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  1. only in EBCDIC format in many counties. That is still machine readable. for an IBM mainframe.

  2. I still call it Netscape. on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I still have the box too.

  3. Re:Attempt != Success on Does Gmail's New 'Confidential Mode' Make It Easier to Phish? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    I quit trying to train lusers long ago. Too many corporate types training them to be insecure. Hiding extensions, active-x, hiding email addresses, link shortening, click link to install, auto-start. Idiot proofing forces the evolution of better idiots
    .

  4. I always felt google was targeting flash mainly because ad block plus had a 99% block rate for flash ads. Now I can't stop national geographic and every other news site from auto-playing their videos. Click no longer stops them and if you scroll down they follow you. I fore see an added fee for advertisers that want to force you to see their ad on a google system.

  5. sig line pain inducer... it is "intents and purposes" not "intensive purposes"

  6. Re:The gateway drug theory doesn't make sense on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems impossible to me. Cost wise, in my high tax state a carton of smokes was 80 bucks when I was buying them.. I used 6 a month. 480 bucks plus sales tax of 10 %.

    Vaping currently cost me about 30 dollars a month for nicotine base, 2 dollars for VG (vegetable glycerin) to mix it down to the strength I use, and about 6 dollars a month for flavoring. Coils are about 6 to 10 dollars a month and batteries are 8 to 10 dollars a piece and I have bought 9 in 5 years.

    I keep a 5 year supply of Nic base in the freezer because I know anything the FDA gets its hooks into will eventually go up 1000% in price and never escape their grasp.

  7. Re:In other news... water is wet! on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. I buy them separate and mix my own. I also buy nicotine as a 99 mg/ml litre jug and mix the strength I want . (currently 16 mg/ml) Vaping for 5 years and my doctors are happy with it. Far better for me than the 47 years I spent smoking. Been a nicotine addict since working the fields at the age of 5.

  8. So... They are no longer waiting on Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    for the Reichstag to burn down.

  9. Tell him the story of Walt Disney on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? · · Score: 1

    The plucky entrepreneur who strip mined the public domain and made millions (back when millions was a LOT of money) and reinvested some of that cash into lawyers and lobbyists to make damn sure no one else on the planet would every be able to do the same.

    https://priceonomics.com/how-m...

  10. The brain is what hears. on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I grew up near a military base which included artillery and air cavalry training every day. I noticed later in life that I did not actually hear helicopters anymore unless I saw one or noticed someone else looking up.

  11. All those people who modeled for stock photos... on Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Will never get back in their account.

  12. Re:Is the Gradient enough? on Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked many years in the Westin building. By 2001 all the lawyers, consuls and misc office drones had been pushed out and the telcos, isps and several big name startups had to find cheaper office space since it was damn near all being converted to datacenter. The parking garage lost several floors to generators and cooling overflow and the roof top looked like a fucking torch in the infrared. Seattle internet exchange started in the Westin (1997 ish) using a sparc 10 and a dumb hub and a couple of cat-3 cables we threw across the wall to real networks. Now it is massive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I am pretty sure the building will not come down in a "big-one" earthquake since it is by my guess about 20% fiber-optic and copper cabling by weight. :)

  13. I pay the neighborhood kids 15.00 an hour. I am disabled and they can get a lot more done in that hour than I can.

  14. Blacks and whites in the south often have the same name. There were three with my name and middle initial in my third grade class, 7 in the elementary school. 4 were black. (Last name the same as Confederate President)

  15. Authoritarian understanding of the 4th amendment on Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji (techdirt.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gen. Michael Hayden refused to answer question about spying on political enemies at National Press Club. At a public appearance, Bush's pointman in the Office of National Intelligence was asked if the NSA was wiretapping Bush's political enemies. When Hayden dodged the question, the questioner repeated, "No, I asked, are you targeting us and people who politically oppose the Bush government, the Bush administration? Not a fishing net, but are you targeting specifically political opponents of the Bush administration?" Hayden looked at the questioner, and after a silence called on a different questioner. (Hayden National Press Club remarks, 1/23/06)

    ---
    Landay: "...the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution specifies that you must have probable cause to violate an American's right against unreasonable searches and seizures..."

    Gen. Hayden: "No, actually - the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure."

    Landay: "But the --"

    Gen. Hayden: "That's what it says."

    Landay: "The legal measure is probable cause, it says."

    Gen. Hayden: "The Amendment says: unreasonable search and seizure."

    Landay: "But does it not say 'probable cause'?"

    Gen. Hayden [exasperated, scowling]: "No! The Amendment says unreasonable search and seizure."

    Landay: "The legal standard is probable cause, General -- "

    Gen. Hayden [indignant]: "Just to be very clear ... mmkay... and believe me, if there's any Amendment to the Constitution that employees of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it's the Fourth. Alright? And it is a reasonableness standard in the Fourth Amendment. The constitutional standard is 'reasonable'" ( h/t Dale)
    -- Knight-Ridder's Jonathan Landay questioned Gen. Michael Hayden at the National Press Club in January.

    ----Text of the 4th..

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

  16. 130hz tone sample :) on Researcher Turns HDD Into Rudimentary Microphone (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Modern design is apparently for on Google Is Really Good At Design · · Score: 1

    Those who cannot read or wish to further glorify the stupid.

  18. The backstory of science is the important part on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    often ignored by the Nobel prizes.
    https://www.ias.edu/ideas/usef...

  19. Cannot be repaired so I will never own one. on Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation (go.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  20. Pied Piper by semi-tech on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Rescued from a dumpster in 1988. CP/M/. 800k hard sectored floppy 90 tpi with a z-80 proc. It had a handle and was "portable" as long as you could carry a composite monitor under your other arm...

  21. foolish choice he made and that partially reflects on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    on his job as Governor and now VP, is mainly that he still uses AOL

  22. Well I live in world of warcraft 6-10 hours a day on Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Disabled IRL I enjoyed years of virtual adventures there. However perhaps due to political climate change in the US, the current expansion seems to be actively hostile to those who are not physically able to play at an arbitrary level. Not gonna quit or threaten to, but it is a sad realization that the toxic atmosphere that infest trade chat is reflected by the Devs barricading even low to mid level crafting recipes inside 5 man dungeons.

  23. Re:Too much on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 2

    See : Carnegie Mellon University for the source of so much hipster insanity with UX. Their motto is apparently... "Lack of features equals ease of use."

  24. come to Seattle Google! on Google Fiber Drops Free Basic Service In Its Original City (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Your own employees and the thousands of amazombies will pay the top rate for BW and it will cover us poor and disabled easily.

  25. Re:All awful but the bias is interesting on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Art Pope is a Theo-fascist shill for the Koch brothers Free speech should be rigorously upheld in the Academic world, but the Pope foundation and FIRE only gets involved when right wing religion, racist speech or climate change denial is threatened. Boatload of crap is the bulk of the article