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  1. Re:How about "Thank you!"? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Thank Users For Reporting Security Issues? · · Score: 1

    Assuming they've given you a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue and issue patches and you do. No thanks are necessary, however, regardless of whether you've fixed the defect or not after a reasonable amount of time they will go public.

  2. Re:The One That Tells You the Time on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    Appologies for the Let Me Google That For You http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Binary+Wa...

  3. Re:"hazards of developing using a third party" on Google Abandons Their Google Hangouts API (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    And then there's google site search which only about 25% of the inter-web uses. That get decommissioned later this year but at least they gave us advanced warning and also they are replacing it. It's just that it's scheduled to be removed before the replacement comes online.

  4. Re:Just solve the bug... on Browser Autofill Profiles Can Be Abused For Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    FFS just don't autofill particularly not with ID & Password which it has to be storing in a way it can unencrypt to plain text because that's a bad enough attack vector on its own

  5. Re:We're all programming in Machine Code on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    How is this modded up? Stroutsup first wrote "C with Classes" in C and then used that to write C++ so C++ is technically written in C see here https://www.quora.com/In-what-...

  6. Mediterranean Diet? on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They suffered less brain shrinkage than those who regularly ate meat and dairy products.

    Pizza (Most are full of meat & dairy products) originated in the Mediterranean

  7. Re:the smell of E-6 in the morning on Kodak Is Bringing Back Ektachrome Film (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Wake me when they come up with a technology for taking analog pictures on vinyl that they can hit two hipster birds with one stone

  8. Re:Previous impacts on African Airline Reports Drone Collision With Passenger Jet (airlive.net) · · Score: 1

    One of these days a drone is going to slam through an engine nacelle with the force a a frozen chicken fired from a cannon.

  9. Re:Um no... on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The last line of the summary reminded me of this guy http://www.smh.com.au/technolo... ahh the joy of schadenfreude

  10. Re:No, it wasn't on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    So it dumped 30% in two days a bit like Sterling (GBP) in June 2016

  11. Re:Um no... on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If it lost 28% in two days like it did in 2 days in the first week of 2017, it's far from stable.

    I see bitcoin has had it's own Brexit then

  12. Re:Leave. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 1

    I moved on because of a Gaslighting colleague. My on exit interview was conducted by the Gaslighter himself. It was great being able to tell him exactly what I thought of him and him having to minute it :D

  13. We're all programming in Machine Code on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bear in mind almost all of the rival languages were written in C themselves and C is written in machine code most of us are programming in C and Machine Code anyway. In the end we're all writing Machine Code we've just wrapped it up in a nicer package is all

  14. Just give us back a proper start menu you wanktards!

  15. Re:correction from the article. on Amazon's Robot Workforce Grows By 50 Percent In Just One Year (siliconrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Bearing in mind that the word Robot is derived from the Czech robota meaning Forced Labour or Slave I think Amazon have been using robots from the word go

  16. That's it. I'm making my own Internet, and nobody else can be on it.

    I just switched to Vodafone for Broadband & Mobile data. I'm now officially off grid :)

  17. Slashdot Fake News for Nerds

  18. It's still a turd of an operating system.

    What's worrying is they are still trying to polish it

  19. Re:Applying tort to patents on Family Sues Apple For Not Making Thing It Patented (nymag.com) · · Score: 3

    I'll get the popcorn.

    No matter the outcome the only winner will be the Lawyers

  20. That's not what it's about basically it's an ARM processor with built in X86 emulation. Why they are banging on about W10 I don't know the people who should be worried about this are Intel & AMD.

  21. Re:how far can it be scaled up? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect making it more efficient is going to be far more important than scaling it up as the bulk of the mass is going to be generating energy for it.

  22. or more likely the owners and staff were gunned down or driven off by the civil war, leaving the doors open and business office available for other sundry activities.

    And if that happened at AT&T/Verizon would it even make the news?

  23. Re:This post makes me feel old on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Millennials should be made to use dial-up for a month before they complain about how slow the internet is

  24. There will be plenty of jobs for humans once the robots unionize :D

  25. "Why not just have a bigger army?"

    But what is someone comes along and creates an even bigger army of robots (or clones) and puts them out of work?

    I find your lack of faith disturbing