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  1. Privacy in the "Cloud"? What's that? on Microsoft Yanks Docs.com Search After Complaints of Exposed Sensitive Files (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never heard of Docs.com, but come on, uploading documents to Microsoft (or worse, Google)? You know some algorithm is looking at them even if some random human cant access them.

  2. Re:Gentoo on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Gentoo obviously

    I thought the Noobe Linux distro was Slackware. I keep reading it's the number one distro...

  3. Perhaps they mean like what the Win 10 upgrade did to my Compaq laptop: Bricked it in such a way that it was impossible the even boot from the Windows disk, wipe the drive and start over.

    I pulled the drive and copied my files off, but not everybody knows how or has the equipment to do that.

  4. Re:Why is it all we here about from worthless news on Theranos To Investors: Please Don't Sue! Here, Have Some More Shares (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Here / Hear...

  5. Re:"WILL fly more than twice the speed of sound" on Aerospace Startup Will Build A Supersonic Mach 2.2 Aircraft (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Editor, thy name is click-bait credulity.

    Exactly. They would LIKE to design and POSSIBLY build such a plane. MAYBE. What is more likly is that they will enjoy a trendy office in Denver or Colorado Springs with a foosball table, catered lunches, microbrews, and a cat, and when the money runs out, move on to some other - dare I say - investor scam.

    The idea that $33 million will get them anywhere near a flyable prototype is mind-blowing.

  6. Re:Boom - I do not think that this name will fly.. on Aerospace Startup Will Build A Supersonic Mach 2.2 Aircraft (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    'Boom' in this case is what you hear on the ground when an aircraft goes supersonic. The Supersonic Boom.

    No kidding?

  7. Re:Pricing... on Aerospace Startup Will Build A Supersonic Mach 2.2 Aircraft (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are going to charge 2500$ for a one way ticket, and the only benefit is I save 3 or 4 hours in travel time, I won't even think twice about it, fuck that.

    This jet is not for the hoi polloi like you. It's for the folks who where flying the Concord on a regular basis. Their time is more valuable than yours.

  8. Re:We need communism now! on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right, that worked very well in Eastern Europe.

    Invalid analogy, the worked NEVER actually ruled in any Communist / Socialist Eastern Block country.

  9. Re:Funny on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    but if the government contacted us about doing contract camera installs in people's bedrooms

    Paranoia much?

  10. Don't let him in on the secrets, he's just some "/\/00b3"...

  11. Re: And I don't have a single one of these install on App That Lets People Make Personalized Emojis Is the Fastest Growing App In Past Two Years (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The poo emoji is the most useful emoji in the emoji universe. Say it with me "We love the poo emoji! We love the poo emoji!" It's almost as wonderful as the Frosty Piss emoji!

  12. Re:So what? on Senate Votes To Kill FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But if this gets joe-six-pack-of-beer to sit up and pay attention then it may be worth it.

    To the extent that Joe S. Pack knows about and understands this equation, he mostly doesn't care.

  13. Re:Um, Edge is more secure than Chrome... on Microsoft's Edge Was Most Hacked Browser At Pwn2Own 2017, While Chrome Remained Unhackable (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has a reputation to live up to...

  14. This is impossible, Cloudâ services are rock-solid 100% of the time.

  15. I solved this problem at my last two employers by releasing everything with open source licenses.

    If your employment agreement says your employer owns everything, just because you slap an OSS license on something doesn't make it legally valid.

  16. My how times change. on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Freely Use Bitcoin In the Land of the Free? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My how times change. "Back in the day", anyone voicing most of the opinions here so far would be modded into oblivion...

  17. Will this be the beginning of the end for Uber? In addition to those leaving on their own, I expect a purge. And who will end up on top?

  18. If it's legal... on Apple Paid $0 In Taxes To New Zealand, Despite Sales of $4.2 Billion (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People always complain about this sort of thing, but you know most individuals would use legal tax "loop-holes" to avoid paying taxes if they could (and many wealthy people come close). Apple and all the other zero-tax paying companies are not non-profits, they're in it for the money. If people are upset about all this, perhaps our elected representatives can change the laws? Seriously, if it's legal, what of it? Like I said, most people would do the same if they could...

  19. Re:It's Double Bullshit on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    I also question that they are really going after "sex traffickers" as opposed to independent women who simply make their own choices about how to earn money.

    I wonder how many young non-English speaking Asian hookers fall into that category?

  20. Re: Bullshit. on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever noticed that each room has a unique painting on the wall above the headboard?

    You mean they are original "art"? I didn't know that, no wonder they're screwed to the wall (notice the word "art" in quotes...)

  21. "inaccurate," "irrelevant," "inadequate" or "excessive"

    According to whom? Free speech, etc, etc, etc... As long as it's not ruled libel in court, it's just an opinion someone doesn't like. Yeah, there are a lot of assholes out there that need to grow some skin or get off of the Intertubes.

    This is just more nonsense from Luddites that will never see a vote, although lawyers would love it since it smells like litigation...

  22. Bullshit. on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The vast majority of hotel rooms are not unique, they fit a specific floor plan for that chain of hotels. As well, the furniture, bedding, wall pictures - just about, if not everything is identical to many many other rooms in numerous locations.

    I don't care to be tracked under the absolutely ridiculous claim that this will help stop human trafficking. Or maybe I'm just not THINKING OF THE CHILDREN.

  23. This is old territory... on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet despite out qualifying them, women in cybersecurity earned less than men at every level and the wage gap shows very little signs of improvement.

    Hereâ(TM)s an idea I'd like to float, something that I've never heard considered before: Perhaps there simply isn't a legion of women who want to work in the cybersecurity world?

  24. Re:Securing it from whom? on Many Smartphone Owners Don't Take Steps To Secure Their Devices (pewresearch.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who would one be securing a phone from, exactly?

    Wife.

  25. 1. Come up with a wack-a-doodle idea.
    2. Build Kickstarter page
    3. Get a "story" on Slashdot
    4. ?
    5. Profit! (That is, burn through a lot of cash on booze, weed, and expensive cocktails)
    6. Fold.