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  1. Alternatives on Huawei's Equipment Poses 'Significant' Security Risks, UK Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So if Huawei is compromised by the Chinese government because it is based in China, who could compromise the other network equipment manufacturers? According to Wikipedia:

    Avaya, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Juniper, Motorola, and Qualcomm: USA.

    Ericsson: Sweden.

    Fujitsu and NEC: Japan.

    Nokia: Finland.

    ZTE: China.

    It seems ZTE is similarly disliked by the US government, while the others are either American or controlled by US allies.

  2. Re:nothing new on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not, in fact, really part of the constitution of ANY country that I know of.

    They all say something like "everyone has freedom of speech..."

    "...unless parliament makes a law that restricts it, which they can do for any reason."

  3. Eliminating the middle man, never as simple as it sounds. About 50% of the human race is middlemen and they don't take kindly to being eliminated.

  4. Re:Something you have. on W3C Approves WebAuthn as the Web Standard For Password-Free Logins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both of which are harder to replace when their server counterparts are deleted or leaked.

  5. Sounds like they want GNU Taler.

  6. Look at that on A Philosopher Argues That an AI Can't Be an Artist (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone is wrong on the Internet.

  7. EA & Hyperdrive attack on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1

    So giving the games license to EA was a really stupid thing to do.

    Another one was the hyperdrive suicide attack in TLJ. If you could do that, just stick a hyperdrive engine on an asteroid and chuck it at a starship, no fleet commander with a brain in their head would ever build a Star Destroyer or cruiser anymore, 'cause their enemies would just rip them apart from outside weapons range.

    And since hyperdrive tech hasn't really changed since the days of The Old Republic... most Star Wars space combat history is invalidated.

  8. Re: He's right of course, but many here won't like on Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull (itmunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Huge success

    It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

  9. Let's Encrypt on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they set up Let's Encrypt properly, they can have automatic renewing of their certificates.

  10. Re: You have to use the word War on How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more powerful than several government agencies.

  11. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    This StackExchange post thinks differently: https://crypto.stackexchange.c...

  12. "now"? on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    As I recall, Facebook has always been one of the sleaziest companies on the planet. You'll recall the "dumb fucks" quote.

  13. One wonder if Apple would use their total control over all iPhones to sneak peeks at what Facebook executives are talking about. 'Course, if they did, there's no way for anyone outside to know about it...

  14. Re:Clearly we must invade on Switzerland Remains 'Extremely Attractive' For Pirate Sites, MPAA Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    American copyright law, perhaps, but the first iteration in Britain was all about censorship. By giving the "right to copy" to only crown-licensed publishers, the government attempted to prevent the spread of criticizing ideas.

  15. It's funny because Twitter doesn't support RSS.

  16. Yes. The developers of those programs are paid in proportion to how popular the programs are. Thus your usage is what they're selling.

    Some, like Firefox, also sell ads.

  17. Durability on The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    What could ever replace the durabiliy of magnetic tape? Duct tape, maybe.

  18. From my perspective, the JEDI are evil!

  19. Phoronix seems to have disregarded that part and published some benchmarks anyway. https://www.phoronix.com/scan....

  20. Couldn't exist? on Google Doubles Down on Linux and Open Source (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google couldn't exist without Linux

    False. BSD or even Windows Server would have been a sufficient platform to develop the Google server infrastructure.

    Less efficient, perhaps, but hardly impossible.

  21. The article doesn't say, but I suspect the material changes the frequency of the emitted radiation, not the effect. So if the frequency goes down, the amount would have to go up.

  22. Copied on The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not "stolen", it's copied.

  23. Re:The least they can do on KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

    It's not KeepVid, but it's pretty darn good if you like command line interfaces.

  24. They're doing everything! At once!

  25. Re:Three laws of robotics on UK PM Seeks 'Safe and Ethical' Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobel prize for the person who can figure out how to implement these. It will probably be won by an AI.

    Current narrow AI can't really use the Three Laws at all; they're too general.

    For Artificial General Intelligence, which could use them, they are insufficient. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Asimov's robot stories themselves, which are all about how the Laws break down.

    What we really need is a proper theory of Friendliness.