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  1. Re:Ordinary on HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize The Pentagon's Cyberdefense Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait until they figure out who all Microsoft has shared the Windows source code with.

    Or Linux, just look at who they share the source code with!

  2. Re:Fed up with sub-par editing... on Alphabet's Balloons Will Bring Cellphone Service To Puerto Rico (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    http://m-w.com/dictionary/impl...
    Each balloon can service a distance of 1,930 miles.
    Each balloon can service an area of 1,930 square miles.
    Each balloon can service a volume of 1,930 cubic miles.
    Each balloon can service a tessera of 1,930 cubic mile-seconds.
    Each balloon can service a manifold of 1,930 cubic mile-square seconds.
    Each balloon can service a tangle of 1,930 cubic mile-cubic seconds.

    and so on.

  3. Re:Windows Defender has a bug because... on New 'Illusion Gap' Attack Bypasses Windows Defender Scans (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ticket Description: Windows Defender is vulnerable to human stupidity
    Acceptance Criteria: Show that humans are no longer stupid
    Priority: High

    Chop chop developers!

    Ticket Description: Windows Defender duplicates work in a way that increases the number of unnecessary potential vulnerabilities by one.
    Acceptance Criteria: Please, stop foisting levels of trust on third party sources for your users without consent.
    Priority: High enough that it makes the competition look good in comparison

    It's incredible how different a situation appears when the goal is an improvement for everyone, rather than just vaguely blaming everyone involved.

  4. Re:A Special Committee?!? Oh noes!!! on Equifax Board Forms Panel To Review Executives' Stock Sales After Data Breach (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Worse than that, the investigation will negatively impact their credit rating.

  5. The wrong target on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 1

    An artificial goal designed to hide the fact that Linux is successful on servers, embedded systems, mobile devices, as well as niche markets like supercomputing? You might as well try to hype the "year of carpooling by using an app".

  6. "Having a twin", "having at least one sibling", or "being under the age of 13", is just one of those unforeseeable contingencies Apple has had to contend with. It joins the likes of "being left handed", "the comic strip Dick Tracy being prior art to everything about the Apple Watch", and "heterosexuality".

  7. Re:Only LUDDITES use tape. on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Wax? Luxury! Cuneiform on clay tablet is all you need.

  8. Re:Choose Your Devil on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is why you implement a sane delay period between refreshes. See any MMO with a broker/auction house/market place. Regard how the Search/Find button works. Now look at add-ons for some of them and the delays that are still implemented for massive refreshes. This isn't a new problem, it's already functioning on a massive scale, and edge cases have long since been identified.

  9. Re:I take it we're all supposed to know... on Google Experiment Tests Top 5 Browsers, Finds Safari Riddled With Security Bugs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a system where a SUB is required to create a "safe word" 6 to 14 characters long containing at least one capital letter, at least on numeric digit, and at least one punctuation mark.

  10. Re:The Ultimate Man In The Middle on Google Chrome Will Soon Detect Man-in-the-Middle Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Each warning will automatically be posted to twitter and facebook, with an option to opt out in chrome://settings.

  11. Re:Green Machine on Why It's So Hard To Trust Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I trust Facebook less for this.

  12. And false dichotomies on TV Turns 90 (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    1984 is about a lot more than just TV. It's about a government attempting to control reality by adjusting perceptions. Examples that aren't just TV: thoughtcrime, the ministries, newspeak, Winston's job altering records and photographs to fit the narrative. The fact that we have politically correct names for these (terrorism, TLAs, memes, and "alternative facts") means some people took 1984 as a guidebook rather than a warning.

  13. YAY! My useless superpower to hear up to around 30-35KHz will come in handy for things other than knowing if someone left a CRT television on! I can now detect "dolphin attacks" apparently.

    and numerous AC/DC adapters, and faulty capacitors. And the fun of returning loud and obnoxious devices that a vendor can't hear.

  14. Re:It has a deny button on Chrome 61 Arrives With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Somewhere in an event log "shadyadnetworked wanted access to your 3D printer" - "auto-granted via WebUSB settings"

  15. A new vector on Chrome 61 Arrives With JavaScript Modules, WebUSB Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Counting down to the first malware strain that sends advertisements to a 3D printer via WebUSB without users intervention...

  16. Re:Wow! on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The kind involving four giant elephants and Chelys galactica, presumably.

  17. As a result on A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The phisher was awarded an honorary degree in social engineering.

  18. In this thread on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Conservatives upset that belief can be dismissed on the same basis as was used to submit it.

    Libertarians upset that "privatizing truth" is what the free market decided upon.

    Liberals upset that moral relativism can be fact checked.

    The only winning move is not to use facebook.

  19. Re:Nice Warrent on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    liberals = tax and spend conservatives = tax cut and spend see the difference?

  20. Re:Impossible to enforce on General Mills Loses Bid To Trademark Yellow Color On Cheerios Box (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Shops at ALDI... doesn't expect cheap knockoffs... the entire theme of the store is cutting corners, what were you expecting?

  21. As opposed to antennas for wireless reception only would be my guess.

  22. How I interpret this... on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    From now on, our subsidiary [name yet to be revealed] that "isn't Microsoft" will instead force downloads on users for us^H^Hthem.

  23. A step farther on IBM To Trace Food Contamination With Blockchain (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this help with willful contamination? Soy/corn/wheat byproduct are being added into previously non-soy/corn/wheat byproduct items as additives. Some of the time the additives are labeled, sometimes its "natural flavoring".

  24. In fairness, on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be physically impossible for Bing to be smaller than I think it is.