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  1. Re:That is not actually very good news on Tesla Posts Second Profitable Quarter Ever (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was horrible - but it is not what forecasting is supposed to do. Investors have more confidence in a business that is under control.

  2. Re:That is not actually very good news on Tesla Posts Second Profitable Quarter Ever (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    A little bit low!

  3. Re:Math for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter on A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    oh wow, you're right!

  4. It was an asymmetric war; the decisive parts were not fought in battles. Name which side gave up the land and retreated.

  5. According to my wife it is called a "reverse acquisition". Keep in mind, HPE already has Nonstop systems and the corresponding COBOL for those.

  6. Who "we"? You are out of your mind. The USA lost.

  7. Re:Didn't the USSR already test this concept? on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The USSR tested widescale corruption. All the country's resources were swallowed up by the ruling class, who had their own private supply chain of the best products.

  8. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened with me, except I paid six months of rent upfront with the money.

  9. Base64 Encoding!!! on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have to scrounge around for Base64 anymore.

  10. Re:Stupid citizens that didn't vote are to blame.. on Brexit: Government Rejects Petition Signed By 4.1 Million Calling For Second EU Referendum (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    is this so fucking difficult to understand? 66 individual cases here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote

  11. Re:Stupid citizens that didn't vote are to blame.. on Brexit: Government Rejects Petition Signed By 4.1 Million Calling For Second EU Referendum (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Fuck off or provide evidence for discussion. People who do a job are contributing.

  12. Re:Stupid citizens that didn't vote are to blame.. on Brexit: Government Rejects Petition Signed By 4.1 Million Calling For Second EU Referendum (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  13. Star Trek is in the future... and Star Wars was long, long ago in the past!

  14. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Spanish food is GREAT! I think social life is what would suck there. The whole country is like Grandma's house.

  15. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    the client offered up to a USD220000 annual salary!

  16. Re:better idea on Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I got a same day appointment today, and then the medicine for my daughter was £0 as well. Because she's under 16. Otherwise the day would have cost us £6 in cash.

  17. Re:Hey Editor David - You Ain't No Editor on Ethereum Debate Marred By Second Digital Currency Heist (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    and what is the DAO?

  18. Re:Behold the buzzwords of clickbait on Slashdot Asks: Does Your Company Have A Breach Response Team? (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    This one is just fine, but the crypto-currency article is really really bad. I don't understand it. BTW I couldn't find a single buzzword in this summary. What did you think was a buzzword?

  19. Is it too late? Have we lost the battle? on Interviews: Ask Security Expert Mikko Hypponen A Question · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hi Mikko, in my day job I am a security evangelist, carrying out developer education and design reviews. For 8 years previous to that I helped companies use static analysis to detect and eliminate security vulnerabilities at the implementation layer. I am becoming convinced that, with the poor state of software today and extreme complexity, there is simply no way the good guys can win. Defenders have to get it right, every single time while the bad guys only need to be right once, to establish an APT and destroy your company. If the bad guys were parasites I would say this would all simmer down to a balancing point where the parasites existed off a slow background noise of constant attacks, but never enough to kill civilization completely. But with a lack of collusion, attackers are more likely to race to the bottom and to not pay attention to the health of their host. So basically my prediction is: crime will eventually kill technology; it will become unusable. Do you have a more hopeful outcome for us?

  20. Fortify SCA on Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? · · Score: 2

    in my day job I work for Fortify. You can contact the developers of this library and request that they use static analysis product on their software, or request a security review from a 3rd party. We would for sure catch those SQL injections and more. But we would need the original source code. You can probe for things from the binary, but the results don't come back in a way that is very actionable for the developers. As for your predicament: I think you would be better off writing your own library, rather than putting the insecure one to work.

  21. Re:Dual boot? How about virtualization, too! on Going To Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    Which of those products ran hypervisory kernels, or anything like it? I can answer for you: the x86 card.

    And although it may have been usable in 1995, it wasn't usable yesterday. Emulation or dual booting was the only option yesterday. I think the Wisconsin Cocksucker's post is pretty interesting.

  22. Re:Xen??? on Microsoft Providing Virtual Server Free · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is going to put Cambridge University out of business?

  23. Re:20,000 fpm?? on How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be? · · Score: 1

    cool...

  24. Re:hmmmmm on New Plans From Lucasfilm · · Score: 1

    How old do I have to get before I don't care about porn anymore?

  25. 20,000 fpm?? on How Hot Would a Light Saber Really Be? · · Score: 1

    WTF is fpm? Furlongs per minute?