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  1. Refuse your wi-fi to Windows users. on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    It is perfectly reasonable to refuse Windows users access to your wi-fi. Do so, and let them know why.

  2. Re:I think I speak for all of us on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Why wait?

  3. Re:Nice spin in the summary, eh? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I read this sycophant's incremental effort to normalize that which should not be normalized. I don't know who Peter Bright is, but fuck that guy.

  4. Re:Now that's just evil on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, do not.

  5. Fuck everything about this. on Automakers Unwilling To Share Driver Data (Yet) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > The bad news is that they feel this way because they see your data as a new source of profit — they're just deciding how best to harvest it.

    It's really great how car co's just assume they are entitled to have this data.

    I do not want this in my car, at all, in any form. No "opt out" or "we take your privacy seriously", nothing. I want it physically impossible for them to collect data.

  6. Such a mystery on How Uber Takes Over a City · · Score: 1

    ...by providing a convenient service that the public wants at a price it believes to be fair?

  7. Who supported this man for ten years? on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    A lot of people went to work day in and day out at jobs they disliked or even despised, and set aside some of their meager wages in savings accounts or retirement accounts, so this asshole could live for free for ten years pursuing vanity degrees in areas of study that equipped him to do little more than better rationalize his shitty choices, and to lie to himself and others more skillfully about the meaning of that choice.

    Fuck you Lee Siegel. It's one thing to fuck over the people who loaned you money; it's another to reframe your shitty actions to make you the victim, or even the hero.

  8. Re:Sooooo...... on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    > It does have lots of car chases and explosions

    It was pretty clear from the trailer that they douched up the Mad Max series real good. I won't watch it, but not because it has been ensnared in the incessant gender-war yammering that is almost inescapable these days.

  9. Re:People who say "this is crap" don't have a clue on Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone · · Score: 1

    > You are ridiculous.

    Not really.

  10. Is there an app.... on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    ...that will let you know where The Authorities think you are at any given moment based on cell tower data?

    What is the resolution?

  11. Re:privacy? on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    Conventional methods of payment would tie one's searches to one's identity. I would want assurances that it was not technically possible to log my searches.

  12. Re: PRIVATE encryption of everything just became.. on Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications · · Score: 1

    Or ever did.

  13. I have come to understand that when courts refer to the "balance" between privacy and law enforcement or security, your privacy is about to get fucked in the ass.
     

  14. Re:Oracle Forms on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    Actually we don't expect anything from Microsoft and don't really care what it does. Anymore, at least.

  15. Re:Oracle Forms on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    It's like Java, only not terrible.

    And only runs on Windows.

    And also it's terrible.

  16. Question on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    DROID4 : phone off = no location tracking? I can do without texts from the GF while about my business being an existential threat to the United States.

  17. I just can't believe this on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 2

    I completely do not understand anyone storing even remotely confidential data, much less security-related data, on servers hosted by another organization.

  18. I've pretty much had it on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 0

    If some douche at Motorola is checking out pics of my GF's ass I will really feel like shooting him in the fucking face.

    I'm seriously sick of this shit.

  19. Re: Weekly/Monthly Salary on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    > nothing is free, handling cash is not free, writing checks is not free, setting up DD for employees not likely to stick around more than a year is not free.

    Correct, these are called "costs of doing business" and should be treated as such by the employer, not clawed back from the employee. Auctioning off the employees to the card companies adds insult to injury.

    Fuck those employers/slave-traders.

  20. Please add on Personal Audio's James Logan Answers Your Questions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mr. Logan - Why are you such a huge faggot?

  21. And I would like a pretty pony! on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    And I would like a pretty pony!

  22. At the very least... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1
    If you're sedentary, you could benefit from working stabilizer and core muscles, and this is possible without equipment.

    Squats - even without weight - will strengthen your legs, back stabilizers and the connective tissue in your knee. Do multiple sets to near-failure.

    Planks - get in the "up" position of a push-up and stay there, back straight, for a good 30-60 seconds to start. Repeat several times.

    This is assuming you can do this while taking short breaks from your work. If you absolutely must incorporate it into your actual while-working time - I don't know, attach a 45 pound plate to your mouse or something.

    Hopefully at some point you'll start to feel some benefit, and this will motivate you to dedicate some time to exercise outside of work.

  23. Zappos got hit recently on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 1

    I have my own domain as well, and follow the same convention as OP. Within the last month, I've been getting scam email to the address I use with (and only with) Zappos. I retired the email address.

  24. Re:So That's Opt In, Right? And That Goes to Chari on Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, don't use it.

    Oh, how I wish. https://joindiaspora.com/

  25. Hundreds of hours? on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    "As a result, I've lost hundreds of hours in code reviews because some pedant was more interested in picking nits over whitespace than actually reviewing my algorithms"

    Stop coding like shit, then. Adopt your organization's coding standards, or lobby to have them changed if they're dumb.