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  1. Re:Sounds like a cleanup operation on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Coincident with the Muller cover-up news? This is an easy job for the spooks who hoard zero-days.

  2. Re:Backups? on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    :drinks:

    On the other hand, don't hire somebody who hasn't realized this mistake exists.

  3. Re:The Younger Dryas explained? on NASA Discovers Another Massive Crater Beneath the Ice In Greenland (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is the likely explanation for Meltwater Pulse 1a. Meltwater Pulse 1b was more likely caused by a coronal mass ejection which also left the 'black mat' layer everywhere from weeks of continual lightning.

    Between the two humanity went through two massive cataclysms which likely explain some of the commonality among primitive mythologies and the worldwide symbolism of sky gods lines up nicely with the high energy discharge patterns predicted by plasma models of CME aurora.

    The second is probably why Gobekli Teki was buried. The two together probably caused such such tectonic isostatic rebound as to sink the Azores Plateau at the weak point of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.

  4. Re:Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    Right. There's a company in Texas that has finished its tests with a small-scale prototype of a rebuild of Tesla's Tower, using modern physics. They're now building a much larger version of that so we can presume that the smaller one work well enough.

    It's a partnership between the local University (Baylor IIRC) and several former Air Force brass. You can probably Google their website where they go over the physics.

    There's a story that when Tesla died some military people showed up to his Warehouse in Manhattan, and seized all of its contents, without due process. Not sure that it's ever been proven, but there's also not a museum full of all his artifacts.

  5. I'll make you a $50 bet, 2019 USD, that there are insects around in the year 2100. Care to take the counter?

  6. Not your keys, not your crypto. on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    See subject. Repeat until it sinks in.

  7. Re:Baking roms for each device needs to be outlawe on Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely By Viewing Malicious PNG Image (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, your comment is 4 years too late. Google released its Hardware abstraction layer with Android version 8, it's now on Version 9, and yes, current phones get security updates very quickly from reputable vendors.

    This month, my non-google phone got the February patch update a few hours before the Pixel release was available.

  8. I like how Apple forces Google as the iOS search engine for eight billion dollars a year, and still has people who buy into their schtick that they are there to protect your privacy.

  9. It's much more likely that Apple will go completely wireless, so as to not have their perfect edges marred by ports.

  10. Re:Reddit is a Social Network? on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Social networks are characterized by social graphs. Neither Usenet nor Reddit have those.

    Curiously, Slashdot has a weak one, mostly only useful for sorting comments based on known quality or dysfunction.

  11. Weighted Dislikes on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Zero-seconds viewed and Dislike smashed - why do they even count that?

    It's perfectly reasonable to weight the ratios based on some evidence that the viewer actually tried to watch and maybe understand the video.

    It's like they're pretending they have no analytics, no referrer, no neural net expertise inhouse, no data whatsoever to make a more accurate system.

    Jesus, quit bitching and start solving problems. Google used to do that.

  12. Re:Other Religious Exemptions on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    The varicella vaccine is derived from cloned cells from an aborted fetus, fyi.

    Make accurate arguments in favor of vaccines or you appear to be the religious kook to the antivaxxers.

  13. Re:Understood on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People who refuse to merge with nanobots will also be callled a burden on society. I hope you're ready to call for the forced mechanization of humans into cyborgs. Vaccines barely existed a century ago so be sure that new scientific opportunities become obligations under the State-as-religion philosophy.

    Social Darwinism is a more powerful force, btw. But gotta wear that Resistance is Futile Che shirt, I get it.

  14. Re:Better Storage Devices on Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The last time I checked spinning HD where on the way out.

    Check the yearly Backblaze report.

  15. Re:The Results on Finland Basic Income Trial Left People 'Happier But Jobless' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing vague about it - supply of skill vs. demand for that skill determines the price for that skill .

    Labor isn't immune to the basic laws of economics.

  16. Re:He coulda spent the money on Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 2

    or spent some money on a TESTING KIT?

  17. Re:What does this mean? on Samsung Cancels Partnership With Counterfeit Supreme Brand (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Supreme TNT - $1500 a stick.

  18. Nobody holding their private keys had this problem. Nobody using cryptographically-secure 2FA had this problem.

    He's obviously a thief but I do wish centralized exchanges were obsolete already.

  19. Where and when do you believe the free market has been tried in last-mile broadband?

  20. Re:Social Justice Warriors on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    No reasonable person who is having trouble putting food on the table is buying a $349 watch. Some unreasonable poor people do stupid things, but that doesn't define the metric.

  21. Re:One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You might be referring to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Like somebody who is top of their game in field A assumes their knowledge is sufficient in field B.

    They may also be bad at stats and be completely unaware of it.

  22. Wear your Troll points like a badge of honor on this one.

  23. The IFR ran fine for a year before it got defunded. Thirty years ago.

    Funny that Mr. "I Have a Slideshow" led the effort to kill the IFR and has since made a billion dollars on global-warming fear mongering.

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages...

    The Chinese will build these and then take all of our nuclear "waste" off our hands for billions to trillions of dollars since the West is killing itself with anxiety.

  24. Important point - thanks.

  25. Re:Title seems wrong. on Binance Users Can Now Pay for Cryptocurrency With Credit Cards (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like the title should read "Money Laundering Outfit Now Accepts Credit Cards".

    So how much do you know about Binance's KYC/AML requirements? Keep talking ...