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  1. Re: Stupid people on How a Bad UI Decision From Microsoft Helped Macro Malware Make a Comeback (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Kind of hard to take you seriously since you reference microsoft as m$

    M$ or Microsoft, or Redmond, it doesn't matter when the fact is that there are a lot of issues with Microsoft products, and that this is one of the more idiotic ones. Since they have a less than intelligent system that seems custom designed to allow anyone access to the computer, and since they make it so easy to happen. He isn't wrong, whether you automatically discount anyone's statement of fact when you see M$, or not.

  2. You have to be retarded to click on "Run Content" if you don't trust the source..,.

    People are, and will be idiots, what is new?.

    You have to be retarded to use an operating system and software where shit like this happens to a lot of people, and people like you claim that they are retarded.

    The mental retardation happened at purchase, not clicking on the self destruct buttons.

  3. If you have any symptoms from Pancreatic cancer, it's already too late.

    Yes, a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is usually a death sentence, but many people would still appreciate a few extra months to wrap up life issues, reach out to old friends, maybe arrange one last family reunion, and knock a few items off their list of life goals. Earlier diagnoses are good, even if they don't provide a cure.

    My Mother in law died from Pancreatic cancer. Funny, but she didn't feel much like doing a bucket list. Kinda laid around, then died. Here's an even better approach. We all die. Seems like a bitched up idea that you wait until you have a couple months left to do the things you suggest. Do them now, when it isn't so depressing.

  4. Actually, if you had patience to read the summary, they did something very clever. They did find the people who had been actually diagnosed with cancer. Then they went back months to their previous searches, and found that BEFORE they had any idea they had cancer, they were searching for information on their symptoms... symptoms of the cancer that would be discovered much later. How much would it be worth to you to find out you have cancer when it can be treated, rather than too late?

    If you have any symptoms from Pancreatic cancer, its already too late.

  5. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

    This is Oklahoma. And today's Oklahoma is a Right wing Christian state, run by socil conservatives. And they are in a metric fuckton of financial trouble. Seems that the modern day pseudo conservative one side only stuff isn't working out that well:

    http://www.stwnewspress.com/ne...

    http://oklahomawatch.org/2013/...

    http://newsok.com/article/5456...

    And the juicy fun awesome part is there are hardly any liberals to blame everthing on. House, senate, Governor all in lockstep and idealogically pure. Must be one Liberal with awesome powers that can make all those problems..

    THe point? I suspect the two situations are related. Since you can't tax people, you have to outright steal it from them in Oklahoma.

  6. Re:Are the ad companies responsible? on 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use Ublock Origin you can get Forbes and NYT.

    I'm content with avoiding sites that demand I accept their malware.

  7. There must be a name for this fallacy.

    You mean the one where you aggregated every comment about technology in cars, and made a universal Slashdotter?

    No matter what technology is put in vehicles, there will be some people against it. That doesn't mean all of us.

    Conversely, all of the technology available for vehicles does not mean every bit of technology is a good thing.

    I generally like the improvements so far. Seat belts? Worn them since I started driving in the early 1970's. I want 5 point seatbelts, I want real roll cages, I want fire suppression systems.

    ABS is great - how is it supposed to cut the lines? Traction control is damn awesome, so much so that any vehicle that has it darn well better have ABS, as you can go on some seriously slick surfaces.

    Lane assist? Check. Anti-tailgating radar? Double check. Collision avoidance? Check. So much of the new technology is simply unarguably tremendous.

    But does that mean that connecting the total vehicle to the internet is likewise great? That's a technological non-sequitar.

    Two problems with that. Life critical applications should not be on the internet. And our vehicles hurtling at each other on the road certainly appears to be life critical. Hospital hacking shows us the future, even worse since hackers will have direct control

    In addition, we need to look at the present day internet to see exactly why the second reason this isn't a good idea kinda trumps all.

    Inherent insecurity. As well, the attack vectors will be interesting. System hacked, and you're locked in your vehicle until you donate a few hundred bitcoins. Serious blackmail where you send money lest your car's lane assist might just accidentally malfunction, and drive you off a cliff, or head on with some other fool that didn't pay up.

    Kids just fooling around for the lulz, lots of other possibilities, and you'll notice I stayed away from the tinfoil hat possibilities, just exploits that already exist, and are happening today.

    It seems foolish to head down the path where we are forced to buy antivirus software for our refrigerators, commodes, and cars. The internet is inherently insecure, and we are supposed to trust our life to it? Considering how safety culture rules our existence any more, that would be the real red queen outlook to support both.

    IoT is a bit different because it's clear that the manufacturers are like Microsoft in the 90s, totally clueless about network security. But that's not a reason to give up on it, it's a reason to build better systems.

    Your better system includes what? Technology is awesome, but the internet attached version of automobile technology is like a top fuel dragster with bicycle wheels. You might have 5000 horsepower, but it's all for naught once the weak point fails.

  8. Re:raining on parades on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But what would Gaspodium be? The Alchemists Guild wants to know!

    Gaspodium? I think that's what she said.

  9. SlashDotium? on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So that people can look at it on the Periodic table and exclaim "What is this even doing here?

  10. Old Sock-puppet doesn't want to be great.

    NOTE: Apologies to Ol Olsoc for using you in my Don the Con response. Your comment was clever.

    Don the Con

    Don the Con

    When asked if he was a humble man, Trump replied. "I am, and I am the most humble person on earth, because I know all about being humble, and no one does humble better than me. I can guarantee you that!

  11. Re:that's a $50,000 Toyota for you on Many Lexus Navigation Systems Bricked By Over-The-Air Software Update (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But if someone forced my hand, give me a Lexus over a BMW any day, you get much more bang for your buck.

    But do you have the Lexus attitude? Gotta have the Lexus attitude.

  12. To the internet of Things, valued customer! How may we randomly bitch up your system today?"

    Get ready for it people, and buy AV software for your cars.

  13. Re:people finally realizing their privacy has valu on Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People are just getting bored with it.

    For sure. Don't forget folks, that little slide bar at the top of the Lepage, for when the AC's get a little too derpish.

  14. Re: people finally realizing their privacy has va on Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your view wasn't suppressed, people can still read it no matter how bigoted it is. You have absolutely every right to state your opinions, and people have absolutely every right to call you a moron for having them.

    They get much butt hurt when others don't agree with them. I haven't seen a post actually deleted from Slashdot since I've been here. So the only thing left is wailing about the mod level.

    One of the interesting things about haveing the testicular fortitude to post as at least a pseudonym, is that aside from the free points, you can get email announcements of moderation actions. I always know I'm on to something when I get modded back and forth on some posts. Some times its like a little war zone.

    But even if I get a few -1 trolls, they are there in all their glory, for anyone else to see. Which is not only not censorship, but the best moderation system around.

  15. Re: people finally realizing their privacy has va on Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As I expected, Slashdot's community standards that you call moderation, which is a form of censorship by the masses, has relegated my post to -1. It's a shame that people have a hard time handling the truth and feel the need to try to punish people who speak it. When Facebook exhibits bias in their selection of trending stories, it's widely criticized as a form of censorship. Yet in the endless hypocrisy of Slashdot users, the use of moderation to suppress certain views isn't considered censorship. Neither is a first amendment issue but both are forms of censorship and deserve similar levels of criticism.

    Why lookie there - your censored post in all it's glory. Who knew that we had magical powers to dig up things that were censored, therefore not able to be seen.

    Your problem such as it is, that you demand agreement, and any time someone disagrees with you, your hurt feelings scream out "CENSORSHIP!"

    The intersting part of that is that far right wing kooks, and flaming liberal Social Justice Warriers are identical in this respect. Both consider any disagreement as an affront to their freedom of speech.

  16. Re:Centralized password management on Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    This might push most people to centralized password management. Yes, i know about Keepass, but tell that to my mother. :) (And is keepass safe now with the latest news?) I do not think this will be a good thing, because now all of your security will be in one very attractive place.

    Keep Ass? Sounds great!

  17. Re:How do they know they are the same? on Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    At least in the case of the MySpace and LinkedIn leaks, the passwords themselves were posted online, so it'd be fairly trivial for Netflix

    When I started getting email from Linkedin from friends who were on it, I thought okay. But when I went ot sign up they said they needed my email login and password,

    Apparently a lot of people are stupid, and at least with Linkedin, you already gave them the keys to the kingdom.

  18. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Or, more likely, the trees were cut down to curb the spread of disease...

    When it's pollen season, the trees give me sniffleous.

  19. Re:Here is how to hold Microsoft accountable on EFF Petitioned To Investigate Windows 10 Upgrades (change.org) · · Score: 1

    I was primarily reacting to "The fucking world revolves around you apparently.", which is really, really unhelpful. I'm not arguing about facts, but I don't think your attitude towards what others do is good.

    Here's what I am saying,

    Do my computer habits dictate yours? Do the Programs I use allow me to demand what you use?

    Furthermore, someone with a specific OS requirement making a comment that they have that requirement with the insinuation that it is a dumb concept for others to move to a different platform is completely useless.

    It's like when Windows updates, and a number of clients have problems, and some others come on to the group to gloat that they've never ever had a problem with Windows - that's just a useless statement. It's so very similar to the monoculture argument.

    Because I've seen enough of these monoculture arguments that after a while, they aren't positive exclamations, they come across as whining.

  20. Re:Are the ad companies responsible? on 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the partial solution to this issue is for websites that depend on advertisements to band together and place demands upon the ad suppliers to vet the ads for suitability.

    That is not happening; why would it?

    Because this isn't two years ago. While I've used ad and script blocking for years, it has escaped form us geeks, and now even Grandma uses it. I've installed adblockers on many computers that were brought to me by Grandmas and others. THe computers were brought in because they were slow, and "there must be something wrong." Yup, clogged by advertising and scripts. Old Ol sped them right up. Only negative is sites like Forbes won't let you in. Or is that a positive? Websites have no reason to do what you're talking about.

    And yet, we've been seeing a lot of whining about adblockers, and some sites like Forbes, demand you turn them off to gain access. Then promptly serve you up some malware if yu are foolish enough to do that in order to see their content. Sorry, I nave no conceivable need for Forbes and their ilk.

    It's no skin off my butt, as a webmaster, if you run malware. Not only am I not going to be held responsible

    I do believe that you are not responsible. Not at all.

  21. Re:Are the ad companies responsible? on 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If ads are where the viruses is, who can we hold responsible for them? The website hosting the ads, the company supplying the ads to the website, or are they hacked ads?

    I think the partial solution to this issue is for websites that depend on advertisements to band together and place demands upon the ad suppliers to vet the ads for suitability. Hacking ads can still happen, but they will be found quickly. Not a perfect solution - there is none - but as adblocking leaves the avoiding inconvenience arena to the full blown protect your system's ass critical need, we are reaching a tipping point.

  22. Re:backups backups backups on 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    but it isn't like computers don't give you both ample means of almost perfectly protecting yourself, and ample means of recovering after the fact even if you failed to do that.

    If you don't avail yourself of either, maybe it's about time you learned. People don't learn by being shielded from the consequences of their choices. The world does contain bad people, and always will, and what you should do is protect yourself rather than holding the unrealistic expectation that nobody will ever try to do anything bad to you.

    I don't know the answer to the backups dilemma. About the only justification for the cloud I've seen is the ability to backup - although I trust my backup system more.

    But the idea that the internet has to be a Game of Thrones type neighborhood is a little over the top. This is yet another example of the critical need for ad blocking, and script blocking. And if the mainstream sites don't do something about serving up ransomware and other problems with their ads, they'll just have to forgive me if I don't invite the Visigoths at the gates in.

  23. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    This is why they need to put back in the roadside trees, the ones they remove with great enthusiasm because motorists keep hitting them.

    I love the logic of those folks - hit a tree, and it is the tree's fault.

    I wonder if these Einsteins ever consider that perhaps the tree is keeping the driver from hitting something else, like a house, or a person.

    I'm fortunate that my neighborhood hasn't joined in that idiocy. We have a lot of trees, and they line the roadways with beauty.

  24. Re:That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Whoa whoa whoa. Easy man. Don't need to go with the pay with your life stuff.

    That's the sort of thing that never goes away either. Amazing that this far along on the internet age, there are still people that have not learned the lesson of do not threaten people on the internet.

    It's simple. If it's a public road, owned and maintained by the city / town... it's fair game.

    Absolutely. And designed for a certain amount of traffic. It is pretty simple. You have limited access highways, highways, secondary roads and sub secondary. We'll skip the inimproved roads for a moment. Each designed for lesser amounts of traffic, and with different bases and widths. A sub-secondary road is two notches down from the highways, and is simply not designed nor capable of handling highway traffic. There are less tangible aspects as well, such as speed limits, but it is well within the realm of possibilities that the same people who do not want to be inconvenienced by slow traffic on highways will not want to be inconvenienced by neighborhood speed limits. Actually from what I've seen it is a dead lock that they will be speeding.

    If it's not, and it's a privately owned and maintained road, we should stay off of it, and so should Waze.

    And there just are not too many of those. MOst designed no not be a shortcut anyhow.

    Now if someone purposely causes an accident to re-route traffic, the law can already handle them.

    Which would be insane, of course.

    What they should do, is lobby and petition their local government to add stop signs at every intersection, and step up policing.

    We did. In our development, a student type apartment complex was built at the edge, and for a while we had some issues with apartment dwellers driving way too fast. like a few who were nabbed at 60 in a 25 zone. The township police eventually installed radar that indicated the speed people were going - not citing people, just telling them. Darned if it didn't help a lot. I suspect most were daydream driving, and they were nudged to the proper speed. But I digress

    That works pretty well, and when the cop shows up on Waze, people will avoid it, anyway. But short of that, if it's a public road, and people are driving legally on it, obeying the signs, you're just going to have to take it.

    I think what ends up being the problem is that unless traffic is slowed down to a standstill on the highways, you won't get much relief by driving through residential neighborhoods. It won't take long to become actual gridlock in most places.

  25. Re:That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 0

    And any victim of such "action" would be well justified in defending him/herself with whatever force they deemed appropriate.

    You have zero proprietary rights to common, tax-payer created facilities. None at all. If you try to prevent others from using them, you should pay dearly. If you try by actively endangering people, you can and probably should pay with your life.

    So you are suggesting armed suburban warfare? Talk about entitled. Sorry, but no - you are very welcome on our streets. But you as an individual is not the same thing as a thousand of you all in a hurry to get home - so you won't obey the speed limit - driving on a sub secondary road. Roads not designed for that level of traffic.

    And your utterly stupid threat of lethal force is just the sort of evidence that will allow our local cops to side with the homeowners - with prejudice.

    You do realize that law enforcement monitors these pages? You shouldn't ever threatean deadly violence unless you at least post AC, and even then, if they want you - you can be found. You might consider not making threats like that. Just sayin'.