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  1. Re:Star Wars on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Star Wars (episodes IV to VI) are mostly fantasy. The films don't explore any of the tech, and the supernatural plays a huge role. Replace lightsabers with swords, X-wings with horses, jedi masters with wizards, and Vader with a black knight, then you'd have a King Arthur film.

    I still think especially IV and V are great films though.

  2. Gravity wave != Gravitational wave on Gravity-Detecting LIGO Also Found To Be Creating Gravity Waves (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hopefully I ruined the fun by being pedantic.

  3. Re:I don't see the bug either on Google Login Bug Allows Credential Theft (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Even a careful user does not necessarily check the address bar after every page request, especially if the new page still looks like the previous one.

    Our company had this exact phishing possibility in one of our product's authentication flow. The solution was to white-list the domain being returned to, as it had to be previously known by the system as either an identification provider or service provider.

  4. Re:The EU needs money desperately on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    EU does indeed have laws. This order is based on a violation of anti-competitive law because a specific company was favored, as the Dublin webshop down the street had to pay the full 12.5% corporate tax.

    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., specifically Article 107 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal....

  5. Not enough control over the OS on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Even with Windows 10 LTSB I couldn't figure out how to get as much control or information out of the system updates as I wanted. As all I need out of a Windows VM is Visual Studio and SourceTree, and I only found inconveniences over Windows 7 Pro, I switched back after a month.

    I despised the daily screen-covering update window that, if allowing the mystery pack of updates, would almost always schedule a mandatory restart. Searching in the start menu was also considerably slower and filled with bogus results, and the OS was reluctant to easily fullscreen in Virtualbox. It also required about 512 MiB more RAM than Windows 7 Pro.

    The host OS is Linux Mint 17.3, and I think they got most things right about the update manager: A lot of control over what gets patched, showing version numbers and, if available, even changelogs of the specific bugs/CVEs resolved.

  6. Re:Label it then on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Labling it as "GMO," as if it was verifiably dangerous like a pack of cigarettes is a way for non-scientific groups like Greenpeace and concerned bloggers to stigmatize GMO off of the store shelves. If they got away with labling, they could next argue "If it's so safe, then why is it labeled?" Just because something has been genetically modified artificially, like bananas without active seeds in them, wheat that's many times more productive now than 10,000 years ago, or in vitro fertilized children doesn't automatically necessitate branding them.

  7. Don't actually set your clock to 1981 on Rediscovered Lucas-Commissioned Short "Black Angel" Released On YouTube · · Score: 5, Funny

    The SSL certificate for the video source won't validate, making the youtube video halt downloading after a while.

  8. They're starting up a MegaForce? on DARPA Develops Stealth Motorcycle For US Special Forces · · Score: 3, Funny

    Add some mini rockets and machine guns, and you've created the MegaForce