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  1. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let your boss manipulate you like that. Take your vacation, even if it's only to stay home and read.

  2. Re: In other words. on The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of ways around that. In some cases, just say "no" and find a company that will negotiate. In other cases they will let you "work from home" even though everyone knows you are in Florida for the week. Another thing you can do is "borrow" vacation days from the future. That works surprisingly well, actually. A related technique is to tell your boss that you are going on vacation. The real secret is to always have plenty of excuses that aren't entirely logical but have plausible deniability. Watch Sargent Bilko for an example. In the end, if you are willing to work a weekend or late night in an emergency, it's only fair for the company to give you an extra vacation here or there.

  3. security audits utterly useless on Audit Approved of Facebook Policies, Even After Cambridge Analytica Leak (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Security audits and privacy audits are utterly useless for this case....Is the data secure? Is it private? The answer is no, and an audit like this is merely saying "we tried" even though in reality they weren't trying, they just wanted cya ability in court.

  4. Re: It's not a rate, it's an event. Right there in on Since 2016, Half of All Coral In the Great Barrier Reef Has Died (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The data I really want to see is how often this happens. Then, how quickly will it grow back?

  5. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So in your opinion, JavaScript is very well suited for back end development? Are you going to try to give support for that assertion or are you just going to leave it there like the drooling baboon you are?

  6. Re: Why does basic income keep appearing here? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    That kind of article is why I avoid discussing politics. Please note that people have been predicting the demise of one party or the other for at least two decades.

  7. Re:Why does basic income keep appearing here? on Finland Is Killing Its Basic Income Experiment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we have compassion. Or so the plebes won't rise up and kill us when the revolution comes. Because we have compassion.

  8. Re:Idiot post about Silicon Valley on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    Too bad, because you missed the key sentence:

    I’m honestly not even sure that some individuals—people I know—could pass the Turing test at this point

    This article was clearly written by a robot.

  9. Re: Rip VanWinkle called on MIT Discovers Way To Mass-Produce Graphene In Large Sheets (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I gather, the transparent aluminium in the movie was actually derived from the recently invented ceramic

  10. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You claim to have read my clear and lucid exposition of the point, and yet you haven't responded or even recapitulated the point. You're high. I'll repeat it again: JavaScript will stop being used on the back end in a few years. The primary reason for using it will be gone.

  11. Re:Why is this a surprise? on 'Login With Facebook' Data Hijacked By JavaScript Trackers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't expect it for a database company, but Mongodb source code is surprisingly bad. The whole thing is just hacked together. It's not surprising that they don't know what's on their website.

  12. Re:The guy sounds like a sleazy ... on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ... third grade con-man 30 seconds into the presentation. LOL.

    The reason con-men continue to sound like con-men is because it works to sound like a con-man. That is the sound that people.....trust.

  13. Re:Rip VanWinkle called on MIT Discovers Way To Mass-Produce Graphene In Large Sheets (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    Now where's the transparent aluminum I was promised? Hello Computer!

    It exists, stop whining.

  14. Now, finally..... on MIT Discovers Way To Mass-Produce Graphene In Large Sheets (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, finally, we can manufacture it in large enough quantities to worry about environmental problems!

  15. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I survive by being smarter than you. Please say something to at least acknowledge you have read my most recent exposition of my point, you unfallowed mouth breather.

  16. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh, you don't have an actual point so you change the topic. Indeed you are not a moron.

  17. Re:IoT turned DEFCON into a party again on Hackers Stole a Casino's High-Roller Database Through a Thermometer in the Lobby Fish Tank (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Should that be "echo -e"?

    Yeah and I'm not sure echo would even work for this situation. Might need to use expect. I didn't test it just wanted to get the idea across :)

  18. It was only a piddly $250 million; chump change to the waste, fraud, and abuse in this administration. They spend $31K on some tables and chairs

    I think you are missing important mathematical concepts like "order of magnitude" and "significant digits"

  19. Re:Mod parent up on Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, and usually vote against the encumbent, but it doesn't seem to be making things better. :/

  20. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    . I've offered a couple definitions with different levels of detail, but I'll try to rephrase: There is no such thing as "perfect security", not even theoretically, not even conceptually. What people are looking for when they're looking for "perfect security" is something that cannot be breached through any attack vector.

    This is not a definition. You said what security is not, you failed to say what it is.

  21. Re: and they say we wear tin hats on Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If it makes you feel better, you're typically called "inventory," not a product. You know, hope that helps.

  22. Transition lenses have never been on contact lenses before this.

  23. Interpretation on Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and "improving our products and services."

    Of course this primarily refers to the products and services they offer to advertisers.

  24. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    You keep saying "it's impossible" without defining security, and your writing is just a bunch of excuses.

    For an SQL database, there are basically three levels of security:

    1) You are vulnerable to random, driveby attacks. The sorts of things when you leave the default password on, or haven't patched your system for years.
    2) You are vulnerable to targeted attacks. (We could grade this level by how much effort they have to put in: script-kiddy level or state actor level?)
    3) The best level of security. When it's easier for even the state actor to attempt to use a physical attack (or bribe an employee) than to hack it remotely.

    Can I secure an SQL database to level 3? Oh yes, I can.

  25. Re: Secure? LOLOL! on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course we don't have a bug tracker, we just write them down on this piece of paper I have here.

    And it has an ever increasing in the bug count. That's exactly why I don't want to work there.

    Look, here is a procedure for you to get things cleaned up. You can choose to ignore it but that is your choice. Three steps:

    1) Allocate time to fix new bugs as soon as they are reported.
    2) Over time, empty the bug tracker until the bug count hits zero.
    3) The focus on bugs will improve your skill and programming speed, bugs will be rarer and rarer.