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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 t…

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.

The cloth diapers are also a nice touch! We ended up using mostly cloth diapers until the baby started eating solid foods.

No other reason than that it systematically sucks at stopping malware campaigns compared to pretty much everyone else on independent third party comparisons such as https://www.av-…

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 t…

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 know…

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 tryi…

Why not radios? I don't see any obvious benefits in using sound waves over the RF spectrum.

>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 ar…

Do you care if the results are garbage or not? Because that's why they're booting them out, all Edison results from 2014 and 2015 were voided. http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-…

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 rais…

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 l…

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 mol…

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 r…

The only tests against real malware out there I've seen are done by AV-Test and AV-Comparatives, and the top products are pretty good at blocking them. Calling them useless sounds …

It's a really sad truth that to this date the only effective way to almost fully stop malware is to take away the ability from people to do what they want with their computers. All…

The funny thing is that we can measure reality with all kinds of instruments, and based on those measurements have been able to make theories (in the scientific meaning of the word…

Agile and was indeed the OOP Design Patterns of the late 2000s. Sure, there's many smart things in it, and many of those will survive, but when consultants started selling cargocul…

So the NYC HFH idea was indeed to use millions of federal money to kick out low-income families to the street in order to build houses for families who are better off than them? Da…

It was in the 90s, especially after the Dr Dobbs article about it, and tons of late 90s and early 2000s games, like Grim Fandango, Baldurs Gate and Escape from Monkey Island used L…

Why would you want to do that with ruby script instead of your favorite editor, or tr/sed on the commandline? And why would you write a "Close file" comment before file.close?

If you just read the reasons why you shouldn't use it for comparisons, you should also understand why it's pointless to use VT for testing if you bypass AV or not. To quote: -Virus…

"Americans who went to college and graduate school did well. They scored above their peers with similar degrees in other developed countries. For young adults with a high school di…

The focus on Apple writing the OS is something I've wondered about the whole debate, as the core of the issue was never about writing the code, but signing it. The FBI also could'v…