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  1. Re: too many nodes. on Ask Slashdot: Could We Build A Global Wireless Mesh Network? · · Score: 1

    Because people are massive dickheads who don't even understand what kind of data requirements their devices have, like the tween girl that takes 1000 selfies a day on an iCloud connected iPhone and thrashes the living hell out of the upload bandwidth and has no idea it's even happening.

    Even with tuned QoS that kind of crap is annoying, and who's tuning the QoS on a public mesh? No one.

    You either have massive bandwidth or a lot of restrictions on it's use to keep it usable for your low bandwidth cases.

  2. Re:After over thirty years of start-ups... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Favorite Books On Entrepreneurship? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Completely relevant recent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1827/ (Survivorship Bias)

    i.e. there's plenty of people that have done the same initial things as anyone who wrote these books and didn't get lucky. You might as well read a book on how someone won the lottery.

  3. Re: The Ministry of Truth on Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahaha, not a one of you on this thread willing to use your "name".

  4. Re:Betterage says no on Ask Slashdot: Are Accurate Software Development Time Predictions a Myth? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    It's:
    a) Betteridge's law of headlines.
    b) not a headline per se.

  5. Re: The Ministry of Truth on Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reality has a well known liberal bias.

  6. I think your Kanye estimate would be spot on for CelebritySelfWorth.com

  7. Re:How Long Until M$ deliberately breaks this... on User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates On Windows 7 & 8.1 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably get asked this a lot; but what do agencies created by Bush Jr and Truman have to do with Obama?

  8. That horror has been suggested a few times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:I am running out of excuses on Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, individual judgment, and self-ownership. So sayeth Google, so sayeth we all.

    You can use your individual judgement and freedom of choice to voluntarily associate yourself with a pack of vicious scumbags, or not.

    Mind you, the idea what people will generally act decently given that freedom of choice is just SO ADORABLE.

    Libertarians are so cute, yes they are, yes they are!

  10. Re:We knew it was coming... on New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Better than the two women that got killed because their insecure garage door opener let the maniac in.

  11. No, that's just more whataboutism.

  12. Okay, let's have a quick look at some interesting items from the list:

    - userId The userID as known by the application.
    This is what you type when Windows asks "what is your name?" during account creation, so it's quite likely to be the user's real name.

    Nah, the userid is the SID, so it's something like S-1-5-21-1284458634-12243233138-28664554919-5638

    However:
    env The environment from which the event was logged.

    That's lots of juicy details (open a command prompt and type "set")
    CLIENTNAME if you're connected w/ Terminal Services
    COMPUTERNAME
    USERDNSDOMAIN
    USERDOMAIN
    USERNAME (that's the one you type in)

    localId Represents a locally defined unique ID for the device, not the human readable device name. Most likely equal to the value stored at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\MachineId

    That's what your licence is tied to IIRC (if not it's probably the PCFP) so anonymisation of the data is effectively zero.

    Yeah, I'm still thinking external firewalling is the way to go..

  13. Re:Asian corporate culture... on Security Researcher Says Samsung's Tizen OS Is The Worst Code He's Ever Seen (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was a little unkind...

  14. It's either that or off to the re-Neducation camps you go!

    Re-Neducation Center
    "Where the elite meet to have their spirits broken"

  15. Re:Asian corporate culture... on Security Researcher Says Samsung's Tizen OS Is The Worst Code He's Ever Seen (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's an engineering problem.

    Engineering proof of correctness: Does it work when I try to use it as designed?
    Security proof of correctness: Does it fail open when I try to use it not as designed?

    I've seen the same thing with firewalls; does it (the thing you're trying to access) work now? Ok the rules must be right then: "Allow any any" usually does it.

  16. Re:Apartments being too expensive is signal to bui on Bidding Website Rentberry May Be the Startup of Your Nightmares (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What I want and need is to feed my sewage waste water into your swimming pool, there's no regulation right?

  17. Re:Download capability REMOVED by Netflix.... on Netflix Now Lets You Download Videos Onto Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Might be for /that/ show. They don't have an off-line licence for all content and the list is in flux.

    If you definitely can't download anything then .. it might think you're rooted? (I think they don't allow download to rooted devices regardless of the GP's point...)

  18. Re:Synonym for "to swear"? on Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Will fit right in with existing Australian slang; Fucking Oath!

  19. Re:What Twitter *really* needs to do: on Twitter Will No Longer Count Usernames Against a Tweet's 140-Character Limit (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Ohh, hearts and poo emojis...

  20. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't deny the link, I don't deny that people will say they're adding a levy or tax to pay for roads, but what actually happens is it all goes into government coffers and spending gets budgeted separately from collection.

    It seems like the only time you do get directed spending is when something is earmarked to pay off a vote, but it's got nothing to do with user pays either.

    Even toll roads tend to become a revenue source rather than a road funding scheme after the initial 10-20 years. (If they weren't paying off in that kind of time then the return wouldn't attract the finance)

  21. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, increase tax on trucks and you'll just increase the price of everything you buy in the stores.

    Not that I don't agree with the rest of your thesis, it's just that "user pays" government infrastructure is a fallacy. Governments just break up taxes so they seem more palatable on the surface, when in reality they just care about how big the pool is.

  22. Re:that's the entire point of facebook on Facebook Copied Snapchat a Fourth Time, and Now All Its Apps Look the Same (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    They have exactly what you give them.

    Hahahahaha, most amusing, sir!

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/f...
    and hundreds of other examples/articles along the same lines.

  23. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, what? I was putting my phone away once the light turned green and forgot I was in neutral with the park brake on, so by the time I dealt with all that I barely got through the intersection myself! Phew!

  24. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean semicircular...