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  1. Wonderfully Poetic Acronym on WPA2 Security Flaw Puts Almost Every Wi-Fi Device at Risk of Hijack, Eavesdropping (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    WPA Privacy Attack!

    Wi-Fi Protected Access
    Wasn't Programmed Appropriately
    Wads of Potential Attacks
    Wireless Public Access
    Without Prior Allowance
    Well, Pretty Apocalyptic
    WoPA!

    When Patches Arriving?
    Wardrivers, Present Arms!
    Weaponized Privacy Assault
    Wardriving's Productive Again
    Wide-open Point of Access
    Wrecks Privacy Automatically
    Welcome, Protocol Attackers

    Where Patches, Admin?
    Worthless Privacy Attempt
    Wrong Protocol, Admin
    Won't Protect Anything

    Weak Privacy Attempt
    Waste of Precious Attention
    Wins Prying Award

    Wired Past, Again

  2. Re:How do people not notice that? on Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    There isn't 500 million PCs worth of people in the world who know what a load average is or how to investigate when it's pegged.

  3. Pied Pieper on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the linked Wikipedia article on Jan Sloot, the guy he signed the deal with was named Roland "Roel" Pieper; so that's a point in favor of the Pied Piper theory.

  4. Re:Venezuela? on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all, but there have been lots of news stories in the past several months about bitcoin mining and use in Venezuela.

  5. Re:Every... time... on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux ... isnt something the general public will relate to.

    Who is this general public of which you speak? This is Slashdot!

  6. Humbling on Researchers Discover A Surprising New Role for Lungs: Making Blood (ucsf.edu) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this is only now being discovered. Another reminder of how little we know.

  7. Maybe they just mixed up the numbers from the Burtch Works survey.

  8. Re:They need a better language on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It includes 'distribution', which is a noun, so I just changed it to a verb, like all the others.

  9. They need a better language on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    tasks = ['canning', 'processing', 'preserving', 'freezing', 'drying', 'marketing', 'storing', 'packing for shipment', 'distributing']
    products = ['agricultural produce', 'meat and fish products', 'perishable foods']
    overtime_exceptions = ['{} {}'.format(t, p) for t in tasks for p in products]

  10. Re:Not updating on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1

    And as firefox doesn't let you install addons, which aren't signed on addons.mozilla.org ...

    That's not true; you can install addons from other sites or from a file on your computer.

  11. That's so 10 years ago on Tesla Drops 'Motors' From Name As CEO Musk Looks Beyond Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember Apple Computer?

  12. Who's Al? He sounds pretty brainy to me.

  13. Which ransomware? on Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Was it Locky?

  14. Person A: NASA is planning a mission to an asteroid worth $10 quintillion!
    Person B: What? No way! That doesn't even make sense.
    Person A: Seriously! I saw it on Slashdot!
    Person B: I don't believe you. Which asteroid is it, wise guy?
    Person A: Psyche!

  15. Word on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blockchains in the big box chains gon' rock change. Strange.

  16. AD: New Startup Looking for Venture Capital on Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey everyone, I have a new startup and I'm looking to get funded. We're going to provide smartphone recovery services based on chemical signature. Just register your unique chemical signature, and if your phone ever gets lost, we'll find it for you. All your information will be protected with military-grade encryption. Join us and help change the world by making it a better place!

    * First round of funding has already been started by In-Q-Tel.

  17. ChakraCore is open source (MIT License) on Microsoft Brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those who don't know, ChakraCore is open source; the code is on GitHub, under the MIT license.

    https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

  18. Meta-Reference on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    FTA: "She said, 'I've been watching 'Suits,' and this is how it happens."

    Sheeeit.

  19. Here's how to disable Windows 10 prompts/upgrades on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    For those that haven't seen it, take a look at Never 10. It's a simple utility that disables GWX (Get Windows 10) by doing the registry / group policy editing for you. You just run it once; you don't need to install anything or keep it running in the background.

    No prompts, no upgrades, and no Windows 10 installation files taking up space on your drive.

  20. It's okay, the United States is The Good Guys(tm). They just want to keep us safe.

  21. Public health crisis? on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh oh.. I think the kid next door is patient zero.

  22. Be afraid, and look at our ads on Google Admits That Google.com Is Partially Dangerous (eweek.com) · · Score: 2

    "Coming up on News at 11: Google has released a report saying that Google.com.. could be dangerous? What does this mean? What do you need to do to stay safe? Tune in and watch through the entire hour and all the commercials, so we can give you the 90-second over-hyped package at the very end."

  23. Looks like it's hip to encryp'; that's a trip!

  24. Maybe NASA is just the first to fall on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the aliens cut out the feed themselves. Maybe they're now in control of NASA. Maybe the invasion.. is beginning..

  25. Wait, so.. are you tell me CaptionBot is a holocaust-denier? And believes that Osama Bin Laden didn't exist because, what, he was a CIA fabrication? What's going on here?