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I can't even downvote.

> because of a further erosion of trust in government and elected officials there.

As perceived by the media... the same media who wanted the other candidate to be elected.

Subversive against the current order. I'm talking from a secret services perspective, of course.

What % of taxi fares are made by terrorists?

What % of Tor traffic is for illegal/immoral/subversive activities?

Of course there are lots of what-ifs, but how do you tamper with HTTPS traffic if you don't MITM?

It can simply stop the connection and show the user, under the normal certificate, a message telling him there's a problem with the cert.

> In the name of "security", this undermines the very purpose of what HTTPS is about, knowingly endangering their users.

It doesn't have to be insecure. If the software that does the MITM checks the certificates correctly, I don't see how it would be worse than letting the browser handle it.

Not that I'd ever use an antivirus, of course.

But it is not manual curation, at least not officially. That's why the algorithm is so (in)famous, because it's an algorithm.

I'm not sure I want Google to tell me what's fake and what's not fake.

This also means they're transitioning from being a neutral part to being curators.

The day I see Firefox shipping Servo I'll believe it.

Knowing Mozilla, the project could be dropped at any time.

>Why ? Firefox still feels slower in loading and showing web pages. It seems to freeze up occasionally. The new tab opening and scrolls have occasional jitters, sometimes sufficient to bring me out of my "flow".

And what's even better if you point that out here they'll come with their completely artificial benchmarks to show you how Firefox is x1337 faster than the rest of browsers.

Only that it isn't.

And what really worries me is that they actually believe what they say, which would mean they are refusing to work on making Firefox faster, because they think Firefox is fast already.

>Only less than 1% of the negative re- views relate to security and privacy concerns, including the use of abusive or dubious permission requests and fraudulent activity, for the 9 apps listed in Table 7.

Of course. People don't install these VPN apps because they want their traffic to be "secure" or "private". They install them because they want to bypass geographical restrictions for content.

Nobody cares about traffic being insecure, or ads being injected in pages--users just want to see that geolocked video and get on with it.

And what's even worse, so many drivers have issues when compiling shaders that were writen maliciously (or even regular ones), that I'd say we'll see security problems with this really soon, the same we saw them when web fonts started to pop in and code that dealt with fonts simply wasn't written with security in mind

I am glad to hear that. On the other hand, I have had disastrous experiences running games with Wine.

Generally you should consider yourself lucky if you can run any old game. Even games that sold dozens of millions of copies and were released ten years ago are full of glitches, such as the early GTA series.

Oh god, please change the title. It's about timers, not bandwidth. I was already imagining streaming music from Spotify and having hiccups all day.

Yes, and it also had an IRC client. Having lots of features unrelated to web browsing did not make it better.

By my understanding, "most" officially means "uninteresting", and extra-officially means "those that make the comments section devolve into a flamewar" (which, in turn, means "most")

There never was such a rule.

I bet dang feels stupid for doing that experiment, it looks like the "hn is no-politics zone" meme will stay around for years.

What's a "housing activist"?

Size of Qt has stopped me from ever thinking of making a small application that uses Qt. It bumps the size by... 20MB at least. I'd love to try Lite sometime.

Funny that a part of Canada speaks French. Who would've known, eh?

I am talking about the list of promises. I am not judging Trump himself, and I actually don't like him. But I like what he's promised and I think it could work.

This is very cool. I am not American but I hope Mr. Trump delivers on these. It'll show the rest of countries another world is possible.

nitpick: "phenomena" is plural for "phenomenon"

What would happen if everybody left their jobs overnight and started playing WoW? Other than Blizzard having to open thousands of new realms.

Of course not everybody will quit their job to play a videogame, but what if a significant % of workers were simply "lost" overnight?

A friend of mine works in welfare (a state worker) and has told me most people there don't really need anything. They simply take whatever they can, and they sell or trade what they don't need.

And what's even worse: many people turn violent if you don't give them whatever they ask for. So they had to put policemen there all day because they had hit the state workers many times.

You know, I'm a socialist, but these kinds of stories really make me turn libertarian there for a moment.

(This in Europe)

I have the theory that if you give money to everybody, prices will go up because sellers will figure they can increase the price of everything without it negatively affecting sales, since every buyer simply has more money to spare, no excuses.

>Everyone has something private they don't want shared online.

So don't post it online to begin with. There are things that simply shouldn't be posted online under any circumstances.

That doesn't only mean "don't sext", but also, for example, if you're a corporation or a public entity, don't have personal information stored in a server that's online unless it's completely necessary, etc.

By having something connected to the internet, someone can make a copy, and once the copy is made, there's no going back.

I get your point but that's not a fair comparison because there were 2 choices, not 6.