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  1. Re:Another PATENTLY RETARDED and SUPERFLUOUS promi on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    He's always wanted to be above all the other space cadets. Here's a picture from his youth.

  2. Re:Or not on 'The Word Hack is Meaningless and Should Be Retired' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong dictionary, wrong definition.

    "BBC's Dougal Shaw... demonstrates that it's cheaper to make your own sandwich each day than it is to buy a pre-packaged sandwich from the supermarket."

    Surely, this is a near-perfect example of a hack.

  3. Re:I'd like to see more education programs on After a Decade, 77-Year-Old Gets Back $110,000 Lost In 'Nigerian Prince' Scam (kansascity.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Critical thinking" in these cases is nothing more than common sense. No, some foreign royalty isn't going to pay Joe Blow a large sum of money for any reason.

    It only affects greedy people who think there's a pot of gold under the rainbow.

    Let Darwinism take its course. Stupidity should be painful.

  4. VW execs paid personally, by losing their careers and/or being prosecuted for crimes. Customers/shareholders don't pay for that.

  5. Sleeper on The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dr. Melik: Yes, this morning for breakfast. He requested something called wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk.
    Dr. Agon: [ laughs ] Oh, yes. Those were the charmed substances...That some years ago were felt to contain life-preserving properties.
    Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies? Or hot fudge?
    Dr. Agon: Those were thought to be unhealthy, precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.

  6. The phrase "on par" does not mean what you think it means.

  7. Or, to be topical, $400 million gross to lose $50 million. Sell at a loss and make it up on volume by doing that a couple of times per year?

  8. Nice try, but your attempt at fake news fails, as it is too easily and obviously disproved.

  9. "Disney paid cool 4 billion for the franchise. A completely safe long-term investment in index funds will bring 5-10% annually. Therefore, Star Wars needs to bring 600 million to 1 billion every year to be on par."

    You should stay away from things which require math.

  10. Re:Vulnerability? on Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Maybe we should go back to using .ARC, it avoided the issue by not supporting directories.

  11. Re:We know who they mean on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Point is, it's a valid example of media bias. And they're in no way "lost kids," rather cases where the people they were placed with didn't respond when contacted. That characterization legitimizes Trump's claims of "fake news," because it's deliberately misleading.

    And to be fair, the numbers I gave although correct, are also misleading because the pools were of dissimilar size. The non-response rate was similar (within a few percent) under both administrations. It's a brouhaha in a teakettle, and impugns media integrity.

    IMHO, there's a very, very, small news media these days. It's mostly 7/24 channels calling themselves "news," when in fact they're resorting to editorial, punditry and sensationalism to compete and fill all that time/space. The mainstream media seemed much more fair and balanced when it was only a few TV networks doing an hour a day, a few weekly magazines covering issues in more depth, and a daily newspaper.

  12. Re:Holy Moly! This is some seriously creepy sh*t! on Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh, people have thought of it. The issue has been known for years. The only thing that's surprising is that there's still software which allows it, which can only be due to incompetence. Heck, here's a security book describing the vector (directory traversal) dating to 1996, and it was known long before then.

  13. Re:We know who they mean on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    The media correctly reported Trump's figure (actually 1475, you exaggerate) in that case. If they had used numbers from the Obama administration (for the "first half of FY 2016"), it would have been 4156 "lost children."

  14. Re:We know who they mean on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Kinda like the NYT and CNN pushing a story of immigrant kids in cages using a picture from the Obama days, eh?

  15. Re:Cludge fix? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "I'm not sure this change will affect GrayKey and Cellebrite anyway."

    I'd assume that Apple has gotten their hands on one, knows how it works, and has used it to develop and test their new feature.

  16. Re:Monsanto gave bio-engineering a bad name on No More 'Miracles From Molecules': Monsanto's Name Is Being Retired (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that Bayer used slave labor and did medical experimentation on concentration camp prisoners in WWII, don't you? Perhaps you'd like to share with us the special adjective harder than "evil" you've reserved for Bayer.

  17. Re:Router? on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to learn networking from Wikipedia. "Layer 3 switch" is nothing but market-speak for something which does wirespeed routing (usually combined with L2 multiport bridging, AKA switching). And mostly, that's only for IP.

  18. Precisely. Which means that the summary's statement that "[Z-Wave's] claims were knocked down by researchers" is simply not true.

  19. Re:Router? on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    "a switch separates broadcast domains, too."

    No, it doesn't. A bridge (a switch is just a multi-port bridge) separates collision domains. Broadcasts are flooded by switches.

  20. Re:Isn't Arianespace government-subsidized? on Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's French. He should know you can't make good whine with sour grapes.

  21. Re:Good. Arrest =/= guilt on Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion (lawandcrime.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They should follow up and start charging domain squatters with extortion.

  22. Re:Router? on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    Most of them aren't routers, they're NAT gateways. They won't (and can't be configured to) forward packets without modifying them. And most know nothing about multiple networks, nor to they have any ability to forward packets anywhere but to the next hop in the Internet.

    They're routers in a purely technical sense, they do separate broadcast domains. But calling a Netgear a "router" is like telling someone you own an automobile when it's just a toy Barbie car.

    Don't rely on Wikipedia for technical info.

  23. Re:Is #uninstallupdatesfacebook OK? on Facebook's Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges, Users Say (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "All they can do is "uninstall updates" and then "disable"."

    Which prevents the app from doing anything, including running. Problem solved. What's your point?

    BTW, the #deletefacebook tag refers to deleting fb accounts, not the app.

  24. What went wrong is you didn't #deletefacebook.

  25. The test creators failed the test. Really, kudos to those who correctly spelled full words, regardless of the means. Hopefully, they've also learned better than to text "r u ok, lmk" while wearing a baseball hat with the brim in the back.