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  1. Re:BS: these guys are reading your emails on Pokemon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No to make an English Long FrackTon of cash for Nintendo

  2. Re:serverwala on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    well a few years back they had a member of the press try to hack DEFCON.

    there are some things you don't do or YOU DIE.

  3. quit being so simple on UK Proposes Mandatory Age Verification For Porn Sites (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    factors for choosing a coffee shop

    1 price
    2 location
    3 type and quality of coffee
    4 "social" factors
    5 environmental factors
    6 other items available
    7 formats/ presentation of goods

    and thats just a cup of coffee

  4. Lets start ringing all the bells on Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom Thinks Websites Should Be Rated Like Films (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    1 doomed from the get go (most ISPs will not slit their throats)
    2 Dynamic content anyone??
    3 way too easy to Misrate something
    4 GoodThink anyone??
    5 wanna start riots?? this would be a good way

  5. i think somebody is going to be drinking vodka like water for the next 10 days.

  6. The best way to pull a Jonny Paycheck on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 2

    call in sick and warn the coworkers to call in sick and then park across the street when the FBI/IRS/FTC/FCC does a raid on them.

  7. RadioShack (no space) had enough value for Sprint to buy them up

  8. What happened to the OpenWatch droid ap?? on Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See · · Score: 1

    a while back there was an ap you could get for your phone that was just for this kind of thing.

    where did it vanish to??

  9. Objection: General Case with Exceptions on Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In i would bet more that one State /Country the law is written so that unless you have highly visible signs every X yards/meters you can't have a person charged with Trespassing.

    a 20 second google says basically all 50 states have requirements

  10. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The big problem with doing that is i would bet money that any pod system will have Multiple Lojack systems and the only thing that would happen is the pods would be on the ground in %wrong_location%.

    given the number of Other issues making a pod the can literally HALO land will be simple (heck the water landing cushions would also help with the "not enough chute" problem)

  11. Re:Keep it simple on TP-LINK Loses Control of Two Device Configuration Domains (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    most geeks that are within 2 gens of The Elders have typed that so many times its not even conscious behavior.

    However script kiddies won't have this habit

    random geek test for you

    1 The next 2 lines of the following are?
    He died at the console,
    Of hunger and thirst.

    2 what is this a reference to?

    3 the main difference between a 56K modem handshake and a 33.6 handshake is what sound pattern??

    4 what is the difference between a PS/2 connection and an S-Video connection??

    5 how is a 568A connection wired? (and what happens if you wire the other end as 568B?)

    6 why are the colors setup like that?

    7 what size were the windows 95 floppy disks? (bonus question how many??)

    if you can answer those questions without Google then you don't need the hack that now fails

  12. Re:No it can't on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    a fix for the Bed Problem is to move as many of the MH prisoners to a separate area and then cross train folks in the prisons for the low level stuff (it does not take a degree to keep folks going on a diary card).

    if there is enough of an issue then entire facilities can be "converted" over.

    Oh Hia! solve two problems at once (Hey Bonus we keep the Expensive Folks going on the "fun" cases instead of dealing with a bunch of minor cases)!

  13. Re:Or they offer too little on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    these are the folks that would say Kernighan and Ritchie are unqualified to do C code.

    for anything like an H1B visa there should be an audit of the requirements to check for "loading" and lack of reality

  14. Big Data can help with doing 2 "correctly"

    of course what would actually help things is getting corps to fund Gardens for kids to be raised in.

    there have been studies that show the Slum/Ghetto environment is actually causing Brain Damage so we fix that and SURPRISE! in a couple/few Generations we won't have the problems we have today (and maybe we will be able to live with the problems we do have).

  15. Re:Victim or Perpetrator on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    the big issue is if you stress folks they tend to go Crazy/Criminal

    If we somehow pulled the kids from the hardcore Ghetto/Slum areas and made "Gardens" for them to be raised in (heck we could give priority to the Guardians in our hiring process) we could in a couple generations wipe out a good chunk of the street level crime.

    but the big point is if you put crazy , criminal and "normal" all in a box almost everybody will land up either or both Crazy and Criminal.

    Sometimes you don't want to provide space for a teachable moment.

  16. Re:Was this before or after on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think that when the Mantle went Boom basically the entire world had around of WILL IT BLEND!!
      you can't really say that This Mountain was in place PreFlood.

    refs
    Gen 7:11
    "11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."

    https://answersingenesis.org/t...

    but yeah Meteor or Flood i would bet that 90% of the species (hint "kind" is not species) got wiped out.

    and Hmm having a very literal ARK with a bunch of Proto-Critters and Keepers would be right handy for making sure Life Carried On

  17. Re:Danger Will Robinson! on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Harder than the Mafia?? some of them ARE Mafia

  18. Re: Practical value? on Computer Simulations Point To the Source of Gravitational Waves (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    well if we tap the Space Nut and the Build My Legacy markets we can see a 15-23% increase in profits with only a 4.2% increase in expenditures for the next several quarters and by the time actual practical results are needed everybody in this room will have retired.

  19. Not counting semi-autos that have actual conversion kits it would be a heck of a lot easier to spend the shop time to design a weapon to be motor driven from the get go than to rig up a weapon that

    1 most likely does not have the tolerances to fire all that rapidly
    2 can't just mount a drum mag of any size
    3 would most likely explode in the first 10 seconds

    please at least talk to an actual gun smith before you propose something from a cartoon next time.

    (btw you can google the instructions on how to make an AK-47 from a shovel)

  20. well why don't you step up?? on Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    if you would take better care of yourself and get even close to pulling off the Chippendale look you might inspire a few ladies to do some office party dancing.

  21. there are a few Ladies of Computing on Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Starting with of course and actual titled Lady Ada Countess of Lovelace

    then we have Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (was part of the team that wrote COBOL and had to retire 3 times before it stuck)

    Then we have the legions of Telephone Operators and "Calculators"

    We could go on but i will end with the comment that a lot of Programmers would do good to have somebody serving as "Team Mother".

  22. a bit of an Epic question on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    why doesn't CareMonkey do linkups with Epic here in the US??

    US /.ers raise your hand if your local medical system use something called MyChart for E-Records??

  23. then they can hook into the PCPs E-Record system on Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? (caremonkey.com) · · Score: 1

    heck if CareMonkey had any smart chimps they would hook into the Major Providers to get hot copies of the data (after getting the perms from the guardians).

  24. OEM key hotstamped in "BIOS" on Microsoft Tests New Tool To Remove OEM Crapware (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    in an effort to prevent OEM keys from getting loose MS and OEMs figured out how to embed the key into the "bios" so yes currently a Generic Copy of WinX can be used to install and OEM copy of WinX (some OEM files will be grabbed when it can get online)

  25. Always trying to lower the TC0?? on Is the 'Secret' Chip In Intel CPUs Really That Dangerous? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    take that to the bank you are hitting to get an "unlisted" account from??