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  1. More wealth can be accumulated ... on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    ... transferring money from the masses to the few and in the harvesting of personal data.

  2. I no longer view them as apps on Half Of US Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Instead I now view them as self-inflicted malware and eavesdropping opportunities.

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    I see no reason to intentionally install malware on my phone.

  3. You don't have to be a Windows 10 hater... on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... to like Linux.

  4. Lack of QA in Redmond? on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Rollout May Not Be Done Until Early November (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe Microsoft wants to roll it out slowly because it did not do enough QA on the release to assure it would be a smooth release cycle. So the early ones to get it are likely the real-world testers.

  5. A journey must begin with a single step on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
    A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. --- Lao-tzu

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    This looks like the first step towards censorship to me. What will be next on the list of Things That Should Be Blocked?

  6. Why is this even an issue? on Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On 'Napalm Girl' Photo: 'We Don't Always Get it Right' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Facebook is a private website dedicated to monetizing the information they have collected from the members of that private site. Facebook can do whatever they please on their private website.

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    If there is a problem, it is those people who mistake Facebook for journalism or integrity.

  7. Why not? on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are we humans so self-centered that we did not expect other intelligent animials to talk with each other?

  8. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mod parent up, please.

  9. Re:He gives "security research" a bad name on Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, then go to the county government. My point remains the same.

  10. He gives "security research" a bad name on Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
    Granted some of the system (most?) needs to have a good security audit, he should not have done it so publically. He should have contacted the owner of the site and told them about the issues he found.

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    Putting the video on youtube shows that he deserved the jail time he received.

  11. Re:Trajectory on A Small Asteroid Buzzed Earth Wednesday, But Everything's Cool (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of trajectory, wouldn't passing so close to earth have altered it?

    Yes. http://www.spaceweather.com/ar... "...After it buzzed Earth, the space rock turned and headed for the Moon, executing a wider flyby of 179,000 miles on Sept. 8th. Researchers say 2016 RB1 is ~50 ft in diameter, about the size of a grey whale. ..."

  12. Re:Trajectory on A Small Asteroid Buzzed Earth Wednesday, But Everything's Cool (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...geosync is 22,300 miles, not 25k..

    thx for the correction.

  13. ...The asteroid's trajectory kept it well out of the way of any satellites...

    Fortunately, the trajectory took the rock to the south of Earth where there are very few satellites. If the rock had passed by at that same distance on the equatorial plane (where the geosynchronous satellites reside at 25,000 miles), many, many people would have lost a lot of sleep.

  14. Putin: DNC hack wasn't state of Russia on President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Putin stated that the DNC attack was not an attack by the state of Russia. Putin said nothing about whether he ordered non-state actors to do the hack, a.k.a. plausible deniability.

  15. Re:Meanwhile the EU is saying... on Japan Goes Public With Brexit Demands, Says Data Flow Deals Must Be Protected (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't follow European news, but I doubt that very much. ...

    I do follow the EU news, fairly closely. The reasoning is that the uncertainty is worse than the leaving.

  16. Meanwhile the EU is saying... on Japan Goes Public With Brexit Demands, Says Data Flow Deals Must Be Protected (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... invoke Article 50 first, leave, and then we will talk about special trade deals. You voted to leave, so leave already.

  17. ... and no mention of security on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical Microsoft --- features first, security as an afterthought.

  18. ... and selling the data acquired to marketers... on Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just another egregious data harvesting attempt by Microsoft. Not being satisfied with scooping up data from our computers, Microsoft is now looking to look inside our appliances to see what we eat, what clothes we wash, etc.
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  19. No. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    But I'd definitely fire my CIO.

  20. No surprise... on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The opaqueness and secrecy of Apple was a natural fit for Clinton.

  21. iPhone = high status? on Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Really? II do not think it is a status thing. The iPhone is for followers, Android is for leaders.

  22. TruOS on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The BSD-based operating system with an overly-high opinion of itself.

  23. My old phone had a replaceable battery on Sony To Boost Smartphone Batteries Because People Aren't Replacing Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That also worked well, and didn't require some hopefully-accurate battery-watching algorithm.

  24. I always use tabs... on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... except for the times I use spaces.

  25. Google should address Android security on Google To Drop Nexus Brand Name, Move Away From Stock Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Android's huge problem these days is the number of unpatched devices "out there" because the OEMs don't want to patch those devices and, when the OEMs do patch, the incredible slowness of getting the devices patched and upgraded.

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    The proposal under discussion on this thread has no benefit to mitigating those two problems that Android has.

    Why is google putting Android security and upgrades in the low-priority queue?