Slashdot Mirror


User: schwit1

schwit1's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,270
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,270

  1. Re:Playing with marked cards on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if Ivey marked the cards, which he didn't. This is little different than an opposing poker player having a a tell and you exploiting it.

  2. I got an idea what they're looking at. You know what they're looking at?
    Is that guy something; or is that guy something? I mean, you gotta give this crew credit. They are so fucking good... Know what he's looking at?
    Us. The L.A.P.D. The Police Department. We just got made...

    Hanna
    Heat (1995)

  3. Re:Use Windows 10 LTSB on Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Unofficially, any Windows user can get Windows 10 LTSB if they want. Microsoft offers ISO images with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB as part of its 90-day Enterprise evaluation program. You can download the ISO file-be sure to select "Windows 10 LTSB" instead of "Windows 10" when downloading-and install it on your own PC. It'll function normally for 90 days, after which it'll begin nagging you to activate Windows. But Windows 10 is perfectly functional even without activation, so you should be able to use it as long as you like without entering a product key. You'll just have to put up with nag screens.

  4. Use Windows 10 LTSB on Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://www.howtogeek.com/27382...

    Did you know there’s a version of Windows 10 that doesn’t get big feature updates, and doesn’t even have the Windows Store or Microsoft Edge browser? It’s called Windows 10 LTSB, short for Long Term Servicing Branch.

  5. But the New York Post thinks it's aliens.

    Nowhere in the article does the paper say THEY think it's aliens.

  6. Need higher taxes and more government regulations on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sure Governor Brown is trying to figure out how to shift the blame to Trump and away from his party's policies that are responsible.

  7. Maybe it could help in Ukraine on Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows (geekwire.com) · · Score: 0
    http://www.reuters.com/article...

    "Millions of dollars' worth of U.S.-supplied drones that Kiev had hoped would help in its war against Russian-backed separatists have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking, Ukrainian officials say."

  8. Do all companies 'work with' CR after a bad review on Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    CR could be setting a bad precedent.

  9. BS. Point the nose down, it will land on China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not at an airport, but it will land.

  10. Re:This whole story line is ridiculous on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Please up vote.

    The Russians made US voters aware of lies, deceit, corruption and collusion of the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the media.

  11. Sorry officer, the car I was driving wasn't stolen - it was captured.

  12. The government has the trump card: NSL on Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Game over.

  13. Should require a criminal conviction like Nebraska on The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags (economist.com) · · Score: 1
  14. Is there an app that locks USB ports? on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    An app that requires a uname and PW to enable a port, without a reboot. And protect against this nuisance too

    USB keyboards may be a catch22.

  15. 95.1 Million Americans Not In The Labor Force on US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... The Unemployment statistics conveniently ignore people who have given up looking for work.

  16. Burning in Hell next to Hitler, Mao and Stalin on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Troll
    If this were a just world, 13 facts would be etched on Castro's tombstone and highlighted in every obituary, as bullet points - a fitting metaphor for someone who used firing squads to murder thousands of his own people.
    • He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.
    • He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.
    • He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.
    • He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.
    • He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.
    • He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.
    • He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.
    • He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba's large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
    • He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.
  17. Kerry's Trip Produced A Years Worth of CO2 on Another Study Finds Earth's CO2 Emissions Have Flattened Over The Last Three Years (go.com) · · Score: 0, Troll
    http://cnsnews.com/news/articl... Secretary of State John Kerry winged his way Monday from New Zealand to the Middle East on the next leg of what may be his longest trip yet, a journey during which America's top diplomat will account for roughly 16.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

    That's more or less the amount of CO2 - one of the key "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming - produced by the average American in a full year, according to World Bank data.

  18. Clinton Crime Family is above the law on Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Comey was made an offer he couldn't refuse. Podesta is the Consigliere. Anyone else that did what she did would be serving serious time.

  19. What authority does the FCC have to do this? on FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I hate mandatory arbitration too, but Congress made the Federal_Arbitration_Act and it's been upheld by SCOTUS. I don't see anything in it that exempts the FCC.

    I'm also not a fan of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats making rules that have the force of law.

  20. Maybe this court ruling
    https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
    Facebook could have TOS that prohibits LEO/government usage of APIs, directly or indirectly(shell company), unless with a court order.

  21. Re:Upstaged by Trump on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The trump tape is over a decade old and occurred when he was a democrat. CBS was waiting for the right moment for maximum effect ... just like the KGB and wikileaks.

  22. Turkey is also jailing many for downloading app on Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub and Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Services Blocked In Turkey (turkeyblocks.org) · · Score: 2
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

    Teachers, judges, journalists, businesspeople, bankers, shoemakers, chefs, police officers, florists... All of these people are in Turkish prisons for simply downloading ByLock. Thousands of children were left orphans in a country where child social services are broke. There are dozens of cases where entire families were jailed because of this app.

  23. http://www.ghostplate.com/mech...

    The Road Warrior cover consists of a PDLC membrane. When power is applied, the PDLC membrane switches to a completely transparent state and remains so until the current is suspended.

  24. Good luck getting around the mandatory arbitration on Yahoo Sued For Gross Negligence Over Huge Hacking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Important Notice: This agreement is subject to binding arbitration and a waiver of class action rights ..."

  25. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc would get into the parallel networks, but it would be through the countries' gateways/filters. This implications of this are not good for the people in nations controlled by thugs.