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Comment · 9 years ago
This not an anti-Trump story. The story is about the DA and the police filing obviously wrongful felony charges.

Sure, a bigger number of protesters also got similar charges, but that's not a big news because it's everything but obvious that the charges are bogus.

With reporters covering the event the situation is different. Mass arrests during riots I fully understand, and then reporters may get caught up in the net, but after you identify the reporters, you let them go. You don't file felony charges against reporters filming the event, unless of course you are a crooked DA.

Comment · 10 years ago
The workdays in Europe are your pretty typical 8 hour days, the difference I think comes from the 15-30 annual vacation days per year, plus all the public holidays.
Comment · 10 years ago
The cloth diapers are also a nice touch! We ended up using mostly cloth diapers until the baby started eating solid foods.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
The Nordics, where having kids also increases your happiness, are also very high on individualism as opposed to collectivism. The key difference to the US are the public policies that allow families never to stress about things like arranging daycare to the kids from the day they born.

These policies are not there to combat individualism, but to enable it with taxpaid support networks. Most of them are not poor aids, but state benefits that everyone enjoys, like the free or cheap high quality daycare used by the poor and rich alike.

Comment · 10 years ago
How much more? I always imagined that it's more likely for a standard user to open every email attachment and execute it than it is to get targeted by a malicious attacker who knows what software your users are running and writes exploits tailored for them, but I could be wrong.
Comment · 10 years ago
Typical AV for Linux is for server products serving mainly Windows clients, and the Windows clients are more probable to run random binaries.

Linux malware, outside of someone trying to crack the computer, largely doesn't exist because have you ever tried to ship binaries for all Linux distros?

Comment · 10 years ago
Why not radios? I don't see any obvious benefits in using sound waves over the RF spectrum.
Comment · 10 years ago
>Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts.

I'm not sure DARPA or Naval Research Laboratory are really intelligence agency fronts.

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en

Tor is supported by intelligence agencies because of the value it brings to them. For someone undercover, Tor is a great way to keep in touch, and if you're confronted you have a plausible explanation of wanting to buy LSD or watch kiddie porn or whatever most people use Tor for.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I wonder how does that even work? If someone drops in an injured person and leaves, will the hospital just let the injured person die on the floor? If bystanders doing nothing raises headlines in India, I'd imagine hospitals doing that would be an even bigger scandal.
Comment · 10 years ago
Does someone really believe that cognitive dissonance is a bad thing, as the article suggests at the end? I've just always imagined that feeling bad for poor decisions is how you learn not to do poor decisions.
Comment · 10 years ago
I always though it was a reference for covering the ground around strawberry plants with dry straws. Strawberries especially go bad if the berries touch moist ground, gathering mold or fungus, and you'll also want to avoid weeds, so a thick layer of dried straws work perfectly for farming strawberries.

I think the real title is "The Oxford Etymologist doesn't know how strawberry got their name"

Comment · 10 years ago
About those tests, you should know that the testing orgs are using an array a computers with up-to-date AV solutions, and then making them all go to e.g. websites dealing malware right then as soon as they find a new sources of malware attacks.

I honestly cannot imagine a better way to objectively test how well the products fare against attacks against an average Internet user.

Edit: If I was not clear, nobody tests with historical samples anymore. Only live attacks are being used for tests.

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