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  1. Guessing poor passwords is not hacking on A Bored Hacker Easily Stole And Defaced More Than 70 Subreddits (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Losers like this should not be given this sort of oxygen of publicity to feed their fragile egos.

  2. Yes, it is a silly name on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So what if this is a silly name, a really opportunity has been missed to engage with children about exploring the natural world through science,

    This could easily have supported a range of children's books of the "Adventure of McBoat" and toy/model boats, with profits funding more scientific exploration.

  3. Re: Scary shit on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly what happened yesterday.

  4. Scary shit on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ANATOMY OF FASCISM - Robert Paxton

    "Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."

    The Five Stages of Fascism
    1) Intellectual exploration, where disillusionment with popular democracy manifests itself in discussions of lost national vigor
    2) Rooting, where a fascist movement, aided by political deadlock and polarization, becomes a player on the national stage
    3) Arrival to power, where conservatives seeking to control rising leftist opposition invite the movement to share power
    4) Exercise of power, where the movement and its charismatic leader control the state in balance with state institutions such as the police and traditional elites such as the clergy and business magnates.
    5) Radicalization or entropy, where the state either becomes increasingly radical, as did Nazi Germany, or slips into traditional authoritarian rule, as did Fascist Italy.

    You can read the full thing here

    https://libcom.org/files/Rober...

  5. Gap Planning 'Services' misses point on Taking a 'Gap Year' Before College Is a British Tradition That's Becoming a Big Trend In The US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the themes for a gap is to allow the young person to learn how to organise themselves with regard travel, accommodation and earnings. That things don't just happen, they need to be planned, delegating this to some service industry is missing much of the point.

  6. BBC is proof... on Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The BBC is one example of the Public Sector beating the Private sector hands down, the NHS is another. This is why the Tories are trying to cripple it.

    You must also remember who Whittingdale is, this is the guy who had his shenanigans and hypocrisy covered up by Sky/News International because he is one of their own and going after the BBC for them.

  7. Lt John Pike of UC Davis on UC Davis Spent $175,000 To Bury Search Results After Cops Pepper-Sprayed Protestors (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
  8. Cargo Cult Programming on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    By far the worst insult to be accused of is Cargo Cult programming because it says not only is the implicated incompetent they are also dishonest.

    While just making a mistake is inevitable human fallibility.

  9. Agreed, reading the report it is very obvious the bus actually caused the accident by trying an inappropriate overtake the Lexus

    The Lexus only 'Caused' the accident only in so much as it did not avoid it.

  10. BBC also reporting this now on Unprecedented Spike In TOR .Onion Nodes (profwoodward.org) · · Score: 2
  11. What is the real problem here? on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Commercial pumps are available that can circulate a million litres of water a hour through industrial filters and are relatively inexpensive at a few thousand pounds. They are also small and portable enough to fit dozen or more in single commercial Intermodal shipping container.

    So what is the real problem here?

  12. I find it doubtful this is technically impossible as Apple are making out.

    A correctly signed software update to this single phone could unlocked it. This capability certainly exists in their test labs otherwise every update would be at risk of bricking phone on general release.

    This should not interpret this as an opinion they should do it.

  13. In North Korea ... on Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User · · Score: 1

    The format wars lead to real deaths.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

  14. Former Yahoo and Flickr exec on GitHub Is Undergoing a Full-Blown Overhaul As Execs and Employees Depart (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and Yahoo and Flickr furtunes have gone well.

    When will these people learn.

  15. Stop looking at this a technical problem on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    The real problem here is not technical, it is a management problem. They are defining how you achieve the objective when they should be giving you the objective and delegating the how to you. That is the problem you need to address with them.

  16. I predict these VIPs will be outraged at the invasion of their privacy and the follow up article will be to expose their hypocrisy over supporting the invasion of privacy of us plebs, but nothing will change in the long term.

  17. IAB are Racketeers on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They are a criminal conspiracy that engage in unauthorised computer access, counterfeiting and click fraud.

    Counterfeiting - Ads masquerading as download buttons leading to Click Fraud

    They should face RICO charges.

  18. What exactly are the grounds for this?

    The vote of no-confidence includes no info and the news link is particularly vague allegations of poaching.

  19. limited liability insurance on San Francisco's Yellow Cab Files For Bankruptcy (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I find it pretty shocking that driver insurance in the US is limited liability cover.

    In the UK there is no limit to the liability for personal injury claims; only 3rd property damage is limited to a minimum of £1M. Indeed this unlimited liability cost one insurance company £22Million when the driver left the road causing a major train crash leaving 10 people dead and 80+ injured.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Protection not threats on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    This highlights the need for protection for those making the discovery and reporting and not adding threats from another source.

    In my experience the worst offenders for b

  21. Interviewed at Home with parents present on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not arrested, not handcuffed, not interviewed without without a responsible adult present, not excluded or expelled.

    Seems like a text book example on how this should be handled, unlike some places I could mention.

  22. except with it as about profit for SO on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    Given their existing policies to encourage posters to copy solutions from external sources rather than linking to them, I don't think 'professional respect' is the motivation for SO.

    It is about in bound links, eye balls and advertising profits.

  23. Jumped the shark long ago on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    Stack overflow ceased to be relevant to professional developers long ago, around the same time it became full of students asking others to do their home work.

    This compounded by the problem, where those inexperienced student types up vote answers provided by the 'personalities' and 'celebrity coders' whether talking sense or not.

  24. Privacy & Data Protection on Attackers Abuse Legitimate EU Cookie Law Notices In Clickjacking Campaign (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    The entire EU is covered a common Data Protection law to ensure peoples' privacy is respected by companies collecting private data. Some idiotic jobsworths have interpreted this have chosen to interpret this that everybody must opt-in to visit a website.

    There is no such requirement in the directive, here is the UK Information Commissioner guidance on what is required.

    https://ico.org.uk/for-organis...

  25. Alcoholics build up a tolerance with their body masking physical symptoms. They learn to cover up the bigger tells and become consummate liars.