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  1. Re: BeauHD should commit suicide on Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Any man that ISN'T a complete chauvinist, would never say something like this about his daughter. BTW, he didn't say he'd marry her, just date her. To me that signifies sex only. I'd cringe all the same had he said, "Yeah man, I'd eat that pussy, if she wasn't my daughter."

  2. Re:No password, but... on Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    there's no way to grab the key

    Yes there is. Simply grab it while they're in the bathroom. Or, while. they're. doing. anything. else? The physical key is literally the EASIEST thing to grab.

  3. Re:No password, but... on Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    If simply 'adding security items to login requirements' is the way to increase security, then maybe better bank security can be gotten from simply putting the bank's vault inside a slightly bigger vault. Ooo, better yet, put THAT vault inside a slightly bigger vault, too! Wait, I have a better idea, put THAT vault in a slightly....

  4. No password, but... on Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft's no-password logon offers three options: the hardware key combined with Windows Hello face recognition technology or fingerprint ID; the hardware key combined with a PIN code; or a phone running the Microsoft Authenticator app.

    So if I understand this, they've replaced the need for a password, with the need for a piece of hardware mixed with 1 of 3 other requirements. How is this better? Hell, they could have simply require any pair of the 3 other requirements and leave the hardware key out.

  5. But that's exactly the point that the GP had.

  6. How is that a bogus argument? People per sq. mile is THE reason almost ALL corporations look at before thinking of building an empire there.

  7. Re:View on China Needs to Change on Retaliatory Cyber Attacks Are Only Way To Stop China, Says Former FBI Director (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the tremendous economic entanglements, it will be a very bizarre conflict.

    It's already a bizarre. Soon, China, Russia and the US will hold the world hostage: pay huge taxes on over-seas shipping, or WW3.

  8. Re:Why does everything in California suck on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Here's a great 3D representation of wind patterns over the planet. California appears to be in an area that is central to multiple streams that pull air out of California. Logic says that regardless of any echo-chambers, you sir, are correct. :)

  9. the title, blah blah on Most ATMs Can Be Hacked in Under 20 Minutes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    What constitutes "hacking" these machines? Root access? Money shooting out? Transfer of funds from accountA to accountB?

  10. Ads, ads, everywhere ads... on Microsoft is Testing Ads in Mail App For Windows 10 in Select Markets (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that advertising has overstepped it's reasonable place in society. Have we no right to be left alone? How is it not disturbing the peace?

    I get it, this is an article about MS's mail app, and how they just took a shit in it. But my point is that they're doing so based on factual evidence that advertising is a source of revenue, and nothing more. Just sell your mail app to ...whoever wants to pay for it. But selling it to advertisers...
    ...oh, I see what they did there.

  11. It has nothing to do with business practices or culture. It has to do with Nature. Everything will end, eventually (no, I don't mean the end of the universe itself, I just mean that nothing lasts forever).

    However, you're onto something, speaking about Japan having the oldest businesses. They also, generally have, the oldest people in the world. The correlation is plain to see.

  12. Re:I'm sad to see... on 'The Internet Needs More Friction' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The person behind the idea that caused the article to be written, is pretty seriously misunderstanding reality at it's present state, for sure. However, I feel like the reason that it's posted here on slashdot is because it exposes what sort of ideas are being kicked around by those that can make shit happen. It allows some of us to read between the lines.

  13. Re: authoritarian bullshit on 'The Internet Needs More Friction' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't prove that. No one can prove that. Ballots are filled in, in secrecy. As long as that's done in secrecy, those that count can do whatever the hell they want. See Florida.

  14. Every company should know that this is the truth. Every people should know that this is the truth. In fact, the same basic truth exists in regards to life too. Because one day we will die, but it's the job of our entire system to keep from dying as long as possible.

  15. Re:More in depth article in text on Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Whatever, I can put one of these next to my wife and daughter's heads while they spend a combined hour, or more, on their hair in the mornings.

  16. So they cause humans to vent hot air?

  17. $10,000 x 10,000 potential businesses = $100,000,000

    $100,000 x 1,000 poorest families = $100,000,000

    I wonder which of those would be a better improvement. Sometimes the poor are poor because they make poor decisions. But, generally, the idea of starting 10,000 businesses in one city seems like it'd only make for a good sitcom.

  18. who else has joined? on Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's some other companies that have joined:

    AT&T
    Cisco
    Fujitsu
    Hitachi
    Huawei
    IBM
    Intel
    Microsoft
    Oracle
    Qualcomm
    Samsung
    VMware

  19. There is no net-neutrality, there is no non-net-neutrality. There is only general misunderstanding mixed with lots of piss from a pissing contest that everyone just walked away from, yet was never officially ended.

  20. Re:Or, just don't be stupid. on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, so I've learned something today. Despite my having to use "viri" as the plural form of "virus" throughout my entire school career, it's now wrong (showing my age?). This is due to there being no form of the word being plural in Latin. Evidently, "viruses" is now the correct way. Thanks for the heads-up!

  21. I get your point, but I also work with a bunch of guys that are, on the surface, very intelligent and professional. They make a lot of money, and they seem happy with their lives. However this in no way seems to help them make good decisions when it comes to very basic operations in the work environment. When it comes to egos and personal interests, those things tend to forbid common sense.

    Sometimes, here at work, I feel like our ticketing system runs the same course as slashdot discussions. And the output from it is about as equal. We're not a security company, and I know that matters. I'm just pointing out that just because you met the people, you like them and they like you, doesn't mean that you can attest for the level of security accomplished there. For all you know, they're stuck in an echo-chamber like many other companies.

    Of course, there's also the chance that I also know nothing about their security and that it's comparable to Ft. Knox. Hopefully the latter is true, for the sake of our military overlords.

  22. Re:great! on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahaaa....

  23. Re:Lockheed takes this pretty seriously on The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Proof?

  24. India has about 4x the amount of people that the US has. Odd thing is, the Indians have a different music preference than the Americans. It's not amazing that whatever trend develops on youtube that attracts the likes of Indians, would then become more popular (on a global scale) than that of trends that attract Americans.

    And before anyone points out that Indians are poor, and fewer have access to internet than those in America...
    That's true, however India is coming up in the world, so the number of Indians with internet access might surprise you. And the amount of times that the video(s) will be watched by each of them may also surprise you.

  25. Re:Answers to the questions on Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes sir. I will try to do better. Thank you.