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  1. Re:You're in IT .. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 1

    Manning didn't blackmail and neither did Snowden or Winner.

    Disgruntled employees are the ones to watch out for.

  2. Re:You're in IT .. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 1

    Same can be said for management backing IT in establishing best practices, right?

    They don't and they should.

    They tell their clients that all data is sacred.

    It's not.

  3. You're in IT .. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and you have the keys.

    Just sayin'.

  4. Pose this question to ... on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 1

    ... management when you sign the hire package.

  5. Re:For Trump, socialism==bad... on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    That word doesn't apply the way you think it does.

  6. Re:Twitter is not the problem ... on Hackers Are So Fed Up With Twitter Bots They're Hunting Them Down Themselves (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I am well aware of the rapid thread degradation and I question the utility of clicking on that hastag in the first place, knowing it will turn to shit in 1 ... 2 ... 3 ...

  7. Twitter is not the problem ... on Hackers Are So Fed Up With Twitter Bots They're Hunting Them Down Themselves (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it's made out to be.

    It's a depressing shitstorm rabbit hole and not one fucking person is unaware of that.

    The people writing code to spot bots already know how to ID the bots, right?

    Just navigate around the bastards (or bitches as may apply).

  8. Simplify the TL;DR.

  9. We know the answer to all those questions. You do too.

  10. But got his bearings ... on How Einstein Lost His Bearings, and With Them, General Relativity (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... back.

    WTF is this?

    Hawking passes and we get Slashdot Esquire magazine?

  11. ... blockchain.

    I mean, I like the idea a lot.

    A lot of commenters don't read TFS or TFA, so I'm all for this new captcha idea, but goddam it, let's exploit the fucking blockchain buzz word so I can tell the people over at Soylent (when they show up) to fuck off because we are too mature for thay asses.

  12. Re:I'm more concerned about shadow profiles on Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of the silly disclaimers floating around a few years back (paraphrase): "By way of this post to Facebook, I hereby forbid Facebook to use my personal information and posts for any reason."

  13. Re:This is a "Breach"? on Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    I have preached from the beginning that the only right a Facebook member has is to leave.

  14. This is tough ... on 1 in 3 Michigan Workers Tested Opened A Password-Phishing Email (go.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... and I dealt with it during my career. I'm a retired IT.

    I held seminars, talked to employees one-on-one, and damned if we didn't still get hit.

    It was a law firm and the staff never fell for phishing.

    My problem was the fucking lawyers, especially the managing partner!

    That bastard would click on anything.

    He got a goddam email that said his UPS package wasn't going anywhere unless he looked at the invoice and corrected the address.

    I asked him if he sent anything via UPS and he said, no.

    I asked him if he remembered signing an exclusive with FedEx that I negotiated and he did.

    I asked him if he, personally, ever sent a package anywhere or if he let his staff do that -- he said staff.

    He did that shit over and over again.

    --

    I'm waiting for AI to step in; predict the outcome of clicking on a link and forbidding forward progress until an IT person concurs.

  15. Ownership is called, RTFM.

  16. And this would enhance the business' revenue in what ways?

  17. ... confiscating all the surveillance footage, both residential and commercial, in the area, so I don't have a problem with it.

    Smart devices behave in predictable ways. Owners are aware of those ways and can take actions to mitigate.

    It's a choice.

  18. Re:Rest in peace on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not quite.

    He felt that Manning was toxic.

    He didn't give a flying shit about anything but protecting himself.

    I agree with his decision. Why should he go down in flames with Manning?

    It's an interesting story, though. Good read.

  19. This will really piss off ... on Microsoft Wants To Force Windows 10 Mail Users To Use Edge For Email Links (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... all 3 people.

  20. Re:Picking safe targets on US Says Russia Hacked Energy Grid, Punishes 19 for Meddling (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The sanctions just enacted are a response to an event that the administration said did not happen.

    Mixed messages.

  21. Re:The obvious problem with this on All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years (astronomy.com) · · Score: 1

    What if I am the source?

  22. Re:The obvious problem with this on All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years (astronomy.com) · · Score: 2

    For now (science is fluid) the likelihood of a non-rotating black hole is very slim.

    The in-fall of mass in an accretion disk has an angular momentum that will be rotating in unison with other particles in orbit around the event horizon.

    Those particles will produce an electromagnetic field.

    However, the the electrical charge of the black hole will be neutral.

    That same accretion disk will make sure of that.

  23. Re:The obvious problem with this on All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years (astronomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Plasma theory does not work here because of the density/temperature disconnect.

    Plasma is hot, dense, and without solid clumps of matter (or anti-matter) because elemental particles are too active to coalesce.

    In intergalactic space, the near vacuum allows for an atom per cubic meter, which meets the definition of very near absolute zero temperature.

  24. Re:The obvious problem with this on All Disk Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years (astronomy.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your speculation fails the sniff test.

    The electromagnetic force affects a very, very short distance.

    If galaxies are "communicating," with each other and are similar to synchronized swimmers, it's going to be via gravity (including the little-understood dark matter) or perhaps entanglement on a quantum level.

    There's a lot we don't know, and the substance of this article is on that list.

    This is a preliminary finding and serves as a clue, only.

    This recent revelation, if verified, could lead us to a solution for the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter.

  25. I know that.

    But it was way too shallow.

    Nice for the casual reader, but we had Asimov, Sagan, and now we have Tyson.