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  1. Cue David Bowie! on NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Life On Mars never gets old.

  2. Whether any of those claims are valid or not ("Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks") that had to leave a mark.

  3. Re:Look at password rules and if they have 5+ diff on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I've run into that....sometimes it means I have to change my rules, and sometimes I can only get the rules so close and have to make multiple attempts.

    And sometimes I get websites that won't let me paste in my password. Because apparently it's still 2004 wherever they live.

  4. My understanding is this applies to HTML email on Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    My understanding of this is that it applies only to HTML email - if you are using S/MIME and PGP/GnuPG with text-only emails, you should be fine. So why are EFF calling for disabling all PGP and GnuPG?

  5. This is a joke that makes multiple developers uncomfortable for various reasons, and rather than just saying, "get over it," the professional thing to do would be to excise the joke immediately.

    Stallman is hopelessly out of touch for championing this of all things.

  6. Might be worth it, depending on how big you are on Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts To Adopt Payment System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Paypal and Square will continue to dominate the small business because setting up an account takes literally minutes. On the other hand, when my wife and I tried to set up Amazon Payments for her small business some years ago, it took weeks to sort out all the paperwork, by which time we figured out that Amazon Payments didn't fit our needs.

    For medium-sized businesses (like a modest fast-food chain or an Etsy-type site), Amazon Pay might make more sense. Large businesses will likely get screwed by Amazon - that's part of Amazon's business model these days - and can negotiate their own terms with the credit card companies.

  7. What do you want to bet.... on Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...the actual reason for the changes has to do with another country telling Amazon and Google to quit enabling Signal, or else?

  8. I've been down this path before with my MBP - after the wireless connection wouldn't connect, they ended up replacing the entire motherboard. Now, they're having similar issues with the keyboard, and - silence.

    They need to go back to the earlier keyboard designs and start replacing them as warranty repairs start rolling in. Frankly, the older keyboard designs would be a massive upgrade. I doubt they will do this.

  9. Editorial on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Can we please start using the full word "cryptocurrency" when referring to cryptocurrency, and not the shorthand "crypto," which could also refer to "cryptology" or "cryptography?" A ban on cryptography advertising would be cause for alarm for every IT professional. A ban on cryptocurrency, not so much. Much obliged.

  10. Re:This will probably happen on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    It will cost you a few more bucks to fly in and out of that airport, but they will get badly needed renovations of electrical, plumbing and structure that they need, and it will get done more quickly (assuming Trump also executes on chopping through all the red tape permitting BS that has accumulated over the last 40 years)

    Or the landlord will neglect all those facility updates and just squeeze all the money they can out of their investment, making sure to bust unions and reduce pay along the way.

    Chicago went through this same privatization binge in the 1990s. It didn't go swimmingly.

  11. How smart is this kid? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If he's pretty smart, then you might be able to hand him a copy of Einstein's Relativity: The Special and General Theory. This is a layman's-level introduction that avoids the weeds of Riemann geometry and the like. The math will still be above his head (unless your nine-year-old understands college-level algebra), but he should still be able to get the concepts from reading this.

  12. The HAM in me is wondering... on Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    ...which frequencies? Presumably everything from 88MHz-108MHz, but maybe also NOAA weather broadcasts? (~160MHz)

  13. Why develop your own OS? on Google's Mysterious Fuchsia OS Can Now Run On the Pixelbook (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not immediately clear exactly why Google is building a new operating system...

    Possibly to un-encumber themselves from the GPL? I note that Fuchsia's licenses are a mix of MIT, BSD, and Apache. This would potentially allow them to adapt the OS to just about any environment without having to release the source code.

  14. This is a bad idea on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    FaceBook and Google have an easy response to this: they can change their algorithms to prefer news sources that don't ask them for money. In fact, if I were a state-run "news service" such as RT or Xinhua, I would charge FB and Google nothing, and immediately become the loudest voice in the room.

  15. True. That said, my only mac is a laptop that I occasionally have in public meetings. It's worth hardening.

  16. Meaning, you can always change the root password if you forget it later. (Or, if you REALLY want, you can keep it in a password manager like KeePass or PasswdSafe.)

  17. Set the root password to something long and hard to guess (32 chars of mixed-case alphanumeric should do). Do this by running as an administrator:

    sudo passwd -u root

    This should do until Apple releases a real fix.

    Source

  18. Call of Cthulhu module? on The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility: Where Spacecraft Go To Die (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bombing a lifeless void in the South Pacific with space junk....what could go wrong?

  19. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong?! on Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then of course, someone could break into the shed. :(

  20. ...a downlevel WebSphere server with an unpatched critical vulnerability. Now, granted, this is rumor. Can anyone confirm or disprove?

  21. Some, not all, of those extensions are migrating on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Others?

  22. I despise Trump and everything he stands for, too, but I'm still willing to consider that he might have stumbled into a decent pick. Do we have concrete examples of where Andrei Iancu is monstrously bad (or for that matter, pretty good) about IP and IP reforms?

  23. Re:Why bother with Atom available? on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Linux systems have to contain a basic editor, just like Windows and macOS have Notepad and Text Edit, and gedit was always the best fit for that role.

    If one is using a GNOME desktop, then yes. If one is using KDE, it's KWrite. If one is using neither, one's best bet is nano, unless one is comfortable with emacs or vim. I am hoping that the GNOME team will either recruit volunteers to step up and maintain gedit, or declare that a different editor is their standard.

  24. I seem to recall Apple benefiting greatly from the hype generated by accidental releases of specs or code in the past, and this makes me wonder if Apple isn't releasing such details, as Popeye would put it, "Akskidently on poipose."

  25. This tweet, six hours old, has not aged well. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2017