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Comment Re:Will we get up-to-date images? (Score 2) 189

by drinkypoo (#50056309) Attached to: First Windows 10 RTM Candidate Appears

Or just use the tools provided by MS? WSUS does everything you just stated.

A home user shouldn't have to run an enterprise service in order to not have some files they want to save deleted. I considered mentioning that, but I forgot I was on slashdot and thought "surely no chucklehead will suggest using WSUS just to not have some files deleted" and then bam.

Submission + - Click-Fraud Trojan Politely Updates Flash On Compromised Computers (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Kotver is in many ways a typical clickfraud trojan: it hijacks the user's browser process to create false clicks on banner ads, defrauding advertisers and ad networks. But one aspect of it is unusual: it updates the victim's installation of Flash to the most recent version, ensuring that similar malware can't get in.

Submission + - Japanese And U.S. Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Japan may have just lost the Women's World Cup to the U.S., but the country is hoping for a comeback in another competition: a battle between giant robots. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that would involve titanic armored robots developed by each startup, the first of its kind involving piloted machines that are roughly 4 meters tall. 'We can’t let another country win this,' Kogoro Kurata, who is CEO of Suidobashi, said in a video posted to YouTube. 'Giant robots are Japanese culture.'

Comment Re:Because it worked so well for PGP... (Score 1) 423

Also, WTF does "If it's an executable digital file, any foreign interests can get a hold of it" mean? Is ISIS unable to use non-executable files?

It means some asshole who doesn't understand computers is talking. I love it when people use words above their pay grade. I know immediately what to think of them. However, I would assume that nobody actually fucking told them anything. "a senior State Department official told FoxNews.com" ... yeah, fucking, right. Some minor peon in the state department mumbled some shit they didn't understand.

Comment Re:Will we get up-to-date images? (Score 1) 189

by drinkypoo (#50055147) Attached to: First Windows 10 RTM Candidate Appears

It'd be really nice if MS would be kind enough to provide up-to-date .ISO builds like they've been doing w/ the Win10 insider program

How about if they just made it less of a pain in the asshole to save the update files once downloaded, so you could use them again? Making windows update not delete the installers is literally the least they could do.

Comment My back hurts (Score 2) 340

by drinkypoo (#50055127) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk?

I can't stand for more than a couple of hours without my back hurting. Parking my ass back in my Aeron chair fixes it. Walking for long periods is a problem for me right now, too.

Must be broken. But if I had a standing desk, I'd just be looking for a stool to go with it right now

Submission + - The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption (csmonitor.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The American business community worries a back door policy, if enacted, would threaten the competitiveness of their businesses. Many companies are already trying to estimate the high cost of dealing with any regulation that would mandate access to encryption — including potential losses in revenue and the tougher-to-measure consumer trust. As such, some are already contemplating how to find loopholes and other ways around any new US rules to build back doors, including by taking business overseas.

At a macro level, companies are concerned about the global implications if other countries seek their own channels to access customers’ data using the US policy as a precedent. How the most powerful government in the world decides to proceed on encryption will have a profound effect not just on development of consumer technologies but the rights of Internet users in the future, they say. And the encryption debate comes at a time when the US government and the American tech sector need each other more than ever as advanced computing and digital security become increasingly key for the country’s economy and national defense. The squabble over encryption, however, may end up standing in the way — and the principles each side decides to fight for could set the tone for the future of the Surveillance Age.

Comment Re:What they are cheering about? (Score 1) 1307

by drinkypoo (#50049771) Attached to: Greece Rejects EU Terms

Mind you - I am Polish and here also people HATE to pay taxes - they know that their taxes are being spent in wrong ways usually, the taxes fuel a caste of mindless clerks etc. but nevertheless Polish people DO PAY taxes like VAT and icome.

So you're proud to be paying taxes spent in the wrong way? Congratulations on being part of the problem.

Comment Re:I hope for an agreement (Score 1) 1307

by drinkypoo (#50049727) Attached to: Greece Rejects EU Terms

Should each state in the US have its own currency?

If you live in California, Texas, or Alaska, you probably would say yes. We lose money to the federal government every year, to pay for things in other states that we (at least in California) can't even afford. If you live in some other state, you would probably say no.

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