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  1. Re:Corruption at the highest level on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Anyone else would be in jail.

    I don't see GOP so eager to prosecute Colin Powell or other employees that also used an outside service during H's tenure at State Dept.

  2. Re:Double Standard on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are just making up stuff without citations. Please stop.

  3. Un-Bullshit on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Like TFA said, they may have wanted to put a place-holder instead of an actual and possibly still active email address, such as "[Person X]" instead of say "hrc@privateservers.com". That by itself is not illegal.

    2) Please elaborate. It was against "proper practice"* to use it for WORK emails*.

    3) Please elaborate. It was the Benghazi investigations that started the whole thing, not leaks. And being leaked does not mean it's not used anymore, it just means one is likely to start getting a shitload of spam and trolls.

    * Outside services were not strictly forbidden, but H didn't get the written approval required by the official policies of S.D.

  4. Re:But then who audits the auditors? on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The auditors usually won't need access to open-ended person search tools, they mostly just check existing cases.

    And the top-level auditors (auditors of auditors) should probably be rotated and/or lent cross-agency so that a bad apple doesn't have time to spoil an entire agency.

    Nothing is 100% foolproof; it's a matter of reducing average risk.

  5. So how can I personally profit off the bursting of this decade's AI bubble?

  6. Nah, yours are too micro & soft

  7. Re:Blame it on the translators on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    management wanted..."built to last" ... typo'ed as "built to blast"

    Be very afraid if they tell you you're "fired"

  8. Reverse Competition [Re:Clearly Samsung's QA dep on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    When I complained to the store (Sears) they said that all washing machines are made that way now [90's]

    That's a really dumb justification for suckage. "Sure, we suck, but so do our competitors now." I see now it's not just limited to telecoms and presidential candidates.

    I suppose the appliance makers could argue that power-saving regulations limit their ability to make the "big iron" washers you talk about. Some of the older stuff from say the 50's were tough, stable, lasting, and easy to repair, but were also power-hogs.

    By the way, our semi-old washer only has that problem if you wash big items like winter blankets or jackets. One has to be home to monitor it during such, else it dances around the garage. Being in a warmer region, it's usually not a problem.

  9. Re:Clearly Samsung's QA department..... on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Most if not all of the machines from the 80s and 90s were dumb. They'd walk across the floor if the load's unbalanced.

    What? I thought that was a feature. "Thank you, Mr. Machine, for bringing me my fresh laundry."

    Now I gotta get it myself.

  10. "A.I. took away thinking jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a thinker."
    ?

  11. I have stocks in both UPS and FedEx. Thumpo!

    I purchased both of them during the dot-com bubble. I was itching to get in on the "dot com profits", but did feel the companies were overvalued. My reasoning was that the Internet as a whole would continue to grow, but that existing companies were individually too unpredictable.

    Thus, I looked for stocks that would grow as a side-effect of the Internet rather than direct Internet stocks. I cannot say all my stock picks were good decisions, but this set in particular mostly was.

  12. Re:Simple fix, just requires money on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I asked "isn't anyone watching", she replied: "yeah, that's my job".

    Auditors should also be subject to audits.

    Although there's sometimes legitimate reasons for their illegitimate searches....Many officers are not allowed to associate with known criminals.

    Then their search-log should say, "Checking personal acquaintance due to NAWKC rules."

  13. Re:Simple fix, just requires money on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    How about those who fail audits go to prison

    "Fail" is not Boolean. "Grade" may be a better term. For example, a poorly written search justification with not enough detail or ambiguities. I don't think it's fair to outright fire or jail somebody for bad writing, unless maybe they don't improve after being warned.

  14. Re:"must be prepared to die" on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    EULA..."I agree to be Bill Gate's biatch when I get to hell".

    If you buy their software, arrival is not required.

  15. Now no one will even want the name.

    Rats! There goes my scam:
    http://www.yooha.com/

  16. Employees say the move was rejected by Ms. Mayer's team for fear that even something as simple as a password change would drive Yahoo's shrinking email users to other services.

    At my company we call this "stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel".

    My co is so clueless they step over both.

    Seems playing with lightning releases their endorphins.

  17. First ship to be called "GALAXY N-VII"

  18. Them on 'Safe' Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes in China (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Bah, blame it on Russia, it's what we do

  19. I nominate Congress to go on the first voyage.

    And make those bastards pay for it

  20. Re:In other words on Roller Coasters Could Help People Pass Kidney Stones, Says Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought I was going to die

    I was in so much pain that stopping the pain one way or another was more important to me than the fear of death. I thought something was really badly wrong such that death seamed a fairly likely outcome at the time, but ending the damned pain swamped any emotion about dying such that I don't even remember a fear of dying. Odd.

    Some say stone pain can grow comparable to child-birth pain, but at least while giving birth one knows what the cause is. I had no clue.

    All I could think of was an alien chest-burster

    I think I shouted something about a toothy chupacrabra trying to get out to the medics when asked to describe the pain.

  21. "must be prepared to die" on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that also in the Microsoft License Agreement?

  22. but diddling Marvin is better. Martians all have 3 wankers and 3 cunts. (Any resemblance to a description of the Kardashians is purely coincidental)

  23. Re:News Flash! on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're all going to die.

    Nope! I'm gonna have my brain cryogenically frozen, and be scanned into a brain emulator 200 or so years from now when tech advances.

    Thus, I'll still be trolling Slashdot for thousands and thousands of years! Bwwaaaaa ha ha ha

  24. Re:Simple fix, just requires money [clarification] on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Clarification:

    Re: "The logs be randomly spot-checked by an auditor(s) who verifies the reasons given by interviewing the person(s) who searched."

    Rewrite: "The logs be randomly spot-checked by an auditor(s) who verifies the reasons given by checking existing records, and interviewing the person(s) who searched if any discrepancies or gaps are found."

  25. Simple fix, just requires money on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The solution is pretty simple, but often skipped:

    1) The reason for every search should be required and logged by the searcher. Example: "Related to case 12345, this person was a close match to the suspect description given by clerk at robbed market, who was interviewed by officer 84923 on Aug 7th." (In practice short-cut lingo can be used to reduce typing.)

    2) The logs be randomly spot-checked by an auditor(s) who verifies the reasons given by interviewing the person(s) who searched.

    3) The depth of the investigation will vary such that some will be pretty thorough. (Not every spot-check can be deep, but make enough deep to keep users on their toes.)

    4) Those who've failed past audits or enter poor records are audited more often.

    This won't catch every violation, but greatly reduces it because the search-user doesn't know which search will be audited and how deep the audit will be.

    The reason this is not implemented is that governments and/or tax-payers don't want to pay for logging features and auditors.