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Submission + - Google Announces 'Password Alert' to Protect Against Phishing Attacks

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Google has announced Password Alert, a free, open-source Chrome extension that protects your Google Accounts from phishing attacks. Once you’ve installed it, Password Alert will show a warning if you type your Google password into a site that isn’t a Google sign-in page. This protects you from phishing attacks and also encourages you to use different passwords for different sites, a security best practice. Once you’ve installed and initialized Password Alert, Chrome will remember a “scrambled” version of your Google Account password. It only remembers this information for security purposes and doesn’t share it with anyone. If you type your password into a site that isn't a Google sign-in page, an alert will tell you that you’re at risk of being phished so you can update your password and protect yourself.

Submission + - UK High Court orders block on Popcorn Time (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Five ISPs have been given orders by the UK High Court to restrict access to sites offering downloads of popular movie streaming service Popcorn Time – a move which follows complaints from the Motion Picture Association referring to the software’s use as a platform for viewing pirated content. According to the new regulation, Virgin, BT, Sky, EE and TalkTalk are now required to block access to popcorntime.io, flixtor.me, popcorntime.se and isoplex.isohunt.to – all sites which link to Popcorn Time downloads. In the High Court order, Justice Birss cites under Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, that the “Popcorn Time application is used in order to watch pirated content on the internet.” Popcorn Time operates as a BitTorrent client, despite its slick user interface, and is used mainly for illegal content – although, as its supporters argue, it is also a handy tool for streaming public domain films. It is unclear how successful the ban will be – the blocked sites are not the only places to find Popcorn Time online. Additionally, at ISP level, it will be challenging to monitor as there is not a single version or developer to seek out, with the code available as open source.

Submission + - Unmanned Russian ISS cargo vessel is out of control and falling to earth (theguardian.com)

Submitted by devphaeton
devphaeton writes: The Guardian spews: "
An Unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control.

A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress M-27M spacecraft with supplies for the International Space Station successfully launched on Tuesday, but communication with the vessel was lost soon afterwards. The Russian space agency is trying to re-establish contact with the cargo vessel as it hurtles over ground stations, but is struggling because the 2.5 tonne spacecraft is tumbling.

“It has started descending. It has nowhere else to go,” an official familiar with the situation told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. The official was speaking ahead of an official Russian space agency statement expected later in the day. “It is clear that absolutely uncontrollable reactions have begun.”

Comment Re:Mandation of vaccines is not okay (Score 1) 616

by hondo77 (#49533033) Attached to: Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California

Liberty is absolute or it isn't liberty.

Really? Libel, slander, inciting a riot, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, false advertising, yadda, yadda, yadda. You're aware these restrictions on your so-called absolute liberty are working out just fine, right? It's called the real world and you actually live in it.

Comment Re:Who is full of shit? (Score 1) 341

by hondo77 (#49528649) Attached to: Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism

I await your retraction of false allegations and apology for shitty research..

I'm sorry for you that your antivax agenda results in you doing shitty research.

Your first citation shows only severe reactions to chicken pox vaccine, none of them fatal, and no rate is given other than "very rare".

Your second citation also only refers to severe reactions. The word "fatal" is not on the entire page.

Go away, shill.

Comment Re:Somewhere in the middle... (Score 5, Informative) 341

by hondo77 (#49523939) Attached to: Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism

The mortality rate of the vaccine according to the CDC is 1 in 30,000. (The actual wording on the CDC site is that 2 out of 15,000 will have extremely severe reactions to the vaccine, and 1 of those will be fatal.

You are completely full of shit. From the CDC site:

  • Serious health problems after (Varicella (Chicken Pox) vaccination are extremely rare. Only a few have been confirmed by lab testing as due to vaccine-strain VZV, including:
    • pneumonia,
    • hepatitis,
    • severe rash, and
    • shingles with meningitis.
  • Some children who had these serious health problems after vaccination had weakened immune systems before they were vaccinated, but they had not been diagnosed by a doctor at the time of vaccination.
  • Other serious health events after vaccination have been reported, such as thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), acute cerebellar ataxia (brain injury that leads to balance problems), and acute hemiparesis (paralysis on part the body). It is not known if these were caused by the vaccine. Lab testing was either not done or did not confirm if the health effects were caused by vaccine-strain virus.

I await your retraction before calling you out as a shill.

Comment Re: He was an evil man (Score 1) 16

...and issuing a declaration that "freed the slaves" only in the areas of the South not under control of the Union Army (it did not free a single slave in the North, nor in the areas conquered by the Union Army) -- an act that caused widespread desertions by soldiers who were willing to fight to preserve the Union, but not to free slaves...

And what was so evil about this, jerkwad?

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