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  1. Yeah, sitting in Germany and can see ... well, it's foggy so they're kinda blurry today. I think it's usually 20-30 on the field about a mile away from where I live. Not even offshore.

    I'm surprised windmills are increasing the price of power for the mainlanders, though. What's that about?

  2. Re:And who will pay? on Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, asking the Supreme Court now and then after a few judges have been swapped out "Is this still your opinion?" is kind of valid. Otherwise we end up with a decision from the 1800s about horse carriages affecting how we use a matter teleporter in the 25th century.

  3. Re:Judge fucked up. on Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, so shut up while you write down the password.

  4. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones I usually see are people typing 'do' and 'can' instead of 'don't' and 'can't'.

    As far as this goes, he was intending to err on the side of caution. This one aide reports one email - but have there been other emails? Has a link been clicked already? Going PROPERLY to Google and changing the password would be a 'no harm done' situation, and I suspect that's what he was aiming for.

    And then human error happened.

  5. Re:Reagan Air Traffic Controllers Strike again.... on Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, so the Energy Department can just say "This is our paper" and not list the name of the employee that wrote it.

    Gotcha, thanks for clearing that out.

    By the way, you should see a doctor about that rampant arrogance you got after 'your guy' won the popularity contest. It might be unhealthy.

  6. Re:Reagan Air Traffic Controllers Strike again.... on Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Says something about being safe in their personal effects and papers.

    Trump wanted a list of papers written.

    There, happy now? Or is it too hard to grasp that allowing the future president to write himself a long list of people to dispose of the moment he takes office is a Bad Thing?

  7. Re:[SOLVED] Eternal Slashdot conundrum on PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    No.

    1) Inform PwC.
    2) Receive C&D letter.
    3) Use exploit on PwC's customers.
    4) Take nothing, just leave the C&D letter behind.
    5) Buy popcorn.

  8. Throwing the sand out of the sandbox? on First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How does a sandbox protect you against a single obscure line in a potentially massive bit of code that transmits every address you visit (not necessarily the content to avoid being noticed from the performance drop) to an FBI server?

  9. Re:That could be very easily monetized on Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a case in Denmark just recently where a tabloid, Se & Hør (See & Listen, literally translated) paid an employee at a credit card processing company (NETS) for information about activity on cards belong to celebrities, royals etc.

    It went to court last month and the involved parties ended up with jail time or community service.

    For more information, though in Danish: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Possible explanation on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hell, even if the FBI laughed their butts off at the idea of an extra-terrestrial craft crashing on Earth they would STILL go check that it wasn't a Soviet nuke!

  11. Re:Should instead slow down to 5 MPH on Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't see 'bumping a motorized vehicle into humans' as a viable business strategy.

  12. and the customer was notified of the attempt.

    Oh really?

    Moreover, your department has not contacted my office since this unsuccessful incident to alert us of any security event that would require testing or scanning of our network

    Doesn't sound like they were told about it from anything other than analyzing their traffic logs.

  13. And it wasn't tolerated. It was banned from a bunch of places and the manufacturer issued a total recall.

    A bunch of idiots never figured out they can get a brand new phone for free.

  14. But how are you going to find either of those without a phone?!

  15. Actually renters have way to many rights, most places. Private property is the cornerstone of freedom and it should be nearly absolute.

    Your freedom is in that you don't have to rent out your private property.

    If you DO rent out your private property, the people renting it have protections regarding their privacy, their own belongings, etc.

    Private property and absolute control over it when other people live there is something we saw back in the old days of dukes, counts etc. It was not freedom, quite the contrary. Private property was for the rich, renting it was for the poor.

  16. Wait, did I miss a memo that says that all technology is now infallible because it's 2016?

  17. Re:Misses the big points. on John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Health benefits of leaving the planet confirmed!

  18. Re:No bezel? on Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Accidental touches galore!

    Still beats the S7 and the Accidental Torches Galore feature.

  19. Re:but the all important question on everyones min on Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Umm, isn't the very center of our galaxy a giant black hole with no burning whatsoever?

  20. I assume they're going to make sure you get as good or better latency than a wired connection?

    I also assume they're going to pressure carriers into providing proper data plans, not like my phone's plan that just this month got upgraded to all of 500 MB monthly data?

    If no to either one of these (and likely a lot more caveats by people smarter than me) then no to even considering it being possibly a good idea.

  21. Babylonian Cuneiform? on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I really understand the use of the Babylonian clay tablets for this - at best they'll tell you what day it happened, but we're talking about ~6000 years ago, so 60 centuries times 2 milliseconds, that's ... Did the Babylonians really calculate time in 1/100s of a second?

  22. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I didn't realize that.

    Damn, if only they'd dismantled the RIAA before making that system in a way so it could never ever in a million years be changed to something else, like musicians submitting their music and users tagging it as appropriate (pop, rock, instrumental, folk, rap ...)

    Oh well, I guess it's too late now. Let's just keep the RIAA.

  23. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it so hard to grasp that services like Pandora will continue to have a "Recommend Similar" feature for building playlists?

  24. Re:Of course on Backdoor Accounts Found in 80 Sony IP Security Camera Models (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whether or not you personally use Sony products does not prohibit someone else from taking your ISP offline with a botnet of Sony products.

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