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  1. Re: i bought nothing friday on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    I bought three Nike Golf polos on Kohl's website yesterday for $50. I'm not a big Nike guy, but those shirts are awesome for work, and normally cost about three times that price.

    #buycott

  2. Re: Change the law on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The biggest irony in all of this is that Lessig argued that money wins elections and even ran a campaign to try to end that.

    And now, here he stands, trying to change the results of an election to be in favor of the person who massively outspent her opponent, even though she already lost.

    Hath hell frozen over?

  3. Re: So now Clinton supporters can't handle the res on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So rioting is justified when democracy doesn't go your way?

  4. All the more reason for it to be more difficult.

  5. The rest of the developed world doesn't have such a large population to deal with.

    The only more populous countries than the US are India and China. The next first world country on that list is Japan at number 10, and then Germany at number 14.

  6. Re: Microsoft gets even farther out of touch... on Microsoft Is Working On a New Design Language For Windows 10 Codenamed Project NEON (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think pay impacts that nearly as much as stack ranking.

  7. Too many animations ends up making the interface feel slow because the user has to wait for them after each action.

    Windows phone was particularly bad at this, and UI experts and ends users alike tended to dislike it overall.

  8. I personally still don't see why requiring ID to vote is so controversial. If you want an ID card, it's dead simple to get one, and you already have to have one for basically anything and everything you do anyways.

    Besides, if requiring an ID is such a bad thing, then presumably requiring voter registration would be bad too for the same reason?

  9. Re:What do you mean by access? on Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It mostly takes advantage of naive users, but really it was incredibly stupid of Microsoft to hide file extensions by default all those years back. It's been a major security pain point for a very long time, and yet still it remains.

  10. Re: What an empty life on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    People seem to be willing to believe stories that confirm their bias without checking facts or even using common sense.

    And this applies universally, even with news that is mostly accurate. (I say mostly, because I've yet to find a news article or video segment whose story I've done my own research on that tells you everything and has the details correct and/or doesn't emphasize a particular point of view at the expense of another. Even news outlets that claim to be neutral, like NPR, tend to do this.)

  11. Re: What an empty life on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fake news has been a thing for a long ass fucking time, why are they JUST NOW making a big deal out of it? Examples of really old fake news sites:

    prisonplanet.com and infowars.com (these sites are run by the same people)
    Every website owned by Kevin Trudeau
    naturalnews.com
    mercola.com
    Every 9/11 conspiracy theory site that ever existed

    I thought Trump supporters were going to be really fucking obnoxious when they lost...boy did I underestimate left wing supporters. Sure, Trump supporters would have created a lot of conspiracy theories too, but I really don't think they'd all suddenly turn 12 and block traffic and protest democracy, nor would they threaten to move to a country (Canada) that doesn't want people who want to ban firearms and block freeways.

  12. Re:huh on Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code (9to5mac.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Charities wouldn't be necessary if government properly taxed the wealthy and provided a universal basic income.

    Yes, because the only purpose of a charity is to give money and food away. /sarcasm

    I can't think of a single valid reason why organ donation shouldn't be mandatory, you're dead, you're not using it any more, you and your family members should have no say whatsoever. And vaccinations should absolutely be mandatory unless they're medically contraindicated.

    And it should be illegal to sell software without source code.

    Seriously, you sound like a fascist.

  13. I'm not an expert at statistics, but isn't 2 million also within the margin of error?

  14. Re:cig sorter on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think if every coder gave a damn about ethics, then malware wouldn't be a thing. The author wasted his time writing this piece, in my opinion.

  15. Oh that's ok, even a 1:1 rip plays perfectly in Kodi and Plex. I think the last time I played a blu-ray disc in my own house was back in 2012, so I can't say I've ever experienced cinavia.

  16. Re:If only... on 4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem is that if DRM stuff can hide its execution and memory contents, then malware can hide itself from debuggers and other means of developing countermeasures. SGX should not be a thing at all, in my opinion, in the same way that other crappy technology such as ActiveX shouldn't have ever been a thing. If enterprises are concerned about application security, then they should segregate it on a type 1 hypervisor.

  17. Re:If only... on 4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You could always just resort to piracy. You see, pirated content doesn't care if your hardware supports the latest DRM, it just fucking works.

  18. Are you talking about SGX? I thought that was only going to be for specific enterprise features? If not, that's going to open up the possibility of impossible to detect malware.

  19. Re: Just unlock the thing on Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Microsoft would ever allow that. Back in either 2010 or 2011, Microsoft decided that they want windows to turn into a crappier version of iOS, only "better" because it runs on desktops AND phones. Sound stupid? That's because it is.

    Remember the windows 8 start menu? That was just a preview of what Microsoft wants, and the backlash just told them to slow down, but they still have their hearts set on controlling 100% of the user experience. This can also be thought of as a realization of the goals of palladium.

    At any rate, Microsoft doesn't want to see any more native win32 applications, they want app developers to use crappy, API limited, and ugly UWP so that it is the ONLY future of windows. They also can revoke end users' ability to sideload at any time, which means they can eventually extract a 30% cut of every single copy of every single application that every windows user runs.

  20. Re: So right after their value gets depressed? on Oracle Buys Dyn DNS Provider (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would their value get depressed? They didn't do anything wrong. I don't know why TFS calls it a breech even though nothing was breeched.

  21. Most designs of these devices aren't routers, rather they're layer 3 switches with an attached wireless access point. The ones that aren't are just a combination of three devices: A router, a switch, and an access point.

  22. Re:Ideally a manifest/profile from IoT makers... on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't work. As soon as malware infiltrates the device, it could make the manifest say whatever it wants.

  23. Re: 75% of california's poeple are brain dead on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've been annoying and obnoxious since long before Trump became a media sensation.

  24. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a white American (born and raised), I myself have some crazy cousins - who are undoubtedly members of organizations that count among their members some people who have done some really bad stuff. I mean, I'm pretty sure I've even got cousins who are members of the NRA - and, wow, NRA members have done some really crazy bad stuff.

    That wasn't the only thing. As I mentioned, he also had posted links on his facebook page pointing to taliban and al-qaeda owned pages. My guess is that this got his visa canceled because it was seemingly benign stuff like this that was ignored when the 9/11 hijackers entered the country legally.

  25. I think it's much more than the political establishment that's pissed off:

    http://www.usatoday.com/videos...

    And on a side note, I can't see any reason for this other than they are protesting democracy? Either way I have to admit I did laugh when one of them got thunked by a car driving at high speed; likely that protester end up with a costly hospital bill, but a criminal record (in many cases it's a felony trespass to enter a freeway on foot if it has a center divider, and all cases where it's not a felony it's at least a misdemeanor.) Poetic justice for people who don't give a shit if they block ambulances or fire trucks.