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  1. Re:So... like every PC, ever? on HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You haven't moved onto a laptop? Or you build that yourself?

  2. Makes sense... it's called a fork. Several of my projects are forked more times than they contain files..

  3. Both actually. It even explicitly uses the word "publish." But it's a moot point because the content of the ad does not violate discrimination laws.

  4. The law says you cannot advertise like "White's only here." With the exception that you can advertise for senior living. They are not saying where you can PUT the ads, or how you distribute them, just the content therein.

  5. Re:Only we're allowed to experiment on you! on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The things you own end up owning you.

  6. Re:Actually... on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Those ant's aren't really zombies. They're mind-controlled, yes, but so are many people.

  7. Re:Collection is only available in DVD... on Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    All the best porn is animated gif. Everyone knows that.

  8. Re:This Hack Was... on Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Were these "semi-credible reports" TFA?

  9. Re:This Hack Was... on Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    3d printed plastic guns. nuff said.

  10. Re:Javelin understands the arrow of time on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The wiki page says Oracle bought and killed it in 1994

  11. Re:Excel is separated from other systems on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the stupid "Job Security by Force" methodology where only one person has a copy of the critical database (in excel) on their local machine, or else disparate copies don't get merged and they have the master..

  12. Re:Excel is separated from other systems on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    I've worked at a lot of places that have no semblance of databases of a wiki.. literally everything is on a spreadsheet somewhere.. Many of which have been going for decades and don't save right in modern versions or are broken in some way or have some busted field somewhere which requires workarounds like "Don't store any data in cells that are multiples of 100" kind of garbage. Seriously, keep things in a wiki table or a database, they can pretty well all export to CSV which can import into Excel if it MUST be viewed there..

  13. Re: Might have been nice if the summary explained. on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    Italian history paints it a different way.

  14. Re:Parallels what's happening with Rust versus C++ on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except what you're talking about is competition driving innovation. Problem is there's little competition. So following your lines, we'd have to create a private internet for them to improve enough that we'd throw our private internet away.

  15. Re:The Web has shown that Democracy is a silly sys on Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He also had wooden teeth.

  16. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, github is a web interface on top of git. gitlab is a shitty alternative. Both use "git' as the underlying server and client tools.

  17. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't even follow the DHCP spec in several ways...

  18. Why is this story at apple.slashdot.org ?

  19. Re:Yes on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    I've been using it for about a month. Works great. Compiling a native, profiled version now (MOZ_PGO=1 on xvfb) for extra geek points.

  20. Re:You miss what other 'scriptkiddies' always do on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Add "-i" to the grep command to handle case differences. Either trolling or you have absolutely no skill or experience programming, as this is almost completely wrong in every statement.

  21. Re: James Dean says (lol)... apk on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing. I donated it to public domain. As an open source developer, my thanks comes from replacing black box crap with well-written, supportable, and customizable software. :)

  22. Re:LMAO - others here tried 5x & FAILED... apk on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    what? That's a simple port I gave you in like 8 lines. It's not "Script Kiddie" as bash isn't a scripting language... it's a batch language. And as I showed in the bottom it works. Use it if you want, don't if you don't want. If you wanted to port your thing to Linux you just have to put the database into BLOCKED_HOSTS, or even better if you have a url to host the space-separated list, change that line to:

    BLOCKED_HOSTS="$(curl https://www.apk.com/BAD_HOST_L... 2>/dev/null)"
    [ $? -ne 0 ] && die "Failed to fetch new host list."


    You don't need sort or uniq or any of that junk... I again can't tell if this is trolling or not, but as you see it already handles not adding duplicate entries via the grep conditional.
    Or maybe this is a fake apk troll I dunno.. whatever.

  23. It is, but being windows it probably crashed partway through the job.

  24. Malware writer has malware? on Internal Kaspersky Investigation Says NSA Worker's Computer Was Infested with Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So... he's a developer for NSA creating malware, and it detected malware? Sounds about right. The guy was probably testing explicitly if Kapersky could detect the malware since that's what the Russian targets would use. And it did. And now they're pissed / backroom deal with American anti-virus companies to ensure only their shittier software is used (which likely doesn't detect NSA's malware, or has explicit exemptions built-in).

  25. Re:James Dean says (lol)... apk on All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Acftually, make the grep line this for more betterer:
    if ! ( grep -q "^127.0.0.1.*${blockHost}" "/etc/hosts" >/dev/null 2>&1 ) then