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  1. Re:use this one neat trick on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    Bug closed. Works as designed.

  2. Great. IP will NEVER enter the public domain.

  3. Re:Where have all the Slashdotters gone? on Swiss Researchers Describe a Faster, More Secure Tor · · Score: 1

    Anthony, is that you?

  4. Re:An open cpu? on Project IceStorm Passes Another Milestone: Building a CPU · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, the fan you put on the CPU blows the dust away.

  5. Re:Made in Italy... on Fiat Chrysler Hit With Record $105 Million Fine Over Botched Recalls · · Score: 0

    ...designed by Italian's after consuming a large batch of wine!

  6. Re:Shocking on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not illegal if there is nobody who will investigate it and nobody is ever charged.

  7. Re:Intel's linux support is impeccable on AMD Starts Rolling Out New Linux Driver Model, But Many Issues Remain · · Score: 1

    No. AMD is afraid that someone at Nvidia, IBM, or elsewhere, will look through their open source code and see that they are violating one of Nvidia/IBM/whomever's patent, and sues them for not just the linux driver, that opens the door to discovery on all their other platforms as well.

  8. Budget? I suppose we do a round of layoffs...

  9. Re:links broken? on Using HTML5 To Hide Malware · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I get a proper, fully rendered page. Why is my CPU at 100%?

  10. Re:legally binding on FCC Approves AT&T's DirecTV Purchase · · Score: 1

    Yes, they are legally binding.

    Unfortunately, there is no monitoring or enforcement mechanism, so effectively it is as if there are no conditions applied.

    Well, I suppose some crazy guy at AT&T will read the document, and go "hey, we should be doing this", maybe try to actually implement some of the rules in his department and then be summarily fired. It's possible, but unlikely.

  11. Also, whatever Amazon does to try to try and super-track what I am doing on my computer. I can always tell if an Amazon page is loaded, a CPU is pegged at 100% and every other tab will feel like my computer has just been dipped in cold molasses.

  12. Re:Approach security the wrong way? No shit! on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Autos To Fix Remote Hack · · Score: 1

    the uconnect can still display the settings just fine [I guess, potentially a rogue program could try to trick the user by displaying false data on the screen], but it shouldn't be allowed to control the settings.

    And that's the rub, the extra couple of dollars for separate, completely independent buttons is too much...

  13. Re:Approach security the wrong way? No shit! on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Autos To Fix Remote Hack · · Score: 1

    Even that could be abused, as changing the suspension settings could result in a change in ride height, so a malicious program could order the suspension up and down repeatedly. And if you could do it at the harmonic frequency of the vehicle...

  14. Re:Random data point on The Science and Politics Behind Colony Collapse Disorder; Is the Crisis Over? · · Score: 1, Funny

    clearly, there is no problem then, because you have seen multiple bees at your home.

  15. Re:What are they going to replace with? on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    As well, with central heating, you are heating the whole house, whereas with their current setup, they just need to heat the parts that are actually used.

  16. Re:We can't even secure damn toys on HP: Smartwatches Are a Major Security Risk · · Score: 1

    No, your old employer will demand that it be removed and destroyed because it contains some of their proprietary information, and they can't be sure it has all been removed just by 'erasing' it.

  17. Re:We're a tech company... on Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    Except....Uber hasn't been told to sit at the back of the bus. They've been told to sit with the other cab companies, which they are, and they said "No".

  18. Re:Interesting... on "Breaking Bad" At the National Institute of Standards and Technology · · Score: 1

    FTFS "I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility. It is essential that we determine exactly where the breakdown in protocol occurred and whether similar activities could be ongoing at other federal facilities"

    The first sentence [and much of the summary] indicate that possibly illegal drugs were being made, but they weren't sure.
    The second sentence was "How did this happen and is it happening elsewhere" [ie, it definitely happened, and we must stop it from happening again].

  19. Re:OS X on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 1

    So, you would only consider buying an Apple-branded PC if it was exactly the same as every other manufacturers boxes, but Apple charged 20-30% less than everybody else?

    I'm pretty sure everyone would buy Apple PC's then.

      Apple would have 100% marketshare. Until they ran out of money selling these at a loss, given that the margins for pretty much every other manufacturer are sub-10%.

  20. Re:Not robotic surgeons. on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 1

    Sorry, for this story, it's "Eye'll be back!"

  21. Re:Lore Harp sounds awful on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    ..and they owned their operating system. This made it very straightforward for Apple to stop them.

    IBM also was very interested in suing cloners, but they couldn't stop Bill from selling the cloners licenses to MS-DOS, once [I think it was Phoenix?] the boot-rom was reverse engineered.

  22. Re: Easy trumps security on How Developers Can Rebuild Trust On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Uploading the data to your company's server so you can sell the data is entirely different from backing up the data to iCloud.

    Hell, Fitbit doesn't work with HealthKit because...they demand that you pay them EXTRA to gain access to your raw data.

  23. Re: Australia's Fastest Supercomputer. Hmmmmm on Cray To Build Australia's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    haha. You like getting backdoored!

  24. Re: Finger and Sand on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Unless you work for Microsoft, you are using someone else's excrement.

  25. Re:Uhmmmm on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Newbie. Chalk & rock!