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  1. From the page you 'linked' (learn how to do an href):

    Our Gabriel Collaboration Suite is an integrated set of real-time communication and collaboration applications built on top of the Gabriel Security Platform.

    Sounds like they have a software product.

    Are you implying that software companies don't have 'real products.' Them's fighting words for some of the people around here....

  2. As Currency? on Japan Could Have More Than 3 Million Cryptocurrency Traders (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Are any of them trading with cryptocurrency as currency? Or are they just tossing it back and forth as 'assets.'

    It can't be a currency unless the value stabilizes. If it's an 'investment' it's a poor idea to use it for a currency.

  3. You have direct experience to back up that sort of assertion?

    Me, I've not seen that many 'alt right' people in real life to know.

  4. Re:One company deciding what runs is just as creep on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not a shill for any company.

  5. Re:One company deciding what runs is just as creep on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Actually, you're forced to develop the apps for your iPhone on OSX. The main thing at this point keeping the Mac alive is that it's the ONLY way to develop apps for iOS. On the day when Xcode becomes available for Linux and FreeBSD the Mac will be deprecated and obsolete.

    I keep looking, but Xcode still isn't available in pkgsrc for NetBSD.

  6. Re: Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Then your computer probably has the websites on 'the internet' that you need to do your job whitelisted.

    It probably doesn't include slashdot, linked-in, facebook, or reddit.

  7. Re:From the CEO of the company that brought you... on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    iAds was a business failure. Apple shut it down. So it's all bad.

  8. Re: Cook yaps out of both sides... on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple failed at selling ads.

    There is nothing noble about how they dropped out of the business.

  9. Re:Oh Dear. Those poor Tesla Fanbois on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    The self-aware BMWs would quickly be obliterated by the self-aware F150s. You can count on that.

  10. Re:Because greed. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 0

    You apparently have a really good wire-wrap gun. Or I suppose a LOT of diodes and perfboard.

  11. You can see a straight line to someone telling a machine to destroy a city, and that command being executed without any morality, mercy, or delay.

    The thing is, the 'machine to destroy a city' is a peripheral issue. It would have been possible to POKE into memory and cause that to happen in 1967, with the computers of that time. It has little or nothing to do with the capabilities of the computer, and everything to do with the peripherals interfaced to it.

  12. Re:An artificial solar Flair... on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    I still have a vacuum tube oscilloscope. So I'll be in charge of troubleshooting and repair after the EMP.

  13. Re: Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, who else? on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but AM was driven by pure sheer emotional hatred of humans. Almost the opposite of what one would think an 'evil AI' would evolve as a central motivating core. Evil AI would be detached and cruelly inhuman, not motivated by hatred.

    Ellison is a brilliant writer, but I don't credit him with a good understanding of computers and Artificial Intelligence.

  14. Re: Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, who else? on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if I should type *whoosh* or not, which is bewildering.

  15. Re:Guess what... Documentary filmmakers need to ea on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife is addicted to the grade-C documentaries one can watch on Netflix or Youtube. Thankfully she uses a headphone. I glance over at her tablet from time to time and note that very often she is watching a 'video' that is a camera panning over still images, then a cut to a talking head with obligatory bookcase in the background.

    It's grown to be very cheap to produce low grade 'documentaries' with modern cameras and digital video editing equipment.

  16. Re: woo, and lots of it on Elon Musk Is Paying For Free Streaming of a New Documentary about AI Dangers (syfy.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Netflix DVDs are still a thing, and I am certain that I am not the only person who finds ripping Redbox DVDs to be more convenient than downloading video files of indeterminate quality.

  17. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    I'd tell him to take critical machines off-line. Set up a form employees need to fill out where they enter websites that need to be whitelisted for them to be able to visit from their desktop workstations. If more access is needed for some reason, perhaps several pool machines in the common area of each department that have full Internet access but are not connected to any other work resource.

  18. Re:Security is hard on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Why did you escalate to violent rhetoric? Does the idea of not being able to connect to Facebook from any keyboard you sit down to at work make you fretful?

  19. Re:Because greed. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Assembly Language programmers are like that, too. Always thinking about the accumulator.

    It's a good thing they exist, though, so people like you can press colored buttons in your Visual Basic derivatives and make shiney things happen.

  20. That isn't an app. That is a platform for apps to run on.

  21. Re:Watch out or the germs are gonna getcha! on Hot-Air Dryers Suck In Nasty Bathroom Bacteria, Shoot Them At Your Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you talking to your bassoon?

  22. Re:Watch out or the germs are gonna getcha! on Hot-Air Dryers Suck In Nasty Bathroom Bacteria, Shoot Them At Your Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A 'sterile world' can also be referred to as a death zone.

    Our bodies are teeming with life, and always will be. Most of it is symbiotic life forms like beneficial bacteria. Without all those life forms crawling all over us, we would die.

  23. On my Galaxy J3, there is a flashlight function built right into the OS.

  24. Re:The only metric that counts on Number of Apps In App Store Declined For the First Time Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that the only metric for end users is how much money they can give developers?

  25. Re:Well, Crapp... on Number of Apps In App Store Declined For the First Time Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple removes large quantities in a simple process. They change the API and mandate 64 bits. Voila! No apps at all less than a few years old will even work on your new Igadget.