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  1. Re:240% ?? Come on ... on Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you demonstrate that you can't do basic math, I'm probably not going to pay much attention to the conclusions in your article. As I recall from helping my kids, this is fourth, or at most fifth, grade math.

  2. Re:DGW - Dinosaurogenic Global Warming on Climate Change Could Cross Key Threshold in a Decade, Scientists Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Great. Let's return to that. The entire central United States was a relatively shallow sea, since there were none of those pesky ice caps and glaciers. What is now Florida was well under water, which in my mind is a good thing. Of course the end of the Jurassic wasn't the end of life. It was followed by the Cretaceous, with most of the well known dinosaurs. And, the end of the Cretaceous wasn't the end of life either. The point is that life goes on. However, which life might be important. If your particular species goes extinct, you might consider that bad. Your little screed demonstrates a fie ignorance of paleontology, geology, and climatology. Perhaps a bit more study of basic sources would help.

  3. Re:Who should we blame? on Who Should We Blame For Friday's DDOS Attack? (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    The criminal assholes that did it.

  4. Re:Can I still buy a Note7? on Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction. The summary didn't make that clear, and I obviously didn't RTFA.

  5. Re:Can I still buy a Note7? on Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    Hmmm... Buy $650 phone which lights pants on fire. Trade flame phone in for $400 Samsung phone + $100? No, I don't think so. I'll take the full price refund, including sales tax + the cost of a new pair of pants.

  6. I find it difficult if not impossible to believe that Wells Fargo management didn't know this was going on. "Improperly created accounts" is one of the classic ways to steal from an employer. They're also great for laundering ill-gotten funds. Banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions all have audit processes designed to ferret this out. So they knew, and they understood that it was their customers getting ripped off, and they were OK with that. Someone needs to go to jail, but that won't happen.

  7. Re:Errr on Unity 8 Desktop Session Arrives in Ubuntu 16.10 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Rats! Out of mod points. Somebody mod this up.

  8. Re: Brian said "SPECTRE", not "specter" on Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Books are just first-drafts of screenplays.

    Unless it's the other way 'round like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

  9. A pig in a dress is still a pig. The only real question is whether it's a cross-dressing pig.

  10. Re: Other than Brother... on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 2

    >Their ultra expensive laserjets are pretty good.

    I beg to differ. My experience was the same as yours back into the nineties, but no longer. I purchased three very high end multi-tray HP laser jets around 2008 for a 28 person office that used a lot of paper. While the front quality and speed was good when they worked, the paper handling part of these machines broke or wore out constantly. We would replace all the rollers and gears, etc., and they'd work great for a while. Then the paper jams would start again, and we would find that some cheap part had worn out again. Anecdotal evidence, surely, and ymmv, but caveat emptor.

  11. Well, no one could have anticipated this. Or at the very least the organization that put up these kiosks would have needed a lot of Internet experience to think that this might happen.

    All it would have taken to anticipate this is five minutes shoulder surfing the computers in the nearest public library. Any library. Anywhere.

  12. Stuff That Matters... on Pinterest Acquires Instapaper (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This has to be the most riveting tech business news I've read since Justin Timberlake and friends bought MySpace from NewsCorp for $35 million.

  13. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wouldn't be illegal under FCC in the US, but it's still endangering people by blocking calls to emergency services. It shouldn't necessarily be legal.

    I'm pretty sure that the bar has a landline telephone. Pick it up; punch 999 (UK), 112 (EU), or 911 (US). It's not that hard. If it was my bar, I'd install a couple of pay phones back by the WC for nostalgia's sake and a little extra profit. They also get emergency numbers for free. Otherwise, join the smokers out side for your Twitter fix. I'd be happy to stop bye if I was in the neighborhood.

  14. Sound Waves on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    Sound waves moving from the live band to my ears.

  15. Re:Not a surprise on Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If we could just wear pajamas at all times I'd be 100% happy.

    Haven't been to Walmart lately, have you?

  16. Harmon-Kardon Turntable on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 2

    Harmon-Kardon turntable running through H-K amp and Advent speakers. I do copy the vinyl albums to cassette tape for when I just want music playing in the background. Playing the vinyl is for when I just want to sit in a chair and listen to the music. Some of it is ripped to MP3 for portability, but I am not the kind of person who goes around outdoors with headphones on. I want to hear the birds and the oncoming train.

  17. Re:Interesting on Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.

    You have misquoted Emo Phillips. The correct quote is: "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."

    That's entirely possible. However, it is also possible that he is misquoting me, since I have been using that tagline since the days of logging into BBSs using Telix on a 286 in the late 80s. I am sure that I copied it accurately from the guy I swiped it from, because my tagline management program was really good at that.

  18. Re:Interesting on Apple iPhones Found to Have Violated Chinese Rival's Patent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Chinese model wasn't invented until this year. Duh!

  19. New Geocache Style Game on FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must Be Kept Secret (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Let's play Find-The-FedCam and pin the results on geocache sites and Google Earth. Bonus points for Panoramio pix of the cam.

  20. He is correct that Ted Cruz is a clueless moron, however.

  21. What's Old Is New Again on Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    My next phone will have the latest cathode ray display technology.

  22. Stop relying on devices that track you constantly and are closed for your computing. Stop using phones as computers.

    If apps for such a device had to be loaded from Fortran card decks that came by mail, I suppose there would be a lot less malware on phones.

    Fortunately, I have put a hardware hack in your vintage IBM 711 card reader that will install my nefarious warez.

  23. Magstripe is old tech. on Apple To Extend iPhone's Product Cycle; Shift To 32GB Internal Storage On Base Model: Reports (nikkei.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is only the Square magstripe reader that connect via the headphone jack. The chip reader and contactless Apple/Google pay reader connects wirelessly. Unless you have been living under a very large rock, you should be aware that magstripe is now legacy tech. If you continue to accept it at point of sale as a vendor, you now eat any and all fraudulent charges instead of the bank or card issuer. You can always keep an iPhone 5, 5s, 6, or 6s around for pint of sale use, and it is possible that Square will come up with a lightning connector model. I am also sure there will be an Apple headphone to lightning adapter.

  24. You Know It's North Korea on Someone In North Korea Is Hosting a Facebook Clone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the pages are Kim Jong Un pointing at things.

  25. Dear Law Firm on Panama Papers Affair Widens As Database Goes Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll respond to your Cease and Desist Order with a Fuck Off and Die Order.