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  1. Re:For God's sake.. on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I meant Bolton. Who can keep up with the revolving door at the white house these days anyways.

    > Separately, new US National Security Advisor John Bolton told Fox News that an agreement with Libya on eliminating its weapons of mass destruction programme could serve as a model for a North Korea deal.

    That is an implicit threat.

  2. Re:For God's sake.. on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wasn't Trump, it was Pence and Pompeo who threatened North Korea with a Libyan outcome.

    These people are neophytes on the world stage and it shows.

  3. Re:Fair enough, let others pick it up... on 3D Headphone Startup 'Ossic' Closes Abruptly, Leaving Crowdfunders Hanging (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    why would they return the money?

    Investment is a risk, not a guarantee.

  4. Re:Canadian Pharmaceutical Practices? on US Keeps China, Puts Canada on IP Priority Watch List (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I printed one out and put it in my bbq.

    still use a vpn though

  5. just buy a $50 lightning cable attached to an escape key.

    it's the apple way

  6. I've seen a lot of controversy surrounding this company, but I have yet to see anything conclusive that says they relaying information back to Russian authorities.

  7. No examples? on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > I won’t name names or give examples because I’m not an asshole.

    ok, so I have no idea what you're referring to then

  8. Facebook is a corporation and is free to police the content on their platform as they see fit. They are neither tied to net neutrality laws (or lack there of), and they are not obligated to provide everyone a platform to express their views.

    If you want to express opinions that Facebook would block, it's trivial to setup your own website to do it.

  9. >> Also hatespeech is an implicit threat. If you can't respect another human's right to exist or their civil rights as a citizen, your beliefs are inherently threatening to any demographic targeted by it

    > It is also a concept that applies to society's handling of ideas

    And most societies have come to the conclusion that threats are not a valid form of free speech.

  10. Re:Are we talking on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Ontario has Doug Ford

  11. Re: Lawsuit in 3... 2... 1... on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    how is amazon not competing fairly?

  12. Re:I LOVE rockets but... on SpaceX Launch Last Year Punched Huge, Temporary Hole In the Ionosphere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    but isn't part of the space elevator theory is that the thing at top uses centrifugal force to keep the rod straight as it orbits along with earth?

  13. Re:It has been and always will be used by CRIMINAL on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    or perhaps we shouldn't make criminals out of people acting as a node with no control over the data flowing over that node.

  14. This, in general, is a bad thing on Comcast's Protected Browsing Is Blocking PayPal, Steam and TorrentFreak, Customers Say (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does the summary suggest this is a good idea? What's good about it exactly?

  15. Re:First on The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I will have to rewatch.

    It seemed K's fate was ambiguous

  16. Re:First on The Oscar-Winning Special Effects of Blade Runner 2049 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    we never saw K die. He was just resting on some snowy stairs.

  17. But You're an SME! on US Response 'Hasn't Changed The Calculus' Of Russian Interference, NSA Chief Says (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > I am not going to tell the president what he should or should not do,

    Yeah, when I feel that my product could use an improvement, I never bring it up to the product manager.

  18. Re:Let a mathematician go first on Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps you meant that physics doesn't work well with infinities.

    Infinities in math is fine and are used all the time.

  19. Use nonstandard ports, tada! on More Than 40% of Global Log-in Attempts Are Malicious (infosecurity-magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I turned on all email notifications for fail2ban and I was receiving some 3 to 4000 emails a day.

    Then I moved my imap, smtp, and ssh servers over to non-standard ports, and I receive maybe an email a week from fail2ban.

  20. 1. There is no reason to run a language-specific packager as root, whether npm, pip, composer, maven, etc. Either the package manager makes packages available to the user in $HOME, or there exists some kind of virtual environment tool. Use them.
    2. Why is NPM chowning anything?
    3. Read the thread, the attitudes there are unfortunate to say the least. A new version of NPM is provided when using NPM to upgrade itself without any arguments, and it grabs a "pre-release" version without warning? The version number is 5.7.0, not 5.7.0-beta or 5.7.0-rc1 or whatever. The NPM people violated semver. So there was no obvious way to know this is not an official release.

  21. Re:Running npm as root on Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason to run npm as root is the same as the only reason to run pip as root.

    Instead, you should use nvm or something similar with node stuff, and virtualenv with python stuff, then you don't need root.

  22. > Before you read anything further, it's important to note that users will have the option to opt-out of this data collection.

    or maybe users should have the option to opt-in instead?

  23. Re:How is this any surprise? on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    How is it any different from a business promoting itself in the hopes of increasing revenue?

  24. I'm pretty certain every movement, ism, belief, and so on, is or will eventually become, plagued with extremists. And everyone else who do not consider themselves part of that group, will judge that group by the actions and words of those extremists. Worse still, is that those who are judging the group by the actions of the group's extremists, are a group in of themselves, and are thus prone to having extremist members within them (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...).

  25. I thought Bright was entertaining and would have given it a 7/10.

    IMDB pegs it at 6.5/10.

    So why RT pegs it at 3/10, who knows....