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  1. Do you consider Windows forcing the installation of un-vetted and non-native programs as part of its update process to be GOOD security?

    Holy crap, where's your bar for when something is bad security?

  2. Re:List of causes of death by rate on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought drunk driving was illegal? How does society at large permit and encourage it? Local peer pressure sure, but I wouldn't blame society as a whole.

  3. Re:Why would anyone be surprised? on A New Report Outlines Apple's Reluctance For Mature Content On Its Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a metaphor or not, but either way I can't see Apple putting a blanket ban on anything remotely controversial is going to be definitively good for your children.

    Your literal neighbor can STILL rip off his pants and tell your kids it'll be their little secret, and your kids can STILL get photos of naked girls and/or boys from their friends at school.

  4. Re:Does anyone really believe the government here? on Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Is being on a scuzzy looking website grounds for life in prison?

    Taking my tinfoil hat off for a moment to go all conspiracy theorist, but who's to say the 16 year old girl wasn't a plant because SOMEONE got tired of what Wilson was doing with 3D-printed guns? Can you say with certainty that the big weapons manufacturers don't have that kind of power? Or the government? Or both?

  5. Re:I don't think "CCTV" means what people think on Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Like Xerox and Kleenex, CCTV in the common mind has become a synonym for 'Video Surveillance Camera'.

  6. Re:The people wrong must be banned from Math on Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    You have just created the best incentive ever to NOT say that something is wrong even if you're 99.9% sure it is.

  7. Re:Internet is for ... animal porn ? /s on What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the internet isn't already full of animals doing what comes naturally. And unnaturally.

  8. Re:"Hasn't Opted Out" is Not The Same As "Opt-in" on Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    His examples are less like going back to an abusive husband and more like, "Meh, he forgot to wash the dishes again. I'll just do it myself."

  9. Not to mention holding your save games at ransom. "Oh, you've got a 99% complete save file? Would be a shame if you stopped paying for a couple of months and something ... happened to it."

  10. Re:I'm confused -- what actually happened? on Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So every video uploaded by every semi-popular news outlet would need to be vetted before people can watch the news?

  11. I ... Do you ...

    HOW do you concile 'wants to mooch off younger generation' with 'wants to keep their jobs'?

  12. Re:Ah, the lovers of the Dunning-Krugerrands... on It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't watched the video, but the summary reads like a Jerry Springer episode.

  13. That reminds me of a story ...

  14. Re:hacking on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    It is similar to how mapmakers would sneak in tiny factual errors, like a teeny-tiny side road in the middle of nowhere; if that road suddenly appeared in a rival's maps you knew he was copying you.

  15. Re:or maybe less people can afford to eat out... on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    And yet according to the summary, the average American eats non-home made dinner every other day.

  16. Re:Triple-nines. on How Tech Companies Responded To Hurricane Florence (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    How long does it take to build new power masts and string new power cables from mast to mast? Will they be done before the next hurricane comes through and tears it all back down again?

  17. Re:Gas station out of power? on How Tech Companies Responded To Hurricane Florence (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    If the hurricane knocked over a tree that crashed down on top of the generator then it doesn't really matter how much diesel is left in the tank, even TRYING to turn that generator on is a no-no.

  18. Re:Nobody listens, they just wait their turn to ta on Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not casual conversation, you're not waiting your turn to speak in order to address the guy sitting next to you; you're waiting to ask the lecturer a question, which makes said lecturer a part of 99% of conversation.

  19. Your mission: Use this swastika to pleasure these four blonde ladies at the same time!

  20. Re:This is pretty old news. on Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And what I heard in the 90s was that giving money to the citizens of impoverished nations (let's be direct and say Africa here) just meant that the money ended up in the pockets of that country's government. Those guys had much less use of, say, a sack of goat feed.

  21. Re:"Politically correct," ... on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Why can-"
    "OMFG RACIST NAZI WOMANHATER! #METOO!"

    Yes, Slashdot. It's like yelling because that was my intention.

  22. Re:use words with denoted meaning, not metaphors on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But 'controller' already refers to too many things in the computer world. Including the part that figures out whether a device is set to master or slave.

  23. Re:hacking on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case you don't publicize that you're swarming around the area, you send a single computer geek to the observatory to plant fake data for the equipment to sniff, then see where it ends up.

  24. Re:Faster attack when you have physical access on Almost 'All Modern Computers' Affected By Cold Boot Attack, Researchers Warn (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not very stealthy, though.

  25. Re:Found the LUDDITE! on Mozilla Enables WebRender By Default On Firefox Nightly · · Score: 1

    What about AppRender?