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  1. Sooo.... on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The bomb sniffing dogs failed their training then?

  2. Re:Backing the wrong horse on How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't "perfect forward secrecy" already do this? This is already available in all modern browsers, it's just up to the servers to implement it. SSL labs only gives A/A+ to servers that implement it.

  3. Re:Congrats Slashdot! on How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless you're reading on mobile, then it defaults to "m.slashdot.org" over plain http.

  4. Re:Gibberish? on Google-Backed SSD Endurance Research Shows MLC Flash As Reliable As SLC (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This site has "TechNerd 101" as a pre-requirement. If you're reading this site without first completing that course, please speak with your student adviser to discuss your options.

  5. Re:Is this treason? on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd probably sway more people in your argument if you argued the issues instead of attacking the individual. When you attack the individual, it makes the argument personal, which makes them less likely to see things from your point of view.

  6. Re:Apple only wants to protect celebrities. on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you're glad you have an Android. I've seen zero evidence that Android's encryption is more secure, but I have seen much to the contrary. (I've always owned Androids and never owned an iPhone).

  7. Re:Is this treason? on Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And you trust the government with Apple's signing keys? The government will keep them safe and they won't be leaked?

  8. Informed Denier on Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I saw someone wearing a button that said "Informed Denier \n I love nature". Asked her about it and she said she was informed enough to know that climate change wasn't real. Sorry I didn't have more time to talk to her.

    There are a lot of people that I like to talk to one-on-one. Among them are climate change deniers, flat earthers, young earthers, trump/cruz supporters, and general conspiracy theorists. They are an entertaining bunch, you can give them facts and empirical data, and they find some way to ignore it or redirect as opposed to disputing the facts. It's become fascinating.

  9. Another simple solution on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right now, Youtube takes the video down as soon as a DMCA claim is made against the video. One of the biggest issues is that youtubers depend on the ad revenue which is lost when these bogus DMCA claims take the video down (or worse, they redirect the ad revenue to the company that made the false claim).

    The solution is to give the author of the video some time to counter-claim that the video is not infringing, without automatically taking the video down. That or punishing the company that made the false claim. Either works, the later probably would work better, but it would be hard to enact in practice.

  10. Goes both ways on NSA Chief: Arguing Against Encryption Is a Waste of Time (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    For the people advocating for backdoors/key-escrow/etc, I always wondered what they would say about their own communications. Would they themselves be willing to escrow the keys to their own communications? All of them, including top secret ones? If not, then why?

  11. Arbitrary and no caps on Verizon Vows To Build the First 5G Network In the US (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd much prefer no caps as opposed to faster internet. I'll even take really high caps over the craziness we have now.

    If we labeled home broadband the same way as cellular broadband, we'd be calling it 9G or something. And it would mean just as little to the consumer. It makes it harder to compare speeds/carriers. Just call it by what it is, peak speeds you're allowed to pull on their network.

    It also seems that 5G can be arbitrarily defined. Whatever Verizon wants to call 5G, they can. Marketing.

  12. It's a scam, Trump/Palin 2016!

  13. I love stories like this on Big Trouble for Bitcoin (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Every time a big "bitcoin is failing" story comes out, the price drops a couple hundred. Sell a few coins, and then re-buy when it bottoms out. It always recovers, granted, to various extents.

  14. Universal on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This will have to be more universal, with one provider seamlessly connecting with another. I don't want to keep 1 account per service and only having 1 account might limit who I could speak with. Imagine if email would have caught on if you had to have a gmail account in order to send an email to someone on gmail.

    XMPP chat did most of what would be required, but it seems it's not catching on.

  15. Underground still sounds better... on GM's New Bug Bounty Program Lacks One Thing: A Bounty (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Selling anonymously to the highest bidder sounds best. More money and less chance of being sued.

  16. Router that can track usage on Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy a router that supports DD-WRT and install that. It keeps track of monthly usage.

    They probably won't care if your usage measurements contradicts theirs, but you'll have piece of mind that you're right and they're wrong.

  17. Re:Why? on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do you choose LibreOffice over Microsoft Office? In your answer to that question, I think you will find your answer to your original question.

  18. It used to be terrible on Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online (itworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hopefully they've improved this. I tried this software about a year ago and it was nearly unusable due to the lack of features. It didn't even support page breaks at the time. Some functionality is optional (bibliographies), some is required (page breaks). They probably shouldn't have included it in ownCloud before it had all of the required functionality, because that bad impression stuck with me.

  19. I seriously checked the date to see if it was April 1st when I read the summary.

  20. ...not sure the Police would accept any excuses if you got caught using one.

    That would be illegal. My idea would be done by the government, so it would be legal.

  21. Button said, "Download now and install later". What they meant was "Download now and install when it's done downloading".

  22. You don't like my idea?

  23. Let's start using LCD panels for plates. The number changes every 12 hours or so. Police could still use it to match it based on the date/time it was scanned, but makes scanning by private citizens useless. #maintainthestatusquo

  24. Not viable until it's opened on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    They would charge companies to use it, which makes it unusable in the bigger picture. If they opensource their algorithm and word list under a good license, this has a chance. Until they do that, this won't go anywhere.

    Imagine the big mail/freight carriers having to pay them every time they have to translate a 3 word address. Not going to happen.

  25. Post just the other day... on BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    There was this story just the other day. So they have the ability to decrypt everything, they just won't do it in bulk.