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  1. Stupidity on its finest on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupidity more like it... I do understand apples drive to maximize profits by moving to proprietary custom BT chips, with added bonus of tieing customers even more to apple products, etc... but i dont undestand why remve good reliable connector. It can be water proofed if wanted, so thats just xcuse of bad manufacturing and engineering..

  2. Why? on Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Who would want flash player thats every new version is worse then previous ones... And now we have HTML5 t replace flash entirely...

  3. Little too late? on President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Its late for that isint it? After deploying cyber weapons against IRAN nuclear program?

  4. Stupidest idea ever... on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 0

    More like designed to be hacked.. Come home after long weekend trip, find all in fridge ruin because some script kiddie resetted thermostat to room temperature... Very good idea to make IoT hype fridge.... Knowing Microsofts development model, security is last thing in their mind... But atleast you can enjoy BSD in new environment, your fridge....

  5. Disaster wont wait untill your not busy to strike on Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers In Real-World Stress Test (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Thats how you should do it. Disasters dont wait around untill your not busy doing something else, they hit when they want to. Thats why i think live testing is important to see if recovery plan works or needs iteration of improvement... Best test is usually when disaster strikes right when you have hands full of something else... No time to dig up manuals, etc...

  6. Same old Microsoft policy on Annoying 'Open PDF In Edge' Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users At Risk (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So Microsoft still continues old ways of Swiss cheese out f box practise. No offence to real Swiss cheese, its actually very good cheese. Considering how massive amount of money Microsoft has and how they could hire best programmers, etc... Im surprised they still keep making same damn mistakes again and again. Almost like design practise is: Lets sell them broken product and then release fix to some issues later...

  7. Im not suprised... Took me a whole day to install it on one of my laptops. First obstacle was it newer started downloading it... After trying upgrade helper turns out i didint have 20 GB of space it required.... Why didint normal update tell me this was problem? Then there was incompatible HP security software... Manually unsinstall 7 sub components of it and then main security manager... Reboot system at every turn... When it finally starter installing it still took nearly 3 hours to complete... Im so glad im not running business, that would have been disaster to be down a day for damn upgrade... So i did finally take a plunge, not doing anything super secret with this one... But i definitely understand why people stay away from it. I have newer had to waste whole day to upgrade any Linux distribution to newer version. Fastest have been half an hour and reboot once.

  8. How about better serve consumer? on James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Best way to fight piracy? Make streaming service that's affordable and has all the damn movies. i happily pay some money to have access to massive archive of old movies as well. BTW thats service that docent exists.

  9. Hows DNA outdated? Thats like claiming we humans are outdated.. DNA is current and perfectly suited to job at hand. We humans should not try beat nature in engineering of DNA... After all its nature that has unlimited resources and unlimited chances to progress.. We humans tend to make mess.

  10. Just add Armor on Corning Unveils Gorilla Glass 5, Can Survive Drops 'Up To 80% Of The Time' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny, phones are so fragile now days that we need to add extra armor just to keep it going... How about actually build that phone properly in first place?

  11. Do you really want punch of AI on lose hacking anything and everything, when theres enough trouble with people already doing so...

  12. So it does take day to succesfully install then? Or does this mean small business is supposed to close doors for a day to have upgrade, assuming its goes without problems like erasing your programs without permissions, messing your passwords, etc...

  13. Problem is, industrial systems are weakly protected. And stuxnet proved how easy it is to attack them, now everyone knows it. It even proved that targeted attack like this can spread all over the world very very easily... I think its only matter of time before we see terrorist use this sort of stuff instead of suicide bombs. Why kill docent people when you can poison thousands by messing water purification systems.... Whats even more worrying is people dont realise those industry systems need protection...

  14. Harsh punishment on UK Bill Introduces 10 Year Prison Sentence for Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    10 years from imaginary damages? Thats grazy...

  15. Just wondering, why do i need to move that movie in 10 sec if it takes me two hours to watch anyways?

  16. Blizzard does realize california cant dictate laws in Germany? Nor does Germany have any sort of DMCA laws... In fact most of europe allows reverse engineering in order to make compatible software, witch cheat software clearly is....

  17. How many false claims? on DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015 (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how many of those takedowns were done under false claim. Meaning its fraudlent DMCA takedown request... In youtube they match all sort of shit for DMCA takedown making sometimes just unbelievable claims. What chances does small person or developer to really challenge those false claims. Example in my country its perfectly legal to reverse engineer software and make compatible software. Our law also docent know shit like DMCA and hopefully newer will.

  18. So has it been tested on bitcoin mining yet? or seti project? Im curious what sort of real world throughput it has...

  19. Learn how to secure your systems first on EndGame CEO: Root Out Hackers Before They Strike (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I think money was better spend learning how to properly configure you corporate systems and actually learn how to make secure applications.. Some of the hack i have read have been bossible because some idiot didn't properly secure systems installed.

  20. Re:Brings a new meaning... on Microsoft Wants To Power Self-Driving Cars With Software, Not Build One (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Was thinking the same, would give DSOD whole new meaning...

  21. Nightmares are dreams too.. on Bill Gates: AI Is The 'Holy Grail' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets just hope dream docent turn out to be nightmare. No human can remain control of super intelligent machine. Its impossible.

  22. Thats handy, record after the victim is down already... How about start recording when officer leaves hes vehicle? And prevent later editing of videos or erasure in case officer happens to brake the law...

  23. Thats one high price toy on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    1200$ ? That damn thing better have all goodies i can ask for. Wifi, 4G, several micro SD card slots, run on Linux, usb transfer and recharge, Solar charge, etc.....

  24. Funny on UK Arrest Over Xbox Live and Playstation Network Outages · · Score: 1, Troll

    Since when its hacking if you ddos someone? your not penetrating system, just sending it massive amounts of traffic to make it choke...

  25. Re: Just use filters on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    Last i check Finland was still part of Scandinavia...