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  1. 6 aircraft carriers on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only 6 Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

  2. Nothing changes on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid, I'd bring over blank cassettes to a friend's house and record his older brother's CDs. That was the rampant form of music piracy at the time. This never changes.

  3. Re:And this is only half of it on Russian Cyber Hacks On US Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    ... but regardless of the location, that doesn't change the story, right?

    You're aiming at the wrong target

  4. Re:And this is only half of it on Russian Cyber Hacks On US Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd have a point if it wasn't completely fallacious. Messenger doesn't matter, truth is truth, 10 yard penalty, 2nd down, may Jah have mercy on your .

  5. Seriously - any competent sysadmin who reads Slashdot knows "These systems should not have any kind of networked access. None."

    Yet... somehow it happens. Goddammit we suck.

  6. "Native" C# Developer on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1
    I learned my chops in the .NET ecosystem. Then I got turned into a quasi-Openstack developer.

    Python is pretty cool. The lack of a real type system makes me write a lot of assertions I don't want but ultimately protect me from stupid mistakes later on.

    It has reasonable syntax and with map/filter/etc you get most of what you get out of LINQ... I think it's great.

  7. I don't need a battery, I can get 5V DC from the USB charger provided by the airline.

    And am I wrong all capacitors don't look like batteries?

  8. Re:Is this a joke? on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    This is almost precisely how the logic aspects of the very modular Doom level editor work.

  9. "Hackers are artists" on Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Like how, as a musician, I wake up every day with music in my head... but instead it's networks to compromise? Bullshit.

    This is like OJ's book... "if they did do it, they were just patriotically minded citizens that weren't directed by the government and were doing whatever they might have done purely on a whim." Bullshit.

    Sell your bullshit somewhere else.

    On a completely unrelated note - I had to insert HTML line breaks? What in the hell kind of arcane wizardry is that? Line breaks are not sufficient?

  10. Re:Would rather on T-Mobile's 'Digits' Program Revamps the Phone Number (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Google Voice and get maybe 1-2 nuisance callers a month. I wonder if this is coincidence or if perhaps your number is in numerous marketing databases? I've had the same number since Google Voice was in beta... now you have me wondering.

  11. Re:You keep using that word ... on DJI Threatens To 'Brick' Its Copters Unless Owners Agree To Share Their Details (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apply your same argument to guns. Why do arms manufacturers not need to worry about people doing douchey things with their products?

  12. You have to know an existing valid MAC. You have a 1 in 4 billion chance of guessing the right one and if there is any kind of IDS/IPS in place, you're gonna get shot down after a few tries.

    For this use case, they are secure.

  13. Re:Market on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    ... I believe that's almost exactly what they have been doing the last year.

  14. Re:Great, just what I need on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the rise of pancreatic cancer as a cause of death, most folks would gladly have a spare laying around.

  15. Re: And that's why on Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Dammit Wilco, get off Slashdot and get back to your janitor duties.

  16. Re:Do the right thing - stand against Trump's bigo on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    This is the "Skittles" argument. If you're not familiar with why this is a poor metaphor for immigration or refugee programs... I'm reminded of teaching pigs to sing and horses that don't drink.

    Irrational fears and logical fallacies aside, this is the land of the free and home of the brave, as we proudly proclaim. I'm brave enough to accept the risk that I might be living next to a psychopath because I like the neighborhood - this assumes my neighbor is a psychopath, a poor assumption taken purely on its merits. And I want others to have the same freedoms that I have - because altruism isn't just something cute to observe on nature programs.

    Wanting freedom for others is patriotism. Only wanting freedom for those fortunate enough to be born in our country is something else entirely.

  17. Make promise (vague or via a contract), insist terms weren't met, laugh as everyone who wants to hold you accountable is powerless to do so.
    Assange and Trump seem to have similar goals - maintain the cult of personality.

  18. Re:I signed the petition. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If my moral duty extended only to only those agreements which I have affixed my signature... a great many adjectives would apply and "dutiful" would not be among them.

  19. I've observed benzos having a similar appetite-increasing effect. Curious whether this is a property of GABAergic compounds in general...

  20. The important letter here is E, though I know many CTOs that wouldn't know either.

  21. Re:DUH, could have told you so! on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You lost me at "uber socialist like Hillary".

  22. Re:That's not what they said in emails on FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Pay-for-play has been a part of the "spoils system" for a long time. Not defending it, but people getting upset about it now when it has been occurring in relatively the same manner for the last 40 years seems a bit disingenuous.

  23. Contrast this with recent statements regarding a potential President Clinton and Supreme Court nominees. This argument is tired and invalid.

  24. Re:Surprising display of ignorance... on Four States Sue To Stop Internet Transition (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that Utah isn't in on this. I suspect that they are waiting to file an even more frivolous and doomed lawsuit after this one is defeated.

    Hey, give my home state some credit - it seems Idaho only makes the news when our citizens or government does something stupid. Gov "ignorant fucking hillbilly" Otter and AG Wasden $800k of taxpayer funds fighting same-sex marriage when AGs in most other states said, "That's a losing case, we're not pursuing it."

  25. Re:I'm confused... on Four States Sue To Stop Internet Transition (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I presume the TLD .gov domain is of some concern to states given that every state has one. That's the only grounds I can think of that would grant standing and a brief perusal of the topic of DNS delegation severely weakens it.