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  1. The IoT is a Dank Meme and Full of Terrors

  2. Re:coders are not programmers on 'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes because 'programmers' never make mistakes, right?

    Those aren't mistakes, they're designed to create multi-part pseudoviruses if you hackers mess with our code

  3. Re: As a former journalist, this isn't a big deal on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Publishing the truth is one thing, but I don't believe you're allowed to publish video acquired illegally.

    The government does this all the time, what makes you so special?

  4. Web media is dead on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Breaking: web based media sites are dead.

    Everyone has moved on to AI in-game Pokemon avatars that deliver your news to you in Pokebite sized chunks. Best part is, they never read the comments unless they're part of your Team locally or are your family.

  5. Re:Similar to PubMed on From Now On You'll Be Able To Access NASA Research For Free (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's PubSpace.

    Just because the depository behind it is hosted on the same server doesn't mean it's not different.

    One of our servers in our department hosts something like 14 databases, each of which has a few hundred tables of data. Permissions and access vary between all of them.

    If you go in through the PubSpace portal, you see space-related research, but you probably won't see the other stuff. I frequently get notified of scientific articles on different accumulator lists, such as genetics, biofuel, and environmental sciences filters. They all point to the same journal article, but the reference that pointed to them is a different framework.

  6. Similar to PubMed on From Now On You'll Be Able To Access NASA Research For Free (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    PubMed is the open access research paper depository for all federally funded medical research. It's open and free too.

  7. What change? on Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey (livemint.com) · · Score: 1

    I went from an iPhone 3 to an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 5 SE.

    Not much change.

    Skip version numbers.

  8. Well, yours aren't on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to learn how to reach people from different backgrounds and with different value systems.

    I just post stuff like "Voting for Bush will cause you to gain 10 pounds" and it works like a charm.

  9. Waste of time on All Windows 10 PCs Will Support HoloLens Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like curved TVs are/were

  10. Re:Why are land stations used? on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll tell that to the Japanese and Chinese who were recording such data many thousands of years before you were born.

    Hopefully they won't laugh.

  11. Re:Why are land stations used? on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 2

    Historical records for land stations go back centuries. We haven't had publicly known monitoring stations in orbit for more than a few decades.

    Actually, orbiting measurements need to allow for the air being warmer. The speed of light partially is affected in the medium of air depending on it's temperature. This also includes other "weather" impacts. So measurements from a period with colder air do not exactly match those from periods with warmer air. Since we talk about full temperature changes in F over the air, this is not very noticeable, but it is measurable.

  12. Not that surprising on DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Many chiefs. No tribal members.

    Look, there are two ways to look at cybersecurity:

    1. Most unauthorized access is through social engineering. It can be fixed with training and fewer gullible people. Translation: this is a massive back door that will never be fixed, as those at the top are the worst offenders. And they never follow instructions.

    2. Most methods of providing cyber security involve fixing known prior methods of attack. Polymorphous self-adapting viral code with bootstrap load into the kernel was created in the 1980s, but we still have no real ways of defeating it. Realize most cybersecurity is just closing the barn door after the horses escape. Stop putting all the horses in the barn.

    3. Insert fictional defense method here which will never work in reality, because the PHBs always need a fall guy they can blame for their own security nightmares they created by ignoring advice.

  13. Re:good luck with that. on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Canadians have a stronger Constitutional Right to Privacy than Americans do, actually.

    But if it's an American going to Canada ... oops

  14. Re:Hindering an investigation... on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Traces?

    Almost all US currency has traces of cocaine on it.

    Fact.

    Try again.

    Was the cocaine hiding inside the smartphone?

  15. I for one defend Boarder rites! on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Snow bunnies have Canadian Rights too!

    That said, if you were a Canadian, you'd be entitled to tell them to stuff it.

  16. Trying to translate things into Yankspeak is never that easy.

    Unlike you, I actively follow legal decisions in BC and the Yukon, including federal cases.

    I'm sure you can find an Alberta lawyer who will argue otherwise, but Harper's gone, and he's not coming back.

  17. Re:Violation of the Canadian Constitution and Priv on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So I would not trust that rag to protect me with a 40 foot barge pole.

    12 meter barge pole.

    Canada is metric.

  18. Re:Violation of the Canadian Constitution and Priv on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Technicallly you are correct. We have been spying on our own citizens for a long long time.

    But that doesn't mean it's legal. Or Constitutional.

  19. Re:Can you provide a link to it? on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Google - Government of Canada - Constitution - Bill of Rights

    Have fun!

  20. Violation of the Canadian Constitution and Privacy on Local Canadian Police Station Admits To Owning Stingray Surveillance Device (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unlike the USA, Canada has a fairly recent Constitution which explicitly includes the Right of Privacy.

    Which includes not having your info slurped up by police without a specific warrant on you as a person.

    There are no exceptions.

    It has been ruled so by the Canadian Supreme Court.

    (caveat: I only wrote Canadian Army regs based on it, so IANAL just someone who had to implement it's provisions)

  21. I find social pressure worldwide helps on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies? · · Score: 2

    There's nothing like having customers and potential customers worldwide all applying pressure on a firm to make them wake up and change their behavior.

    Any social media. Everywhere. Unceasing.

    Since the playing field is no longer level, it's unwise to try to bargain, but wise to accept their total surrender.

  22. Actually we use something even more primitive on This Is What the World's Spies Used Instead of MSN Messenger (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's kind of sad that you think we should use leaky protocols and code, when our old code works just fine, but you're not cleared to know about it.

    Nice try, n00bZ

  23. Good thing the West is free from 6th circuit on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    7th circuit, baby!

    Give us that high high speed!

    I feel the need, the need to slurp up Gigabit plus speeds!

  24. It's very sad that socialist countries beat USA on US Broadband: Still No ISP Choice For Many, Especially at Higher Speeds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We get overcharged, get less service per dollar, and can't even buy 250 Mbps or 1 Gbps in most major cities, when virtually all first world socialist countries can buy faster internet for less cost.

    At least some of us can get 40 Gbps at widespread Internet 2 campus ports, or 100 Gbps at a few Internet 2 campus ports, but it must suck for the 99.99 percent of America that doesn't have that.

  25. Re:Using up water? on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    Most countries and regions are running out of clean water. Only some countries and regions have sufficient supplies that are recharged. Many are using stored waters from glaciers (which are not being replaced due to global warming) and aquifers (underground water storage) that were filled over tens or hundreds of thousands of years.

    And, no, you can't steal ours. We have fusion powered lasers to stop your zeppelins.