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  1. Shatner! on Amazon's Customer Service Backdoor (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In this case, a bad actor was able to use Amazon's online chat support and a fake address to get the rep to tell him Springer's real address and phone number.

    Shatner must be stopped.

  2. Hot Potato Exploit

    Name me one potato exploit that isn't hot.

  3. Did an editor read this? on Google Says It Killed 780 Million 'Bad Ads' In 2015 (cio.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    including include ads for counterfeit products

    You do know typos make the site look stupid and unprofessional, right? But you just don't care?

    Posted by timothy

    Never mind.

  4. What's the big deal? on Pet Wearables? But Seriously, Folks... (Video) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a joke at first

    No it doesn't. It's no more or less of a joke than human wearables. In fact, it's probably less so.

    My old dog had an LED collar for walks at night. Is that a "wearable"?

    Heck, pets are miles ahead of us. Most of them have already got "implantables" which can be used to unlock (cat and doggy) doors!

  5. Re:So... on CIA: 10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer (cia.gov) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying that guy with the weird hairdo works the CIA...

  6. Note the operative word "if" on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    A new survey from Johns Hopkins revealed that 59% percent of Americans, if they were to buy a new handgun, are willing to purchase a smart gun

    And how, exactly, did they ask this question?

    "If you were willing to buy a new handgun, would you be willing to buy a smart gun?"

    Well, I'd answer "yes" to that, despite not being willing in the slightest to buy a new handgun. In fact I'd suspect more "non-gun-fans" would answer yes to it than "gun-fans" (to simplistically divide the nation into those two camps for a moment).

    And besides all that, who wouldn't want a hypothetically perfect smart gun that never misreads a palm? Because that's what people will assume is being offered to them in this hypothetical situation. In this hypothetical perfect world, to the owner a smart gun is simply a gun like any other.

  7. Re:Reverse psychology on NSA Chief: Arguing Against Encryption Is a Waste of Time (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    DUCK Season!!!

    WABBIT Season!!!

    Wabbit season...

  8. Bit ambiguous on Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone

    Okay, I know you can kind of work it out from context (though you shouldn't have to), but at a glance it's not clear whether that's "Google have paid" or "Google have been paid."

    Still, it's possible that Apple could have paid Google to stop them blocking Google search from iPhones... I guess...

  9. His name... is Tim on MIT To Offer Internet of Things Training For Professionals (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tim Berners-Lee

    who I recently heard likes to refer to himself as "web developer."

  10. Cyber cyber cyber! on Cyber-Scammers Steal €50 Million From Austrian Airplane Manufacturer (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    FACC Operations GmbH has announced a cyber-incident during which cyber-fraudsters managed to steal around €50 million from their bank accounts.

    Don't you mean they cyber-stole €50 cyber-million from their cyber-bank cyber-accounts?

    Please cyber-mod my cyber-comment if you enjoyed reading it on your cyber-computer.

  11. HD Moore

    He looks bad enough in SD!

  12. the Node.js Foundation's Board o Directors

    Yargh, and it be a fine board too.

  13. Re:Beware the Robot Axis on How Robotaxis Might Mitigate Electric Car Depreciation (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    I've just had a nasty bout of robotaxis.

  14. USPIS? on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    US Postal Inspectors Service.

    It really is called USPIS? I thought Brooklyn Nine Nine made that up.

  15. Re:Theoretical Evidence? on Theoretical Evidence For a Ninth Planet Beyond Pluto May Be Premature (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just what I came to say. And how would it be premature? It's just evidence.

  16. Re:When found the name needs to start with P on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Mary's "Virgin" Excuse Made Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbour, Pablo.

  17. Re:counting is fun on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    This is what makes me think they're estimating the amount of matter in the universe incorrectly when it comes to the dark matter mathematical discrepancy.

    Eh... I think I'll continue to give the astrophysicists the benefit of the doubt over your uninformed hunch.

  18. Re:Here's my fun for today on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump in 2017.

  19. Re:Orbital Cleaning Services - 1 gigadollar/terali on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Don't get Kepler to do it. He'll just sweep out the same area every night.

  20. Well, obviously on Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise they'd just call it "fishing."

  21. Re:I stopped reading at... on UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance (benthamsgaze.org) · · Score: 1

    do you think any reasonably intelligent terrorist will think, I need to talk to my mates, ok MIKEY-SAKKE is my 'go-to' tool?

    No, and neither does the government. The "mass surveillance!!!11!" hyperbole of the headline notwithstanding, this is just the government implementing the encryption for their own communications.

  22. Re:My biggest "contribution to the good of humanit on Intel Skylake Bug Causes PCs To Freeze During Complex Workloads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I told him I had canceled the PC orders I placed and would not buy more of them until the situation was resolved. A short while later, Intel changed their tune and also started being more open with the bugs in their processors

    Before I was born, Britain had never had a female prime minister, America had never had a black president, and the Shah still ruled Iran.

    My birth clearly changed all of this...

  23. C'mon people, mod parent funny, not insightful. Sheesh.

  24. Re: PrimeCoins on New Mersenne Prime Discovered, Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281 - 1 (mersenne.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wanna be a perfect number!

    I'd rather be happy than perfect.

  25. Re:I prefer the B.L.O.W.M.E. encryption standard on UK Voice Crypto Standard Built For Key Escrow, Mass Surveillance (benthamsgaze.org) · · Score: 2

    Sorry but this "compromised by design" shit has to go.

    People need to use a strong, unbreakable encryption.

    People can do that. The story is about the UK government choosing how to encrypt its own communications.