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  1. Productive workplace activity .. on Data-Crunching Could Kill Your Downtime At Work · · Score: 1

    Doing the same job over-and-over that a few hundreds lines of code could do, because the manager doesn't understand coding and is afraid of losing authority. It's called micro-management.

  2. 5G and rf frequency spectrum on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 2

    How are all these 5G devices going to fit into the same rf spectrum?

  3. Example for screwy logic contest .. on The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun · · Score: 1

    @anon: 'This contest shows how Linux is probably loaded with backdoors.'

    And closed source is free of backdoors as we can never see the source code?

  4. Re:Start with this Password Verification Function on The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun · · Score: 1

    So, i is always equal to the length of the entered password?

  5. Who didn't pay bribes .. on SAP Paid Bribes To Panamanian Officials · · Score: 1

    What corporation doesn't pay bribes in order to do business in the colonies ?

  6. Re:Not about sex assault on Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    "This isn't about sexual assault. If he walked out of the embassy next week, the Americans would nab him on 'assault charges' but instead of taking him to Sweden, they would ship him to the United States where he would be treated like a traitor and war criminal (even though he isn't American, and hasn't been to war). The would make up any extra-legal charge and would stick to it. They would hold him, black-site him, waterboard him, and hold him Gitmo-style while they come up with something (anything) else, and if nothing else comes up, they would hold him on pending evidence, and that evidence would be examined, then the next pending evidence would be the hold (and that would repeat to about 5 minutes after Bradley Manning -now Chelsea Manning- gets released)."

  7. Clinton personal email server .. on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't personal email directed to a person be considered - private - even for Secretary of States. What about the right to privacy of the people who communicated with Clinton. Isn't this whole controversy being exploited by Clintons enemies in Washington.

  8. Microsoft computer science education .. on Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education · · Score: 1

    How much of this state money will be spent on Windows licenses?

  9. More security means less security .. on Lenovo Installed Software On Laptops That Persisted After Complete Wipes · · Score: 1

    So, in this case, adding a security feature means opening the machine up to third party hacking.

  10. Make the BIOS readonly .. on Thunderstrike2 Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Didn't there used to be a pin setting on the motherboard that prevented writing to the BIOS ..

  11. The bug can be used to own Android devices .. on Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs · · Score: 1

    'The bug (CVE-2015-3825) .. can be used to turn malicious apps with no privileges into "super" apps'

    Except you forgot to mention that the malware (SerializePOC) has to be already installed on the device. So to get 'hacked' a) download and install malicious app :)

  12. Security system of the Jeep Cherokee .. on BlackBerry Denies QNX Was To Blame In Jeep Cherokee Hack · · Score: 1

    Did no one at QNX, BlackBerry or FCA ask the frickin question as to whether the Jeep was immune to wireless hacking.

  13. Running malware on Linux .. on Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection · · Score: 1

    "The first of these changes .. consists of extending the monitoring of malicious file downloads to the Mac and Linux versions of Firefox."

    How do you get to execute malware under Linux from a Firefox download?

  14. Oracle to customer base .. on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 1

    Oracle to customer base, we don't gave a f**k about your security concerns.

    'I think my response was, ‘What idiot dreamed this up?’ " — Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s chief security officer, in typically blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company’s scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."'

    'we need to build on a solid infrastructure platform, take an engineering approach - build secure software'

  15. Hovered over property for only 22 seconds .. on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what, nobody should have the right to fly a spying machine over your house.

  16. Many Scottish farmers disapprove of the ban? on Scotland To Ban GM Crops · · Score: 1

    Do you have any quotes or actual figures regarding Scottish farmers disapproval of the ban? Of course TTIP will make it impossible for sovereign governments to implement such legislation.

  17. Cortana on Microsoft Android .. on Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Will Microsoft be suing the Microsoft Cortana division for violating Microsofts' innovation ?

  18. Make the device read-only .. on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? · · Score: 2

    Is it possible for the hardware manufacturers to put a read-only switch on the device that would protect certain core files from being overwritten?

  19. Re:Linux isn't about choice any longer. on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 0

    Has systemd become the equivalent of 'liberal' to certain parts of the tech world?

  20. Re:I can't recommend Linux any longer. on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    That's called damning with faint praise, maybe you're not compatible with a real OS.

    Ubuntu 3D Desktop

  21. The new normal for mainstream operating systems? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    "The days of mainstream operating systems that don't integrate cloud services, that don't exploit machine learning and big data, that don't let developers know which features are used and what problems occur, are behind us, and they're not coming back. This may cost us some amount of privacy, but we'll tend to get something in return: software that can do more things and that works better."

    Said Peter Bright, a longtime Microsoft booster ref .. and MICROS~1 SPYWAR~1 is not getting on this mainstream operating systems ..

  22. Nothing to do with Google .. on Google Pressured To Police Stolen Webcam Videos On YouTube · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing to do with Google. if you are stupid enough to put your webcam on the Internet, then shame on you, nothing to do with Google ...

  23. What OS do these Gas Pumps run on? on Hackers Actively Targeting Gas Pumps · · Score: 1

    "Security researchers from Trend Micro wondered what kind of cyberattacks might target one of our most common and vital pieces of infrastructure: gas pumps" ref

  24. Re: virtualization on SDN Switches Not Hard To Compromise, Researcher Says · · Score: 1

    Thanks all, I learned something new today, slashdot can still deliver the knowledge ...

  25. How about .. on Samsung To Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates For Android · · Score: 1

    How about a read-only switch on the device ..