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  1. My attention span is shot from years of social media abuse, so I didn't read the article.

    Could someone post a 9 second video of them summarising it for me?

  2. Hope away. I'm sure plenty haven't got a clue.

  3. Re:Darwin at work, I guess. on GitHub Repository Owners Targeted By Data-Stealing Malware (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I misread TFA but where does it mention mail agents automatically executing the macros? I assume the mails were hand crafted, to encourage the recipients to open the attachment, and that the mail agents were irrelevant?

  4. Re:Pissing contest on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're just here so we can shout 'get off my lawn' every now and then.

    I'm off to find a blanket for my knees.

  5. Re:Pissing contest on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well - getting you on the UID is the easy part, oh young one! ;-)

    Sure is. ;)

    Yep. I agree.

  6. Re:here's an idea on Kernel of iOS 10 Preview Is Not Encrypted -- Nobody Knows Why (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    FTA,

    "Apple declined to comment on why it didn’t follow its usual procedure."

    Someone did ask, Apple didn't say anything.

  7. Re: There's this wonderful technology on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    You're working at the wrong end of the scale. Because you have X guns, you think X+1 is the best answer. My point is you should have far fewer guns, reducing the chances of you being trapped in a building with a madman who's armed in the first place.

    You work on the assumption that it's inevitable that you'll be in a building with an armed idiot, but it's only inevitable if you live by your own solution.

  8. Re: There's this wonderful technology on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    No, it's not a solution, it's a partial mitigation at absolute best.

  9. Re:Mandatory metal detectors at night clubs? on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    I've seen this argument before, and it's not true. The effort level for different types of things used to kill people vary, both in up-front effort, and effort of application.

    Being able to walk into a store and buy a gun does not mean you have the skill, resources or ability to make and deploy a bomb. Yes, some killers can make bombs, but far more can simply buy a gun.

    So, 'banning guns won't help they'll use bombs' is a weak argument.

  10. Re:There's this wonderful technology on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    More guns is not a solution to gun violence.

    Especially when the perpetrators are already willing to die.

  11. Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    Upgraded all the Windows machines I have to Win 10. Every app I use worked without issue, no problems with games, and Cygwin still works fine.

    It is undeniably harder to get to 'the guts' than it was with Win 7 (I skipped 8), but I've found that Windows 7 and 10 have stabilised to the point where I rarely need to get to the guts any more. Some parts of Win 10 still feel split-personality, there are two kinds of dialogs for a lot of stuff, the new Win 10 look (or the Win 8/8.1 look) and the old Win 7 look, but for the most part it's tolerable.

    Hardware support, multiple monitors, etc. much more stable under 10 than it was under 7.

    Performance under 10 is better than it was under 7.

    I primarily use the machines for Lightroom / PS / Video editing, web based stuff and office document stuff.

    If you hate Windows, you'll hate Windows 10 as much as you hated Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1. However, if you're comfortable with Windows, or you use a range of different OSes and accept there's no perfect solution, then Windows 10 is better than the previous versions of Windows, IMO.

  12. Re:Simple checklist on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 1

    But if you're going to do anything you're not supposed to, it is easy enough to just leave the phone at home that day.

    Flagged.

    What you need to do is build up a pattern of sometimes taking it and sometimes not taking it, so that it's not possible to determine from the location of your phone whether you're doing nefarious stuff. It's like someone earlier said about encryption, you need to use it for everything you do, mundane or not, for it to be effective, otherwise using it becomes a flag in its own right.

  13. Fallout on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy selling these spaces has played far too much Fallout - the people buying them haven't played anywhere near enough.

  14. Re:I kinda miss smit from AIX on Ask Slashdot: If You Could Assemble a "FrankenOS" What Parts Would You Use? · · Score: 1

    Any OS I built would include AIX's LVM. Rock solid, conceptually simple for the most part, totally embedded into the storage management, and just works.

  15. Re:I kinda miss smit from AIX on Ask Slashdot: If You Could Assemble a "FrankenOS" What Parts Would You Use? · · Score: 2

    Except AIX has allowed up to 256 character usernames since 5.3, released in 2004.

  16. Single? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    The linked website sells single holsters, if that floats your boat, so not sure how far down the person read in the first instance.

  17. Re:Agree -- issues w/ VirtualBox... on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    Debian.

  18. Re:How to (not) get people to use your OS... on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 1

    Because people stood up for the rights, so that it *can* be used by other people. Without free software, you don't get Android. You can't celebrate Android without celebrating the people that fight to keep software free.

  19. Re:WWAD - Assange isn't hiding, ass hat on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 2

    Or, you could let the law determine the truth by following the due legal process.

  20. Re:Hide? Why? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 2

    Bradley Manning committed a crime. I thought the original post said that in this case, the theoretical person had not. I sympathise with Bradley, and I think his treatment at the hands of the US is despicable, but it's hard to argue he wasn't committing a crime and equally, didn't know it.

  21. Re:WWAD on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a formal and serious allegation which he is avoiding answering to by hiding. If he's innocent, why is he hiding? Read up on the extradition laws and you'll find it's *harder* to be extradited from Sweden than the UK, and that if he gets extradited to Sweden then *both* Sweden and the UK have to consent to extradition to the US on charges that haven't even been brought yet.

    Two women have made serious allegations, he should face them using legal due process.

  22. Re:WWAD on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1, Troll
  23. Re:WWAD on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try and divert the media away from the serious sexual crimes he is alleged to have committed. But as role models go, he's pretty fucking slimy.

  24. Hide? Why? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd get a good lawyer, let the press know what I'd seen and then go to the police and give them a statement.

  25. Re:Why? on Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife · · Score: 1

    Terrorists can't afford 1st class, you insensitive clod!