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  1. Re:Telemarketers are my prey on The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to talk really quietly for a minute or so and then SCREAM AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE. More than once I've heard the telemarketer swearing on the other end after throwing his headset on the desk.

  2. Well, the decreased job mobility in the title of these posts ought to tell you why that doesn't work so well.

  3. Except that the HR drones and the "checklist" never go away. I and others that I know have had promotions held up for several years until an HR drone moved to a different job.

  4. New Time Protocol? PTP? on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 To Support True UTC-Compliant Leap Second (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    The article refers to a new time protocol known as Precision Time Protocol (aka PTP). This protocol has been around for a while -- v1 came out in 2002, v2 in 2008. It's implemented mostly in industrial control networks like EtherNet/IP.

  5. My father ran a service station with two islands of two pumps each. Each island had it's own circuit breaker. I'd be surprised if this has changed much, so he should have been able to shut off the power to just a single island.

  6. Just another hole on US Eyes Robot Moon Missions as it Prepares For Astronauts' Return (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The moon is just another gravity well. Why use a bunch of energy to get into earth orbit (halfway to anywhere) and then use more to go down another well if you really want to go somewhere else?

  7. Re:Why spray them? on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the engineers I worked with told about working on an experimental electrical weeder for cotton. A charged bar was mounted on the front of a tractor and driven through the field. The bar was adjusted to be just a little above the cotton. When weeds grow, they typically stick up above the cotton, hit the bar and are electrocuted. He said it worked great, except for the safety problem. At the farm where they were testing, the farmer's dog came running up and hit the bar. So much for testing at that farm. Seems like an electric prod would work well for this robot. 'Course, I'm don't know how you'd prevent the obvious dangers beyond trusting your software.

  8. Re:I hope more people will do this on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that wasn't intentional gene editing....

  9. Excessively Complex on New C# Ransomware Compiles Itself at Runtime (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The key feature is the encrypted source code. The procedure is:
    1. Decrypt source code
    2. Compile source code to an in-memory assembly [behind the scenes the .NET framework calls Assembly.Load()]
    3. Run a method on a class in the assembly

    Seems like it would be easier and just as effective to use an encrypted binary instead. Then the procedure would be:

    1. Decrypt binary image
    2. Call Assembly.Load()
    3. Run a method on a class in the assembly

    I would certainly not trust a piece of downloaded code that included code to do either, so I'm not sure the first one has any additional advantages as malware.

  10. Al? Who is this guy? on AI Helps Grow 6 Billion Roaches at China's Largest Breeding Site (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And why is everybody talking about him?

  11. FBI Mobile 3

  12. Re: Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you seem so hung up on "1) if a gun is used a crime police can see who it belongs to", maybe you can explain how that works? Do the police catch the criminal and then check to see who the gun belongs to? Or do you think criminals discard their guns at the scene of the crime?

  13. Re:Collapsed FIU Bridge Was Funded by Federal Gran on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Reason is usually pretty even-handed in placing blame on both Republicans and Democrats. They've also been known to blame private companies as well. There is probably plenty to go around in this instance.

  14. Re:Hope this is backwards on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 2

    Ummm... Railway Time came to Great Britain in 1840. The British government didn't get around to passing a standard time law until 1880. The history of standard time in the US is similar -- railroads standardized first, followed by standard time laws sometime later.

  15. Re:It's just a Class 2 Perversion on Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But wait a bit and you may find out it IS the Blight, pretending to be just a Class 2 Perversion.

  16. Really want to mod this one "Insane" on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 2

    An obvious mod choice is missing!

  17. Fifteen or so on Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? · · Score: 1
    Usually about 15. My reading rate has increased because of Amazon and Kindle. Recently:
    • Voyage by Stephen Baxter
    • Pompeii's Ghosts by J. Robert Kennedy
    • A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St. Mary's 3 by Jodi Taylor
    • The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn
    • Black Sheep One: The Life and Times of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington by Bruce Gamble
    • The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy
    • Little Book of Junk Science
    • Lacuna by David Adams
    • The Intruders by Stephen Coonts
    • For the Triumph of Evil by Ryk Brown
    • I am AWAKE by Fisher Samuels
    • Time Crimes: The Paratime Collection (Five Novels) by H. Beam Piper
    • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  18. Darn! There goes my job! on PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I was getting so good at recognizing actresses, too!

  19. Re:He had full auto on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Legal automatic firearms were manufactured before 1986 and cost over ten thousand dollars each because of the limited supply. You don't seem to understand the law any better than the guy who said they were illegal.

  20. Re:We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Google texas tower shooting. Both police and armed citizens are credited with firing back and forcing the shooter to hide behind things so that we was not able to shoot as easily as he would otherwise have been.

  21. What Vulcan/Human Hybrid? on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    She's 100% human -- adopted by Sarek and Amanda.

  22. Star Trek has Jumped the Shark on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    What a piece of crap this is.

  23. Wisconsin GOP will find a way to spend even more money on corporate welfare -- and I think the Dems are mad they didn't get to do it.

  24. Waiting for 2099 on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    It was overcast and raining here. Illinois is too far to travel. I'm waiting for 2099, when the path of totality will pass over my home.