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Comment Re:North Korean propagandist? (Score 2, Insightful) 239

Have a newbie try and use Linux and they will be ripping out their hair. It is NOT FUN.

That is the biggest bunch of horseshit ever. My 75 year old mother bought a HP laptop at a Black Friday sale. I was running Win10. It ran like shit, to the point it was almost unusable. I persuaded her to let me switch it to Linux. I installed Mint with KDE as the desktop. I didn't hear much more about from her. I wasn't even sure if she still used it. Two years later, she called me because Mint was telling her it needed to upgrade. On my next visit to her place, I did the upgrade. But I first check the system uptime...

642 days

She used it every day. Basic stuff like browsing the web, email, and the occasional document.

So stuff that shit right up your ass so far that it comes out your eyesockets Everything after Win7 has been a fucking shitshow

Comment Re:Yes. What we need is mesh routing. (Score 1) 116

This idea is only vaguely interesting if there is some sort of way of discovering these mini-sites.

I think they had a name for a site that used to run a service like this... It was called Yahoo.

Then along came their competitors and the advertisers in hordes. And that whole concept became a stinking pile of shit.

Comment Re:Rootkit? (Score 1) 41

RAT's have been around forever... One of the first, most well-known ones, was Back Orifice. It was released in 1998. Its default port for communication was 31337, as a reference to how 'leet its creators were

Come... sit 6 feet from my rocking and I'll spin ya more yarns from the olden times..

Comment Re:decades? thats nothing. (Score 1) 191

Based upon the fact that Google returned 163,000,000 results for that search is a pretty good indication that this isn't some esoteric practice of a secret society.

It's funny how search engines work. I mean, we came up with them in 1995... And some people haven't gotten the hang of them yet.

Comment Re:In a related article (Score 0) 32

No you conspiracy nutter. because the criminals all moved there as a result of this ruling.

You obviously have zero clue regarding the demographics, or real estate market, of Brookline. The criminals that live in Brookline have Harvard MBA's. The street thugs and gangbangers all live in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Southie.

Comment Re:Arms? (Score 1) 93

But it looks like all they did was hook up a stockless AR-15 platform rifle to a belt-feed system and hang it under the drone. I think they even left the trigger group intact and have a mechanical arm activating the trigger?

This is a stripped down Ares Shrike. At the very least, It's a Shrike upper receiver, barrel, and rail system. The rail system on this is virtually identical to the one used by Ares Defense.

Submission + - How Tech Companies Are Selling Colleges on Mass Data Collection (edsurge.com)

jyosim writes: The biggest US trade show for technology aimed at colleges was held this week in Chicago, and companies were pushing mass data collection on campuses. It is in the name of efficiency and helping students, but some worry that it's setting up an unprecedented level of surveillance on campuses.

"If colleges actually bought all the tools sold here, just about every move made by students and professors in physical and virtual campuses would be tracked and analyzed in the name of efficiency. And the vision expands beyond that, as the vision is to create data profiles of students before they even arrive on campus and to continue data tracking long after they’ve graduated."

This article looks at some of the unusual new ways companies are selling data tracking on campuses.

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