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  1. Re: So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The "nightmare scenario" is that all the available hardware is riddled with backdoors - and we are already in this scenario.

    If your network is important enough, and you don't have the resources to build your own equipment from the ground-up, layering is the only way to mitigate these hardware backdoors. You won't close them, oh no... But now an attacker needs to get through 2 doors instead of 1.

  2. Re: Cool I'm safe on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They posted code here occasionally 10 years ago. Now, you're lucky if you can even find a real 15 year old to argue with... most trolls are just here to collect a paycheck nowadays.

  3. Re: So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not so much that they won't cooperate. They are still providing services for American military bases, which are built (with permission usually) on foreign soil to begin with. What they are saying now is that they won't rebuild their *entire* infrastructure for the US military. If their goal is to be independent or even neutral, the goalposts are already in the wrong place.

    They might get a miniscule PR bump from not going along with this backbone upgrade idea. We know Apple's shills still hammer on them not unlocking the San Bernardino terrorists' phones as an example of Apple's commitment to privacy. But whereas Apple's success is based heavily on branding, artificial market segmentation, PR shennanigans... Those things are way less important to whatever European ISP is in question. Not unimportant - but also not their bread and butter.

  4. Who will make up the flash mobs to stone the funny-looking guy who showed up in the village?

  5. Re: Define employee on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, nowhere in the article will it say. You could try asking the Gits directly, and not get an answer. You could have enough people ask them, and get a lie for an answer. Between all that you can probably gauge where the truth is.

  6. Re: Don't believe the hype on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the summary they went on this hiring spree simply because they had a large number of applicants... That doesn't give me confidence they are doing any work. At least not enough they could be considered full time employees.

  7. Re: Remote Work Doesn't Work on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    They use the Meatspace for Business. The resolution is incredible, and they recently upped the character limit.

  8. Re: I talked to a round 1 employee. on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And after decades of steady smoking they may not even be awarded with the cancer... We need The Dealmaker to ensure cancer is affordable for all Americans...

    You may think I'm joking but our White House is readying the defense as we speak. Look for that in the next few months as the FDA proposes more restrictions...

  9. So triggered by seeing an Indian video on the top 10... Your life must be miserable.

  10. Re: Linux on a new Mac - why? on Apple Blocks Linux From Booting On New Hardware With T2 Security Chip (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol, "apple trusted computing helps ensure My Data remains My Data..."

    Apple marketing drone detected. Reality distortion field in effect...

  11. Re:Please no, Hell no... on NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People be puffin on that Elon Musk in Denver though.

  12. Being fair to EJ Smith, it was his first round with this vehicle, he wasn't used to the controls and the handling yet. Conventionally designed ships probably fared better on a glancing blow.

  13. As for the primitive medicine cabinet - it's been a folk remedy for a few hundred, maybe a few thousand years.
    As for being in supplements - It is.
    As for humans having it everywhere - check the aromatherapy spas, or your mom's bath oils, or the herbalist...
    "Drugs affecting the nervous system" might mean any one of hundreds of substances that do dozens of different things in the body, some of which can be called "poisonous", and some of which can't.

  14. Re: This is already feasible with 4G, right? on With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Humanity is having its existential crisis.

  15. Re:...were in 2018 on China Halts Special Approval Process for New Games (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to the state employment office a couple years ago and they still had a teletype machine... the typewriter-looking thing, where you cradle the receiver of the phone into the rubber cup, and there's a sheet that prints out with the message from the TTY at the other end. It didn't look like anyone had used it in years, but it was there ready to receive a message...

  16. Re: It worked! on US Air Pollution Deaths Nearly Halved Between 1990 and 2010 (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Bringing down the dying industry helps way more people than propping it up. That's the difference between the "public interest" and the "special interests".

  17. Re: Typical conversation on How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't hire a lot of anybody, there were about 2 voice actors. And they weren't quiet, they just said the same things over and over.

  18. Re: Does it matter? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    The chemicals from burning plastic are definitely harmful, harmful in small amounts, and cumulatively harmful, if that's what the question was. But for those who have a somewhat modern education, the real question is, when (not if) the rising amount of plastic in food will cross that threshold of harm.

  19. Extraordinary Stupids are Facebook's bread and butter. FB is in position to plug each and every one of them into the Matrix. They will work at that until someone drives the stake fully through their cardiac muscle.
    90% likelihood you are plugged in right now, with their script running on this very comment page.

  20. Re: Kanye left the Democrat thought plantation on Google's CEO Says Tests of Censored Chinese Search Engine Have Been Very Promising (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A shallow attention-grabbing man, with a shallow wife, who makes shallow music, is not who I want to emulate. I love hip hop but he's been overrated from the jump and has only slid from there. His recent trolling stems from a desire to stop the slide into irrelevance. But it has only served to solidify his status as a punchline among rap fans, and a meme among Trumpkins.

  21. Yall thought the Eternal September was bad - now we get the Eternal November.

  22. Re: Who murders more of its own? on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know this is a diversionary tactic. Changing the subject is one of the oldest, most effective in the book. Highly obvious to spot, and dead easy for any 10 year old to deploy. Why all the gymnastics in an attempt to justify it as a legitimate tool of debate?

  23. Re: Too much talking. Too few acting. on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    Other than the fact that that is exactly what was done, Apple has NEVER given straight talk about flaws in its consumer products, much less internal security issues.

  24. Re: *Imagines the job qualifications and interview on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe have everyone in the company moderate for 5 or 10 minutes a day. Delegate the burnout evenly between the available employees if you don't want to hire more. Otherwise - problems. Problems that many companies have. Facebook isn't unique there.

  25. Re: Have they replaced systemd with on New Custom Linux Distro is Systemd-Free, Debian-Based, and Optimized for Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd actually like a fully configurable windowsd, that lets you turn off automatic updates for example, I wonder if MS can give us that.