Comment "Mawp..." (Score 1) 126
Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [
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...Yeah, thought so.
Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...
Comment Weâ(TM)re already doing this (Score 3, Informative) 65
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
Comment "Policing" Is Doing a Lof of Heavy Lifting Here (Score 4, Insightful) 57
"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]
They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."
Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.
Comment This Trend is Actually About 100 Years Old (Score 1) 30
Some light reading on the topic: https://www.epi.org/publicatio...
Comment Only For The Listed Platforms (Score 4, Informative) 14
The expansion pack is currently available only for the platforms listed. If you own Quake from GOG.com, the Epic Store, or own the original CD-ROM, you are, for the moment, SOL.
Comment There Is No Larger Can (Score 4, Interesting) 48
Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.
So. Who wants to bet that no one will point out what abysmal sysadmins they are, letting internal servers run amok all over the open Internet, only finding out days afterward after someone had to tell them.
And who wants to further bet that the AI grifters will respond that the only way to prevent this from happening again is to give them trillions more dollars so they can build bigger, "hardened" datacenters?
Is there no level of rank incompetence they won't excuse?
Comment Why Don't Reporters Ask The Obvious Question? (Score 1) 148
Now, AI advancements — and pressure on executives to show they're embracing the new technology [
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#include <goose_chase_meme.h>
"From who?
"...PRESSURE FROM WHO, M*TH*RF*CK*R!?"
Comment So an improvement? (Score 1, Insightful) 91
As opposed to Appleâ(TM)s prior policy of restricting fully paid for devices after customers disobediently failed to upgrade when Apple wanted them to?
Comment Stingrays have been around for years. (Score 1, Funny) 172
Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.
Comment Umm, no (Score 1) 263
It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.
Comment Re:Follow the money (Score 4, Informative) 25
Oh, no, it's perfectly "legal." You "agreed" to allow your TV to be used like this in the EULA when you installed the app. ( https://blog.includesecurity.c... )
Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 153
"And that's before you consider that TikTok and Slashdot are not remotely similar in their impact on people. "
Quantify this. What is this "impact" on people, and how are you measuring it?
You can do that, right? Because if you can't you're just another moron talking about how video games and rock lyrics and D&D are corrupting the minds of our youth.
Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 153
You are posting to a social media site which many of us started participating it when it started, when we were "children." Your bootlicking is pathetic.
Comment Correction (Score 1, Informative) 109
SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive [
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You misspelled "Microsoft."
Speaking of which: Is Micros~1 still shaking down companies using Linux for royalties over unspecified patents they allegedly hold?
Comment Found my comment (Score 1) 79
On the 5 year post. Don't want to think about how much time I've spent commenting here since then. Damn, I've been here almost 30 years. Still spending my work day in Linux.
Who's this old guy in the mirror?
