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  1. Yeah, well, Arthur C. Clarke did it 63 years ago with a giant sodium cloud in the shape of a (probably) Coca-cola logo.

  2. Re:A few things... on IT and Security Professionals Think Normal People Are Just the Worst (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me when the user can be required to accept some responsibility;

    - When they receive the notification that an email with an attached invoice FROM: a not-even-close-to-the-regular-address has been quarantined...and they release it?

    - When the email that is different from all the other invoices they've ever seen from that supplier in that it doesn't have an attachment, but instead a link to a website that ends in .ru, or .ch, or, heaven forfend, .cx...And they try to click on it?

    - When they move the released email from the Junk folder where Outlook put it back into their inbox so that clicking the link in the email will work?

    - When their web browser warns them, with a big red screen, that the link they have just clicked on is known to be associated with phishing attempts...and they click on it anyway?

    - When the website they end up on prompts them, in very bad English, to click here to read their invoice and it downloads a malicious PDF file?

    - When they open their malicious PDF and it appears to do nothing, so they just forget about it and go about their merry day?

    - When, four hours later, their computer suddenly pops up a ransom note saying all their files have been encrypted?

    How about....When they delete the downloaded malicious PDF, empty their recycle bin, clear their browser history, delete the fake invoice email, empty their Outlook Deleted Items folder, restart the computer and then, and ONLY then, ring IT and ask if the network is down because they can't open any of the files in the Finance Department folder?

    ....When?

  3. Re:It is Allah's will on Former NSA Spies Hacked BBC Host, Al Jazeera Chairman for UAE (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is.

    And yet you still can't bring yourself to put the 'o' in 'god'. Unless you're being ironic, of course.

  4. Disasters of screen sharing on The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes, I have a story. And it is the funniest thing I have seen this century;

    Permit me to share The Saga of Morgan

  5. Re:Choosey Mothers choose Jif on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    The Giraffe Interchange Format, used by zoos all over the world to co-ordinate their breeding programs.

  6. Any means necessary, you say...

  7. Re:This is going to be GRRRR-GREAT! on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not wearing a seatbelt is already a perfectly cromulent way of killing someone else.

  8. Re:This could make possible a new type of virus on Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2
  9. Re:How do you define "take action"?? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > The Complete Case for Nuclear
    > Why We Fear Nuclear
    > The War on Nuclear
    > Future of Nuclear
    > Climate Scientists for Nuclear
    > Conservation Scientists for Nuclear
    > Women for Nuclear Argentina Conference
    > Why Fear of Nuclear Threatens Japan's Energy, Environmental, and National Security
    > Nuclear Pride Fest in Belgium!
    > Save French Nuclear!

    I...may be detecting a bit of an agenda here...

  10. What happens when the only "understanding" nations left are the extra-friendly-to-the-free-market ones like North Korea, Syria, Russia...Yemen, maybe...?

  11. Re:That sounds like a two-stroke exhaust on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It stops the exhaust catching a cold

  12. Re:Does it matter? on Google Found it Paid Men Less Than Women For the Same Job (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, they should be a "Level 5 Software Engineer", surely?

    > Paying everyone the same amount for the same job reeks of communism

    Only if you're one of those weirdly brainwashed Americans who equate publicly funded public utilities like health and education with socialism.

  13. Re:Weather is not climate! on Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing on how weather is not climate. Especially now that here in Australia we are seeing record setting heatwaves and record setting high temperatures. Yet in your post you claim "The Midwest's" cold is evidence of global cooling.

    So what if "The Midwest" saw record low temperatures? This is a weather event, not global cooling.

    If anyone insists that this is indicative of global cooling then every record high temperature must be counted as evidence against it. Now, make up your mind. Is weather the same as climate? If so I got lots of burned, brown and dry evidence of global warming in my front yard for you to see. Is weather different than climate? Then this record setting temperature in "The Midwest" is a local news event at best. I shouldn't care about "The Midwest's" cold any more than they care about my bushfire casualty numbers.

  14. Re: I bet it says "Clickbait Title" on Computer Servers 'Stranded' in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with a large heatsink, there would need to be fans involved, because heated air wouldn't rise away from the heatsink in microgravity

  15. Re:No they don't on Renewable Energy Policies Actually Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here's some background on the source for the source of your second link: TLDR, RWNJ who tends to play extremely fast and very loose with the data.

    Of course, the record-breaking high temperatures occurring across two states on that day had nothing to do with the price of of that electricity, did it?

  16. Re:Encyclopedia Galactica on Thirty-Million-Page Backup of Humanity Headed To Moon Aboard Israeli Lander (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "The Star", by Arthur C. Clarke, also fits

  17. "professional ramifications"

    What professional ramifications? You're already losing your job.

  18. Or haven't had their hearing deteriorate far enough that they turn on the subtitles for movies that are in their native language already

  19. Re: Tax is for the little people on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Also a favoured appellative of one Mr. B. Bunny (esq), in his frequent decriptive episodes relating to one Mr. E. Fudd.

  20. Re:Funny to see on Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Google uses iOS devices to test versions of their apps written for iOS devices?

    Yeah, hilarious.

  21. Re:System wide draining of all bank accounts on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 2

    No, no! First, you get the sugar. Then, you get the women!

  22. They have uBlock Origin for Android now?

  23. Re:I stopped taking pictures early due to the weat on A Meteorite Hit the Moon During Total Lunar Eclipse (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    So you really mean a foot ball and not a hand egg.

  24. I pay $12 a month for Google Music which includes YouTube Red.

    No ads here.

  25. Re:So where did they come from? on Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Enceladus, maybe? All that water coming out of it must be going somewhere, right?