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  1. You know very well the remaining unexplained cases were all experimental aircraft. I didn't say anything about aliens.

  2. The military finally admitted to the UFOs. Do you get any news at all?

  3. Re:would never work in real life on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've never lived anywhere with traffic or freeways.

  4. I mean, it would hardly be the first time.

  5. Someone invented a really inefficient way to generate light with magnets.

  6. Overheard later in the Intel development departmen on Researchers Discover and Abuse New Undocumented Feature in Intel Chipsets (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "No, one rootkit is no good. Make sure we bake in a few of different types in case something goes wrong with one. Redundancy is the key to reliability."

  7. Re: Meh ... whatever ... on Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually a few more than 3 lines if you don't want it to create a giant security nightmare.

  8. Re:Break up Microsoft again before it's too late. on Minecraft Creator Markus 'Notch' Persson Eradicated From Splash Text (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    They never actually went through with breaking them up the last time, and it is definitely too late now.

  9. Re: Not "dead yet".. It has not even grown up yet. on ARM In the Datacenter Isn't Dead Yet (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Well I certainly don't think he took the job to watch them crash and burn.

  10. Re:Not "dead yet".. It has not even grown up yet. on ARM In the Datacenter Isn't Dead Yet (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget he did take that job with Transmeta. He's a really smart guy, but I don't think he's necessarily a perfect prognosticator. A lot of this hardware is in a much more usable state than it seems just because the patches are still floating around back channels and haven't been mainlined yet.

  11. Re:What do the remainers in the UK think about thi on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Digital storage has been sounding the death knell for artificial information scarcity for decades now. Industry backlash continues inevitably.

  12. See guys? on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I told you this is what would happen if we let regular people use computers.

  13. Re:Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    So the fact that PHP can introduce weird bugs due to surprising behavior of even basic operations is irrelevant for security now?

    And an example of that would be...what exactly?

    How about JavaScript making all variables references passed by Object?. How about ".prototype" at all?

  14. Re:Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is only really the default configuration of older PHP versions that make it so much more practically insecure. In reality, JavaScript should be higher up on this list, because some of it's innate behaviors are so badly designed they cause vulnerabilities that can't be mitigated in any way other than simply not using it.

  15. Re:RMS should think more carefully. on Stallman Suggests Install Fest 'Deals With Devil' Include Actual Man Dressed As Devil (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    Oh gee, what an amazing insight you have there. The biggest computer nerd on the planet lacks some social skills. News at 11!

    And next you'll be trumpeting your brilliant eureka moment about how none of the jocks care.

  16. Re:Does rms believe in the devil? on Stallman Suggests Install Fest 'Deals With Devil' Include Actual Man Dressed As Devil (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to believe in real Santa to hire a mall Santa.

  17. Not as dead as this post...

  18. Re:Too much entertainment on As 'Subscription Fatigue' Sets In, the OTT Reckoning May Be Upon Us (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not that they don't have enough time to watch everything. It's that they perceive new services as merely further division of a single repository of content. So the objection is to the part about how by the time they've subscribed to enough of them to be able to watch everything, they might as well have just subscribed to DirecTV.

  19. Re:A "scan and ban" function? on Over 100,000 GitHub Repos Have Leaked API or Cryptographic Keys (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it probably wouldn't be a bad idea for it to least issue a warning when you check in ~/.ssh by accident. A lot of these private files should be easily identifiable by path and name if they are not being put there on purpose.

  20. Re:Breaking the narrative on Facebook Knew of Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse Earlier Than Reported (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, what I mean by that is that it's all the proof I need. Obviously it doesn't prove it to you, but then, I actually have some awareness of the actual volume of data in question this time around and how few other places it could actually have come from.

  21. Re:Wait, so... on Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What he means is, there is a real market for fake exchanges.

  22. Re:Breaking the narrative on Facebook Knew of Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse Earlier Than Reported (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if that's true, (and consider me highly skeptical still) all it proves is that the RNC was smart enough to harvest the same Facebook data from the same Facebook developer's API that Cambridge Analytica did; A software development task that would take almost a whole afternoon for anyone with cursory experience in web development.

  23. Re:Pilots not trained, planes not maintained on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People have had enough of paid shills pretending to be experts. Since they themselves are not experts, they can't tell the difference, unfortunately.

  24. Re: FFS: make software upgrades mandatory on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Sincerely, Thank you, for once not making me be the one who has to point out this is all somehow Microsoft's fault. Keep telling it like it is, AC.

  25. It's not as though any other major social media companies encrypt your shit either. Don't pretend Facebook is special in this regard.