduce ads into their infotainment. Just another reason to disconnect the onstar modem if tracking your ever move weren't enough.

  14. Re:2FA Offers Limited Additional Security on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They can just remove 2fa from your account with the session.

  15. 2FA Offers Limited Additional Security on Less Than 1 in 10 Gmail Users Enable Two-Factor Authentication (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you are using a random unique password per site, then the additional protection offered by 2FA is effectively zero.

    With a password that is not re-used, there are two possible attacks (1) phishing, (2) malware. If you are tricked into entering your password on a phishing site then you will almost certainly be tricked into entering your 2FA. If you have malware it can jack your session anyway.

  16. Re:How deep does this go? on Lenovo Discovers and Removes Backdoor In Networking Switches (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Its literally in the first paragraph of the summary. Its no longer RTFA its RTFS.

  17. Re:YAY for coal? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Around 50% of their internal generation is natural gas, one wonders where the long term solution for capturing green house gas emissions is, we've been emitting them for far longer than nuclear so we must clearly have a solution to continue using those plants right?

  18. Isn't it single tab?

  19. Re:More bricking... on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike last time this article is click bait, if you can roll back the PC it isn't bricked.

  20. Re:Obvious question, what about AMD? on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume this is tied to either the virtual GPU work or some sort of shared compute, maybe AMD hasn't advanced as far nvidia in architecting in this area?

  21. Re:Obvious question, what about AMD? on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't they already have cross licensing agreements?

  22. Re:Obvious question, what about AMD? on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually they were only shown to have issues with one variant of spectre.

  23. Re:Oh lord, that again? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what native compiler you're thinking of. Maybe I do live under a rock. GCJ is gone - GNU is trying to sweep it under the carpet as the bad idea it was, since it never really worked well (read at all). Ok, doing some research I see that there is some product called Escelsior Jet that claims to be a compiler. However, from its web site [excelsiorjet.com]:

    You're either being obtuse or disingenuous to role Java's bytecode into the same bucket as Python and other interpreted languages. Ditto when you start talking about Java and performance.

  24. AFAIK Google only promotes AMP for mobile devices so Android + Firefox is the only combination where ublock origin is relevant. Personally I do use Firefox on Android as my mobile browser but almost no one else does, nor is the performance optimal unfortunately.

    Google's solution of them hosting the content with means they can run their ads on it, not the ones that the original website wanted.

    Google restricts the types and styles of ads (part of the whole purpose is an optimized experience) but doesn't limit it to their own service AFAIK

  25. I don't know about the rest of you but I recognize precisely zero of those names.