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  1. Re:just the first step on Judge Rules Against Forced Fingerprinting (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, looks like I hit a nerve.

  2. just the first step on Judge Rules Against Forced Fingerprinting (thestack.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just the first of many rulings that liberal judges will come up with to try to protect their Democrat pedophile colleagues.

  3. No, that's wrong. Nothing can be considered a planet if it is smaller than Neil DeGrasee Glactus' ego. Dwarf planets are no more real planets than dwarf people are real people.

  4. "snake oil salesmen of the 1860s." on Health Apps Could Be Doing More Harm Than Good, Warn Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the snake oil salesmen of the 1860s didn't have any apps. Should they be calling those that promote this "snake oil salesmen of the 2010s"?

  5. Didn't they already do that like 50 years ago?

    No, that was all fake news. Do some research on the Internet, you'll see. Clearly if it had actually been done already it would not cost that much to do it again, and we wouldn't be talking about silly missions like going around the moon rather than landing on it.

  6. attacker has already sold 350,000 on A Source Code Typo Allowed An Attacker To Steal $592,000 In Cryptocurrency (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the attacker has already sold 350,000

    By which we mean he has already moved it into other accounts that he likely controls.

  7. Somebody may be expecting way too much from the Slashdot editors.

  8. If only we could get those balloons to send out some sort of signal that we could home in on, then taking down a fleet of them would be hacker's play.

  9. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some bosses can't deal with the complexities of having more than one phone number to bother an employee with.

  10. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    His boss likely made him take it so that he could be reached if "needed".

  11. Re:Another breakthrough! News at 11! on Researchers Working on Liquid Battery That Could Last For Over 10 Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly (no mod points today or I would have modded you up as insightful). But you use the term "news" when I get all of my science fiction tech improvements from Slashdot. I've seen many battery and motor announcements that just never seem to make it to the real world. Anyone remember that small extremely efficient motor that was supposedly going to make it to hybrid cars and revolutionize things? What ever happened to that? I can't even find traces of it in the Slashdot archives!

  12. How dare you use facts? on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    less favorable lending rates

    The people wanting to feel sorry for themselves here don't care about your damn facts. Just let them bitch about the supposed less favorable lending rates. I see there are already several who are trying to argue with you by claiming stupid things like "we made bad student loan choices". Maybe we can help get them jobs by having them help build the wall. I suggest that we put them on the south side construction crew and the problem will solve itself when the wall is finished.

  13. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That was my thought too, but I was thinking lock away the supposed scientist that just let some oaf bully him into giving up access to a JPL phone that might have had important security related information on it. The oaf will never learn and will continue to enjoy playing the bully, but people need to learn not to give in to them.

  14. that can't be right on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    But we have been assured that things are under control and it is only the conspiracy theory nut jobs that keep claiming that thing there are far worse than Japan is willing yo admit.

  15. When they acquire an image they want an original done by the original artist. But all they are offering me is a damn copy.

  16. Re:BS detector went off and is overheating on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that you can define a function that returns the square of any number that you want, and then by taking the square root of it that you prove the premise? Well played genius. Hey, the BS detector started smoking!!!

  17. Re:BS detector went off and is overheating on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's kind of a circular argument. I guess you could also claim: 4+4-4-4+pi , claiming that that thing on the end is just a mathematical symbol and therefor a legitimate part of the equation.

  18. BS detector went off and is overheating on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Any number? I'm pretty sure that you can't make pi with four 4's. Looks like the much lamer "any whole number", although I find even that pretty hard to believe.

  19. GATT [Generic Attribute Profile - ed] on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Thanks msmash (ed), it is nice to have it explained that TT stands for Profile.

  20. dubious business pretices on 14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem that I have with Namecheap is that I tried to get a domain from them. Here's what happened:

    I thought of a domain that I would really like to have. I first tried to go to it in my browser and got a 404 error.

    I immediately went to Namecheap and tried to get it. They "checked" to see if it was available. There was a long delay, at least two to three minutes. Then they told me that the name was not available and offered me other names, names with garbage extra numbers in them and undesirable TDLs.

    I immediately went back to another browser window and tried to get to the domain again. This time I got a parking page offering to sell me the domain that I wanted for thousands of dollars.

    I don't know if other registrars have any more integrity or how to find registrars who will not steal your domain name from you when you try to register it, but I'm not going to try to register anything with Namecheaop again.If I just want a name that I can use to reach my local network, I'll use a service like freedns.afraid.org. If I want a name that I actually own and that I'll give out to others, I will not trust Namecheap with knowing in advance what name I want.

  21. Re:Good! on 14,000 Domains Dropped Dyn's DNS Service After Mirai Attack (securityledger.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Eloquently stated, but for those that haven't been paying attention perhaps you could have elaborated on your feelings a bit more. My personal dislike for DynDNS is based on their buying up as many of the other free domain services that they could, shutting them down, and then starting to charge for their own previously free service. Fortunately, there are still great free alternatives, such as freedns.afraid.org (which I actually like much better than Dyndns even though my routers don't support it directly).

  22. to demonstrate what it's working on at the World's Fair Nano technology fair in San Francisco in late January."

    Thank you editor David. Rather than jump on you case for the bogus claim that Nolan invented Pong, I want to thank you for letting us know what is coming up at the end of January.

  23. Aw fork it on OPNsense 17.1 Released, Based On FreeBSD 11 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just what the world needs, more different versions of Linux. It is so neat to see that people can avoid working together and instead put their efforts into many many different versions of Linux, each with their own ego and their own ways of doing things. So what if the average user gets more and more confused and can never figure out what is going on. Linux is not intended for the average user, it is intended for the Linux high priests, who can belittle the average user for finding things so confusing.

  24. Re:I don't agree on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Actually I saw the fat crybaby women on the media. And I mean the "mainstream media" including NBC and ABC. Are you suggesting that these liberal media sources deliberately misrepresented the group by focusing on the most obese females?

  25. Re:A&E on Smart Baby-Trackers Mostly Unnecessary, Say US Doctors (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I looked it up on the Interweb. A&E is that cable network.