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  1. OK, China, pull the plug. on China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    everybody has an opinion on Da ISH. most do not correspond to those of the ruling party congress. so you just decreed you are pulling the plug.

    do it. be done with it.

  2. and now, airgap the hospital on L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network (google.com) · · Score: 1

    take it off the web.

  3. that still doesn't help you catch the buggers on UK Pilots' Union Calls For Laser Pointers To Be Classed As Offensive Weapons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    how about instead, equip planes with a return-fire laser? one that, say, would melt granite at 3 miles? you'll stop repeat offenders dead in their tracks, so to speak. much cheaper and more effective.

  4. geez, good thing I don't stream, it's worth money on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 1

    to the MafIAA. I do things the old-fashioned way, I "buy"** CDs or iTunes equivalents.

    ** "buy" in the vernacular meaning "pay for a personal use license and an electronic copy of the music in some form." nobody owns music except lawyers for music companies.

  5. will Cortana file for a restraining order someday? on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    if so, that would be the most hilarious bricking of a phone yet.

  6. can they expand this to GWX malware? on Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    "You have attempted to use Google on a known spyware system. Your machine will now reboot."

    put it into ad services, too.

    thanks.

  7. the poem was "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay." on One Hoss Shay and Our Society of Obsolescence (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    end of argument. get off my lawn.

  8. while you're at it, fix the deer crossing symbol on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    the antlers open up to the front, ya dummies. fix the signs. or go back to print.

  9. hey, son, jam that IAB right up your ass. on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    let me tell you about The Market (tm), you idiot. you put something out there. if it sells, you do more. if it tanks, you change things up or quit.

    high-content bandwidth hog ads, especially delaying real content until those gobble gobble bastards are loaded and running, is not wanted. that's why we have ad blockers.

    if you would get your crap together at stop what you're doing, you would be smart in The Market (tm).

    if you piss and moan and toss crap off the podium, block your business when you smell an ad blocker, and refuse to do what The Market (tm) is telling you to do, you will fail, collapse, and go away.

    and you are, so you are a raving idiot. screw you. I am keeping my blockers up.

  10. problem is, using up the stock of stand-ins on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    if you are shooting Die Hard 97, and you have to use real explosives and drive real cars out the back of cargo planes and onto parking ramps 5000 feet below, you run out of lookalike stand-ins for the stunts real fast.

  11. catch it in the middle, then, coppers on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    get a warrant, use a snooper, spend a week cracking the data.

    haven't the Big Feds said all the terrorist activity is headed into the Dark Web anyway, and Google says best advice is block them from the indexed web?

    lazy ass bastards don't have phone books to read and laugh at silly names any more, so they want to randomly hack phones for fun and profit.

  12. so, no phones sold to Caliphonies then, either on California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 2

    if I was making cellphones, that's what I'd do. cut 'em off like Murderistan. the people would rise up and throw those asshats out of office in two days. probably throw them off a cliff into the sea. pity, some poor shark would die of a tummyache.

  13. there are alternates, don't worry. on High-Tech Attack Alert For 2016 Super Bowl (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Frisco has earthquakes for that. just ask Major League Baseball.

  14. nah. the Iranians hire that out on Russia Forming Space Alliance With Iran, May Fly Iranian Astronaut (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think there has been a direct Iranian terrorist with a DuPont overcoat. they support proxies for that.

    mustn't get hands dirty.

  15. upgradeables are long overdue on How Robotaxis Might Mitigate Electric Car Depreciation (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    the manufacturers make running changes all the time, that's why when you go in to buy a part, and they look it up, it crosses to a new number. which may cross to another one.

    so why can't they change the labelling to, say, "mode 3 autosteer processor, required plug G-C-F-T-L depending on make." that's pretty much how the carmakers are buying the train loads of those modules from Continental or Adelphi. government testing will have to change, also, to a modular approach.

  16. get a warrant. meet the minimum test. on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    all kinds of searches are possible when a judge grants a search warrant. over the phone.

  17. the BiteCon approaches on Big Trouble for Bitcoin (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    hokey bucks, Bullwinkle!

  18. the real problem.. "high" bit set on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and the data comes out funny.

  19. nonsense. on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "phone numbers" are how the switching -- and billing -- are done for landlines, cell phones, and for many data services like DSL.

    they are not going away. he can hide his, but he can't change everybody elses.

  20. now all my Intel 585.879436603 jokes go faster! on Intel Skylake Bug Causes PCs To Freeze During Complex Workloads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    and run simultaneously on 7.9335 threads, too!

  21. it's a phase problem on North Korea Expands Retaliatory Loudspeaker Propaganda (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    Fearless Leader is having one of those phases, again. it is not permitted in Nut Korea to invert the meaning of anything.

  22. Malware 10 by Microsoft on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    in the state of Minnesota, it is a gross misdemeanor to install software without the owner's permission. two years in the clink and $5000.

    I do NOT want Malware 10. go away.

  23. the joke was military command = ignorance on Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped To Cuba · · Score: 1

    but hey, point well taken. unless you like dissenting with authority, and having stuff. in which case, Cuba is still a notch below, say, Langdon ND in the depths of winter. 50 below does keep much of the riff-raff out.

  24. "Where do I ship this, sir?" on Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped To Cuba · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Says 'Hell' does it not? ship it to Cuba."

    and so it goes

  25. I will Dymo that over HP this afternoon. on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    and the prediction will come to pass.