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  1. How will the government elide encryption? on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Will the government be retroactively censoring all of the public details of encryption algorithms and wiping all of our memories? Diffie, Hellman and Merkle better watch their backs!

  2. Re:Shaving on HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop (time.com) · · Score: 1

    F*ck everything, we're doing five blades!

    Not just two blades in one system, but three stainless, platinum teflex-coated blades melded together to form one incredible shaving cartridge, easily fitted into your old twinblade holder. Triple-Trac's triple-threat cartridge, with more close shaves than ever before. Here's how it works.

    The first blade grabs at the whisker, tugging it away from your face to protect it from the second blade.

    Blade number two catches and digs into the stubble before it has the chance to snap back and injure you, pulling it farther out so that it is now ready for shearing.

    Triple-Trac's third blade, a finely-honed bonded platinum instrument, cuts cleanly through the whisker at its base, leaving your face as smooth as a billiard ball.

  3. Re:Don't confuse "old" with "poorly designed" on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're not conflating old with obsolete; they're suggesting that a bespoke, cutting-edge system that didn't turn into a template has left BART on a tree branch all by itself, and thus has engendered its obsolescence.

  4. Who will alert me? on Canada and USA Feds Unite To Fight Spammers and Telemarketers · · Score: 2

    I got important messages today about my credit card account being closed and a balance I owe on a purchase I didn't make. Who is going to repeatedly alert me to these things if the spammers are shut down?

  5. Re:So no used ebay phones any more on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    eBay requires online payment, usually credit card or PayPal so there's still a trace.

    PayPal accounts can be funded by a PayPal gift card bought with cash, so we'll need to register gift cards.

  6. Turn Off Your Phone on Apple's Night Shift May Have Zero Effect On Sleep (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't it easier to just turn off your phone when you go to bed?

  7. Re:Solar flares on What's Frying the Electrical Systems On BART Trains? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That, and carnies.

    You can't trust 'em. Nomads. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

    Small hands... short fingers.

  8. Two of Three on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So the only two options were (1) get a secure phone from the NSA, (2) cowboy? There was no (3) don't read government mail on a mobile device?

  9. Re:At last! on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    it's means it is

    Indeed it does, but if punctuated properly, the sentiment loses some of its period authenticity.

  10. Re: Day Laborers? on A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That whole AM vs PM thing requires additional, highly complicated programming.

    And don't even get me started on the memory this will require. Probably some sort of a hybrid silicon-neural network.

  11. Re:Third-party programs on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary mentions "W10Privacy 2".

    Which provides you visibility and control over Microsoft's spyware and forced updates that Microsoft doesn't provide natively.

  12. Re:At last! on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    The Amiga never got it's proper due.

  13. Re:Add a test on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 1

    So let's say I'm a professor working on research at this university of yours, and I want a new model, or a new configuration, that hasn't been tested at the school before. Do I have to pay for the IT department to buy the first one for testing? Or are you telling me that I just can't buy it because some idiot in IT says they don't want to bother with this test?

    Standard practice would have you ordering off a punch list developed by your school's procurement group. In the exceptional case that you need to order something other than the preconfigured models, you would get an exception from testing.

  14. Re:Research divisions on Yahoo Closes Lab, Among Other Things (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Research divisions are useless anyway.

    IBM Research: ATM, floppy disk, Winchester disk, scanning tunneling microscope, magnetic stripe card, relational database, UPC, FORTRAN, SABRE, DRAM, FFT, DES, Fractals, RISC, etc.

  15. Cut the Cord on FCC Votes To Fight Cable's Reign Over Set-top Boxes (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to care, then I sent Comcast packing, got an antenna and found other things to do with OTA and interweb streaming services didn't hold my attention.

  16. Re:How much is that in commodity medical supplies? on L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network (google.com) · · Score: 1

    That's about 340 tablets of hospital aspirin or 680 hospital bandaids for those counting at home.

    At the negotiated Medicare discount price.

  17. Re:Again... on City of Austin Locked In Regulations Battle With Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    Electronic tracking is far safer than a background check...if safety for riders is your actual concern.

    False dichotomy.

  18. "Facebook's Free Basics was an ill-conceived effort to bring Internet^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFacebook access to the poor in India."

  19. As part of its wider Internet.org initiative to deliver connectivity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFacebook to poor and rural communities

  20. Re:Geez, it's like clamydia on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Cockroaches will eat the remnants of SCO.

  21. Re:Missed the Boat? on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 2
    You might have your accountant check IRS Notice 2014-21. Perhaps it didn't apply to you.

    Q-8: Does a taxpayer who “mines” virtual currency (for example, uses computer resources to validate Bitcoin transactions and maintain the public Bitcoin transaction ledger) realize gross income upon receipt of the virtual currency resulting from those activities?

    A-8: Yes, when a taxpayer successfully “mines” virtual currency, the fair market value of the virtual currency as of the date of receipt is includible in gross income. See Publication 525, Taxable and Nontaxable Income, for more information on taxable income.

  22. Re:Missed the Boat? on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to pay the taxes on the income and I didn't want to be associated with them in a manner that I might have to account for later, so simply avoided the taxes and donated them all to EFF over the period of a month and a half.

    Weren't you still responsible for reporting income in the year the bit coins were mined, and then reporting a deduction for the charitable donation? Even if these were in the same tax year, they may not fully offset one another, depending on your total tax picture.

  23. DIY Fun With Phone Solicitors on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 1

    If you like to do it yourself: http://www.amazon.com/Fun-Phon...

  24. Re:Amazon isn't a customer-centric company on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I left feedback complaining about it I got an email from support saying they canceled my prime subscription (without asking me).

    You're lucky they didn't cancel your Tesla order too!