"Outlook not so good."

so there are 500 patents and at least one of the patent owners is an insufferable greedy asshole? what's next, are bears going to start shitting in the woods too?!

At this rate I'll finally be able to have my entire music collection on an iPod without having to compress my music in that terrible FLAC format. FLAC is a "lossless" format but you can totally hear which bits have been squished into the file for too long! That's why I decompressed all my files and let them sit for a week, so that the bits can breathe.

tomorrow's email from management:

because solar panels dont generate weapons-grade plutonium?

slashdot devs. please, add a volume slider to the video player! you are the only ones without it and sucks having to adjust your system volume because of one website decided a volume slider was too much to ask for!

unless they are going to start buying back CPUs, this development means very little.

there are very few reasons to keep flash installed/enabled. if you must have it, use flashblock but chances are you can just disable/remove it completely. if some site still uses flash to play video, leave a complaint in the comments. those that haven't switched to html5 yet will do so soon enough.

if you still have java plugin installed, you better have a good reason because no (sane) sites use that shit.

a fatal flaw with these faster printers is that they require gravis (a downward forces) to work. gravity is in very short supply here and no, spinning the station is not an option, i got in trouble for just doing a barrel roll!

-- posted by a Robonaut

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/...

a) Hollywood/media makes guns glamorous
b) it doesn't affect us personally (until it does)
c) there are other issues that are affecting us
d) our leaders have no interest in the matter (with rare exception).
e) out political system is broken

basically, the status quo is really difficult to change because it's controlled by groups of people that only change when members of them die.

i feel the same way but for a different reason: if there are no insecure systems left standing, only secure systems will be able to stand. in effect, security by destruction of the insecure. a sharp learning curve but companies will start making secure products that way.

pff... try taking your meds. when parts of the internet go down, people notice. remember syria when the NSA actually did brick routers there? yeah, that made headlines. after finding out what the US gov has been up to, people have become much more interested in the cause of outages. if the military gets caught doing something like that on the american public, there will be pitchforks and torches making an appearance.

a cyber armageddon is super easy to avoid, all you have to do is not connect every damn machine to a network and for the ones that must be, secure them. it's quite obvious that we have the capability to find and exploit weaknesses, so why not use our knowledge and secure those few things that must be connected. we could also be prudent and require (by law) a certain level of software security for dangerous things connected to the internet (if stupid people insist on having them connected). finally, it sure wouldn't hurt if we started teaching things like how to mathematically prove a buffer wont overflow.

i call bullshit.

guess what, they have very detailed rules on decency and guess what, it actually makes sense. what is required to be censored is based on context! what context? well, the rating of the show, time it's broadcast and if it's a public broadcast or not and some other things that are well documented. fun fact, if you don't know if what you are going to show will violate the rules, you can ask them!

the rules they have put forth are exceptionally simple. all they have to do is not limit the speed of the connection based on the connection endpoint. seriously, that's it! they can restrict your speed out the wazoo based on any criteria except the endpoint. want to slow down HTTP traffic? you can do that! however, you can't make it faster for XYZ because XYZ gave you money.

i'll take "bonkers" regulation over blatant abuse any day. then again, maybe you just haven't read all 300 pages, so you dont really know facts.