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  1. Re:Breaking news: investors are idiots on Nintendo Shares Plummet After Investors Realize It Doesn't Actually Make Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real news here isn't really about Nintendo or Pokemon.

    The real news is about investors pumping billions into a company without even the most cursory research.

    Gotta jump on them stocks fast!

  2. Re:No, that's not insecure at all... on Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. "

    All I can think when reading that is "attack vector." No matter how much they claim it's limited, sand-boxed, walled off and segregated from the rest of the system, someone will figure out a way to gain system access through it. Microsoft may as well advertise Windows 10, Now With Built In Password Bypass!

    So turn it off?

  3. Re:And nobody will be punished... on Fortune 500 Company Hires Ransomware Gang To Hack the Competition (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Assuming this is true...

    What should happen is that the "genius" who thought this up should be convicted and sent to prison for 30 years (or whatever they threatened Aaron Swartz with), for breaking the CFAA.

    What actually will happen is that $BIGCORP will get a trivial slap-on-the-wrist fine.

    Punished for what? The article doesn't even describe a single attack, let alone a victim or perpetrator. This is like someone in high school saying "My cousins best friends brothers girlfriend heard that someone down the street smoked a joint 6 months ago"

  4. Re:God damnit on Google Testing AI System To Cool Data Center Energy Bills · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That funny because I am so sick of people complaining of the allegedly incorrect use of the word Artificial Intelligence.

    It is the correct academic term for the computing field that include data mining, machine learning, operation research, and statistics. Now, maybe Artificial Intelligence does not mean what you wish it meant. But academics are fairly clear on what it means...

    Machine learning != Artificial Intelligence

    No matter how hard you try to rationalize that bullshit it doesn't make it true. It's just a bunch of jackass business people trying to sound like their company is ahead of the game with AI when the reality is that it doesnt fucking exist yet.

  5. God damnit on Google Testing AI System To Cool Data Center Energy Bills · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Google is looking at artificial intelligence technology"

    No they are not. AI doesn't exist yet. I'm so sick of tech companies tossing this fucking AI buzzword shit around.

  6. How would we differentiate between an encrypted data stream and a video stream in a new movie format? What's the difference between decrypting vs displaying a movie? Both processes are a conversion operation being performed on a data stream.

    Simple. Packet capture and look for the key exchange. I do this daily.

    Dunno if you are trying to be funny or are just a complete idiot. There's no need whatsoever for "key exchange" when I send an encrypted message to my broker in the Caymans. He has the decryption software and password. NOthing but the message is transmitted.

    See also PGP.

    That's nice. Also totally unrelated to what the GP asked.

    "performed on a data stream"

  7. Re:This won't wash on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Let's say I am an ISP and I have a data stream coming through my system. How do I know if the data is encrypted or not? Data is data. Neither IP nor UDP packets have an 'encrypted data' indicator.

    How would we differentiate between an encrypted data stream and a video stream in a new movie format? What's the difference between decrypting vs displaying a movie? Both processes are a conversion operation being performed on a data stream.

    Simple. Packet capture and look for the key exchange. I do this daily.

  8. My company has a new program that targets "millennials". Our HR department has been very vocal about it and how they need to target things millennials want on a work environment, like game rooms and catered meals etc. Its all talked about like this great thing and the future of the company. The hype is huge. Meanwhile I'm seeing fewer and fewer people over 50 at the company.

    We're a fortune 500 company. The age bias is blatant and in our faces. We are not based out of Silicon Valley either.

  9. Re:"Apple Commentator" on Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that code for shill?

    The Kim Kardashian of Apple Commentators

  10. Re:Watch out. The DNC needs that money. on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    get Warren back on the reservation.

    I see what you did there.............

  11. Re:Academic and member of the Democratic Party? on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Funny

    She was a law professor before she became a senator.

    And before that she was 1/32nd Native American

  12. Fuck Apple

  13. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because when we automate war and remove the risk of losses on our side, it becomes too easy to just throw more robots into a situation.

    If you accept the premise that governments are governed by sociopaths then you must realize that they will usually value money more than human life. These things will be more expensive than human pilots. So logically, war should be less common as it becomes more expensive.

  14. Re:No Headphone Jack? No Sale. on Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    As someone who was starting to look at upgrading his phone (5s going strong so far), I know that the lack of headphone jack is going to make me sit right back down and wait on the purchase.

    I bet you said the same about PS2 ports, floppy drives and the recently defunct CDROM drives too.

  15. Re:Fedora 24 is awesome 'cause you can upgrade to on Fedora 24 Featuring GNOME 3.20, Tons Of Improvements Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    >> New GNOME (in Fedora 24) will also let you easily upgrade to Fedora 25

    Ummm...that's one of your "tons of improvements"?

    Unfortunately yes. Fedora has had a huge problem with upgrades in the past. They believe they have finally fixed that.

  16. Re:FBI interviewed suspect twice on Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    .

    Counting the 50+ deaths in Orlando as the act of an Islamic terrorist, which is at least debatable,

    It is established fact. There is no debate here. He was a terrorist. End of story.

    This is not exactly the sort of threat that sane men forfeit their liberty for.

    Correct

  17. Re:expanded on Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More importantly, carrying a gun on my person is so that I am not reliant on the police to solve my problems. I find myself in a bad situation where deadly force is required, I'd rather have my gun than wait on the police to come and save me.

    The police have a saying for this "Better judged by twelve than carried by six."

    Police forces are reactive, not proactive. Self defense is a basic right because of this simple fact.

  18. My challenge on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My challenge is finding new music. I'm not young anymore, approaching 40. My time is spent primarily with my wife and son and some co-workers. Music never comes up with us so discovering new music these days is harder for me. Spotify has opened me up to new stuff I wouldn't otherwise have known about. That's why I maintain a Spotify account.

    I have a lot of music that I've collected over the years but frankly, I'm bored of it. It's also cheaper to just stream off Spotify than buy multiple CD's a month.

  19. Re:frist post on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In most countries, you'd be right to heap scorn on anyone feeling threatened by an emoji or an email.

    But this is the US, where guns are easy and cheap to get, and people get routinely shot over the dumbest shit. Dude might be a bit of scaredy cat, but he's certainly not insane.

    Gun violence is at an all time low
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
    http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
    http://www.cnsnews.com/comment...

    I know, pesky facts. Who cares about'em

  20. My last semester (a long time ago) the books were nearly as expensive as the tuition. I had a class that required 16 books (it was a lit class). A friend of mine didn't buy a single one of them and still aced the class. The teacher barely referenced them at all. I was so pissed off.

  21. Re:There are limits to GPS on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. Re:Sun alumnis on Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Or would this Solaris platform be shelved?

    One can hope. Solaris is terrible.

  23. Re:It's easy on DNC Hacker Releases Trump Opposition File (gawker.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google search the phase "Swiftboating". Then look up the stuff Karl Rove does.

    Correction, look up the stuff Kerry did. Swiftboating was about Kerry not Rove. Kerry admitted in front of Congress that he killed an unarmed child for fucks sake and you people still want to hold him up as some kind of fucking hero. Democrats literally have no shame.

  24. Re:what matters on DNC Hacker Releases Trump Opposition File (gawker.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, I also live in Europe, and I'm not seeing anywhere that's being overrun.

    In fact, the only real danger we're facing is the rapid rise of new nationalistic extreme right-wing political parties, due to the general escalation of hatred and mistrust in western society, caused by the FYGM policies enacted by our shitheel politicians.

    You're what's called a "useful idiot"

  25. They didn't go with ZFS because it was case-sensitive and at the time that was a major problem, not just for the OS but all of the apps written for it. They had just migrated to intel from PPC and didn't want to impose that on developers yet. There was also some murky licensing issues they didn't want to gamble with.

    Now APFS has the same case-sensitive problem (for them) but they finally realize HFS+ just can't scale and continue as it is. Apple has finally realized their stubbornness is holding them back.

    What is confusing is why they are writing their own FS when they could easily contribute to BTRFS or ZFS.