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  1. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Cloud backup is just no solution for full HD backups.

    And what happens when someone breaks in and steals both the computer and the backup? Or if the house burns down? Do you really swap disks and keep one somewhere else?

    This whole "let's backup everything" is the issue. I seriously doubt that you generate or aquire valuable irreplaceable digital content at a speed that your internet upload throttle can't handle. All you realistically need is o/s restore media, internet and a few minutes to setup a sensible backup solution.

  2. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I defy you to find a similarly simple solution

    You mean like the countless cloud providers that cost pennies and that don't force you to buy proprietary overpriced hardware and operating systems?

  3. Re:Good on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That was just the first Google hit. MikroTik in particular have a long, long history of 0day in their firmware.

    A quick search in the CVE database shows that MicroTik with all their products combined have the same number of vulnerabilities than the AirportExtreme alone, and the number is 7. You're full of shit, fanboi.

  4. #StopCamelToeShaming on Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that would have to include camel toe and stuffing socks down your shorts

    Wait, are you saying that camel toes and stocks stuffed in your shorts breach decency? What if someone identifies as a person who has a big "package", but has a small one and can't afford surgery - and is otherwise very good at their job? Are you suggesting they should be fired for not being cispackaged?

    Behind your thin veil of tolerance, I sense in fact a very narrow minded vision of society. Preaching acceptance of things that you find acceptable and in the same breath condemning things you don't find acceptable is a huge red flag.

    Also the fact that the guy looks like a muffin groper has nothing to do with his hair color or nose ring, it's something else, something deeper that is part of his core essence. It's like watching a picture of Roy Cohn and knowing instantly that deep down that person was a soulless sociopath; on paper he was just a plain white guy in a suit, but there was clearly something wrong with him. Too bad if you're lacking this capacity for gut feeling.

  5. Re:Wow! on Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    An absolutely superior and trustworthy company!

    Did you see their whistleblower? He looks like someone who got fired from Starbucks for repeatedly rubbing his balls on the muffins.

  6. Re:1st didnâ(TM)t in a summary on Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That's our man BeauHD!

    BeauHD is not a man. BeauHD is a poorly written AppleScript running from an unpatched mac mini hidden in a closet in one of the Apple Stores.

  7. There's pros and cons. What I enjoy about Netflix is not feeling bad about not finishing movies and not having to press pause when I go to take a piss. There's value in the bulk and the dollar bin entertainment segment.

    I appreciate good original content but I don't think they can compete in that sphere. They should stick on providing terabytes of B movies and old series. I'm sure for the price of one Bright they could buy the entire Nash Bridges, Boston Legal and NYPD Blue series, and that would be a lot more value for my $9. How expensive can it be to get Knight Rider, Airwolf, Magnum PI or Quincy ME? I would love to watch a bit of Kojak while I'm doing the dishes, or a couple Dragnets on a rainy sunday afternoon. Instead they blow money on shiny dildos and liberal talk shows.

    It does feel sometimes that they're doing the same mistake Marissa Mayer did at Yahoo when she got rid of the cash cows targeting less sophisticated users (like shine), and brought in katie couric vlogs and fancy fashion instead.
     

  8. About to cancel my subscription to Netflix and probably not for the reason or reasons most would...

    It is annoying, and another lame thing that they started doing is having weekly episodes. If I wanted to wait a week to watch more episodes of a show I'd go to HBO or AMC. They're losing their identity and value. It's like a cheap buffet that suddenly makes you order their shit a la carte, just taking away the quantity and the waste culture and not replacing it with quality.

  9. Re:Israel First! on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Following your logic, Cuba has been a US ally through all those years, with the missile crisis, Castro, the bay of pigs and all that, since Gitmo has been there for over a century.

  10. Elite scammer on Microsoft Engineer Charged In Reveton Ransomware Case (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least he took it a step further than email scams

    The accused is Raymond Uadiale, 41, a naturalized US citizen of Nigerian descent

  11. Re:Israel First! on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia and their civilized allied country is Syria

    Dude, Syria has never been an allied for Russia, the whole thing is just a big marketing operation to sell Russian weapons to Egypt and Iraq since long time customers like Gaddafi have stopped sending orders. Get real.

  12. Re:Smokescreen on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a smokescreen, it's a simple domino effect of bad US foreign policy.

    The Iraq invasion was already a bad idea because it was a somewhat stable player in the area, but taking away the power from the pro-Sunni minority and giving it to the pro-Shia majority angered and worried the sunnis, and fueled the growth of Al Qaeda and ISIS, which led to the bloodbath all over the place and especially in Syria.

    The USA should just walk away from this mess, it's just too complicated to predict any kind of positive outcome. 90% of muslims are sunnis, and 90% of the terrorists are also sunnis, but 90% of the oil wells are controlled by shiites, and shiites are also more likely to get nuclear weapons. There's been terrible dictators and countless victims in both camps, and neither has proved really motivated to crush the terrorists nutjobs that kill on their behalf. This is as fubar as it gets, it's best to just stay out of it.

  13. Re:Russian Trolls == anyone opposing Big War Indus on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    fucking disgusting how pro-corporate, pro-cia, pro-pentagon everyone seems to be

    Wait so now the Russian trolls are working against Trump, after getting him elected? Or are they pretending to be against Trump so anti-Trumps suddenly turn into pro-Trumps? I know Russians are great chess players but this Russian Trolls narrative starts to feel like the story arc of a bad soap opera that lasted too long.

    Here's an idea. Let's close Facebook, Twitter and all those shitty blogs so we can get back to being lied to only by CNN and Fox News. That way, maybe we'll get real republicans and democrats in the next election instead of reality tv stars and furniture thieves.

    We might as well get rid of those FBI, CIA, DHS, NSA and TSA buffoons in the process; let's have the military deal with foreign threats and the various states deal with interior ones, like it was always supposed to be until Hoover used the Lindbergh kidnapping to start building this police state we all live in.

  14. Re:Israel First! on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you Trump for putting Israel First!

    You are clearly trolling, but still, I don't see why it would be a problem to put a civilized allied country first, as opposed to beheaders, suicide bombers and chemical weapon users that all have in common their hatred of democracy and western civilization. Why don't you guys just stop looking for reasons to hate your own culture and instead help the other half of the country who's trying to make America great again?

  15. Re:Yeah, Slashdot has become wildly 'conservative' on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Please mod parent down for not embracing the liberal agenda of fud and impeachment

  16. Maybe it's not the Russian government who funds them but actually Assad?

    What's the difference? That's like saying maybe the palestinian riots are not funded by Iran, they're funded by the hezbollah.

  17. Re:Good gravy on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The FBI was evil when they were investigating Hillary Clinton's misuse of classified materials

    The hilarious part is that they had given up, but as they investigated that guy Weiner who was sending dick pics to underage girls, they found classified materials on his laptop that had been left there by his then wife, which was one of Clinton's aides and did not have the clearance to have such materials in the first place.

    But let's ignore that blatant violation of national security, let's instead try to establish that because Trump's neighbor's third cousin once bought vodka in a liquor store, Trump is clearly a russian spy.

  18. Give me a call if you need some help getting through this tough time.

    Really? From that list of celebs that's the one you creep on?

    You must be one of those people who like the wrong girl in t.a.t.u or in wilson phillips.

  19. Funny, you forgot to quote[...]

    It's quite astonishing what some people will do to prevent anyone hearing their story.

    Dial down your off-topic antisemitic propaganda. The guy wasn't killed to prevent people from hearing a story, he was killed because he was in the middle of a violent riot.

  20. Re:If I'm being honest... on YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.
    Probably the same guy who comments on the "poor choice" of music at parties instead of just having fun.

    As far as I'm concerned, real music died when heathens turned away from gregorian chants and started to use harmonies and chords. Once that line was crossed, the gates of Hell opened and now we have fat girls with no musical talent on the youtubes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    ^ This is not what God intended when he gave us the blessed diatonic scale. REPENT, PEOPLE

  21. brace yourself on Programmer Unveils OpenGL Bindings for Bash (opensource.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Command-line ads are coming

  22. It's for the environment. You should be happy to sacrifice your health to save the Earth.

    They did a study about paper towels usage a few years ago. They installed two kinds of trash cans in different public bathrooms; plain ones, and blue ones with the recycling symbol on it. Turns out that people use a lot more paper towel when they see the recycling logo.

    That's always the problem with people. We tend to forget the first part of the "reduce, reuse, recycle" slogan and make up for it by binging on the other two.

  23. Re:Why would you want cashless? on Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, You mean Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Wall Street are clean?

    Yes. Being greedy is not the same as being a criminal.

  24. This is true. The list of countries that have suffered at the hands of US foreign policy is quite impressive and well-documented:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    What is also interesting is that there's a more or less even split between Republican and Democrat administrations during those events.

  25. Go back to Breitbart.

    I consider myself as a moderate centrist; I do not have cable and I stay away from the news media in general. I would say that I'm equally exposed to second-hand CNN and Fox News based on the barbershop I pick when I need a shave (they tend to have news on TV in the waiting area but are set on different channels).

    So the fact that you're putting me in the Breitbart crowd indicates that you are yourself a bitter liberal who has such a fanatical point of view that you can't help but demonize people you disagree with. This is not a sign of maturity, this is a sign of too much time spent in an echo chamber such as facebook or twitter.