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  1. Re:Add a test on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 1

    Until a minor model change it UEFI BIOS update

  2. Re:IoT devices on IoT Devices Are Secretly Phoning Home (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know, I was just parodying the modern super easily offended SJW/tumblerina role.

  3. We had some female visitors to the big PSAS building today....

  4. Point out flashy, animated, noisy, malware ridden ads from google please. Goggle may not be innocent, but they ar far, far, from the worst offender in this realm.

  5. Re:IoT devices on IoT Devices Are Secretly Phoning Home (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Can it figure out where goatse was taken? on Google Unveils Neural Network With Ability To Determine Location of Any Image (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Goatse as first post. Is this 1998? And yes I was here then under other guise.

  7. Re:God must have been pretty amazing on Leap Days May Be Going Away In the Not Too Distant Future · · Score: 1

    Kind of explains the platypus, though, doesn't it?

    No, he was testing cannabis when that happened.

  8. Funny you say that, but it is interesting that in american fiction, radiation makes superheroes. In Japanese culture it makes monsters.

  9. Re:NOT SO GOOD on Prosecutors Halt Vast, Likely Illegal DEA Wiretap Operation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    Selling or using kills millions?

    http://www.livescience.com/360...

    250k a year world wide. Hardly millions. How many simply because it is a black market and you have violence and poorly manufactured chemicals?
    Wake the fuck up.

  10. Bow before the DEM anointed on Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear "whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence."

    When ever did a twitter algorithm, remove a trending topic that was not hate speech?
    This was almost certainly intentional. The only real question is was it paid for by Hillary or a staffer. We will likely never know.

  11. Of course... on Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    They denied it before: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

    But it looks like they denied the FBI paid them.. of course since DOD paid them it all a-okay.

  12. Re: Ok, let's suppose its all true. on Microsoft Telemetry Collection, Explained (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There is no suggestion that they have network listeners (which wouldn't work anyway because most people have some kind of router level firewall, and many don't support UPNP).

    So, network listeners can't listen on normally open ports? Wow, when did things get so secure without me looking?

  13. Re:Overreach much? on FTC Forces Asus To Improve Router Security (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2
    Yeah, because the invisible hand of the market takes care of it so well.

    While we are at it, lets make seatbelts and airbags manufacturer optional as well. Oh and no oversight of drug and vaccine manufacturer.
    Lead paint and toxic chemicals in your kids toys? Caveat emptor mother fucker, you should have known. Go check all the factories for all the parts in their toys and make an informed decision.
    Oh, the chemical waste dump in your backyard? Caveat emptor again.. you should never have invited that company into town.

    There is no question that regulations can overreach. There is no question that they introduce bureaucracy and potential for corruption and graft. On the whole though we are better for many of them.

  14. Don't worry with the books on Ask Slashdot: Good Technical Guide To Windows 10? · · Score: 2

    Escalating to google can always get you more up-to-date and precise information. Just use common sense and mind your sources.

  15. Re:PS4 on Valve Releases SteamVR Perf Test To Measure Your PC (pcper.com) · · Score: 2
    You can build a decent budget gaming rig for 400 to 800. Try upgrading your PS4 over time, let me know how that works out.

    My build about 1.5 years ago was old drives from old PC, AMD 6 core, and 8GB RAM, plus a decent big PSU and an AMD R& GPU. Total cost ~$600. Since then I have upgraded to a Samsung PRO SSD, and upgraded to a better nvidia GPU. But I was able to do it ON MY TERMS.

    Try that with our rootkit pal sony.

  16. Re:It's all about "inmate" actions on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In the 2014 conflict the numbers lined up as follows:
    Israeli: 66 Soldiers, 5 Civilians, 1 Thai civilian
    Palestinians (per the UN count): Militants 789, Civilians 1,462 (65% civilians)

    So yes, some angry people with a god I don't believe in and very limited weapons have struck at a much better armed and equipped -invading- force who believe in another magical sky being.

    Sorry, but faith asid, there is no question to me who is ethically in the wrong here.

  17. Re:You can't let these get into the on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hell no.. omg what if the enemy could record the way we treat them? That can't get out to the world. Just look at the numbers: http://www.newsweek.com/gaza-a...

  18. Re:you have nobody but yourself to blame on Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com) · · Score: 2

    They will not increase salary offers. They will beg Congress for more h1-b visas and pay immigrants less in the high cost of living areas. That or outsource.

  19. Yes, that is indeed what I was trying to do with my pejorative statement. I fully agree thought that regardless of country or mode of government, most people are just trying to live under it as best they can. With their own views shaped by the powers and propaganda around them.

  20. Re:Feed it a copy of on Robots Could Learn Human Values By Reading Stories, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Ahhh yes that great tome wherein Lazarus Long gose back in time, fucks his mother and nearly dies in WWII. And that is just the greatest of the ethical and moral quandaries in that book.

    Good book to learn values by..

  21. Just goes to show that most people have no clue as to different types of governments and societies. Privacy is a fully separate concept from type of government, although it is ostensibly more in line with democracy than other forms of government.

    In her favor, her son was 40, so she is at least late 50s, if not much older. She grew up with the cold war and having to fight the dirty pinko bastards who spy on their own.

  22. Transmeta with a hardware morphing layer?

  23. Re:All thes drummers.. on Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    This one goes to 11.

  24. All thes drummers.. on Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ..and no mentions of Peart, Carey or even Bonham?

  25. Re:Not very useful. on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 1
    Good info. Some questions though. If a drive's firmware is reallocating without modifying SMART numbers, what is the reallocated sectors count for? Additionally, if the drive waits until it is out of spare tracks before incrementing the stats, how can it ever reallocate sectors? Of course the manufacturers can do quite a bit of invisible hand waving in the firmware.

    I guess one could test for this by benchmarking sequential reads and writes across the drive surface when new, then again later. If there was s significant degradation in seq. R/w speed it could indicate fragmentation due to firmware sector remapping.