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  1. Or he was bluffing really, really well.

  2. Re:5 Ways Trump Mirrors Hitler's Rise to Power on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Trump have a uniformed private army patrolling the streets and violently suppressing Democrat aligned organizations? No? Then not like Hitler.

  3. I guess the lesson here on Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair (gawker.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    is that homophobia is bad. Gawker wanted to take Thiel down a peg by revealing his sexuality, the implication being that homosexuality is bad (why else would it hurt him?). Rather appalling considering that the man who owns Gawker is himself gay. Perhaps it would be different if Thiel was a hypocritically anti-gay activist, but no, it was just a private and personal matter.

    I don't know if it's right for Thiel to pursue his vendetta, but I can't really blame him.

  4. Points for an informative reply! Thank you.

  5. Civil forfeiture has been around since before the US was the US. It was established in British common law, and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1827 in a case where a pirate ship was seized.

    The reasoning is absurd - the object seized is charged with a crime. Despite the fact that an object cannot possibly commit an act, let alone a criminal one.

  6. Then what's the point of having the device? If they're prepaid cards, they can be seized (though it shouldn't be allowed) the same way cash is. By hand.

  7. Re:If you're lookin for me on China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Have a Bebop Cola with Hesh.

  8. Why the implication this is bad? on Smartphone Sales Growth Will Drop To Single Digits In 2016, Says Gartner (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Slowing growth in the market is not a bad sign, it just means the market is reaching saturation. Which is neither good or bad. Overall sales and profits won't decline, they just won't grow faster than the population. Competition may intensify, causing individual market participants to grow or lose market share, but the overall picture won't change.

  9. Doesn't count without the games. on Microsoft Could Turn Every PC Into an Xbox (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Streaming and porting the UI is all well and good, but unless the games are binary-compatible it's not "turning every PC into an XBOX".

  10. If life arises at all, it stands to reason that evolution would take hold and life would either adapt to the environment or adapt the environment to suit it.

  11. How so? I haven't had any issues with it myself. I log in from an unknown computer and get prompted for the code sitting in Google Authenticator. Am I missing something?

  12. Tell it to Disney. on DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And does anyone know of a leaked copy of The Force Awakens in 3d?

  13. Complex passwords are for suckers. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    MFA is where it's at.

  14. Re:On the offensive on EndGame CEO: Root Out Hackers Before They Strike (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you learned nothing from The Terminator? It's far more efficient to kill the parents.

  15. Will Gibson be proven right? on EndGame CEO: Root Out Hackers Before They Strike (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It sure sounds like the sort of thing he'd write.

  16. In almost every case, I do. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1
    My personal experiences with it have been almost entirely positive, and apart from some hiccups stemming from changes to the deployment system, so have my professional experiences. There is an issue with the app sandbox passing user codes to our office printers, but I worked around that by hiding Edge (not compatible with all my user's sites anyhow) and installing a different photo tool (2010 Office Picture Manager). Hell, when I started testing the water by upgrading a few workstations a year ago, most of my users didn't even notice.

    So not only do I usually recommend upgrading to individuals, we've been upgrading our entire corporation.

  17. Just in time for my birthday! on Sirin Labs Launches Solarin, a $14,000 Privacy-Focused Smartphone (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is today, so just PM me for my address and have them ship it on over.

  18. Re:Pray to whatever god you worship on Microsoft Warns of ZCryptor Ransomware With Self-Propagation Features (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, good catch! That can also be disabled entirely via group policy, though I forget exactly what it's called. 'Disable access to classic run' or somesuch.

  19. Poor assumptions, unacceptable methodology. on Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    The use of a gender specific epithet is not an indicator of misogyny/misandry, just that the subject's gender is specified. If you say to a man, "You're a dick", it says nothing about your attitude towards men in general, just that one specific man. It's semantically equivalent to "You're a bad person", or "I don't like you". Likewise, "what a slut!" is not equivalent to "women in general are bad", rather, "this specific woman is bad."

    Phrasing along the lines of, "just another dumb bitch", generalizes the slur and indicates an overall attitude. "You stupid bitch", is specific, indicating only an attitude towards one individual.

  20. But as a CPA and auditor, I'm sure you know just how many tricks can be used to hide losses, fake gains, and obfuscate the reports to mask it all. It wasn't that long ago that we all discovered that certain financial institutions were very good at sneaking things past the SEC and analysts/auditors. Looks like these folks may have stumbled into realizing a talent for forensic accounting through systems analysis. Take a look at their work - who knows, you might want to hire them.

  21. Re: We need to start with tRump's... on Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    The rejection of established expertise was a foundational element of the Nazi platform. Partially out of a loss of faith given past failures, part because experts tended to see them as fools, but perhaps the greatest reason was the depth and breadth of their revolution. Like Mao and Stalin, Hitler sought a complete transformation of society, humanity, and the natural world. Expertise was obsolete, surpassed like the outmoded concepts of reality to which it applied.

    Apart from engineering.

    I would say that Hitler&Pals never actually considered the possibility of failure. That the German people were not only the best around, but nigh invincible, wasn't just propaganda for the masses. The Nazi leadership believed it. They also believed Aryans came from Atlantis (on the other side of the sky), and only lost their godlike psychic powers because they interbred with 'mud races'. (fun fact- the only actual Aryans in Europe were the Gypsies Hitler tried to eradicate)

  22. What if you use one in your car on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    to make your commute safer by keeping everyone focused on driving instead of yapping away? Lives could be saved.

  23. In my experience, not so much. on Elderly Use More Secure Passwords Than Millennials, Says Report (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen a lot of very weak passwords from my elderly users, and those that look strong are often guessable with a little research. If you know the names and birth years of their grandchildren, you probably have all you need.

  24. Re:example of his "sophisticated political views"? on Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Never read that story, but I am familiar with the specific criticism of nonviolent resistance. It is valid. You don't even need to turn to fiction for an example, China provided one in Tiananmen Square. For an oppressive regime, nonviolent resistance may just look like target practice.

    But, in a democratic society, it can work. Moreover, violent protests tend not to go over very well (I'm only counting planned events, riots are spontaneous and have mixed results), they turn people off instead of provoking an empathetic response.

  25. Re: We need to start with tRump's... on Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    It all fits with amphetamine abuse. Ever greater risks taken with increasing confidence, paranoia, delusions of grandeur... Nazi ideology already contained irrational ideas, like that human will could overcome virtually anything, from human nature to physical law. Combine that with a drug induced sense of invincibility and before you know it you're invading Russia.

    There was also an inherent distrust of experts and expertise, along with the belief that ideological purity was more valuable than experience. So the generals who disagreed with Hitler were clearly not true believers so they lacked the will to win. The idea of negotiating a peace just wasn't a concept the Nazis could fathom, they were inherently superior so victory was inevitable.