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Comment Re:We have this incredible habit. (Score 1) 588

Habitually, we elevate the opinion of someone unqualified because they are a household name for, well, being famous.

Mademoiselle McCarthy has as much right as the next parent to be wrong about something, but her point of view should have no more weight attached to it.

This occurs in politics too, as both sides of the US Congressional aisle have been guilty of courting Hollywood. Seemingly, the entertainment class is more likely to be unbalanced than well informed, and yet, here we are.

It's not about logic and facts. It's about identity. We all want to be Jenny McCarthy or her to be our girlfriend.

The medium is the message!

Comment Re:When comments... (Score 1) 301

It also kind of weakens the argument that OpenSource is more secure because of the idea of many eyes. I guess no one started to look for about two years.

It's not more secure. If a flaw is found - it's much faster fixed, and with a flaw like this you can bet many people are going to check it. If this was MS, we would have to trust them, and we would have to wait at least a week for a fix.

Comment Re:When comments... (Score 1) 301

OpenSSH is fine. Unless you've exposed login credentials for those systems through something using TLS (via OpenSSL), there's no need to worry about SSH keys.

If openssh keys were at some point in RAM, they could be out in the open. Small chance, but do you want to take it? Renew your openssh keys and passwords.

Comment Re:Themes... (Score 3, Insightful) 452

The workers will still want to use MS Word, and Excel, and Exchange for email.

Install OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Create symlinks to swriter.exe on the desktop. Rename them Word. Tell people that Word has a new icon. Set Writer to use DOC as default file format. For Calc you can do the same. This works for most people.

Comment Re:VirtualBox (Score 1) 641

I still have an XP installation running in a vbox, just because it's easier than trying to get SlingBox to run under wine.

Me as well. I have the internet connection disabled however, only run Photoshop in it with a shared local folder. I revert to the snapshot everytime - no updates, no AV, a lot faster, works for me!

Comment Re:Is SSH affected? (Score 1) 303

Rather than get all aggro, I will state that I have tried to find a concrete answer to this question ("is OpenSSH vulnerable/impacted by this?"), and I still cannot. So before someone say "shut the fuck up when you don't know what you're talking about" to me, I'll provide the data (and references) I do have:

So in short - if I understand you correctly:

1) You (or we) don't know yet whether OpenSSH is vulnerable.
2) Yes - we should create new keys.

Comment Re:So Arrest Them (Score 1) 207

Congratulations on completely missing the irony in GP's post.

So why is it modded +5 insightful? These kind of comments are taken seriously by many - just see the other comment on it (and don't tell me that's sarcasm too). If it is sarcasm and if it's not clear - then (s)he should have added a sarcasm tag.

Comment Re:So Arrest Them (Score 5, Insightful) 207

if Congress wants people to stop lieing to them

Just strap the CIA director to a table before the congressional committee and pour water on his face until he tells the truth.

What's good for the goose ....

This is exactly what they want! If you do this, you follow their frame, their method, and you (or congress) approve of it. If congress approves of this, they don't have to hide it anymore. Mission accomplished! And thanks for your helpful suggestion!

Comment Re:Information is not for you (Score 1) 128

Information is for the state. You will not record and share among yourselves. You will not become more aware.

You will not develop the capacity to police yourselves. That is for the state.

The funny thing is that these devices only make it easier for the state to record what you do. So preventing that is a good thing. It makes them a bit less powerful.

Comment Re:If Twitter wants to do something useful (Score 4, Interesting) 29

They should help provide information and methods of circumvention to help ensure that no state can block them. Going through the courts is just workfare for the lawyers.

Twitter feeds can be viewed via other websites. Take Wordpress (the software, not the site), which has numerous twitter plugins. You cannot block all individual sites that have these feeds. Turkey cannot prevent those sites from using twitter as long as those sites are hosted outside Turkey. I thought this was common practise in Iran and Libya and other countries that tried to block twitter since the revolutions in the islamic world.

Submission + - Dutch woman gets first complete skull replacement with 3D printed skull (golivewire.com)

rvw writes: Three months ago, a Dutch woman had her complete skull replaced by a 3D printed artificial skull. She has a disease which results in skull bone getting thicker, which would result in too much pressure on the brain. The operation was done in the hospital of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. It's the first time a complete skull has been replaced. With 3D printing they could make an exact copy of the skull. Before they used cement to replace parts of a skull, but this was never a precise method.

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