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  1. Re:CA Are Not The Problem. The Problem is FB on Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook can't throw me in jail. Government can.

  2. Re:Let people decide reliability of news on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The main stream media did report that intelligence showed there were no weapons of mass destruction.

  3. Re: "roiled the U.S. election" on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 0

    Your English needs work. Also, if that's how you feel about software developers, you're on the wrong news site.

  4. Re:"roiled the U.S. election" on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 0

    If you're trying to say I'm related to Shareblue (whatever the hell that is), stop being an AC and login. Software developer for past 12. How about you?

  5. Re:"roiled the U.S. election" on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For context:

    3,393 advertisements purchased (a total 3,519 advertisements total were released after more were identified by the company);
    More than 11.4 million American users exposed to those advertisements;
    470 IRA-created Facebook pages;
    80,000 pieces of organic content created by those pages; and
    Exposure of organic content to more than 126 million Americans.

    Half of Americans saw their content.

  6. Re:"roiled the U.S. election" on Russian Fake News Ecosystem Targets Syrian Human Rights Workers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't about Democrats, Republicans, Hillary or Trump. Russia didn't care about our politics, they cared about destabilizing us. They did so by making us turn against each other. Over 50 million ad impressions per week. If you're on Facebook, you saw them. And they were designed so that the people who saw them would be most likely to engage (like/comment/share). https://www.usatoday.com/story...

  7. Re:Funding is not the problem on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    "the veterans are marking time until they can retire."

    That is always a sign that the retirement benefits are too generous.

    Or that their job is shitty and that should be fixed. I love my job, and the only reason I'd have the mindset of "I'm quitting as soon as I'm able to" is if the environment was so fucked up and out of my control that I'd be happier not doing what I love. What would it take for you to not be happy doing what you love? Because that's the situation some of these people face.

  8. Re: Parents? on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Commutative Law of Multiplication*

  9. Re: Parents? on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If anyone said 5+5+5 = 15 is wrong for 5x3, I'd slap them with the Associative Law of Multiplication. 5x3 = 3x5

  10. If we're going to do videos, give transcripts! on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I absolutely despise video based news articles. If available, I skip straight to transcript and read that. If not, I usually skip the video. I can read far faster than I can watch the video.

  11. I should probably fact check this... on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... by going to snopes?

  12. Option 1: Could be Russian/Telegram propaganda.
    Option 2: Could be true because seriously, who trusts the FBI/NSA not to violate our privacy anymore?

    Really not sure what to believe about this one.

  13. Re:WSJ links on A Tip for Apple in China: Your Hunger for Revenue May Cost You (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    WSJ is paying people to post here?

  14. This opinion isn't new and is still wrong. on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Virus writers will target the largest market portion. If that's Windows, they'll write viruses for Windows. If it's Mac, they'll write viruses for Mac. If it's Linux, they will start writing viruses for Linux. Just because more vulnerabilities in Windows are known, does not mean there are less total in Linux. And short of taking away admin/sudo access from users completely, malware can always social engineer it's way into administrative privileges during an installer or something similar.

  15. Re: Attack on democracy on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    From Google: Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" or "Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding." It recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor).

  16. Re:You just now started worrying? on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, if instead I had decided to point out the "Iraq has WMD, we must invade,"

    Them having WMD was a falsehood. We must invade is a policy decision based on a falsehood.

    "mission accomplished" (regarding Iraq, in 2003!)

    Mission accomplished could be subjective or objective, depends on if there was a stated mission and if so, was it verifiable accomplished. I just assume it was subjective and mistaken.

    "we need the wall street bail out" of the Bush administration

    Policy decision, not a fact.

    "we have to arm the Contras" of the Reagan administration

    Policy decision, not a fact.

    People can disagree on policy decisions. If it were -only- the typical conservative nonsense of being against personal autonomy ("pro-life"), and trying to use the law to enforce religious beliefs (Christian sharia law), I could deal with that.

    The attempts at gas lighting, lying about even the most easily disproven things, coupled with all the horrendous policies held by the new administration... are why we shouldn't trust the new government.

    I hated GWB, but I'll take 20 years of GWB/similar conservative presidents over what we have now. At least we could trust them for the most part, even if we didn't agree with them or were disgusted by their beliefs.... we could for the most part trust them.

  17. Re:He cheated OTHER players on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    When you play baccarat, you are playing against other customers, never the Casino's money.

    Did the casino return the money to the other PLAYERS he cheated?

    Huh? When I played baccarat in Macau, you could bet on dealer or player. If dealer won, you got 1.9x your bet. If player won, you got 2.0x your bet. You aren't playing against other customers....

  18. Re: Dynamic Relational [Re: That's not how it work on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    So a document storage database. That's what it looks like. Can't be relational without defining relations, and can't define relations in your dynamic database.

  19. As a native Texan, I resent that >_>. Plenty of reasons. Also the fact we just turned into a swing state! GO BLUE!

  20. Holy shit, I just realized how vulnerable we actually are due to that idea.... thanks. Now I'm a bit concerned...

  21. This just in: People in countries where hacking US targets isn't going to land you life in prison, have more people with more practice/skills hacking US targets.

    Tonight at 11: We discover why a country that treats track and field in a similar manner as the US treats football has Olympic gold medal winners in track and field!

  22. Re:Gmail is your problem on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gmail has given me the LEAST spam of the 3 big name providers (Google/Yahoo/Microsoft), including when I had my own e-mail server with spamassassin. Not sure what problems you have with Gmail, but false positive rate is minimal and I rarely get more than 50 -actual- spam messages a month. Rest is notifications/newsletters I actually signed up for, or work related.

  23. Re:Great, another bad movie plot... on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 1

    1
    1 + 3
    1 + 3 + 5
    1 + 3 + 5 + 7

    The 5th dimension must be 25 right?

  24. Android is still -your- phone... on Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Congratulations for realizing that Apps downloaded from "The Market" which Google has control over (though rarely use it with the plethora of shitty apps), has strings attached.

    You can still download and install any other application, ROM, or otherwise from the internet, without worrying that Google will brick your phone for defying their design.

    I'll take Android over iPhone any day of the week. I have a custom ROM, with custom apps not downloaded from the market, and the only thing I did was violate a manufacturer warranty, instead of violating terms of service.

  25. Re:Texas ... you gotta love 'em on 3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession · · Score: 1

    (Need to start paying attention to that preview...)

    Non-Texan's....you gotta love 'em.

    Moronic enough to believe a whole state holds the same stupidity, rather than being intelligent enough to realize that every state has their fair share of idiots.

    Not sure where you're from, but I'm sure it's full of <insert whatever state your from's stereotype>s. Yes, I realize I'm using the same logical fallacy as he did...just trying to prove a point ;)