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  1. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't say Eskimos. They are Inuit or Aleut.

  2. Re:Ridiculous on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: -1

    Wow, you're still using "SJW"? You honestly think that's still a thing? Wake up, it is 2018.

  3. Re:How patronizing! on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right, because everyone begins their adult life from the exact same starting line, and all existing institutions are perfect as is. I been hip-mo-tized by Fox News.

  4. Re:Ridiculous on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only 's/witnessed/fought against/g'

  5. Re:It's a good start, BUT on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Proportional representation scares the hell out of the establishment (right and left). It will always be dead in the water.

  6. Here we go... on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On one side, we have those who believe that the "best" candidate should always get the job. They don't really know what "best" means, because they clearly keep hiring the guy who is not the "best", but he's a great guy from a great family from the best schools, so there.

    One the other side, we have those who believe that the government should phone them up with a great job while they finish another game level and devour another bag of Cheetos in mom's basement.

    There, that about sums up the flaming about to happen here.

  7. Re:I made the switch everywhere over a week ago on Can DuckDuckGo Become the Anti-Google? (marketplace.org) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Change the URL to https://start.duckduckgo.com/ and those things should go away once you configure the settings. Let us know.

  8. Use DuckDuckGo's Onion URL in Tor Browser on Can DuckDuckGo Become the Anti-Google? (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    If you must use a typical browser, use https://start.duckduckgo.com/ for searches. Better yet, use the Tor browser with DuckDuckGo's onion address:

    https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion...

    Also use obfuscation addons, of course.

  9. Does Waterfox support ALSA without pulseaudio? I cannot seem to find an answer to that on the Waterfox site. Pale Moon works perfectly with ALSA on the lennart-freed Devuan and Heads systems I support.

    Yes it does. See here:

    What's new in Waterfox 52.0.2? ...

      Disabled PulseAudio and enabled ALSA for Linux builds

    Thank you! I DL'ed Waterfox and it properly supports ALSA without PulseAudio, so I'm in the process of installing it on other machines. I think they should tout that on their main page. Cheers!

  10. Does Waterfox support ALSA without pulseaudio? I cannot seem to find an answer to that on the Waterfox site. Pale Moon works perfectly with ALSA on the lennart-freed Devuan and Heads systems I support.

  11. Our beezness plan eez faileeng par ce-que les maudits americains! We must faaaaart in zehr zheneral deerection!

  12. Canada To USA: Ya, We Got This on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Canada is always there when the USA needs them most:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. It makes perfect sense if they are taking customer service advice from Darl McBride, Stephen Elop, and Prenda Law.

  14. Re:Back To The Basics on Is It Time For Zero-Trust Corporate Networks? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Further, one of the chief reasons that we haven't commonly used the authentication/authorization model on a widespread basis is that almost all previous attempts at scaling the solutions to very large organizations has met with physical hardware limitations that not even NIS+ on an Ultra Enterprise 10000 or batteries of Windows AD servers could tackle. If we now go back to the authentication/authorization model and write the code to operate integrally in the cloud we may have the means to actually scale it to everything. Yes, EVERYTHING. To me, that's a worthwhile idea.

  15. Back To The Basics on Is It Time For Zero-Trust Corporate Networks? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The question "Is It Time For Zero-Trust Corporate Networks?" has been faced for decades, so how is Zero Trust any different? It seems to be based on two well known concepts: authentication (are you who you say you are?) and authorization (now that I know who you are, are allowed to do what you are trying to do?). The authentication and authorization model has been used to varying degrees for decades in Federated Naming systems, LDAP, Active Directory, NIS+. etc. etc. So, the question should be "How is Zero Trust new?" when we already understand the basics?

  16. Title says French, story correctly says Canadian (she's from Calgary). What about the AI though?

  17. We'd better round up all suspected aliens from 7-11 stores and use any means necessary to get their one-time pads.

  18. Re:Recently I tried on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    making a pot of soup using Bouillon Parse snips.

  19. Re:A religious one on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    And god said "Go forth and multiply", but the sysadmin cried "Lord, we cannot do floating point arithmetic in Forth."

  20. Re:LotR Joke on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    :bangs-head-on-desk:

    It was a pun...

    *sigh*

    I think they should take another hit from the tokin ring.

  21. Press Any Key on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 2

    Hello IT? My computer is frozen. All it says is "press any key" but there is no key marked "any" on my keyboard."

  22. Dead Floppy Disk on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hello IT? I think my floppy drive on my work PC is broken. Every time I bring in a floppy from home it never works. Yes, it works fine at home. Yes, I saved everything correctly, shut off my PC, and then stuck the floppy up on the fridge so I'd find it easily in the morning. Yes, the fridge. Yes, with a fridge magnet. ...Hello... Hello IT?"

    (props to Bob Newhart for the schtick)

  23. Coffee Mug Holder on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Hello Compaq? I bought a PC from you but I didn't order this coffee mug holder."
    "I'm sorry, did you say 'coffee mug holder'? We do not offer such an accessory."
    "Yes, my PC came with the coffee mug holder that flashes a little light and then pops out the front when I push this little button."

  24. Rat Shack classic on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 2

    :loop

    echo Radio Shack Sucks

    goto loop

  25. Give answers that suit the questioner's needs on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 2

    Trying to explain developer work to non-developers just isn't worth the trouble, and I mean that with a tinge of sadness after decades of going through the same questions again and again i.e. "WTF are they working on down there, and why do they have such weird work spaces?" My typical response has been to first ask what the questioner would like to do with the information, then tailor the response as best I can in a polite and non-patronizing way to suit that answer. I've also tried to use humour to let them know that "you can't get there from here" and so forth. For some reason I've always gotten laughs from senior execs when I've mentioned that they don't WANT to know what the developers have been up to lately due to persistent rumours that they've become quite handy with rib-spreaders. The execs tend to scurry off chuckling at that point. Good, my plan to get them the hell out of the area worked perfectly.