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  1. Windows 10 beat them on Would You Put Ads On Your Homescreens For Free Mobile Service? · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, most people are already using on their computer a free (as in beer) OS which comes with Candy Crush ads in the main system menu...

  2. Those credentials are identified by the online service they work for (Google API keys, Amazon AWS, Facebook tokens...), so in theory they could just try them and see if they log you on. It looks like they did that, at least in part, because they determined that "the vast majority" of the .openvpn access keys they found used key-only authentication and were not paired with a second factor like a password.

  3. Re:Re on The Last Independent Mobile OS (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why "had", work"ed"? It still works, I'm using one right now (on a Sony Xperia X).

  4. Re:One thing we need to fight for on The Last Independent Mobile OS (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they mention the part about backing up your partition containing some DRM keys in case you want to install Android back? It's a step forward, but I guess it's not as free as one would dream...

  5. Re:Just to set the record straight on The Last Independent Mobile OS (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have never tried the N9, but I can confirm that Sailfish has a swipe-based interface, and I definitely like it. Feels smooth and natural. Unfortunately there aren't many native apps around, so many of the ones I run daily are button-based Android ones (did someone mention already that Jolla phones come with an Android emulator/compatibility layers, so you can run most Android apps?)

  6. Re:Story Structure? on Massive Collaborative Text Adventure 'Cragne Manor' Released (rcveeder.net) · · Score: 2

    Someone please mod parent up.

    Done! Oh wait...

  7. Re:It's not Free... It is taxpayer funded... on Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, it is funded through taxes. This means that it is a net gain for people that use public transportation, and a net loss for those who don't. It works as an incentive to use public transportation. Economically, it makes sense, as long as they retain the same efficiency. The total amount of money spent on transportation, by the entire population, can only go down. Actually, it would make sense to do the same things for museums, for instance: entry to a museum is always free; museums are funded through taxes (for citizens). This policy encourages you to visit museums as often as possible, because why not? You're already paying for it. Boosts culture and education.

  8. Re:Italian Construction Quality on Leaning Tower of Pisa is Leaning Less Than Before, Say Experts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are lots of skew towers in Italy. Many around Venice. Clearly, judging by all the ruins around Italy, you should not hire Italians to build you anything more than a dog house.

    Survivor bias --- if you can still see those leaning towers, it's because they didn't fall down in the past 850 years.

  9. Re:Part of the roadmap on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You know there are adblockers also for mobile browsers, right?

  10. Re:$45K with 45 laptops? on Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not like you have to consume the laptops to pull off this heist...

  11. Technically, they also had ads for Mr. Robot, which is a "paid service".

  12. Just my opinion, but "they are too big" should be enough of a reason to break a company up. With that amount of money and power, they have the resources of a nation state. They can bribe, er, sorry, lobby their way into anything they like, so they are practically immortal.

  13. Re:Printing as a service and dry toner on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We are speaking about mothers and mothers-in-law; do you think their eyesight is that good?

  14. Re:Did you vote for Obama in his second term? on In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Arguably, if you take "unilateral military action" in a foreign nation, then you are in war with it.

  15. Re:There was no leak on Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-up (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you ever have enough logs to be 100% sure there wasn't a leak? Maybe they had enough root accesses to delete everything, no matter how many remote backup copies and how much un-tamperable line printer output you have.

  16. Dude, not to burst your bubble, but consider this: if no one ever wrote an article telling you how to turn off smart compose, then typing it in the browser bar would return no results.

  17. Re:What is the point of WhatApp anyway? on Israel Sends Nation-Wide Security Alert Following Reports About Hijacked WhatsApp Accounts (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I can't convince all the normies around me to abandon it and switch to Signal.

  18. Re:The question is it Genuine Leather? on HP Unveils Spectre Folio, a Convertible Laptop 'Made of Leather' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, I think it can get moldy. The warm temperature helps.

  19. Re:The question is it Genuine Leather? on HP Unveils Spectre Folio, a Convertible Laptop 'Made of Leather' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course real leather isn't green; it's brown.

  20. Let's not forget death metal.

  21. Just the Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Suse, and Red Hat users.

  22. Re:Dual-SIM is awesome on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "copy latest iPhone feature"? Dude, Android phones have had dual SIM for years.

  23. Re:Google Fi on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha. How long do you think are they going to support "legacy" plastic SIMs? My bet is that they model after the XS will be the last one with a nano slot.

  24. So you're making it harder for everyone else besides Google to spy on you. Makes sense.

  25. Re:The feature isn't called bubblewrap on Ubuntu and CentOS Are Undoing a GNOME Security Feature (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not like it's the default desktop environment in the most popular Linux distribution, right?