Comment Re:Amazing (Score 2) 510
next time Shuttleworth gets a wild hare up his ass.
You mean gerbil right?
Comment Re:Some people ... (Score 1) 576
No. Those laws are secret.
Comment Re:That's awesome (Score 1) 372
Which one? Louis XIV was the fracking Sun King. Louis XVI was the one who lost his head.
Comment Re:Monopoly (Score 1) 113
If you decide to get a $19.99 bargain bin android from one of the major carriers then it will probably loaded to the gills with crap-ware. Why? Because you only paid $20 for the phone and they need to make money on it somehow - enter third-party crap-ware vendors that pay to be preloaded onto your phone.
You want a crap-ware free phone? Suck it up and buy a Nexus, yes they are $350 but in exchange you get a bare as-vanilla-as-you-can-get OS with nothing aside from Google Apps loaded onto it. The fact that it's trivially rootable and gets updates direct from Google, guaranteed, is icing on the cake.
You want to have a crap-ware free phone but don't feel like shelling out the cash for a Nexus, fine, root the phone you have. Install an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM like CyanogenMod and call it done.
TL;DR you get what you pay for.
Comment Re:So, if I manufacture chargers.... (Score 1) 208
I thought the quote was " Life will find a way". Or are you implying that Life == Stupid? Considering the shenanigans the human race has been engaging in you might have an argument there...
How Google, Tesla, and Uber Could Team Up For the Driverless Taxis of the Future 126
cartechboy writes "Follow the thinking for a second. Google drops $258 million into the car-taxi app Uber. Google says it will make self-driving cars available within four years, based on its ground-breaking research into self-driving cars. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spoken with Google about driverless technology for future Tesla vehicles. So, are we watching the assembly of a massive driverless taxi service of the future? Battery-electric vehicles make excellent autonomous taxis (very few moving parts, low per-mile energy cost, and zero noise or emissions) Could Google use some of its cash hoard to buy Tesla outright (making Elon Musk its third largest shareholder in the process), then grab Uber and turn the whole thing into an app? Musk's goal has always been to transform the very nature of transportation. This might just do that."
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS?
someSnarkyBastard writes: It has already been widely reported that the NSA has subverted several major encryption standards but I have not seen any mention of how this affects the FIPS 140-2 standard. Can we still trust these cyphers? They have been cleared for use by the US Government for Top-Secret clearance documents; surely the government wouldn't backdoor itself right?...Right?
Comment Re:If it is off - it might get stolen (Score 1) 472
No, encryption won't get your data back, that's what backups are for. Encryption does mean that the thief cannot skim your passwords and whatnot before fencing your computer at the local pawnshop. You might not have the data anymore but no one else should be able to get it either.
Comment Re:F the UK (Score 1) 195
INGSOC!!
Comment Re:Features are priority #1 (Score 1) 227
Texas, one of the hardest-core red states out there, for one...
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 203
And that surprises you in what way?
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 203
They don't need to be. By your own words, the extremists have the lion's share of rebel military hardware. Guns make for a very persuasive political amplifier (e.g. "do what we say or your village burns")
Comment Re:It takes HIPAA or similar regulation (Score 1) 227
If the exec is aggressive and will fire you for not "getting with the program" then politely bring it to their attention and then shut up and abide by whatever decision they make. They want to be The Decision Maker(TM)? Fine, let them, just make sure your ass is covered when the defecation inevitably interfaces with the oscillation so that they can't throw you under the bus to save their own hide (or at least make it a touch more difficult for them to do so).
Comment Re:What management says is: (Score 1) 227
probably not but anyone here will automatically run an inline "sed s/s/u" while reading it
Comment Re:It takes HIPAA or similar regulation (Score 1) 227
That's why you make any warnings or recommendations in writing so that there can be a paper trail you can point to and say "I warned them about this, they chose not to act on my warning, Ergo they're liable. They had the authority to take the corrective measures that I suggested but chose not to, ultimate fault lies not with me the messenger but them the executor"
