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  1. yep, just a lease on HP Rolls Out Device-as-a-Service for PCs, Printers (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    and the lease fee ensures a higher level of profit, as HP becomes a finance company as well as equipment supplier. I'd avoid it like WinX

  2. first Bezo wants you to buy his phone, with all kinds of "buy pallet of Kleenex now" buttons. at a premium.

    now he wants to pay you to put ads, probably from services taken over by malware, on the lock screen, so you can be pirated while it charges.

    probably bomb you with special offers when his rocket company starts sending up payloads. first guy who gets hit with a payload that didn't untie the bundle is going to sue until he owns the place.

    Bezo the bozo may have finally turned a real profit, but the evil force is strong in this one.

  3. civilized society is full of holes. on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    and terrorists only seek to use one in a public place as they can get their schytte together to glorify in their cause. they have taken malls, finish lines of marathons, and opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Atlanta to do... nothing concrete.

    if they would just settle down, elect a government, get into the UN, derive treaties, and become suits pushing their agenda, they would get someplace. this bang-bang blow-em-up does not affect any countable number of people directly, just the hundred or so in the gunsights.

    my chances of dying from a falling star are greater.

    screw 'em.

  4. that's not what airports are designed for on Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets (firstpost.com) · · Score: 1

    airports are equipped to sort out hijackers and shoe bombers. they prevent you from taking out 300 people plus collateral casulties on the ground with box cutters or .22 handguns.

    the security plan is to keep the rabble out of the service and departure areas, and from running across the runway with signs. this forces them out to the perimeter and outside.

    that's all that billions and billions of dollars, plus allowing people to actually get in, get on planes, and go elsewhere, can do. a van full of nutbars could do the same thing in Tel Aviv, even though security on El Al is tighter than that to see the Prime Minister.

  5. damn glad I just bought a 6 on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want to pick headphones that fit and sound right, not have some cheesy overpriced shit like Beats forced on me. if I'm at home, I can use my AKG studios. at the exercise joint, earbuds off the rack at Tarzhay.

  6. ooOOOohhh, class A misdemeanors! on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    it's extortion and theft, how about send those guys upriver for 5 to 20?

  7. cranky old fart on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    turntable, reel tape, cassette, CD, iThingies. used to listen to radio before it became all-airheads with all-asshats in studio.

    I do NOT stream. I pay for my content, so I know the artist is supposed to get their share.

  8. Intel workaround divined (2 chickens and goat guts on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    1) carefully break hermetic seal of chip case in 0.15 micron clean room.
    2) locate IME section on silicon under 300x microscope per diagram {secret}
    3) using polygraphene pen under robotic control, connect IME die {secret} to {secret}.
    4) hermetically evacuate clean room to -300 torr
    5) reseal hermit chip case using {secret}

    6) PROFIT!!

  9. pushes the emissions out of sight on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    unless every new power plant is wind, solar, or wave, there will be MORE emissions. just not where the tailpipe-sniffers are tailgating you.

  10. 2025 headline "VW Fails Ozone Test" on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    brush motors banned, millions of cars sidelined.

  11. I'll be gone for sure by then on Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not on it for all video all the time. mostly do NOT look at any.

  12. it's a bland old rag on Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    it's a bland old rag
    the orange rug on that hag
    like a critter inside does it wave!
    it's the symbol of
    hack, kick, push and shove
    it helps you pick out that knave.

    Oh, forever more
    Henry, lock up the store
    whenever that silly orange comes into view
    let the millionnaires
    and the billionnaire
    stand in the rain, lose the fake tan, growl and stew!

  13. so they can crash on Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    they just want the nappy cat logo out front. this time, add whiskers.

  14. $200,000 ought to cover his boot camp fees on Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code · · Score: 1, Funny

    or perhaps he has skills in other areas... like perhaps, politics, since he could dupe his boss and get paid for 6 years.

  15. another reason to never connect a TV to ethernet on Android Ransomware Hits Smart TVs (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 2

    always have a throwaway box first, like for instance, an antenna switch for rabbit ears or rooftop.

  16. "I see you want to shoot people. Can I Help?" on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    if only Clippy was installed on every gun...

  17. ya-who? on Legacy Yahoo Messenger App Being Retired (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    (says it all)

  18. bah. the Big Three do the same thing. on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    whatever you call it... goodwill, excess warranty availiable, etc... a genteel purchaser with substantial history with a dealer will get a little lagniappe. it's how business is done.

    now, whether the automaker's QC process picks up on "hmmm, looks like 45 dealer repairs for 'engine fell out, ran over it, flames and deaths," and pushes that to the regulators as it is supposed to, that's a whole 'nother discussion.

  19. I still don't see Unobtainium on the chart on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    heck, most of my hobby stuff is made of it. I need a big block to whittle more parts from.

  20. nonsense, Netflix wizards can't figure out IPv6 on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    alternatives... Hulu, Amazon, streaming off a cable com subscription, maybe the sources like HBO and the Four Network Titans will let you stream from their home pages. Netflix, bye bye. my ISP has fully implemented IPv6 from a number of customer-side systems, and of course all over the backbone.

  21. and they sat on their smugness on BlackBerry Really Struggling In Android Market (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    news flash... if it's on the market, it's technically obsolete. if it's 18 months old, it's functionally obsolete. if at that point you start saying things like "nobody can touch us, we're so far ahead," you are now a laughing stock. BBM in car slabs seems to be working, as it allows iWhatever and droidWhatever to run users thingies. the rest of the outfit... dust, dust in the wind.

  22. you can leave me off the list on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I only search for old Dragnet scripts.

  23. can I get a cell phone with a crank to ring Centra on Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    or have they failed to miniaturize cranks yet?

  24. just find the hackers' passwords, use them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    oh, wait, you said how do "I" create a secure password. never mind. I just use CowboyNeal's.

  25. ctrl-alt-delete shut down. or just power off. on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    although "redswitching" can mung things up. quick shutdown has stopped many other malware takeovers.

    the wife got stuck with the GWX virus exploding, but it auto-reverted to Windows 7 when she refused to click the legal folderol following the RAT that Microsoft has been pushing. so far, they have not tried again.