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  1. They need to after Trump hatefully... on Homeland Security Unveils New Cyber Security Strategy Amid Threats (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Enacted the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The act was passed in a Democrat-majority Senate 93-5. Trump only crosses the aisle when it hurts America.

  2. The only thing this helps... on FedEx Sees Blockchain as 'Next Frontier' For Logistics (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    is if you don't trust FedEx's information to not change and the ledger is made public with enough nodes so FedEx can't do a 51% attack. With that said, we've had several packages where FedEx changed history on tracking so they created this trust problem in the first place.

  3. We need a new class of IP protections for personal on US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access To Your Real-Time Phone Location Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is all.

  4. Re:What’s wrong with Outlook? on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    winmail.dat

    Sucks having to several times a week copy attachments from users to a Linux machine so I can run tnef to extract their attachments.

  5. Re: Solution... on Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    > None of them have been spicy.

    Correct. Spices are expensive so the vast majority of restaurants won't provide spicy food no matter how much they charge.

  6. Re: Solution... on Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I've lived in the Seattle since I was born almost 63 years ago, and I have never found a restaurant that is spicy. Even I have to specify that I want something "Indian spicy" but still don't get it spicy. The closest I've some to getting something even near as spicy as I want was when I asked for that with three Indian friends that all told the waitress that I meant that. It sill wasn't as spicy as their meals.

  7. Re: Solution... on Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But she is adding hot sauce. It's much better when you add chili peppers while cooking the meat.

  8. Re:More blood on Trump's tiny hands... on Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never remember any data leaks under Obama, so this is the Republican's fault.

  9. Re: Solution... on Card Breach Announced at Chili's Restaurant Chain (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't know why this was voted down since Hillary confirmed she did:

    http://time.com/4297996/hillar...

    That means she's one of us and we should give her our vote.

  10. Re:What are your experiences with the new Apple KB on Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple Over the Keyboards in MacBook Pro and MacBook Laptops (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple has had much worse problems with laptop keyboards in the past, so this is exaggerated.

    My first Apple laptop was a 17" PowerBook in 2003. The G key was obviously broken out of the box. I had to fight to get it replaced and threatening a chargeback on a $3,500 laptop didn't even work. It took about 14 weeks to get it fixed because the part was new and the repair depot didn't have it in stock yet. I bought an iBook to make do while the PowerBook was gone, and I had to replace the keyboard twice. Admittedly, I was volunteer teaching a programming class in a middle school at the time and letting students use my laptop so that was hard use. At least the iBook keyboard was very easy to replace. My next laptop was a late-2008 MacBook. The left cmd key broke the first week. A little tab on the bottom of the key broke so it wouldn't stay in place. It took me about two years of going to Apple stores before I finally found one that happened to have a spare keycap of that key. Well, it was the other cmd key, so the label on the key was backwards. On my late-2012 MacBook Pro Retina, the keys would sometimes stick since either the case or the keyboard was a little off. That fixed itself for all of the commonly used keys after a few months of typing. The keycaps on the most commonly used keys are flaking plastic off. I've cut myself several times. I sent it back for repair the last week before AppleCare expired, and Apple annoyingly returned it without replacing the keycaps.

    With my late 2016 MacBook Pro that I bought used about a year ago, I haven't had any problems with the keyboard. It's the first Apple laptop I haven't had keyboard problems with (well, at least yet). I eat at my desk and smoke while using the laptop, so I'm pretty much a worst-case user. Also, I work in a former warehouse without AC and my window is just above the building's loading dock so I get a lot of disgusting black, oily exhaust fumes on everything, but that hasn't caused a problem with the keyboard.

  11. Re:Class action = Apple's 2nd tier of tech support on Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple Over the Keyboards in MacBook Pro and MacBook Laptops (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    As if second level at other companies like Dell are that much better than first level. Currently dealing with an entire order of Precision 5520 laptops that won't boot that we received over two months ago, and Dell's support is just useless. I've already personally spent over eighty hours on the phone or on chat with them, and the laptops don't work. Between our IT director yelling at our account exec and our CFO demanding a refund, they've probably spent that much more time between them.

  12. Re: Trump to take credit. Let's wait for the spin on North Korea Announces Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    The South Korean president and Foreign Minister both said that Trump was the primary reason for NK's capitulation.

    But how would they know? That's just pure conjecture.

  13. Re:Why? on Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    And if there's a problem with the network or SSH config, then what? Drive to the site?

  14. Another campaign promise kept on Trump Administration Approves 10 New Drone Projects Around the Country (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    dammit

  15. Re:Does it work... on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What a load of garbage. CenturyLink is testing gigabit on a couple of streets. It is not available to the vast majority of the city. As to the 28 claim, what does that matter if the city only allows one of two of them to offer service at your address?

  16. Re:Does it work... on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Many of our locations are still on dial-up since they're mostly in the Seattle area. I would love to be able to use an offline AI. We used wit.ai before they were bought out by Facebook, and it worked great with our locations with fast Internet access (about >512bps). It did a great job of determining customer "intents" to use their term. Too bad it didn't work well over dial-up and after they were acquired by Facebook, their system now doesn't work well at all.

  17. Re:damnit on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:What 'deal'? on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama did the same thing with net neutrality, and just look at the mess we have now because of that. We had the supermajority in the senate and majority in the house, but he didn't push for a law.

  19. damnit on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    He's keeping yet another campaign promise.

  20. Re:Why? on Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    But a serial console is damn nice to use with something like KVM on a remote server. Lights out management (like Dell's iDRAC) is great, but text is so much faster and easier to read on the client side with subpixel rendering.

  21. Re:How about an installer with some added features on Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct. Cows, not puppies.

    I have my our main dev setup scripted with Puppet, and I can create a new clean system in about 30 minutes that's about 98% done for what I need to be productive. I even have Puppet for Windows working well enough that it gets you about 90% of the way there. The two biggest issues we have with Windows are installers we can't automate and VisualStudio's craptastic licensing.

  22. Re:This could be really good. on Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're looking for speed I'm not sure that trying to wedge the-thing-that-will-not-die that is outlook2016 on to a tablet is going to give you much love.

    It takes forever to load even with a very fast computer with a spinning rust drive. Yes, we buy $3k desktops that don't have SSDs since my boss won't less us buy laptops or desktops with one since we had a bunch of them fail suddenly without warning about six years ago. It takes about twenty seconds for the window to open after clicking on "New Email," but that's not a blocker.

  23. That word shows they're a bit out of touch with what users want. They want programs and web sites to be reliable, fast, and have interfaces that make sense with features that are needed and without ones that don't make sense like "social" features.

    Ever dealt with a user "experience" consultant? They talk a lot about how users feel or why they do things. It's never about getting actual work done. The five we've churned through wouldn't even look at web analytics. The last one refused since they claimed it didn't explain the "why." We use Piwik which is awesome for seeing exactly what people do. You can even track specific user sessions to see exactly what they do and how long each step takes and even more important where they bounce. I've found and fixed at least a hundred problems I found using Piwik, but the UX people wouldn't even login to it.

  24. Re:This could be really good. on Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlook Web Access and Teams on the web are pretty damn good except they're just too slow. We have a bunch of Surfaces without enough SSD space to install Office 2016, so we made those users use the web interface. The problem is the users are starting to rebel against it. We're considering going back to an older version of Exchange and back to Skype.

  25. Are they double-counting reinstalls? on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As I'm sitting here waiting on Windows to clean install a fourth time on my work laptop...