That just means Google is now operating in exactly the same manner that Microsoft used to be when they had dominance over consumer device operating systems. Google now has dominance in the mobile market with Android, and is using that to shove Chrome down people's throats. Personally, the first thing I do with any new phone is download Firefox, just like I did (and still do) with new computers. As the statistics show, though, the vast majority of people don't bother to do that so whatever is the default is what they use. The right and fair thing to do would be to stop them from abusing their monopoly power by offering a choice of browsers at time of install, and not favor their own browser in any way. That would have been the thing to force MS to do as well back when they were being sued for abuse of monopoly power after taking down Netscape with the same tactic. Unfortunately, it didn't happen then and it isn't happening now either. So, Google will continue to dominate the market unless and until some other highly disruptive technology comes along to unseat the current smartphone market and gives another player a chance to enter and eventually dominate the market in a similar fashion.

Eliza helped me through some serious shit back in the day.

*1980s and early 1990s. But yes, excellent series.

>Right now, Slack stores everything you do on its platform by default -- your username and password, every message you've sent //

Ok, everything else is a given, but do they really store passwords? Nothing in the link documents suggested that they actually did? What's Slacks password set up?

Agreed.

What's more every telecoms company around the World buying large swathes of kit from Huawei has presumably done their due diligence and considered that the vulnerabilities weren't sufficient to warrant buying from a different company -- until Trump declared it was anti-USA to do so and started telling other countries who they were allowed to buy their telecoms equipment from (hint: it begins with U and ends in SA).

More than likely it's just to ensure that USA have access and other state actors don't.

Personally I'd rather China was hacking my comms than USA. Take your pick, I guess.

From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:

> ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.[16] The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F. Shaw (function tables), Jeffrey Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter), Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer), Frank Mural (master programmer), Arthur Burks (multiplier), Harry Huskey (reader/printer) and Jack Davis (accumulators).[17] In 1946, the researchers resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and formed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.

> ENIAC was a modular computer, composed of individual panels to perform different functions. Twenty of these modules were accumulators that could not only add and subtract, but hold a ten-digit decimal number in memory. Numbers were passed between these units across several general-purpose buses (or trays, as they were called). In order to achieve its high speed, the panels had to send and receive numbers, compute, save the answer and trigger the next operation, all without any moving parts. Key to its versatility was the ability to branch; it could trigger different operations, depending on the sign of a computed result.

Are you really telling me that the people that made the machine had no idea how to programme it, not even a system in place to enable that? The OP makes it sounds like the makers just randomly built stuff and it took women (not computer scientists, or mathematicians; but women, if they'd had testicles they'd have been unable ...) to come along, decipher the randomly wired together hardware, realise it could be used as a computer, and then develop programming -- independent of any men mind you, men didn't even sweep the floors.

This whole retconning of past scientific and engineering efforts as solely performed by women is silly.

The Bank don't know who you are, their machine recognises your customer ID and handles moving around the numbers that represent your money. They've no interest in you beyond your ability to make them money; in the past a person at the bank would be able to greet you by name and would probably know your balance and your general banking habits.

The government could probably be turned in to a system that is good for signing people's keys but in the UK at least it's not yet such a thing IMO.

Pen testing is a legitimate use. If it's possible to create such a tool then it's necessary for security operatives to use such tools to treat the effects they would have when penetrating a particular network's security.

Oh no they'll have to make better printers, how terrible for the consumer ...

How many words did the control group get right by the end? 20 hours of memorising for 72 words ... and they only remembered 36 more than they started out with?? Surely that abstract is wrong. I have a bad memory but, really?

FWIW I tried memory-palacing and couldn't remember any of the items that were supposed to help me recall the data. I could remember some of the data though. Clearly not for me.

If it helps to soften the blow I live in a city, albeit a small one, and can't get mobile phone reception enough to work the credit card machine at work in the city centre. We also have a sight line from our house to a mobile mast and can't get good reception there. I think we must have secret government research facilities oro something that interferes with the signals.

Well I barely have any non-white friends and one of the few I know was verbally assaulted in the street. Some people apparently thought that voting "out" meant we'd then immediately evict anyone who wasn't 7th generation British. Figures show something like a doubling of racially motivated attacks and that's the reported figures, like my friend I suspect most incidents went unreported.

The Independent [1] reported a 3-fold increase between the days immediately after the referendum and the comparative dates in 2015. That seems like it qualifies as a very large surge [which thankfully doesn't appear to have been sustained].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

So cancelling orders (his apparent "crime" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...) is now illegal in USA. Wonder what the market impact of that will be.

Also why did UK allow the extradition. He wasn't in USA and quite possibly didn't break any laws where he was; this looks like USA doing the usual thing of trying to make it's own laws global.

Compose used to by default be mapped as AltGr in Linux distros.

For me on Kubuntu AltGr+;,e (ie hold AltGr [aka "right alt"] whilst pressing semi-colon, then press e) gives me é (that's e-acute), AltGr+',e gives me ê (that's e-circumflex).

On MS Windows it used to be that you could hold alt and then type a code number _using the keypad_ for the character, so Alt+0233 (using NumPad) would give you é. Not sure if it has to be right-alt again but don't think it does.

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu... has a good synopsis.