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  1. Re:A reckoning is coming on Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Maybe only allow certificates to be used on devices registered with the enterprises themselves?

  2. The weakest link in hardware/software security is people.

    To summarize: people are a problem. - Douglas Adams (short version of the original to better fit the topic)

  3. Haven't your heard about the new 74HC00? It has built-in AI!

  4. Re:The phone is not the expensive part on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't give them ideas!

  5. Re:How ironic... on Amazon Wants Alexa To Read Blog Posts and Broadcast Church Sermons (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So... a real thing built with a fake intelligence talking about imaginary beings?

  6. Re:Just what the world needs on Amazon Wants Alexa To Read Blog Posts and Broadcast Church Sermons (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today only! Any Alexa-enabled device, only $6.66!

  7. The phone is not the expensive part on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    You can give away smartphones for free, it wouldn't make much difference.
    It's the damn carriers that are expensive, especially in Canada.

    Here are the data-only plans from the three major carriers:
    Rogers: $25/400MB
    Bell: $30/500MB
    Telus: $30/500MB

    Yes, those are megabytes caps, in 2019. Not a typo.

  8. The problem is that the reply is to a particular post, not a person in general and the post order is based on some criteria I can never figure out.

    Thankfully, Slashdot does not have this problem.

  9. How hard is it to drive a nail with a rope?

    Hold my beer / challenge accepted.

    That's the kind of stuff a mythbuster-style show could do.

  10. "And so I've asked my team to develop a proposal for a new data dividend for Californians, because we recognize that data has value and it belongs to you."

    Except that this wealth is not only created by Californians, or even only by Americans. The wealth is created by people all around the world. So that wealth should be split evenly by the number of users in those other countries/states/provinces.

  11. Re:Twiiter? Square? Bitcoin? Sign me up! on Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin's Lightning Is Coming To Cash App (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    But that's not the fault of the Bitcoin protocol, that's the exchanges themselves.

  12. Re: Non-dev = commodity human on Activision Blizzard Cuts 8% of Jobs Amid 'Record Results In 2018' (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Tracer is really cute and sexy. Besides, she's an imaginary character, who the fuck cares if she's gay or not?

  13. Re:Twiiter? Square? Bitcoin? Sign me up! on Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin's Lightning Is Coming To Cash App (coindesk.com) · · Score: 2

    Bitcoin is private, in the sense that all you know is that address A sent X bitcoins to address B. You don't know who is associated with the addresses.
    Bitcoin is reliable and secure, because once the transactions are in the blockchain, nobody can block or revert them*.
    Bitcoin is efficient... well, at least it used to be, but it turns out proof-of-work is a terrible idea once you get past the proof-of-concept phase.

    * There's always the danger of a 51% attack, but anyone stupid enough to attempt that would destroy the value of their own coins.

  14. Re: So who makes a good mesh router on Amazon Is Buying Mesh Router Company Eero (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    hard ware anything that doesn't move

    And we're supposed to trust the advice of someone who can't even spell "hardwire"?

  15. Not up to Starfleet standards on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No secondary backups? Talk about amateurs.

  16. Re:Criminal Incompetence on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends on the definition of "criminal".

  17. Just recover it? on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    ...as things stand right now, all data for US customers appears to have been deleted for good...

    Damn, talk about annoying.

    ...and gone into /dev/null.

    Oh! So they do know where the data ended up. Just restore it! You know, like in the movies?

  18. Re:Twiiter? Square? Bitcoin? Sign me up! on Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin's Lightning Is Coming To Cash App (coindesk.com) · · Score: 2

    Bitcoin is all of those. Unfortunately, there's humans involved in the transactions, which is where the flaws reside.

  19. You just have to hope that they know sign language.

  20. I think the car is just the container for all the money.

  21. Great... on Amazon Is Buying Mesh Router Company Eero (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple no longer makes router and now Amazon is selling those.

    What's next? AmazonOS?

  22. Re:30 years old? on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm no math expert, but it does sound like he was spending 3x the money he earned.

  23. Re:Hahahahah on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tong Zou, that's who. Didn't you read the article?

  24. Re:He didn't say "investment" on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    More to the point, never buy eggs because they're too fragile.