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  1. He can't require it any more than he can require a radio in every car sold. Yes, most cars have a radio, but it is not a legal requirement.

  2. I blame on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 2

    I blame the perl community. If you asked a question in the perl news groups, instead of a short answer you'd get paragraphs explaining how much of an idiot you are for not knowing the answer or not knowing which document (out of tens of thousands) had the answer to your question.

  3. The raw material might be worth very little, but I bet processed ore would be worth quite a bit. Building the first space based smelt would be a bitch, though.

  4. well maintained roads

    What the hell have you been smoking?

  5. Outdoor BBQs on Choked By Smog, Beijing Creates A New Environmental Police Force (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, it couldn't be all those coal burning plants they are building and bringing online faster than the rest of the world can reduce pollution. Definitely the outdoor bbqs.

  6. Managed by morons on Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your database is exposed to the internet and doesn't have a password? How is it you are still employed?

  7. Re:Comment Totals on Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2016 (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    It would have been big news if we learned they weren't leaking credentials and huge number of posts discussing how that was possible.

  8. Re:Extreme vetting: software style on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that everyone who codes is competent to code review all types of code. Some people are great programmers but have little or no experience with encryption. They are going to have to trust that the people who specialize in encryption actually know what the hell they are doing.

  9. Here's a start to regain trust on Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stop breaking the laws you are supposed to uphold, you fucks.

  10. Re:Another step toward tyeanny on South Korea To Kill the Coin in Path Towards 'Cashless Society' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And Trump would record every sneeze and fart of all Muslims and illegal immigrants if he could.

    The worse tyrants may be the stealth tyrants.

    Given our government is already attempting to do that to everyone in this country, that would be marked improvement on privacy.

  11. They would form a drum circle and sing kumbaya in an attempt to get the water flowing. Nobody wants that. Hell, I'm in California and that would push me over the edge.

  12. I believe the count was closer to 600,000. Other than that, your observation is correct. /off to the googles to check the civil war death rate.

  13. Re:Then you should of voted for Bernie. on Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sanders? You mean that guy who thought Hugo Chavez was a great leader and Venezuela was an economic model the US should follow? That Sanders?

  14. I'll be these same people pointed and laughed when Texans said the same thing.

  15. Shopping at Walmart is shopping yourself into poverty. Walmart policy pretty much forces vendors to ship their production to China.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/54...

  16. China has a long history of selling dangerous products. From poisonous pet food to exploding electronics. When confronted, the Chinese government's response is "what a shame, we'll do something". The "something" is to rename the company and do it all over again.

    Why the fuck does China have most favored nation trade status?

  17. Unity? on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I seriously hate the Unity desktop with a passion. I don't know anyone who likes it. If Unity was the only desktop available for Linux, I'd use Windows.

  18. The current attempt to outlaw encryption (which would endanger online transactions) is a good example of how little the politicians understand technology.

  19. I'll answer that question, how would regulations make it worse.

    A new law is passed designating how security must be handled on IoT stuff. Everything is fine for a short time. Then the evil hackers figure out a new exploit and the bad shit happens again. The good guy coders come up with a patch, but it doesn't conform with the law, so they can't roll out the patch until the law is changed. That could take months, if not years.

  20. Knowing if it's just one client can be a bit tricky. Many large corporations NAT all their client machines, so it could look like one person is hitting the service a thousand times.

  21. Re:Biometric Gun Safe on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked at those gun safes and rejected them for exactly the reasons you stated. I bought one that uses a quick entry combo. The downside, it requires a battery so it needs to be checked every now and then. Not really an issue since I take it out almost every weekend for a trip to the range.

  22. Re:No they won't. on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The gun rights lobby did support sensible restrictions and those passed. Then the anti-gun crowed changed the definition of "sensible" and we (the gun owners) aren't having any of that bullshit.

  23. Re:I don't hate on systemd but this is really bad on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can you possibly overblow a bug that can bring down a system without root privileges?

  24. Ditto. I'm sitting here not too far from Google headquarters and I'm dying to get their service. I don't know why they've been targeted "non-technie" communities, but if they'd start rolling out their service to areas with a higher concentration of tech workers, they'd see the numbers they were hoping for.

  25. Re:Why India? Dumb Question. on Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' (breitbart.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've hired several people from India. You have to perform a rigorous technical interview because more than half of them didn't know a damn thing. The people we hired are good, though.