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by kbart 10y ago
I wouldn't recommend it as it fails in pretty much any test I've seen. However, there are plenty of good, free antivirus software for Windows. I use Avast (free).
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by kbart 10y ago
" I am left wondering if the same is true, say, for the Milky Way with its half a trillion stars." Interstellar space is vastly more empty (it takes >4 years to cross to the nearest star at light speed vs few hours from Sun
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by kbart 10y ago
You are both wrong, article cites speed of 50km/ year : "a jet stream moving at more than 40 km a year"
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by kbart 10y ago
"Yes but you needed a different app for each taxi company." Depends on a market I guess. Here you have a single app for all local taxi companies (actually, there are few competing apps, but you get a point), you can even selec
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by kbart 10y ago
"The experimenter explained that the box of to ys the children could pick from depended on the total number points they earned by guessing doors with either green vs red arrows behind them." Sounds the same to me as what OP sugg
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by kbart 10y ago
"I wonder how much weather affects success, both for companies and individuals." Weather has a very big influence on how one feels, but every person has different preference. I, for example, can't stand heat and sun (I get
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by kbart 10y ago
"reducing fossil fuel use is like pissing your pants to keep yourself warm." Bullshit, there are already many countries(0) that generate >90% of their electricity using renewable sources. Given the fast growing electric motor
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by kbart 10y ago
"why do we think we can stop the 6?" We don't know, but it doesn't mean we should be actively trying to make it happen sooner. Heck, there's a pretty big difference if next mass extinction happens few years/d
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by kbart 10y ago
Sure, but this method doesn't work when I need to login to my corporate PC at work.
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by kbart 10y ago
That's my point. MFA itself is certainly a very useful security solution (for example, I wouldn't trust a bank that doesn't use it), but "MFA everywhere" is not a way to go, because I value my privacy more than some
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by kbart 10y ago
What do you want to say by that? There was snow in Hawaii recently, but it doesn't make climate change any better.
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by kbart 10y ago
Why not mount engines on the top of chimney itself? It looks more logical and effective than trailer on a ground. Though, I'm still skeptical as this is not a solution to a problem, but more a cover up of it. Coal in XXI century is not
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by kbart 10y ago
It's actually one of these rare moments where I don't mind ad: it's unintrusive, it's static (picture only), it's brief and it doesn't reduce a space of useful context. Basically what you'd get on a paper
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by kbart 10y ago
"Forced periodic password change has got to be near the top of the list in terms of the dumbest things" Totally agree. I often encounter problems that go like this: UltraSecureSystem: Create a secure password. Me: "#@(J
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by kbart 10y ago
Yes, it is simple, yet elegant solution to the common password problems. I would also add check against common patterns (numbers or letters in increasing/decreasing order or keys subsequent in keyboard etc.) to this, so you can't
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by kbart 10y ago
MFA is not a magic solution to all problems either. You can't expect me to give my phone number or real email address to every random site I login into.
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by kbart 10y ago
Ok, let's counter your counter arguments. "one person who can afford this level of spending could easily encourage less well-heeled players to spend similar amounts, which in turn could easily harm those players' families.&q
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by kbart 10y ago
Exactly. I, personally, find many things people pay huge amounts of money for plain stupid, but it's their money and their life, just let them do it as long as they don't harm others. How is spending thousands of $ on computer
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by kbart 10y ago
Having debugged Linux kernel and userspace programs extensively, I'd say this rule is golden. Typical user don't need logs, unless something is really f*cked up. On the other hand, if you are running production or development mach
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by kbart 10y ago
Pretty much all bigger companies have subsidiaries in EU (Uber included), so they must obey EU laws too. I think it's only a matter of time when Uber will get sued for privacy violations.
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by kbart 10y ago
"Let me ask a question of everyone complaining: why not use Lyft? I switched." Because Lyft is not so widely available. For example, only Uber is available where I live, though I still prefer traditional taxi because of (usually
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by kbart 10y ago
Agreed 100%. I don't get it why anybody would need dozens of apps to spam you ads, drain battery life and collect your contacts, location data and whatnot when you can easily access the same services via a browser without all these men
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by kbart 10y ago
Actually, it depends on a country. For example, EU laws override ToS.
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by kbart 10y ago
Both techniques are known and have effective counter-measurements. While it might work for a while, as soon as such "exotic" solutions get more widespread, it can be banned and filtered too (just few more rules to firewalls/I
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by kbart 10y ago
You can do all that on a host PC as well. I still don't see what additional layer of security Raspberry Pi adds here. Or am I missing something?
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by kbart 10y ago
There was an article[1] about scientists reconstructing ancient, proto-European language: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3698184/Liste...
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by kbart 10y ago
It's Belarus, police and laws work quite differently there.
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by kbart 10y ago
"buy a $35 raspberry pi and stuff it between your computer and the internet and route all traffic through it through tor? Too many zero days out there in browsers, flash, java, office" How does Raspberry Pi help here? If it rout
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by kbart 10y ago
So write to HBO support then and complain about their shitty software, it has nothing to do with Ubuntu.
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by kbart 10y ago
What most of home users need now is a browser and it works well on Linux too. I've installed Linux Mint for some of my family members and they are are doing fine. As a bonus, I don't have to clean their systems from tons of malwar

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