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  1. Re:The problem is too many channels on People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 2

    too many channels without any content...

  2. dehydrated water - just add water...

  3. Re:It means the same thing it always did on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ...to get my sinclair zedx80 computer to display on my tv was a hack and it was elegant too ;) ...to write code on the wang word processor so the upper drive displayed a banner was a hack and it was elegant too...

  4. Re:its always been a problem on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Methinks thou dost protest too much...

  5. Re:It means the same thing it always did on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    you're thinking of a kludge - see "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder...

  6. Re:It means the same thing it always did on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe from where you are - but not me - a hack is elegant - an inelegant solution is definitely not a hack - although many people claim it is - as you do

  7. Re:It means the same thing it always did on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree - a hack is an elegant solution to an old problem - since securing IT is an old problem a hack gets around controls - fits perfectly

  8. InfoSec is not stress unless you're doing it wrong on Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ...if mgt is placing unrealistic pressure it's time to switch jobs...

  9. Re:forked on Hacker Posts Snapchat Source Code To GitHub (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    security researchers get a free ride...unless they signed an nda...

  10. Re:Yeah even Linux has issues on TCP Flaw Lets Remote Attackers Stall Devices With Tiny DoS Attack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    all things designed and built by humans have flaws...

  11. Re:"Somnambulant??" on The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ...yep...the writer showed his ignorance...or his school's...he may have meant sleepy but he said sleep-walking...

  12. he's a billionaire - you're not

  13. no he does not pay for sells - other market people who buy do...were you asleep in econ 101?

  14. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allows companies to use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information in compliance with its fair disclosure rules so long as investors have been alerted about which social media outlets will be used to disseminate such information.

  15. Re:"Somnambulant??" on The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ambulant = walk, any dictionary that simplifies that to sleepy shows it's youth

  16. Re:No difference between this and the physical wor on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not a crime if it's civil - it's an infringement of rights

  17. Re:No difference between this and the physical wor on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    for civil you cannot get a search warrant - but you can get a subpoena and the other side is supposed to produce the data asked for

  18. most high freq traders are dems

  19. ...the (hot) flash boys... on Heat and Humidity Slow Down High-Frequency Trading Due To Microwave Links (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    couldn't resist...

  20. Re:Why not mobiles too? on Pentagon Restricts Use of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I didn't miss that at all - i'm technical, I have one, I know how they work...when I went to Germany a few years ago and came back it tracked me in waldorf...

  21. Re:Why not mobiles too? on Pentagon Restricts Use of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the only way these trackers work is if there's a cell phone or wifi signal...most use bluetooth to that signal...

  22. both the bank and fakebook...

  23. and you gave them permission when you opened your account...

  24. back in the day we called downloading the usenet daily looking for new viruses the "porn hauler" for obvious reasons. before that when I had a .arpa email address there was no such thing as anonymity - then came Robert Morris and it's been downhill ever since. now we think we have anonymity but we don't. so it goes.

  25. no one, including near or homeless, is forced to use facebook - they merely think that they are. it's my privilege to go somewhere else. choices.