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  1. Re: Not anymore! on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Stuck with BluRay forever.

  2. Re: What kind of stupid ass reporting is this?! on iPhones and iPads Fail More Often Than Android Smartphones (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I think what the poster was suggesting is that including 3rd party app crashes in this statistic in the same way as battery failure may be a bit misleading given the overall theme... For instance did they add weight to the fact that iOS has more apps for which to crash and that people use their iOS devices more than people use Android? This could be important so maybe a weighted per app MTBF would be a better approach. Or anything else as arbitrary as the original study. Now that I think about it, perhaps replacement should count as failure...

  3. Re: Bear spray and Tasers for French Citizens. on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Bear spray creates a cloud which is appropriate for running bears off but Is not as appropriate for self defense against people, especially indoors. I think you would be better served using regular Mace.

  4. Re: Good to hear on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    in her case being innocent and not having broke the law are not the same thing. According to the head of the FBI she did break the he law but is too clueless to prosecute.

  5. Depends on if I ou believe the unified star theory on Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? (marginalrevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    You see one happened a long. long time ago and the other happened in Gene Roddenbarry's fantasy land where people don't go out of there way to accentuate their differences to get control of resources. Both in this universe.

  6. Aren't these munitions? on A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Historically top of the line desktop processor tech is considered munitions and not exportable to places like China. What changed?

  7. Bullshit on Slashdot Asks: Is the Golden Era of Video-Game Console Sales Over? · · Score: 1

    You would need to wait for another 10 years before those comparisons even begin to make sense.

  8. Re: Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Its confirmation that focus groups show people think GMO producers have something to hide.

  9. Re: NOT SAFE! on MIT Study Shows Stop Lights Won't Be Necessary In The Future (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    People did that when automobiles were first becoming mainstream because the driver was used to talking to their horses. Are you sure your not just old?

  10. Re: Tax Inversion on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stocks wont work very well if you start getting punative on the holder. Besides driving people away from investing in the market, it would become a weapon to drive undesired investors from a company. Just imagine next year when your 401k causes you to go bankrupt just trying to pay the estimated taxes on one of your holdings that you probably didnt even know you had. Or did you mean to narrow the definition to mean "other people than yourself"?

  11. Re: Trading on tragedy on Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    They can get more indignant. Somehow.

  12. Re:You think Hillary is tech-smart? on Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS · · Score: 1

    Her email fiasco already tells us that Hillary Clinton is merely a user of technology, not a developer

    And you expect her to know the difference between 'Encryption' and 'Backdoor'??

    Controlling access then mass deleting email is out of the Clinton's Whitehouse playbook. Making everyone think she doesn't know what she is doing is the strategy for getting away with it. I don't personally believe she can program anything, but I would not use any of this as evidence that she doesn't know how. Also "Backdoor".

  13. Not flow theory compliant on How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    This suggests the most efficient use of the roadway is to get the vehicles as closely packed together as possible. Its an assumption many motorists seem to make while flow theory states otherwise.

  14. This is absolutely nothing on Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Exposing internal IP addressses to other entities inside the VPN would be the 'N' part of VPN. The Private, or 'P' part is really meant for everone else. Why are these people short a whiteboard on this?

  15. Re:It would be ironic on High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware (isightpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Sartre, we are fully aware that we can always choose to kill ourselves.

    Or less hyperbolistically, we can always choose a worse path, like spending another 4 years and the retirement savings to get schooled in a job that pays half as much. Anyone can do that. Show me a better choice.

    I can only surmise that you were not speaking to the morality of the choice and by worse you mean less profitable, and by better you mean more profitable.

    So as asked, this may be an option that does not require 4 years, a retirement account, and likely will pay better than half as much. You won't even be forced to write high grade malicious code. By some accounts this could be a better choice.

    I don't know who makes these decisions for you, but they may force you to attend WGU depending on how much your making now. Or perhaps you make these choices yourself and this was just hyperbole?

  16. Re:I hope... on FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    This happens with every technology when the barrier to entry is significantly lowered. I'm sure early automobile enthusiasts felt the same way about the Model-T ruining their happy-go-lucky days of driving without licenses.

    It was quite dangerous to be near anyone driving at the time. Most did not know how to drive, obviously did not start with the benefit of being an automobile passenger for 15 years, and they tended to think of it as a carriage without the horses and drove them accordingly. Comedy and injury ensued. So probably about the same as drones.

  17. Re:Web serfers on Mac App Store Apps 'Damaged' Following Security Certificate Bug (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The joys of not controlling what you supposedly own.

    Some people wax poetic for yesteryear of scratched CDs and lost keys.
    And some don't.

  18. Nothing to see. on China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans · · Score: 1

    Back in my sat technology days, that would be an average night. It went on like that for years.
    Its only news if they break in.

  19. Re:My view of this on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Atheists are to blame, they haven't contributed anything to religious hate crimes in years.

  20. Re:I guess it makes sense.... on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    In 2012, when asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying "I take it off," and that "It's too annoying." - Wikipedia

    "Hackers see hacking me as a badge of honor". He added that for his own security he has other people buy his computer equipment for him, uses pseudonyms for setting up computers and logging in, and changes his IP address several times a day. - Wikipedia

    So he goes through extraordinary efforts to keep using Windows for no proffitable reason. Seems presidential to me.

  21. Re: Just a harmless drone this time on Science Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At US Open · · Score: 1

    Fundamental or muslim extreamists mixing explosives with crowds is not an unknown event (type 'bomb' in google news). Likewise the mixing of drones and bombs is also known (Type in 'US drone strike' in google news). It's easy to understand how someone might get confused and think these could be related in some way and be a little concrened about 'US muslim drone bomb' becoming a valid search some day soon.

    Although it might be worth noting that your view and what is really happening are two very seperate issues and its dangerous to mix those two together. So, umm... As you were.

  22. Re: Their work is being wasted. on Linux Kernel 4.2 Released · · Score: 2

    Their users are happier than they were before.
    And the rest of them left.

  23. Re: Their work is being wasted. on Linux Kernel 4.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I doubt the poster meant to imply that there was some perfect security involved. I believe the poster just meant that it had not been audited, tested, or fixed to a reasonably acceptable level of security. Alluding to the idea that it does not matter in this core networked service because nothing is secure is counter productive and a bit clueless.
    Oh wait, you didn't code for it did you? In that case: The architecture sucks and the implementation took pictures because it likes it like that. Sucky i mean.

  24. Why stop at divide by zero? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Compilers and interpreters have been far too lazy for too long.. It is high time they start doing what we mean, not what we say.

      For instance non-addressable memory access could be quietly replaced with the previous memory access. Memory contents flagged as string could be used in any arithmetic using any base because the result is coerced into int 1, so as to always succeed. Recursive loops should just break out at some point so we can keep moving along into... umm, some other code? (-- seems reasonable).

    Although, I am starting to think that anyone who means for things like that to happen is surely a dick.

  25. Re:WTF? on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    If your giving a presentation, your not going to convey more information by presenting more details. PowerPoint is bad, but not the problem. The fix in all cases is to teach people how to present. It should be taught in school. Once they get comfortable presenting with some skill, they will convey the knowledge and maybe even put some in the documents.