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  1. Re:Men No Longer Needed on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Smart lady.

  2. Re:or... on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. We could finally make true human-mouse hybrids for those that want offspring, but without all the hassle of human children!

  3. Re:Why is this a good thing? on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You assume humans are rational. Most are not and are great big narcissists in addition. Those with reproductive problems that are rational refrain from giving their children even worse problems than they themselves have and adopt or do without children.

  4. Re:Sex bots on New Research Shows You Can Grow Sperm In a Dish (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 3rd-wave feminists need men urgently as the suppressed class that works for them and fulfills all their needs. As none of them have any actual skills besides grandstanding and claiming to be victims and bossing others around, they would just die on their own, like any other parasitic life-form.

    Of course, they do not want to pay with sex for all that either, so I really do not see why they are opposed to sex-bots and porn in the first place. May just be a result of general stupidity and inability to connect causes and effects.

  5. Re:Then he's doing it wrong. on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is called the "anthropological principle". No matter how unlikely, there is one earth in this universe. The idea is that only with an earth in the universe will there be humans to observe it. But one is quite enough. It is a bit difficult to wrap your mind around it, but the reasoning is sound.

    There is actually no real reason to expect there to be other inhabited worlds in this universe, except wishful thinking.

  6. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is really no need to point this out. Anybody halfway rational already knows that "God" and organized religion are great big meme-based scams, done to control people, to acquire and keep power, etc. Anybody else is deeply infected by that malicious meme and cannot think rationally about things involving religion anymore.

    From the numbers (apparently something like 80% infected and hence deeply irrational), things do not look good for the human race. Does explain a lot of things though.

  7. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like some severe personality disorder. Probably the people that invented the idea of "God" were projecting.

  8. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So AC is now a scientist? Figures. AC does it all, from moron to scientist....

  9. Re: pet peeve about commas and "that" on Timeline Of Events: Linux Mint Website Hack That Distributed Malicious ISOs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And one more: Unlike re-downloading, that gives you actual security.
    And what about: Unlike re-downloading, this gives you actual security.

    Language relies on the listener having a clue and interpret in the right way. Otherwise it does not work at all.
    As the first sentence is an imperative, there really is no potential for misunderstanding here.

  10. You cannot recognize "safe" WiFi on Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In most circumstances you cannot recognize or verify that a given public WiFi network is safe. What you do instead is assume it is non-safe and use secure communication technologies, like SSH, VPN links, etc. This has been known for ages.

    Incidentally, logging traffic is not "hacking".

  11. Re:And there you are... on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. TOR security is getting fine-tuned, that is all. Of course, no sane TOR site operator would configure the correct timezone...

  12. Re:Welcome to July 2015 on Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    Apparently it got so bad that MS is now unable to bribe the "journalists" reporting this. Just another reason to stay away from win10 like the plague.

  13. Verify the ISO against the SHA512 hashes and the PGP signature of the hash-file. Unlike re-downloading that actually gives you security.

  14. Re:MD5/SHA1's compromise? on Timeline Of Events: Linux Mint Website Hack That Distributed Malicious ISOs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Checksums are only good to check for transmission errors, unless the checksums are PGP-signed. Checking for transmission errors is a good idea with these sizes, but not any protection against attacks.

  15. Re:MD5/SHA1's compromise? on Timeline Of Events: Linux Mint Website Hack That Distributed Malicious ISOs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why you use PGP signatures. Unless they compromise the key before you got it, they are out of luck.

  16. Re:It is not a good idea to pay extortionists on US School Agrees To Pay $8,500 To Get Rid Of Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt it and even if it happens it will not matter. Otherwise we would not have crime, now would we? Threatening violence has never reduced crime to any significant degree. Criminals do not expect they will get caught. The whole idea law enforcement is based on is rather seriously broken.

  17. Re:Smells like Government plan to me... on Unprecedented Spike In TOR .Onion Nodes (profwoodward.org) · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand. "Hidden Server" is a technical term for a specific configuration of a TOR-server, as is "exit node" and "entry node". These are three different classes of TOR network elements and they do not overlap.

  18. Re:It is not a good idea to pay extortionists on US School Agrees To Pay $8,500 To Get Rid Of Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    That is exactly the point: History proves nicely that the NSA has rather strong limits.

    Of course for people deep in paranoia (you seem to be), the NSA is the all-seeing, all-knowing entity that everybody needs to be deeply afraid of. Here is a hint: That idea has been used throughout history to control people and make them self-censor by chilling-effects. Usually it was called "God". This has worked well on many people, despite its obvious invalidity.

    Back in the real world, the NSA TAO (Targeted Access Organization, i.e. the "hackers") apparently has something like 200 people working there. They can, at best, hack something like 1000 targets at any time if using heavy automation. Less than 100 targets is a more realistic estimate though, and on every hack they risk losing zero-day code. That is not god-like at all. That is what a good large criminal gang of hackers can do when they really put their mind to it. And they can do some things the NSA cannot, as they do not need to worry about being identified. Specifically because of the "god"-nimbus the NSA is cultivating in public opinion, they must be extremely careful to not get caught and identified.

    Bus sure, be paranoid and play right into their hands. Well done.

  19. Indeed. Not really less propaganda in the "free" world, only more freedom to ignore it if you notice what is going on.

  20. Indeed. And she will have been told that "communism" means "no personal freedom and no privacy". A few decades earlier she might have heard the same thing about fascism. Important thing is that she understands privacy is important and that the FBI (and others) are threatening it. And that she speaks up about it.

  21. Re:Sexual deviants today, political deviants tomor on FBI Must Reveal The Code It Used To Hack Dark Web Pedophiles (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately, that seems very, very likely. The very amorality of running the site for a time, when the DOJ's says that a main reason to make this type of content illegal is that it victimizes those depicted again is staggering. Only this time they were raped again by the FBI with official sanction. If that is not much, much worse, then I do not know what it. Hence I conclude that this is not about those targeted at all, and it certainly is not about protecting any victims.

  22. Nuclear was never any good, except at making tons of money for the ones selling the fuel and building the plants.

  23. Re:capacity vs actual on Global Wind Power Capacity Tops Nuclear Energy For First Time (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    Surprising how actual facts show some people are just full of it.

  24. Re:Do thay finally have that bookmark menu? on Opera Founder Opens Up About New Vivaldi Browser (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, no. That does not cut it. Double-click to open a sub-folder? Not really. Since Opera has just released 12.18 as security update, I will stay with it a while longer.

    And seriously, how can they mess up or not prioritize something as central as bookmarks in Vivaldi?

  25. Re:Apple Should Unlock it. on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    This person is rather obviously advertising a scam. Stay away.