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  1. Re:It is pretty shocking and telling of our times on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    He did not make notes of any classified content of conversations.

    He made notes. He said he documented the conversations. Whether these conversations were classified, covered by executive privilege or whatever is for attorneys to decide.

    it was pretty damning for Trump

    Yes. I'm not defending Trump. But I've seen people go to prison for taking information for the purpose of whistle-blowing that they had no legal right to. And the guilty parties were never even charged. If Comey's evidence can't be used to bring charges, I don't think Trump gives a damned about public opinion.

  2. Re:In other news, the US is very large on US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this a measure of broadband speed per square mile? Or per customer? Because I don't really care if broadband sucks in the middle of the Rockies. Not many people live out there and poor speeds per customer won't affect the average very much.

    You could make a claim that with a few cities like London (very high population density), that would tip the statistics in the UK's favor. But Cyprus? Nicosia is nowhere as dense as New York, Chicago or LA.

  3. Re:Secrets... are only secrets when you keep them on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So what exactly does it do then?

    Test how special electronics and heat pipes will fare during a long-duration space mission.

    There, the secret is out. Might as well just cancel the whole project.

    Or ... they wouldn't lie to us, would they?

  4. Re:It is pretty shocking and telling of our times on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they won't analyze any of your social media posts and bring it up in your next security review.

    They watch that stuff. But the case officer just chuckles over my "In Soviet Russia..." posts.

  5. Re:It is pretty shocking and telling of our times on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Says who?

    My employer.

    much less posting it on /.

    Yes, but who am I?

  6. Simple solution on US Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It's Blowing Away (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Grow less food and feed crops. Turn the land back into grassland and graze cattle. Eat the cattle. Vegetarians BTFO.

  7. Global pools of wealth gotta go somewhere.

    Back to the workers and shareholders.

  8. Re:It is pretty shocking and telling of our times on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    At what point? When he had conversations with Trump and made the notes? Or when he turned them over to his friend? The content of those discussions probably fall under executive privileged communications and will continue to be so even after Comey left office.

    I had a security clearance*. But even now, after retirement, I'm not free to discuss the particulars of my work. I couldn't take notes I made at work home. Let alone hand them to someone after I left the job.

    *Technically, I'm not even supposed to discuss that. But after the FBI conducted standard background checks and interviewed my neighbor the drunk, everyone in town knows.

  9. Re:I Nominate The Homeless on Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Dope is expensive.

    They don't want to dig into their dope budget for those little luxuries.

  10. Re:Whats experimental and secretive about it? on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    fuel cells for power, which would run out of fuel after about a month

    How much of that power was for life support for the meatsacks?

  11. I didn't even know ... on Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    ... there was a town called Need.

    I'm willing to help. I'll buy a homeless person a bus ticket there.

  12. Re:I Nominate The Homeless on Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They aren't wandering aimlessly. They are looking for dope dealers.

  13. Re: Nice that they can do this on Apple To Phase Out 32-Bit Mac Apps Starting In January 2018 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    compatibility of your systems with your employees devices brings productivity benefits.

    Well, in the commercial aviation manufacturing business, use something other than certified tools and processes and you lose your manufacturing certificate.

    On the military side of that business, you even show up with an "employee device" and you'll get frog-marched out of the facility.

  14. Re: Nice that they can do this on Apple To Phase Out 32-Bit Mac Apps Starting In January 2018 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't interact well with the modern tools employees want to use.

    Depends on the industry you are in. In the software biz, it may be that companies have to cater to a bunch of spoiled children that will have a tantrum if they can't run their precious new apps. But many businesses define their tools as a part of their processes. And they don't go changing them on a whim if they still work. Sometimes it's even an issue of having to re-accredit or re-certify the development/production processes every time a tool is changed.

  15. Even if their repair shop rates are clearly posted?

  16. Food stamps are pretty much a thing of the past. They give you an EBT card, which works like a debit card. They load it up with funds periodically. 'Loose' it and they invalidate the card. Loose it more than a few times and questions will be asked.

  17. Re:In a word, patents on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No mod points, but this.

    Creative people fled the corporate IP ownership that Edison fathered. To a place where employees could move back and forth without having their knowledge and experience effectively stripped from them.

    Is it any wonder that at the far end of this philosophical spectrum New Jersey became one of the centers of mob activity? Where you have to cut the big boys in on the action if you want to play in their markets.

  18. Re:Well, Duh. on Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills: WSJ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "You dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!"
    - Will Hunting

  19. Re:What kind of a person would want to be hired... on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    And what kind of person wants to work someplace where, despite being hired for their skills, is subject to a lot of rumors spread that they were just hired to meet a quota?

    I wonder how many frat boys feel bad about getting jobs as a result of some pledge promise. I have the feeling that, whereas the women going into STEM are trying to accomplish something, the frat boys know that they are fuck-ups. And if confronted by reality will just respond "Bite me. I've got the job and there isn't shit anyone will do about it."

  20. Re:The document had hidden identifying information on DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the EFF article cited but I could not see any yellow dots in their photos. I guess I must have coughed too much coffee on my monitor reading Slashdot.

  21. Re:Mylan will cease to be relevant in 8 years on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when their patent expires.

    It's not even their patent. Pfizer owns the patent and manufactures them. Mylan only holds the exclusive rights to market EpiPens in the USA.

    It's time to drag both Pfizer, Mylan and the FDA into court on federal antitrust charges and collusion to keep other products and market channels available.

  22. Re:Good on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    As a libertarian,

    Shhhhh!

    Oh, I thought you said librarian. Never mind.

  23. Re:FREE HARVARD CLASS! on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Can I submit my college prep work? I've got quite a large corpus of work posted on /b/ from high school senior projects.

  24. One app for everything? on Apple Piles On the Features, and Users Say, 'Enough!' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One App to rule them all, One App to find them,
    One App to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

  25. Not really a problem on Insecure Hadoop Servers Expose Over 5 Petabytes of Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... because, to date, nobody has figured out how to get data out of a Hadoop database.