Comment: Re:S-class driver with a soda can? Please... (Score 2) 117
Poster above is absolutely correct, I have my butler tape monocles and glasses of chardonnay to my S-class steering wheel.
Comment: This is compiler optimization error (Score 5, Funny) 139
This is optimization error in the compiler of our simulated universe.
Comment: Car analogy? (Score 5, Funny) 314
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Could someone explain this to me with a car analogy?
Comment: Re:Every single day (Score 5, Insightful) 232
I understand that above suggestion to "saw their heads off" was likely made in jest, but there is grain of truth to it.
We live in an era where people in charge have very little accountability to the masses. "The Mob" no longer puts fear into politicians or business community. As such "maybe I shouldn't do this nefarious yet legal deed because it could end up with guillotine" check is no longer there.
We live in an era where people in charge have very little accountability to the masses. "The Mob" no longer puts fear into politicians or business community. As such "maybe I shouldn't do this nefarious yet legal deed because it could end up with guillotine" check is no longer there.
+ - NASA Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record->
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schwit1 (797399) writes "With a drive of 157 feet on Sunday, the Mars rover Opportunity broke the Soviet record, set by Lunokhod 2 in 1973, for the longest distance traveled by a vehicle on another planet."
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+ - The Psychology Of Phishing
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An anonymous reader writes "Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today. Cybercriminals understand that we are a generation of clickers and they use this to their advantage. They will take the time to create sophisticated phishing emails because they understand that today users can tell-apart spam annoyances from useful email, however they still find it difficult identifying phishing emails, particularly when they are tailored to suit each recipient individually. Fake emails are so convincing and compelling that they fool 10% of recipients into clicking on the malicious link. To put that into context a legitimate marketing department at a FTSE 100 company typically expects less than a 2% click rate on their advertising campaigns. So, how are the cybercriminals out-marketing the marketing experts?"
Comment: Face tracking? (Score 1) 58
Could someone explain to me, why would I want my phone to have capability to track my face? With a car analogy?
+ - China Censors Inflatable Toad After Internet Users Compare it to President->
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An anonymous reader writes "China is blocking all reports of a huge inflatable toad seen in a park in Beijing after social media users started comparing it to one if its former Communist Party leaders.
The 22-metre (72ft) yellow toad was unveiled at Beijing's Yuyuantan Park, but its appearance was quickly compared to that of the country's former president Jiang Zemin.
All reports on Chinese web portal Sina – which operates Sina Weibo – removed all mentions of the toad and a story on Chinese news agency Xinhua also deleted its report on the inflatable animal."
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The 22-metre (72ft) yellow toad was unveiled at Beijing's Yuyuantan Park, but its appearance was quickly compared to that of the country's former president Jiang Zemin.
All reports on Chinese web portal Sina – which operates Sina Weibo – removed all mentions of the toad and a story on Chinese news agency Xinhua also deleted its report on the inflatable animal."
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Comment: Re:I don't see the problem. (Score 5, Insightful) 667
False equivalence.
Sides are not equally wrong, and truth is not somewhere in the middle. There is a very clear wrong side - Russian equipment operated by Russian-sponsored terrorists and/or Russian military misidentifying civilian aircraft and shooting it down. Anything else is intentional misinformation.
Comment: SOlution looking for a problem (Score 3, Insightful) 102
Lining up to get sexually assaulted, lining up to pay predatory fees, and then suffering many hours on a dirty plane in sardines-in-a-box seating plan are main concerns.
If the problems above solved, I would gladly register using CLI, if necessary.
If the problems above solved, I would gladly register using CLI, if necessary.
Comment: Generations before us (Score 3, Interesting) 211
Great generation defeated Nazis, landed on the moon; Baby Boomer generation built Internet and tackled racial and gender issues. What are we doing other that building surveillance state and wealth inequality?
Comment: Operant conditioning - just like gambling (Score 4, Interesting) 139
These "free" games use the same addiction mechanisms, called operant conditioning, as gambling. I am surprised targeting these at minors is even allowed.
Comment: Car analogy? (Score 1) 81
Can someone explain this with a car analogy?
Comment: Translation: Slash 18K jobs, apply for 18K H-1Bs (Score 2, Insightful) 383
Translation: Slash 18K jobs, apply for 18K H-1B visas.
Comment: Re:'Vulnerability" is rubbish. (Score 1) 151
Ok, so best-case scenario is that OpenBSD has additional sources of randomness and that issue simply weakened crypto instead of outright breaking it.
For ignoramus that downmoded my GPP - all cryptographic functions heavily rely on random numbers being both unpredictable and computationally indistinguishable from true random. It can break two ways - first by broken seeding, where it becomes predictable. Second by having algorithm that has non-uniform (e.g. some numbers have higher chance than 1/u). Both of these can be exploited to break strongest crypto. Why? Because all our crypto is deterministic.
For ignoramus that downmoded my GPP - all cryptographic functions heavily rely on random numbers being both unpredictable and computationally indistinguishable from true random. It can break two ways - first by broken seeding, where it becomes predictable. Second by having algorithm that has non-uniform (e.g. some numbers have higher chance than 1/u). Both of these can be exploited to break strongest crypto. Why? Because all our crypto is deterministic.