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  1. Re:Drawing in people with free services on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We're All At Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they can get your MAC address from outside your network...

  2. Re:Drawing in people with free services on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We're All At Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    They recognize it from the IP (geolocation).

  3. Re:Google is not a tax on Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But their store is the only one enabled by default. Microsoft was sued big dollars for having IE as the default browser.

  4. Re:Bullshit. Never trust a computer on LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that the 1-2-3 system is better than the single X, but it is more vulnerable to vote-selling. It's easy to identify one's vote when you have not n, but n(n-1)(n-2) different ways to cast it. Unfortunately the perfect system does not exist.

  5. Re:Get a feature phone if you don't like Apple/Goo on Google's Data Collection is Hard To Escape, Study Claims (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not. But each mail I send to a recipient who uses Gmail gets in the hands of Big G.

  6. Re:Get a feature phone if you don't like Apple/Goo on Google's Data Collection is Hard To Escape, Study Claims (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not enough. Every e-mail you send to a person using GMail gets scanned by Google. Every SMS and phone call you make to an Android user gets sent to them (the metadata, at least --- I hope they don't actually record your calls). The only way to avoid them is stopping communicating with people completely.

  7. They took it offline now (surprise!), but it's still available in the Internet Archive. Google-translated version: https://translate.google.com/t... "We are then told, in turn, the tale of the imminent collapse of the Morandi Bridge"

  8. Re:Questionable simplicity on Gmail Now Lets You Send Self-Destructing 'Confidential Mode' Emails From Your Phone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When you e-mail someone.... If the recipient is a non-Gmail user or an IMAP or POP3 user: It's going to send them a message with an annoying link instead of the actual E-mail content.

    Great --- so I can set up a filter that answers automatically with "dear sender, could you please send me a real e-mail? I'm not going to look at this crap".

  9. Re:Because ... on Google Categorically Refuses To Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wikipedia is a great resource for that. Want to know what the URL du jour is for Pirate Bay? Check on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Sci-hub? Easy peasy, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Library Genesis? No problem, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

  10. Re:*Head asplodes* on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    True. Nevertheless, I still find it safer to eat food with one precisely crafted modification, rather than food that has gone through random mutations, including possibly dangerous unintended ones.

  11. Re:0wned by Google on Google Launches Its Own Physical Security Key (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    The USB flavor of the Yubi key is FIPS-140 certified, so it has been independently audited, albeit not in a public manner.

    So Uncle Sam checked that no other country has put backdoors on it?

  12. Re:New Improved Summary on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What would happen? Probably Tizen, Sailfish, Meego, Ubuntu Phone, Plasma mobile.

  13. Good DRM, not bad DRM on Intel Sends in a Final Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Targeting Linux 4.19 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before you guys get excited, this is DRM=Direct Rendering Manager (Linux's graphic driver infrastructure), and it has nothing to do with Digital Rights Managemtn.

  14. Re:Thus on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Take that, Elon!

  15. Who the heck sells a memory card? They are as cheap as a McDonald's burger, and by the time you exit the store there are already larger ones on sale.

  16. Re:Victim's fault? on Thousands of Uber Drivers Scammed Out of Millions of Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. But it does bring up the issue that TFA codes probably need a warning placed alongside the code. "This code is for your personal use only. Nobody should ever ask you for this code. Never give the code to another person, even if they claim to be from [company] or [government]."

    And then you happily ask for the code on the Uber website as a part of your two-factor authentication? That's not confusing at all...

  17. Jolla/Sailfish OS on Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer (www.blog.google) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jolla/Sailfish OS user here. I can SSH into my phone from the PC and send an SMS, for bonus nerd points: https://together.jolla.com/que...

  18. Re:Fork Unicode as WhatTheFuckcode.... on Google Launches Android P Beta 2 With Final APIs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    only existing languages or new languages with full grammar and syntax be allowed codes

    âïðY'©. Not sure if you can display it, but it means "challenge accepted" in my new constructed language.

  19. That won't work until Congress repeals the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

    Hmm, let me see, does it have anything to do with global warming? Yes? Then...

  20. Re:Why only 30 seconds? on Imgur Launches Video · · Score: 1

    Real-life footage of the Imgur board of directors considering copyright: https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Lau...

  21. If the plant is built close enough to the lake, it could compensate by casting shadow on the lake and reducing its temperature.

  22. Re:This is why papers have a "competing interest" on Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    They do have this statement. I opened a few of the scientific papers cited by TFA, and they contain a clear acknowledgment to Barilla.

  23. So why is it surprising? on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why is it surprising? It seems like basic economics to me. People with more in-demand and marketable skills can obtain both a higher salary and more benefits.

  24. Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *Apple users pay $1000 for a monitor.

  25. Re:So it will be no good on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sigh... Currently at Moderation: +4 70% Insightful 30% Interesting