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  1. Re:How does this work? on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My car also locks the doors when I drive, and if you pull the handle while the car is moving, it sounds like a machine gun as the unlock from pulling the handle fights against the lock because the car is moving. A second pull after the door is unlocked is required to actually open the door, and the lock mechanism always beats you to that.

  2. You are mixing up Islam and Christianity here. Islam is nowhere near as obsessed with spreading their doctrine throughout the world as Christianity is.

  3. The summary is confused - is it 8 or 9 companies they asked? If 3 companies "gave an answer", then obviously they are counting Microsoft's rather long winded way of saying "no comment", but what was the third? Was it Booz Allen Hamilton's explicit "no comment", or the missing 9th company?

  4. Re:While we're on the subject: Android Ant-malware on More Than 1 Million Android Devices Rooted By Gooligan Malware (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    an effective anti-malware solution for Android phones?

    Hell, I'd settle for an effective anti-malware solution for Windows. Is that industry good for anything other than making your hardware feel like it has aged 20 years.

  5. Re:Congress has passed a law... on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They can agree on anything now, it means nothing. The president elect and house leaders have both vowed to overturn every law signed by Obama within the first few months of Trump taking office.

  6. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The init system in modern Ubuntu is systemd, maybe upstart if they are still using an older LTS version. Last I checked, both of those are part of the root filesystem.

  7. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    identical--bit for bit, checksum for checksum

    tweaks from the default

    At least one of those is a lie.

  8. Re:So now Clinton supporters can't handle the resu on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The key difference being that Trump wasn't accepting the results before he even knew what the results were, or had any evidence that the results we unsound. So far Hillary supporters (not backed by the party, or the candidate themselves) have raised two issues with the actual results themselves: 1) Hillary won the popular vote with 4 times the margin of Gore over GW Bush in the 2000 election, where it has since been determined that if the Supreme Court had not stopped a statewide recount in Florida, the result would almost certainly have been overturned. 2) There is a possibly suspicious 7% discrepancy in districts with electronic voting vs those with paper ballots.

    Personally, I'd favor an agreement between parties to honour the current result, followed by a full recount where the challengers want it, without the pressure of affecting the democratic result to avoid political interference and challenges, so we can learn what faults the system has, and fix them for future elections.

  9. Re:Not the only criticism on Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The clue is in the fact that Gates and Zuckerberg are described as investors, not donors.

  10. Re:This is the worst summary on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't be using them newfangled satellite things for monitoring the climate and weather now can we. Push it back to NOAA where they can stick with their good old fashioned weather balloons.

  11. Likely usage pattern on Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
    1. 1. Spam (99%)
    2. 2. Bullying/Harrassment/Hate Speech (0.99%)
    3. 3. Free speech from politically vulnerable individuals (0.01%)
  12. If electronic machines are more likely to be used in urban areas, and paper voting more likely in rural areas, I think that alone could explain a 7% difference.

  13. Re:Strange on Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what has changed?

    The same thing that almost changed in the US recently. But they managed to get the scandals in ahead of time to prevent it there.

    Love that she is being hounded for bringing Corporate Social Responsibility to Korea. How dare she, burn the witch!

  14. Re:Flip flop .... on Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...and those that weren't completely unrealistic were completely unconstitutional, and therefore aren't going to happen either. Like locking up your opponent because you don't like that she was cleared of the charges against her.

  15. Re:Besides the obvious informmercial on Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's specifically said the router's firmware was encrypted so he couldn't read it, much less install sniffers or backdoors.

    And yet he managed to emulate it on his home network to avoid breaking the law by hacking an actual router belonging to the city...

    Some other things don't add up: The hacker connected to it and checked what his IP was, using http://whatismyip.com./ This way, you usually find the address of the router that links you to the internet. ... an actual hacker has many faster and more reliable methods of finding the router's IP at their disposable, that don't involve asking remote websites what your IP address is and guessing based on assumptions of how the network owner might have allocated their addresses.

  16. The problem is - how do you define workers' rights as being in place? Malaysia has all the right laws in place on paper. Company directors can in theory get the death penalty if they are found to be using trafficked labour (confiscating passports and paying below minimum wage are sufficient for this to be considered a human trafficking case, even if the victims were were issued proper visas and brought to the country legally, which would not be the usual case). And yet cases like this, much worse than this, are commonplace, and seldom prosecuted.

  17. Sorry having read TFA now, I have to take back the bit about supply chain audit not being able to uncover the issue. These were not workers in a smaller factory supplying components to Samsung and Panasonic as the summary makes it out to be, they were working directly in the companies factories, hired through a labour supply agency. The factory HR dept needs to be sacked and replaced with people who know what labour laws are, and why they should be followed.

  18. Knowing something about the situation in Malaysia, I doubt the stories are fabricated, but I also doubt that a supply chain audit would have uncovered the issue, so I'm not sure Panasonic and Samsung really are to blame for the problem, though their pressure to correct the situation once it is uncovered will be valuable. Abuses of this type are rife in Malaysia, especially since the immigration dept clamped down on legal immigration for factory workers from Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries that formerly provided most of the immigrant workforce a couple of years ago, making it difficult for small and medium sized businesses to get the workforce they need to run their factory. But supply chain audits are announced in advance, so workers can be asked to stay home on that day (without pay) and the auditors do not have the access to immigration systems to authenticate any fake documentation that is presented to them.

    One sad thing for the victims of the trafficking is that they will now be held in immigration detention facilities, under inhumane conditions, until fines are paid. The company that hired them will not have the money immediately available, and probably hired them under a contract from an agent that is explicitly designed to give all parties some level of deniability for responsibility for the immigration status of the employees, so they are prepared to drag the case to court, extending the detention period of their victims for many months. Pressure should be put on Panasonic and Samsung to at least pay fines in advance so the workers can be deported back to their home country and resume their lives, hopefully wiser now, and able to spread the word around their village about the real situations that the agents are selling them into.

  19. Re:won't work for slashdotters on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do they get into the washing machine in the first place (with the correct cycle) and then into the dryer (at the correct temperature) in the first place?

    My Mom has been asking me that same question for the past 25 years, but I still haven't figured out the answer. As far as I am concerned, it is magic. I leave my clothes on the bathroom floor, and the next evening they have appeared in my bedroom drawer, all without me needing to leave the basement.

  20. The scalper is providing a ticket to someone who otherwise would have been unable to obtain a ticket he desires

    He is only unable to obtain that ticket because the scalper has it.

  21. I think that it would be perfectly reasonable and appropriate for Volkswagen to have to take each and every vehicle back and refund the full purchase price of the vehicle. They knowingly sold a defective product. Fuck them.

    And fuck all the customers who don't get in before they go bankrupt?

  22. Re:SuperPACs can go first on Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Money doesn't influence elections.

    Ohhh, that must be why so many poor people become president.

    I think the GP meant that in a "guns don't kill people" sense. Obviously, they do, but not simply by themselves. It is the obligations tied to receiving the money, and the advertising that it buys that influence the election and what direction things take after the election, but the money is a fundamental tool that enables it.

  23. Re:Simple explanation on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Within hours of feeding the animals the red weed, the animals are seen to lie down and never emit another fart or burp again". I for one welcome our new Martian overlords.

  24. Re: it estimates will be worth 250 billion euros on ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    After a point, greater accuracy no longer comes from tracking more satellites, but from more detailed analysis of the signals they are sending. With GPS, Glonass and Baidu already fully operational and various SBAS systems augmenting them, Galileo is really only about the EU saving face, after spending so long talking, and meanwhile the US dropped their random error that made consumer grade GPS unpredictable, and China has joined the party from nowhere, with Japan. and India making the sensible decision to concentrate on regional augmentation rather than developing full constellations of their own.

  25. In what world does "civic society" equate to "white nationalist identity?"

    In a world where that is the reason given for why there needs to be fewer Asians in Silicon Valley. For any other meaning of "civic society" that you can imagine, it is entirely irrelevant to the conversation. Racists know that they can't say things outright, so they hide things in implicit meanings of vague terms that in context cannot really be understood any other way, but taken out of context can be easily defended as misinterpretations.