Slashdot Mirror


User: koan

koan's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,538
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,538

  1. Welcome to what Win10 is really all about.

  2. Huh on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    So the Universe is made up of hairy balls... that explains a lot.

  3. Re:Yeah... on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree.

  4. I wonder if instead of a blocker there could be a "diverter" (divertor?), for example all ads meant to be shown on the page you're looking at are diverted to another tab or null.

    It would appear they are allowed and not blocked, but you never have to see them.

  5. Another nail in the coffin for Yahoo.

  6. Yeah... on Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? (dice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    %40 I don't think so...

    I guess I've read too many political articles and everything now smells like an ad, a conspiracy or outright propaganda.

    "Carolyn Ockels: Carolyn is the Managing Partner at Emergent Research. Carolyn's current research and consulting is focused on economic decentralization"

    Focused...

  7. Re:So here's the thing on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the HD failure was punishment for turning Cortana off. *wink*

  8. "the article also indicates that professional security agencies have seen sources they monitor shut down. "

    And why would that be a problem? "Security agencies" don't seem to be aware, able, or willing to stop attacks.

    France has now passed more laws using the Paris attack as an excuse, and they got it done quickly (like faster than the PATRIOT act).

    Ponder that then read this.
    https://theintercept.com/2015/...

    And that's not the only example of FBI manufactured "terrorist".

  9. ""Those who think they can skirt the law will find themselves facing some of the toughest penalties for firearms offences in this country,""

    Those that will don't really care, do the Australian "authorities" understand criminal behaviour?

    Is it just me? Or is Australia going draconian faster than any other Western nation

  10. So here's the thing on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With all the complaining about Spyware10 (Win10) we had folks shutting off as much as they could.
    Because of the way it auto updates the home users, I wonder how many of the settings people switched off will stay off.

    Every time I updated a Macbook it turned "location services" in "security & privacy" preference pane back on.

    Is windows going to do this as well? Imagine auto updates resetting all those choices you made... to what M$ wants of course.

  11. "Snowden, who divulged classified information in 2013, is partly responsible for the terrorist attack in France last week"

    The "news" media stated that the French authorities had been aware and watching some of the group that was responsible for the attack, so where does Snowden figure in on this?

    No where.

    The ex CIA director should have his mouth sewn shut as his "agency" is responsible for so much misery in the world.
    And of course you may have noticed that none of these data collection programs have stopped a single attack.

    Then there's the FBI still grooming US citizens with mental deficiencies into puppets to be framed for "terrorism".
    https://theintercept.com/2015/...

    The FBI, CIA and the NSA are the criminals here.

  12. Always fun... on NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks · · Score: 1
  13. Less than three days after the attacks in Paris, UK prime minister David Cameron has suggested that the process of review for the controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill should be accelerated. The controversial proposal, which would require British ISPs to retain a subset of a user's internet history for a year and in effect outlaw zero-knowledge encryption in the UK, was intended for parliamentary review and ratification by the end of 2016, but at the weekend ex-terrorist watchdog Lord Carlile was in the vanguard of demands to speed the bill into law by the end of this year, implicitly criticizing ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for having 'shown terrorists ways to hide their electronic footprints'.

    There is so much wrong with the above, it's really sad.
    That these politicians can stay in power when they are so obviously sociopaths.

    Not one of the so called "agencies" (NSA, GCHQ) caught this before it happened, or (and more in line with what I think) they let it happen.

  14. It would be more interesting to know on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    How many of the "spy" and "ad" settings were changed back to on after updating.

    I started thinking about how difficult it might be to keep something the way you like it on Windows 10.

  15. Did "clock boy" win?

  16. probably... on Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    "probably"

    *sigh*

  17. For free... on Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I stopped using that app, in addition while they are "auto answering" for you, and you are vetting the answer what you're really doing is "tuning" their software response for free.

    In other words as their software interprets your email, you are validating the automated response for them.

  18. government officials didn't even know WCRW existed until Reuters told them about it.

    I guess all our security is focused on the Internet and phone system.

  19. The NSA is furious!

  20. Laugh on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 0

    I imagine these days the entire crew will be LGBT, and female.
    If not I expect quite a but of "outrage".

    Woo woo!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. I call woo woo on you on Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? · · Score: 1
  22. Re: Hmmm on Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA · · Score: 1

    Food for thought, here is something you might be interested in.
    http://chuckspinney.blogspot.c...

  23. Re:Hmmm on Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA · · Score: 1

    But doesn't everything you have stated mean that the "authorities" and "agencies" have become hopelessly dependent on this computer data gleaned from corporate and their own spying.

    This narrowing down of sources means one thing, all one has to do to avoid scrutiny is not use ANY of it.

    If anything, they have crippled themselves.

  24. Hmmm on Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA · · Score: 1

    My opinion is that most everything I have read about CISA is "offering" already exist.
    The sharing already exist, and to date does little to stop the rape of networks.

    The main thing that caught my eye, and perhaps the entire reason for CISA, is too mitigate corporate liability in data sharing.
    That's the only new thing under this toxic sun, immunity for corporations.