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  1. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And the only hope to prove it was not a software glitch that took offline all the communication systems and locked out the pilots.

    There are no manual overrides for a fly by wire system, and you cant reboot it mid flight.

  2. Re:Rent-seeking? on Apple Reportedly In Talks With Comcast For Separate Apple Streaming Path · · Score: 1

    Stop giving them ideas.

    Xfinity now with uber super premium Netflix access for only an extra $49.95 a month on top of your required 300m top tier plan.

    * full cable tv lineup subscription required with a minimum 5 on demand purchases a month.

  3. Because what passes for "journalism" today is no better than a random blogger. No research done, and basically 100% opinion pieces.

  4. Re:"We're going to be needing an Ipath" on Apple Reportedly In Talks With Comcast For Separate Apple Streaming Path · · Score: 1

    Bah, Kodos is a pussy.

    Vote Cthulhu, why choose the lesser evil?

  5. Re:Rent-seeking? on Apple Reportedly In Talks With Comcast For Separate Apple Streaming Path · · Score: 2

    For the unenlightened? yes.
    The rest of us will start forming a shadow internet under it all to get around the ISP tricks. Kind of like TOR but better built with tricks to hide what it really is from the ISP. There are already people working on it, now it will have a use for those that want to use the internet as intended and not as the corporate overlords decide it should be used as.

    Because you know that it is only a few years away befoer they start double dipping and not only charging NEtflix for access, but charging the user as well for access to netflix.

    Executives in the comcast, verizon, and AT&T board rooms are wetting themselves over how high they can drive their profits without spending a single dime.

  6. Re:Opensource and web services keys on AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub · · Score: 1

    Yes you can. and real developers do just that.

  7. Supid is as stupid does... on AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub · · Score: 2

    these "developers" are making huge rookie mistakes. Honestly you are not a developer if you make that huge of a mistake. I can see hardcoding a key, but the version you put publicly is set to not function until someone changes it. cripes less than 3 lines of freaking code in nearly any language will make your release puke with "change the default key moron, did you not READ the README?"

    Best solution, auto generate a key with the install script. Sadly most developers are too freaking lazy to write an install script.

  8. Re:Likeability on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    GET OFF MY LAWN!

    Damn kids....

  9. Re:Simple: They want a young slave. You ain't it. on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Hipsters are actually using make-up on their faces.

  10. Re:Basci inerview tips on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Dye your hair and beard. and hydrate the hell out of yourself for a few days to make yourself look 5 years younger.

    He's 35-40 so in that ,"Oh you are experienced" segment where they dont like to hire because you will actually use your vacation days and hold them to labor laws.

  11. Re:Be engaging on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    German dungeon diorama...

    And this is Diter over here on the rack, and Hans is good with the whip...

  12. Re:Maybe it's not you on Ask Slashdot: Re-Learning How To Interview As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's they see he is old and outdated so they dont want him.
    It is a lot harder to abuse and bully a 10+ year veteran than a snot nosed CS grad.

    "You know if you dont work 20+ hours a week off the clock, we will have to let you go.. Yes this is a industry norm, everyone does it"

    Veteran tells the boss ,"stuff that in your ass, Let's see what the labor board likes about you cheating them out of taxes."
    New CS grad says, "Yes sir, can I sleep under my desk too that way I can work 24 hours a day sir?"

  13. Re:Really Stupid NSA... on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Hush Comrade, they have no idea that we have infiltrated their systems.
    Note to self: stop using the word Comrade, it seems to draw strange looks from NSA types.

  14. Re:It requires real hardware. on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 2

    The thing is that it is already starting to bit them in the butt. a LOT of 4K Tv owners are already bitching on forums how their gaming system, or worse the Xbox "media center/gaming system" is useless to them on their shiny new tv (that they cant watch anything at all on as there is no 4K content)

    But the complaints and bad press start with the videophiles, and will infect the affluent people that buy game systems. it will actually cause PC gaming to get a better foothold, because you can build a gaming PC to handle 4K right now and play STEAM games on it that will render the video at 4K and look damn good at it.

    If anything the 4K rapid adoption by consumers will further destroy console gaming. If Steam has a clue they will make sure they support a high end PC and 4K with their Chrome OS.... and then utterly decimate Sony and Microsoft in the living room.

  15. It requires real hardware. on Is This the End of Splitscreen Multiplayer, Or the Start of Its Rebirth? · · Score: 0

    The PS4 and Xbone are both jokes. they dont even support 1920X1080-60 resolutions, with 4K this year being as affordable to the poor people ($120K a year or lower) it was completely boneheaded that the Xbone came with hardware that was already 2 years out of date before it even hit release day.

    The best thing was when you and friends could all play local lan, but game developers are too damned lazy to add that in anymore. split screen gaming will suck even at 8K resolution because you are still squishing it down consoles need to support MULTIPLE screens. let me hook up 2-4 cheapie $199 32" 720p tv's to the same console and let each of us play with our own screen and more importantly our own audio.

    the Xbone would have been worth buying if it was an actual jump in technology. It's not. and hoping the XBtwo will arrive a lot faster to give us HDMI2.0 and 4K as well as real improvements in gaming instead of just sticking in all this media center crap.

  16. Really Stupid NSA... on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 2

    Wow they are amateurs now.

    Dear NSA, want to do your job right? then start watching top networking companies for job openings and have your Networking expert agents apply for the jobs there. Nothing better than having your agent working on the inside.

    a "hit list" is stupid, you waste a LOT of time having to deal with them, but if Agent Davis is a network admin at VERIZON or AT&T then you make a single phone call to own the network.

    This tip is free, otherwise I am $4500 an hour minimum of 10 hour charge for any more consulting, als you pay all travel costs and I only fly private or military jet. F16 trainer preferred.

  17. Re:Hide in plain sight on Inside NSA's Efforts To Hunt Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    are you crazy? that's exactly how they hacked the Gibson!

  18. Bitcoin is for fools on MtGox Finds 200,000 Bitcoins In Old Wallet · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, anyone that is using bitcoin for anything but their illegal money laundering is insane.

    "oops we forgot about this" is 100% lies and bullshit. They might as well start talking with a thick new jersey accent and ask if they need to send Big Tony over to talk about if legs need to be broken or not.

    fagetaboutit!

  19. Re:Can I Point it at You? on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    Make it harder to get and keep a drivers license would work, required training and retesting every few years. but the AARP will never allow that.

  20. Re:I'm really glad to see all the disgust here on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    We are not civilized. Never have been. and probably never will be.

  21. Re:They make the punishment easier for the prisone on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    I want the drug to let me cram a Masters degree into a single month. I'm guessing it's so poorly designed that you have zero motor control or any ability to use any of your senses and you end up only seeing blurs and hearing static the entire time.

  22. Re:Why waste the money? on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    "Maybe I'm missing something here; how is living a lawful life,"

    You dont. you are a criminal. If you are a US citizen you breat at least 3-5 laws every single day. Some as felonies.
    There is no such thing as a honest and lawful citizen with how the legal system is designed here.

  23. Re:Why waste the money? on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Thunderdome.

    Two men enter one man leaves. continue on just like march madness....

  24. IF the point of punishment is torture, then just fricking do the torture. These spineless people dont have the balls to tie the guy down and pull out fingernails with pliers, but want to make them suffer a 1000 year experience inside a box?

    These articles show me how uncivilized the human race really is. Just a bunch of sick animals.

  25. Re:Can I Point it at You? on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1

    " focusing on systems that make people less shitty drivers."

    That is easy. Automated cameras in cars that take photos with telemetry data and send to the police for automatic fines.

    For example, punk kid cutting in a line, will he do it in front of the big 7 foot tall musclebound wrestler? will he do it in front of the guy with a pistol on his hip? or will he pick the little guy that looks defenseless?

    If there were consequences do driving like a complete dooshbag people would not do it. camera in back that fines tailgaiters, car reports what you do inside it to the cops as well as speed ,etc...

    Problem is people dont want to get caught texting at 80mph 3 feet from the bumper of the car in front of them, so they will be all up in arms about it.

    What I want is a way to taser drivers in the groin remotely when they drive dangerously. "You have been riding in the fast lane for 10 minutes without passing another vehicle, automatic groin taser firing in 10....9.....8...."