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  1. Re:Does it prevent Google from tracking you on Google Chrome Will Soon Detect Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I do hope it can be turned off I regularly use packet sniffers (Same basic idea as MIM Attack) to record user sessions which I then turn into Performance Test Scripts which is a hard enough job to start off with without having to click on an error message every time I interact with the browser.

  2. Re:Really? on Happy Music Boosts Brain's Creativity, Study Says (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Happy by Pharell makes me want to blow my brains out.

    Try the Sound of Silence

  3. Just because Satellite & Power Grid outages only happen occasionally doesn't mean they wont

  4. Re:Add in the 'low-contrast text' fad... on It's Official: Users Navigate Flat UI Designs 22 Percent Slower (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    One of the victims of the philosophy of 'automated test only', which is the management perversion of automated testing. Usability is not a test that can be automated, therefore it's not worth doing.

    They clearly don't understand when Automated Testing is appropriate and when it's just too damned expensive. No decent automation test engineer would even consider trying to automate everything.

  5. Re:Yup, FOSS software sure is safe on A Critical Apache Struts Security Flaw Makes It 'Easy' To Hack Fortune 100 Firms (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    When the whole world can scour the code to find vulns, it has to be safe, right? Nobody will find those obscure bugs and use them for nefarious purposes, nope, never happen.

    Because you'd rather only know about this shit when the NSA gets hacked??

  6. Re: What is Android One? on Android One Is Anything But Dead, Google Reaffirms With Xiaomi Mi A1 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Android One has already had a small run in the 1st World see the Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it is primarily targeted at the 2nd & 3rd World though

  7. Re:What is Android One? on Android One Is Anything But Dead, Google Reaffirms With Xiaomi Mi A1 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a range of smartphones aimed at the developing world (AKA 2nd & 3rd World) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Only a very small sample on Ethanol: A Lethal Injection For Tumors (acsh.org) · · Score: 1

    I'll wait until they've done a much larger properly blinded test. But for preliminary results they are very promising

  9. Just waiting for the bubble to burst

  10. Re:DELIVERY RECEIVED on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    MY FRIEND SIR TERRY CAN NOW WORK IN PEACE AT MY HOUSE and complete his books. You may read them when you join us.

    This was first written entirely in caps ... but a soulless slashdot filter complained that that was shouting :-(

    Doesn't matter I still read it with Sir Ian Richardson's voice (Played Death in the Hogfather) playing in my head

  11. Who wants to go to the pictures and watch a blockbuster disaster movie when you can sit at home and look out the fucking window

  12. Re:Many failures, just unreported on India's Workhorse Rocket Fails For the First Time In Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't mention why the fairing failed to detach (Maybe it's too early to tell there will be a lot of telemetry to analyse). I'm sure whatever happened it will end up in their regression test pack for future launches.

  13. Re:Money to be made, for now on Messaging-App Kik's Big Bet On Digital Coin Offering (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It all reminds me of the South Sea Bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Re:For best performance, move to Kansas City... on Google Assistant Coming Soon To More Speakers, Appliances and Other Devices (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:But why that particular cancer? on FDA Approves First Cell-Based Therapy For Cancer (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not it's just the first of about 300 individual cancer treatments (All variants of this technique) to get passed the FDA that's all.

  16. If it does away with the shameful sweatshops in the 3rd world I'm all in favor.

  17. 293 years and six months.

    If you fast forward through the foreplay/scene setting/grinding parts it's probably only a couple of days worth

  18. Sorry but who's blaming trump over this? All he ever does with the CIA is bitch about them and then ignore or worse discvlose the intel they've given him.

  19. Re:Asterisk? on The Asterisk on Madden's Annual Release Legacy (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    I was expecting an article on PBX's but then I'm a geeks geek

  20. Do they plan to send the Stig up? Surely he's want a British flag??

    And a tinted visor. Also could they send Jeremy Clarkson up and leave him there for the sake of humanity!

  21. If they made it opt in on Mozilla Testing an Opt-Out System For Firefox Telemetry Collection (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I might even consider using their shitty browser

  22. Maybe a job for Super EFF

  23. Re:New & Improved with Blockchain on IBM To Trace Food Contamination With Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's already on this years Bullshit Bingo https://twitter.com/paulbuitin...