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  1. Every site I'd ever visit would light up like a Christmas tree with warnings. I'll give it two weeks before those annoying auto add ons block these warnings.

  2. 'Serious' legal argument = money

  3. Re: Ha ha ha. on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahahahaha. You live in a fantasy world. Your chances of getting even a civil judgement for breaking "fiduciary responsibility" are zero. I've even been involved in a case where a startup signed a moronic agreement incurring millions in obligations to a contract manufacturer, and lied about this debt during an investment round in the official finnancial disclosure. When the company went belly up two years later, due to this debt, investors sued over this. However, the special prosecutor appointed by the company said a tiny text only document, explaining these secret details, would have been made available to any investors who actually put in money that round and asked for it(in reality this was typed up after the fact). This and a dozen more shady dealings were completely exonerated. 80k in, with the full case looking like a 1 million dollar legal bill for a full class action suit, odds of winning very low, and with no actual money being obtainable even with a win, and with criminal charges being a farce that would never happen because courts are pro corruption, it was dropped and the 3M investment among those suing was just written off. I should have had a clue when in a city of several million people it was nearly impossible to find a law firm because literally the first 20 all had conflicts with these rich asshats. When you have money and connections you can break all the laws you want and it's nearly a zero chance of any, even minor, consequences.

  4. Re: Ha ha ha. on An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You would be amazed how not true your statement is. You have to prove criminal intent; collusion, signing moronic agreements, and waste (triple points for that waste benefiting a subsidiary you own) are perfectly legal ways to take investor money and run a company into the ground. Good luck suing in court, because even if you somehow win, and even if that amount is more than your legal fees, you still have to somehow get that judgement paid, and as a pleeb your odds of getting paid are zero.

  5. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    There is only one thing on earth not found elsewhere in our own solar system or on any other object in the visible universe - our form of life. It's because three billion years of life has created billions of unique living things that contain a treasure trove of information and technology. Aliens would have good reason to send at least a probe as extracting this information completely would be far and away the most valuable resource. Further, humans are intelligent and it may be in the aliens best interests to exterminate all of them before they spread and start competing for basic resources.

  6. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true at all. If thier physiology is similar enough to ours, I'd expect a very warm welcome. Very warm indeed, with some extra salt and spices and perhaps a tanker or two of BBQ sauce, though purists say good human tastes best on its own.

  7. Re:They are still around. on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ill keep nerd card revocation services distracted while parent gives them the slip.

  8. Bad summary yet again on Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still harder to fake than a finger scan, potentially saving planes from being redirected mid flight You leave prints everywhere and can be scanned while asleep or non compliant. You don't as of yet leave a highly detailed face scan everywhere and it won't work with your eyes closed or face contorted. You are required to use a password in any case. If the faceID gets a couple of fails you need to use the password to unlock even if you then provide the right face; this was demonstrated live on tv at the official launch.

  9. Re:It's all fun and games... on NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Gamma ray bursts typically have a beam angle between 3 and 20 degrees. Two beams are formed, opposite to each other, likely from the poles of the object that causes the burst. There are different types, the longer more powerful ones can convert up to a few suns worth of mass to energy in a handful of seconds. Smaller, more common, ones usually only convert about one thousandth as much. The effect on earth depends on the intensity, you would need to be within a few tens of light years and take a direct hit for it to cause epic devistation. However you can be moderately affected if you are within about 8000 light years. Roughly 1000 or so have hit earth since it formed. Even the strongest ones don't annihilate nearby star systems, much less the entire galaxy.

  10. Context matters on Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm at around 90 or so each month right now. The kids love em and it only takes a few minutes for each one.

  11. Or, perhaps instead you could give yourself an actual second brain down there. Then you can safely use the phrase "don't blame me, it has a mind of its own."

  12. Whatever you're talking about, don't mention phase II where after deliberately starting the run and forcing a crash, you sweep in and "bail out" investors at pennies a coin. Phase III - blow the bubble again.

  13. Re:These comments are terrible on EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States (nature.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so you agree this can and will start a zombie apocalypse, that's all I needed to hear. Time to top off those ammo bins.

  14. Limited time offer on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    How long before it's ubiquitous to include a cellular modem that phones home all the juicy private information with no need for other connectivity? Sure, none of the smart parts would work for you without official connectivity, but that won't stop them from spying on everything anyway.

  15. I'm a bit intrigued by the sandwiched logic board using a thick PCB perimeter outline board with vias to connect the top and bottom boards. I wonder how well it will hold up to abuse without any of them desoldering. The X-ray pics sure are nice, wish I had one in my lab.

  16. That's funny... on Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With all those bites on thier network you would think the bandwidth would improve at least a bit.

  17. Re:The Amazing Part on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Its such a huge revenue stream for them I wouldnt be supried if it didn't break several metrics they monitor 24/7. Probably got a call internally within 2 minutes of it being down, noticed just before the phone lines and e-mail started to light up.

  18. Re:Who gives a shit? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe Americans should care because there is a giant push to privatize all parts of the government. Americans got the shortest end of the stick when this philosophy has been applied to privatized institutions.

  19. Re:Scount's honor! on App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I, as the CEO and sworn upholder of honesty and integrity for this fine institution, do hereby swear I have not, will not, nor ever will, sell your private information to 3rd parties.

    *Exits the Skype conference with the media* *Turns to COO* - Where you on that new mass quantity discount pricing chart for selling all this great private info? I need to call the bank in Ireland and warn them of all the money trucks arriving.

  20. Stupidly worries the experts most on App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No actual security expert would be that worried if just your user name was stolen. Your face is publically displayed in a fair resolution already, and likely appears in governmental and private databases. Actual experts that say biological scans should be your only authentication on important systems aren't experts. It wouldn't be that big a deal at this point for a higher res scan of your face to leak out if there wasn't anything you could do or access with it, like say a access persons phone with all the email, social media, etc, maybe even banking. Sadly, these types of scans will probably be widely used as your only authentication, often remotely, and probably at some point on critical systems. There is no stopping stupid, this is what real experts worry about.

  21. Re:Headline is a mess on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You simply need to translate from slasheadlinian to English. I think there is a chrome extension that can help.

  22. Re: Advantages over copper? How? on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Less susceptible, not immune.

  23. 6 months from now on Thousands of Videogame-Playing Soldiers Could Shape the Future of War (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The data is logged, sorted, and then analyzed, using insights from sports and commercial video games. Overmatch's team hopes this data will inform the Army's decisions about which technologies to purchase and how to develop tactics using them, all with the aim of building a more forward-thinking, prepared force...

    We have analyzed the data from over 2.4M games and the results are clear - we need:

    1) wall hacks
    2) aim bots
    And
    3)185k cases of RedBull

  24. Next weeks news: on Heathrow Airport Security Files Found on USB Stick In The Street (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mysterious USB drive discovered and found on the street plugged directly into sensitive heathrow servers, believed to be the cause of all grounded air traffic across Europe.