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  1. Re:Root Cause on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    The assholes have to appreciate that sticking to their core competency is more profitable, in the long run, than fucking with their gear in order to increase CEO salaries.

  2. Re:Accountability on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 2

    No, because New Coke.

    The American public's reaction to the change was negative and the new cola was a major marketing failure. The subsequent reintroduction of Coke's original formula, re-branded as "Coca-Cola Classic", resulted in a significant gain in sales.

  3. Got found out ... on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    ... good.

  4. The secret is in the message ... on How NSA Spies Stole the Keys To the Encryption Castle · · Score: 1

    ... and the message is that the NSA is omnipotent and stupid at the same time.

    They make a good scapegoat, though.

  5. Oh, come on ... on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... it's a goddam Russian company.

    That shitty smell that the report gives off is pootin'.

  6. It's farts ... on Mysterious Martian Plumes Discovered By Amateur Astronomers · · Score: 0

    ... from the rovers.

  7. Re:Time for men's liberation on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages · · Score: 1

    What this will do is fuel the argument women's reproductive rights. Currently, there's a raging debate about the inequity of controlling women by refusing to pay for birth control pills AND allowing abortions while paying for men's vasectomies AND providing them with Viagra and other sexual stimulants.

    The advent of male contraceptives is field-leveler that will overturn many court decisions and nullify many one-sided laws.

    Bring it on.

  8. Fegrees are not to be confused with ... on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    ... aptitude.

    We've all met and worked with coders who seem to have an IQ lower than asphalt and we've met and worked with brilliant coders.

    While it's rather easy to judge their level of competency, it's near impossible to determine if they can play the guitar, and who gives a shit anyway?

    How many great coders are self-taught? Not many, but one is enough for my team.

  9. Re:Good. on FAA Proposes Rules To Limit Commercial Drone Use · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is TFA lists TWO (2) proposed FAA regulations:

    1.) Drone has a camera
    2.) Drone does not have camera

    I didn't see that and, I didn't see:

    3.) Drone has a microphone.

    Please provide a quote.

    Thanks.

  10. I hope the forward is by ... on Elon Musk To Write a Book About Earth Sustainability and Mars Colonization · · Score: 1

    ... Sarah Palin.

  11. I can help ... on West Point and Marines Launch Open Cyber Conflict Journal · · Score: 1

    Target and Sony and some banks were hacked.

    The end.

    Now, let's start the journal about how we rip out all this candy-ass Internet shit and do it right this time.

  12. If only computers ... on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 1

    ... had been vaccinated at birth.

  13. Re:So easily? on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 1

    No.

    Your criteria fail to explain why businesses (US) have sprinklers, fire extinguishers, fire exits, fire retardant furnishings and fire-specific building codes ... all backed by ordinances.

    Only after many lives were lost and much litigation did these become "the cost of doing business."

  14. Re:Robust versus Secure on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 1

    Excellent point.

    I grew up with all this shit. I got my first micro computer in 1978 (I was a 33-year old electronics tech) and my first coding gig in 1986.Computers were very easy to hack via floppy disk (the 5 1/4" kind).

    Each computing device has much greater responsibility nowadays, but the security has made NO advances.

  15. Re:So easily? on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 2

    This.

    And, banks aren't alone.

    Cyber security will only happen after litigation kicks in.

  16. Re:Is nothing Hackproof? on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 2

    The most devilishly clever security system, devised by the most gifted programmers, in a scenario where money was no object, can still be compromised because of the human user element in the implementation of the system.

    Banks don't have any of that shit. That's the problem.

  17. Re:Digital Scarecrow on 'Google Search On Steroids' Brings Dark Web To Light · · Score: 1

    This.

    And ...

    How many tools does the government have that kids circumvent every day?

    This sounds a lot like the war on spam.

  18. Re:What were you expecting? on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 1

    Influence and power are out of context in a world where a dumpster diver is pwning those with influence and power.

    What he learned, notes one friend, is that "if you try to work with the system, they fuck you over." And so, from then on, Hammond would dedicate himself to working outside it. Over the next few years, he threw himself into the day-to-day life of the radical community in Chicago, renting houses that quickly became crash pads for any homeless kid or traveler who happened through. Always the first to offer a toke or some food, he became famous for taking friends on epic dumpster-diving expeditions to hidden outposts like a local Odwalla plant, where, after plundering the refuse, he'd return with enough fresh juice to last a month. At night he'd settle in with "riot porn" – Internet clips of black-clad anarchists facing off with the police.

  19. Because money ... on Smoking Is Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    ... I was involved in some of the tobacco litigation (we hit several billion dollars) and the gist of the fight was this:

    Anti-tobacco: "Cigarettes are bad."

    Big tobacco: "Jobs."

  20. Re:What were you expecting? on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 2

    An inescapable fact is, there are WAY more people outside the sphere of law enforcement. That means the odds are, greatly, that the brightest people are not in law enforcement.Authorities will always lose the "War On (Stuff)."

  21. Re:Ahh, the internet of things... on Netatmo Weather Station Sends WPA Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 2

    This.

    While I don't give a shit if someone can read, in clear text, what the temperature is, or if they can even see the authentication, of a weather station, because it's a low-security device, the larger question is, "What is the threshold that separates innocuous devices from more serious devices?"

    The "no security" feature of these IoT is a culture that can creep into the design of more important web-enabled devices.

    It's a bad habit.

  22. Re:Facebook for managers on LinkedIn Restricts API Usage · · Score: 1

    My boss, a partner in a law firm, made me get a LinkedIn account. I did and it surprised me how many people wanted to be BFF.

    I got requests to endorse people for various skills when I didn't know if they could do all that crap or not.

    I got to hoping I'd found a place where IT peeps could rub elbows and talk about security, faulty updates, cool utilities for network admin, firewall tricks, and a place to swap lies.

    The only dialog I was ever involved with was to fluff up other people's worth.

    I waited a full year, then deleted the account.

    Boss asked me why I did that and I said, "I waited but you never communicated with me, so what's the purpose? You're not missing anything and neither am I."

  23. Re:How does it make money? on LinkedIn Restricts API Usage · · Score: 1

    It's called making money.

  24. Re:This sounds vaguely familiar ... on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 1

    Except encryption.

  25. Re:HELLO IT'S 2015 on WA Pushes Back On Microsoft and Code.org's Call For Girls-First CS Education · · Score: 1

    No. The companies backing this are addressing the diversity issue. Old news is that coders are predominately male and companies are vulnerable to criticism for not hiring more females.

    This way, companies are reinforcing their position that there are just not enough females available and that the companies are doing what they can to increase the population of eligible female coders.

    It's a publicity stunt.