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  1. Re:Time for tar and feathers? on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 2

    But feather probably would Considering how ancient the most recent version of Feather Linux is, chances are good that this might actually not use systemd.

  2. Re:Not just the government! on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to write code that morphs, but hard (in my opinion impossible) to write it in such a fashion that it cannot be identified.

    Back when morphing code was still en vogue (back when malware writers put in some effort into their work, today it's mostly the same shoddy hacks that any other commercial software is), part of my job was to develop routines that could identify morphing malware. With some it was easy, with some it was hard (and I distinctly remember one particularly nasty bugger that we could only implement in such a way that we had to whitelist quite a few game copy protection mechanisms that curiously had similar routines...) but it was far from impossible to design detection routines for them.

  3. Re:Consumers and poor people are crap. on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But those things could easily go 150mph

    Provided you found a cliff high enough to push it from.

  4. I've been saying that for a while now on Central Bankers Warned Of Possible Economic 'Robocalypse' (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All other paradigm shifts in working environment that have displaced people opened up new opportunities. Farm hands that got obsolete when farming was automated were needed by the emerging industries in the towns. When these jobs got hit with automation, the developing service industry needed those now free workers.

    Yes, the jobs got more "brainy" with every iteration, but in the end, whether someone is pulling a rake across the soil, putting part A into assembly B or carrying some glasses and plates to a table, the qualification level isn't that high in either of those jobs. They can be done by (nearly) anyone.

    The problem this time around is that AI (let's use the term in the colloquial sense here, yes, I know it's just algorithms, but ... let's humor the markedroids for now) is at a level where all low qualification jobs are being replaced. And then some of higher qualification, too. Soon middle management is going to be eliminated. It's no longer just the no-qualification "you want fries with that" student jobs that get replaced with automation.

    And that leaves a lot of people unemployed and, worse, unemployable. Competing with a machine that never sleeps, never gets sick and wants no wage is something you can only do with slaves. And even there only if you work them to death, throw them away and plug the next one in.

  5. Re:Both are bad on While Chrome Dominates, Microsoft Edge Struggles To Attract New Users (neowin.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could also always just go for a chromium based browser like SRiron that strips the Google ogling from the Chrome.

  6. Yes, that, too.

  7. Re:A good start on Wall Street Journal To Cut Back Print Outside the US (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Butthurt that the fags may now go through the joys of a divorce, too?

  8. Good on Nike Thought It Didn't Need Amazon -- Then the Ground Shifted (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A first step is taken, now let me import your shoes from South East Asia where they cost a fraction of what you gouge here.

  9. Re:A good start on Wall Street Journal To Cut Back Print Outside the US (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    The WSJ and its massive anti-new-media campaign is the reason behind the recent YouTube ad fallout. The sooner this scourge in the media landscape is gone, the better. Not because I am against diversity, but because I am against underhanded practices aimed at eliminating competition that supplies a superior product they cannot compete with with fair methods.

  10. I think they already do. But it's not exactly for the weather.

  11. Re:Queue the Global Warming Argument... on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. It's an isolated event. We might start to talk about global warming if this becomes somewhat frequent.

  12. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not livable, but get a glass of water and as long as it's liquid, you're somewhere between 0 and 100 degrees.

  13. A good start on Wall Street Journal To Cut Back Print Outside the US (ft.com) · · Score: 0

    On behalf of Europe: Thank you.

    Now end circulation in the US and maybe the online media can recover from your dinosaur-like struggle to stay relevant.

  14. Re:Consumers and poor people are crap. on Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The good thing about SUVs and Humvees is that they are easier targets for RPGs than those pesky little dinky eco models.

  15. Re:50% completeness on Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art (newscientist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tack a bullshit generator to the AI and you're set.

  16. Re:So no mothers on New Study Finds How Much Sleep Fitbit Users Really Get · · Score: 2

    No, they have other expenses to worry about than to squander money on feelgood trash.

  17. Re:Sexiest trash! on New Study Finds How Much Sleep Fitbit Users Really Get · · Score: 1

    WTF..?

  18. Re:just like gun control on Hacks Raise Fear Over NSA's Hold on Cyberweapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we don't expect the Russians to be the good guys. We do kinda expect that from an organization that is allegedly protecting us.

  19. Re:Russian software on US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You should Czech your travel locations, it's so friggin' cold there, even in Summer nobody Swedes there. And food is scarce, even at Thanksgiving you'll stay Hungary for there will be no Turkey! If Iran this place, there's Norway it would be like this.

  20. Re:Get to senior level as soon as you can on How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to build a tree house, you will not even be able to do that. You'll deliver something that will kill your child because you deem it "good enough" if it stays up in the tree by itself if you don't give a shit about it.

  21. Re:Get to senior level as soon as you can on How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms · · Score: 1

    And isn't this what made America great? The duds slave away in corporate mills, the best and brightest turn to a self employed business harvesting those duds.

  22. Re:Get to senior level as soon as you can on How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms · · Score: 1

    Yes, those that want to learn will benefit from those classes. But they are also the ones that would eventually end up in this venue anyway. We're no longer talking about an esoteric skill set that you will only be exposed to if you happen to have some sort of extraordinary access to it, as it was back when I was young and where you needed to have some adult in your life that considered computers important enough to expose you to them at an early age. Computers are everywhere, every kid has one (in one form or another) and it's far from something that might be part of a job today, pretty much any job you could imagine deals with computers in one way or another.

  23. Perpetual growth is impossible on Facebook May Finally Have To Compromise Its User Experience In Order To Keep Growing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Despite all efforts and despite pretending that it might be possible, it isn't. At some point you can sustain what you got, but you cannot expand anymore. At least not without bursting.

    Ask any bubble.

  24. Re:Russian software on US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    *sigh* Are you Finnished?

  25. 1. There is no pretense of identification.

    2. Learn the basics about certificates and what they ACTUALLY mean rather than what meaning you give them for whatever reason.