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  1. Re:Black Sox, Part Deux? on Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches To Steal Hand Signals From Yankees (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Forget the Sox, think about Boston. The Patriots got busted doing almost the same thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Where do they play? Boston.

  2. The "negative perception" of computer scientists must be what keeps all the men from going into the field. Unless google is saying that women and minorities are so shallow and dumb that hearing a field is for nerds is all that's need to turn them away.

  3. Well there's a teacher's group saying that math classes should be used for "social justice" purposes, so apparently yes. (http://www.mathedleadership.org/resources/position.html)

  4. Re:Truth online on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1
    No evidence is required to trigger an audit. They can and do audit people at random. It's not a criminal investigation or prosecution (though it can lead to one), it's checking paperwork. So they don't need warrants or probable cause, a vague suspicion or coin toss is sufficient.

    As for free speech, social media and probable cause, there is a presumption of honesty. It's a procedural necessity. If someone posts a video of themselves appearing to commit a crime, law enforcement has to assume it is real and investigate. And let's not forget that confessing to a crime you didn't commit is illegal, hoaxes can land you in prison, and the justice system has no sense of humor.

  5. Re:jail wifi on Is Slashdot Blocked In Parts Of India? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1
    NOO! You did it again. They were just about to unblock /.

    Smooth move Ex-Lax.

  6. Now I know what my life's work will be. God willing, I shall finish before I die.

  7. Holy crap, that's unacceptable. A command failure. I don't know if they're under crewed or worse than that awful manager I had at BK all those years ago, but neither of those should be the case.

  8. Re:So why aren't these Apps named? on Google Pulls 500+ Backdoored Apps With Over 100 Million Downloads From Google Play (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Igexin won't name them either. Like many companies, they have a page on their site to brag on who uses their SDK. None are listed.

  9. If anyone is interested in what Igexin says... on Google Pulls 500+ Backdoored Apps With Over 100 Million Downloads From Google Play (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    They have a response on their website, but for some reason won't allow it to be translated in-place like the bulk of their site. Copy&paste worked though:

    Key words: August 23, 2017 morning, the domestic website reported entitled "Google removed Google Play on more than 500 malicious applications" and other related content, and point to the Igexin SDK security issues. It is understood that the content from a foreign media reports, due to foreign technical staff on the Division I technical mechanism to understand the bias, mistakenly SDK hot fix function is understood as the back of the malicious software download, resulting in part of the domestic media translation, Interpretation, there are some misunderstandings.

    With the hot fix function of the SDK, App is an important part of the operation, if the bug because it will cause the failure of App can not work, developers need to re-issue, in order to ensure that App can be used as soon as possible, this technology is the domestic many App developers Required to join, and is widely used for business function updates and problem fixes.

    With regard to hot fix technology, Apple and Google have made the latest restrictions since this year, changing the rules that allowed the use of hot updates before.

    The Google Developer Center website is up to date

    For apps distributed via Google Play, you may not modify, replace, or update the app itself in any manner other than the Google Play update mechanism. Likewise, the application may not download executable code (such as dex, JAR, and .so files) from sources other than Google Play. This restriction does not apply to code that runs on a virtual machine and has limited access to the Android API (such as JavaScript in a WebView or browser).

    When we received some app developer feedback, we contacted the Google team for the first time, communicated the matter, followed by the hot fix, and provided the SDK version that meets the latest Google Play review requirements. The use of the relevant version of the SDK SDK developers have updated the version, and re-Google shelves, previously encountered security tips and other issues have also been properly resolved. Foreign media mentioned in the original text of the test occurred in the Google review strategy adjustment period, the text involved in the SDK for the earlier version, has been rarely used. In the future, we will work closely with domestic and foreign testing organizations to avoid such incidents from happening again.

    We apologize for the distress caused by the developers and the media units.

    Thank you again for the support of our company as always. We will continue to optimize the technology for the majority of developers to provide more quality services!

  10. That doesn't make sense unless the ships are undermanned or the officers are worse at scheduling duty hours than an assistant manager at Burger King. Besides, how tired do you have to be (while still awake) to miss an oil tanker?

  11. Re:Other possibilities on Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    That's definitely funny. 100% made me laugh. But in all seriousness, it worked for William Randolph Hearst.

  12. Generic Trademarks - on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    When a company's trademark becomes the generic term for whatever it is. Xerox, Dumpster, Realtor, Pam, PC (sorta), Band-Aid, and now trademarks like Google and iPad are generic trademarks, and they are all protected.

    This Gillespie guy is wasting money like crazy. The Court is likely to decline hearing his case, and that is to his benefit. He's just throwing good money after bad in a doomed quest to do the absurd.

    Not that there aren't other reasons he should not be allowed to register domains with those names. For example, google-emailsecurity.com would be a great URL for a phishing campaign.

  13. Re:and iphone. and kleenex, too. on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot Xerox. Also Dumpster (really!).

  14. What's a framework electron? on In Defense of the Popular Framework Electron (dev.to) · · Score: 1

    And why are those particles so popular? Are they more popular than Protons? What makes an electron a "framework" electron? Framework of what? Something beyond what electrons normally do?

  15. Does this mean they have to change their name? on Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Watchdit?

  16. The long awaited game - Excel: Adventure Mode on The Docx Games: Three Days At the Microsoft Office World Championship (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Don't miss the blockbuster DLC - Access The Apocalypse!

    I hear the next installment in the series is already in development.

    Excel: Adventure Mode II - The SQL.

  17. Don't care, not /. worthy. on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for wasting my limited morning news time.

  18. Re:Oh, for fuck's sake. on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hear hear!

  19. Depends on what they're investigating and why. I'm not seeing any specifics, just guesses and assumptions.

  20. Re:1968? on Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's the last time it was easy to do research on most recreational drugs. Psilocybin was marked Schedule 1 in 1970, after which research became quite difficult.

  21. I'll take it. on Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do I send the money?

  22. Addictive behavior indicates addictive behavior: on Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com) · · Score: 1

    News at 11.

  23. Re:PLoS weighs in on From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    The PLoS Blog: Criticizing without reading.

    Seriously, it's like the author of the blog based his criticism off second-hand reports. For example, "Inherent in the manifesto is the assumption that human males and females experienced different patterns of evolutionary pressures and thus evolved different systems of response and perceptions." No, that's not what was said or implied.

    Men and women are different. Just look at how they shop if you want to see evolutionary psychology/biology in action, with hunter/gatherer behaviors on full display.

  24. Re:No, it will never break even on Wisconsin Won't Break Even On Foxconn Plant Deal For Over Two Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it's limited to a given year, that's fine by me. In any year they do live up to their end, the money brought into the State is almost six times more than the credit.

  25. Re:Impossible to log on US Army Walks Back Decision To Ban DJI Drones Ever So Slightly (suasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So long as there's one IC from the manufacturer, it can't be trusted.