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  1. Re:the genie is not out of the bottle on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While it may be hyperbole to call it "a new form of life" you can easily see the dangers are very real if you account for human incompetence and greed.

  2. Re:So what on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I just want A.I. to replace me for the parts that suck.

  3. Re:Of course he would say this on US 'Orchestrated' Russian Spies Scandal, Says Kaspersky Founder (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd like to see proof that it couldn't have happened without his knowledge if they simply asked one of his employees instead, or that he could have even stopped it if he knew.

  4. Re:Good! Common-Sense tells you that, &? on System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, the monitoring time is the real question I have here. Weeks... eh, slight confidence boost. Months... better. YEARS (multiple) and maybe we have reasonable confidence there isn't some timeout that waits before trying other outbound ports.

  5. Oh, admit it, you're thinking of drilling some holes in a few motherboards as a test, too.

  6. Re:Easy way to cripple Intel AMT/ME on System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Second time I've seen this post, and I want to believe it's accurate and complete. Can any 3rd party verify this information in any way with a citation?

  7. Re:I will only buy non-Intel chips now on System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops (liliputing.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At this point all AMD has to do is willingly release the information to provably disable their own management engine equivalent and they can sweep the market.

  8. Re:If it works on System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops (liliputing.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want to belieeeeeve!!! Save us system76 you're our only hope!!

  9. Yea, but the point you all missed is it was only a day after it made the front page of Slashdot that Apple took action. Coincidence? Maybe. But the conspicuous correlation brings up a horrifying thought... and all your angry reactions exhibit a even more disturbing psychological cue that does an even better job at providing supporting evidence that you all subconsciously fear I'm right.

  10. It's amazing how the empirical evidence on hand belies the essence of your statement as much as your little tantrum exposes the part about it that you can't admit to yourself.

  11. Re:An even stranger discussion involving systemd.. on High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple's Support Forums Two Weeks Ago (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Employees that are paid better are harder to bribe. That's not a new thing.

  12. Re:Password could be anything.... on High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple's Support Forums Two Weeks Ago (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Well, a little. It lowers the attack requirements from 10 minutes with extra equipment to 10 seconds and your bare hands.

  13. Apple is paying more attention to Slashdot press than their own support forums?

  14. Re:Not only no on Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The really fun part will be when people find out that it doesn't care whether the picture is of you or not. It will just accept the first one uploaded for you, and anyone too slow will be locked out of their own account by a picture of a parked car or some stock photography with a blur filter.

  15. He belongs to neither political party. He's a paid astro-turfer and his only goal is to hilariously cause the exact divisiveness he's pretending to rail against.

  16. Reporter: Thus solving the problem once and for all.
    Little girl: But...
    Reporter: ONCE AND FOR ALL!

  17. Re:Social Media is not a good thing on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    He's just another astro-turfer, trying a new tactic for getting a rise out of us by blaming the real people here for the actions of other astro-turfers. Don't feed them by mistaking their statements as sincere.

  18. Re:Why are social media sites so non-neutral? on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Net neutrality is about bandwidth allocations by upstream ISPs. Stop trying to conflate that with platform's own rules for content moderation. Furthermore, you're a bad person for trying to claim this only happens to "leftist" content or that "leftist" is even a thing.

  19. Re:Okay, social media is a cesspool, but... on FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately this lame ploy will work on 9 out of 10 regular people.

  20. Re:All Millennial-developed software has become sh on Apple To Review Software Practices After Patching Serious Mac Bug (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    While you're on the money about the fact there's a specific subculture that is regressive and counter-productive to software quality that is apparently belligerently persisting to fight against industry best practices, should we really be using the word "Hipster" as a label for them? Don't get me wrong, I've got no special love for "Hipsters", and all their tight-pants flannel-wearing beard-sporting shenanigans, I'm not sure they actually have anything to do with this. As far as I can tell it seems to be actually a flood of current, former, and aspiring Microsoft programmers causing this, with some inside help from RedHat (who we never really should have trusted anyway) and while some of them may incidentally be Hipsters, I don't think most Hipsters are actually even coders. You may be wrongfully lambasting the wrong subculture here.

  21. Re:". Facebook has simply copied its features." on 'Break Up Google and Facebook If You Ever Want Innovation Again' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that already exist?

  22. Re:Silly ass bubble on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this is the real question here. Are there entities other than the obvious market forces working to drive up the price of bitcoins for reasons other than the apparent ones?

  23. Re:What does this do to mining economics on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still kicking myself.

  24. They've been doing it for years. Test it yourself on any connection with more than 128kbps available.

  25. They're already throttling OpenVPN and ssh connections globally under the pretense that all encrypted traffic constitutes unlawful use. Why have they still been allowed to get away with this while claiming they're not doing it?