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  1. My Post-It Password Manager on LastPass Bugs Allow Malicious Websites To Steal Passwords (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Has simply never been hacked.

  2. Con or Confirm on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Goodenough & Helena Braga surely know they were going to be painted bright orange as frauds without additional proof.

    They surely know they had to follow up with a public display of a cell under charge, then discharge cycles with component weights and measurements to confirm the claims.

    Anything else would be a lifelong purgatory in an engineering gulag of con artists.

  3. We get "factory-chemical process created" chicken and then I would worry about the chemicals and the quality.

  4. Re:Weakening of schools on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not at all schools.

    90%+ of all grads from www.oit.edu get full time jobs within 6 months.

  5. Re: DOJ blocked ATT -- Now Cable? on Battle of the Carriers: T-Mobile's New Promotion Offers Three Unlimited Data Lines For $100 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I want multiple cable options.

  6. I stood outside of Starbucks with a friend the other day with my iPhone on ATT and his on TMobile.

    He ran the "Speed Test" on his and I on mine. I am not kidding that TMobile had 10 times the speed.

    Why? I am not sure. What I can tell you is that I went over my data plan last month and ever since, my data speed is throttled. ATT offers no clue.

    I'm moving to TMobile!

  7. Had another beer. on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No problem.

  8. Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hydrogen was not lost. It just sublimated.

    No chance in hell we will use metallic hydrogen due to pressures required.

  9. Re:Proof of Throttling? on AT&T Is the Latest Carrier To Offer Unlimited Data For All Its Customers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, the data rates I saw when connecting my MacBook Pro via Hotspot to my iPhone 5s.

    1. For years it was 200-800 KB/sec when connected
    2. ATT sends me a note I am over my data limit and data transfer goes to 4-20 KB/sec
    3. I go check out info at the ATT store and up my data plan
    4. Data speeds still 4-20 KB/sec (Activity Monitor)
    5. 2 More trips to ATT with all the excuses: Heavy cell traffic, Poor reception at your house, interference, etc. (even though nothing had changed at home)
    6. Final ATT guy says "Let's reset your network connection in your iPhone." One restart and data connections routinely now go up to 200-900 KB/sec as needed.

    Is that enough proof. It is just a data rate after all.

  10. Re:Proof of Throttling? on AT&T Is the Latest Carrier To Offer Unlimited Data For All Its Customers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 0

    It took 3 trips to the ATT store before I got a guy who knew how to check and he said "You are definitely nowhere near over your limit." He agreed that 10-20KB/sec data on a hotspot connection to the iPhone was rediculous.

    He then said "Have you tried resetting your Network Preferences?" I said "No, what's that." Go to "General" all the way to the bottom "Reset" and then to the middle of the page item "Reset Network Settings." It causes the phone to reboot and then the data speed was restored to 'normal' speeds.

    The average ATT store employee has NO CLUE.

  11. Re:ATT will screw you any way they can on AT&T Is the Latest Carrier To Offer Unlimited Data For All Its Customers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Just not sure if TMobile is better yet. I'll switch once I confirm if it is.

  12. ATT Hidden Data Throttling on AT&T Is the Latest Carrier To Offer Unlimited Data For All Its Customers (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    They do it on the iPhone on my account routinely, even though I'm not over my data limit.

    Frustrating trying to get a web page to load at 10KB/sec. Bastards.

  13. Re:ATT Loses BIG TIME! on T-Mobile Responds To Verizon By Improving Its Own Unlimited Data Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Got unlimited now and it is an unlimited "hold" on when I ever get above 40 KB/sec.

  14. ATT Loses BIG TIME! on T-Mobile Responds To Verizon By Improving Its Own Unlimited Data Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I went over my ATT data limit & they throttled my data. So I visited their store last week and then upped my data allowed.

    But I am still throttled most of the time on both cellphone and hotspot. Takes a long time to get a connection. Sometimes takes a minute to get something starting to load (looking at Mac's Activity Monitor.) Very often I'm limited to 20-40 KB/sec. ATT guys don't have an answer. Time to move to TMobile.

  15. Guess how many of these quickly build damn dams exist in California.

    The next 160 year cycle of Pineapple Express mega-floods is due in 2022. Geologists know the cycles from core sediments, which are indisputable.

    Can they retrofit dams in time? Will they even try? Will it make any difference if they do retrofit? Will any bureaucrat get fired? I am betting NO.

    Do the dam and water engineers already acknowledge this and the bureaucracy keep quiet on it, just like at Oriville Dam?

  16. You Don't Piss Off the FDA on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The literally have the power. Only takes them a day to get a court order, come out with the sheriff, escort everyone out and lock down a building.

  17. Re:Intentional infection? on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How could you trust any evidence once you know the system is open to change? More than one person should be fired for this.

  18. Slashdot Afraid to Post? on Breach Notification Website LeakedSource Allegedly Raided By Feds (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    Feds got your tongue?

  19. Long Cycles--Dry Before Wet on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Year to year changes are "NOISE." California had a drought for several years (virtually a blip in time) and then come the rains. It happens over an over.

    Sun spot cycles are repetitive. Mega-Rains come to California every 160 years or so. Last time was 1862, so 2022 look out. These are formed over decades of hot water buildup in the Eastern equatorial Pacific.

    Cycles have been consistent over centuries and it looks like they are changing now due to more limited solar input.

    How these longer term cycles & their variences affect the Earth don't seem to be of concern in current evaluations where people are only interested in year to year or decade to decade changes.

    Long term cycles are not "sexy", but may hold the fate of nations in their hands because of long term weather changes to dry or wet which cause massive changes in growing regions which means food for billions of people.

  20. Let a Private Company Do It on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it is viable, a private company would have funded and started it with agreements with California government entitites.

    They haven't done so and would not do it, so that tells you it will NEVER BE PROFITABLE.

    Let Hyperloop step up.

  21. Best News = No News on Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader Update Silently Installs Chrome Extension (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't use Adobe anymore, PERIOD.

  22. Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you reconcile between eras so far apart in both the breadth of measurements and accuracies and methodology between now and then?

    I don't think it is possible to any close "degree." Look, people didn't calibrate their thermometers all the time back then, nor did they have the scientific rigor in measurement technique to make sure they had an acceptable "averaging" setup for the measurement on a specific time and circumstance each day.

  23. A Mega-Mac Pro is Needed on Apple's Share of PC Users Drops To A Five-Year Low (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Consumers aren't buying PCs anymore in volume.

    Hence, Apple should aim the MacPro at the literal "PROFESSIONAL" market only.

    The cost of a MacPro is less than the total cost of the software on the system. I pay more for CAD licenses in the lifetime of my MacPro than the cost of the MacPro.

    Get it? Cook? Just my opinion.

  24. Executive Malfeasance? on Theranos Is Laying Off 155 People, About 41 Percent Of Its Workforce (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure seems like it.

  25. Google Flogging the Makers on Google CEO Says Next Wave Of Affordable Smartphones Should Cost $30 (phandroid.com) · · Score: 1

    Sit down and figure out how you can make any decent income off of a $30 phone, even if made in India.

    You are going to have to raise capital (maybe from your parent company), start a facility and make a profit to stay in business.

    Rough!