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Comment Re:I have an idea (Score 1) 274

I too have a 16GB Samsung flagship phone from a few years ago, which was unmodified and permanently full. I did a factory reset and had almost the same situation you describe, a few measly GB of free space.

I got annoyed, wiped and installed LineageOS.

I now have 12GB free, and that's after starting to reinstall most of the apps I use.

What the actual fuck, Samsung?!
Security

German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks 244

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the how-to-tell-wikileaks-is-winning dept.
mpicpp (3454017) writes with news that Germany may be joining Russia in a paranoid switch from computers to typewriters for sensitive documents. From the article: Patrick Sensburg, chairman of the German parliament's National Security Agency investigative committee, now says he's considering expanding the use of manual typewriters to carry out his group's work. ... Sensburg said that the committee is taking its operational security very seriously. "In fact, we already have [a typewriter], and it's even a non-electronic typewriter," he said. If Sensburg's suggestion takes flight, the country would be taking a page out of the Russian playbook. Last year, the agency in charge of securing communications from the Kremlin announced that it wanted to spend 486,000 rubles (about $14,800) to buy 20 electric typewriters as a way to avoid digital leaks.
Editorial

Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds 1198

Posted by Soulskill from the coming-to-terms-with-reality dept.
PvtVoid writes: "Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu pens a heartfelt takedown of misogyny in nerd culture: 'I’ve heard and seen the stories that those of you who followed the #YesAllWomen hashtag on Twitter have seen—women getting groped at cons, women getting vicious insults flung at them online, women getting stalked by creeps in college and told they should be "flattered." I’ve heard Elliot Rodger’s voice before. I was expecting his manifesto to be incomprehensible madness—hoping for it to be—but it wasn’t. It’s a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto, except for the part about mass murder. I've heard it from acquaintances, I've heard it from friends. I've heard it come out of my own mouth, in moments of anger and weakness.

What the f*$# is wrong with us? How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it? ... To paraphrase the great John Oliver, listen up, fellow self-pitying nerd boys — we are not the victims here. We are not the underdogs. We are not the ones who have our ownership over our bodies and our emotions stepped on constantly by other people's entitlement. We're not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.'"

Comment Re:This just in (Score 1) 193

by borl (#46060087) Attached to: Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise

True, they didn't need to go through this exercise, but if they hadn't, neither of us would be talking about them... which isn't exactly in their interests when Princeton handed them a perfect opportunity to blow their own trumpet, whilst at the same time pointing out how silly the original study was.

Facebook are mocking Princeton using similar statistical techniques to come to a similar conclusion. Your point is right there in the summary.

Not sure which of those 5 words gave you the impression that I was taking your post "so seriously" either... If I'd had mod points I wouldn't have bothered to reply, I was just showing how redundant it was.

Comment Re:Hypocrites (Score 1) 162

by borl (#46022695) Attached to: EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws

Oh, I'm sorry, do you think the NCA, Mossad, Al-amn al-Watani, Ministry Of Intelligence and Security, State Security Department, etc., don't spy on their own citizens too?

I don't recall saying or implying that, but nice strawman, and nice attempt at deflection. Your original post is still just as silly though.

The NSA got caught.

Isn't that kind of the point? Or would you please fill me in on how best to quantify this sort of thing without any reliable evidence?

I don't think the NSA is the worst of the lot, not by a long shot.

Nobody cares what you (or I) think is true. Based on stacks of documents provided by our pal Ed, the NSA is the worst of the lot at the moment. At the very least they're tied for first place, but with far better funding than their colleagues put together. This may well change when more information is revealed, but lets not pretend we know things that we don't, k?

There's plenty of recent historical examples of shit other intelligence agencies have done that make what the NSA is doing today look rather germane

As irrelevant as it was last time you brought it up last time.

No country would put its intelligence agencies at a competitive disadvantage merely to satisfy the petty outrage of an internet pundit.

No true country, indeed.
The Internet

Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL 277

Posted by timothy from the why-when-I-was-a-boy dept.
toygeek writes "Earlier this year my family and I moved out into the woods, where high speed is simply not available. We traded in high speed for high latency, clean air and peace and quiet. We've made it work, and can even watch Netflix and Hulu while I'm off in another room working from home full time. Read along as I share some tips about how we've made it work, and the compromises we've had to make." It can be done; low-end DSL from AT&T is also what I somehow muddled through with for most of the last 18 months; though the connection often failed and the followup support was terrible, it worked well enough most of the time, and sure beat a 56K modem.

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