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  1. Step 1.) Embrace on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    seriously. They're just slow on their usual tricks...

  2. Re:I presume they get warrants for this. on FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I read somewhere they don't need warrants to use Stingray only a judge to sign something (not the same thing, I forget what it was called) which was far easier/quicker to get and of course with Stingray they're watching everyone who it forces to connect not just the "bad guys" - but that was for the local cops.

    I'm sure with the feds you're right, they'll do whatever the fuck they want just like the NSA/CIA etc since there is 0 oversight and they can lie to congress with impunity.

    Innocent until proven guilty? Parallel construction makes that a quaint anachronism, comrade.

  3. You know, it occurs to me you're probably right. on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    She's the longest serving senator there. I'm assuming she's taking her cues from Obama and Hillary essentially saying they think encryption is the devil, albeit veiled, only coming out with a harder stance they can't take as easily as she can.

    So, a tool for the party, which is itself one of the two fronts for the military industrial complex/corporate oligarchy. I guess senators can self-radicalize too then?

  4. Well you know... on Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    they say human meat tastes like pork... Maybe they'll breed us for food instead.

  5. Re:She knows exactly what she wants, however on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm actually reading "A Brave New World" right now. It was written about a year before she was born. Much of the subtext is accurate and scary despite some of the fanciful sci-fi predictions like ubiquitous helicopters.

  6. Re:I guess both the republicans and the democrats on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    This represents military industrial complex uber alles with a thin veneer of 2 party psuedo democracy dolloped on a hardened turd of corporate oligarchy.

    See, they want to to keep spying on anything and everything, it's how they keep their power.

  7. Here are your problems: on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein, born Dianne Emiel Goldman[1] (/ËfaÉnstaÉn/; born June 22, 1933), is the senior United States Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992.

    Served on the Senate since 1992.

    82 years old with no fucking clue what she's talking about.

  8. Re:Is there a downside to upgrading to 10? on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2
  9. And this announcement comes on Pearl Harbor day. on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How appropriate.

  10. I've been using firefox since it was called on Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    netscape and it kind of irritates me that their default "start page" asks for donations when they start doing bullshit like the ads tiles and pocket.

    Yea, I turned it off, but I also know from experience a shit load of people don't know how and/or don't care enough to learn.

  11. Well, for one thing on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    they only give a fuck about their phones. It's rare to see a kid in the hall at my school who isn't completely absorbed by a glowing rectangle zombie walking down the hall as slow as possible with ear buds in.

  12. Because like IT, Education has Fashions on Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    and Chromebooks and iThings are in fashion and are tracking kids, obviously. Where I work (secondary ed), people mandate children create gmail accounts and whatnot with no thought whatsoever to what that means.

    This is not surprising at all and I'm glad that I support the EFF.

  13. It might be good but it won't be MST3K on Patton Oswalt Recruited For New MST3K Cast (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't recapture the lightning in a bottle dumb luck of a low budget local TV show slowly gaining traction with a record breaking kickstarter and already well known comedians...

    I have to say I'm highly wary of this and am adopting the same attitude as the J.J. Abrams Star Wars - wait and see.

  14. Who gives the slightest of fucks? on Zuckerberg To Take 2 Months Paternity Leave To Give His Kid a Better Outcome (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will their be breaking news on his morning dump schedule?

    Should we wait with baited breath for inane updates on other billionaire man children and assorted tech sociopath assholes?

    He has a penis. It works. That's too bad. Thanks for the update /.

  15. damn it. on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    I always forget the closing "

    OT: When will /. allow me to edit my fucking posts? It's been like 18 years without this basic functionality.

  16. Right here on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    This is the best programming book I've ever used (I'm not a professional just a 30 something who started with C at 13 dropped it, and has regretted it since). This is for Python.

    If you scroll down a bit you will see a package called Swampy. Swampy = Turtle. If you do the book you will see example code that uses it. Good luck.

  17. Not a single Lost Boys joke in this whole thread on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    WTF Michael?

  18. Not only is Black Friday stuff mostly fake on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    bullshit but the whole world has been trying to sell Christmas shit since before Halloween. Also, fuck crowds.

  19. Not sure about the death penalty on New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    but it's sure as fuck in the at-least-as-offensive-as-child-porn category. How come these assholes aren't getting waterboarded?

  20. Pocket... WebRTC... Hello chat thing on Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes · · Score: 1

    I hope I haven't missed anything else as offensive as these.

  21. He already has ... on MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cinematic Titanic which also has the people from MST3K that don't hate him. As a huge fan, this sounds fishy.

    There's also the much MUCH more prolific and IMO funnier Rifftrax. The timing is interesting considering that RIfftrax just started bringing back old MST3K episodes every Monday with a new intro video by Mike Nelson. I backed one of the Rifftrax Kickstarter's and I don't regret it (I even have an mp3 I made of Kevin Murphy saying my name from one of the reward tiers.

    I don't really know what caused the rift between Joel and Mike/Kevin but it seems clear that there is one. Personally, while he has his moments, I don't think Joel is as funny.

  22. They're called poor people on Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    and pirates, and people with good reasons to still be using it (I have multiple XP VMs for various things, I even have legal images and it works perfectly well for what I need thanks).

    I bet XP still has an enormous user base.

  23. Please name a single employer that acknowledges on Harnessing Conflict in the Workplace (video) · · Score: 1

    basic human dignity as per your post.

  24. Free Opensource Ghost on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? · · Score: 1

    FOG can back up disk images and do inventory and scheduled re-images and keep images for things like AV scan and whatnot.

    We mostly just use it to wipe machines back to clean slates ourselves but it's supposed to have quite a rich feature set. It does also have some bugs though.

    I set one up at my school that has re-imaged 1000+ student netbooks 7 at a time, the school district also has all of our images centrally located and available throughout the district for all models of laptops/desktops that we use and manages the images there. It uses iPXE/Partclone/TFTP and LAMP. The original .32 version has plugins that can do things like identify a machine based on its DMI info and pick a set of images based on that (Capone).

    I've set them up on CentOS and Ubuntu. There are always quirks though, I suggest strong perusal of the wiki before deciding, and toy with it before putting in to production.

  25. Redhat has wanted to be the Microsoft of Linux on Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    since before their IPO. This isn't that surprising at all other than that they survived this long and are now wanting to work together with said Evil.