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  1. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you're running a business with a gmail/hotmail/etc domain, you're doing it wrong and losing even more money. Really, having a personal/personal business domain hosted by a reputable provider doesn't produce false positives as a matter of course.

  2. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Most web/email providers support DKIM. Additionally, false positives are a recipient issue, not a sender one.

  3. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For less than $100/yr, one can get a domain, web site, and email services and be in control of their own destiny. For free, one can use any POP/IMAP client with gmail and not be subject to Google's constantly changing UI.

  4. Re:Trademark Law on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    "The solution would be Trademark Law,"

    Well, yes, and the USB Implementers Forum, Inc. owns the USB trademarks which are molded into virtually every cable, compatible or not. The problem is they don't work very hard at enforcing its use, and even if they did, trying to enforce it on CCC (Cheap Chinese Crap) would simply be a huge and pointless game of whack-a-mole.

  5. Re:Airgap on Virus Hits MedStar Health Hospital Network (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. Never heard of "economy of scale," have you?

  6. Re:I don't want to live in this planet anymore on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2
  7. Re:luck on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Just require that the dark net be RFC 3514 compliant.

  8. Re:Airgap on Virus Hits MedStar Health Hospital Network (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Have you ever seen what goes into (and comes out of) a modern EMR system?"

    Anyone who's ever dealt with healthcare insurance has. It epitomizes GIGO. And yes, healthcare was much less expensive when it was done by hand.

  9. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LOL. Your own source shows that CO2 follows temperature rise. They then go on to rationalize that the CO2 rise causes further temperature rise, which isn't any different than claiming that since you came after Jack the Ripper, you're here because of him.

  10. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 2

    That is also pointless. We also know that over the extended record, CO2 follows temperature, and that temperature variability is such that a 40 year term is completely insufficient to draw any sort of conclusion.

    I'm done, you obviously don't have anything scientific to add.

  11. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 0

    Correlation is not causation. If it were, then since the rise in the number of climate "scientists" over the past 40 years correlates with increased climate change, we could simply eliminate climatologists to solve the issue.

  12. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 3

    " it's now how science should work. Science allows you to actually reach actionable conclusions about the world. "

    Sure, by following the scientific method. You know, that thing with testable and falsifiable hypotheses, which climate "science" doesn't bother with?

  13. Re:IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... IFTTT... on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 2

    "How else can the poster boast about his intelligence"

    I thought he was trying to emulate Bill the Cat.

  14. Re:Printer with public internet ip? why? on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    DHCP doesn't mean the IP isn't fixed (they can use static leases), and many universities have large IP blocks, so they don't use RFC1918 addresses.

  15. Re:Google Legal Fund on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "They knows the plaintiffs strategy and what influenced the jury."

    Doesn't exactly the same apply to the plaintiff - that they know the defendant's strategy and what influenced the jury?

  16. Re:I'm sure... on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    So, to Bluetooth pair the phone so you can open and start the car, they'll just use high security. i.e. a code other than 0000 or 1234.

  17. Re:More bullshit on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    "If that was the purpose of the second amendment, it isn't fit for purpose any longer. You have your hunting rifle, the government has a lot of men with many years of training, fully-automatic assault rifles, body armor... oh, yes, and a helicopter gunship."

    Which is, of course, why the US military was able to win and secure peace and order so quickly in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  18. Re:Netflix supported net-neutrality on Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    "You really don't need full quality video on those small screens anyhow."

    My phone supports HDMI out via an MHL port, you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:Why is non-encrypted data going to cloud? on Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand cryptography much better than you can read. I specifically mentioned hashes. How does a cloud server compare a stored hash which has been encrypted (the GP said encrypt all data kept in the cloud) to the hash generated from a user provided password when it can't decrypt the stored hash?

  20. Re:Why is non-encrypted data going to cloud? on Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how do they authorize/authenticate these users, if they only have encrypted usernames/password hashes which they can't decrypt? Do you understand how a server works?

  21. But wait... on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't there some diet pill which will eliminate cellebrite?

  22. Re:Why is non-encrypted data going to cloud? on Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    So the servers which can't interpret this encrypted data process it how, exactly?

  23. "Global warming is the greatest challenge our species will face in the next 100 years," says Justin Lewis-Weber. Currently a high school senior in California...

    Sure, and B.o.B says the earth is flat. I'm not buying from either the rapper or the fortune teller.

    Bonus points for why "wirelessly beam[ing]" planetary scale power isn't a good idea. The article ignores the problem of how that even happens, or how a small targeting error doesn't take out Manhattan.

  24. Re:It already has been replaced by RJ.5 connectors on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 1

    "new standard..."

    Standard? In what way? 8 pin modular connectors are ingrained in Ethernet/data standards (802.3 and IEC 60603-7), and RJ.5 doesn't support 10G. What standard includes RJ.5 (which is an obvious misnomer, since RJ... are telephony standards, although Ethernet shares the use of modular connectors).

  25. Slashdot rule. on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 4

    The standard rule applies. When a "Should x..." question is asked, the answer is no.

    Any reduction would be at the expense of compatibility with everything which already exists. Modular connectors are reliable, cheap, easy to install, they work. Wired Enet is near end of it's capabilities (10G reduces the distance from 100 m to 15), so you'd be better off looking toward smaller fiber connectors as we move forward.