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  1. Re:It's time for America to return to her values on Police Arrest Five Men For Selling Kodi Boxes 'Fully Loaded' With Illegal Streaming Apps (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's time to take back our country and start enforcing our laws.

    Yep. Throw out all the immigrants and hand the country back to the Clovis People and Kenniwick Man.

    What - why are you looking shocked instead of packing your bags along with the grandson of an Alaskan brothel-keeper immigrant.

  2. Re:900 is 90 times hotter than Earth? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There appear to be variants, but I'd not heard of sal ammoniac being in the mix until your post; just ice, water and salt (sodium chloride, "table salt"). It's likely that the materials weren't particularly pure though.

  3. Re:1st class flights, Ibiza hotels,and Michelin-st on Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly "mysterious women" is a spelling of "prostitute" that I haven't seen before.

    AirBnB for bodies instead of apartments.

  4. , but the problem there is that, because of the newness of the requirement, the media profile would have a telltale of only just being created recently.

    There is almost certainly already a marketplace in sufficiently established social media profiles.

    Plus, of course, there would be nothing unusual about me offering my VKontakt profile because I don't do Facebook. My Russian is probably a lot better than the DHS goon's Russian. (Almost no one in Russia uses Facebook because almost no one in Russia uses Facebook.)

  5. Would normal handcuffs close down far enough to restrain a 5yo's hands? I rather doubt it. Which makes the whole story rather suspect. (This is the first I've head of it. I assume it is just a piece of American news which hasn't been let out of the country.)

  6. If more and more of them are held outside the US, that's not good for the country.

    Oh, it is good for the country. It's not good for the US, but for the rest of the world, and the countries to which these conferences are diverted, it is definitely good. Canada can certainly see this and a re looking set fair to clean up as much as they can from this pro-Canada move of POTUS.

    What is is about the Americans on Slashdot who think that only Americans are on Slashdot.

  7. Re:When will they be held liable? Never! on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    reference to Hogan's Heroes.

    Irrelevant. And I've never seen that film anyway.

    Joke? What joke? It's just badly misspelled German.

  8. Re: Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
    The terms and conditions of entry would almost certainly ban you from doing this. That is, the TSA/ DHS's T&Cs, not the social media's T&Cs.

    So just take that a little further. The moment that you've done that, even for one social media site (e.g. you've given them the keys to the Facebook account that your wife knows about, but not to the Facebook account where you talk to your boyfriends), then you've entered the country under false pretences and in violation of your visa. You're an illegal. Enjoy.

    You're on holiday. But you're illegal. So that car you were renting, that's rented illegally. Your insurance is invalid. Your health insurance is invalid. Your travel insurance is invalid. You really don't want to come to anyone's attention at all. Not even a parking ticket.

    Obviously Trump doesn't want anyone coming from the rest of the world.

  9. Re: Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Have Slashdot users fallen so low that this could actually be a problem? Really, seriously, don't you realise that you can solve this problem? Trivially. So trivially that even the TSA would struggle to call it a hack.

  10. Re: Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the US Constitution ever apply outside the US' jurisdiction?

  11. Or in Trumpet English, "Who?, Who the fuck?, and Who Dat?"

  12. Re:I have a 3B year old Stromatolite on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Most of the people on the weekend trip (we did other geological stuff the previous day) were non-geologists too. The trip was led by a professor who worked on the meteorite impact structure (whose accommodation and travel costs we paid) ; I'm a professional geologist who is paid to look at uninteresting sludge ; the trip organiser was a school geography teacher. About 1/3 of the others were mature students of some sort (geology, geography, oceanography). the rest - just Joe Random Soap (including spouses and/ or children of the students). All in all, a well mixed bunch. It's fun, if you like that sort of thing.

    The previous time I was out with this bunch (some of the same people ; same organisation) we had a fun day gold panning and another day collecting fossil fish in the horizontal rain. Vive la difference!

  13. Re:What about Skype for Android? on Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    Your - or Churchill's speech-writer's - god has sweet fuck all to do with anything even as unimportant as my wife's disinterest in teaching her elderly relatives how to use a new application at a range of several thousand km.

    I don't need that level of complexity. When MS forces me to stop using Skype on my desktop, Skype will stop being used on my desktop. When it stops working on Granny Babushka's computer, then we'll have to cross the bridge.

  14. You may have not separated the concepts of sex an reproduction in your mind, but very many others have. Not just every homosexual (all sorts of other options - anything other than simple physical+activity male plus physical+activity female) that you know, but also every couple who you know who have been married for a couple of decades without once getting either pregnant, or seeking artificial assistance? Every fumble you had in the back of the car to the tune of Meatloaf''s "Paradise"?

    Some days I wake up feeling like an antique. Then there are days when people like you pipe up straight out of the Palaeolithic. I mean that quite precisely : we have archaeological evidence going back to the Mesolithic of people keeping track of periods of 29 (units - days?), which is a better match for contraception then for any astronomical cycle. And on those days, I feel all 21st century.

    (for the less subtle, French, the language of love).

    Je parle Francais assez bien pour comprendre. Merde au Slashdot et l'absence des charactres non-ASCII.

  15. Re:I have a 3B year old Stromatolite on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Ah, but I collected my stromatolite samples from the field a couple of hours and a cold lunch after a morning of clambering over the impact ejecta sheet. No eBay involved.

    I did use eBay for my meteorite slab - Brennan Pallasite. And rust fragmented it in a couple of years. Verily does the universe extract it's revenge.

  16. My recommendation [...] is to use Google Cloud Print. Your printer opens a secure (TLS) outbound connection to a Google server, from which it receives print jobs. No need to open any inbound ports. Likewise, when you print your print jobs are send from your computer (or phone / tablet / Chromebook, works on all of them) over a secure connection to a Google server, which queues them for delivery to your printer.

    And if the data I'm printing is both commercially confidential AND detrimental to the interests of US-based companies, and regulated by countries that are not the USA, and I have stringent confidentiality clauses in my contract?

    Actually, I've had exactly this conversation with computer techs from the American company on whose premises we were working when they wanted to use our (the company that was renting them and their equipment) printer as a backup in case their printer went down. And he'd already accepted why I refused to give them access to the confidential data.

  17. Re:This keeps happening because mfgs won't fix it on A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Exposed Online (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    how come said printers were hooked up to the Internet directly?

    Stupid/lazy IT guy and stupid/lazy bosses.

    Or, as likely, non-existant IT guy(-ess) and a boss that simply doesn't understand that there is a question here. Until the printer starts spewing a page of "your printer is fucked up" every few hours.

    Nope, I'd agree with the classification of this guy as a "grey hat".

  18. Re: Oh, the humanity! on A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Exposed Online (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself in the West. Here on the East side of the Atlantic, we've long known the demerits of forestry monoculture, and haven't done that for some 40 years. Of course, that also means that we've got 80-odd years of monocultures to work through, but forestry practice has included dotting other species into any spaces that come available though wind-blow, trail cutting etc. Which isn't perfect, but that argument was over a generation ago in professional forestry management.

  19. Re:What about Skype for Android? on Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    When my wife calls me from her Windows box, both my Android phone and Fedora desktop go off, normally the phone beating the desktop by a few seconds even when they're both on the same WiFi network.

    Oh, sorry, I see you're looking for [which "better, less invasive, alternatives"]. Well, I've verified with the wife that jit.si works fine between our combined 4 devices. And she then goes back to using Skype to call her family. I'm not going to win that one.

  20. If they make it so hard to bring up children and you can see their future as nothing more than burning on the greed driven pyres of the rich and greedy, why play the game.

    You are conflating a desire for sex and a desire for reproduction. Most men (and possibly most women - IANAWoman so that's just a guess) desire sex. Whether they want reproduction is a completely unrelated question. Didn't you get taught about contraception at school?

  21. Speak for yourself. My wife likes my dick up her bum. I like having the bet of both worlds.

  22. Re:Silicon Valley Icons on Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple's new graphics designs emphasize 'flat.

    So, I've missed the "get some boob" and "feel arse" versions of iPhone 1 through (is it 7, 8 or 9 today - I don't know.)?

    Or is Thiel (a homophone for "feel," predictably) pumping for the iPhone 10 "ring-fingering" edition?

  23. Re:/r/nottheonion on False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "People have paid a company more than $80,000 to dig a hole for absolutely no reason"

    I'd forgotten to wonder what had happened to the CAH hole. And now I know.

  24. "Hero Experience" ??? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "hero experiences" of Windows 10 involving Cortana, Windows Hello authentication, and Windows Ink.

    I think I've seen Windows 10. Horrible thing - last drive I had with it on I pulled and replaced with a blank as soon as I got the machine home.

    All the rest - I've literally never heard of.

  25. Re:Live by the cloud, on GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    but some make it [backup outside the cloud] VERY hard.

    There is a concept called various things, but most often "vendor lock in" ; it may limit your potential market to the idiots in your industry, but if you can get those idiots to accept it, you're on a road to permanent customers, plus they'll send their first born daughter (or son - your choice) round to service you when you want to empty your balls.

    Did you never see that big cheese-eating grin on Billy Gates face? Nerd paradise through vendor lock-in.