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  1. Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Absolutely better for you. Nicotine is no worse for you than caffeine. It's the other nasties in tobacco that are bad for you.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...
     

  2. "Yesterday, AMD announced a new graphics card, the $700 Radeon VII, based on its second-generation Vega architecture. The GPU is the first one available to consumers based on the 7nm process. It's impressive technology, and Nvidia has touted it as the primary reason to upgrade from previous generation GPUs. AMD's GPUs, notably, do not support it."

    So AMD made a GPU that NVIDIA thinks is the primary reason to upgrade, yet AMD doesn't support it. DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY READ WHAT THEY APPROVE TO BE POSTED?

  3. Who do they really expect to buy a reboot of some shitty DOS game? Who. Cares. Get over yourselves.

  4. OMG! Google has hit peak Microsoft! Lol!

  5. Re:For free? on Adobe is Reviving the Stunning Lost Fonts of the Bauhaus (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Bela Legosi's dead...

  6. Re:Why is this wrong? on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's all about copyright, correct? Copyright only applies to creative expressions. Purely functional expressions are not protected. APIs only provide context for calling functions and passing parameters. They, themselves, do not perform any function but merely describe how the function should be called.

    The original ruling was mistaken. Google's use was not Fair Use. What was copied wasn't subject to copyright to begin with. Google used Java APIs but wrote the code behind the APIs. Oracle invented a new copyrightable thing, Structure, Sequence, and Organization. There is nothing in law to support this view.

  7. Re:That's pretty funny on Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny you mention that. When I first heard of it, I bought the game. I didn't download it or play it, I just bought it. And I explained to them why I did as well! ;)

  8. Re:Tell me again, why is USB can read keyboard inp on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    "...no way for an OS to detect it."

    It's not easy, but it can be done. The USB keyloggers present themselves over the USB bus as a keyboard, but not necessarily YOUR keyboard. They will have the same USB vendor/device ID across all of the devices. So look for that ID in place of your normal keyboard. Boom, detected in software. ;)

  9. Re:it ran on a 80386 on 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced (github.com) · · Score: 1

    PC-MOS used 32bit Enhanced Mode of the 386 to make a multiuser/multitasking DOS. Making sure you've correctly defined the unused address space between 640K and 1024K was absolutely required and was a bit of black magic.

    PC-MOS was good at a few apps, terrible on others. If it worked, it worked well. Most of the time it didn't work. :(

    (Trained and certified on PC-MOS back in the day.)

  10. Time for the yearly "number station" post? on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where does the time go?

  11. Re:FCC can't help ... on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did the lack of this feature affect your buying decision? If it's a part of the chipset that the phone vendor didn't implement because nobody wanted it, can you really be upset for not having it?

    OTOH, Other markets really use this feature. If it's there and people want it, it will happen. This might be the first step.

  12. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The officer may be guilty of misrepresentation, but I blame NASA for not telling folks how to handle a NASA phone. CITIZENS have no requirement to answer any questions or facilitate a search. Leave the phone and keep walking.

  13. Re:They didn't succeed though on NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope.The first woman to lose a presidential election was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

  14. Re:Cost? on CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Filthy casuals...

  15. Re:Dice, we get it you don't like Ms. Clinton on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 2

    You've been here a long time. If you haven't left by now, you're not going anywhere.

  16. Re: You aren't reasonable on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies? · · Score: 1

    It's beta code for an OS that came out last week, something unsupported by the vendor. It doesn't work with AV and you want a refund. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

    I agree, you should move to another vendor. Do Avast a favor.

  17. Re: Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies? · · Score: 1

    Shhhh. He's going to post it on Twitter. ;p

  18. Can they subpoena signing keys? Can they force Apple to sign a firmware used to bypass protections? That's really the question here.

  19. Re:Hanlon's Razor on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

  20. Page one: "Digital Bait" on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "How Content Theft Sites and Malware Are Exploited By Cybercriminals to Hack Into Internet Users' Computers and Personal Data"

    And you've blown any credibility you may have had.

  21. Re:remote? on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 1

    "remote" as in, unlikely to affect users smart enough to avoid running untrusted binaries.

  22. Click-bait BS on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a self-extracting RAR can be rigged to exploit your machine. A self-extracting RAR is an executable. So a executable from an untrusted source can exploit your box. Wake me when you have a real vulnerability.

    Oh, and samzenpus, that was the most clickbait bullshit Slashdot headline in months. You should be horsewhipped.

  23. Re:This whole make your own gun is like the homebr on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can make a damn effective single-shot shotgun with plumbing parts from the hardware store for about $12.

  24. Re:Bummer on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    You mean like the company that lost the root key material for their authentication tokens? The one that wanted to charge customers to replace the tokens that they themselves compromised by lax and ineffective key handling procedures? What was that companies name again?

  25. Re:PHP is fine on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't tell you. But the history is the history. The product is infamous for it's crippling security bugs over many many years. PHP was shit a decade ago, and it hasn't gotten any better. Featurits? That's part of it.