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  1. Re:Oh ffs. on A Tweet-Sized Exploit Can Get Root On OS X 10.10 · · Score: 1

    Calm yourself. No one pays attention to Slashdot anymore. This isn't like a decade ago when /. was in the top 10 tech sites. Today it would fit somewhere between 1337warez123.ru and Bob's FTP Commands Cheatsheet on GeoCities.

    Phil's CheatSheat on angel fire was sooo much better.

  2. Nothing here on "Breaking Bad" At the National Institute of Standards and Technology · · Score: 1

    So a lab had some common chemicals, and someone had cold medicine. According to what I learned in D.A.R.E. I could probably make cocaine, meth, and heroin with what I found in the janitor's closet.

  3. Re:It's not so easy on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 1

    410-685-6625.

  4. Re:It's not so easy on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 1

    If I was standing in the way of someone's 1 million dollars... I probably wouldn't be standing. I'd be ducking from the oncoming assault.

  5. Re:It's not so easy on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 1

    Buy cars cash, sell them. "invest" in a business and claim a lot of profit. Plenty of ways to launder money.

  6. I have a modern dumbphone. They still make them. They don't want you to buy them because they don't use any data, but they're there. Mines survived getting ran over. Try running over a smartphone :)

  7. A virtual pitri dish.

  8. Re:Bring-on the Apple haters on Hacking Team's RCS Android May Be the Most Sophisticated Android Malware Ever Exposed · · Score: 1

    where a fleshlight app

    Woah! They have an app? Is there an external attachment too?

  9. Just Cell Phones? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    I worked for a place once that had signs up everywhere. Pretty silly ones, guy in a trench coat reminiscent of the old Windows 95 screensaver peddling "prohibited" goods. These included Floppy disks, walk men, pagers, beepers, etc. And this was only a few years ago...

  10. Re:No, it doesn't on Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files · · Score: 1

    Are you viewing the hex on RedSTAR OS as well? They may have "fixed" that problem, though TFA does seem to be claiming to use md5sum on the OS itself, so probably not likely. Also really they don't post any evidence supporting the notion that it is a hardware serial number inserted or anything. Maybe they had flash enabled, tried browsing the web, THEN performed this experiment?

  11. Re:"privacy of North Koreans" on Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files · · Score: 2

    But... It's GPL... and they're modifying it! And Distributing it!

  12. Re:In fact, basically none are on FBI, International Law Units Smash Infamous Hacker Bazaar Darkode · · Score: 1

    "Hacker" was originally a badge of honour, given and never claimed, for mindbending creativity with great technological skill.

    I thought it was a term given to trial-and-error programmers, who just kinda "hack things together" when there is no documentation or direction.

  13. Wanna know the vulnerability? on 'Severe Bug' To Be Patched In OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    Want to know the vulnerability? Diff the latest from last version without - 1.0.0. Compare. :)

  14. Never okay. on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Censorship is never okay.

  15. Re:What I wrote's nonsense dave420? on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 1

    die

  16. Re:Wow ... on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 1

    It's Windows. With 30 (public) 0-day vulnerabilities every day, why even try to protect? Just go with what works!

  17. Sounds Bad on "Invite-Only" Ubuntu Mobile-Powered Meizu UX4 Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a really bad phone. You have to complete a puzzle game to show you can figure out really obtuse interfaces and make due with paper whenever necessary? Speaks a lot toward the quality of implementation on this phone.

  18. Re:Back Doors Are Like Anal Sex on US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack · · Score: 1

    If I rename a .jpg to .exe is that considered encryption?

  19. Oh no on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh no? I don't believe what you do? I must be stupid. And I don't like being stupid.... Maybe I should believe what you believe?? Then will you stop making fun of me?

  20. What? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    Aren't you paid by the hour? Why would you want to work yourself out of a job

  21. Re:The trick... on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Pffff. . . . Loophole.

    All he has to do is change the wording of his website a bit.

    From " I will teach you how to lie to the Federal Government " to " I will teach you how to lie LIKE the Federal Government " and all will be golden. He can even call it a " Politician Boot Camp ".

    He could claim his entire site is a parody, no? Like movies with plots to assassinate the president aren't actually encouraging it...

  22. Re:Polygraph Sympathizers are Likely HOMOSEXUALS on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    All you need to understand is that /. will often NOT remove spam or troll posts like this, but WILL remove posts that use the three-letter acronym for 'ess jay doubleyew' in gender-related topics like women in STEM.

    Speaks volumes about the /. leadership.

    Or that xenu thing...

  23. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    You've tasked these loyal people with a job to do in order to keep the USA and its citizens safe, and then removed the tools they need to do the job effectively. When that next truck bomb detonates at a sporting event or mall, or when that next muslim fan goes on an indiscriminate killing spree through a church, know in your heart that you have allowed that to happen. You've just allowed hundreds of people to die so that the government computers don't log your phone sex that could be embarassing, except nobody really cares - get over it. It's a shame that we are going to have to learn the hard way through another 9/11, and you'll have Snowden the traitor to blame.

    What is the point of safety without freedom? Without privacy? You may find it very suitable to live in a solitary confinement cell.

  24. Re:P.S. on University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class · · Score: 2

    As found by another Slashdot user, the following article gives a much more complete picture.

    This article has a picture at the top of an (F) being drawn in chalk by a black felt-tip marker. Where2buy board which turns marker into chalk?

  25. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Language and Mathematics are just two forms of communication. There will always be patterns in communication exists in recognizable patterns: that's how we understand one another. There will always be loopholes and silly patterns like this. The more specific the more likely we think we are talking about the same thing. "Imagine a bike." 20 people hearing that would probably have different images in their heads. "Now, Imagine a blue bike", and those 20 probably have a closer approximation to the same image. Their realities can never be known to intersect such that they perceive the same thought, but we are able to construct enough of a similar thought to reach a goal, to attempt to force an action (every English sentence has a verb, it is the measure of change).