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  1. Re:Reset the password on the accounts. on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 2

    Although the odds are good that, if you didn't have to respond to a confirmation email to sign up, they probably won't have countermeasures on the reset email either.

  2. Re:Double D - wrapped up like a douche! on WikiLeaks Unveils CIA Implants That Steal SSH Credentials From Windows, Linux PCs (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe it should be "held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night".

  3. Oh my God, this is so dangerous. Even if we discount the ethical issues of experimenting on our distant ancestors, the temporal danger is enormous. If Wikihistory has taught us anything, it may be that messing with the timeline could have had far-reaching and pan-dimensional consequences. I mean, for all we know, this could will have been what causes cancer in humans the first time.

  4. Re:co-inventor on Xerox Alto Designer, Co-Inventor Of Ethernet, Dies at 74 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ugh. I need to read more carefully before trying to be a smartass. Cancel my last.

  5. Did they have to say "co-inventor" because of that Al Gore thing?

  6. Huh? on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Loving a service is one thing, but if you love paying the bill, there's something seriously wrong with you. (No offence).

  7. We invert the problem on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 5, Funny

    On our projects, we simply count the lines of code that have no bugs at all. It takes far less time, and we can keep track of the good lines on the whiteboard in the conference room.

  8. The averge, single horse-power vehicle gallops at between 40 and 48 km/h. I think we're doing it wrong.

  9. I guess people could write their comments down on some paper, put it in an envelope with a stamp on it and mail it to the FCC. Sure, the latency is higher, but the bandwidth is still well above the eyeball processing power of the destination node.

  10. Re:Dial up on FCC Announces Plan To Reverse Title II Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting your modem to communicate over a voip line. I wonder how much of the old analog infrastructure even still exists. If I were a big cable company, I would want all that legacy hardware completely gone, so people would have to use my private cables and fiber.

  11. Re: The pre-Internet days... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but if you INTERconnect some separate NETworks with a common communications protocol (an INTER-NETworking Protocol, let's call it "IP" for short) then I would accept that as a useful definition.

  12. Perfect storm on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I just have to chime in here and say that I'm finding almost every post on this story interesting and entertaining in a way that I haven't experienced on /. in a long, long time. More of this please!

  13. Re:Apr 1st is stay at home day on Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? · · Score: 1

    Dude, just go upstairs to the living room and give your parents a hug. You'll feel better; I always do!

  14. Re:In-seat entertainment price rise on UK Flight Ban On Devices To Be Announced (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Panasonic is a Japanese company.

  15. Re: I thought it was Rust. on RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I think there's a Gödel theorem that applies to this scenario.

  16. Re: I thought it was Rust. on RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python (redmonk.com) · · Score: 2

    A good programmer can program Fortran in any language.

  17. This made my old bones shake with mirth. I would mod you "funny" if I had any points.

  18. Still optional on Google Quietly Makes 'Optional' Web DRM Mandatory In Chrome (boingboing.net) · · Score: 3

    It's still optional; just stop using Chrome.

  19. Re:6 times closer than the moon? on Asteroid Whizzing By Earth 6 Times Closer Than the Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

  20. Oblig Southpark reference

  21. Re:IT took me years to learn on Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? (marginalrevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget to take into account the time dilation effect; when travelling at lightspeed, the journey is instantaneous for the traveller.

  22. I thought Vonage was the dog.

  23. Re:Does it bundle.. on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    and also, this list has KB2846960 listed twice.

  24. Re:Does it bundle.. on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Of the four mentioned, the first one adds SURT functionality to the dism command line, and the other three are just CEIP and UAC telemetry. I would avoid the telemetry patches, personally, but the SURT patch is actually pretty useful; instead of having to re-download a 500k update every time I want to fix a broken Update database, or go find the .msu file on my drive and re-install it, I can just type "dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth", and it runs SURT using the saved .cabs from the first download/run of the update.

  25. Re:KB2775511 on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    And yet, when I apply this to an offline image, and then list the updates in my image, it doesn't mark any of the already added updates it's supposed to contain as "Superseded". I don't know, I'm not a Windows guy, so maybe I'm doing it wrong?