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Submission + - Author is a good example of why Mint is popular

miscbyproduct writes: I m a complete newb. I tried Ubuntu. 2 hr's & threw it away. Tried Mint. 20 mins and it was booting. Now rant all you want about this and that. But there is no denying the newbie friendliness of Mint vs U.... AND 1/2 OF YOU TOO! As several of you seem to have forgotten what it is like to know nothing, and are now stuck on knowing it all.

Comment So... (Score 1) 1

It appears that women are no longer allowed to choose the career they want, but rather the career where there are less women. Perhaps there are fewer women in cyber security because fewer women are interested in cyber security. FFS, let people be who they want, work were they want, in whatever industry they want.

Comment Microsoft product (Score 1) 1

The attack works only on Mac versions of Word (attempts to execute on Windows or Pages, Mac-based productivity software similar to Word, failed).

So the solution is to avoid Microsoft products (whether they're a target because they are vulnerable, or just because their popular isn't important). I also know there will be a lot of people in the "I need this for work because Pages isn't good enough" crowd, I say fair enough, but for everyone else, I'm sure it is a suitable replacement. Then there is always the Libre Office route.

Submission + - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration broke its own rules (dailymail.co.uk) 2

turkeydance writes: A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the world’s media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.

But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data.

 

Submission + - NOAA deliberately published flawed report on climate change 6

elgatozorbas writes: The report claimed that the ‘pause’ or ‘slowdown’ in global warming in the period since 1998 – revealed by UN scientists in 2013 – never existed. A whistleblower and top NOAA scientist claims NOAA breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders.

Submission + - Quimitchin: The First Mac Malware of 2017 Arrives

wiredmikey writes: Security researchers have a uncovered a Mac OS based espionage malware they have named "Quimitchin". The malware is what they consider to be "the first Mac malware of 2017" which appears to be a classic espionage tool. While it has some old code and appears to have existed undetected for some time, it works.

It was discovered when an IT admin noticed unusual traffic coming from a particular Mac, and has been seen infecting Macs at biomedical facilities.

Submission + - It's not you, Slashdot, it's me. 5

BuckB writes: When I was a young man, I read Slashdot in order to amaze my friends with useful facts. It was even my homepage for awhile. Sure, there was time when I cheated and went to cnet or wired. With Slashdot, I could count on high quality debate on controversial topics, even though I knew in my heart that most of the readers were Apple fans, while I am a closeted Microsofterian. Now the stories are mainly non-tech — no, that's the real reason — the stories are now mainly fake or click-bait or alarmist, and the discussions are completely uninformed, insulting, to the point of being indistinguishable from an MSNBC forum.

I'll still remember you fondly. And I'll check back now and then. You'll do fine without me, find more people who enjoy insulting contributions and upvoting rumors and gossip. But maybe, just maybe, you'll think back to when you were a leader and attracted the kinds of people like me.

Comment my comment (Score 1) 1

It sounds as though you think a proficiency test is something that is to be treated like an exam at school or university. The proficiency test does not test what you know, but rather whether you are capable of researching problems and picking up on new (or old) technology without assistance from others. It is testing your ability to work unsupervised. A proficiency test will also test your ability to understand the work of others - as you would be invariably working with the work of others.

I have a test for the javascript developers. It is a piece of old code that was in a project. Their task is to determine what the code is doing and to suggest improvements. From their answers I can determine if they will be capable of working with existing code, understanding bad code, provide meaningful improvements (that don't break anything).

Comment Could be (Score 1) 1

It could be that the bias switch was accidentally turned off during that time period. What with many companies that supplied the electronic voting systems also being contributors to the Clinton Foundation (some of them big contributors), I'm surprised that HCR wasn't already measuring the windows in the White House for the new drapes.

Comment Re:Ummlady? Not helping. (Score 1) 9

Best thing to do is not bother with the antagonisers that blindly follow the gutter trash that spews from the main stream media as it is fed horse shit from the powers that be (or hopefully no longer be).

Look at the violence after Trump's victory, look at who is causing it. Is the the Trump supporters? No. Yet all through out the election, those on the side of Clinton claimed the violence was from Trump's supporters.

Look at the stock market. It almost crashed when it appears as though Clinton may have had the numbers, but after Trump's victory the markets bounced back beyond what was lost. So, who was the market for? Main stream media claimed that the markets were for Clinton.

Reality and people's perception of reality are two different things.

Comment The bigger issue (Score 1) 1

The issue isn't that the media failed to just provide the facts without filling it full of personal opinions - perhaps they are no longer capable of finding the facts, but rather it is that they were so biased towards (or against) Trump and his supports. Every day there were stories portraying Trump and his supporters as crazy fanatical, yet there was never very much on the two occurrences (now three) that Clinton was being investigated by the FBI (something that could be considered news worthy). No, what was important was some comment that Trump had made years ago (that and his hair).

The news reported the Trump supporters were the fanatics, yet look at what is happening now in the US; Are the Trump supporters rioting and destroying the cities? No, it is those that opposed Trump (perhaps supported Clinton), fuelled by months of anti Trump bullshit fed to them through the media.

The media in America is now seen as nothing more than a tool for their masters. Fortunately they know that people have woken up to then and they are trying to save some integrity. Unfortunately they have shown what they really are - the genie is out of the bottle so to speak - and people know.

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