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  1. you can't trust Windows Update any more. on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 1

    whatever crap is lying around, evil, benign, or beneficial, rolls out the same way. there is nothing in the description. MS is using misdirection to trick you into installing Win10. these guys are getting as bad as botmasters. auto-updates are turned off on my home machines, and if I can't determine whether something is important, it doesn't get installed.

  2. isn't Raytheon into many failed conversions? on Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    FAA and FBI is what I seem to remember... things that drag on for years and years and years and the agencies are still running a lot of the creaky old software they were trying to modernize.

  3. Prior Art Exists (tm) on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    I just wore my old O'Really "Ethernet Killers" t-shirt from the late 90s the other day.

  4. the chassis units were sold out of bankruptcy on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 2

    I ordered two out of an ad in Popular Electronics. nice transformers, power supply, lots of good resistors and transistors to salvage. periodically I dip into my parts bins, and if I don't have a new resistor, I go back to the pulls from Cartrivison. often have the half-watt value, and none have tested out of tolerance. put the power supply section of my first into a cabinet, 3-voltage adjustable supply, and used that on the bench for years. had to sell it to get through my second college run and career change.

  5. The Birds are coming for you on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 1

    they are gathering in the trees, on the wires, watching. waiting. waiting for the critical number.

    that's what about the birds.

  6. Sony's open reel video recorders also did very wel on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 1

    at least one in every school district, often one in every junior or senior high school. easy to work with. decent picture, not VHS quality, might have been the cheapo vidicon camera.

  7. no longer a blonde, then on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    oh, wait, that's a stereotype. must proportioned like Yoda be.

  8. screw Irving, everybody homeschool on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    nice state-sponsored curriculum... oh, wait, in Texas that means "Bubba had two six-packs. he drank 11 beers. can he drive?"

    the answer of course is "Go Aggies!"

  9. hey, I want a "fuck you and die in misery" button on Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' · · Score: 1

    not that I want to friend Zuck to use it, not that at all.....

  10. pretty near all the US contingent, then on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    slap those resumes up all over town, leave them gasping from their own poison gas.

  11. first you have to start with registers, and ALUs.. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    otherwise everything is the equivalent of NOPs in function.

  12. babies catch on before you know it on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    in my wife's day care, before babies are out of diapers and into complete sentences, they are already cognizant about the basics... swipe, point, scroll, point, point, point... and OMFG it's Amazon or eBay and they are buying a used BMW!

    you are perhaps saying citizens of India are behind babies that can barely walk?

    really, all you have to do is put a tablet on the projector, run one app, and hand the things out. like all of us in 1983/4, we'll learn the rest.

  13. Krebs on Security is also there on Intelligence Start-Up Goes Behind Enemy Lines To Get Ahead of Hackers · · Score: 1

    potentially has been watching the bad boys longer, with more impact.

  14. they do not link, you insensitive clod! on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 2

    there is no link to ballot 376 run through the scanner and your signature in the polling record book. the monitors are not allowed to bring in invisible ink or anything.

    your having voted, period, no other information becomes public information and ends up on poll records for all political parties and independents that are willing to pay the fee and put the .csv file into a spreadsheet. nobody knows how you voted unless you tell people.

    that's how it works in Minnesota, and anybody who does it differently becomes a drone test area. four quarters to control a drone at better bars everywhere.

  15. if I was head of Blankety Bank... on Bitcoin Extortion Group DD4BC Now Targeting Financial Services · · Score: 1

    and the weasels started DDOSsing me, I'd say, go ahead and put it on Twitter. we can then go to Federal court and find out who owns the account, and send a bill collector over. one of those effective bill collectors from a Jersey "social club." one of those guys who knows how to work concrete.

  16. I propose an app to determine emotions based on on Scientists Propose App That Detects Emotions Based On Walking Style · · Score: 0

    effenheimers. the F-word is so fucking commonplace that the way it's used in conversation can be a clue as to how the users feel.

  17. Milton Berle's Ghost has quit Twitter on An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rodney Dangerfield's ghost is now doing telemarketing.

  18. "What do you think about an .onion domain?" on .Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain · · Score: 1

    "I haven't seen 'The Ride with Jim Anchower' lately. Will that bring it back?" -- Herkimer Q. Phosbot, Sewer Snake Cleaner

  19. that's doing evil. on Report: Google Will Return To China · · Score: 2

    if the Chinese won't allow free internet access, Google should not be there.

  20. If they would FIX bugs, this would not happen on Bugzilla Breached, Private Vulnerability Data Stolen · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has a nasty habit of warehousing bugs that can't get fixed with the wave of a hand. that's why I quit the thing for Chrome a long time ago.

  21. bitcoin is busted. look at all the arrests lately on Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service · · Score: 2

    just saying.

  22. and as usual, MS wrecked their infrastructure.. on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 0, Troll

    by bits and pieces, MS moved junk around, hid useful fields, then controls, then where files were saved.

    and after all those inconveniences, they effed up the whole IT infrastructure with Windows 8. IBM must have cheered, it's Presentation Manager V3, and Microsoft did it.

    barstards.

  23. yep, good idea on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    for me... (1) get rid of the trashmobiles we've got. (2) set up a managed trust for a relative that is indigent and has physical issues. (3) upgrade the security system slightly at home. (4) develop a charity to pass a bill or so around where it's needed in places not covered by safety nets. (5) and NOW we have time to dump a week or two at a time into Habitat for Humanity, get some green space up in neighborhoods that badly need humanizing, stuff like that.

  24. he has the last active Ashley Madison account on Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' · · Score: 1

    counts for something...

  25. reason Carly isn't scoring is... tech knows her on Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going · · Score: 1

    probably fired half the tech industry workers at least once. made the rest want to quit.

    now, if everybody else knows, she can go back to counting her golden parachute money.