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  1. Re:More of the same on Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? · · Score: 1

    well, "they" can "win".

    I mean, big corps can win and somehow manage to put in a system where you can't run applications you want to run on your pc.

    as long as you can run whatever program you want, there will be malware. and probably a little while after you can't run what you want but hackers can.

  2. Re:Unsealed after Ulbrich conviction on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    there was just a case that got acquittal for a drug dealer because the agent was using the confiscated drugs...

  3. Re:Take a bus, sometimes on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 3, Interesting

    was it like that when growing up?
    also, what about the parents brain size?

    what kind of poverty are we talking here anyhow? if you have money to feed your kids with overpriced flavored ice just wtf kind of poverty is that compared to europe directly after and during ww2?+??

    or is it that if the parents constantly tell their kids that they are poor, then their brains don't grow?

  4. Re:Isaac Asimov: on Robots4Us: DARPA's Response To Mounting Robophobia · · Score: 1

    well the first step would be the magical device in his stories that enabled all that - the positronic brain...

    yeah, given that we're not any closer to an AI that would NEED those three laws, who gives a fuck?

    killer machines we already have, but they're just more complicated versions of the V2 in principle - they don't make any choices nor do they ponder the choices or have any capability to make a choice.

  5. Re:Unsealed after Ulbrich conviction on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    the investigators were corrupt and TOOK MONEY FROM WHOEVER RAN silk road.

    would it really be that hard to try to paint a picture where the said investigators then worked to frame some doofus as being the real operator of silk road? that's what they fucking took bribes for anyways, to not expose the real culprit.

  6. Re:Autocomplete on Oops: World Leaders' Personal Data Mistakenly Released By Autofill Error · · Score: 1

    that's all nice and good when the email address you want to send is actually the one it chooses for the name.

    what's more annoying though is doing a search on google and then google deciding that "NOPE, you want to search this other word that is slightly similar!".

  7. Re:Absolutely on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 2

    umm yeah?

    no. the article tries to argue that you should choose lotus as your crm, because you already used your innovation tokens on node.js, nginx and amazon s3 and now you have to wait 3 years to choose something else that's innovative - so you're also stuck on using exchange as the mail server for the time being and can just forget about targetting chrome in your product because that's too fucking innovative.

  8. Re:E, The most boring racing on At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series · · Score: 1

    they still probably have more interesting races.

    and formula 1 is so rule limited nowadays that it sucks from tech perspective. reading the tech rundowns of the cars has not been interesting in 15 years. all the cars are basically the same, but not same enough for the races to be even - but the innovation is squashed.

  9. Re:Material Designnot really suit for an OS on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    don't worry, they'll release something other to be the end-all UI style next december.

    yeah.. that's their fault. the problem with say android is not how it looks, it's that they keep changing the visual guideline every year to something different.

    the result is that nobody even tries to follow it.

  10. Re:Oh For Crying Out Loud on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 1

    besides the fuck it's going to do good for anyone if they snoop on everyone all the time anyways if they will not even do anything unless some 3rd party then tells them to do something about the crime.

    like with the swift: did they tell the member states about the hack? how the fuck could they complain if they're not told about it.

  11. Re:Chrome OS is a joke on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    and those are shite.

    look, you can buy a crappy windows laptop for the same price.

    which gets us to: do you want to buy a laptop that does one thing or a real laptop? with both you can use the cloud apps.

  12. Re:Should be simple on Arduino Dispute Reaches Out To Distributors · · Score: 1

    yeah so which one was using it in commerce?

    the firm selling the boards to customers or the firm running arduino.cc?

  13. Re:Maybe it's time these companies learn... on SeaWorld and Others Discover That a Hashtag Can Become a Bashtag · · Score: 2

    mcd customers don't need to advertise mcd or don't want to. the mcd is already there, everybody knows it.. what's there to advertise, if there isn't some price special going on?

    but you know what's funny about mcd? the vocal complainers about the quality, horror stories and what have you.. they don't eat at mcd, have no idea where the food in mcd comes from either, they only know that it's a multinational fast food franchise and so it must be bad.

    and generally, don't have a fucking clue about anything really. they'll complain about "multinationals" and mcdonalds that uses local beef and salads(some regions) while eating soy they bought from an oriental shop that sells ONLY foodstuff shipped from sweatshop production houses situated on the other side of the globe - so they'll eat noodles made with shitloads of chemicals and tuna catched by slaves but will not eat at mcd because of "moral reasons".

    these same guys will go then on a trip to some oriental country and eat "clean" "natural" street food - which is what they think when they're eating papaya salad laced with spoonfuls of MSG and sugar(I'm not shitting you, a 7/11 sized grocery store in thailand will have a whole shelf of monosodium glutamate. like, if the store sells raw meat they will also sell msg) - and this is pretty much true for all of orient - and even true for the noodle shops ran by orientals in the west, you know, that cool ramen place that your hippie friend likes to go to instead of mcd? yeah, the soups highly probable laced with more sugar, oil and additives than anything you can buy in MCD(except that with mcd you get the product sheet, with those places you don't).

    I eat mcd occasionally, and really, what's so bad about using the parts of the animal that you cant sell at a meat market anyways? you would think that conservation hippies would be all over that, but fuck no - they don't want to eat the parts that would otherwise go in the bin because it's "unnatural"..

  14. Re:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! IS THIS FOR REAL? on Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design and Google Now · · Score: 1

    if they just actually did that and made systemd only work with that fork, maybe, mayyybe distro maintainers would wake up and smell the coffee and tell them to fuck off.

    the systemd guys want to create a distro around the init system eventually anyways.

  15. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 0

    since the 2 degrees was set in 1970's(?) wouldn't it be more appropriate to check what they were saying in 1970..

    besides, if you don't get the developing nations with their billions in population to stop cooking with coal and raping their nature, it doesn't really matter shit what you do in the west.

  16. could just run emulator then.. on SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! · · Score: 1

    my friend mentioned this in a real world chat the other day and I thought it was a nintendo 64 emulator done in javascript and webgl(feasible with hle techniques).

    but a fucking remake in unity that needs unity web player? you could port any emulator code into that fairly simply so what the fuck is the big deal?

  17. Re:The true sticking point - China on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    that sounds pretty weird, if you look what actually happened.

    they deliberately arranged so that they were running out of food, what they did with the food is not related to that. in fact, they would have been better equipped to get industrialized without the famine.

    and hungry industrial workers were needed to survive wwII?? industrial workers were required, but also the men were sent to the fronts, having nothing to do with that class of people being created from peasantry dying in masses due to famine.

    and most importantly of course there were areas where people weren't dying from lack of food during the famine that was "everywhere". and no offence but people on gulags of course experienced famine, no matter where the gulag was - they were put there to experience famine!

  18. Re:Ikea good points on Ikea Refugee Shelter Entering Production · · Score: 1

    I got nothing but good things to say about the furniture I've bought from Ikea. I never buy anything costing more than 40 euros from there though - but you can deck out an apartment with that per item limit..

  19. Re:What they are probably meaning: on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    before or after the article was published?

    publicists just take the best stuff from articles and retweet the fuck out of it.

  20. Re:What Would be a Trivial Amount? on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 1

    it's pretty fucking trivial if the standby means doing some background work, network downloads or whatever.

    if it's just a standby led and remote control wakeup, then it would be pretty bad.

  21. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    which would have told us what we needed to know straight away.

    it might have been even enough to deter him from doing it - wackos are sketchy like that.

  22. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it would have shown it faster and in more definite fashion.

    think about it. 10 small(or just light, space isn't an issue so much as weight) boxes that save the stream, have the memory on robust enough media(flash). the boxes would need to weight a kilo each to be quite robust.

    no invasion of privacy either if there is no accident, so whats the big deal? you would think pilots wanted it too, to clear them from pilot error claims.

    but it's not really just about this flight either, just that the black box system is pretty antiquated - and in many other cases a video could have shed more light to the cockpit actions which caused the crash or caused the pilots to not be able to recover from equipment failure.

  23. Re:Ugly women ruin everything. on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    is body painting ok? I once went to a trade show with bodypainted full frontal nude model walking around the area(by 3rd day they had nipple covers, yes, 3gsm).

    are ANY booth attractions ok?

  24. Re: 9 whole billion? OUTRAGEOUS! on GAO Denied Access To Webb Telescope Workers By Northrop Grumman · · Score: 1

    that could make sense if the addition was 3 million / 30 guys - not 1 billion. 1 billion extra needs some manufacturing contracting price to rise.

    for the amount of people involved, it's an outrageous addition to the budget, especially for adding costs to planning. they techies certainly do not cost 30 million per head per year or anything near that.

    the latest one billion addition can be summed up by "because we can ask for it". never mind they got the project because of their low bid.

    but you're seriously kind of a right wing nutjob if you think multiple billions additions can be justified by such personnel movings. the personnel costs should be a percentage of the quote OR they would have no problem retaining the people(because apparently, they would be paying them millions already for engineering and techie jobs).

  25. Re:Hmmm on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    where do you think the con in a con job comes from?

    a con man does things with confidence...