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  1. Re:chip ? on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, they'd be correct, wouldn't they? "And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

  2. Re:Colour me unsurprised. on Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Social engineering is capable of undermining any technology.

  3. Re:What could have been... in this decade. on The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Go look at Ms. Pac Man for the 2600. It's not quite as good overall as this 8K homebrew, but in some ways it's better (the monsters don't flicker) and it's worlds better than the Pac Man port.

    They could have pulled it off with better management.

  4. Re:So, let's blame developer, shall we on The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Dollar signs go before the figure, not after, and where in the world is the apostrophe used as a thousands separator?

  5. Re:What could have been... in this decade. on The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. If you note, in one of the photos Warshaw is using a VT-100.

  6. I hate to disparage a low-income employee's ability to do math, but I'm sure she just calculated that from take-home pay and ignore the fact she was probably getting hundreds of it back in a refund. Perhaps thousands, plus a huge credit, if she has children.

  7. Re:Right to life on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess you could say the same for owning anything dangerous: gunpowder, gasoline, knives, bats, fertilizer and diesel fuel, pressure cookers, air compressors, automobiles... we should need government approval to have any of these. Because you could hurt anyone with any one of them at any time.

    Or, we can treat adult humans like adults, create reasonable laws, then exact fair punishments for those who violate them.

  8. Re: how is that relevant? on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how the US government bragged about how many people were signing up for food stamps when the economy crashed.

  9. Re: how is that relevant? on Alleged Kalamazoo Shooter Picked Up Uber Fares During, After Killing Spree · · Score: 1

    They flout laws, and if it should be found out that this person had something in his past that would have disqualified him from a regular taxi job it's going to be VERY relevant.

    Only if the media thinks that the public is absolutely moronic, because he didn't kill Uber clients and essentially was just driving around picking victims, with his status as an Uber driver completely orthogonal.
    Oh wait, the public is moronic.

  10. Re:IOC is Corrupt on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Our water is now only 20% sewage!

  11. It would be awesome if someone found one of the 70mm prints.

  12. Hasn't that ship kind of sailed? I mean, it's like trying to find unbiased jurors for a murder case when the defendant is a famous athlete or musician.

  13. Re:At that price... on L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I would imagine that expiring all passwords would be the standard action here.

  14. I'm not wrong about the hemisphere. I linked to the snopes article because I wanted to, in one fell swoop, prove that it's happening somewhere. Of course, the Slashdot hive mind determined that I'm a stupid git who doesn't know which end is up.

  15. You don't carry a knife in a place where half the fauna (and maybe even the flora) are trying to kill you?

  16. Re:banned here already on UK Pilots' Union Calls For Laser Pointers To Be Classed As Offensive Weapons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did they ban your pointy knives yet? You're not safe until there are no pointy knives. Or blunt objects. Better ban those bats, pipes, and bits of lumber.

  17. Re:Why there are so few women ? Because of the men on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess she wasn't really into CS, then. Because being shocked enough by a bunch of nerds who had poor social skills to give up your intended course of study isn't really a good excuse to give up your vocation.

  18. Re:we don't need tape librarians anymore on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of weird that this has to be pointed out to the millennials. But I guess we've been "business casual" or "casual" in the tech areas for some time.

  19. Re:The tech industry turned toxic. on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I hear that's why Grace Hopper retired from the Navy. Her sleeveless Navy dress uniform was too chilly.

  20. Re:Stock installation? Not really. on Internet Archive Brings Classic Windows 3.1 Apps To Your Browser (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still hoping to see that Phantom Menace trailer someday, but RealPlayer is still buffering.

  21. Re:Can someone explain how it does it? on Internet Archive Brings Classic Windows 3.1 Apps To Your Browser (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I skipped the last line of your post. My bad.

  22. Re:Can someone explain how it does it? on Internet Archive Brings Classic Windows 3.1 Apps To Your Browser (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I also seem to recall that in win.ini, there was a variable called shell. Normally it pointed to progman.exe, or a third-party shell if you had one. Maybe you could put the name of the application in there to start it, then exit Windows when it quits.

  23. Re:Competition vs cooperation? on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You can steal resource cards from other players in Catan. Not sure how cooperative that is.

  24. Re:Bernie Madoff on Why Winners Become Cheaters (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Too many still have a cartoon version of morality, with the top-hatted, moustache-twirling villain. They focus on punishing evildoers, rather than prevention and rehabilitation. Maybe that's why we have so many people in prison.

  25. Re:Too Bad on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize there even was a flash blocker. I just have my flash plugin set to "Ask to Activate" in Firefox.