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  1. I've never fallen for a phishing email with or without 2fa.

    If Google's getting kudos after a year, I want a goddamned payout.

    Cause that's the same thing as a company with 85,000 employees. /s

  2. Why is the average person an idiot (I assume you're referring to players who buy cosmetics in the game).

    Are they any worse than a person that pays $50-$100 for a game outright? Sure they don't have to, but it increases their enjoyment of the game and/or supports the company which will likely result in game improvements, or a future version.

  3. Re:If you don't like your job on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing saying he didn't like his job. In a company of any decent size, there's bound to be people, that offered the right incentives, would share company secrets with a competitor. Sometimes it's an act of revenge for perceived wrong doing, other times it's simply that the incentive is enough to overcome morals.

  4. Re:Let's hope so. This world isn't ready for CRiSP on A Serious New Hurdle For CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find Two Studies (statnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe not as a designer baby maker, but CRISPR is a lot more than that, being a potential cure for a huge number of genetic diseases that are devastating to those that have them.

  5. While I'm sure there are some Canadians that think the US should accept all immigrants, it would be similar to the number of US citizens that think the US should accept all immigrants as well. Canada, or as a rule "Canadians" don't think any country should have a fully open immigration policy.

  6. Re:A bigger box on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    APU(2) with pfsense is fantastic. Mine runs on a memory card, only down time was before I had it on a UPS. Handlers my 150/150 internet connection and probably 30+ devices at very load load. Click "update" now and then (or cron it) to keep it updated.

    Add in pfBlockerNG for some basic blocking of ads/malicious sites as well.

  7. Re:What? on 3D-Printed Public Housing Unveiled in France (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's essentially an ICF house, which are typically very well insulated. http://buildblock.com/how-to-b...

  8. Intel CEO Sold a lot of stock... on 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    https://www.fool.com/investing...

    Less than a month before we know the linux kernel was being patched for this bug.

  9. Re:Running a business has overhead on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I absolutely agree there are times when paying someone to do a job has other, non-monetary benefits, ranging from freeing up personal time, quality of the work, ability/knowledge to do the work, etc. These can all be very good reasons to pay someone to do something for you.

  10. Re:Running a business has overhead on Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a really bad way to view things.

    I've had people tell me the same thing about why they pay for certain services. Say I make $50/hour. I can paint my own room or pay someone $15/hour to do it. (we'll assume supplies are a fixed price either way, so the only difference is the hourly rate). Let's say it takes 4 hours. Some would say that paying someone $60 to do the job make sense, because in that time I could earn $200, putting me $140 ahead. But that's not necessarily the case. For me to earn that $200, I actually have to be working, not painting my room. So paying someone to do it actually puts me $60 behind.

    Same thing for anyone. If he's sitting at the table reading the paper while the coffee brews, he's not reducing his earnings. If he's paying someone to do it for him, he's still not earning anything, and he's paying out of pocket more than it would cost him to do it himself.

  11. Re:Space is a dead end on In Canada's North, a Single Satellite Outage Means Losing Basic Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A huge portion of landmass but a tiny portion of the population.

  12. Re: Easy solution on Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Except nobody said they didn't need oil in their Volt. They didn't need oil changes in the eGolf which is an electric car, not a hybrid.

  13. It's okay to say "I don't know" in almost every situation if you really don't know the answer, especially following it up with "I'll find out and let you know".
    Obviously this won't work well on tests and the like, but in everyday life nobody has all the answers.

  14. Re:Well... on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 2

    Just because it has the chip and pin portion doesn't mean it has to have the contactless part as well. My debit and credit card for years (in Canada) were chip and pin, but not contactless. I just recently got cards that are contactless. Given that the maximum transaction size is $50 and it's a one time thing, I'm not really that worried about it, especially when it comes to my credit card where I have $0 liability.

  15. Re:Pull a Weev on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't get names from the ISP... or addresses, or anything else.
    You send your notice to the ISP and they forward it to the person using the IP at the time you allege the infringement happened.

  16. Re:It may not be a lie. on Canadian Copyright Notice-and-Notice System: Citing False Legal information · · Score: 1

    Considering the rights holder in Canada can't even get the subscriber information from the ISP without a court order, I'd like to know what makes you think a foreign company is going to do better.

  17. Re:It's stupid - switch to GMT on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what the world should do.
    When I schedule a meeting, I just pick the time and date and everyone knows instantly when that is, it doesn't matter what time of year it is, and when [Country X] has arbitrarily decided to change times this year.

    I moved from Saskatchewan (who doesn't change times) to BC and I'm not looking forward to it. Sure I'll get an extra hours of sleep this weekend, but I lose it a few months later.

    The sad thing is, the number of people in SK who want to change times, or worse yet, think that province should switch to MST. For those who don't know, Saskatchewan falls completely within CST. It generally becomes an argument about this time every year.

  18. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1

    How is that even close to comparable?

  19. Re:Beyond the law? on FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    He's saying that if you're accused of a crime, and a judge issues a court order to allow authorities to look at your phone (or other device), they have the legal right to. However, if that device is encrypted and the vendor has no way of decrypting it, it's up to you, the accused to provide the decryption key. By "forgetting" the key, you're placing yourself beyond the law.

  20. Re:Non-story. on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    First, nowhere does it say they were using SMTP, at least not that I saw. They are likely using SMTP with TLS.

    Secondly, they had intended on sending that document within their own domain, which likely means it wouldn't have left the control of GS anyways. I'm not saying this is the best way to do things, but it's not necessarily insecure.

  21. Re:I don't like the control it takes away from you on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Q: How do you turn the car off in an emergency - e.g. stuck accelerator pedal?
    A: You can't just press start/stop, as the vehicle speed sensor inhibits the button, so you can't turn off the ignition whilie the vehicle is moving. This isn't even in the manual. However, pressing and holding start/stop for 10 seconds will cause the ignition to turn off completely. This is a surprisingly long time in an emergency. In fact, in several "unintended acceleration" episodes, the drivers said they tried to turn off the push-button ignition, but couldn't turn it off.

    Turning the ignition off should be your last option. Your first is to shift the vehicle into neutral, pull over and stop, then shut the vehicle off.

  22. Re:Where I live, that's normal weather on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 1

    Winter tires make a huge difference on ice.

  23. Re:Where I live, that's normal weather on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As another poster said, this isn't fair. Lots of us drive with winter tires, I doubt anyone down there has even heard of them.

    We (most Canadians) have the equipment and machinery to clear snow, maintain highways, and the experience to get around in these conditions. They don't.

  24. Re:DIY, huh? on Verizon Discontinues Home Automation Service After 2 Years · · Score: 2

    I did this for quite a while too. Unfortunately it doesn't qualify for any insurance discounts, so I went with a system that does. The insurance discount is about equal to the monthly bill, and I don't have to worry about any maintenance.

  25. Re:Analytics on Target's Data Breach Started With an HVAC Account · · Score: 2

    It doesn't have to be on the same network to easily correlate data.
    You pull from many locations to one to correlate data.