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  1. Re:All you need to know if you own a cat on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dogs will eat dog poo, theirs, sometimes another dogs.

  2. Re:Security focused on US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you? Sure, if you have just one machine or two it's no big deal. Suppose you have a modern government agency, a business of any real size, etc? You have the web site - no big deal, they just get a warning message. Then there are the Unix based systems that run ldap, san, well most everything. Blade centers for VMs and such. Then the lightweight stuff that feed the dumb people like the Windows domain controllers and such. Things that people don't use much. It's getting to be a real PIA to find all of these frickin' certificates! They aren't even on standard ports to find. We had a san certificate that had a 10 year life blow out recently because we hit the expiration date. Things came to a grinding halt. That one was by IBM and IBM doesn't even own it anymore.

    It's a bitch. If you set it so it doesn't halt things, nobody cares. They'll use a decades old expired certificate - which BTW is almost certainly fine. Expire it and things come to a grinding halt, people can't get work done, sometimes people can't even get machines working to the point they can even fix it anytime soon.

    I'm just waiting for something like this to happen to say an amusement park on opening day, right on the day some government agency spent a whole bunch of money to promote - say IRS tax day or something. Wouldn't it be hilarious if they have a big march and all the electronic equipment comes to a grinding halt because the certificate was generated in the morning 5 years before and that was the die by date. Just before the big deal.

    Imagine self driving cars. Poof, you're really nice super Edison Roadster shuts down entirely and won't do a thing now because the Mr. Reactor has an expired certificate and you're in the Holland Tunnel into NYC. So are other Edison Roadsters all over town, all over the country!

  3. Seems simple on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are there for science. No having fun and no drunk science experiments like we have on the surface. That's how we end up with junk science where nobody can ever reproduce those results. Ok, I'm being nice. I'm sure there is outright fraud going on in some cases to get their PhD.

  4. Re:The USA hasn't recovered from prohibition. on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And it has had bad effects. Used to be 18. It was changed shortly before I could buy, I think a year or two where I live. Same old leftist BS - it'll save lives. I'm blind... well in the years since then studies have shown they were the ones that were blind, and they admitted it. Yet we're still stuck with it.

    We also have this zero tolerance concept. They're always the leftists doing it. No guns, No drinking, Can't even draw a picture of a gun in school. No cowboys and indians, some schools don't even want dodgeball anymore. It's nuts. Boys can't be boys anymore.

    Maybe things will change to the way they used to be, when things made sense.

  5. Re:1980 on New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm (raspberrypi.org) · · Score: 1

    I think a friend of mine used to have one of those, driven by a Z80 running CP/M and 8" drives. He also had a daisy wheel printer that he wrote the driver for.

  6. What a dumbass on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole reason they're going to robots is because they can't afford wages because they keep raising them. Everything goes up, businesses go out of business. Increasing the minimum wage hurts minorities and teenagers. We know that. This will just help things implode faster.

  7. Re:Fake news and journalism on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Again. That's the difference between journalism and fake news, journalists do make mistakes, but, when it's done right, they correct them. Fake news, on the otehr hand, doesn't even pretend to try to get facts right; fake news simply lies right from the start.

    I'm not sure what your anecdotes is intended to demonstrates. If you have to go back to 1932 to cite an example of uncorrected news reported from a major newspaper, I'd say that proves my point.

    Here's one now - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/us/politics/leaks-donald-trump.html

    Interesting link to an article pointing out that until the leaks were about him, Donald Trump loved leaks. Not fake news, since the facts seem to be correct. At best you could say it's a case with some editorializing in the body of the article. But fake news is making up facts, not expressing opinions about facts.

    Seems you realize what I'm saying and chose to ignore it. I showed they've been lying for almost a century and that was made clear. The second one you chose to believe the fake news again, or you really don't get it. There is a huge difference between a leak and a leak that happened here. Maybe that was really lost on you. This isn't some dumbass handler (Podesta) with a password of - password or asshole at Justice or on the Hill, these guys are trusted with some of the most sensitive information the country has. The leak shows that they can get whatever they want and this is something intelligence *NEVER* divulges because it really tips their hand, in fact it shows their hand. Let's be honest about it. Hell of it is, I don't want to seem as if I wanted Trump to be President. I didn't. I don't. However he is what we have and we shouldn't throw the country away just because the left lost big time due to their continued stupidity. I wasn't a fan of BO, he really did what he could to screw the country all the way up to the last moments he was POTUS as it turns out. There is a LOT of stuff that the public really should know about him and what he did, however none of that stuff is coming out. Probably never will. The stuff everyone knows like what he did to Isreal was just him measuring his cock on the way out. However I'm sure they'll keep his very very dirty laundry secret.

    Of course, I'm assuming that you care. I'm thinking you don't, until the country falls and you're the one in big trouble. Don't worry, things will heat up fast. We have the Netherlands (Wilders will win), France (Le Pen will win) that have elections, then France will exit the EU... The EU will disolve... and so on. 2017 will be a hell of a ride. We really need a different kind of guy as POTUS right now. Trump would have been fine the past 8 years, not now. We need a guy more like Eisenhower. I hope Trump is up to the task. IMHO he is way, and I mean way way way better than if Hillary were in office. She'd fubar it good. Probably destroy the whole world.

  8. Re:The difference between fake news and journalism on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, you're right. It was just way too much to ask the reporter to look 5 feet to the left and not come to crazy conclusions. What were we thinking?

    Besides, what if Trump removed it? It's his office after all. Why is that news in the first place? MLK was never in there before BO. Can't he have what he wants in the office? No, it was written to incite hate.

    Let's see you get out of this one - the Durante Pulitzer for the NY Times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . What, them remove their prize? NEVER. Fake news, since at least the 1930s. Don't think I had to go back to the 1930s. It probably wouldn't be all that hard to find a fake article from today. Here's one now -
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

    So here they are making a comparison between a leak from the DNC, based on a password of - password, that are not government secrets to something that was illegally obtained, from a private citizen, mischaracterized and was at probably the highest level of secret we have and wonders why Trump isn't happy? If that's leaked, nothing is safe. The nation isn't safe regardless of who is in the white house. Brad Manning for example caused all kinds of problems for BO when he did it. I guess BO forgot about that when he pardoned him. If he had any sense he would have made him serve his sentence.

    This isn't funny. They need to get these guys and put their head on a pike.

  9. Re: I'm sure he had nothing to hide on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Courage? When a Democrat gets caught doing something wrong, even red handed, no doubt about it, they never seem to resign. It's only when there is a big old pile up of scandals they finally resign, like with Holder. Holder, the bird that should be in a cage.

  10. Other people on Encrypted Email Is Still a Pain in 2017 (incoherency.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I've had a public gpg key out there for well over a decade. Tried to get others to encrypt. Nobody else will do it. Even tech people that really should know better. Even with step by easy step instructions. There's no interest in it. This is probably the norm, how many people want to encrypt their conversations with their siblings or other people. I have a feeling they're afraid they'll forget the password.

  11. AGM batteries have been around for decades. I get right about 10 years out of mine.

  12. Re:Only needed when entering USA on Mission Possible: Self-Destructing Phones Are Now a Reality (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    No, fascist countries like Cuba, America prior to 2/2017 (Under Obama, one of the worst fascists of this century. He put millions of people at risk with his mohamadism), Brazil, etc.

  13. Re:I seriously doubt this works... on Mission Possible: Self-Destructing Phones Are Now a Reality (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking thermite.

  14. Wonder what sharia law would give him. Stoning to death, maybe the 4 years and 1000 lashes would work. Hanging is more western I think. Keelhaul would work too.

  15. DTS, The alligators don't like it when you drain the swamp.

    Trump is the swamp. More importantly, Trump never liked that term. His cabinet appointments indicate his primary concern is building a wall around the swamp and filling it with sewage. If he cared about draining the swamp, he would start with his own conflicts of interest and he would stop taking money from foreign governments in violation of the emoluments clause. If the GOP cared, they would be attacking him for this instead of lying for him.

    So you have shown me very clearly that you have no clue what you're talking about. He can't be the swamp because he was never in Washington nor Government. He is one of us, the people. The governed. The conflict of interest is just more mud slinging. There is none, he handed them all off. The lawyers are all satisfied, at least Obama's were when this came up at Justice. It's fake news. Sorry you were mislead.

    I'm so tired of liberals that don't know what a fascist is. They're on the left, not the right...Never mind it's the Nationals SOCIALIST party.

    That's because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. If you were capable of thinking about politics with nuance instead of "socialist is in the name so it must be left derp derp" broad strokes, you would understand that the National Socialist party had a platform of both extreme left and right policies, but most of their leftist campaign promises were empty. Most did not actually care about helping the working man. The primary focus was on nationalism. If you care to understand the term, I suggest you start on wikipedia.

    Did you bother to take a look at your own reference? If you did you'd realize I know exactly - "what the fuck" I'm talking about.

    A party platform that isn't a whole lot different than the Democratic party of today.

    This is one of the scariest lies in modern times. First, you are playing the "I am rubber you are glue" game, hoping to completely neutralize the term and its meaning. The party of the neo-nazis is now calling extremely moderate left-wingers nazis constantly in an effort to numb everyone to the effects of being called a nazi.

    Hitler may have been a vegetarian animal rights supporter, but he did not believe in the rights of homosexuals or minorities (strong features of Democratic policies), equal rights for all, ease of voting, etc. Only one major party in the US has the support of prominent neo-Nazis and KKK leaders: Trump's GOP.

    The truly sad part is that your blind partisanship is leading you to support a man who spouts a populist message to gain support, but openly wants to subvert the judiciary and media, get rid of non-white non-Christian Americans, and control the world with his tiny little hands. He is even starting out with an unstable alliance with Russia for fuck's sake.

    I don't have enough time to clear up all your problems. You're missing a few volumes of information. Let's start with this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    That's their platform. Bet you've never read it before. Start at number 9. The first 8 was feel good BS because of them getting their ass kicked in the first world war - to oversimplify things.
    Look familiar? Translate into American - class warfare, free education, free health care, corporations are evil, no religion, the central government handles everything (no state rights)... you know, the democratic party mantra.

    I can't get over how many people when you mention it's almost a duplication of the Nazi party's platform they think about killing people. They seem to totally overlook everything else though I'm sure the teachers s

  16. Had trouble posting. Turned out to be a problem almost at the end of this response. Darn Slashdot.

    If your point is that there are stupid or uneducated democrats, I will certainly not attempt to refute you+. If you are implying that there are no Republicans like that, I will refute you. That others fail to understand a point of political classification isn't the issue although I personally find it frustrating. The issue is failing to educate ones self after being told repeatedly "I don't think that word means what you think it means" and rejecting policy based on who articulates it, which party they belong to, and ignoring what the ultimate goal is.

    Of course you won't refute me about democrats, that's a fools errand. Hey, too easy. Those protesting it's clear they haven't a clue. Talk to them any length of time and they realize they're an idiot and want to get out of there.

    We both agree that people are just rejecting anything the other says without even a thought, if I may be as so bold to put some words in your mouth. The left murdered social discourse and discussion by calling anyone that disagreed with them a bunch of names. The Republicans just took it.

    I think the confusion ... thoughts.

    Lot going on here. Ever hear of a false flag? That was the KKK bullshit. The KKK is on the left and was a major tool of the Democratic party for over a hundred years. They even had a grand dragon in the Senate - Senator Byrd - not a word about that. Hillary even kissed him. Trump never accepted Duke's endorsement. For a Republican, find any tangential or even make up crap to connect them. Romney and that overturned rock, etc. So the KKK isn't on the right, it's a left thing, clearly. They keep black people as a group on the democratic plantation.

    The homosexual thing - It isn't as if they hate them, they just don't want to embrace it. I think they're looking for an OK sign that they'll never get.

    The abortion thing - those blowing things up are not Republicans any more than every woman is a feminist. Otherwise there would be no abortion clinics. The one thing that I really didn't like was Trumps popping off about abortion during the debate. We need that safe harbor for women. Too much misery already in the world.

    The left side is just nuts because they've lied about it too much over the past 30 years. Lied to the point people think fascist/Nazi's are on the right.

    This is known as kitchen sinking the dead cat. It's a good rhetorical device to divert a discussion; a tactic long enshrined on both sides of the political isle and about the fourth worst intellectual dishonest circumstance in my list of dishonesty. However, while it is emotionally charged and highly provocative, there are no facts stated. So therefore cannot be refuted or corroborated. IT is factually null and void of discernible meaning. I will therefore leave this dead cat in your kitchen sink to deal with yourself.

    Ok... IMHO you wasted space here.

    Well, I think one platform that the socialists had that the Democrats seem to be lacking are mass graves ... a day."

    Oh boy. So in history the only thing you focused on when they talked about Nazis in even grade school was the killing of the Jews? Why do so many people seem to totally sleep through what it was all about. Free education, Free health care, dumbing down the schools, indoctrination... and so on and so on and so on? What's being taught at our schools? Indoctrination. Don't believe me? I dare you to go to any college. Protect your crotch as the female professors will probably try to cut it off of you because you're obviously a rapist, or soon will be. "diversity", feminist, classes though other classes like english, physics, etc.

    DTS, The alligators don't like it when you drain the swamp.

    Draining the swamp is good. I like that.

  17. I've seen this before. He'll move it. Just as they moved all kinds of industry out of New England south. Then, off shore. Unions are the scourge of the country for the most part. They are still useful in a few industries like electricians I understand.

    I too was robbed by the Union. All it was for is to pay a bunch of freeloaders to do nothing.

  18. It's an application that runs on the government issued cell phone.

    Hillary got into trouble for running her own mail server and conducting state department business on it. She violated the espionage act. Plain talk - she's a traitor and should be taken out and shot or put in Leavenworth for the rest of her short life. They make all this clear when you join an agency. Every one I've worked for in over 30 years, they take a lot of time to make sure you know.

  19. I'm so tired of liberals that don't know what a fascist is. They're on the left, not the right. I get a real kick out of asking a liberal if a communist likes a socialist. They have no clue and often think they're buddies. In fact, they should want to kill each other if they really know what each other is. The left side is just nuts because they've lied about it too much over the past 30 years. Lied to the point people think fascist/Nazi's are on the right. Never mind it's the Nationals SOCIALIST party. A party platform that isn't a whole lot different than the Democratic party of today.

    I see you have examples, however people wouldn't realize that those are really nothing criticisms to the point you and me are probably the only ones that even know about them.

    DTS, The alligators don't like it when you drain the swamp.

  20. They can't compare version numbers? This is Computer Sci 101. As bad as their stupid date idea. Instead of it being the correct yyyymmdd they wanted it mmddyyyy. Yea, that'll sort well. Dumbasses.

  21. They haven't been able to get around this yet? on RSA: Ban On Booth Babes Has Been No Big Deal (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems easy guys. Get some cute chicks, teach them the products and such, put them in a nice little short skirt. Boom, sales!
    Been going on for years, the short skirt sale. That's how you end up with a piece of crap at a government agency.

  22. Re: Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,"

    Note - it doesn't say give me your thinly disguised invasion force just waiting to kill all of us and take over the country. No mention of give me your people that are taught from the age of 3 that killing infidels is ok and there is nothing other than islam.

    I know about this stuff. I own houses with people that used to be muslims in Africa. They're now Christians living in many countries including the US. They are here to kill, in France, England, Finnland, Spain, Italy.... so on and especially the US.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Dearborn)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (The UK) ...Could go on and on and on. They're an invasion force.

  23. Is soon parted. There's a reason it hasn't been done yet. You can't do it. I'm a pilot and I've flown around the country. The weather can be a bitch. Especially thunderstorms. People in even automated vehicles are no match for mother nature. So it'll be very unreliable. It'll be very expensive. It'll never get approved.

    Use a car, it's way better.

  24. Re:What the article says on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    If I tell someone to "go to hell" they'll immediately understand the task.

    If I tell someone to "recurse to hell" they might never even get there!

    captcha: explains

    The stack would kill them first. The question is when they goto hell, would you send them with a Handbasket(small)?

  25. Re:I know what will happen one day. on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    That already happened; apparently some people now feel inheritance is bad. I've seen a few of their arguments (rants, really), and it seems to boil down to "you can get confused", "some inheritance trees are too deep"...

    In other words, it's bad because they are too stupid and get confused. I've run into people like that. It's fun to ask them how they would do it. This is often an exercise in "how to keep an idiot busy."