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  1. Re:Pure fantasy!!! on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Developers do interesting things when faced with soft requirements and firm deadlines.

  2. How could this happen? on IBM Apologizes For Racial Slurs On Its Recruitment Webpages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm guessing this happened because the requirements only said to ask for ethnicity but failed to include the list. The developer went and found an obviously wrong list to force testing/acceptance to return a proper list. They all failed.

  3. Encrypted text preamble to protect the content on In Apple Mail, There's No Protecting PGP-Encrypted Messages (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    > '> ">
    Would > '> "> at the start of any encrypted message prevent the issue from sending the real content from going anywhere?

    Thanks,
    IMarv

  4. Re: We might already have a working theory... on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Magnetic forces, Plasma, and high electrical systems are in a great position to cause nuclear fusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    2) The spectral readings of the elements are a result of the atoms emitting light due to being excited and releasing that energy. It is the electrical grid of the galaxy that lights up the star's matter. There is nothing to explain away, just a different way of explaining why what you see is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    IMarv

  5. We might already have a working theory... on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The mystery is a lot simpler, just read up on https://www.thunderbolts.info/... and other Electric Universe research. Our sun is basically a gigantic electric arc lamp.

    IMarv

  6. Hmm, I think I've seen this somewhere before... on Jaywalkers Under Surveillance In China Will Soon Be Punished Via Text Messages (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow, i think this applies: Arson, Murder, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...

    Share and Enjoy!
    IMarv

  7. I wonder how hard it would be for Nashville to use Eminent Domain to aquire all of the wires and poles then sell it all to Google or keep it if they can?

  8. Please, Tell me more on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, Tell me more about the extinction of fleas. I want to know if there are any downsides to this. Can we mitigate those?
    Can we get Ticks on the list too?

  9. I hope somebody has fairy god parents. on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just gonna leave this here:
    https://65.media.tumblr.com/8e...

  10. And this is why... on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I had made my Windows 8.0 install work nicely for me. It never pestered me to upgrade to 10, but I need security updates. I never installed 8.1 because I didn't want to risk the stability of my Laptop that was working just fine. So, last month, I got new drives and installed Ubuntu 16.04. I'm going to miss the Windows-only games on Steam that I never played anyway. Still working out some minor annoyances, but it has been working well for me so far.
    (Anybody know how to make the alt key keep the menu opening. I tap the alt key, then hit the f key separately, so it is alt then f. Not Alt-F. My "saving" muscle reflex is alt, then f, then s. But that isn't working for me in Ubuntu.)
    Yeah, Microsoft, I took my ball and went somewhere else instead. (But if I really need to, I can put the old drives back in...)

    IMarv

  11. Stupid question but: on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com) · · Score: 2

    Why isn't your catalog of video choices based upon your billing address, instead of your IP? They certainly know where the CC # is based out of and tie that to the video selection and boom, they don't have to care if you VPN/Proxy in.

    IMarv

  12. Re:Easy to beat on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    Or some flavor of the sentence "I plead the fifth." as the password.

  13. Re:An ever changing system is an unstable system on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    Losing HTML in email is a bad thing?

  14. Re:Use a G3258 on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I just built a couple of G3258 machines. It is a good chip, but I probably would have used the G4400 instead if I had noticed it before doing my builds to allow an easier better upgrade to the newer i3/i5/i7s.

    I have year-old clearance sale 1GB nvidia 650s that I got cheap that were in the replaced machines.

    If you need graphics, buy any nvidia card you can and you'll be better off.

    IMarv

  15. Just do it. on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, they have been around long enough that they know our languages already. http://spherebeingalliance.com... The telepathic ones are even better off.

  16. Firewall/Router blocking settings? on Microsoft's Telemetry Additions To Windows 7 and 8 Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Does anybody have instructions for common hardware firewalls and routers on what needs to be blocked at the network level?

    My google-fu keeps failing me and everybody tries to explain how to do it using the built-in firewall which is probably as secure as guarding the hen house with foxes.

    Thanks,
    IMarv

  17. Doofenshmirtz must be an EU regulator. on Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see that since the "Delete From My Mind-Inator" was destroyed, he is still trying to get this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... video forgotten.

    I wonder how well this will work out? Do you think he calls this the "Right to Forget-inator"?

    IMarv

  18. House wiring needs on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    In-Wall speaker wire and other entertainment system wiring (with lines to a projector mount in the ceiling.).

    12 Volt DC electrical wiring in addition to standard AC wiring. That way if you go Solar or Battery, you can keep your electrical systems from doing multiple wasteful conversions.

    Ethernet wiring and Cable wiring. While wireless is handy, you need a good wired infrastructure to get your gear in to optimal places. Wired fixed equipment frees up your wireless bandwidth for your portable stuff (and is a bit more future proof since the wired standards are fairly well set).

    Drains in the floors of rooms with water service. Much less flood damage when the washer or dishwasher breaks down somehow or a sink gets stopped up with the water forgotten.

  19. Re:Numbers on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Then you are compensating for the guy who only does 90% of his miles in Oregon, but the car is registered outside of the state.

    How is this much different from just buying your gas across the state line and never buying Oregon gasoline?

    Just go with the Odometer and ignore the sources of the miles. I'd rather be a little over-billed than give up information on where I've been to the state like that.

  20. Better Get these Chimps Cameras on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    These chimps can get copyrights! Don't let that one photographer near them.

    http://metro.co.uk/2011/07/14/...

    Whee!

  21. Re:proposes to fund and design affordable housing on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 2

    I'm reasonably confident that after he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, his interest in making a movie studio dropped greatly.

    IMarv

  22. Re:I don't get it? on Verizon Subscribers Can Now Opt Out of "Supercookies" · · Score: 1

    I think it is a book, 1984. But I don't remember this part...

    Hmm

  23. I like the ghost town. on Google+ Divided Into Photos and Streams, With New Boss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ghost town state actually makes it easier to follow a few things and keep up. My Facebook feed is long and Facebook's most-recent sorting likes to pick random dates out of the comments of the postings to "refresh" it. With what I follow on G+, a quick browse will catch me up on all of what I am following. It is a feature to me.

    IMarv

  24. Poor Douglas Adams, died too soon. on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1

    http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/TH...
    MAJIKTHISE:
    I mean what’s the use of us sitting up all night saying there may -

    VROOMFONDEL:
    Or may not be

    MAJIKTHISE:
    [Softly] or may not be [louder] a god, if this machine comes along the next morning and gives you ‘is telephone number?

    VROOMFONDEL:
    We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

  25. Re:you can own it if you can defend it on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you have sufficient defenses, you don't need to pay taxes... (But by then, you're probably collecting taxes.)