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  1. Sanders beats all. bank on it. on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Hillary (c) is wounded and one of the attacks will generate enough damage so the Uberdelegates don't win first ballot in the Democratic convention. out of the dust rises the only candidate telling the truth and offering plans to unwind the oligarchy, Bernie Sanders. in all the polls, he beats comic-Hitlerian GOP candidate Chumpie. more than Hillary (c). the GOP has soiled their nest enough that it's totally poisoned by TEA types. none of those guys could poll over 25% in a general election if ISIS was slashing their way straight through from the coast to Eau Claire.

    so there you have it. to steal somebody's meme, "Democracy was built on four boxes... soap, ballot, jury, and ammo." we are damn near to the fourth choice.

  2. NostrilDrippus Predicts! (tm) for 2016 on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    -- phone gaming is a zero-gain business

    -- first car-hacker crash

    -- random large companies online will be "not doing business in your area, thanks" due to bastard weasels like the UK Parliament demanding full and unfettered access to all data through backdoors. could get interesting if it happens in the US, home of The Connected Internet, and will lead to recalls of elected weasels.

    -- Oracle has peaked. not-giant companies will go OS for their databases and tools due to the usual overlord contracts.

    -- Microsoft will have to back off Windows 10 overlording, the pushback against their increasing Sovietization gets too great.

  3. 2nd tech desert: UK. (first is North Korea) on Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    the UK is headed in a terrible direction, and they will be cut off by tech companies that plain flat out don't want to screw around with those wreckers. cut off.

  4. test equipment. on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    what do you thing all those Option -01 -02 -05 -11 -17 means on that Tektronix or HP scope?

    it's all software tickles. you buy an upgrade while availiable, you just enter a code at a special menu screen.

  5. download the repair manuals and see. on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    manuals have the cycle sequence in them. they will also usually have pictures of the circuit boards, and always parts list. if the $1200 model by the same OEM (Sears makes nothing, they buy from OEMs and have the items rebranded) has what looks like the same control PCB, but most of the pinouts are not used by the control panel, it might happen.

    waterproofing issues might make it dodgy to try and take the buttons external.

    but you don't think there are going to be 10 different control boards between Sears and the OEM, do you? really? these things stop for two minutes at each install station on the assembly line. they are not going to customize in a production run. and at the parts store, there are many crosses to one box with one control board in it.

  6. go ahead, serve /dev/null on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    serve process on it all you want.

  7. "uh, I'd take you there, but that's a felony, too. on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    "although I'd like it..."

  8. that's "figuratively" bankrupt on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    but hey, that's their measurements... bye, guys. sorta sucks having known ya. watching for my favorite artists to sell on their own websites...

  9. can't even spell Ass right on Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates (ftc.gov) · · Score: 1

    bunch'a'losers

  10. now, about that deceptive licensing and charges... on Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates (ftc.gov) · · Score: 1

    "first, we need to determine precisely what the company is spending on these sailing days..."

  11. "we are so wonderful, we give out WNX for FREE!" on Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    just one example... tried to change ink cartridges in the wife's Win10 laptop last night. the utility was built into the driver.

    got auto-hijacked into Win10 two months ago.

    the driver now has no features.

    just. one. example. 98SE was miles ahead of Win 10. and they didn't spy on you all day and night, either, "for FREE!"

  12. if the hogs move out, the IQ will plummet on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    the "objections" raised by the town elders are just plain delusional. end of story. a tower of dead computers burning in the dump is smarter than those two who were quoted.

  13. we need a way around Carleton Fiorina on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps not getting the nomination and not getting votes will finally do it. so please contribute to that end, thanks.

  14. rename that burg Spitoon Junction on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    because those folks... aliens or an asylum.

  15. as long as you are in the shadow of the DSLAM on AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    things are different when the wiring in the ground is cat-3 at best, and might be lead/paper/steel in the heart of downtown.

  16. you don't know how hard this is on AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    why, it will take until the FCC crawls their back, and about 6-8 months longer, to meet their goals. seriously. it's just so hard when it's only for money, not for a reason to still live.

  17. they heard Apple was working on this, and, well... on Samsung Launches Business Unit To Focus On Driverless Cars (koreatimes.co.kr) · · Score: 0

    but they will have curved glass. counts for something.

  18. at least they admitted there is nothing to sell on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yahoo has recently been valued in the negative by a Wall Street weasel. probably accurately. I haven't been to the site for a decade. Oh, wait, I take that back, I was looking for instructions online on replacing the suspension air shocks on my car, and looked like an interesting link. well, it went to a crap page with thousands of unanswered questions... and the ones that were answered, on the order of "how do I apply nail polish?" had lame joke answers.

    Yahoo can die now.

  19. "A-yup, it's dead. kill rate 100%" on Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "Now, friends, we should probably reel the whale in, the experiment is over. sushi time!"

  20. start by blocking Chumpie on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    his campaign website. his hotel sites. and golf course sites. all his affiliated business sites. just wash them out of the BGP and records, and redirect anybody smart enough to type the IP codes to The Last Page Of The Internet.

  21. the wheel turns... submit your cards for processin on After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    same old 1960s thing, only now you use your own SVGA terminal to the cloud. white-coated sysadmins still own everything. read the fine print.

    might as well mail card decks back and forth.

  22. thanks for the information on After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    if that crapbucket shows up, I will disable it, too.

  23. BBY may be in a dive, but at least they left Pak on BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    actually, that is a good business model. evil governmental bastards want to auto-censor every byte on the web, abandon that putrid nation. it will push the people one step closer to overthrowing the rotten dictators.

  24. yeah, all built in Japan or France on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    US industry got out of the reactor business... all we have is servicing companies.

  25. AND it's a dessert topping! (tm NBC) on UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    also heals acne and toenail fungus. ask your doctor if cellphones are right for you.

    if it was all typed in caps, it would be just another late-night TV ad for 1-800-YOU-FOOL type merchandise.