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  1. Re:How did he die? on Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini Dies At 66 (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unexpected jump to opcode 0F 04.

  2. Yes, we're getting fucked on If Data Is the New Oil, Are Tech Companies Robbing Us Blind? (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Companies are making billions of dollars trading on "facts" about you and me. They compile and sell this data with no recompense. They make no real attempts to ensure the data is accurate or that our lives aren't negatively impacted by errors. And when they inevitably get breached and our data gets stolen, they offer a token few months of credit monitoring (especially ironic coming from Equifax). Gee, thanks.

    The dinosaurs are lucky; they aren't around to give a shit that they're being sold for profit.

  3. Re:limited possibilities on US Internet Company Refused To Participate In NSA Surveillance, Documents Reveal (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When your ISP is on your side instead of in bed with the MAFIAA, why pay extra for a VPN?

  4. Re:China needs to be STOPPED by TRUMP. on China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    ENEMEDIA PRESSLITUTES LAME STREAM MEDIA and the Globalists

    Mr. Bannon, it's time for your medication, sir. Does the gentleman prefer vodka or gin tonight?

  5. Re:Correction: Democrat Trolls on Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the sound like a Trump supporter to you

    Yes, it sure does. Believe it or not, some Trump supporters are pro-Net Neutrality. They want to be able to keep shitposting rare pepes and flooding fake Macedonian-operated "news" posts onto Twitter all day long.

  6. And you use unpatched computers in a hospital WHY?

    Because patches are often broken. Imagine these hospitals had applied the patch when Microsoft released it, but the patch was faulty in some way, and all of the hospital computers went down as a result. Instead of complaining the hospitals were running unpatched, you and/or many people like you would be bitching and moaning that they were negligent to install the patch too soon.

    Updates from Microsoft frequently include at least one broken patch. There was one update last year that broke millions of peoples' webcams. There have been several updates that interfered with settings and reverted them back to default configurations, and several more updates that seemingly deleted group policy objects that had been configured by the domain administrator. There was a patch around the new year that inadvertently disabled the DHCP service, despite the update itself having nothing to do with DHCP. (Things that make you go hmmm.) This particular fuck-up rendered a lot of machines not only broken, but totally irreparable without manual human intervention, i.e. dispatching someone clueful to each of your premises to clean up the mess.

    Patch deployment in any enterprise environment requires extensive testing. You have to coordinate with your software vendors to make sure their applications are compatible with the update. If you install Patch XYZ without first getting approval from Vendor123, you wind up invalidating your support contracts with them. All of this takes time. In 2016, there were several months in a row where Microsoft had to un-issue, repair, supersede, and re-release a broken patch they'd pushed out. Put yourself in the shoes of an admin team who got burned by Windows Update breaking your systems, especially repeatedly. Are you going to be in any hurry to patch? If you were bitten by the DHCP bug, do you trust that the "critical SMB patch" really only touches SMBv1, and isn't going to inexplicably corrupt Office or remove IPV4 connectivity on every computer it touches?

    If the PC your kid plays Minecraft on gets hosed by a broken patch, it's not that big of a deal. The business world is a different story.

  7. They're all over in the "Trump shuts down open.gov and stops releasing White House visitor logs" thread, telling us why those are somehow good things.

  8. Easy on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With a Terrible Tech Manager? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I send him a link to Breitbart. Before long he's spending all day tracking down pizza parlors and gay frogs, and staying out of everyone's hair at work.

  9. Re:Maybe I'm just out-of-touch... on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My jerry-rigged 486 DX/4-100MHz machine of 20 years ago didn't have that problem. What the hell am I missing?

    20 years ago, people weren't trying to write a friggin' IDE in JavaScript of all things.

  10. It's a good thing Trump is putting so many Goldman Sachs executives in his administration. Soon we'll be making recessions great again! We're going to have the biggest financial crisis, folks, it'll be tremendous!

  11. Re:We'll see what Trump does on 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well he campaigned on the idea of giving power back to the people, so if he were an honest man, he'd be on the workers'/union's side here. However it's quite obvious that he's the biggest, greatest liar in the world, as well as being a traditional conservative corporate whore, so he's going to be on AT&T's side.

  12. Re:Bullshit. on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As for the "boy", he was 17 years old, with a history of selling himself for sex/drugs.

    And as for the Senator, he's married with children and has a history of pushing anti-gay and anti-marijuana legislation. Then he gets caught in a motel with an underage boy and marijuana. It's just another example of the incredible projection and hypocrisy that infects the Republican party to its core. Anytime a conservative starts yelling about outlawing something, look closely because he's probably doing a lot of that thing himself.

  13. Re:Bullshit. on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    How can we stop sex trafficking?

    We arrest the perpetrators, like the Trump campaign manager in Oklahoma who just got arrested for fucking an underage boy in a motel. The police didn't need any geo-tagged photos to catch him, either.

  14. Enough already with the TLDs on Africa Gets Its Own Web Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish them luck, but I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to be creating yet another top-level domain.

    For example, a mobile phone company could create mobile.africa to show its Africa-wide presence, or a travel company could set up travel.africa.

    So they'll sell off a few hundred generic words to speculators, but I predict few others will be buying in. Many of the new gTLDs created over the past couple of years are either shutting down, or jacking up domain prices into the multi-hundred dollar per year range just to stay in operation. Keeping a TLD alive isn't cheap, and it turns out there's not much demand for all of this namespace after all. When you can't amortize your TLD's infrastructure cost across millions of customers, you wind up having to price each domain so high that nobody's going to buy one.

  15. Re:Doesn't it just figger... on Huge Database Leak Reveals 1.37 Billion Email Addresses and Exposes Illegal Spam Operation (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey, now. The correct term is "Unsolicited Emailfrican-American."

  16. Re:misread that as... on Overeager Investors Seeking Snap Buy Snap Interactive Instead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Many moons ago I mis-dialed some vendor's 800 number, in the office, on speaker. A recording came on that started out "Thanks for calling 1-800-2-FIST-ME" and got nasty really quickly. Haven't thought about that in years, thanks for bringing that laugh back!

  17. If my bank was reliant on Java applets, I'd be switching banks, not browsers!

  18. Re:Or they just straight up dont work on Smart Baby-Trackers Mostly Unnecessary, Say US Doctors (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's a shame, I'd help mom calm her tits for free!

  19. Re:Not *just* Perl, written for *nix, esp Linux on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    When you make these posts, do you honestly think people don't know it's you?

  20. Re:Hah! Sure, blame the players .. on 'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In case of this game, you already bought it so you have a limited license to potentially use it under certain conditions as long as the studio sees fit, doesn't decide to shut off their authentication servers, and neither the publisher nor the gaming platform decide you've violated an arbitrary rule.

    FTFY

  21. You are now breathing manually. on Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have died of mesentery.

  22. Re:Consumer Reports I trust more than Apple on Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    That MacBook sure has some widely offset tits! I bet the excessive cleavage is causing the battery drain.

  23. Re:Six million Alexa installs... compared to? on Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    At any household I've been at with any regularity, everyone's phone is already out, and either in its owner's hands or sitting right next to them. It would probably take more effort to have "Alexa" hear you from across the room/house than it would to talk to your phone. Granted my sample size is only about 5, but this doesn't strike me as abnormal behavior these days.

  24. Re:Solar rated highest in 2016, but... on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering his appointees so far, my guess is he'll put you in charge of NASA.

  25. Re: Dunno, maybe something with... on Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

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