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  1. Re:Minimum Wage For Robots on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    I demand a minimum wage be established for robots!

    That's called Property Taxes.

  2. Re:And still moe people have more things on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    more people obviously can afford to HAVE a household

    To misquote Babbage: I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

    Home ownership is 3rd lowest ever.

    Marriage is at an all time low.

    Family size is decreasing - YOUR OWN STATS. Meanwhile, Cohabitation is increasing. So are non-sexual roommates.

    So please explain what the hell went on in your head that produced the output "more people obviously can afford to HAVE a household", because all signs are pointing the other way.

  3. Re:And still I would bet on Manufacturing Jobs On Decline Around the World (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    All bought on credit, and the cards are maxed out.

  4. I've never encountered a situation where someone offering a good or service for sale has subtracted my freedom

    Your freedom personally? I'm sure I can find someone on the darkwebs that can arrange a "contract" for that.

    On a more serious side there are plenty of products that cause harm to people other than the purchaser through pollution.

  5. Re:Well yes duh on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This idea is as dumb as the idea the ISPs had where they could charge YouTube to graciously permit you to visit their website.

    Google has their ISP that they pay, you have your ISP that you pay, and various peering arrangements govern how the two ISPs talk to each other.

    This even applies if Google installs servers at your ISP's data center, the videos still have to be transferred to that server over the internet backbone. Google isn't going to have a person with a thumb drive walk over to Comcast HQ to upload the latest in cat videos.

  6. So they want a messaging system and it must use a blockchain and it must allow messages to be deleted?

    They're going to have a hard time.

  7. Android versions 4.0 through 4.3

    Thank God my HTC EVO 4G with Android 2.3 is safe

  8. Re:Sure on Slashdot Asks: Have You Experienced Ageism? (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    Your inability to sell lemonade is yet another example of how people your age simply refuse to learn new and useful skills and think the world owes you something.

  9. Re:How can you digitally steal money? on $10 Router, No Firewall Blamed In $80M Bangladesh Bank Hack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    money is moved solely though digital means

    I think you're looking for bitcoin. In this case the money was sent to a bank in the Philippines where almost certainly someone had opened an account with stolen ID, and closed the account out in cash as soon as the transaction cleared.

  10. We're talking about the USA Magnited States of America here, we don't need no stinking Personal PIN ID Number.

    I went to a grocery store last night that was using the chip and actually paid attention. It took about 1 second after I inserted the card for the prompt to change from "insert card" to "authorizing do not remove card" and about 5 seconds to switch to "authorized remove card now", so it didn't really take 30 seconds in all, it just feels that way compared to getting the card out, swiping the card in 0.2 seconds, putting the card back in the wallet and feeling that I am done with the transaction even if the computer isn't.

    I suspect a lot of people also ignore the prompts and just wait for the machine to make angry beeping noises at them to take their card, so they are holding up the transaction more than necessary.

  11. Re:This is so stupid. on In a First, Judge Throws Out Evidence Obtained from FBI Malware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In order for your plan to work, it would have to be a crime to violate the supreme law of the land. Right now, you don't even get so much as a moving violation.

    I disagree with this outcome, but for an entirely different reason. The exploit that was used was analyzed and fixed, so it cannot be used again except on people who keep using old versions of the browser. The FBI's claims that they can't reveal it because then it would stop working as hollow as they did in the Apple case, this looks like just more grandstanding for the sake of getting a free pass around the Constitution.

    The FBI should have provided the details to the court as requested and proceeded with the case.

  12. Re:It's just so slow! on EMV Technology In Credit and Debit Cards Reducing Counterfeit Fraud, Says Visa (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The old auths used to take us about 5 seconds, but now they take over 45 seconds.

    The old auths used to take us about 30-45 seconds too, but the person didn't have to stand and stare at it their with their card in the machine, so it didn't feel like you were waiting 30 seconds.

    It gave me a chance to put my card back in my wallet and my wallet back in my pocket before the cashier could try and shove the receipt into my occupied hands.

  13. Re:Still making them? on Microsoft Stops Xbox 360 Production, Servers To Stay Online · · Score: 1

    Speaking of the playstation, the mini PSOne came out after the PS2 (in Japan) and proceeded to outsell it for the rest of the year.

  14. Re:Makes sense, companies aren't doing it anymore on Bill Gates Calls On the US Government To Invest More In Research and Development (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember a lot of people making googly-eyes at the Microsoft Courier After half a decade of ipads and android tablets, I doubt it could make any kind of comeback, especially not with the Surface occupying the "Microsoft Tablet" niche.

  15. Re:Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    To put AC's statements another way: nobody sits around imagining what stupid purposes a Dremel could be used for. Someone used it as a dental drill or to grind wacky shapes in their teeth or something, and now everyone has to be told not to do that.

  16. Re:Fascinating on Hacker's Account of How He Took Down Hacking Team's Servers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Setting aside this particular hack, *most* "hacks" are simply scattershot: if it costs $X of effort to break into a computer, as long as one out of every N computers gets you something worth N*X, the question is why not?

  17. Re:Question to the Network Guys on Phorm, the Deep Packet Inspection Ad-Injector Company, Ceases Trading · · Score: 2

    If they have the private key, then maybe (assuming Diffie-Hellman was not used to create a session key without transmitting it).

    There are a number of proxies that support creating SSL certs on the fly in order to MITM SSL traffic, though this is obvious unless you have installed the device's certificate as a trusted CA on the users' computers.

  18. Re:So if the battery does catch fire... on iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it's permanently and irreversibly burned.

  19. The FOIA response is redacted to the point that it is For No Use At All.

  20. Eh, it'd be more interesting if you answered yes and it locked you into a version of the site that only had videos of a married couple having sex in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation (not even a money shot at the end).

  21. Re:How about something more useful? on Microsoft's BSOD Is Getting More Descriptive With QR Codes (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it should ask me Abort, Retry or Fail, just for old time's sake.

  22. Re:How about something more useful? on Microsoft's BSOD Is Getting More Descriptive With QR Codes (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's anything like every other event log entry, you scan the QR Code and get a page that says

    An unknown BSOD has occurred

    An unknown driver encountered an unknown error at unknown:unknown

    Error code: 0x00000001

  23. Re:wow, they have a real accountable democracy on Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you can use certain html entities like ð = ð

  24. Re:Intel Management Engine on FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD has had the "Platform Security Processor" since 2013, which has the same problems (including Ring -3 level exploitability)

    Curious that it's hard to find a list of processors without these "features" online. Wikipedia barely mentions PSP as a footnote on AMD's APU list.

  25. Re:Three words on AT&T Caps Are A Giant Con And An Attack On Cord-Cutters (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    Who's going to pay for all that capital you're about to spend several dozens to hundreds of millions on, depending your jurisdiction?

    You mean "Who's going to pay for all that capital you're about to spend several dozens to hundreds of millions on, when Google Fiber has demonstrated that the competitors WILL cut costs and improve services in order to try and drive you out of the market?"

    I certainly wouldn't loan anyone money to do this unless they've got enough cash reserve to outlast the Comcasts and AT&Ts that are already established.