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  1. Link machine is broken, waiting on repairman.

  2. Microsoft jettisons telemetry code to reduce size on Microsoft Plans Version of Windows 10 For Devices With Limited Storage (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just kidding! Get rid of the useless stuff first, like registry editor and DVD drivers.

  3. Which specific executives on SEC Issues $35 Million Fine Over Yahoo Failing To Disclose Data Breach (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    will be paying the fine? Yeah, didn't think so.

  4. I guess technically they never really had control of the DNS resolution.

  5. Re:Good job they made that figure public on Atlanta Projected To Spend At Least $2.6 Million on Ransomware Recovery (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3

    If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  6. They want to steal the secret plans to our wonderful health care system.

  7. Re:Why is this still a thing? on Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks like the main change is they are switching from tabs with angled sides to tabs with vertical sides. Hardly earth-shattering.

  8. It varies with the tides on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from all the other considerations that everyone else has mentioned, the exact length will also vary from high tide to low tide.

  9. I bet you could make a really sweet Faraday onesie... bonus points if you wear it and fight crime at the same time.

  10. Turn right at the Burger King on Turn Right at the Burger King: Google Maps Begins Using Landmarks To Help With Guidance (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But first, wouldn't you like to stop for a tasty Whopper? Mention ad code 3XCDF8578S and receive a $1 discount at this Burger King, valid for the next 20 minutes only.

  11. Re:Worth a shot, but no point in crying on failure on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is someone who wants to give it a shot in the US, along with some of his reasoning.

  12. Sooo.... on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess the point here is that people cannot have their own opinions, or opinions that are different from yours?

  13. I don't care what other people do.

  14. Big hospitals have no reason to change on Amazon Shelves Plan To Sell Prescription Drugs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With the kind of markup they use, the price they pay is really a rounding error.

  15. Re:Most-efficient means of transport... on Carbon Dioxide From Ships at Sea To Be Regulated For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't understand why we do not build giant undersea pneumatic tubes. :)

  16. IoT devices should be sparingly and carefully deployed.

    Anyone who uses one as a fish tank thermometer deserves to be hacked. I know the tank probably had tens of thousands of dollars worth of tropical fish in it - don't care. If you absolutely NEED need to have an IoT thermometer in it, rather than a simple visual one, then put it on a different network than your client databases. Hell, have it use the cellular network. If it wasn't this, it would have been something else.

  17. Well if they are given personhood, on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    is smashing one to bits murder?

  18. Re:old news on Researchers Find Genetic Cause For Alzheimer's, Possible Method To Reverse It (upi.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do we even want a cure? Alzheimers generates a lot of revenue....

  19. Re:I Hope on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.5 Released (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    Was the problem due to an issue with the kernel, or an issue with the laptops? Because 'better kernel' is kind of a loaded term.

  20. If you want to pre-sort the mail you send, deliver it to the postal sorting center rather than having it picked up at your house, and give up the requirement to have it delivered as soon as possible, then maybe you too can get better rates.

  21. Re:These are all military terms on Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren't Strategic, or Even Plans (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, that would imply illegal activities....

  22. Re:Summary: Managers use buzzwords on Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren't Strategic, or Even Plans (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you must watch Corporate on Comedy Central!

  23. Re:Actiate, use, re-activate on Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    There are always some assholes who break the law. That doesn't mean laws are useless. If we said fuck it and didn't have any laws because some people break them, society would collapse quickly. Look, I worked in a Post Office in a previous life, and while theft does occur, the penalties DO discourage most people from trying. The only ones that do are idiots, because it's completely not worth it. We're talking federal prison time. You don't make laws because you expect them to be universally obeyed; you make them so that you can define acceptable behavior and punish those who deviate from it.

  24. It's just a glitch in the Matrix on Facebook Retracted Zuckerberg's Messages From Recipients' Inboxes (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Most people wouldn't even notice it. The fact that you did notice means you must be our salvation... the one that's been foretold, the one we've been waiting for.

  25. Re:Actiate, use, re-activate on Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? My point was that certified mail requires a signature and so should solve a mailbox theft problem. Not everything is about guns, dude.