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  1. sounds like 1st degree capital murder to me on Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 (forrester.com) · · Score: 1

    jury full of doctors, and a hanging judge, three cameras, and a satellite channel would make a real good reality show for hackers. I'll run sound or lighting for free, experience in local TV, prefer weekends so I can get back to my day job...

  2. FBI-NSA-M-O-U-S-E first, please on Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea · · Score: 1

    put backdoors in all your servers, guys, let us know about it, and we'll see if you are right that it's not a problem.

  3. we have enough hometown wackos to worry on Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea · · Score: 1

    like the goofs who shot up a transformer in California about a year ago. folks in northeast New Mexico that have nothing else to do late at night but take potshots at the high-tension line insulators. these issues are easily but expensively solved by putting the lines underground. as we have seen in New York City, they don't get upgraded on schedule and you tend to have duct explosions and fires.

    as soon as they decide to take on the "smart grid" with its 4-character default admin passwords and no firewalling, we then have real issues. laws should make it clear to the utilities that their shareholders pay for that crap.

  4. "Took off my watch... on Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    "Now I got all the time in the world." -- The Association

  5. Red Mercury = Wildly Batshit Insane on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    people who are wildly batshit insane keep yakking about the mythical "red mercury"

  6. quite likely "intelligence" is monitoring on Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    and using what they find for targeting information.

    at this point, all civilized nations appear to have decided that since ISIS wants to live in 600 AD, we can help by bombing them there. that does not need pinpoint targeting.

  7. obviously an attorney provided the story on Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Advocatus Diaboli, indeed.

  8. "Smart" IoT. just say no. on Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    the only IoT I have connected is my remote-control alarm system, because they have a surety bond.

  9. QWERTYface... on The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work · · Score: 1

    you've got the cutest little QWERTYface
    in this space
    why don't you get your ass out-a here...

    everybody, sing along!

  10. HEY, SLIMEBALLS! harassment starts now! on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    welcome to the harassment panel, you damn wusses. thought you could get out of this one, eh? I'm Sarge, and you're nothing..........

  11. on_time_discreptancy :== reboot on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    that'll hold the little bastards

  12. Duck Tape is a registered trademark on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    used by Henckel for a duct tape product. which is actually no good for ducting, because it dries out and comes apart. metallic aluminum tape with a different glue is what is professionally used for air ducting.

  13. Oracle: licensing fees up 16 times on Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    which will be the result of the license of this internal processor segmentation of memory.

  14. your IoT is holding you in a concentration camp on F-Troop and the 'Internet of Thingies' (Video) · · Score: 1

    just like Hogan's Heroes.

    (( who can get a Fred Kovacs reference in here? ))

  15. you can also get (limited offer) one from Verizon on What Might a $50 Tablet Inspire? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    we upgraded my sister's phone last weekend, and for $50 more we got a starter tablet at Verizon. the wifi is essentially free, as we have a large shared data plan, and of course it will be totally free at McDonalds, etc. on the web without DSL for a month's bill.

  16. simple... don't piggyback wifi on assigned freqs on FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary (fcc.gov) · · Score: 1

    where else do we have random porn-surfing wackos interfering with a life-safety system?

    so don't do it here, either. prohibit the overlap frequencies.

  17. you COULD dig some 60s Mopars out of the junkyard, and study them. they have excellent internal data security.

    the other option... no wifi, no data connections from the sound system to the rest of the car, no wireless comms. the diagnostic connector must have rolling passwords, just like a garage door opener. no other entry points to the car network. and get rid of commercial OS and software, cars are a killing tool in all but a handful of modes, there should be a custom RTOS running the gizmos.

  18. oh, for crap's sake. on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    I define the standard kilogram as the compression of fairy farts to fill a 36-inch weather balloon to a pressure of six say-whats.

    that's as easy to figure out as that galloping nonsense printed above. count atoms, then convert, then convert, and then since it's silicon atoms, you can surely correllate the pull against an electromagnet (of undefined gauss, and its undefined measurement). and then put that on a balance scale, and slap your slop on the other end until it's a kilogram.

    honestly, somebody was being paid by the syllable to write that definition, and triple payment for words over ten syllables, whether they are in the dictionary or not.

  19. and of course, there's the Uncle Ben's smartphone. on The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    really! saw it on The Onion! it has issues, though... only thing its music app will play is "rice, rice baby."

  20. they might as well come to the Bakken Museum on DARPA Jolts the Nervous System With Electricity, Lasers, Sound Waves, and Magnets · · Score: 1

    full of everything from quack zappers to the Universal Frankenstein "machine." they can immediately learn what doesn't work, and save a tubload of cash.

  21. I discovered what Vss and Vdd meant on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    at the expense of a Motorola serial I/O chip and the dime-sized blister on my thumb. the fingerprint came back, by the way.

  22. Great. now we can vote the damn thing down on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and, might I add, vote the damn thing down without amendments. otherwise, all job types will meet an H1B type competition.

  23. hey, CBS doesn't promote Fox, either on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    you migrate to whichever private island your credit cards are more familiar with, and that's how it's gonna be.

  24. testtesttest enter your credit card here testtest on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 1

    they're still fscking weasels, whether it's Microsoft or malicious. uh, wait, it's too hard to tell them apart, now.

  25. I want to upgrade to OS/X on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 2

    MonsterSlop, however, is not listing that in the descriptions.