Comment Re:A theater on fire (Score 1) 487
It is okay to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater if there actually is a fire.
It is okay to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater if there actually is a fire.
Sorry, but this is just senseless hyperbole. Malware can be picked up from ANY website, but mentioning Netflix by name is just a design at whipping up a senseless panic.
Fuck you, Slashdot.
A "solution" that is found in a lower court does not apply everywhere in the country.
If the Ninth Circuit found the NSA wiretapping to be unconstitutional, it would only be unconstitutional in the Ninth Circuit.
EPIC was hoping that the SCOTUS would see this as such an immediate, emergent issue that is imperative to be equal throughout the land, that they would hear it.
EPIC was wrong, apparently.
He'll have more flexibility after the next election.
If it is made of matter, it is detectable.
... someone who spends $25,000 on solar panels from installing their system? Am I really supposed to believe that?
The biggest reason is when an app update wants escalated permissions it does not need (an app that wants permissions it doesn't need doesn't get installed in the fr0st p1st)
Other reasons include incessant, unnecessary, and unwanted notifications that can't be turned off; and excessive resource usage that kills battery life.
... the app will contact a single FCC-hosted server sitting on a 10mbit Ethernet connection in some office somewhere on 12th st.
It's not up to you to decide who does and does not need a truck.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.