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  1. Obligatory hard drive joke on WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Is that a file server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

  2. Re:Nefarious Headline for Practical Feature on Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    All Intel processors made in the last 10 years have it: https://libreboot.org/faq/#int... All AMD processors made in the last 3 years have it: https://libreboot.org/faq/#amd I am not sure about ARMs, but they also have something called "security engine", and I can find very little info about them on the internet.

  3. Re:Nefarious Headline for Practical Feature on Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    You probably made a typo -- the keys for "just the few" and "all of them" are close-by on the keyboard, after all.

  4. Not excited on Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon (xon.sh) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. What is so awesome about adding two numbers in the shell?
    2. In any case, bash can do it too -- try echo $((15+7)).
    3. One of the selling points of bash is that it needs to be fast for power users, so it uses cd instead of change_directory(). One of the selling points of Python is that readability counts, so it would choose change_directory() over cd. How do you plan to reconcile the two approaches?

  5. I see -- like an actress, for instance?

  6. Oh no! on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh no! We've always done it this way!

  7. By this logic, would she be a whore even if she mowed a lawn or served lunches at McDonalds for money?

  8. Re:Yeah, so... on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why stop here? To make it more difficult for them to behave irresponsibly, we should ban cars. Riding a horse home from the party while drunk will teach them a lesson!

  9. Re:"The G part stands for GNU?" on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical sloppy engineer lacking rigor. Actually, that's norm of elephant norm of grape sin theta.

  10. Re:What are they going to do with the savings?.. on Italian Military To Save Up To 29 Million Euro By Migrating To LibreOffice (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    To be fair, coffee-making is a serious business in Italy.

  11. Re:VERY popular in Spain on WhatsApp Now Has a Desktop App, Available on Windows, OS X · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Add Italy to the list --- virtually everyone under the age of 50 uses it. Though I don't know anymore if Italy counts as "Europe" or "developing countries" nowadays. :)

  12. Thanks, good to know!

  13. Wait, I am confused: I am currently using Whatsapp on a phone that does not have Google Play Services installed. Wouldn't that be a prerequisite to use GCM? (Possibly noob question, sorry, I haven't even written a hello world on Android.)

  14. Re:I started blocking ads when they started tracki on Using Adblock Plus to Block Ads is Legal, Rules German Court -- For the Fifth Time (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If you are conscious about Google spying on you, you shouldn't be using GMail in the first place...

  15. Re:Encrypting the Link is only part of the story on Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Wat? Spam filters work just fine even with encryption, if they are implemented client-side. Thunderbird has a spam filter; spamassassin is an open-source spam filter, and neither of them need to talk to Google servers.

  16. Re:"Transport" != "end-to-end" on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Join Forces To Create New Encrypted Email Protocol · · Score: 4, Informative

    The emails are still in plain text inside the email servers en route, unless the email sender and recipient use end-to-end encryption.

    This. We need one-click client-side e-mail encryption, usable by everyone. Like PGP but without the key management complications and the scary mojibake added to the e-mail body.

  17. *turns himself in on Hacker GhostShell Doxes Himself So He Could Get a Job In the Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful
    s/doxes/turns himself in.

    Can we please stop using random neologisms-du-jour and get back to real language?

  18. Re:Still pretty crusty on laptops on Linux Kernel 4.5 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    The problem still stands for suspend-to-ram, though.

  19. Proof on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 2

    I don't know what she came up with, but a possible proof is a one-liner: draw another circle with center in the given point and radius equal to the length of the three given line segments. This circle intersects the existing one in three points (the endpoints of the segments), hence they must coincide (because of https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Two...).

  20. Re:Theorem wrong as stated on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 2

    Segment. The word you are looking for is segment.

  21. Re:So when was it claimed to be perfect? on Go Champion Lee Se-dol Beats Google's DeepMind AI For First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what the AI want you to think. Don't make that mistake.

  22. Alternate title on Wayland Isn't Ready For the Fedora 24 Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Fedora 24 Desktop Isn't Ready For Wayland"

  23. Re: No one plays games any more on AMD Wants To Standardize the External GPU (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing infuriates an opponent than random missing words in your sentence.

  24. And still, operators charge you as if those packets were made of solid gold. Some plans here in Italy charge 15 (euro)cents for a text. Assuming 140 bytes, that makes over 1000 EUR (or more than 1100 USD) per Megabyte.

  25. Last January Whatsapp has removed the 1$ fee, so it's now free indefinitely. https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/...