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  1. Re:Tarzan need antecedent on Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    His presence negatively affects public perception of the business. If they were publicly traded then the share holders could vote him out based on that alone. Bigots are bad for business image.

  2. JavaScript Required to Donate on Snowden Joins Daniel Ellsberg On Board of Freedom of the Press Foundation · · Score: 1

    It seems kind of strange that a site which is collecting donations to fund secure software projects would require the use of JavaScript to donate. http://imgur.com/Ri5PB7r

  3. Re:How long? on Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire · · Score: 1

    Coming out of Stanford: http://curecoin.us/ the creators are widely criticized for keep 10% of the currency for themselves which has led to a slow adoption.

  4. Re:In the kitchen on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 4, Informative

    So once the FBI subpeona'd Tor to...

    That's an awful long post for someone that doesn't seem to know what they are talking about. Tor cannot be subpoenaed for information. It is a peer to peer network, not a legal entity. They got this guy because to get on university wifi you need to login, which then associates your mac address with your account and allows traffic to flow. They also monitor your traffic and could associate his account with Tor use. This gave the FBI enough information to question him and he probably was so scared and guilty feeling that he freely confessed. You can change the mac address on most network adapters. You wouldn't need to buy a throwaway usb wifi adapter. The FBI would have had much less to go on if the perp had simply used a free wifi hotspot.

    It is difficult to understand what was going on in his head but it obviously wasn't rational thought.

  5. Re:Fire insurance on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 1

    The San Francisco hackerspace NoiseBridge apparently just waived terrorism insurance, "until we're absolutely sure we want to hire a terrorist full-time." https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-November/040296.html HAH!

  6. How does it perform hash-wise? on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 1

    I can't find any information on the scrypt hash rate of these cards. Does anybody have any info? Thanks

  7. Re:Enforce every law on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up! When I was growing up I accepted the fact that everything is illegal and that I was most likely breaking some law at any given time. It took me years to understand the social implications. If you want to go down a wiki hole this is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_discretion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement

  8. Re:Oh just stop it! on Public Facial Recognition Is Making Gains In Surveillance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait, what? Do you honestly believe that if an incentive is there that sentient organisms will not reach for it? I have a strong moral compass but that doesn't change the fact that you need to stop whatever the fuck you are doing right now to help us reengineer "the game" in order to reward people that do good while doing well. Aside from NWO fantasies, all the assholes that have money right now are extremely interested in keeping it, at all costs. This includes your family's ability to be healthful or be educated to a basic level. I think it was Peter Drucker that said "If you can't measure it, then you can't manage it." They are fucking managing you. How does it feel?

  9. Re:Hmm on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    "Jericho: 9:02 (#1.6)" (2006) Allison Hawkins: [in reference to Jake] Is he a good man or a bad man? Robert 'Rob' Hawkins: Baby, there is no such thing.

  10. The Secret of NIMH on NIMH Distances Itself From DSM Categories, Shifts Funding To New Approaches · · Score: 1
  11. Facebook Does on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Facebook deploys its 4GB binary to its 500,000 servers using a torrent client that has rack and switch affinity. Each client goes for data chunks that are already locally on a rack or switch that it is connected to. That is a crap-ton of data.

  12. Mirror on Irish Artist Turns Google Maps Screen Grabs Into Pricey Art · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I will get a DMCA take down for this PDF snapshot? http://db.tt/Y9GCT7N4

  13. Letter to Rep. Lance Gooden on Texas Declares War On Robots · · Score: 1

    You can send a similar one from here: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/email/?district=4&session=83 Representative Gooden, I am writing to alert you to public opinion that is forming about your new HB912. A consensus is bubbling up on internet forums that your intention in drafting this bill was to protect corporations like Columbia from incidents similar to the Oak Cliff pig blood dumping which resulted in criminal charges. I have not found any post yet that interprets this new bill as protecting the privacy of individual citizens. I know that this was not your intention and I urge you to take action by retracting the bill and releasing a clarifying statement. Regards, Terbeaux Nou P.S. Please find attached links for two popular internet sites which are discussing your new bill: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/01/153241/texas-declares-war-on-robots http://www.reddit.com/r/CCW/comments/18v0xr/hey_texas_time_to_start_writing_those_emails/

  14. Re:Oh this will go well. on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    Being a very large site they often make outrageous and unfounded claims like "The Galaxy's Largest BitTorrent Site."

    I think it is hilarious if not true as well.

    Did you see the documentary? http://youtu.be/eTOKXCEwo_8

  15. Who Cares? on Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed · · Score: 2

    There are bugs much older than this in the wild. Publishing this arcane factoid will just make the KDE devs feel inadequate when our bro Thiago Macieira could have earned a PhD in CS and submitted a patch herself. Can you mod an entire story -1 TROLL?

  16. Effect on Mass Surveillance? on Google Chrome 25 Will Serve Searches Over SSL From the Omnibox For All Users · · Score: 1

    One of the main benefits of increasing the amount of encrypted traffic on the Internet is that it makes illegal mass surveillance more difficult. The EFF did this with HTTPS Everywhere.

    Do surveillance agencies have some way of accessing all of this data in spite of it being encrypted in transport?

  17. Renamed Borland to Inprise on Annual "Worst CEO" List Released · · Score: 1

    Just sayin' he destroyed one of the best compiler brand assets at the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Yocam

  18. Billions of Fricken Dollars on Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Billions of dollars to shutdown airports for no reason. They were thrown off the tracks by Amtrak Chief of Police for trying to encroach on American's 4th amendment rights outside of their "jurisdiction". http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/opinion/don-phillips-tsa-vipr-teams/

    I wrote to my representatives about how I feel about the TSA. You can too: https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/tsa/

  19. Book Club on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 2

    Organize a weekly book club where you read a chapter from a book like "Code Complete" or "The Pragmatic Programmer" and everyone talks about the chapter together for an hour and relate it to current practices on the team. Get your manager to splash out for pizza and beer or peanut butter and chocolate (or both). This allows everyone to think that they have formulated their own ideas instead of having to deal with the defensiveness that is associated with (even constructive) criticism. You may also find yourself learning things that you thought you should already know.

    Everyone on your team will get better including yourself.

  20. Mishkin on UT Professor Resigns Over Fracking Conflict of Interest · · Score: 2

    "Inside Job" alleges that Frederic Mishkin was paid $135,000 by the previous Icelandic regime to lie in a report about how sound the Icelandic economy was. It is interesting to see how defensive he becomes while being interviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msVl3oZl4U

    "Mishkin was confirmed as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on September 5, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014. On May 28, 2008, he submitted his resignation from the Board of Governors, effective August 31, 2008, in order to revise his textbook and resume his teaching duties at Columbia Business School." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Mishkin#Career

    I really like the part where his textbook is more important than his job at the Federal Reserve. I trust this guy. Really.

    Now it looks like other Universities are taking disclosure seriously: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/04/13/inside-job-prompts-new-look-conflict-interest-policy. Which may be why UT is floating its witches with its ducks now. Which coincidentally makes me happy.

  21. Re:Why not? on Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database · · Score: 0

    You must be new here...

  22. Re:ISP on EFF And Others Push For Open Wifi APs Everywhere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use MonkeyBrains.net. When they came to install my point-to-point wireless connection they left an open AP called "monkeybrains". It is balls slow but they put one in that piggybacks on my link (below network layer). My neighbor also uses the service. When his home server went down and he was restoring his 5TB backup over his residential wireless connection they sent him and email and asked him about his spike in usage. He explained to them what was happening and they said that the wireless connections weren't really meant for that type of use. Then they invited him to bring the machine down to their office to plug it directly into a switch. The only reason why the "executives" from MonkeyBrains would be laughing is because they love the idea and the EFF. Local ISPs are pretty awesome. Setting up a WISP can be done with relatively low overhead using a cooperative model.

  23. Re:Weekly. on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Push To Production? · · Score: 2

    If parent bothered to post AC then they should have mentioned that they work at Facebook and have like 500,000 servers. See parent links for subtle indication.

  24. Re:China isn't a real military threat. on US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" · · Score: 1

    Whoever started the Iraq war is the only person that "won".

  25. Chef & Jenkins on Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? · · Score: 2

    You want something to track changes, deploy changes, and test software. Bazaar will track your changes.

    Chef is open source infrastructure management. The central server maintains a searchable database of your nodes and all of the scripts (recipes) that run on them. The nodes query this database and run the scripts that they are supposed to. This is similar to your environment now. You can also check your chef-repo into scm. This allows you to mess around with production and only commit back into scm when you are fairly certain that it works.

    Jenkins has a similar setup but each node is ostensibly there to build and test software although we have used it for deployment and integration testing.

    Chef & Jenkins can definitely help in deploying code and maintaining your infrastructure but you will need to take responsibility for testing your code somewhere along the process whether it be with on-commit with Jenkins or on deploy with unit or other tests. I definitely feel the value after investing time to learn these powerful tools.