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Comment Re:1Password has one advantage over other PW manag (Score 1) 27

They compromised a session key of an insider, which could give them access to whatever internal tools they have, which could allow exfiltrating vaults. If they are secured with poor keys (which is likely for most people) they could be offline cracked.
This seems pretty bad, they don't appear to know what was actually accessed internally. The timeframe before they reset sessions was fairly short (a couple of days?)

Comment Re:That's nice, except... (Score 1) 158

He's been successful at getting the government to bootstrap his pet projects for free. It's not like Elon Musk invented cars and rockets, he has hundreds of very smart people who actually made all of that stuff work.

The whole Twitter debacle has exposed Musk as basically an autistic midwit, and demonstrates what happens when you give someone like that 100 billion dollars. Instead of curing cancer, he bought a thing so he could make millions of people read his thoughts on the Super Bowl.

Submission + - Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions (theverge.com) 3

waspleg writes: The rupture centers on a feature called Web Request, commonly used in ad blockers and crucial for any system that looks to block off a domain wholesale. Google has long had security concerns about Web Request and has worked to cut it out of the most recent extension standard, called Manifest V3, or MV3 for short. But, in a recent blog post, Mozilla made clear that Firefox will maintain support for Web Request, keeping the door open for the most sophisticated forms of ad blocking.

Google’s strategy has been roundly criticized by privacy advocates — the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been a vocal opponent — but the search company hasn’t been swayed. Though Firefox has a far smaller share of the desktop marketplace than Chrome, it could be a chance for Mozilla’s product to really define itself. For Google though, sticking with MV3 will have a huge impact on the overall role of ad blocking on the modern web.

Regardless, Google seems to be holding course. Despite the flurry of criticism from ad blocker developers, Google spokesperson Scott Westover told The Verge that the company did support blocking and only intended to limit the type of data certain extensions could collect.
Google has heard positive feedback about the changes from many content blocking extension developers, Westover said, pointing The Verge to praise from the makers of Adblock Plus.

It’s possible that Firefox’s stance on ad blocking will encourage more users to switch to the browser, which is currently estimated to make up less than 8 percent of the desktop browser market compared to Chrome’s 67 percent. Once Manifest V2 support ends in June 2023, changes in functionality will become more apparent to users of any Chromium-based browser. Until then, Mozilla will be patiently making the case for privacy, even if sometimes you’ll have to look for it deep in a specialist blog.

Comment Re:Economy? (Score 4, Insightful) 305

This may surprise you, but GPS in-building penetration is zero. Whereas the longwave signals from WWV keep a clock I have in my basement synchronized. So yeah, GPS does a vastly better job at providing location, because that's what it's for, and pretty much is shit for providing cheap time sync.
Oh, and as of the 2012 budget, GPS operating costs were $2M ... *a day*.

The real issue here is that this is something that primarily provides a useful service for the little guy and doesn't have armies of lobbyists shilling it, so even if it cost $1.50/yr, let's cut it, because it's SOCIALISM.

Comment Why wait for fires (Score 1) 342

Send the Air Force out to carpet-bomb all the national forests. Once there aren't any trees, the wildfire problem will be solved for good. This will be good for the economy of companies that make bombs, and will probably cost less than the wall. This will also let Air Force pilots rack up "combat" flight time and pad their salaries. And finally, it shows the trees and wildlife who's boss in America.

Comment Re:ray-o-vac. (Score 2) 210

Thought you were wrong, but this basically just happened, the sale of Rayovac to Energizer Holdings just happened 3 months ago. Obvious move, Rayovacs were generally cheaper than either Energizers or Duracell, although I have had bad batches of batteries from them in the past. Now they'll be low quality batteries that cost just a tiny bit less than Energizers.

Guess it's Amazon Basics now.

Comment Re:That's a common fallacy (Score 2) 1014

The OP was pointing out that rich people tend not to spend a lot of time at McDonald's. So if you eliminate the wage tier that does go to McDonald's, the business collapses, automation or no automation because you can't turn thousands of fast-food restaurants into gourmet dining establishments for the wealthy.

Even in the Roman Empire, which was essentially dependent on literal slave labor, 30%-40% of the population were enslaved, and this in a literal plutocracy. So look on the bright side, even in the dream system for the wealthy, you have a better than even chance that you aren't a slave...

Comment Re:Why do they keep doing this? (Score 5, Insightful) 150

Why is this still complex for people after 15+ years? Google's business is selling ads to an audience made captive by "free" email and search (I include Maps here) paid for by the privacy of that audience. The rest of what they do is wanking because they have more money than they know what to do with, the incremental info they get from most of these projects is nil. Google "strategy" these days is to make an inferior copy of other people's ideas, try to leverage their captive audience by strong-arming them and then failing anyway. People have been ripping on Apple lately, but Google is in exactly the same "no-innovation" spiral. They are ripe for disruption, it is only a matter of time.

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