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  1. What is the Government Services Authority? on Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been doing Federal contracting for years and I've never heard of them. Are they part of the General Services Administration?

  2. you are the product. Why are people still so surprised by this?

    Heck, you get people here at /. who are incensed that you actually have to pay full price for Apple products.

  3. Nothing like going down a corridor blasting purple dinosaurs that are "singing" "I love you, you love me..."

  4. Rates an easily disprovable anti-semitic troll, posted by an true coward, anonymously, as "+2, Informative".

  5. the 4 UA employees that wanted to fly on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They were crew for a flight that would be cancelled if they weren't there. What this is, in addition to a PR foulup, is a logistics screwup. The crew should have been booked on a flight already.

  6. ReReading LoTR right now. on Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 0

    Going to read The Collapsing Empire by Scalzi next.

  7. My first job out of college, in 93 on Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Was industrial automation. We did the first automated truck bumper plating line at Southwest Plating in Duncan Oklahoma. We also put DES lines in at various other places across the country. It was obvious then, a quarter century ago, that automation was going to be massively disruptive.

  8. Have fun in jail.

  9. Weird, a broken mic is why I replaced my Nexus on Google Confirms Small Number of Pixel Phones Have Broken Microphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    With a Pixel. About 2 weeks ago, so hopefully it won't have this defect.

  10. "CIA has tools to bypass the encryption mechanisms on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not exactly. If the CIA (or anyone) hacks the phone, they can install keyloggers, which can grab data before it gets encrypted. They can also install screen readers that can see incoming messages after they've been decrypted.

    In other words, if they can look over your shoulder, you're not secure.

  11. Re:Will they include Manufacturer data access? on Consumer Reports To Consider Cyber Security in Product Reviews (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironically, CR doing this is a great way of making the great unwashed more aware and concerned about their cyber-security.

    How is something doing what it's intended to do in any way ironic?

  12. Unless you're a working class voter whose job just got automated.

  13. Bernie was an actual Socialist on Russian Cyberspies Blamed For US Election Hacks Are Now Targeting Macs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The attack ads practically write themselves. All they had to do was point out that Chavez, in Venezuela, was an actual Socialist, and look how well Venezuela is doing, and Bernie will do for America what Chavez did for Venezuela. Repeat at high volume for 3 months. Heck, look at how well the attacks claiming Obama and Bill Clinton were Socialists worked, and they were nowhere near socialism.

    Bernie, unlike Hillary, would've lost the popular vote too.

  14. RS-232 over a 2 or 3 wire connection, for longer communication runs. I wonder if anyone still uses that?

  15. "36-bit machines and the persistence of octal" on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Just last week a dev here was surprised that a leading zero denoted octal in Javascript.

  16. And how many on Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    are being monitored by the Five Eyes countries? Never mind how many are being monitored by corporations that may be "encouraged" to share the data with various governments.

  17. Safari issue, not the battery on Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the problem goes away if you use Chrome. I wonder if the Safari team has brought in people from the iTunes team. God knows iTunes is a crawling horror.

  18. The original article on NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes no claims that the NSA was intercepting calls made by those people in the US, nor GCHQ in the UK. Since Air France was targeted they may have been intercepting calls made anywhere in the world.

    This is, by the way, what NSA and GCHQ are supposed to be doing. Intercepting foreign (to the US and UK respectively) communications.

  19. iPads have cell radios on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy monthly plans through the carriers. I haven't needed it since my Nexus phone has a hotspot feature.

  20. You must be a Trumpist on NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since you seem to be very factually challenged.

  21. Sounds like a part of the Star Trek:DTI Manual on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "don't mix smearing and non-smearing time servers"

  22. Shrooms, too. on FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
  23. Whatever happened to WiMax? on Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    802.16, IIRC, was supposed to solve these problems. About 10 years ago one of the cell phone companies was offering it.

  24. Not difficult at all. on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You run a diff between the emails you already have, and the new ones. Only the ones that are different have to be examined by hand.

  25. And this isn't the only make of voting machine used in the US. Large scale voting fraud just isn't possible in the US. Thousands of jurisdictions, potentially unique ballots for each jurisdiction, several different types of voting machines, plus absentee and early voting.