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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
This, I'm afraid I've never heard of. Or if I have, I've never found out what it is.
You're not missing out on much, it's just a mediocre coffee and donuts shop that seems to have cemented itself into being a cultural icon (but it's funny if you consider the fact that it's now owned by Americans)
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
You'll never get your wort down to fermentation temperature that way.
Filed Under: I prefer plate chillers anyway.
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@dkf I think I can live with it being a bit dryer
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
I think I can live with being a bit dryer
Better lube up then
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The UK government will keep a record of every website every citizen visits for up to a year, with this information also including the apps they use on their phone, and the metadata of their calls. This information is known as internet connection records, or ICRs, and won’t include the exact URL of each site someone visits, but the base domain.
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2016-11-26T16:27:31 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:27:37 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:27:44 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:29:13 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:29:27 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:29:28 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:40:21 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:45:36 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:45:37 mullvad.net
2016-11-26T16:45:38 mullvad.net
...Oh really? They don't want to know which Facebook page or Twitter thread the person is visiting? That would leave them unable to trace communication flow; like sucking on the cow's teeth instead of eating a steak.
Upon consideration, I think their claim "this is all we're collecting" is an outrageous lie.
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@CoyneTheDup given historical abuses of information laws, this WILL be abused.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
North-west England isn't exactly warm
Actually, yes it is. North Atlantic Drift and all that. Compare somewhere like Keswick's temperature with, for example, that of Moscow.
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@tufty said in In other news today...:
Compare somewhere like Keswick's temperature with, for example, that of Moscow.
Or Manchester's with that of Goose Bay in Labrador. Remembering that Goose Bay is closer to sea level…
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Definitely won't be abused. Not a chance.
Maybe they thought "Bin Crimes" was Osama's right hand man.
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@Boner that's the example I was thinking of.
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Oh goody, that new law we were all looking forward to... is even more exciting than predicted.
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There may be not much point using a VPN to conceal your web activities if it can be blown open by a technical capability notice.
I'd like to hear the laughter when they try to make Mullvad comply with such a thing.
Provided only that movie pirates continue to be generally recognized as outnumbering terrorists, I can't see any way for a national government to break offshore crypto.
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@flabdablet easier than that, just declare that only terrorists use such unauthorised VPNs, job done.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
just declare that only terrorists use such unauthorised VPNs
...which claim lacks all plausibility as long as everybody and their dog's uncle is a movie pirate and almost nobody is a terrorist. I can't see any such regulation lasting long.
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@flabdablet yes but if the govt declares it unauthorised, they can mandate ISPs block it. Then only the "authorised VPNs" (complete with backdoors) are allowed.
The result of this ends up catching no terrorists but marginalising a lot of people who aren't exactly criminals now but could soon become one. Can we say "thoughtcrime" anyone?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
if the govt declares it unauthorised, they can mandate ISPs block it. Then only the "authorised VPNs" (complete with backdoors) are allowed.
Right, at which point the MPAA starts abusing the backdoors to find people to prosecute, because really, can you see backdoors legislated "for security" actually managing not to leak? And those VPNs lose their business model, while those offering actual privacy become desirable enough to be worth working around ISP blockages for and HM Loyal Opposition starts making populist noises about Hadrian's Firewall. I don't think such blocks would survive politically.
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@flabdablet our govt cares not what the MPAA does.
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@Arantor Of course not, but my point is that people who currently make up the overwhelming majority of VPN customers manifestly do care, and that there are enough of them to make things quite uncomfortable for any government that looks like it's threatening to deprive them.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet our govt cares not what the MPAA does.
But they do care about PRS
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Ew. I absolutely do not want my backdoor to be abused or to leak.
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assault and battery and assault
"This news was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department, who brought you this news."
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
assault and battery and assault
"This news was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department, who brought you this news."
Pretty sure the second "assault" is part of the longer term "assault on law enforcement". I.e., two crimes:
- Assault and Battery
- Assault on Law Enforcement
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@Dreikin But if I'd paid attention, I wouldn't have been able to make a terrible joke :P
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@anotherusername
You know, the thread is "In other news today...", not "In other news years ago"
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@izzion I totally thought it said Nov 15, 2016...
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@anotherusername Still wouldn't be today :P
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@RaceProUK it'd be two weeks ago, which seemed close enough given that I couldn't remember seeing it here before. Two years ago, yeah... I wouldn't have bothered posting it if I'd noticed that.
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@ben_lubar love that sheriff
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@ben_lubar And as usual, the bottom half of the Internet is spewing forth its uninformed... well, I'll let people see for themselves.
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@dse So basically, Italy wants to leave the very union that helped prevent its economy tanking recently.
I guess there's worse ways to say 'thanks'.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@dse So basically, Italy wants to leave the very union that helped prevent its economy tanking recently.
I guess there's worse ways to say 'thanks'.
YOU DO NOT GET IT!!11!! People want tanks and tanking and not thanking libtards!
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Suddenly, Brexit makes more sense to me.
Since I live in the USA, I hope that doesn't mean my skin will turn green soon.
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Remember that recount that the Green Party is demanding in Wisconsin? The recount that couldn't possibly change the election results for the Green Party, but could potentially serve to benefit the Clinton campaign? Yeah... the Republican party has called foul on it...
http://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-b687-d82e-a35e-f6a7374f0001
(Actually, the part I don't understand is why the Clinton campaign isn't just spearheading it themselves. Why is Jill Stein even involved?)
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
The recount that couldn't possibly change the election results for the Green Party, but could potentially serve to benefit the Clinton campaign?
It benefits the democracy! It is a fact that many voted illegally for Billary, only a recount will restore confidence.
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"There are a number of unsecured WiFi networks within an eighth of a mile" of the camp. Those who connected would discover that their email passwords had been changed and they were temporarily locked out of their accounts. Michael also reported that the WiFi at the press tent "gets DDoS'd every couple of hours."
Open WiFi is possible to spoof fairly simply, using legitimate-looking portals to collect any entered data, like email addresses and passwords. Setting up an attack can be as easy as hiding a device in a desired location and waiting for people to connect. Michael referred us to a pair of cybersecurity experts from NYU who'd been gathering data on all this for a while. One expert, whom we'll call "Chuck Justice," documented an ARP-based DDoS attack on the press tent's WiFi.
"It feels like there was an attack on all the accessible networks in order to prompt people to join the insecure one."
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Apparently Bill Gates is the international authority on who is allowed to use the internet.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
Provided only that movie pirates continue to be generally recognized as outnumbering terrorists
This can never actually happen. According to the authorities, movie pirates ARE terrorists. So as long as there's at least 1 non-movie pirate terrorist, there will always be at least N+1 terrorists, and N movie pirates.
Also, movie pirates rape babies.
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Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
And he has hard evidence of this: so many of them voted for him.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/four-new-elements-officially-added-periodic-table
McGeYVEr so close...