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  1. Re:Wow. Kudos to this company. on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I took up blowing bubbles from a child's soap bubble pipe whenever the smokers took a break.

  2. Re:how much vacation? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot isn't goofing off. It's keeping up with important industry news and trends, same as BOFH. ;-)

  3. Re:Now how about healthcare? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Something that 'belongs' to the smokers (years of life), not an externality.

    Smokers save Medicare a ton of money by dying young. Sure death is a large medical expense for everyone, but life is also expensive.

  4. Re:Now how about healthcare? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    'Bad fit.'

    Never say _anything_ else, especially when dealing with 'protected classes'. What is the upside?

  5. Re:Silly Mistakes on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Many years ago, when I was an undergrad, another student was caught stealing tests from a prof's account.

    The prof logged in, the system told him he was already logged in at one of the labs. The prof _ran_ down to the lab and personally caught the student 'red handed'

    Just booted him for cheating, no FBI.

    Profs keep weird hours and are generally not stupid, there are no guarantees.

  6. Re:A truly better effort on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgery is a felony.

  7. Re:how much vacation? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only if you assume the non-smokers don't goof off separately but equally.

  8. Re:Now how about healthcare? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Smokers die young. Their lifetime healthcare costs are _lower_. Sense health care after age 65 is highly subsidised, we want _more_ smokers.

  9. Re:Senate: Come on, guys, please take us seriously on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's how the world SHOULD work. But not how it does.

  10. Re:I really wish 'social media' would just die on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is twitter/facebook users. They won't get any smarter if the sites die. They will just spew their bullshit over the wider web.

    Leave them in their ghettos.

  11. Re:A truly better effort on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Selling the service was dumb. Sell the test questions, maybe...

    When I was an undergrad, I taught someone how to make fake IDs (back when it was a little bit challenging, not illegal to teach someone how BTW). Moron put a sign in his dorm room window advertising fake IDs. You know how it turned out.

  12. Re:Original Unibus PDP-11 4MB, IBM 3081 had 32MB on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    PDP-11s were not universally stuffed with memory. We had a small 4 user LSI-11 in my Highschool with 12KB IIRC.

    RAM was expensive, IIRC I paid more than $100/16KB for my first RAM expansion.

  13. Re:Tell me again, why is USB can read keyboard inp on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be whack a mole. Lock the computer to the keyboard model and the keylogger will just get updated to report it is whatever keyboard plugged into it.

    Epoxy is a solution, but not a good one.

    They need to encrypt traffic between the computer and keyboard. Which will add admin overhead.

  14. Re:Senate: Come on, guys, please take us seriously on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a nice company you've got there, sure would be a shame if something happened to it...

  15. Re:So Feinstein has tech companies don't get it??? on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    They likely don't see it the correct way.

    Feinstein is there to help them see it the correct way.

  16. Your own link says cars are 'almost 100%' recycled. Which is my experience as well. Cars end in junkyards, who are really good at extracting value.

    First useable parts, then larger pieces of valuable metals, then to the shredder, who will take another pass at extracting aluminum/copper etc.

    About the only leaks I can see are the cars sent to the third world. But I bet those are recycled 'even better'.

  17. Re:I wouldn't hire him on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 2

    No, that would have guaranteed the teacher would have known something was up. As soon as a good student noticed a grade change the audit would have been on.

    Smart would have been to study the test questions he downloaded and not share with class/team mates.

    Even smarter would have been to actually attempt to get an education while in college. It's not like there's a great future for greco-roman wrestlers.

  18. Re:Tell me again, why is USB can read keyboard inp on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    It's coming. Lookup 'Rubber ducky'. Essentially a reprogrammed flash storage device that presents itself as a keyboard and runs scripts (typically attack scripts).

    Many places have computers set to call IT if anybody plugs in a USB storage device. Soon it will also call for a keyboard.

  19. Re:Because 89 times wasn't enough? on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    You misspelled Oracle.

    MS doesn't put the effort into marketing. It's like they can't be bothered to lie and/or offer no show jobs to decision makers.

  20. Re:on the football / basketball team then no need on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Iowa wrestling. Guaranteed these were the same 'easy As' that other jocks take.

  21. Re:That's what PC stands for on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Just how much memory do you think a computer like a PDP-11 had?

    There are reasons the PC oses went through the path they did. But it wasn't lack of memory that made (MacOS prior to X/Windows prior to NT) such turds.

  22. Re:He didn't know what he was doing. on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    He wouldn't have gotten caught if he had good enough memory to remember the exam questions.

  23. Re:A truly better effort on Student Charged By FBI For Hacking His Grades More Than 90 times (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like the classes jocks take are difficult either.

    Bet he was a communications major.

  24. Re:Yeah, in the 70's we were running out of oil, t on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't truck ore down the mountains. You pump it down a slurry pipe. If you don't have water you use a train.

  25. Re:Yeah, in the 70's we were running out of oil, t on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    You're confusing fracking with oil tars/sands. BTW We've been fracking for 100 years, the greenies just recently started to demonize it.

    It's production that's keeping prices down. Most large exporters, including russia, are largely one trick ponies economically. Saying 'OPEC' is sort of true, saying 'American production' is sort of true.

    It's all of it, including Europe reducing its demand because 'fuck Putin'.