Actually there is no need for that, google allows multiple ways to block or limit the search results these news organizations can display already. Google has their different crawlers listed on their support pages and also provides examples of how to block specific crawlers from indexing their sites or limit what is displayed. In addition they also support blocking via meta tags and even http headers. So if the news organizations wanted to show up in search results but not in google news they could easily set the following on the web server:

X-Robots-Tag: Googlebot-News: noindex

And just like that the news stories would not be indexed at all, or if they did not want snippets but just a normal link they could replace noindex with nosnippet and they would have blocked news snippets being shown site wide. With the solution to their woes being so simple I am not sure why they have not done it yet.

The "shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a bullshit statement from a bullshit case because of a bullshit law.

Holmes used his statement to justify the imprisonment of draft dissenters during world war one in clear contradiction of the first amendment which even he admitted, eventually. I will say it again, this is bad law, and anyone who wants to have a serious discussion about free speak should not utter it in polite company.

That being said, yeah the quality of advertising and accuracy of advertisers statements is something to look at. It does seem like many sites allow these snake oil salesmen to set up shop on their doorstep through frames or whatever. And they want to keep their reputation while blaming the advertisers without admitting responsibility for letting them in. Shame on them, they own the site, police the content.

There is a more technical breakdown of the malware from the folks at Talos that discovered it. According to them ClamAV has a signature to detect the altered installers. Also it looks like Malwarebytes has the signature too so if that is what you are using get the updated signature files and run a scan.

Otherwise look for outbound traffic attempting to go to 216.126.225.148, that is the hardcoded C2 server the malware uses.

Oh I can see it, some horri-bad dev write a "Select * from users" because that is the only SQL he knows and then finds a bunch of extra fields in his response. And rather than asking someone or googling about selecting fields he then marks all the rest of the fields as hidden. Out of site, out of mind. Only master haxxor ninjas know how to right click a page and select view source.

To be fair most organizations do not have the expertise or desire to review and fix the source code for products they are using, open source or not.

That being said I am betting dollars to pesos that they were attacked with the March Vulnerability and not taken down by the zero day from a week ago. It seems like unless a vulnerability has a fancy web page and gets featured on CNN, management could not give a flying fuck. Wait till the next patch cycle becomes wait until the next quarter becomes eh we'll get to it. And that shit has got to stop.

Lol, that thread is freaking great. A contributor asked about the status on a two year old feature request and makes the mistake of using "guys" when referring to a collective group and get three responses about his use of "gendered language" and his responses marked as abusive and off-topic. And the icing on the cake is that guys is considered non-gendered by both Mirriam-Webster and Oxforddictionaries. As for the feature request itself, still in an unknown status. Honestly if that is how they react to every perceived slight, I can see why Firefox is struggling.

Two articles actually. At least in the smart lock case there was still the manual option of a normal key, the tv users were screwed. Hopefully these car manufacturers are taking notes and designing their system that if the update fails the car still retains it's "car" functionality, like starting and driving. You're point about a hacker sending code to break a vehicle is a valid one, but imagine being some dude working a 9-5 who can't get into work for a couple weeks because the manufacturer bricked his car with a real update. That has it's own dimension of suck.

I was wondering what it would be like to have an aneurysm, now I know. Thanks buddy!>/p>

You did not even read the supposed MRA article that he tweeted did you? Here skim through it. There is nothing in there about women or gender roles. The author Geoffrey Miller, an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, was making a case that speech codes can be unfairly discriminatory against people with mental health issues that make them less able to interact with people without those mental issues and are more likely to violate speech codes because of of their mental health problems. he concludes his article saying he will outline a legal strategy for removing speech codes that discriminate against those populations with mental health issues by way of ADA challenges.

There was nothing in there about keeping women barefoot and pregnant, no calls to ban abortion so not sure how everyone got to the point this was an MRA article or how you got that the person who linked this article is a bigot, racist, sexist who wants to keep women "barefoot-and-pregnant". But you had better stop, because every single time you start putting this crap out there that someone is an "*ist" because of an article they wrote or linked and then other people fact check the claim and find nothing of the sort, you lose credibility.

Now I will say this, I am not sure on the quality of the article because I am not a psychologist, but he did use a lot of Wikipedia citations. I would have liked to see maybe more primary or secondary sources and who knows, maybe he has them on reserve for his next article. But I am not sure a successful ADA complaint can be made on the backs of Wikipedia.

"We're hear to make that heavenly body, heavenly!"

Yeah, if I saw someone escape prosecution by the skin of his teeth I am sure going to be encouraged to speak up like him. Chilling effects dude, they happen.

I could but I have taken notice of what happened already. Germany has a lese-majeste law on the books. This guy (rightly or wrongly) criticized Recepe Erdrogen and his stalking of hobbits up Mt. Doom personal characteristics,and he tried to use that law to silence a critic. And Merkel was ok with that. Do you think that encouraged "loud political discourse"?

the U.S. has a much stricter definition of libel and slander than European countries, so much so that we passed the SPEECH act. Germany on the other hand moved to prosecute a comedian for criticizing Erdrogen, who recently wanted to make the teaching of evolution illegal.

Quit trying to drag neo-nazis into this shit. You asserted that " if you go to Germany right now, you will hear much greater diversity in political speech and ideology than you will in the US.". And I have already shown that is not the case. I, here in the US, can criticize any leader i want and not fear prosecution. Trump is a narcissist, Edrogan needs to lay off them hobbits, Merkel is a coward and Theresa May is a way worse leader than Lord Buckethead. Can anyone in Germany say the same?

Ahem. Though please please please, tell me how this comedian was a Nazi.

Germany and free speech, Germany and free speech, where have I heard this trope before? Oh right, last year where a comedian was being charged for the crime of "insulting a foreign head of state". Now to be fair they did eventually drop the charges and made moves to drop that particular crime, though the current status of that effort I do not know. Who knows, maybe the made the motion of repealing it but it "Died in committee" only for the law to be dusted off again when it is convenient.

But the question remains, why was that particular thing codified into law? What prompted the German leaders to make it illegal to criticize foreign heads of state? Was there some pressing crisis of low moral foreign dignitaries in need of a safe space in Germany? I am not sure, but the after effects remain. This is yet another example of the chilling effects that free speech restrictions can have upon "loud political discourse". While you may say there is no slippery slope, I would say that this is but one example of one. Nazi's may not have freedom of speech in Germany, but neither do political comedians.

P.S. For those Slashdotters living in Germany, I am not aware of the current status of your Lese-Majeste laws but do be aware that U.S. President Trump is also a big fan of expanding Libel laws, so unless you know for certain that the law mentioned above was repealed you may want to keep quite about him. Because he will certainly use them against you if he can.

No kidding, I haven't checked out the site but damn the summary is comedy gold:

I am just imagining some guy in a KKK outfit screaming about the liberal media while chasing down a squirtle in the Bronx. Maybe that is how they plan their rallys, by pokestops?