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  1. Karnak the Magnificent on Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    will now predict the headlines of six months from now: "Bug in Snapchat exposes users' positions to hackers."

  2. This. Do you seriously think your IoT toaster is only sending data about the toast you make? No, it's not.

  3. In order to be online, I either have to a) plug it in b) configure it with my WiFi encryption or c) provide unencrypted WiFi. It can't get online unless I put it online.

  4. Not allow idiots to have a license to begin with?

    Lord knows that would do wonders for traffic....

  5. Re:Watched cable news lately? on 3D Printed Airliner Parts Face Regulatory Headwinds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Link?

    Zelda?

  6. Re:I don't blame them on 3D Printed Airliner Parts Face Regulatory Headwinds (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to prove that not only the sample test parts pass standards, but that the process is consistent and will always produce parts that meet standards. That's a little more time consuming.

  7. Re:That makes me MAD! on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    the locals want to 'protect their own property values', which is a codeword for 'we dont want poor people living near our homes').

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    Very true. Even at face value, it means "We want the prices of the homes we own to go up, even if that makes it impossible for first-time buyers to buy one." In other words, "Screw you, Jack, we got ours!"

  8. Back in the late 60's or early 70's pinball manufacturers made their games playable by mean deaf, dumb and blind kids.

    But only if they were wizards.

  9. Re:How about "The Lion King"? on New 'Lupin III' Commentary Track Celebrates The Glories Of Ignoring Copyrights (terrania.us) · · Score: 2
  10. Re:Are subtitles available... on New 'Lupin III' Commentary Track Celebrates The Glories Of Ignoring Copyrights (terrania.us) · · Score: 1

    As a results of the disputes with Leblanc estate, the initial releases of Cagliostro in the US censored the Lupin name. The lead character was renamed "The Wolf" (Lupin is french for "wolf"), for example.

  11. How do you make Unchartered 4 "accessible"? A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter (or any shooter), no matter what you do to it, any more than he could play tennis.

  12. According to the sites about the CGA I've found, it does cover software. However, it doesn't cover anything sold "for commercial use", so business software wouldn't be covered. An OS or program bought for home use would be, though. Open source would not be covered as only item sold "in trade" are. Private sales are not covered, so custom software made on contract would not be covered.

  13. Re:The price will skyrocket on What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just look at medical devices. They don't cost that much to make but have to go through a long certification process that needs to be paid back.

    And yet, ironically, that certification process does not cover security. The software on medical devices is well known for being almost ludicrously insecure.

  14. Re:Wrong tool! Focus on what we need! on Announcing 'build', Auto-Configuration In 1000 Lines Of Makefile (github.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    but... but... colorization

    The code is closer to the original artistic vision when it's left in the original black and white.

  15. Re:Problem is not the age of the protocol on Microsoft Will Disable WannaCry Attack Vector SMBv1 Starting This Fall (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us take something equally ancient on the unix side, like the Xwindows. Is it on by default in linux?

    Yes, of course, but by default all remote connection to the X server are disabled. Red Hat also has a default iptables config that shuts off the port, too.

  16. Re:No article on the Michelle Carter verdict ? on Original Colossal Cave Adventure Now Playable On Alexa (amazon.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Girl who urged her boyfriend to commit suicide by text message, and he did. Got a manslaughter conviction for being a sick fuck.

  17. Re: Planned obsolescence on The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years (sensortower.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, you can uninstall apps.

    Sometimes. I don't jailbreak my phones (sometimes I think I should), and they have apps I'm not allowed to uninstall--notably Facebook.

  18. I'd love to delete FB (which I never use). I can't. If you haven't jailbroken your phone, you probably can't either.

  19. Re:Gotham on Bat-Signal Shines In LA In Honour of Batman Star Adam West (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Metropolis and Gotham are both New York; just very different (fictional) views of it. "Gotham" is in fact an old term for New York City, dating back to the beginning of the 19th Century. Washington Irving used it in 1807.

  20. Re:Apple sitting on billions and tax evader on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it's because Apple's preferred upgrade path is that you need to buy a whole new computer.

  21. Re:The real question on More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I call it porn

    We call it maize. Wait, no, that's corn. Sorry.

  22. Re:Avoid Tape Backup on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Backing up to a dedicate disk store has worked very well for us. We've used Data Domains, and it's been convenient, fast and reliable for us (it's already bailed us out of a major data unavailability crisis). We still have tapes, but those are solely for offsite archives.

  23. Re: Avoid directory service, aka AD on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Even group membership management is not important anymore unless you are still using Samba.

    Not true. A lot of application use (or can use) AD/LDAP group membership to handle rights management. I am currently setting up a storage appliance that uses group membership to determine if an AD user can log in and what rights he gets.

  24. Re:NIST 800-63-3B changed that on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, the old best practice was copied into a number of laws, including HIPAA and SOX, and it will likely be even more time before any of those are changed.

  25. Re:Password Changes on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    And the answer is that HIPAA, SOX, and CJIS are all legal standards. IOW, they were drawn up by politicians, not by anyone with any understanding of IT.