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  1. Re:Who cares about EOL... on Linux Kernel 3.18 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So? The recipe doesn't change: yell very loud at your phone's manufacturer that they have to cut the crap and start delivering updates. Outdated kernels are a security liability.

  2. Like the Mob? on Microsoft Now Offers Patent Troll Defense For Azure Customers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this technically protection money? "That's a nice webapp you have there; it'd be a shame if someone sued you and forced you to close. Become an Azure paying customer and you'll be safe!"

  3. "Success percentage" means nothing, as everyone who has studied a little bit of statistics knows well. There are well-established methods to tell if a result is meaningful or not. In other words: P-values or GTFO.

  4. Re:Multicore for spreadsheets..? on LibreOffice 5.3 Released, Touted As 'One of the Most Feature-Rich Releases' Ever (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link? That is a very interesting Matlab trivia for an user like me.

  5. Re:Win10 alternatives on Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And then people say Apple does not innovate and just copies ideas other people had. Take that, haters!

  6. How is that news? Choosing the download location is a feature that should have been there from the start; it is trivial to implement and deserves at most a mention in their changelog. Or do apps programmers suck so bad at their job that we can't expect even basic functionalities from them?

  7. Re:Subject on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, apart from a meaningless renormalization that is only a display issue, everyone makes the same amount of money. Because they can buy the same amount of things, right? Congratulations, you have just invented communism.

  8. Re:They optimize it clearly on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    This is basically what has been happening for years with "international editions" of university textbooks.

  9. Re:Funniest crowdfunding scam to date on The Mind-Reading Gadget For Dogs That Got Funded, But Didn't Get Built (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dogs? Cats? Seriously, I need one for women...

  10. I know what happened on Female Shark Learns To Reproduce Without Males After Years Alone (newscientist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the Messiah! Bow down before them and adore them!

  11. Re:Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's outdated to use it on a web page -- that's a different thing. I'm sure it works great in its own field. (Do browsers have high-quality MIDI samples anyway?)

  12. Re:Fucking useless on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, how can I make my Geocities home page without my favorite repeating MIDI background music?

  13. Re:Aren't there real problems in Europe to focus o on WhatsApp, Gmail Roped Into Tougher EU Privacy Proposal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that most of those attacks are retaliation against the European military intervention agains ISIL, right? It's just war - the oldest game in the world. A kills B, B kills A.

  14. Re:So Google gets metadata? on Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops - you are right, maybe your post was not the best one to answer to among the two-three that made similar claims. Anyway, it still applies to what you wrote in point 2: I meant to say that Google here is in a significantly stronger position than "the operators of most networking equipment between Alice/Bob and OWS's servers", because it has access to both endpoints. The attack I have described would not work for Alice's ISP (unless it also happens to be Bob's ISP).

  15. Re:So Google gets metadata? on Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It is significantly easier for Google to match up senders and receivers. Even if you they go through millions of messages per second, in an exchange of, like, 20 IMs they can see if the timestamps of Alice's sent messages pair up almost perfectly with those of Bob's received messages. My ISP cannot do that, unless they see both halves of the conversation.

  16. So Google gets metadata? on Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, IANACryptographer, but if I understand correctly: Google gets metadata when Alice sends a message (because connect to its server using this "fronting"), and when Bob receives one (because Signal delivers messages using GCM). It doesn't look too hard for them to reconstruct that Alice is exchanging messages to Bob.

  17. Re:'Signal', but no 'WhatsApp' ? on Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you RTFA? They blocked Skype, Viber and Whatsapp in 2015.

  18. Re:Dual sims are popular in Asia... on Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I was speaking about the battery of the earbuds. They need one, too.

  19. Re:Dual sims are popular in Asia... on Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals (ibtimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Because I don't want to have to recharge it every 5 hours of use? I know it's just a first-world problem, but we are speaking about Iphones after all.

  20. Re:aka PgDn "trick" on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a shortcut for that, it's called "Print Screen".

  21. You mean my ad hasn't been seen by 10 billion people in the last month?

  22. This is a circular argument. To quote GP, why would energy be constant? Maybe the variability is beyond our ability to observe. Maybe thermodynamics is wrong, and free energy can be produced but only in very small quantities.

  23. Different kind of fruit on Apple's Next iPhone Could Have a Curved Screen, Says WSJ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's curved that's not an Apple, it's a Banana Phone!

  24. Using the webcam images (which do not show my face 99% of the time) and a bleeding-edge lip-reading AI seems a bit overkill, since, you know, phones also have microphones...

  25. Re:Automation hits the white collar sector on Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it really take less time to "proofread" a machine-generated translation than to write one from scratch?