There are a few bars within two blocks of me and the site didn't find any of them. I like the minimalistic look but isn't the database the whole point of it?
Just a few days ago, Google apparently banned shopping results for "water guns" and so forth. The urge to censor in service of one's politics is strong everywhere.
I knew a guy who made seat cushions for boats that could also be using as life savers. They were made of foam and such—no electronics at all. When he got a contract to sell a bunch of them to the Navy, he had to fill out paperwork certifying the cushions were Y2K compliant. At least that was in 1999 and not 2017!
It wasn't just that there were germ theory skeptics, it was that its detractors were the consensus (ahem) unwilling to listen. Read the wiki on germ theory and you'll see its timeline consists of one heretic after another being shot down by the 97%.
It was a really fun time in internet history. Patrick "live blogged" his bank misadventure, and for a couple of weeks his site was the first thing I'd check every day. Very exciting. It felt downright pioneering.
I believe the intent of Assange's statement that a 14-year-old could have made this hack, as well as Trump's tweeting of the statement, was to emphasize the non-sophistication of the attack (commonplace phishing), contrary to the idea we've been hearing from officials about how only a state actor could pull off such a thing.
Why not let wikileaks serve the emails on the MIT page? It's the way the web is supposed to work. Also, the wikileaks archive is the "official" copy in some sense.
Well of course it makes your account less secure. It's another attack vector. As shown in the post, Google doesn't say add a phone number "to make your account more secure", it says "so you don't get locked out". Intuitively, making it more difficult to get locked out of your own account would likely make it easier for someone else "not to be locked out" of your account.
Who would know just how long a MAC address is? Jeez man, these things are literally written as 6 bytes separated by colons. Asking a network engineer this question is about like asking a postman how long a zipcode is.
I thought the same. The claim in the first paragraph that experts "knew" torture would not cause long-lasting psychological harm is so absurd on the face of it, I lost interest in the article pretty fast.