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  1. Re:Paper towels? on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No but he did lob virtual bundles of cash....

  2. His name is Allan Doctor? I guess his career was a foregone conclusion.

  3. Re:Please to be stopping, this is all I hear! on What Isn't Telegram Saying About Its Connections To the Kremlin? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like to subscribe to your newsletter and defect to your country and go out with that hot redheaded spy that we threw out of the USA!

  4. Re:This ladies and gentlemen is why I favor on Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach To Collect $90 Million (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    All you would have to do is renounce your US citizenship.

  5. Re:Cybersecurity advice? on Deloitte Hit By Cyber-attack Revealing Clients' Secret Emails (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can tell you exactly what not to do.

  6. And if you try to use all your awake time consecutively, this is what happens.

  7. Re:Whaaaaaat? on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are completely mangling the way most free marketers would think about this. The better way is to let anyone hang a shingle as an iPhone repair specialist. Maybe they'll be able to fix them, or maybe they'll be too complex and unrepairable. If the former, the shop will be successful and prosper. If the latter, and they permanently screw up enough phones, people will go elsewhere to an authorized repair center and the shop will close.

  8. But I'll really be impressed when Ford engineers can have the computer quickly piece together a simulation of Henry Ford and then using the hololens and the Henry Ford simulation design the next best selling car in the world in virtual reality.

  9. Re:Accountants on SEC Discloses Hackers Penetrated EDGAR, Profited in Trading (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the solution is probably to start locking up executives of companies who are found to be negligent in their data protection responsibilities.

  10. Re:In other words... on Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at US Borders (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There really was no reason to even mention Trump in this story, perhaps other than to say that he hasn't stopped the practice. By doing so, the writers have derailed the conversation from the start. It's destined to turn into a political shit-flinging contest now.

  11. Re:what is this garbage? on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? (a16z.com) · · Score: 0

    I was wondering the same thing. I'm not sure this belongs here.

  12. Re:True... but so what? on Android Always Beats the iPhone To New Features, Qualcomm Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I just brought my S3 back into service so I could port a number onto it. Verizon had to send me a new SIM, but it still works just fine.

  13. Re:Malware creators should be executed on The Teen Malware Career Of Marcus Hutchins (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Probably several million dollars per person.

  14. AT&T forgave my dad's account $198 after he passed away and nobody realized he had his account set to autobill on a credit card that I had immediately canceled. Not a huge fan of theirs, but that was decent of them.

  15. Re:No Real Mystery on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe it's a component of Dead Hand.

  16. Re:PLease explain difference between QOS and fastl on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand it either. But to me, it seems like if there was some standard way of marking packets as needing QOS on the internet, everyone would just mark there's as needing the highest level. It's kind of like my e-mail inbox these days; everybody marks their e-mails as important and so the marking means nothing to me anymore.

    I guess if you value speed over packet loss you use UDP, and if you value guaranteed delivery over speed you use TCP.

  17. Re:Not to state the obvious, but on Ask Slashdot: Is Logging Long Hours a Recipe For Burnout or the Only Way To Get Ahead? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're burned out you physically and mentally cannot work and not for any lack of trying. That means you lose your job. You can't work so can't find another. That leaves a hole in your job history and leaves you with a stigma when you can return to work which means your career is either ruined or set back massively. In the time you've been unable to work you've run up enough debts and been unable to participate in things like friendships that it means you pretty much have lost everything else too.

    Don't wreck your life. Get DirecTV.

  18. Extra information on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    NPR had a episode on their Planet Money podcast about this very case.

  19. Re:Tech Companies = Bell Ends on Major US Tech Firms Press Congress For Internet Surveillance Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They will care about our privacy if we care about our privacy. If we don't, then they won't.

  20. Hacking: A Beginner's Guid^k^s^#8#94873&^& on Malicious Subtitles Threaten VLC, Kodi and Popcorn Time Users, Researchers Warn (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Those subtitles will get you every time.

  21. I only have one word for them. on 'Sony Needs a Fresh Hit' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Rootkit

  22. Re:Democrats strike again on Americans No Longer Have To Register Non-Commercial Drones With the FAA (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Registering or not registering a drone will not change the behavior of idiots who use them dangerously.