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  1. This would be akin to security researchers divining the contents of the envelope based solely on the address written on the envelope.

    It's Silverlight for chrissake. Is anybody surprised that the envelope is transparent and doesn't protect anonymity and content?

  2. Oh, nevermind on West Point Researchers Demonstrate Passive Netflix Traffic Analysis Attack (threatpost.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First, the attack described only applies to streams still using Silverlight.

    I've also heard that security researchers have found that they can predict where a letter is being sent based solely on the address written on the envelope.

  3. Neural Lace on Neuroscientists Weigh In On Elon Musk's Mysterious 'Neural Lace' Company (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm more of a neural leather guy.

  4. Stupid Criminals! They could have just used a Rasperry Pi Zero.

    But they wanted to play Overwatch.

  5. So the mobo came from the workshop, no anuses involved.

    You're a killjoy, you know that?

  6. I don't want to know how they smuggled in the motherboard.

  7. Re:Hillbillies, right wing conspiracy theorists on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillbillies

    Just because some no-shoes wearing, Oxycontin-addicted, uncle-fucker waiting for his coal job to come back so he can pay for his black lung treatments voted for Forrest Trump doesn't mean you should use a slur like, "hillbilly".

    So much for the "Tolerant Left", I guess.

  8. Re:I can't post the title without flaming on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Private prisons. They lobby for anything that results in higher and longer incarceration rates.

    That's the flip side of this. It's also about making sure there's enough "play" in the forensics to convict someone innocent or exonerate someone corrupt.

  9. Re:I can't post the title without flaming on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck was calling for lowered standards in forensic science?

    Maybe people who are under investigation for some shady shit?

  10. Re:They asked nicely, he refused on Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Disregard a flight crew AND law enforcement at your own peril. News at 11.

    There will never be a shortage of people who will toadie up to bullies in the hope of not being bullied themselves.

    Just look at the House GOP caucus.

  11. Re:Not just "rare" diseases on The Cost of Drugs For Rare Diseases Is Threatening the US Health Care System (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    regarding alternatives to wealth being the determining factor: so you really HAVE no answer. Check. Can't comprehend capitalism: check.

    Practically every civilized country in the world besides the US has figured out an alternative to wealth being the determining factor, and they spend much less to get better outcomes.

    Can't comprehend capitalism: check.

    You don't seem to grasp the fundamentals of late-stage capitalism. It's stage 4 and it's terminal.

  12. Re:What if you don't dream? on Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    why wouldn't I ever remember dreaming?

    You may be an android.

  13. Wait, what? on Sleep Is the New Status Symbol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Ben Olsen, an Australian entrepreneur, hopes to introduce Thim, a gadget you wear on your finger that uses sound to startle you awake every three minutes for an hour, just before you go to sleep.

    I've already started my happy hour, so can someone please explain to me how having a gizmo on your finger that startles you awake every three minutes is going to help with sleeplessness?

  14. Re:I miss the days... on NASA Puts the Earth Up For Adoption (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    When NASA was so busy trying to fly to the moon that it had no time for such nonsense.

    If you believe the mainstream media.

  15. Re:Appeal on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    In every state in the US, all motor vehicles are inspected every year.

    No, they are not.

    There are nineteen states without any inspection requirement at all.

  16. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The valuation on Tesla is insane

    You held on to your Stanley Steamer stock, didn't you?

  17. Who you kidding? on Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    I miss rotary dials on phones. And polio.

  18. Re:What happened to Slashdot? on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    and dick-nozzles like you posting on every fucking thing like anyone gives a fuck what you think.

    Especially dick-nozzles like me.

  19. What happened to Slashdot? on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Despite the threat of extinction, however, it turns out that some sysops never quite gave up on the BBS," and for many modern-day users, "it's simply a matter of 'dialing' the BBS using a domain name and port number instead of a phone number in their preferred terminal software." There they'll find primitive BBS games like STARTREK, Chess, and Blackjack, but also "old conversation threads dating back decades were available verbatim... It's like a buried digital time capsule."

    As someone who was there 25 years ago, I can tell you, it was no golden age. There were already trolls complaining about the 1990s version of "SJWs" and hollering that there were too many posts that weren't "tech" enough.

    Imagine today's Slashdot, but in lower resolution, and having to wait while a GNAA comment loaded on the screen.

    On the plus side, there was plenty of ASCII porn.

  20. Re:Houston-New Orleans-Austin on Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    if you do it on May 11th Joe Ely will be in town.

    Brother, I will be there. It's going to be at the Discovery Green, right? I can ride my bike up there.

    Save the trip to NOLA until you have the time to take the bus

    I've taken that bus ride a bunch of times. In fact, I'll be taking it for the New Orleans Heritage Festival at the end of the month. I stay in the Garden District, so once I get there, I don't really need a car for anything.

    there's plenty to see on the way, I've done the drive.

    Too many refineries. I love South Texas, but it's not really the most scenic place. From downtown Chicago, you can drive less than an hour and be in the rolling hills of Southern Wisconsin. In Houston, you drive for an hour to get to your friend's house and you're still inside city limits.

  21. Re:Houston-New Orleans-Austin on Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A train, yeah. A small, cramped, windowless, probably noisy capsule in a tube, however, is another story, even if the journey time is substantially lower.

    Have you been on an airplane lately?

  22. Re:I must be getting old on Staples Tries Co-Working Spaces To Court Millennials And Entrepreneurs (pilotonline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I can't find my glasses."

    "They're on your head."

    "Shut up, millennial scum. I'm not too old to show you what for."

  23. Re:Houston-New Orleans-Austin on Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dallas to Houston makes more sense. I-45 being such a piece of shit highway.

    Don't nobody want to go to Dallas.

  24. Houston-New Orleans-Austin on Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Elon ought to build the first one down here. It would be great to take a train to New Orleans for lunch, maybe hear a band in Jackson Square, have BBQ at the Broken Spoke in Austin for dinner, catch maybe a Joe Ely show and sleep in my own bed in Houston that same night.

    Plus, there ain't shit in between Houston, New Orleans and Austin, so nobody will be inconvenienced.

  25. I'm itching to give it a try.

    But only if I can get up the scratch.