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  1. Define the terms on Tech-Savvy Workers Increasingly Common in Non-IT Roles (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    What exactly is meant by Tech Savy? I'm sure most non-IT people know very little about scripting, domains, networking, and everything else an IT person is responsible for.

  2. Re:How about Proton mail? on 'World's Most Secure' Email Service Is Easily Hackable (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    G suite is better than nomx. That's what my point was, supposing someone wants to use their own domain. Obviously I missed the part about Proton.

  3. Re:How about Proton mail? on 'World's Most Secure' Email Service Is Easily Hackable (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Ignore previous post, I thought the topic was still nomx.

  4. WOW on Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing about this, but never suspected Google was one of them. Good thing they realized their mistake promptly and got their money back. Bad publicity nonetheless.

  5. Re:Sure...if I had physical access to the device.. on 'World's Most Secure' Email Service Is Easily Hackable (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You fail to realize why this response is, inadequate, fallacious, and utterly garbage. 1) Of course no nomx data was compromised, it was a test machine 2) How do they know that no nomx account has been compromised. They don't. They aren't a web service. This is a physical device, managed by individuals, not monitored by the company 3) Even if no one has been compromised, that doesn't negate the real, high risk vulnerabilities 4) Statistics don't tell a compelling story. Nomx is not used by billions of people, as such, the attack vector is statistically insignificant to warrant anyones time to attempt to hack it. Furthermore, I highly doubt they can hold up to the same standards as Google/Yahoo, or any other company they list on their website as being hacked in recent years. Typical apples to oranges. 5) 'In the last two years alone, every major email service provider was hacked' & `world's most secure email service` are unsubstatianted hasty generalizations. What's the criteria they're using exactly? 6) 'nomx ensures absolute security and privacy when communicating online by resolving issues with the Transmission, Routing, Acceptance, Communication header data, Encryption and Storage (TRACES) vulnerabilities that have been present in email since its creation.' How convenient. A snakeoil promise for problems that are extremely vague. Sounds like a strawman to me. Never even heard of the term T.R.A.C.E.S. And what exactly is it resolving with routing? Is this a router? Did they provide a new routing protocol? RIPv2 or OSPF isn't good enough for them? The BS meter is full.

  6. Re:How about Proton mail? on 'World's Most Secure' Email Service Is Easily Hackable (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Um. you did read the review right? It's not secure AT ALL. Extremely easy to hack and has a backdoor admin account with an outrageously simple password. Do yourself a favor and spend 5 bucks a month for a gmail mailbox.

  7. Re: So what's the issue? on Computer Program Prevents 116-Year-Old Woman From Getting Pension (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This

  8. True, true....

  9. Yes, it ended in June of 2009. The reason that's hard to believe is because it took a lot longer after that to recover from what was lost, nevertheless, GDP, the standard by which a recession is typically defined, was no longer receding. And stocks were on the uphill climb. This took a lot longer to trickle down into every day life, but for sure, the recession was over.

  10. Re:The view fails to account getting &*#@ed on Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's everyone else's fault but mine.

  11. OSX
    Unix
    Linux
    Desktop OS's are not defined by what applications are run on it.

  12. Re:Maybe if you're single on For Programmers, the Ultimate Office Perk is Avoiding the Office Entirely (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You win

  13. Much ado about nothing.

  14. Re:Internal PSU, talk about innovation.... on Microsoft's Project Scorpio Will Pack Internal PSU, 4K Game DVR Capture (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't know it was botched. For sure, less successful than PS4, and perhaps not the best in marketing, but I wouldn't say it was so bad as to be described as 'botched'.

  15. Re:It's all about CONVENIENCE. on Despite Netflix and Amazon Prime, Most of the World Watches Pirated Content (techinasia.com) · · Score: 1

    So piracy can be excused by economics. How convenient. I'm sorry lawyer, you see, I didn't have the means to wait until it was out on Blu-Ray and pay $25 bucks. That's why I illegally downloaded the movie.

  16. Unfortunately, it's also theft. I don't care how nice and convenient it is, a worker is worthy of their wages and for me to steal a movie robs someone of their honest, hard earned cash.

  17. Amazon rarely sells Prime items directly. The company reselling using FBA sets the price, it's just that FBA items get a higher priority than another company selling the same item.

    Companies are selling for what they know people are willing to spend on an item. If it doesn't sell, they lower it. But this isn't on Amazon, it's on the vendor. Shipping is completely irrelevant.

  18. Not enough info on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    1) Disable NIC in Windows
    2) Disable NIC using the hardware switch
    3) Disable NIC via BIOS
    4) Remove NIC from PC
    5) Use WPA2-Enterprise
    6) Turn off PC

    IDK, what are your constraints?

  19. Re:Music makes no sense on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, a couple of problems with this post: 1) Racist comment (Apparently white rappers don't exist) 2) You don't become artist of the year by creating garbage. Sorry 3) Music loops are central to music. It's called rhythm and beat 4) Hardly any music, especially music that hits charts are going to be strictly a music loop. 5) Making lyrics work with the music takes talent 6) Regardless of your opinion of rap, it seems that the general populous disagrees with you.

  20. Re:ZFS on Linux has software RAID. on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to correct that quote. ZFS is a resource hog. Mind you, I use it everywhere, but you need 1GB of RAM for every TB of data. Even more if you're doing deduplication (not that common). That being said, I'd rather buy a couple extra gigs of memory than buying a RAID card and dealing with proprietary crap when it dies.

  21. Let me introduce you on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    Let me introduce you to the economics of the bell curve and the s curve.

  22. If a cop is unholstering his weapon, isn't it too late? Isn't one of the largest reasons for the camera to detect what instigated the use of the weapon? This doesn't show moments before if all you're recording is the cop shooting someone.

  23. Assuming of course that the reason cops forget to turn on their camera is that they want to go shoot someone.

  24. Been there, seen that on Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

  25. If I was going to buy a PC these days it would be either a Dell or System76 PC running Ubuntu, and then I'd simply install Cinnamon and get rid of Unity.