Comment Don't they know? (Score 2) 81
Those boards don't work on water, unless you got POWAH!
Comment Re:"WSJ stunt to maximize anti-Clinton engagement" (Score 1) 231
The emails that have been released are those that Clinton decided should not be deleted, so unless she made a mistake, there shouldn't be anything incriminating...
That would be nearly impossible to pull off because one is sending email to at least one other person, and unless you are certain the receiver kept nothing nowhere, you are at risk of being exposed.
Anyhow, it appears that much was usually done by phone instead of email. I suspect she wouldn't put anything urgent or controversial in email.
Comment Furby (Score 1) 102
They already exist, they are called Furby's. And "annoying" is a better description than "creepy".
Comment Tabs? Sore topic (Score -1, Offtopic) 96
I don't like forced browser tabs and was pissed when FireFox changed to required them, making up a stupid excuse about security. Fortunately there's an addon to switch them off. If that addon disappears, I'm chucking FireFox.
Comment Re:Not news, not for nerds, doesn't matter (Score 2) 231
the entire story about a spontaneous demonstration and a mob angry about some video on YouTube was completely fabricated. They knew it wasn't true
First, we still don't know the full reason why the attack happened. And the main perp admitted he was indeed upset by the video. Wether it was the main reason or not, the perp wouldn't discuss further.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06...
And as far as the Susan Rice announcement, it was suggested by a team member that evidence of possible terrorism not be immediately made public because it may give clues to the terrorists that their involvement was known about. Whether that reason was tainted by political bias or not is hard to say, we can't x-ray their neurons. It's speculative either way.
I've explained this to you before on slashdot, but you ignored it for unknown reasons.
Comment Re:Not news, not for nerds, doesn't matter (Score 1) 231
Except for people who care that Obama and his administration blatantly lied about what
happened
Bullshit. There is no clear evidence for such. I've debated you before about it on slashdot, and you lost the debate by my reckoning. Seems you want to lose again.
Comment Re:Don't make me puke... (Score 1) 382
0% interesting.
Comment Re:Mark it zero (Score 1) 231
GOP 2016 campaign sticker:
2016: Ben Ghazi / Jerry Mander
Comment Re:Such a sad low for a once great paper (Score 3, Informative) 231
By some accounts the regular articles are not that biased; it's the editorial section that resembles the usual Rupert style.
Comment Re:Don't make me puke... (Score 1) 382
Don't make me puke... (Score:0, Interesting)
Gotta love slashdot
Comment Same thing (Score 1) 236
when we're far more likely to die from something mundane, like getting hit by a truck.
Just think of a truck as a small, slow asteroid.
How Java Changed Programming Forever 382
snydeq writes: With Java hitting its 20th anniversary this week, Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses how the language changed the art and business of programming, turning on a generation of coders. Infoworld reports: "Java's core strength was that it was built to be a practical tool for getting work done. It popularized good ideas from earlier languages by repackaging them in a format that was familiar to the average C coder, though (unlike C++ and Objective-C) Java was not a strict superset of C. Indeed it was precisely this willingness to not only add but also remove features that made Java so much simpler and easier to learn than other object-oriented C descendants."
Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage 92
Bismillah writes: Ross Anderson and Laurent Simon of Cambridge University studied a range of Android devices and found that even though a "factory reset" is supposed to fully wipe storage, it often doesn't. Interestingly enough, full-device encryption could be compromised by the incomplete wiping too. ITnews reports: "The researchers estimated that 500 million Android devices may not fully wipe device disk partitions. As many as 630 million phones may not wipe internal SD cards. Five 'critical failures' were outlined in the researchers' Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets paper.
NSA Planned To Hijack Google App Store To Hack Smartphones 94
Advocatus Diaboli writes: A newly released top secret document reveals that the NSA planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to plant spying software on smartphones. The report on the surveillance project, dubbed "IRRITANT HORN," shows the U.S. and its "Five Eyes" alliance: Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, were looking at ways to hack smartphones and spy on users. According to The Intercept: "The top-secret document, obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was published Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept. The document outlines a series of tactics that the NSA and its counterparts in the Five Eyes were working on during workshops held in Australia and Canada between November 2011 and February 2012."
Comment Re:That is _not_ an organ (Score 1) 76
Then what is a Hammond organ?
