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  1. Re:Small government? on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought government was the problem and republicans didn't want "big brother".

    That's completely true, and she is no exception.

    (pssst... get those campaign writers on an ass-covering spiel, STAT! She's been caught!)

  2. Re:Small government? on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, give her credit for at least being honest about it. Obama paid lip service to privacy and due process and trampled on both once he got into office.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    We need a little more of an economic failure and plea of desperation from people before she can be so easily Hitlerized into office. That takes time. Time takes money. Wait, now THAT'S an idea! Speed the process up by ruining everyone's finances, then become a "savior!"

    Now, wait. Gotta make it in to office before she can start that. Scratch it. Maybe she should be VICE-President. I use the word "VICE" loosely, here.

  3. Re:why does anyone want to listen to her? on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    former CEO of tech company that got destroyed. Yep she's the one to listen to.

    As a former contract worker of that company that got fired, at the height of the recession, by a decision finalized BY HER, she *so* has my vote.

  4. Re:Disingenuous at best, bold faced liar at worst? on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Now her rise to power will be deemed the "Femto-Movement".

    Oh, wait, sorry. I meant FAILED rise to power. Sorry about that.

  5. Re:Put it in another context on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    To me there is little difference between what Carly wants and the statement; "In order to stop terrorist and child molesters, the government must be able to enter any home and look anywhere they want, with or without the homeowner's knowledge. Because this is so important, we must be able to do this without any warrant. Don't worry, we promise not to abuse this law.

    *cough*Schutzstaffel*cough*

  6. I heard she knows a thing or two about high tech.

    Yes, indeed. She certain does. The best thing that turned me on was her knowledge of how to lay large groups of people off at the height of the recession. Go Fuzzy Fiorina!

    Wait, what does that have to do with high tech? It just does! See how easy it is to make magical things happen? I say something is something, therefore it just IS! Wow. What a cool concept!

    Gag.

  7. Re:If encryption is outlawed on Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If encryption is outlawed - only outlaws will have encryption....>

    Not to poorly interject, but that's a splendid idea (note sarcasm)! That's the easy way to weed out ter'rists! They all use encryption, and we can find anyone who uses encryption and open up the ovens for the Auschwitz Mark II (ter'rist camp), right? Right, Carly Darly? What? It's not that simple? Awww.. You had me going there for a moment, trickster. You had a vote! Gag me.

    Man, my sarcasm filter is out being cleaned today. Sorry!

  8. Seems like Carly Fiorina is spewing a lot of dung. Thankfully, I've gone all open source and OpenBSD. I can be assured that the OpenBSD folks will not give in to demands for work arounds and builtin weaknesses in encryption.

    I think there's a list she gets from her campaign workers that details "What people in group x want to hear".

    They didn't tell her to take into consideration that group y is larger and completely lost as a result... but hey. Thinking is too hard in politics. Once you're in office, others run the show for ya and you get to be a cute little sock puppet, like every president since, who, Roosevelt?

    New Official Nickname: Fuzzy Fiorina

  9. Show me all of your data; then I'll think about considering thinking about your idea that is going to fail. ...Unless those new Windows 10 agreement details are actually true and used to harvest whatever they want from your machine... Eh, I digress.

    Show me all of your personal data, Ms. Fiorina! Let's see it. Come on! Why aren't you willing to openly show everyone on-the-spot? What's that? There's no reason or just cause? You mean you have something to keep secret even though it's not a big deal? Hmm?

  10. Re:It's almost like a fetish on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Maybe this is a good thing. Customers will demand that Intel and AMD start having more oomph per core than just adding more cores to the die"

    Not sure why you think removing choices and tying the hands of developers is a good thing .

    Licensing per core is stupid, and frankly it should be illegal. What's next, different cost based on the amount of RAM installed? Higher cost if you haver a SATA 6 capable drive rather than SATA 3?

      Microsoft: You seem to have upgraded your ISP plan and have 10 times the network throughput now. Please remit US $500.00 in order to continue using this added functionality.

    Start licensing by each illegal activity's operation, by operation, performed on any core in a working IPC system. Get the popcorn ready....

    You just launched uTorrent and downloaded S1E1 of Gilligan's Island (SD, low res). To continue using Windows, please have your credit card or checking account number ready (along with business unit), and click Next-> to pay the $32,080,102,443,390 Windows license cost.

    (I estimate, of course)

  11. Re:Correction... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are the reason that we as Humans have not been able to find peace.

    OK, let me try and work this out. Because a cranky old poster on an ancient, barely significant site on the Internet misreads a complex post that was thrown together from several other posts by a number of people with varying degrees of competence with both language and the subject matter ....

    We're doomed?

    I'm going to have to take my posts more seriously from now on. I didn't realize how important we are.

    Your sarcasm will get you everywhere. Thanks. I love it! :)

  12. Re:Correction... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    Dammit Slashdot, It applied my response to the grandchild and not the parent again.

    This belongs to the "read only OS LOL" fool

    Oh. I lesson learned. Wait ten minutes to see if a retraction is posted before replying. Now that's inefficient. Damnit. Where's the "Undo" function after a post, 30 second time limit (or something like that). Did Google patent that? *sigh*

    Imaginary handshake coming your way.

  13. Re:Correction... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    ROTFL LOL! ZOMG!

      I love it when people like you that have absolutely no clue how things work try and post your troll responses. Yes a READ ONLY OS is incredibly easy to do and GASP is done daily. I suggest you read up on how a live CD/DVD works or how a BLuRay player runs linux.

    The Herp Derp is very strong in you, Keep working on it.

    I love how you, like other "I'm so smart" pundits, like to read what you want into comments to have your "I'm smarter" reply.

    I'm aware of all of that, Mr. Smart. I'm referring to what would happen if the read-only aspect were removed. Why do you think I quoted only that portion in my reply to the parent?

    In the future, you might want to try reading portions of quotes that were specifically responded to, and read it over more than once to see if you're missing something. Assuming you can jump right on an idiot's statements is quarrelsome and borderline narcissistic. It's much more intelligent to ask questions first about, maybe, what they meant. You, sir, are the reason that we as Humans have not been able to find peace.

  14. Re:Isn't anyone bored of being a consumer yet? on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    You're crazy. That's not long-standing stereotypical enough. New ideas must be crushed before they can rebound into possibility.

    Hmmmm, perhaps if we only worked on Christmas day and every other day was a sleep in.

    Why, when you say that, does the word "Vodka" pop into my head? Oh, my!

  15. Re:Correction... on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    Read only OS? LOL. You need to patch that thing live to the promised features that didn't meet the delivery date. Nobody want to take them offline, remount read-write and patch individual devices one at the time.

    ... and then when you don't want to do that but have to, it's a perfect time for Mr. Shady and his crew to slip changes in that weren't approved. CUZYANEEDTAHURRYNOWNOWNOWNOW!

  16. Re:Adverts on Slashdot on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    OK, so we now know what Best Buy, Walmart and Dell are offering on Black Friday. Why not fill the rest of the front page with advertising and finish the job of killing the damn website?

    I don't know if it's humorous or sad, but I read the end by skimming over it as "...advertising and finish the killing of jobs with the damn website?"

    Wow. I hope I'm not seeing the future. A certain grocery chain in the Cincinnati area is starting to set up online buying now; you place your order online, someone in the store goes around with a huge electric cart and picks the items from the shelf for you, and you pull up to the curb to pay and have your car loaded for you. I only say that's killing jobs because the order picker job is acceptable for anyone who can follow instructions like Google Maps. The handheld wireless device they carry says, "Go to Aisle 2, rear, left side, shelf 3. Go to aisle 3, front, right, shelf 2." You can click "item isn't on shelf" and it will find a replacement item and tell you where to get it. Oh, did I mention they want the part-time minimum-wage people on that job? The reason I typed all of this is to express that it's possibly where my misread came from.

  17. Re:Been crap for years on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    ....If you's po and you want a good deal on a flat TV, then there may still be something for you in a store on black friday. IME, though, most of the prices now are pretty lackluster. You are likely to find the same item on sale for the same price or cheaper some other time of year.....

    Aren't they? You can even get deals online now. I never understood the need to have it in stores only; obviously it's to get you in the door to buy more, but isn't that what online vendors are now anyway? All that advertising and crap.. It's a gold mine. Just make sure the bandwidth and server resources are available. Drop prices on a few items whose profit is ridiculously high on anyway, and..... Profit? I figured out the South Park Underpants Gnomes' model finally!

    1. Collect Underpants
    2. Advertise Online on Black Friday
    3. Profit

    Thanks! Just a short comment changed the economy of underpants. Heh.

  18. Re:Isn't anyone bored of being a consumer yet? on 'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can have a 'White Friday' where people get together and hack up some really interesting thing you can only make. but not buy buy bye. It just seems like the same shit in a different bucket all the time and just a bit boring. Can we skip christmas this year - but keep the holiday?

    You're crazy. That's not long-standing stereotypical enough. New ideas must be crushed before they can rebound into possibility.

    BTW, humor, not insult.

  19. Re: Should have been AppApp! on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    $ sudo alias app-get="apt-get" && alias moo="update" && alias cows="upgrade"

    $ sudo app-get moo && cow

    But, but.. what about the Penguins?

  20. Re:That editorial summary tho on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you teach computer science ti kids. They have the mental acuity to figure out how to do terrible things, but not the maturity or moral conscience to know better.

    The political agenda aimed at creating more software developers in order to pull salaries down will just create a new Internet crime wave.

    Just watch.

    That is such a wise view of Human repetition of mistakes that it can't possibly happen! We never make the same stupid mistakes again and again and ag.....

  21. Re:That editorial summary tho on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... Not sure if serious?

    It was clearly just a "Hey, Biff, what's that?!?!" ploy. Read: "Don't focus on our security; it's clearly them there terr'rist kids doing the impossible, like getting through our impenetrable security measures. We need more gub'mint efforts to stop this hacking of our society as a whole and we'll help however we can!"

    Truth: "Uh, we suck at security, even financial. We understand if no one trusts us with their financial or private info anymore. Granted, the loss wasn't that bad, but it proves that we can be lazy enough in our efforts to maintain complete security (like we said in our Agreement with you that we WOULD). Pissing off is in our future plan because we're awesome with growing and planning. [We] digress."

    P.S. That wasn't my comment you replied to; just throwing in my useless $0.0001 to state the obvious (from my Asperger's mind).

  22. Re: That editorial summary tho on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If a 15yr old is responsible, believe me, they have a lot to worry about. Like why are they even in business if some kid wet behind the ears can troll their servers. Fuck em I say. That goes for all entities hacked now or ever.

    The kid was clearly a terrorist or would have not accomplished such nearly-impossible feat. The business needs protection from *terrorists*! *cough*

  23. Re:That editorial summary tho on 15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Everything You Were Told About Capital Letters Is a LIE

    He's Coding His sTatement. It's just Bad fOrmatting of the vAriable nAmes. _dUuhh.

  24. Re: It's a good idea, but shouldn't be on by def on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Fishy = doesn't.

  25. Re: It's a good idea, but shouldn't be on by defa on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Control of their network and the way they choose to handle voice and data, you being the one who fishy have a say in their back-end strategy? Yeah. That one.