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  1. Or, more to the point, what goes around, comes around. Trump made Hilary Clinton's email issues a major part of his campaign. Trump yakked about it daily. It's disingenuous -- or, at the *very* least, hypocritical -- for Ivanka to simply say, "I didn't know it was wrong." Literally, how could she not know?

  2. Re:Fair is fair on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yep. She should take one for the team ...

    I think she's been "taking one for the team" since she married Donald. Women around the world owe her bigly.

  3. Let me guess ... on NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  4. "Quantum Radar"? China, you can't just add sci-fi word to another word and hope it means something!

    ... Huh, looks like something's wrong with the Microverse Battery

  5. It's not a steady-state beam, it's a highly directional pulse.

    So... You need to already know where the plane is in order to use it? Seems a little paradoxical for a radar...

  6. Re:That's two wring guesses. Try again on The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    in C/C++?

    Neither of those. Care to try again?

    COBOL?

  7. I could argue that the US president knows a similar amount about politics or diplomatics, but then I guess that honor could be extended to most in his administration. See guys, now that it happens in another country is when you see it is a weird thing.

    Did you say the same when a Senator with all of two years of experience in the US Senate and no actual leadership experience ever became President in 2008?

    Ya... but that Senator can read and write sentences longer than 140 characters (and, yes, I know the limit is now 280).

  8. Zuckerberg soon after retorted in an interview with Recode that he found Cook's comments to be "extremely glib," ...

    ... there's a good GLib vs. Core Foundation joke in here somewhere.

  9. Slow news day? on YouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, why? Who cares.

  10. New euphemism? on Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is "not able to attend" the new phrase for "doesn't want to attend"?

    [ Asking for various Secret Service agents in Paris. :-) ]

  11. Re:It is outright fraud. on Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason they can get away with it is because ...

    Did you miss the part where they didn't get away with it and had to refund $700k?

  12. In semi-related news ... on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are condoms still a thing?

    And [ in Jerry Seinfeld voice ] "What is the deal with not wanting to get infected?"

    TL;DR: Summary: Questions need for AV then lists many reasons why you should (probably) still use it.
    TL;DR: Article: Dumb.

  13. News Flash on Researchers Discover Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Researchers discover that computers are only 100% secure while powered down and still in the box.
    Further investigation is need to determine how this affects productivity.

  14. In related news ... on Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Comcast said they were happy to cooperate and that the US Attorney should simply contact Comcast Customer Support for the information they need.

  15. Re:Let's rush that through... on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because, good enough for Google is good enough for everyone, right? And if it's not, they'll just do it anyway.

    Not to worry, this is from Google. What are the chances it ever makes it out of Beta and into actual use. :-)

  16. Re:There's More to QUIC Than You Think on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    QUIC's big win ... is that it allows your network connections to survive IP address changes, since the endpoints are identified not by an IP address/port tuple, but rather by a GUID/port tuple. Downside: You lose (some? all?) anonymity, as your GUID is long-lived.

    Hmm... I can't imagine why Google would want to develop a network protocol where devices/people could be persistently tracked by unique, persistent identifiers that would allow identification regardless of the applications used ...

  17. Um, what? on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    QUIC stands for "Quick UDP Internet Connections" and is ... Google's attempt at rewriting the TCP protocol as an improved technology that combines HTTP/2, TCP, UDP, ...

    QUIC -- All the reliability of TCP with the unreliability of UDP.

  18. Apple T2: Judgement Device on Apple Confirms Its T2 Security Chip Blocks Some Third-Party Repairs of New Macs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for "Apple T3: Rise of the Machinations" and "Apple Sustentation"

  19. The EU would fold long before YouTube. Imagine the constant stream of hate the politicians would get,

    Not a problem. The EU is working to block that too.

  20. They have three "engineers" (lol) working on pointless fluff intrinsically tied to a Google service, but couldn't spare a single person to maintain the built-in RSS reader, which encourages a decentralized internet and serves users instead of sponsors? Ok then.

    Does Mozilla get money from Google? (yes)
    Does Google make money when people use RSS instead of using a browser and their services (Search, News)? (no)

    There are your reasons.

  21. This is just a 3rd party service that tracks prices in some way and does PUSH notifications.

    Problem solved ...

    user_pref("dom.push.connection.enabled", false);
    user_pref("dom.push.enabled", false);
    user_pref("dom.webnotifications.enabled", false);
    user_pref("dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled", false);

  22. You dropped your tin foil hat

    I'm sure Mozilla will develop a built-in Firefox feature to help me with that, though disabling it may be problematic.

  23. Re:Will storage and memory eventually become one? on Study Opens Route To Ultra-Low-Power Microchips (mit.edu) · · Score: 2

    Reading through the abstract something that struck me was the statement "with no degradation in magnetic properties after >2,000 cycles".

    Just don't use it *before* 2,001 cycles, 'cause, man, it's all over the place.

  24. From the Email Tabs Test Pilot page:

    Email Tabs currently works with the Gmail webmail client, but we’re working to bring it to other popular webmail providers as well.

    And how does *that* work? Do I have to be currently logged into Gmail, so Firefox can screw with it, or provide my Gmail credentials to Firefox, so Firefox can access it via some API, or will the mail originate from Mozilla? None of those options sound appealing. In addition, I don't use Gmail via the browser, except to periodically log in, permanently delete things in the Trash, and log out, I use Thunderbird.

  25. Soon to be added retailers will be airlines and hotels, etc... and this feature will be renamed "Price Line". The pop-ups will have a picture of William Shatner and/or Kaley Cuoco with audio (hopefully matching the photo displayed) hawking the new lower price ...