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  1. Re:blatent malware on Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo Utilities Expose PCs To More Attacks · · Score: 1

    Really? Because it sounds like you're just a sarcastic jackass. There are two software laws in the US and this is one of them. You must get permissions to put software on a system. You must allow the software to be removable. You go look them up if you're so damn interested.

  2. Good name on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone's going to say that it's finally the Mr Fusion from Back to the Future. Noooo. It's Das Mister Fusion. It's German.

  3. good idea on Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Considering Apple cannot design ANYTHING lately that doesn't piss off their customers, it's probably a good idea they don't try to start a TV service.

  4. I have a competing service on Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the low, low price of $1 US I will offer get the fuck over it insurance. If you're the victim of cyber bullying and harassment I will send you messages reminding you that it's just some dumbass social reject autistic piece of human garbage whose opinions and statements should have no weight against your self confidence. I'll also remind you that they do not represent society as a whole and you should honestly just disregard all the stupid bullshit they're saying.

  5. blatent malware on Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo Utilities Expose PCs To More Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last fairly new HP I worked on has no entry in the uninstall list for "Hp Support Assistant." I traced where the program launches from and it uses an acronym to hide behind. Then the uninstaller the directory actually references some HP solutions framework thing. I tried removing that from its entry on the control panel and it said it can't remove it because it was needed by the HP Support Assistant. So I ran the uninstaller directly from the directory and it did quite literally nothing. So I had to remove the entire directory and every reference to it in the various boot time locations in the registry to truly kill it. That's what I like to call malware. It literally violates US laws pertaining to software having to be removable by the user if they want. I'm sure there's some preinstallation EULA BS to get around it though. Great upgrade to that crapware, HP!

  6. oh no they didn't on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "striking one of many soft targets that can never be fully protected"
    BUUUUUUUUULLSHIT. Try attacking a building like this in George or South Carolina. About a 1 in 10 adults have a gun on them there. If the stupid democrats would just allow people to own and carry concealed guns, there would always be return fire.

  7. Gun Free Zone on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    More victims of a "gun free zone." Basically all mass shootings happen in gun free zones. I guess the gunmen didn't see the no guns sign. They should make the sign bigger. If they tried this kind of shit in my state (Wisconsin) there would be return fire. NOBODY here with a concealed carry permit obeys those bullshit signs.

  8. They released a commercial with a Nazi era beetle with a fake German accent to make sure everyone remembers Hitler invented the Volkswagon brand and you expect them to operate their business on the up and up? Their company is being run by complete morons! Since it's Germany, they're probably all drunk 24/7.

  9. I have an idea. Handle it the way some of the smarter states in the USA do it. About 1 in 100 people in the crowd has a concealed weapon. Try attacking that. Return fire assurance is infinitely more effective as a defense and a deterrent than some ridiculous laws and metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs and all that predictable, bypassable nonsense.

  10. I have an idea on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: -1

    Take the new iphone and give it a feature where it blows up the factory that makes it because Apple is the worst thing to ever happen to the tech industry.

  11. who even uses radar? on Chinese Researchers Reveal Active Stealthy Material (popsci.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    With all the cheap drones with super high end cameras and AI, a stealth bomber could be found by the US military with just simple optics. Just literally find a flying black object that's like 25 feet long.

  12. and yet we're living in Star Trek already on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    To travel faster than you, you need to bend space so you're traveling through less of it but effectively moving further when you unbend it. We have proven as scientific fact that space can be bent and we know what particle does it. Plus we have a proof of concept model of FTL travel in that space is expanding so at the edge of the universe, objects are effectively becoming more distant from us at a rate faster than the speed of light. All that is established fact and this idiot thinks we'll never build the equivalent of a warp drive? We're probably less than 100 years out from it!

  13. You are horribly incorrect. The Bible does not say bomb abortion clincs. The Koran does say go kill non-muslims approximately 20 times.

  14. the actual quote on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "We feel strongly that nobody will sell us an efficient x86 CPU because we're such unfair, lying, backstabbing assholes to our hardware vendors."

  15. ipads don't belong in the real world on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It's almost like ipads are a stupid, portable toy for rich morons and they don't belong in the real world like for example a workplace. My merchant services vendor massively screwed up my application a few years ago because that dumbass was using an ipad as well. It's almost like tablets are an inferior way to typing data into a computer system or something.

  16. Or use one of a dozen security holes Apple will deny, lie about, pretend to fix, then make worse, then cover up and send out takedown notices to other websites about.

  17. faster than light on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1

    "and then the other — even if it's across the Universe — is immediately known"
    Well I guess that's settled then. A year or two ago I posted that scientists potentially thought that quantum changes could occur faster than light because nothing is "traveling" it's merely updating to current reality in real time. People replied like crazy and downvoted me to oblivion. Well I guess we found out who was right after all, didn't we? In fact I recall a story about NASA wanting to test this onboard the ISS. I think that rocket carrying it exploded but still.

  18. yay on Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now they can steal your phone AND the rest of your money.

  19. Well then there's this on Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    What a bad summary. Refugee != immigration.

  20. and yet... on AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count · · Score: 1

    In a completely synthetic benchmark, I recall the 8300 being double the speed of the 4300 and the 6300 coming in right in the middle. So I guess their theoretical limitation and pretend core complaint is just that, theoretical. Oh and also it's bullshit.

  21. It's a miracle on Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering he did nothing to stop Wall Street nonsense, did nothing successful to help the environment, and started/escalated more wars than he ended, I thought for sure he'd continue not being a democrat and let the keystone pipeline pass. So far he's done basically nothing other than controversial social issues. I think he's our first troll president.

  22. oh good on Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 (steamcommunity.com) · · Score: 1

    "Warner Bros claims that it's still working closely with its GPU partners in order to enable SLI/Crossfire for the game."
    Glad to hear they're working hard on making the game not run unless you buy more hardware. Good job, guys.

  23. Except... on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that it's lots of lightyears away which means it would have been lots of years ago which means....OMG THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY HERE, RUN!

  24. Re:Must Be The Shipping Cost on Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike (heraldsun.com.au) · · Score: 1

    They're actually electronics and photons but anyway, I can't see a logical reason that the price is higher. Back in the day it was books and other shipped goods so it made sense to add to the price just for their country. Now I think people are just doing it because they truly hate Australia and everyone there is used to paying more.

  25. same as guns on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So making encryption illegal will stop terrorists from using encryption? You know, the same way that making terrorism illegal stops terrorism. What a joke. It's the same as guns. If you make guns illegal, criminals will still have them. That's why they're criminals. They don't follow laws.