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  1. Re:Crossfire Hurricane on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 4, Funny

    BURMA SHAVE

  2. Re:Ask yourselves these questions... apk on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I'm not stupid enough to utilize APK's nimrod HOSTS file.

    Betting you are, though.

    So you don't use it yet you claim it breaks things?
    Yeah, keep being a dumbass.

  3. Re:iphone 6 is an unmitigated disaster on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Pockets on female clothing are usually ancillary, often ornamental. It's expected that they have a purse.
    I don't know any female that puts things in her pockets. It can be a damned struggle to fit a tube of chapstick in them.

  4. Re:WiFi Calling? on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend's 2007/2008 model Blackberry on T-Mobile did.

  5. Re:wrong headline on Surprising Result of NYC Bike Lanes: Faster Traffic for Cars · · Score: 1

    Ding ding ding.

  6. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 0

    Wrong. Go look at the fucking data and read it.
    It's all adjusted bullshit. If you want RAW data you won't be able to find it. if you do manage to find it, you'll quickly see that it's so wildly different from the "adjusted" data that anything referencing the adjusted data is absolutely worthless.

  7. Re:Ask yourselves these questions... apk on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    FACT: APK's Hosts file turns almost any website into a horrible version of Slashdot Beta, with all that white space and broken-up article text.

    No it doesn't. Screenshots or STFU.

  8. Re:Deprecation shouldn't start at the browser on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Call your bank, talk to a person, compare the cert thumbprint with what the employee tells you.
    Or check against the one included on your monthly bill, possibly via a QR code.
    Or check against any other trustworthy source.

    You being lazy isn't an excuse, be it physically going somewhere or spending 5 minutes to look shit up.

  9. Re:Deprecation shouldn't start at the browser on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    How do you deal with entities that aren't physically located where you live?

    There's no amazon place of business in australia, but I buy stuff from them all the time. I'm pretty sure that ebay australia doesn't have a local presence in my home city, and there's definitely no valve place of business here. How do I exchange certs physically with these entities without flying to sydney or to america?

    Site posts thumbrint of cert on site.com/security .
    I can call the customer service phone number and ask a human to tell me the thumbprint so I can verify.
    A QR code can be posted on my monthly bill.
    I can ask someone else who I trust and who deals with that entity to tell me the thumbprint.
    Or I can take the risk and trust the cert.

    It's about giving the USER control over who they trust, making trust an explicit action with a default of NOT trusting shit, and getting rid of the possibility for CAs/governments to fuck with shit outside of breaking/sabotaging the crypto.

  10. Re:site by site on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Or just always use https.
    There's no fucking reason not to.

  11. Re:Windows 8 reverts the hosts file on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Are you really starting this up again?
    He called you out last time and you were made to look like quite the fool.

  12. Re:Deprecation shouldn't start at the browser on Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 · · Score: 2

    No, it should start, and stop, at the user's local cert store.
    I don't actually trust any of the root CAs, and would much rather the world ran on self-signed certs.
    I'd love to walk into my bank and say "Hey fuckers, I need to add your cert. He's my cert so you can do that same. I can clearly see that you are in fact, my bank, and you can see that I am, in fact, your customer, so let's share our certs so we can communicate over public lines securely.".
    But no, that requires effort. So fuck it, we'll use untrustworthy certificate authorities who can and do fuck shit up and leak shit all over hell, and who are at the behest of corrupt governments.

  13. Re: Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    Umm... IPv6 firewalls are soo much easier to configure than ipv4 nat. And you never ever have to discover that your video conference with granny failed because her nat-box does not support full cone nat.

    NAT has the benefit of blocking all incoming shit by default and being really fucking hard for the common Joe to accidentally fuck up.

  14. Re: Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    I deal with IPs on a regular basis because:

    I have shit that I specifically do not want to be resolvable b DNS
    I have shit that needs to operate regardless of DNS
    I have ACLs and shit that do not allow DNS entries

  15. Re: Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    No, that makes too much sense.
    We need super long addresses so we can assign IPs to grains of sand, and we need to use colons everywhere and a shitty fucking collapsing scheme for writing this shit down because the addresses are unintelligible.

  16. Re:Of course on White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You got that right. She's a Gorden Gekko in real life. Her activities involved managing buying other companies for the giant Google NOT the development of technology. She's into the acquisition side of Google's business, not the technical development or management side.

    Also, understand that this is a BRAND NEW position. They just invented it. She will have no legislated authority, no budget, no staff, no legal mandate. Just an executive order. She can advise the administrative branch at the president's pleasure, but this position has no power of law. Not that this administration couldn't use some knowledgeable technical advice to avoid things like the HealthCare.gov mess. But why her? Why, politics of course.

    The political angle is that she's a woman AND very prominent member of GLAAD. (Not that this matters to me, but it does to the left.)

    She's not a horrible choice for this brand spanking new Federal Government's CTO position, but it's pretty obvious this is about political reality and not fixing anything in the government. We have an invented position, a politically expedient appointee in the face of a serious election challenge to the party in power. DC business as usual. This is about politics, and she's just a political hack appointee being used to throw a group of supporters a bone.

    I wish her luck, but this whole thing is a waste. Government CTO? Why on earth do we need a CTO at the federal level?

    I love how your factual, informative, insightful posts got modded into oblivion.
    Slashdot is useless.

  17. Re:Here's what I don't get... on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    Just because I can see the moon in a telescope doesn't mean I can reach out and touch it. It's a matter of physical and logistical problems, not just telemetry.

    No, it's a matter of not wanting to announce to the world that we have a space-based weapons platform capable of striking anywhere on the globe in a matter of seconds with precision measured in fractions of an inch. A couple of beheadings don't warrant letting that cat out of the bag.

  18. Bake Your Feces on Intellectual Ventures Sheds At Least Part of Its "Patent Troll" Reputation · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you tried baked feces? It's great!

    The next time you have to defecate, do so onto a microwave / oven safe plate. There's no need to be neat, just get your feces onto the plate.
    Once your bowels are sufficiently emptied, spread the solid waste into an even layer covering the flat portion of the plate. Drain off any liquids, then use a damp cloth or paper towel to wipe the edges of the plate clean.
    Microwave your plate of feces on the lowest power setting until it is completely dried (at least an hour). If your feces starts to burn you may have to use a regular oven at a low temperature (160-175 Fahrenheit) for a longer period of time.
    Your feces is done when it's completely solid, dry, and slightly crisp. Once it cools, you should be able to remove the disc of feces from the plate in one piece using a spatula. If this is difficult, try putting the plate in the freezer for a few minutes.

    Season your disc of feces with salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle with olive oil and serve.

  19. Re:Seriously? on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard · · Score: 1

    If you think that's bad--and I do, too--try switching banks. All those statements they never mailed to you are now gone forever, unless you want to pay exorbitant archive research fees. God forbid you get audited the year after changing banks.

    Access statements online before switching. Download, encrypt, and store. You can get up to 7 years of statements free. Some banks may not have them all available online, but you can request a copy of everything up to 7 years back (and they can't fucking charge you for it - if they try to charge you just bitch until they agree to graciously waive the charge as a one-time, good faith, guilt trip bullshit exception).

    Then switch banks, and make sure you get a final statement showing your zero balance.

  20. Re:"Stuff that matters" on Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously. There's nothing to discuss.
    Ballmer wrote the message. So what?

  21. XBOX One vs PS4 on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    There's an exchange Sheldon hems and haws about the RAM - PS4's 8 GB GDDR5 vs XBOX One's 8 GB DDR3 + 32 MB eSRAM.
    Everyone knows the 32 MB of eSRAM doesn't mean shit compared to the raw bandwidth advantage the PS4 has. Why was the 32 MB eSRAM considered a point for XBOX One? It would be like comparing a 2-legged runner to a 1-legged runner and saying "But the one legged runner does have a detachable peg leg.".

  22. Re:How does he on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 0

    rationalize a smoking hot chick hanging out with nerds?

    Penny (Kaley Cuoco (spelling?)) hasn't been "smoking hot" for years.
    I've never seen the appeal of the short, shrill one (Bernadette).

  23. Re:Advancing science on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 0

    And rightly so.

  24. Re:I predict on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    Show me a statement from any police agency saying they are investigating credible death threats against either of them, and that Sarkeesian was relocated and is under police protection due to the credibility of those threats.

    This is Hilary Clinton dodging sniper fire to the 12th degree.

  25. Re:"Death to Gamers and Long Live Videogames" on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 0

    None of which seems to prove the claim that the woman in question was having sex with lots of people.

    You're a fucking moron if you think people are upset that she has sex.