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  1. Now they tell me... on Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just (as in this month) bought a 4K TV. And now they tell me it's already obsolete? FML.

  2. To a smaller extent on the left? Please. Have you ever listened to some of the more insane SJWs?

    The left doesn't tend to elect those types of people to high-office...

  3. Identification vs. Authorization on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We're All At Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a simple matter of Identification vs. Authorization, phone numbers (like fingerprints) are great for identification but horrible for authorization because of the ease they can be used fraudulently, i.e. generate false positives. I'm always amazed at how so many security "professionals" can't seem to grasp this simple concept.

  4. Free Enterprise on Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's free enterprise, if you don't like Apple or Google's business practices? Take your business elsewhere. Why is it that so many people are pro-free enterprise until someone else figures out how to make money at it?

  5. 1984

  6. Word of the Day: Fiduciary on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If Musk is even considering taking the company private (and discussing it with banks is a pretty good proof that his is) he has a fiduciary duty to tell the shareholders about it. The short-sellers don't have a case.

  7. Voter intimidation on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So what's stopping the Sergeant from watching his enlisted cast their vote for the "right people"? What stops someone selling their vote and allowing the person paying to watch them vote?

    There are reasons we have voting booths.

    I realize mail-in absentee ballots have the same issues, but this is a step towards allowing or requiring everyone to vote this way.

  8. If you have a pair with removable batteries, try pulling the battery sometime while they're playing music, and count how long it takes the phone to realize they're no longer there and stop playback.

    How long would you expect them to continue operating after pulling the battery if they weren't transmitting ACK packets?

  9. The problem is taking 8 hours to recharge the car. We can't fast-charge yet like we can fuel a car with gasoline. We need to be able to do that and we can't. So electric cars are not truly viable yet.

    Current electric cars easily handle 98% of the driving 98% of the population does. For the other 2% rent a car. Seriously, for the two trips a year you make that an electric car can't handle, just rent a gas or hybrid car. You'll save far more in fuel costs than you will spend in rental costs.

  10. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    dgatwood: Can you recover the data on this hardrive for me?
    me: No, it's encrypted.
    dgatwood: But, I took it out of my broken computer...
    me: It's still encrypted.
    dgatwood: Can't you "hack it" and bypass the encryption like they do on TV?
    me: No. Keeping anyone from being able to access (recover) your data is the whole point of using encryption.

  11. If you're using "Pro" hardware and relying on data recovery to protect your data you're doing it wrong. You need a proper backup strategy, you don't want to carry external drives and you don't trust the cloud? Tunnel into your office system and backup there.

    The drive has hardware data encryption with the key in a secure enclave so being able to remove the drive and plug it into another system wouldn't help you recover the data.

  12. Now tell me the computer manufacturer(s) who have never had issues with their computers. Go on, I'm waiting.

  13. Re:I wonder why on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    hah remember when Microsoft made IE the default browser? Such a big scandal. Nothing kept you from installing Netscape

    And Apple has what percent of the smart phone market again?

    Now explain how it's a monopoly and how Apple is abusing it?

  14. Not a compelling argument... on Net Neutrality Repeal Will Get a Senate Vote In the Spring, Democrats Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Internet is for all -- the students, teachers, innovators, hard-working families, small businesses, and activists, not just Verizon, Charter, AT&T, and Comcast and corporate interests

    To a republican that's not a compelling argument...

  15. Downlaod the ISO and go to town... on Man, Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade, Sues Microsoft (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Download the Windows 7 ISO (https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows7)
    2. Install using the license key that's on the sticker on the bottom of your system.
    3. Profit!

  16. Day of the Orca? on 'Hello!' Says the Human. 'Hello!' Pipes the Orca Right Back. (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this real, or the plot to the new movie Day of the Orca?

  17. Re:But why?? on First 'Jackpotting' Attacks Hit US ATMs (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    So, if I have physical access to the machine, I can install software that lets me loot the machine.

    Or, if I have physical access to the machine, I can just take all the money out of the machine without bothering with the software installhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  18. Re:Can't fault a man for sticking to his guns. on FCC Chairman Slams Trump Team's Proposal To Nationalize 5G (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel free markets are good when there's enough elasticity in the market for good old-fashioned supply and demand to function correctly.

    A brilliant explanation of free-enterprise in comix form:
    http://economixcomix.com/Econo...

  19. Re:Climate changes. It always has. on Global Warming Predictions May Now Be a Lot Less Uncertain (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The world is heating up, we will survive.

    And the Native Americans "survived" colonization by Europeans. For a species surviving is a really low standard and ignores potentially massive amounts of suffering and death -- six and a half BILLION people could die slow torturous deaths over the next month and you could still say "we survived".

  20. It's the hair. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    I would have just gone with "It's the hair".

    Perhaps it's a good thing I don't have kids...

  21. Re:Bay Area Idiots on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yah, it's not like New Yorkers aren't just as "self-important" when they refer to the SoHo, the Bronx, Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, etc. Or Altantians (?) refer to Little Five Points, Candler Park or Cabbage Town. Or literally anyone from any other location uses common names for neigbourhoods in their area.

    But good job not letting reality get in the way of your prejudice...

  22. If Project Veritas is saying it... on Twitter Hits Back Again at Claims That Its Employees Monitor Direct Messages (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If Project Veritas is saying someone is doing something, they are doing the opposite. Their SOP is to secretly record someone then take what they say out of context or otherwise edit the recording to make them appear to say what PV wants them to say.

  23. Re:Because gubbermint! on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Uber, Facebook, etc. don't send armed men to your home to kill you when someone pranks them and sends them to your home.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita,_Kansas_swatting

  24. Anyone who has installed an alarm system into their home and has set it off accidentally -- should understand the main issue with arming your alarm system.

  25. Re:Nearly 2 Hours? on Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How about? Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Just Over and Hour

    Not as sensational as "Power Outage Brings CES to a Standstill for a Large Part of the Day".