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  1. We should vote on that using one of the easily hacked vote machines in use in the US today. You know, one of the ones that was hacked (e.g. every single one) at DEFCON.

    Yeah, sure.

  2. Re:How could it laze? on FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Not hard to hide an orbiting death laser platform...just to be sure.

    You'd be surprised how hard that is, actually.

  3. Was the plan to roll weak sauce servers? on FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, think I found their plan.

    Was it the one to roll weak sauce servers with bad failback positions and not code for massive volumes of legit comment requests?

    Yeah, it was right here, next to the plan marked Mooch's Retirement Plans.

  4. Fairly sure it was Confederates on Hackers Break Into HBO's Networks, May Have Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Script (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    They were looking for the pro-racist Confederate images that HBO was planning to sell for their new series, so they could manufacture them more cheaply in China and make money off of them.

    Easiest way to stop this is cancel the "new" series.

  5. We already have that on Internet 3 on O'Reilly Media Asks: Is It Time To Build A New Internet? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, I realize some of you aren't on Internet 3, and don't have access to basic 40 Gbps ports campus-wide, or 100 Gbps ports at specific locations, but we left you behind.

    You were too annoying, to be quite frank.

    And no matter how much you knock, we're not at home, and you're not coming in.

    To those of you in the First World, you know how good it is.

  6. Re:Just wait until everyone has IPv6 on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, guy, most sites are already running IPv6, you're just seeing an IPv4 representation of the IPv6 web. We ran out of numbers last decade.

  7. Correction: untrained anon browsing correlated on It Is Easy To Expose Users' Secret Web Habits, Say Researchers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's fairly easy to establish and maintain personae on the web, but you have to:

    1. never link to your own activities.
    2. don't use the same search or info services
    3. be disciplined about not using the same phrasing or background sources

    It's one of the first things they teach you in spy school.

  8. Why don't all of you start magazines? on Laurene Powell Jobs's Organization to Take Majority Stake in The Atlantic (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm quite serious.

    We have name magazines like The Atlantic, which used to have a meaning, which for old people has a cachet, but you could reimagine it.

    Not as a blog. Not as a vlog. Not as a zine. But as something ... more.

    Why not an authentication subscription credential you wear on your sleeve of your mimetic jacket? Here at the UW we have all the tech to do that - low power background wireless, mimetic clothing, etc.

    Do that. Add a daily blog NL component for those trapped by physical old style monitors and a vlog zine component for similar hardware TV cable peeps, but reinvent the paradigm, and come up with a name that doesn't insult 95 percent of the human race.

    Come on, it would take very little to do that.

  9. Can the West Coast join the EU? on German Court Rules Bosses Can't Use Keyboard-Tracking Software To Spy On Workers (thelocal.de) · · Score: 1

    Asking for a friend.

  10. Billions in a checking account on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's called a money market account backed by dividend paying securities and investments.

    And only poor people keep their cash in a checking account.

    Sheesh.

    Real wealthy people (Trump isn't one) invest their money.

  11. more guff from REMFs on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You really have never been in the field, have you?

    The only time anyone cares about which restroom is which is when you're in some comfy place that isn't in the field.

    It's not high school, junior.

  12. Re:It's like he thinks he's on Reality TV on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, I didn't. It's a red herring. Russian Red.

  13. It's like he thinks he's on Reality TV on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously.

    As someone who spent seven years in active service, and trained many soldiers in Canada, worrying about someone's sexual orientation or whatever was dead last on my concerns. As in never spent a moment thinking about it, or caring about it.

    Are we sure he's sane?

  14. Re:If they were serous about AGW on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Typical conservative argument, you all think the only changes are those done by Big Government programs.

    Look, the entire West Coast - BC, WA, ID, OR, CA, NV - has massively reduced GHG emissions. We do while you whine.

    And we save money by doing it. I literally cut my electric bills from $200 a month down to $10 a month by replacing lights with LEDs, buying efficient appliances (fridge, washer, dryer - to get energy efficient dryers get a German one).

    Stop relying on Big Government and paying money to Big Utilities - create your own cheaper renewable energy with solar or wind or mini-hydro or whatever and stick it to the man!

  15. It's not a zero sum game on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, Tesla sells out their entire production run. They literally can't make enough electric cars. Ford makes many multiples of electric cars that Tesla makes. BMW does too.

    And they all pale in comparison to China, which literally makes electric cars for $6000 each. In quantities that dwarf the US and UK output.

    Adapt. The market cares nothing for your failed fossil fuel religion.

  16. Most of the jobs are for the building of the plant on Apple-Supplier Foxconn To Announce New Factory in Wisconsin in Much-needed Win For Trump and Scott Walker (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the plant will be run in the dark by robots.

    Have fun believing in the jobs, because they're like pipeline jobs, 99 percent disappear once it's built.

    Oh, wait, did I burst your bubble?

  17. Re:Good for Seattle! on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Half of the 21 candidates for Mayor are women and half are POC.

    Maybe you should realize we elect our Mayor in odd years. Like years when whiny suburbanites complain about a city they don't live in, and they take 2 hours to commute to, while we walk and bike to work faster than their cars can move. And the primary is by mail, so it's 40 percent done already.

    Feel free to not move here. We'll be sitting in our houseboats on Lake Union, drinking a cold craft beer or local cider or local wine and laughing at you.

  18. Re:Seattle = worse than Calif on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    dead is dead. not sure it matters, we can't even rescue the kids in daycare and grade school when that happens.

    but, hey, you go stand in front of boiling scurf and tell me what it feels like - I'll be over here

  19. Re:Seattle = worse than Calif on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, we're in the middle of the eruption zone, when the stocastic mud flow burns half of Mercer Island, all of Kent and Renton, and half of downtown to a hot flaming crisp.

    No worries, mate.

    There's a UW alert system that gives you 90 seconds warning when that happens, but you can't outrun the boiling, flaming mud covered by hot gas that puts you to sleep, as it moves almost as fast as a plane does and goes over things.

  20. Re:Seattle = worse than Calif on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Seattle THINKS it has an income tax. WA Constitution Article 7, sections 1 and 2 state that any tax on income must be uniform (meaning - no minimum income level, no progressive levels, it's on every penny from the first to billionth and beyond), and it cannot be more than 1%. Seattle's "law" fails on both counts - and it will be struck down by the State Supreme Court as has happened consistently in Washington over the last 80 years. Yes, I lived there, and that was one of the things I loved about WA (but the B&O tax, on the other hand, sucked for small businesses).

    Which it is. Flat tax with one standard $250,000 per adult earner exclusion.

    I've been 100/100 on the WA Constitution so far. It's kind of funny watching you guys who fell asleep in your civics classes getting p0wnd by someone who was in the Canadian Army and only moved here when he was 30 (born in US), because you don't actually bother reading your own state constitution. Or your own laws.

    Agree about the B&O tax.

  21. Re:Seattle = worse than Calif on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent down.

    A volcano is not threatening Seattle, and quakes are far more likely in California than Seattle.

    Actually, that is true. We are both on two active fault lines (Seattle fault and another recent one), and subject to Rainier Mountain (an active volcano) going off, which it does every 200-250 years which was 240 years ... um, hey, who wants to buy my $1,000,000 townhouse?

  22. Re:Seattle = worse than Calif on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Not true. Seattle does have an income tax.

    Now stop moving here!

  23. This is totally fake on Tech Jobs Are Surging in Seattle, Declining in Silicon Valley (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, this is totally fake.

    Look, if you believe this, you'll believe we have a $15/hr minimum wage, and grew from 600,000 to 700,000 people since 2010, and will be 1,000,000 people by 2040. And that we have (looks out the window), 45 construction cranes building new 6-100 story buildings in Seattle itself, and more on the Eastside.

    Totally made up.

  24. Look, the guy has a track record of lying. Like 90-95 percent of the time.

    Best case scenario is 1/20th the jobs show up and 2/3 of the plants are in Mexico and Canada, and the American plant is actually located in a US Possession or Protectorate but not actually in the US itself.

  25. Re:Its my new wrist watch weapon on People Are Complaining That Their New DJI Drones Are Falling Out of the Sky (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Super soakers are cheaper

    Just saying