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  1. There's a pin-on button on my backpack on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It read "Tact is for people who don't have the wit to be sarcastic." Well said.

  2. Only way I can see this working on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Is if you use a beefed up APU to provide a shit ton of electrical power. Then you'd still use fuel etc. But you'd have enhanced functionality by all electric propellers in essence. You'd be using an electric motor to spin the turbines around.

  3. Have they never heard of HIPPA? I worked for about 14 months doing exome sequencing for the Million Man thing at the VA - or at a contractor to the VA. All the external drives were encrypted with 16 digit pins. And after so many tries they'd lock up completely. So no brute forcing. The drives were made by Apricorn and carried FIPS 140.2 certifcations.

  4. That part about using RF on Airbus Rolls Out Anti-Drone System (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Serious no-no in the FCC's view. Good luck with that Airbus.

  5. Where I work on Linode Resets Passwords After Credentials Leak (linode.com) · · Score: 1

    We're just in the process now of migrating away from Linode. And this is the first notification I've seen of this issue. So they didn't email everyone.

  6. Just like I'd never buy a car produced by GM on Microsoft Teams With Automakers To Put Windows, Office In Cars (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd never buy a car that included Microsoft Windows. It's bad enough that ATM's throughout the world run Windows now. You want cars running it too? No thank you.

  7. I recall on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The old Jamestown Bridge in Rhode Island. That thing was a terror to drive over. It was all steel grate. Guess they figured you wouldn't get resonance or stresses from that. But driving over it wasn't fun.

    Now it's a big concrete structure. Nothing is moving that.

  8. My Opinion on Lenovo Laptops on Lenovo ThinkPad Stack, a New Take On Modular Mobile Peripherals (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    They suck. Cheap plastic pieces of shit.

  9. Re:How to silence yappy dog on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    God damn if we aren't a bunch fo sick, devious fucks. I love it.

  10. Re:neighbor on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    Where I live we've had several upstairs neighbors. Some cool, some we worried we would have to carry out a dead body. But alas we have cool neighbors again and it's all good in the hood.

  11. Talk to the neighbor again on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    This time with the police or a dog catcher in tow.

    Of course there are other ways you could fuck with them. Feed FiFi the dog some ex-lax. Explosive diarrhea will result. You could also experiment with narcoleptics and benzos too. Maybe even some Prozac for the pooch.

  12. Where I work on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We violate half of the seven items on the list. Oh well.

  13. Re:In Chitown - piggyback off People's Gas on Google Fiber Targets Chicago and Los Angeles (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Nationa Grid in Rhode Island did the same. However older installs were grandfathered in and the meters are on the inside in most places. New constructions they're placed outside.

  14. Re:Because It's the Only Thing That Actually Works on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    It's the whole military industrial complex coupled with DARPA and you get what we paid for.

  15. Imagine on Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If you can extend the pet ages out to 300 years I'm pretty sure we could do the same with humans. 300 years of feeding, watering, walking and having to take the dog everywhere with you. Does that sound good to you? It doesn't to me.

  16. Re:NY, NJ, ILL on Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Wow $4 million for the former Speaker. In RI our last Speaker of the House is serving a federal prison term for accepting a $50,000 bribe but not reporting it to the IRS.

  17. Re:...would smell as shitty as any browser on After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Only Adobe tool I ever used was Photoshop 7. That being said when I bought a new computer I skipped MS Office and Adobe stuff. Went with Gimp instead. Never looked back.

  18. I've been in the I.T. field for over 20 years now. One thing I can tell you, never, ever piss off your I.T. folks. We'd make pretty damned good terrorists ourselves.

  19. Re:The Future of the Idiot Box? on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed on that. My 40" flat screen died for it's final time recently. It's not worth repairing anymore. Plus there's the added benefit of telling Cox Communications to stick their TV service and phone service where the sun don't shine.

  20. I find swatting on One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign (dailydot.com) · · Score: -1

    Endlessly amusing. I find it amusing because it exposes a fundamental flaw in telecom systems.

  21. Re:Hardware requirements... on Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It · · Score: 1

    I'll see your VAX 11/780 and raise you a Data General Ecllpse MV9600U with 9 track tape drive and cpu cabinet taking up quite a lot of space.

  22. Well - there's always the FCC on Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if I'm right they're going to block the 900Mhz to 2,400MHz band around such facilities. But that will run afoul of the FCC regulations because that big chunk of bandwidth also includes cellular, amateur, and wifi.

    Good luck with that.

  23. Re:Detecting weapons is NOT the purpose of TSA... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had one in my backpack go through x-ray post TSA without a raised eyebrow.

  24. Not surprising on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 0

    And the reason why when I got my machine I did not install iTunes or any Apple software on it.

  25. Re:Company shouldn't have to pay for relocation on Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    When I had to design a redundant power system I didn't chose diesel. We did disaster what if and determines liquid fuels like gasoline and diesel in emergencies is hard to come by.

    Natural gas on the other had would take an asteroid strike to potentially wipe that out. Plus if the road were taken out the gas would likely continue to flow. So natural gas it was to a 125kW generator.