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  1. Next Ask Toolbar on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 1

    Next they will try to install the Ask toolbar. Sun did this bullshit back in the early 2000's. I am surprised it has taken this long for Oracle to take this step to try to ruin Java.

  2. Phrasing on Learn-to-Code Program For 10,000 Low-Income Girls · · Score: 1

    So I give them 10,000 low income girls, and they teach me to code?

  3. Re:Interesting..sorta? on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 2

    What is Google-bot?

  4. Re:e-waste on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "fix it when it breaks"

    Do you even have a smartphone? These things are designed to be unrepairable, or so expensive to repair you might as well replace them.

  5. Re:The problem is that landfills are too cheap on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Seems like both of you are just trash talking (pun intended).

    Are there any numbers or studies to back up these claims?

  6. Re:Makes sense on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 1

    If you were looking youtube.com/somename is meaningless. If you want to find something you use the search page. Randomly switching urls around without anyone asking for it and for no apparent reason isn't even evil... its just stupid.

  7. But on Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July · · Score: 1

    Who wants to pay $200 for a 5400 rpm 1TB drive?

  8. Is this guy assuming we will eventually eliminate all of the thousands of nuclear weapons we currently have? What in the world does the poster mean by "on hand"?

    The article's title is "Should nuclear devices be used to stop asteroids?". Makes me wonder if the submitter read TFA.

    The article itself is kind of dumb. It talks about rethinking the Outer Space Treaty that bans nuclear weapons in space. If there was a global threat on the way, the time it would take to arm and configure a rocket to send the weapon to the asteroid would be insignificant. If the asteroid is close enough that something sitting in, say, geostationary orbit could touch it, we would all be dead. In fact, if the threat was any closer than a year from impact, no amount of nuclear weapons is going to help us, and we have no rockets capable of reaching an asteroid that far away.

    The article writer is naive when it comes to orbital mechanics, the staggering kinetic energy of a significant asteroid, and that these guys actually have a chance at getting all nuclear weapons banned.

  9. Everything is a security/convenience consideration.

    KeePass is more secure than LastPass, if you are careful with how you store your database.
    Having your passwords as similar but reasonably strong password is more convenient, but less secure.
    Setting your password to 12345, is even more convenient but... idiots and luggage...

  10. I think it would be prudent to still have a password change/reset policy if you are using something like LastPass. If the individual sites get hacked your account is still compromised.

  11. Re:No boas here on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 4, Informative

    There will never be a Delta IV Orion with humans on it. Even ULA is planning to sunset Delta and Atlas for a new rocket to replace these. Probably will somehow manage to make it even more expensive for taxpayers and a way to keep retired Air Force colonels employed.

  12. Re: Go space on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This would still be cheaper than paying Boeing to do the launches.

  13. Re:It's not that hard, really. on Google Launches Sidewalk Labs To Develop Smart Cities Tech · · Score: 1

    The sidewalk technology I want to see are automatic tire deflators on cars that park on the sidewalk.

  14. Re:Umm, what? on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    "Upload scanned PDF"

    I would say this is more of a step to the side than a step forward. Though when I cosigned a student loan for my brother they were fine with me uploading a cell phone snap of my paystub as proof. I have neither a scanner nor a printer, and have no plans for either.

  15. Re:Umm, what? on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    I worked at a company pre-tech bubble and pre-mortgage bubble. We were working on electronic vendor management, but a related project at another vendor was working on doing fully digital signing. It was mostly a disaster because the client (Freddie) simply wanted everything to work like it used to, including all the paper bullshit.

    In the end they scrapped that part of the project, and scrapped all the "money saving" parts of our project. Freddie and the banks simply did not care about saving money, since it was all being passed on to the buyer anyhow. Hell, they didn't even care if the appraisals said the property were worth what the loan was for. Early 2000's were the wild west of the mortgage industry. I got out before the crash, but I was not surprised it happened.

  16. Re:IVB on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    Just looked up that Sabertooth motherboard. Damn, that thing is a work of art.

  17. Re:Severe punishment of a lawyer? Not likely. on Prenda Gets Hit Hard With Contempt Sanctions For Lying To Court · · Score: 1

    I always though it was the 98% of bad lawyers give the 2% of good ones a bad name. :)

  18. Re:"Crunch Time" == Bad Project Management on Stress Is Driving Developers From the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    A lot of companies work this way.

    Also, when raises come around, managers are given a fixed pool of money to give out, and told to shrug and say the company has hit hard times when people ask to be compensated.

  19. Re:What happens when autopsy.io goes belly up on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall a 10 year anniversary post on that some number of years ago? Even that must have been, what 2009?

    Fuck it, don't tell me, I don't want to think about it.

  20. Re:Severe punishment of a lawyer? Not likely. on Prenda Gets Hit Hard With Contempt Sanctions For Lying To Court · · Score: 1

    And most politicians are lawyers too, so good luck getting any laws passed that are harder on abusive lawyers.

  21. Severe punishment of a lawyer? Not likely. on Prenda Gets Hit Hard With Contempt Sanctions For Lying To Court · · Score: 1

    Some people are still wondering why none of this pattern of deceit, lying and abuse of the court system has not resulted in anything more serious

    Remember, Judges and prosecutors are lawyers too, and lawyers protect their own.

  22. Re:Of course, it's likely copyrighted. on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 0

    They injected code into his blog. So they made a derivative work of his, the code belongs to him.

  23. Dear people that defend advertisers: on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right then, all of you that attack people using adblock as "stealing" content.

    This is why we do it.

  24. Re:Hello Kim on Interviews: Ask Kim Dotcom a Question · · Score: 1

    Only if your cause is two chicks at the same time.

  25. Re:What happens when autopsy.io goes belly up on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 2

    where will the founder explain how it died?

    I'm curious to see how /. explains how it died.

    Four letter words: "Beta". Or "Dice".

    "Katz"