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  1. time to pull the machine apart, test hard drives and any other components connected etc etc. So $100-$200 in parts. $500 in labour and we are now at approximately what they are suggesting. Honestly the value they have calculated looks quite reasonable.

  2. Re:10 years in prison is excessive... on Student Used 'USB Killer' Device To Destroy $58,000 Worth of College Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that is a false equivalency. This wasn't one incident, it was many repeated incidents and they were without a doubt planned, intentional and completely malicious in nature. This sort of shit needs far more of a message than you will have to pay the damages.

  3. Re:10 years in prison is excessive... on Student Used 'USB Killer' Device To Destroy $58,000 Worth of College Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    10 years is maximum sentence and I don't think it is all that excessive. a couple of months for each offence. The problem is the fucked up system that allows a murderer to get off so lightly.

  4. Re: Someone Please Reboot the Whiteboard on Microsoft's Surface Hub 2S Starts at $8,999, Ships in June (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    most Slashdot readers have zero idea about the requirements of working in a large enterprise. They can't comprehend that even at 10k these are actually relatively cheaper for a video conference room.

  5. Re:Not that anyone used them ... on Microsoft Says Some Webmail Accounts Were Compromised (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ummm they are still far and away the largest email hoster on the planet, even if you exclude the old domains (which many people still use) outlook.com has around 400 million users.

  6. you were modded down but are mostly correct. This is NOT a problem in larger environments as users have protections in place to prevent users from being brain dead idiots and if they don't then that is on the admins.

  7. LOL NO. Zero day means the information released to the wild prior to a fix or knowledge of the problem being available to the authors of the software. It has nothing to do with upcoming releases.

  8. on the list of possible risks this ranks low to non-existent for most users as you have to get the fucking exploit file onto the machine in the first place and it is a file type that is basically universally blocked by any sane system and is even the default in MS's own mail products. So no it doesn't just require the user to have IE installed, it requires them to have no file filtering and be a fucking moron (admittedly many meet that bar, but not both).

  9. Re:A fail will not change their beliefs on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    yep these guys are like the anti vaxxers, doesn't matter how much proof they see with their own eyes they will still believe.

  10. Re:Hedging Bets... Sell on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    at a guess they are either fan bois/gals or have done the opposite and stupidly invested large amounts of money.

  11. Two dirty pieces of shit throwing mud at each other. Both companies behave abysmally towards workers and there obligations.

  12. Re: And no flashmob in sight on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I could not give a shit about the DNC and republications as I am not american. your pathetic attempts to defend him are sad. WikiLeaks started off great, but he chose to turn it into a political organisation rather than one of freedom of information. The moment he did that he became a politician not a freedom fighter and as such he deserves to be treated as a corrupt Politician.

  13. Re:And no flashmob in sight on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No embassy would let that ungrateful prick in. He may have done some good in the world before he turned to politics, but the man is a dirty ungrateful slob. who the fuck would let him in the door to live for an indefinite period of time after seeing how poorly he behaved in the Ecuadorian embassy?

  14. Re:ISS pays for itself in these ways on The ISS Is a Cesspool of Bacteria and Fungi, Study Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need a space station to test this. Every surface of your environment and your own body inside and out is completely covered in bacteria and micro organisms. I would have been far more shocked to find they had somehow created a relatively sterile environment that has humans inside, it simply isn't possible.

  15. That is NOT a windows error message. IT is the boot manager selection. could be caused by anything from an OS crash to hardware crash or simply someone restarting the machine after patching.

  16. What a weasel way to try and twist the bad numbers into a positive. Yes most are flat or slightly lower, but MOST are not projecting or relying on high growth, nor do they have a building excess of stock.

  17. Re: Say goodbye to the anti-vaxers. on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 1

    The sad fact is we now have generations of parents that weren't alive in the 80's when millions were dieing every year from measles, let alone when Polio was killing or crippling people for life. They think of these as historical things like it can't happen to them and all the vaccinations are just a big scam. It would take any serious anti vaxxer about 5 mins of googling stats to realise how fucking wrong they are yet they won't do that as facts are an inconvenience to their conspiracy thoeries.

  18. Re:Why is anyone buying anything from this company on Huawei Laptop 'Backdoor' Flaw Raises Concerns (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    and which company is producing anything that is not compromised in some way? this is the reality of the highly complex integrated world we live in. Consumers won't pay the price that would be required for true verification and security that would guarantee no compromises.

  19. Re:Say goodbye to the anti-vaxers. on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 4, Interesting

    forced exposure to unnecessarily sick people is a basic human rights violation. End of Story.

  20. Re:Something missing in the head on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 1

    negative millions if not billions. The lives and medical costs saved are massive.

  21. Re:Here lies Moore, dead by overhype. on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think too many people think of Samsung as the leaders anymore. They do make good highend smartphones but the companies like Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers are the ones pushing the boundaries at the moment, even so their isn't a lot of differentiation (except in price).

  22. A key part of a good april fools joke is having sufficient believability to make people pause and think WTF! This one looks like it was created by a pre-schooler... and one on the lower end of the IQ scale at that.

  23. WTF? how is this guy in anyway a "security researcher", he was nothing of the fucking sort, he was a straight up hacker/thief.

  24. Re:Qualcomm antennas are better right? on Judge Recommends Import Ban On iPhones After Latest Apple Vs. Qualcomm Verdict (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a seriously twisted view of what happened. Not surprised an apple fanboy would view theft that way but how the fuck did you get modded up so much? Until Apple switched to intel they were NOT violating patents and paying royalties. Switching vendors did not trigger the lawsuit, it was stopping paying what they legally owed.

  25. Sounds like he dived into the rabbit hole, no pushing involved. If you are stupid enough to request anti vaxxer information why be surprised when you are provided it.