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  1. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway, her actual complaint...

    The actual complaint was that gamers weren't willing to provide and support her SJW platform. Many, myself included, decided that her complaints have nothing to do with gaming, and we are here to just enjoy video games.

  2. Re: Chris Roberts isn't a finisher on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Why wouldn't he if people keep dropping all kinds of cash on this without it getting released?

  3. Re:What "conservative values" are they battling? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    She deserves it for lying and trying to cover up for the most corrupt administration in the history of this country.

    How is this categorically different from "women who dress in a revealing way deserve it"?

  4. Re:Why would they do that? on Cyber Thieves Claim To Hit Two Big Canadian Banks (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why would they claim to have done it?

    Likely it was a blackmail attempt and public disclosure is a result of failing to pay.l

  5. Re:What "conservative values" are they battling? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sexism associated with conservatives by non-conservatives. The same is true for racism, despotism, corruption, cronyism... I recommend skepticism unless backed by evidence.

  6. Re:What about the software on your microwave? on Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Support? No, they don't have to. However, them must not take steps to lock me out of using third-party offerings.

  7. Re:Right to unlock on Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry, but this is in no way, shape or form a 'right'.

    It is "right to repair". I can repair or replace OS with a third-party offering and is not locked-in to OEM provided options.

  8. Canada has privacy laws on Google's Toronto City Built 'From the Internet Up' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unlike US, Canada has some privacy laws. People object to this development because it will be 24/7 monitored area of the city that would spy on everyone in the vicinity, not just the people that signed up to live there.

  9. Do you think it would make any difference if China produces equally plausible-sounding excuse for retaliation on agricultural sector?

  10. Re:MAGA on US Reaches Deal To Keep Chinese Telecom ZTE in Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make America Great Again. That President Trump sure goes out of his way for the forgotten people of America.

    What do you think going to happen to US agricultural sector when China inevitably retaliates for US torpedoing ZTE?

  11. Key to understanding my post is "additional". Defender isn't categorically better than other AVs, but you are not giving additional access to a third-party into your system. That is, MS already has that level of access. Plus, since they wrote OS, Defender will play nice with it.

  12. Attack surface on Microsoft Explains Why Windows Defender Isn't Ranked Higher in New Antivirus Tests (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MS Defender has one very clear advantage over competition - it doesn't create an additional attack surface and installs yet another vendor's application with deep kernel hooks, network connectivity, and an equivalent of root privileges.

  13. Re: obstruction of justice = talked to cops on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    Swatting should and was prosecuted. The rest of charges are completely unnecessary and are symptom of a big problem in a criminal justice system.

    Standard mode of operation is that cops decide you are guilty, trap you into "lied to cops", then use the machine to force you to plead guilty. Even if you fight off original charge, that is, jury decides that no crime was committed, you are still have to deal with obstruction of justice charges that don't go away with original charge getting dismissed.

  14. It is more likely that the guy who received it had a phone number very close to the one the NSA uses.

    I have the same problem, my number is one-off from Trump's cell, every other weekend some drunk guy that calls himself Vlad keep calling me in the middle of the night and threatens to release pee tapes if I don't do this or that.

  15. obstruction of justice = talked to cops on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 2

    No matter what, don't ever talk to cops. When these are the only charges, you know someone got railroaded.

  16. Re:The solution to deepfakes is... more deepfakes! on The US Military is Funding an Effort To Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    More interesting implication of this, is that now you could get away with actually speaking at a satanist convention, disparaging the flag, mom, and apple pie. Because you could just claim it is fake news.

  17. Illegal immigrants breaking orbiting laws on Asteroid From Another Star System Found Orbiting Wrong Way Near Jupiter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal interstellar immigrants breaking orbiting laws. We need to build a Dyson Sphere (and make Mexico pay for it!).

  18. Re:safest on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    one to which you have the source code: https://www.dd-wrt.com/site/in...

    While WRT project (I am still on Tomato) is excellent solution, for every non-technical user and even most techies having access to the source code is irrelevant. You still have to outsource decision making and trust to developers. Only in this case they are open source, so it isn't typical commercial hack job but a work of motivated and well-meaning people.

  19. Re:PEBCAK on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    How about you stop being pedantic on what the background information means.

    No, this background information is crucial to providing solution. Different router might not be an answer, if for example, the root cause of hacks is his unpatched VPN solution.

  20. So they finally switched to "Be evil?"

  21. Demonetization of content on YouTube Unveils New Streaming Service 'YouTube Music,' Rebrands YouTube Red (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I am curious how Google is going to handle demonetization of songs due to objectionable to advertisers content (e.g. rap and not-for-radio lyrics).

  22. Re:Race to maximum fragility on Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets That 'Detract From the Conversation' (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am deeply offended by your violent words meant to marginalize my beliefs in not getting offended. You should be euthanized (without any pain, I am not a monster) for this!

  23. Re:Scissors. Antenna cable. on Connected Cars Don't Necessarily Disconnect Previous Owners When Resold (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    I somewhat regularly consider then dismiss an old SL convertible.

    I have one and absolutely love it. Best years are 98 to 2002, 500SL with modern M113 V8 that shared across many platforms and gets decent highway mileage, and all modern safety features including traction control and side air bags. Avoid 93 to 96 as they have bad bio degradable wiring harnesses. Make sure there is no optional self-leveling suspension package on the car. Only two known issues - transmission harness plug leaks (common issue with an easy fix) and top hydraulic cylinders leak (there is a shop that R&R them and ships ahead).

  24. Re:Equifax got away, so why change? on After Equifax Breach, Major Firms Still Rely on Same Flawed Software (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Until we start treating software engineering the way we treat civil engineering, and hold authors of software liable for their creations, nothing will change. Companies are protected anyway, and software guys can just walk down the street into a new job like nothing ever happened.

    We can't do that, as software engineers don't often write any code from ground-up and often don't control how code they write is used. In civil engineering it is possible to control all aspects of the project and very clearly limit its scope of use. Now imagine building a skyscraper when the foundation was designed by someone else, you have no control over how closely the spec was followed during construction, and at some point some madman would try to land a 747 on it. That is how civil engineering as software design would look like.

    Software engineering almost universally relies on code written by others, be it libraries, APIs, drivers and so on. Also imagine you contribute to some open source project, it gets integrated incorrectly into something that you had no knowledge of, then you get hauled in front of the technically illiterate jury because it was your code that lead to exploit and data breach, never mind that patch was available for 6 month prior to incident.

  25. Re:still trying to get into the mobile space on Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, Microsoft's Windows 10 on mobile was an excellent OS. What MS sucked at is convincing people to pay for it. It wasn't perceived as upmarket the way people view Apple products, and it wasn't being given away for free to everyone the way Google does with Android. So MS didn't manage to become cool and couldn't beat free.