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  1. Re: Impressive on The World's Smallest Computer Can Fit on the Tip of a Grain of Rice (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your socioeconomic sta.... ah.... yes, you are correct....

  2. There's a very big frigging difference between having your mind wonder, and kicking back and watching a frigging TV show.

    Get back to your cheeseburger picnic, Randy!

  3. Stupid thing is, the "commercial free" Hulu service is about as much as Netflix...... and still shows commercials!

  4. Re:Anyone know on The World's Smallest Computer Can Fit on the Tip of a Grain of Rice (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Pressure sensing inside the eye for glaucoma diagnosis
    Cancer studies
    Oil reservoir monitoring
    Biochemical process monitoring
    Surveillance: audio and visual
    Tiny snail studies

    breakfast cereals
    very small rocks
    fruit bats ...

  5. Re: Obligatory on The World's Smallest Computer Can Fit on the Tip of a Grain of Rice (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilarious! That is exactly what I said before I clicked the summary title!

    Well played

  6. Yes, but only if it was half minute rice and cooked itself and is sugar....

  7. Re:Non fratzernization ? on Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns Over Relationship With Employee (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Businesses are not the military.

    No, but they can be run like one. You don't have to work for that company.

    The rules are put in place for a reason, they are not just about control even if they do come off that way. This particular rule is about avoiding the HR nightmare and morale hit that is favoritism even if it is only just perceived favoritism. It could cost the company a lot of money if employee morale takes a dive due to toxic work conditions resulting from real or perceived favoritism.

    Oddly, nepotism isn't regarded as unfavorably even though it is flagrantly unfair in almost all incarnations.

  8. Re:Verizon Fios doesn't support IPv6 on Vint Cert Warns IPv4 Users: 'Time To Get With the Program' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And no, NAT is not a security feature - its a kludge to cope with a lack of addresses, a stateful firewall is what will prevent unwanted inbound connections and all consumer level ipv6 routers deny unsolicited inbound connections by default.

    That's like saying that the front door to your house is not a security feature because its primary purpose is to allow you to enter and exit your house. Of course NAT is a security feature. NAT drops unsolicited packets.... that's a security feature. Yes, a sateful firewall will do the same.... but that just means that the two have overlapping functionalities.

    I do agree with you that NAT is a workaround and life might be a little easier without it....

  9. Re:No. on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Off the cuff, here is a possibility:

    You assume it was an accident that the eggs were cryopreserved, etc. What if it was a deliberate act to preserve or perpetuate a species but:

    a) The "matrix" degraded over the journey resulting in a mutant reconstitution
    b) The "matrix" was purposefully crippled in order to give already present life a chance to adapt to it before it was allowed to evolve
    c) The "matrix" was meant to integrate into currently available "matrices"

    I am obviously not a biologist or any kind of expert, but I can at least see some alternatives to narrative.

  10. Even if phase 2 is simply removing ads and adding access to Google-produced content?

  11. Re:Frist post! on Surface Hub 2 Coming in 2019, Looks Amazing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That reminds me... what ever happened to the Bill Gates Borg icon for MS stories?

  12. Re:deposited some checks into his own account? on Man Allegedly Used Change Of Address Form To Move UPS Headquarters To His Apartment (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, retire to your private island on your thousands of dollars!

  13. Re:I guess nobody told them on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's super trivial to export data for someone already on the inside.

    I was at a company that locked down USB ports as described in this article and also proxied all web traffic, blocked all cloud file sharing services and fiddled with session cookies to web sties.

    And yet they offered PuTTY in their user-allowed, self-service app portal....

    SSH tunnel to my home network (along with whatever TCP redirects I wanted)....

    Not saying I exported data, although I did test it to see if it would work (for science!)... I just used it to do personal web browsing from my own computer.

  14. Re:Phone CAPTCHAs on Google Executive Addresses Horrifying Reaction To Uncanny AI Tech (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.... the world needs more CAPTCHAs....

  15. Re:Finally on FCC Says Net Neutrality Rules Will End On June 11 (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Because that is always how it works, right?

    "Oh, I see now the error of my ways! I was so shortsighted and now the scales are lifted from my eyes!"

    I don't think so.

    Even if we do end up paying more, for less Internet access, there will be some new (or old) development that will be held up as a scapegoat as to why things didn't turn out in everyone's favor. But it won't be the fault of repealing the regulation.... no, that was the right step, it is just that they damn keep screwing things up!

  16. Re:Those pesky migrants on One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Since when did having a brain or planning things become prerequisites for classification as being an invader?

  17. Re:The real question: on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Android phones you!

  18. Re:Apple and Google could fight the robocallers on Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The minute it becomes a standard, all robocaller software will just send DTMF of 1 immediately upon answer.

    Even if you lock down the CNAM system, you will still end up with operators who can draw on large CID pools which are legitimately owned and could be randomized.

    The only thing that can truly defeat it is whitelisting.

  19. Re: Useful for software bug report tickets, too? on Aventus Blockchain-Based Ticketing System Aims To Wipe Out Ticket Touts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the Google employee...

  20. Re:Oh NOES!!! Trump is EVUL!!! on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    TAKE OFF! To the great green north!

  21. Let's manufacture some outrage on Comcast Won't Give New Speed Boost To Internet Users Who Don't Buy TV Service (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldn't be hard being that it's Comcast and all....

    Does it surprise anyone that if you pay more money you get better services and are part of the first wave rollouts for upgrades?

  22. There are 58 countries on the list, and around 200 countries in the world. >25% is not "a small handful", and neither is 58.

    But it isn't "most" either...

  23. "What were you doing when this error came up?" "Nothing"

    Users definitely are fond of their "nothing" statements:

    - Nothing works = I got an error message in a single program and everything else is ok
    - Nothing ever works = I get an error every day but I don't report it until I am having a bad day
    - I did nothing to cause this = I did something to cause this
    - I saw nothing that could indicate a problem = I saw several warnings like I do every day. I just click on whatever it takes to get it out of my sight... but today WITHOUT WARNING my system won't boot!
    - I store nothing on my local hard drive = I store all my most important stuff on my single point of failure laptop hard drive

  24. Re:Cant be any worse on Emergency Alert Systems Used Across the US Can Be Easily Hijacked (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I nearly disabled mine when, for 2 months in a row, I got TEST alerts at 3am. I keep my phone in the other room and I still heard that thing... not cool man...

    Then they fixed it and now I only get the test alerts in the afternoon. So I have left it enabled.

    I have never received a real alert on my phone. I guess they are careful about using it in my area (Minneapolis, MN).

  25. Re:Not news. They were meant to be easy to activat on Emergency Alert Systems Used Across the US Can Be Easily Hijacked (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could use the same argument for the computer networks or your front door. Security is almost always bolted on later, after the asshats start moving in.

    It will be fixed... at great public expense.... when the asshats start exploiting it.