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  1. Re:Who domesticated whom? on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You have to hire professional cat confusers regularly or that happens.

  2. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Carl's Jr already doesn't employ _any_ burger flippers. Conveyor grills are cheap.

    Low skill labor is overpaid already.

  3. Re:But it's a dry heat on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen water condense on the outside of windshields where the AC was blowing. Fuck Florida.

  4. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    'Certified' is too obvious to riff on.

  5. Re:Are license plates next? on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure smoking gun collected the 'no' list of ego plates, a good decade ago. People with sticks in uncomfortable places have surely made the list grow a little since, but still, done.

  6. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. Yikes.

    No security staff, test your own damn code, 'architects' and project managers do security, admins 'validate' everything they deploy.

    Who runs backups? The receptionist?

  7. Complete lack of trust. on Microsoft, Accenture Team Up On Blockchain-based Digital ID Network (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't think of two companies I'd trust less.

    So this is truly a test: Can strong enough cryptography overcome complete lack of confidence in counterparties.

  8. It will be your identification pony once Vermin gets the presidency.

  9. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly my point. The trick is to move on once you've got actual solid experience, as the place surely sucks. Also assumes you've got the basic understanding to backfill the practicals quick enough. I pulled this off a couple of times when I was younger.

    I have 30 years professional experience 'figuring shit out' by now...not much scares me...it can't be worse than Netmare 2 was. Also: I've seen what the average 'seasoned, certified pro' produces.

  10. Re:So... basically all of us? on 198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's really interesting. Population about 310 million...about 70 million under 18...230 million registered...

    How many non citizens again? How many ineligible?

  11. Re:Misleading title on 198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That ship sailed.

    Munging up a URL has been 'hacking' for decades now.

  12. It could be a violation of the analytic firms licence for the collated data...

  13. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't need to bullshit, don't. But someone genuinely unqualified can make a jump, if they can backfill the bullshit once on the job fast enough.

    In other words, if you have six months and they're asking for five years, don't. But if you have zero? Go for it...

  14. Re:Rumble at the cart return on Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think is gonna win that fight?

    Bezos is destroying the thing he just paid billions for. Does 'Whole Foods' own any real estate?

  15. Re:The problem is permits... on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Two remodels.

    First: replace all but the NE corner.

    Second: replace NE corner.

    Teardowns are a thing of the past.

  16. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in the best of setups, you need someone to monitor the intrusion detection and test patches and updates. Effective 'ground up security' requires extra granularity of permissions. This has a cost as well, even done efficiently.

    And it's all worthless if someone lets a stranger tailgate past a card reader and that stranger finds a logged in machine he can plug a rubber ducky into. So add in the cost of real physical security. Don't forget that background checking the janitorial staff isn't free.

  17. Re:Smith & Wesson 29 on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    I know you're trolling. That cannon overpenetrates for a neighborhood. Gonna shoot a kid through 3 walls.

    Save it for Grizzly hunting, backup weapon.

  18. Re: Alarm system on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    Security screen door, outside the front door. Hinge pins are set. IIRC somebody mushroomed the ends pretty good.

    Supreme court said cops can go in and 'secure the front room of the house' (shoot dog etc), without your consent, if you open the door. But not if you have a security door on the outside.

    Everybody should have one, you're a _communist_ if you don't.

    If they want in, they attach a chain to the security door and pull it off. But the pushin to checkout if you've got anything worth stealing (civil forfeiture) won't happen.

  19. Re:Password and full image backups on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    Insurance is for catastrophic claims. Just making a claim like this will raise your premiums for the next five years. You can't win with those bastards.

    Get a giant friendly dog and a pump 12 gauge loaded with #5 (so it won't overpenetrate and kill the neighbor's kid in her bed, also 'has a good spread').

  20. Re: backups on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 2

    Make twice as many trips and carry one. Your twenty or thirty year older self will thank you.

    I was you.

  21. Re:Fund education, talk to educators on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    They don't need more security guards though.

  22. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be, if part of a long, very specific purple unicorn type list. Those jobs are easy to recognize.

    If part of a more normal required skills list, it translates as: 'Provide bullshit as needed. No dogooders.' Believe me, I know how to spot those jobs...

  23. Re:I have the answer and it is a SIMPLE answer. on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Removed unnecessary clause:

    That and kick the CTO and CFO in the nuts, both those assholes deserve a good hard kick in the groin any time

  24. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen them capitalize IT. Called the entire expense system R&D. For about a decade, then sold the place, the worthless 'steaming pile' of software and the loan, to an even bigger group of vultures.

    I think I personally lasted about two years...undeleting files off the state regulators scratch floppy disk when asked to print a file...good times. Never found anything I could trade on, just more sleaze, and the real dirt on 'the partners'.

  25. Re:cyber security jobs on How Can Businesses Close 'The Cybersecurity Gap'? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just a left handed way of asking that all candidates be good bullshitters. I just consider: I do have more than five years experience claiming experience that I don't have, decades, if you get down to it.

    5 years at something six months old...translated...tell me 'sweet little lies', but no big ones (stern voice).

    It's one of the more honest things employers put in job ads. It's one of the most basic things you can just have or not (effective bullshitting). It would suck to find it was a job requirement after you relocate.

    Fortunately my bullshit is deep, when needed. I'd rather not, but what did the dude in team America say?..'I promise that I will never die'...no choice really.