I am waiting for the day that we hear that some bank had backed up their encryption keys on tapes that were encrypted using those keys.
The IRS are already experts in doing that:
"The disk where I stored my emails crashed. I sent the emails to other people, but their disks also crashed. We had backups, but those tapes have been recycled."
Not only does it have cute little furry animals, it simultaneously calls Google employees geniuses and really dumb. It makes environmentalists mad, but also people who hate the environment (and kill cats).
Now we see the real power behind the Google Reich:
Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a noise that sounds suspiciously like "Sieg Miaow"? If so, this is the website for you:
I currently own a Mercedes and previously owned another Mercedes and a VW. I've never had any problems with them.
I grew up with a '65 Mercury Monterrey . . . with a notch back and sliding rear window! That thing simply refused to die. My parents gave it to me, and I finally sold it for $100 in 1985. Still running, but a serious gas guzzler.
On the other hand . . . my parents bought a Chevy Impala in the 70's, which seemed to have rolled off the assembly line already broken.
After years of driving German cars, when I drive an American car, the steering and seats seem "mushy".
An exception would be the Ford F150. A business colleague in Texas had one, and it seemed to handle very well, and the seats were not really firm, but not mushy either.
BMW - Bayerische Mist Wagen (Bavarian Shit Wagon)
BMW - Bring mir Werkzeuge (Bring me tools)
The biggest problem that the German car makers have today is the diesel scandal. Customers who have bought diesels in the last years are totally screwed. The value of their cars has dropped to zero.
This cheating has probably damaged the brand of "German Engineering" more than anyone has realized yet.
Maybe the kid and parents are both just pieces of shit.
FTFA:
The Post and Daily Mail also note that Rotondo has another legal case running: He's suing Best Buy, claiming that he was wrongly fired for refusing to work on Saturdays.
Heaven in Europe is where:
- the police are British
- the lovers French
- the mechanics German - the chefs Italian and it is all organized by the Swiss.
Hell in Europe is where:
- the police are German - the lovers Swiss
- the mechanics Italian - the chefs British
and it is all organized by the French.
When Fiat bought Chrysler, I read in an article that Fiat was banking on Dodge's very loyal customer base, and that most American wouldn't even realize that Chrysler was now an Italian company.
The article postulated that this could all change if the quality of Chrysler products dropped. It claimed that Fiat saves money by cutting corners, while others, like Toyota, save money with innovation and optimization.
"Slashdot is a free service . . . and worth more than every penny I pay for it."
You guys fended off the worst DDOS ever launched on the Internet.
Sure, times change and folks will whine at you, but please keep your faith, and keep up the good work.
There are those of us who still really appreciate having Slashdot, where we can rant about IT subjects that we have no clue about, and make wacky and outrageous comments.
And a few folks here will even understand our bizarre jokes.
If you confess to anything really criminal, the Alexa Confession App can forward it to the police. This wouldn't break any vows, since Alexa didn't take any vows.
Is Alexa Catholic . . . ? Does the Pope shit in the woods . . . ?
You're nuts to have any of these devices in your house, or at the very least, plugged into power when you're not actively using it.
This is obviously a spying feature for the FBI/NSA/CIA and their pals. The feature has a bug. The recorded message was supposed to be sent to the FBI, NSA and CIA.
Talk about "hardwood floors" is terrorist code words for planning attacks!
We're no longer in a time when you can think just about the console or just about the network like they're two different things.
"The network IS the PlayStation!" -- Sun Microsystems
So... if I buy a PS5 I can ditch my ISP
Well, not exactly . . . Sony wants to BE your ISP!
The new PlayStation will not work with the normal Internet. It will only work with Sony partner ISPs. Sony will charge the ISPs for traffic to the PlayStation servers. The ISPs will add a surcharge to their customers who want to connect a PlayStation to their networks.
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Right up until a forced update gets someone killed because their hololens stopped talking to them at a bad time.
Even worse . . . ransomware . . .
"Please deposit 10 Bitcoins to receive instructions for your next 10 steps . . . "
Nothing stops Rooskis from getting App Store accts in any country they choose.
In Putinist Russia, Polonium and Novichok Nerve Agent stops accts in any country they choose.
The new "AI" people are rehashing the same drivel that was done 40 years ago.
Well, back in the mid to late 80's, we had Expert Systems . . . which was what marketing folks call AI today.
Grid Computing didn't sell well . . . so we renamed it Cloud Computing.
So you don't want to buy Pervasive Computing? Try a healthy vegan alternative order of IoT instead.
I am, of course, over-exaggerating . . . but it's good, wholesome, Christian, CS fun.
I invite others to come up with more examples . . .
Hey, don't blame environmental damage on IT folks . . . we are experts in recycling . . . ideas . . .
I'm boycotting slashdot's dupe-detection technology.
I'm boycotting the boycotts! I
I'm boycotting slashdot's dupe-detection technology
Please add me to the boycott list!
Me too!
I am waiting for the day that we hear that some bank had backed up their encryption keys on tapes that were encrypted using those keys.
The IRS are already experts in doing that:
"The disk where I stored my emails crashed. I sent the emails to other people, but their disks also crashed. We had backups, but those tapes have been recycled."
If you want to lose something . . . you can.
Bringing my own utensils when eating out would be kind of difficult/annoying/awkward, though.
How about a plastic or wooden Swiss Army knife, with camping utensils . . . ?
Or visit a camping store or Website. They have utensil sets that fold up and fit nicely in a tiny case in your pocket.
. . . and for added shits and giggles . . . hold up the Swiss Army knife to your head and talk into it.
The other folks in the restaurant will be amazed at your Swiss Army knife cell phone!
It's racketeering.
Then it's time to hit Oracle with a RICO Act . . .
. . . if Oracle hasn't already paid off the district attorneys . . .
Not only does it have cute little furry animals, it simultaneously calls Google employees geniuses and really dumb. It makes environmentalists mad, but also people who hate the environment (and kill cats).
Now we see the real power behind the Google Reich:
Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he's going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a noise that sounds suspiciously like "Sieg Miaow"? If so, this is the website for you:
http://www.catsthatlooklikehit...
The sooner this thread gets Godwined, the better!
Have you driven a modern German car?
I currently own a Mercedes and previously owned another Mercedes and a VW. I've never had any problems with them.
I grew up with a '65 Mercury Monterrey . . . with a notch back and sliding rear window! That thing simply refused to die. My parents gave it to me, and I finally sold it for $100 in 1985. Still running, but a serious gas guzzler.
On the other hand . . . my parents bought a Chevy Impala in the 70's, which seemed to have rolled off the assembly line already broken.
After years of driving German cars, when I drive an American car, the steering and seats seem "mushy".
An exception would be the Ford F150. A business colleague in Texas had one, and it seemed to handle very well, and the seats were not really firm, but not mushy either.
BMW - Bayerische Mist Wagen (Bavarian Shit Wagon)
BMW - Bring mir Werkzeuge (Bring me tools)
The biggest problem that the German car makers have today is the diesel scandal. Customers who have bought diesels in the last years are totally screwed. The value of their cars has dropped to zero.
This cheating has probably damaged the brand of "German Engineering" more than anyone has realized yet.
Maybe the kid and parents are both just pieces of shit.
FTFA:
The Post and Daily Mail also note that Rotondo has another legal case running: He's suing Best Buy, claiming that he was wrongly fired for refusing to work on Saturdays.
Hmmm . . .
In German, I have heard:
"Fehler in allen Teilen" (Faults in all parts)
Or, in English, my personal favorite:
"Fucking Italian Automotive Trash"
Heaven in Europe is where:
- the police are British
- the lovers French
- the mechanics German
- the chefs Italian
and it is all organized by the Swiss.
Hell in Europe is where:
- the police are German
- the lovers Swiss
- the mechanics Italian
- the chefs British
and it is all organized by the French.
When Fiat bought Chrysler, I read in an article that Fiat was banking on Dodge's very loyal customer base, and that most American wouldn't even realize that Chrysler was now an Italian company.
The article postulated that this could all change if the quality of Chrysler products dropped. It claimed that Fiat saves money by cutting corners, while others, like Toyota, save money with innovation and optimization.
. . . they'll get a government bailout like the auto and banking industries.
The government should have broken up GM when they bailed them out . . . making the smaller bits small enough to fail.
Maybe the government will break up Silicon Valley . . . sending bits and pieces of Silicon Valley to Arkansas, Alaska and Mississippi . . . ?
Has anyone checked how long those batteries last with a less bloated OS?
. . . so the guy holds up an egg to the camera, and says:
"This is your battery!"
. . . then he cracks the egg into the frying pan on the stove and says while it sizzles and fries:
"This is your battery with Microsoft Windows Telemetry!"
"Any questions . . . ?"
Just wait, I'm going to patent a smartphone with sharp corners and then sue everyone who isn't using round corners! ;)
How about you patenting a shuriken smartphone, that you can toss at folks who are annoying you . . . ?
I'm sure that folks who already have a brass knuckles smartphone would buy your shuriken sharpphone:
https://www.google.com/search?...
Well, what do the Geneva Conventions on War state about the use of Acoustic Weapons . . . ?
Oh, wait . . . we're not at war neither with Cuba nor with China . . .
. . . yet . . .
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed.
So the HAL 9000 can rightfully claim that AI is NOT to blame, and this accident was the result of "human error".
nobody has updated his Wikipedia page to report his death and it's even the primary article link!
. . . nobody has the heart to do it . . . posting that would break anyone's heart.
I always say:
"Slashdot is a free service . . . and worth more than every penny I pay for it."
You guys fended off the worst DDOS ever launched on the Internet.
Sure, times change and folks will whine at you, but please keep your faith, and keep up the good work.
There are those of us who still really appreciate having Slashdot, where we can rant about IT subjects that we have no clue about, and make wacky and outrageous comments.
And a few folks here will even understand our bizarre jokes.
Why bother with going to church to confess? The Catholic Church could sell a "Confession App" for Alexa. There is already one for Android:
https://www.amazon.com/Web4u-C...
If you confess to anything really criminal, the Alexa Confession App can forward it to the police. This wouldn't break any vows, since Alexa didn't take any vows.
Is Alexa Catholic . . . ? Does the Pope shit in the woods . . . ?
I haven't studied the wind patterns off the Atlantic seaboard, but it seems like they could go a little north and try the Maine coastline, perhaps?
And spoil the view from the Bush family compound on the coast of Maine . . . ?
$$$$$$$$$$$$ + NIMBY = 0% chance of it happening.
You're nuts to have any of these devices in your house, or at the very least, plugged into power when you're not actively using it.
This is obviously a spying feature for the FBI/NSA/CIA and their pals. The feature has a bug. The recorded message was supposed to be sent to the FBI, NSA and CIA.
Talk about "hardwood floors" is terrorist code words for planning attacks!
That is why I only use Alexa in my bathroom where I do not typically have private conversations.
Your health insurance company will be canceling your policy real soon because of . . . "excessive flatulence" . . .
Well, that fits perfectly. The criminal probe is not a real criminal probe, but a fake and scam criminal probe.
. . . and the taxi companies increase rates along the closed subway lines . . .
. . . oh, wait . . . that's Über!
We're no longer in a time when you can think just about the console or just about the network like they're two different things.
"The network IS the PlayStation!" -- Sun Microsystems
So... if I buy a PS5 I can ditch my ISP
Well, not exactly . . . Sony wants to BE your ISP!
The new PlayStation will not work with the normal Internet. It will only work with Sony partner ISPs. Sony will charge the ISPs for traffic to the PlayStation servers. The ISPs will add a surcharge to their customers who want to connect a PlayStation to their networks.
Outrageous . . . ? Let's just wait and see . . .