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  1. Re:Sure.... on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure it has nothing to do with the exploding cost of education, it must be all Trump's fault.

    Whataboutism! I work for a UK University and we're seeing a rise in international students + our education costs are also skyrocketing. I don't know anyone who wants to travel to the states at the moment precisely because you elected a bigoted troll who's making a luaghing stock of your country.

  2. Re:Racism sucks... fight back on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    America can you please get out of the 1970s! Here in the UK this kind of bigoted bullshit just isn't tollerated

  3. Re:Donald Trump is going to prison for Treason on Yelp Ordered To Identify User Accused of Defaming a Tax Preparer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do people actually still use Yelp?

  4. Re:Users' best interests... on Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reasons I have Firefox installed are to Test Websites and to record Automation scripts with Selenium IDE which no-longer works I think it's about time we considered Firefox to be out of scope the only compelling reason for me to use it was Selenium IDE which is now borked :|

  5. Re:A question for Mozilla on Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it called "Firefox 57" because that's how many users are left?

    I thought it was homage to Wesley Snipes Passenger 57 :)

  6. Re:Tremendous mistake on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    The only thing that changes is that your browser now doesn't need to download as much data for scripts, since the binary format acts as a compression.

    It should also execute faster as bytecode is much less processor intensive to interpret than JavaScript and therefore more efficient. So even if someone does use WAsm to mine BitCoin it will still steal less processor cycles per coin of course they will simply generate more coins anyway.

  7. Six of the affected AV programs have patched the vulnerable.

    They "patched the vulnerable"? Really?

    At this rate english will be a dead language within three or four generations.

    I blame the the Coriolis Affect

  8. So My AV was the weakest link on How AV Can Open You To Attacks That Otherwise Wouldn't Be Possible (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is being exploited in the wild

  9. Re:Most Widely Deployed OS? on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Due to MINIX's presence on every Intel system, the barebones Unix-like OS is the most widely deployed operating system in the world.

    Finally I can declare this is the year of Linux on desktop :)

  10. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad the "magick spores traveling faster than warp" concept is so fucking retarded

    I know a few people who travel the universe courtesy of Magic Mushrooms :)

  11. Re:The limit is stupid anyway on Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Idiots haven't they heard of Bitly.com

  12. Re:Secure Windows is a phrase that doesn't feel ri on Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Do these standards say anything about turning off all the telemetry?

  13. Re:Oxymoron on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just more postgrad students tend to be foreign exchange. I work in a UK University and the bulk of first year UG Students are British but by the 3rd year you tend to see a lot more foreign exchange students. By the time they are doing Postgrad, Postdoc or a PHD a lot of them already have a taste for Foreign Exchange. I certainly have a taste for Foreign Exchange Students :D

  14. Absolutely I wok for a big university (37K Students 6K Staff) and we generate approx £600M revenue for the Uni and approx £2B for the local economy every year and we pay researchers peanuts :|

  15. Re:here we go again on Three Women Suing Microsoft for Bias Want To Add 8,630 Peers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I work for a large University (37K Students 6K Staff) and about 10 yards down the hall from the School of Computing about 1% of the students are female this compares with the School of Physics which is on the same floor where about 30% of the students are female it would seem that either the bias is present even in academia or that girls don't want to study Computer Science. The University is very big on equalities so I doubt that there's bias there

  16. I guess it's gone that far out of the mainstream

  17. Isn't this exactly the same kind of tech that M$ said they were developing and then abandoned in Windows Vista? Looks like Apple beat them to it :)

  18. Well, now we know what every guy will use.

    Now I need to get an erection every time I want to log in

  19. Re:What? on This Machine Kills Captchas (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's worthwhile breaking capture then why not just use Amazons Mechanical Turk?

  20. Re:Penoid on First Extrasolar Object Observed Racing Through Our Solar System (space.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Interesting that it came in perpendicular to the ecliptic plane inside Mercury's orbit slingshots around the sun and then makes a b-line for Earth making a close approach at 15 million miles.

  21. Re:"In the beginning..." on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 2

    Chemical Ali was what us Brits called Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf you guys across the pond later used the same monica for Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti.

  22. Re:"In the beginning..." on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    "You are not reading this" - Baghdad Bob AKA Chemical Ali

  23. Re:Old programmers don't die on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    I'm not old I've just been re-factored beyond all recognition

  24. Re:And this is "legal" because... on Legal Hack Back Lets You Go After Attackers In Your Network (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    ... we want it to be? ... the CEO saw it in a movie? ... the check is in the mail?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    It isn't and you'll probably be hacking a third party machine which has already been hacked by your attacker and when they do their forensics they'll see they got hacked twice once by the attacker (Who covered his tracks) and once by you (Who didn't cover his tracks). See you in court

  25. Re:apples new face unlock will make it easy! on FBI Couldn't Access Nearly 7,000 Devices Because of Encryption (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wondering what the common denominator is in the 50% they could access?