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  1. Re:Someone hire them... on Investigation Finds Inmates Built Computers, Hid Them In Prison Ceiling (cbs6albany.com) · · Score: 1

    YMMV - I worked with a millennial who was a great guy. I guess we had sympatico because we were both Italian-American.

  2. Yeah but on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    More than a third my income comes out as taxes. It's pretty bad.

  3. I'm reading on Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 2

    Douglas Adams' "The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul" and "The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation" by Michael Perelman.

  4. So how about on Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Those of us with four year degrees in the field form a non-elite university?

  5. Re:The real problem... on Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well on my part when my machine upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 I logged to the firewall and blocked pretty much every Microsoft site I could think of at the time.

  6. What could possibly go wrong on GM Hooking 30,000 Robots To Internet To Keep Factories Humming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a car company - and since they don't think infosec is important in their connected vehicles what security will they implement for the robots? I can just see this going very wrong.

  7. Re:I liked the dot-band technology on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Assembler is for pussies. You've never coded until you've twiddled bits.

  8. And it has to be using on Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Bing to upload the stuff. I block bing at my firewalls and the logs constantly show my Win10 laptop trying to connect to Bing.

  9. And now we have on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Tally-Genicom printers that can do 1500 lines. I used a lower model years back to crank out mailing labels. It was beautiful.

  10. Yeah you have to read it to get that. Coal is some fairly nasty stuff anyhow. Lot of waste products from it are very toxic.

  11. Here's how I deal with it on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With a Terrible Tech Manager? · · Score: 1

    I start building a case against said bad manager. Last job we managed to get a VP of Engineering fired.

  12. They want every kid in school to learn to code. I said good luck with that.

  13. Re:My crushing debt on US College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In my case a Computer Sci degree morphed into an Information Science degree and it's done me well so far. I've worked in many a shop where other I.T. and security folk got degrees in oceanography, semiotics, etc. I've been the only one in many with a a pure I.S. degree.

  14. Re:Terms of Service on Minnesota Senate Votes To Bar Selling ISP Data (twincities.com) · · Score: 1

    I found awhile ago you can re-negotiate your contract with an ISP if you're a govt of commercial user. So, ymmv.

  15. Re:this is why i host my webzones on godaddy.com on Millions of Websites Affected By Unpatched Flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 Web Server (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah they are rock solid. I left IIS a very long time ago as I realized what an insecure piece of crap it was.

  16. That I get to walk behind some clod looking down at his/her mobile phone. So this study doesn't surprise me. There have been many, many, many times where I've wanted to shout "Put the fucking phone down and walk" But alas I just post about it online.

  17. An that's a big NO on my part on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    None of those 'upgrades' is enough to get me to download it.

  18. And I assume on DJI Proposes New Electronic 'License Plate' For Drones (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    That in the Uniteed States this part "Anyone with an appropriate receiver could receive the ID number, but the database linking the ID with the registered owner would only be available to government agencies." concerns me most. Are they leaving a backdoor in the product and giving the government the key, or will they need a warrant to get those records in the U.S.?

  19. Re:so sayeth the big bad wolf... on Is Australia Becoming A Cashless Society? (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Yup - that's the beauty of cash. It's pretty much untraceable.

  20. At home there are two identical laptops. One took the Win10 upgrade no problem - the other refused to upgrade. So on Windows 7 it stays. The laptops will likely get replaced in the next years so I'm not going to sweat it.

  21. Re:Mint on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    I'v used Ubuntu. Mint, CentOS etc. All of them require a little extra heavy lifting but once you're past that you're good.

  22. At a former employer I had my financial people well trained. If an email looked even mildly suspicious they'd call we in the I.T. /InfoSec group before doing anything. And I railed on the web developers that having an about page that listed everyone by full name with photo and title was a really BAD idea.

  23. It's about damned time on Firefox for Linux is Now Netflix Compatible (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall using Ubuntu 12.04 and had to do agent switchers, install a bunch of stuff just to watch Netflix videos.

  24. There's no reason to run a browser without AdBlock and ScriptSafe. That would be my minimum.

  25. Well - we've all had the ability to re-chip our car computers so I don't see this being any different.