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  1. Good morning from base camp!

    https://i.imgur.com/OjAWgrb.jp...

    Coffee and corundum is the breakfast menu for the day!

  2. Because the majority of you are snowflakes that can't handle the harsh realities of nature.

    Meanwhile, I sit here, posting happily from my phone, while on a mountain and holding a freshly-mined California ruby in my hands.

  3. "Know who banned guns and haven't had a mass shooting since? UK and Australia."

    Nope. You may own guns in both places. Try again.

  4. "Vasquez has felony convictions for attempted armed robbery after plot with Blockbuster video store co-worker to seize their own shop's taking's at gunpoint"

    BLOCKBUSTER. That crime must have been AGES ago.

    "Vasquez was convicted under her original name Rafael but now identifies as a woman"

    Well, that makes me feel less guilty about assuming it was a man driving when I saw the video. XY chromosomal pair is still present.

  5. "In perfect dark condition, no new moon possibly cloud coverage no good street lamp, I can barely see 30-40 meter away object which have no reflective properties."

    You'd have a horrible time doing night-time desert rockhounding with me and my buddies if your eyes are that bad. It's usually a 100 meter minimum trek to actual mountain base from our vehicles and we still illuminate the area quite fine with our headlights. Of course, we're using nice LED headlights (and one guy has a sick MK-R lightbar) instead of incandescent, but still, even four or five SUVs with incans all shining on the same spot provide fairly decent illumination.

  6. The hypocrisy on Mozilla Pulls Advertising from Facebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it funny that just a few versions ago Mozilla was doing privacy-invading shit, now they're calling upon Facebook to be more responsible with user privacy.

    Give me a break.

  7. Re:Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, finding you isn't hard when your comment history reveals all that's needed to know. With that failure of an IP law firm you run.

  8. Re:Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Knock off the stalking behavior - it's creepy."

    You must really not know how slashdot works. All I have to do is go to my comments posted page, and I can see if you replied, thus giving me an option to reply back to you that way instead of hunting down through a conversation.

    OTOH, if you want some real creepy stalking behavior, I've already figured out who you are and could just dox you right here on the site. Would that make you feel better and justified in making your stalking statement?

  9. Re:Windows 10 Fall Creators Update on Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It also runs around DELETING files on your system. Upgrade from windows 7? That first update will wipe out the Windows.old directory where your old Win7 Stuff went. It will also delete music players it detects and replaces them with Groove Player (this is the 3rd time I've dealt with Microsoft uninstalling and replacing AIMP.)

  10. "(Getting DVR viewing history? Seriously?)"

    Sold by the DVR/TV companies, obviously. Nothing illegal or unethical on the campaign's part, perhaps on the part of the equipment/service company.

    "Time for FB / Google / Amazon to be broken up using the old trust busting laws."

    I get the feeling that would fail as they're currently not acting as egregiously as Microsoft did in the 90s, though many of the other elements are there.

  11. "Turnout rates are pretty much directly proportional to age."

    Only because the older you get the more you realize your vote matters.

    Get the younger generation to figure this out and half of the problem, if not more, would not exist.

  12. Re:Response Intel vs AMD on AMD Says Patches Coming Soon For Chip Vulnerabilities (securityweek.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "It is about a set of AMD-specific bugs"

    No, no it is not. It's about a set of bugs in a specific range of ASMedia chipsets that AMD uses in their products, which are also in use on plenty of Intel motherboards, which means they're likely just as vulnerable.

  13. Re:What about Russia's chemical attack on England on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "The actions of a single private citizen, acting on their own initiative, would simply be criminal."

    Not directly against Vlad or any other world leader, it would not be. Please try again when you've got the context actually locked down.

  14. Got downvoted for pointing this out years ago on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Now it's a story on Slashdot. I mean, come on. It's a PERMISSIONLESS distributed database. That anything other than a transaction amount was even allowed to be written was pure fucking lunacy and a vulnerability in and of itself.

  15. Re:What about Russia's chemical attack on England on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Buy yourself a ticket and go fight Vlad yourself, you fuck."

    You do realize that anyone doing this would automatically be committing an act of war on behalf of their home country, yes?

  16. Re:Come on, who would have no hit her? on Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman in First Fatal Crash Involving Pedestrian (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    "People don't go to prison for accidentally hitting a pedestrian."

    Actually, yes they do, if they are a registered motor vehicle offender, which automatically excludes them from being able to operate a vehicle.

  17. Re:The usual pattern on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    "Actually in my "lazy" world I'm an incident investigator (though not for civil structures)."

    In other words, you're still less fucking qualified than me to even open your mouth, as I've actually built the goddamned things, as an independent gov't contractor, for small towns like out in Liberty, TN.

    Go piss off a bridge. Then go jump off the same. It's exactly assholes like you that fuck up everything because you claim some authority in an area where you don't fucking have jurisprudence.

  18. Re:Just Google and Facebook? on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're beyond delusional here. Swab tests detect RECENT drug usage, only about two weeks back. IOW they don't want to hire you if you can't at least prove you've got your habits under control.

  19. Re:The usual pattern on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Gee, judging by the report, those cracks were within a foot of the section that failed.

    Sounds like a too-tight truss to me.

    Why, yes, I've built a few bridges, usually to span creeks on people's property. I've done truss, suspension, keystoned arch bridges, and a few others.

    Meanwhile, in your lazy world where you sit behind a keyboard all day...

  20. Re:The usual pattern on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    " It may or may not have had anything to do with the collapse."

    If you read the transcript of the engineer's call, and then identify where the bridge broke, it's a pretty fucking safe bet that the cracks are direct evidence something was wrong with that section of bridge.

  21. VideoLink on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? · · Score: 1

    http://videolink.ca/

    Ask for Hugo. Tell him "Colossus" sent you. He should be able to get you set straight.

  22. Won't fix your 'AMD' problem on Intel Says 'Partitions' in New Chips Will Correct the Design Flaw that Created Spectre and Meltdown (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While you went about paying a company to diss AMD, I checked CTS' report, found out one of my intel systems uses one of the mentioned vulnerable chipsets, the ASM1142, for its USB 3.1 controller.

    I bet that the PoC exploit would work on the intel platform right out of the box, if the CTS code isn't full of shit.

    Gimme a copy so I can test it out.

  23. Re:Securities fraud on Can AMD Vulnerabilities Be Used To Game the Stock Market? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "People are allowed to have opinions and publish them even if they are wrong."

    Not if it involves being done to intentionally damage a company and is wholly misleading and defamatory, it sure as fuck is not.

  24. The second you said "Cool link bro" without providing anything for a proper rebuttal, you failed and lost this debate.

    Try again when you actually have evidence that shows otherwise, oh ye who hasn't graduated high school.

  25. Re:Obvious stock market manipulation on Can AMD Vulnerabilities Be Used To Game the Stock Market? (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Slashdot is helper number two given they're spreading this bullshit without any good reason. I wonder if slashdot has some skin in this game?