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  1. You have a choice between making such rules and fighting it out, debating where the internet actually is etc. or just giving up and assuming people don't care. I suspect people who do care already have remedied the problem almost all the time.

  2. pulse generators count as jamming devices? Or for that matter, anti-cell tower lasers?

  3. Re: corrupt world on The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe Lichtenstein. The Pirate Bay could probably buy all of Lichtenstein and then use it as a haven.

  4. Re: And they knew it was hacked since at least 201 on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    So she hired someone too inept to delete stuff PROPERLY. This is a bad omen.

  5. Finding parts on eBay for that.

  6. Re: Not apples to apples on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    It'll be in a different manner. Behind the scenes, in the kitchen, it'll be a robot burger flipper, a robot dispenser, a robot fry cook, so on. With one semi-skilled supervisor (probably contractor) paid maybe $20-25 an hour. In front, still a few minimum wagers cleaning, serving and taking orders. Cheaper than an old setup. And the scary thing is that you'll never know.

  7. I hear "X served" I automatically assume "X+1" is the real number.

  8. Yup, maybe ~700MB/s (megabytes a second.) But "does transmitting a whole CD in a single second" sound as good?

  9. Has anybody... on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Patented the idea of patenting the invention of "patent trolling" yet?

  10. Re: They waited too long on Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, by the time there's Minecraft: The TV Show they'll all be doing something else.

  11. Self-defeating on Hundreds of Drupal Sites Targeted With Fake Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    You know, you could actually use the exploit to change the sites password back, right? And if it's just the main page, even if it isn't backed up it isn't much work to rebuild (well, relatively anyway). Unless they patched it after your site got infected.

  12. Re: Only programmers on Student Exposes Bad Police Encryption, Gets Suspended Sentence (podcrto.si) · · Score: 1

    It's more like saying "hey, your house door doesn't latch properly, I checked it."

  13. Building a volleyball stadium 10 minutes from the beach was a new low for Olympic excess.

  14. Slave labor on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's not mentioning the fact that the entire staff is likely undocumented/imported, paid low wages (absurdly so), often addicted to drugs etc. Plus the whole sexual assault thing. And changing the flag to, say, Liberia. The cruise industry disgusts me.

  15. Vigilante Justice on TeslaCrypt Ransomware Maker Shuts Down, Releases Master Key (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably something like this: Hello. I am a Gray Hat Hacker. Pay me $5000 and write a program that unlocks all your ransomware, and I might forget to turn you in.

  16. However, with the rise of cell phones occurring after that of cancer, cancer causes cell phones.https://xkcd.com/925/

  17. Oh, and soon it will be if you don't get them an iPhone or Samsung. Some kids BREAK things, people.

  18. Re: It's a real problem for some parents. on The Average Age For a Child Getting Their First Smartphone Is Now 10.3 Years (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    "Subjected" to Chrome OS? Honestly. I think children should be exposed to a variety of OSs and software, not living in a Windows-only or Mac-exclusive or Android-preferred or even LinuxLand home. People don't get how to understand multiple interfaces and different software and such these days.

  19. Re: Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And if you get forced to watch it, you give it a poor review. QED.

  20. Japanese? Not anymore. on Backblaze Releases Billion-Hour Hard Drive Reliability Report (extremetech.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    HGST is owned by WD now if I recall, so it's not Japanese anymore. (Sorry if somebody already mentioned this.)

  21. Re: And republicans want to censor... on China Probes Baidu Over False Medical Ads After Student Dies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's okay to censor actually malicious information. It's called "false advertising" or "malware".

  22. Re: Why would anyone want Linux on the desktop? on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux, where you have to work to find malware!!! Only slightly better than BSD, which had one virus back in 2003 that was eliminated with a patch a couple years ago when somebody actually got infected with it for the first time.

  23. Re: Yeey, less than 90% to go on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Broadcom has a couple of obscure ones. And I've occasionally had flaky RealTek ones (might be hardware, though.) And one that just would not work. I think that was RealTek too though. Otherwise, fantastic!

  24. Honestly, fingerprint dusting is so easy that I'm surprised it's so supposedly "secure". I mean, the phone is covered with fingerprints. Dust for them and construct fakes and voila, there's your phone. Which is why we should all push for Iris scanners on our phones instead.

  25. Re: call me heretic on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 1

    The focus of Foundation wasn't that much on the Empire as the result of its fall. Down to the capital planet, formerly entirely city (Trantor- think Coruscant, Star Wars fans) being turned into a backwater farming planet.