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>we've never received a counterfeit item. How can you be sure? That's the trouble with buying from street vendors.. could there be something in this water bottle?

I dunno, that's just how it works here.

I don't mean violence from the individual, but from the buckling of systems currently supported by society.

If everyone became enlighted simultaneously, we would probably help each other out, but it would cause a huge disruption in the global economy. Part of that economy is food, and it takes a while to grow a new crop... basically breaking supply chains can cause mass starvations, that's all.

Shh, don't wake us...

This is one of the most obvious things in modern life if you look. But no one seems to be looking.

I'm not sure what life would look like if they were. Probably very different and with a very violent transition.

Just curious then, why does she play it? Isn't that a puzzle game?

>There's no difference between scientific thinking and careful thinking.

Not sure what your intent was, but I don't think the following statement is any less valid as a result

>scientific thinking is difficult and not for everyone >careful thinking is difficult and not for everyone

We posted at the same time, you're right. Disabling js fixes this (and so many other problems)

js websites cannot be trusted

They detect a left-click and in the click handler they replace the href, so it's impossible to see before navigating.

Pretty evil huh?

> I can walk into a grocery store with either a million-dollar suite, or a tshirt/shorts, and I still expect the same customer service.

Oh. Is that borne from past experience? Because my experience living in a very accepting, liberal city, tells me the opposite. Unless your tshirt and shorts are from j crew.

I agree on "if you aren't interesting" but disagree on the things and people requirement.

I believe an interesting person can create interesting photos of almost anything.

Not the parent, but you don't. I run a Galaxy S9 but as far as I'm concerned, the phone will be a paperweight in 1 or 2 more years.

iPhones have better longevity, hence their higher resale value.

Uhhh... what about when I take a photo with my Android phone?

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't believe it's secure to use TrueCrypt anymore, and I didn't even think it was possible to use a volume on Android, let alone an automatically encrypted volume.

I'm worried about thugs blackmailing me, not state actors.

Does this allow someone to decrypt a stolen device?

I moved from an iPhone to a Galaxy S9 about a year ago because I was getting fed up with Apple's hardware problems, and wanted try Android again.

I convinced myself that I was able to secure the Android phone as long as I always bought the newest one and kept it up to date.

But decryption after loss is an untenable scenario for me. I had read that qualcomm's trustzone has had software exploits in the past, but I didn't think it would happen again.

Is there any way to trust that the data on my Android device is safe? If I lost it today, someone could keep it around for a while until the next exploit drops. Has Apple ever had an exploit of this nature?

Not the parent poster, but I already have a desktop machine with no compromises. It's a custom-built arch linux machine with the best screen, keyboard, and mouse I could buy.

Desktops are solved, we don't need a savior for desktops because the modularity allows us to combine the best parts from various manufacturers.

We need a savior for laptops where the keyboard, mouse, screen, and components are all embedded, and there's no way to separate them.

I consider the iMac a convenient machine but it's a bit like buying a tv with a vcr built in and a keurig machine built-in too.

Glad to see this hitting Vice, where more people might read it.

But for me, all I get is a "Well, duh!"

Assuming this comment is in good faith - I have so far only seen Tesla make that claim. And they are also the only ones trying to do self driving without LIDAR.

Disclaimer: If I was a betting man, I'd short the hell out of TSLA.

FB could also rotate the hash any time, with a short overlap period to allow for already-loaded pages, to eliminate this issue.

This is a common question, but cows and chickens eat lots of plants too.

"All the fertilizer, tractor fumes, transportation, ground tilling, you name it, that go into producing a pound of grain are literally multiplied by 4.5 to produce a pound of chicken breasts, or by 20 to produce a pound of ground beef."

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/can-vegetarianism-save-the-...

Right, just like with bigfoot (?)

The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. The gene is the unit of replication, and this affects every process in this universe.

Have you tried Linux recently? I installed arch a few months ago, and almost all of my steam games run on it out of the box (no extra setup required).

I have an AMD Vega 64 graphics card, drivers are all handled automatically.

My Xbox 360 controllers with wireless dongle are handled automatically.

If you want to use xbox one controllers, any bluetooth adapter will work out of the box, but you do have to install a package called xpadneo.

AMD drivers on Linux are great right now, and most hardware is supported with nothing extra.

Yep!

Try reading The Selfish Gene. Altruism is not always how it seems.

Google only allows one "device" at a time, as far as I know. Adding a new device invalidates all old devices.

When you set up a new device, it gives you a new seed.

If you want two devices for Google 2FA, you need to either: - scan the qr code on both devices at once - or write down the seed for later use

Google won't let you retrieve the seed later (to prevent people from adding a second device with 2FA without your knowledge)

Those aren't working class, they're tradesmen. At least IMO.

Working class to me means Walmart, Mcdonalds, and Jack Generic Construction LLC.

You're lucky, I have a bear of a time sleeping and often feel physically uncomfortable sleeping on the floor.

I bought a cotton-filled Japanese futon mattress and slept on it for 6 months. In the end, I was still waking up with hurt joints, almost like bruising, and I bought a $1,000 mattress instead.

So I think it's due to individual nerve differences or something...

Why is "New Pricing" always higher? Not a real question, but it lowers my confidence in Google to see them pull stupid marketing tricks like this.

I'm also a little surprised they're raising prices. I figured this monthly revenue was practically nothing on their bottom line, and that they would prefer to keep users on their platform for network effect reasons.

Their chat product also kinda sucks. Ever tried searching your hangouts for a nugget of information? Generally when I think I've typed something in hangouts, I do a search, find absolutely nothing relevant (despite knowing it's in there somewhere), give up, and just check another source.

I doubt that a sleazy airbnb host would be sophisticated enough to place a decoy router, and if they were, there's probably nothing I could do to stop them.

My threat model would be the host trying to blackmail me and/or get their kicks from watching me.

A corporate or national actor isn't part of this model, because: - I'm a low-priority target - Prevent highly sophisticated attacks borders on impossible/maddening - The likelihood of the creep is probably 10,000x more

I'm not sure unplugging the router would help, but I probably wouldn't find it very inconvenient either (depending on location).

Overall it's probably worth a quick try to locate and unplug it - if you can't find it, hedge your bets and try some other opsec techniques. Just my own approach.

This seems highly unlikely, but like all security, this is just one layer of defense.