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  1. Re:Pinkertons, Debs, and the Unions on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    (ironically in Woodstock, a place more known for 60s rock concerts now)

    Debs was imprisoned in Woodstock, IL. The rock concert was in NY, and not actually in the town of Woodstock, NY.

  2. Eric Petitt, head up Firefox marketing, writing in a blog:

    Why does Firefox need a head up marketing?

    Shouldn't they just be programming motherfuckers?

  3. Re:Makes sense... if it weren't secret. on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Terrorists have already used drones as IEDs in the middle east war arena to attack troops and bases. It is well known that they exploit public disclosure to improve their destructive techniques. The US military knows too well that you don't disclose tactics to the enemy.

    These observations are only relevant in the context of TFA if one considers America to be hostile territory occupied by the U.S. military.

  4. Curses! My arch-nemesis, dictionary.com!

  5. The 14th Amendment limits that discretion.

  6. Outrun the bear on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    You don't need to outrun the bear, you only need to outrun the other campers.

    It appears that Windows will be a far bigger and softer target for the foreseeable future because most people need some Windows-only app or other. That's great for those off us who can use an alternative that's easier to secure and much less tempting to malware developers.

    So if you can, you should switch to Linux, not because it's popular, but at least in part because it's not popular, and probably never will be.

  7. As in, Disney no longer has it?

    'Cause that's what "stolen" means.

  8. It can be difficult to distinguish between a human being opening an email and a malware scanning engine opening a email. Modern systems will actually follow links and run executables in sandboxes before releasing the actual email to the end user. What looks like someone opening the email, usually a callback via a pixel image or js include, doesn't involve a human actually opening the email. In fact, just using a preview pane can make it seem like the email has been opened.

    [citation needed]

  9. Re:Interesting on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you give an example of these "so many people"? Just one example would be fine.

  10. Re:Sheeples on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Bah, sports cars don't have back seats. Those are all GT cars.

  11. Re:People are a pain on Will the High-Tech Cities of the Future Be Utterly Lonely? (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    while we lay about not breeding new generations of ourselves.

    It only takes a few weirdos who still want to fuck each other, and voila! their descendents will inherit the Earth. It's pretty much impossible to eradicate the will to reproduce from a species.

  12. Re:Mayer's failure actually WASN'T a failure... on Marissa Mayer Will Make $186 Million on Yahoo's Sale To Verizon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Replying to undo an incorrect (-1) moderation. I'm surprised this got modded down by the way, at the very least this is "interesting".

    Mod down was correct. GP is plagiarized from an earlier comment which deserves the +1 instead.

  13. Re:I thought Linux was supposed to be secure? on BrickerBot, the Permanent Denial-of-Service Botnet, Is Back With a Vengeance (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget they're trying to hit impossible price points with terrible economies of scale. Any feature that's not directly visible to the consumer (like quality software engineering) is a non-starter.

  14. Re:This will have some big negative concequences on Should Archive.org Ignore Robots.txt Directives And Cache Everything? (archive.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously (to some of us, anyway) the crawler should honor robots.txt, but the archive should not. Once something is in the archive it should be in there forever.

  15. "Done by 'a' contractor" on CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt For WikiLeaks Source (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha. CIA's sooper dooper ultra mega topmost secret weapons weren't compromised by "a" contractor. They were compromised by dozens of contractors, possibly by all of them, and more than a few regular employees too. Most of them didn't publish on Wikileaks though. There's lots of fun to be had and money to be made with tech like that.

  16. Re:But Why? on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 2

    15.0.0.0 is not /7-aligned. 14.0.0.0/7 and 16.0.0.0/7 are valid, but 15.0.0.0/7 is not.

    Even if 15.0.0.0/7 were valid CIDR notation, it would include 14.0.0.0 - 15.255.255.255, not 15.0.0.0 - 16.255.255.255 as was intended.

  17. Quick! Everybody upgrade! on The Biggest Time Suck at the Office Might Be Your Computer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ... a new report * on Bloomberg blames outdated computers, decade-old operating systems and ageing equipments for being one of the biggest hurdles that prevents people from doing actual work in their offices.

    * sponsored by Microsoft and Intel

  18. Re:But Why? on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    15.0.0.0/7

    CIDR does not work like that!

    Or ... thatsthejoke.jpg?

  19. Re:Brick by design on Microsoft's Rumored CloudBook Could Be Your Next Cheap Computer (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Subnotebooks that "just work" with GNU/Linux used to be easy to find until the end of 2012. System76 and Dell currently don't have anything below 13 inches or below $700.

    Litebook?

  20. Re:Primer - 6000$ one on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    There was a fairly faithful adaptation of Heinlein's "All You Zombies", which is entirely consistent, though not entirely plausible.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt23...

    "Timecrimes" was reasonably consistent as well.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...

    (IMHO neither movie was as good as "Primer".)

  21. IANA and the RIRs have long-standing policies concerning IPv4 allocation, that they've been enforcing more and more strictly as IPv4 space nears total exhaustion. Addresses are allocated and assigned with the understanding and agreement that they will be used efficiently. Entities that fail to make efficient use of their allocations will not receive new allocations, and may even have their current ones revoked.

    Intentional, persistent, complete blackouts are very inefficient use of precious IPv4 space , so whoever does that gets no new allocations.

  22. Re:The best solution for this madness is on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just ads that jerk the page around while you're trying to read it. Newegg's web site, for example, seems to lazy-load a lot of dynamically-sized content. Yeah, that's their fault for using lots of crappy scripting, but browsers could handle it more gracefully.

  23. Re:The four seats were used by crew, how was this on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    drug, yes, drug

    No, dragged.

  24. Re:Quick and easy solution on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there some other way to code?

  25. Quick and easy solution on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Pass a law that requires all employers to cut all white men's pay by 50%, white women's by 40%, asian women's by 30%, etc, so all groups on average make exactly the same money. Problem solved, full equality for all! Only racist misogynists could possibly disapprove.