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  1. Re:And that should be really expensive for them on 380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    Not hard enough, £/$1,000 per account leaked plus one C-level exec packs a bag for some jail time. Until someone's ass is on the line this sort of incompetence will continue. And yes, my details were included in the breach, w@nkers.

  2. Re:Atlassian is a Scourge on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you're doing it wrong, our instance has ten years worth of issues and is in constant use by 1,000+ users. Badly written bots or extensions can cause problems, but the core platform works well when deployed correctly.

  3. Me too, an MY 3000 made in Germany. I had to replace the original cable as it had a 5 pin DIN plug on it.

  4. That's not reassuring when on Killer Robots Will Only Exist If We Are Stupid Enough To Let Them (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    a previous post asserts https://science.slashdot.org/s...

  5. There's an English word for it on Are Tech Conferences Overrated? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    "Bollocks"

  6. Great "Related Links" on New Ingestible Pill Can Track Your Farts In Real Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming

  7. Re:Hollywood on JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK, 70 years after the death of the author according to S.12 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  8. Re:Hollywood on JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They can plan all they like, the Tolkien Estate will not sell them the rights. They only got "The Hobbit" & "LotR" because JRRT ended up with a big tax bill.

  9. Re:"by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien" on JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And wrong again. JRRT wrote and re-wrote this tale in both prose and poem form over a period of twenty years. There are parts of the "Silmarillion" that CJRT has admitted he had to 'align' with other material (The Fall of Doriath) but that accusation certainly can't be made against "Beren & Luthien".

  10. Re:Perception is not Reality on Report Shows Another Diversity Challenge: Retaining Employees (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    When do I never have mod points when I need them.

  11. Re:Commodore VIC-20 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I pulled my VIC out of the attic a couple of years ago. I think I could read all the tapes I found that had important stuff, I transferred them to floppy and took images of them for backup. A few of the floppy disks written at the time had read errors but with repeated retries I got all but one saved. The quality of CBM engineering (both hardware and software) was impressive.

  12. Re:Next gen on Malware Evades Detection By Counting Word Documents (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And how will the authors dev test that then?

  13. Consultation process on Microsoft Will Close Its Skype Office in London, Nearly 400 Jobs To Be Impacted (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    it "will be entering into a consultation process to help those affected by the redundancies."

    That's because they have to by law. https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/consultation

  14. Looks to be a regurgitation of Joanna's paper http://blog.invisiblethings.or...

  15. Typo in version on Serious Linux Kernel Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It affects 3.18 and later according to http://perception-point.io/201... rather than 3.8.

  16. Re:Use a VPN on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    And how are they going to do DPI of every packet of every user? You just run the VPN on a 'standard' port (HTTP, FTP, etc) and then the ISP has to check the payload to catch you.

  17. Use a VPN on Ask Slashdot: Jamming UK Metadata Collection? · · Score: 2

    I plan to pay a few quid a year for a VPN. My ISP can then collect my metadata, it won't be terribly useful having only a single IP address and port.

  18. Re: Basic logic and flow control on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    It's more fun than the VIC-20 assembly that was my only option at his age.

    Heretic! Nothing is more fun than 6502 assembler in 3.5 K of memory!

  19. Re:The Madcap Affair of the Purple Emu on See the Sketches J.R.R. Tolkien Used To Build Middle-Earth (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    J.R.R. Tolkien's Rings trilogy was originally published in 1954-55

    <pedant> 'The Lord of the Rings' is not a trilogy, it is a single novel published in three volumes. </pedant>

  20. Re:Magic Internet Access on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1
    I appear to still have a copy on my fileserver

    -rw-r--r-- 1 srowe users 2355976 Aug 27 2004 MSDUN13.EXE

    I don't think I really need to hang on to so much junk...

  21. Re:Magic Internet Access on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    That wasn't in the GA release, there was a Dial-Up Networking update that eventually got rolled into a Service Pack. Before that you have to install PPP drivers etc supplied by your ISP.

  22. Best summary of a good manager on On Managing Developers · · Score: 1

    "shit umbrella", protect the team from the crap that comes from higher management.

  23. Re:Things to Learn on Ask Slashdot: Career Advice For an Aging Perl Developer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not right, we all know that marketing people speak b*llocks.

  24. Re:There might not be Proper English on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 0

    It's called American English.

  25. Re:Joyous upturn of hope! on Bring On the Monsters: Tolkien's Translation of Beowulf To Be Published · · Score: 1

    He coined a word for it, "Eucatastrophe".