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  1. Re:Cause?? on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe somebody from Dice downloaded something from Sourceforge and installed it on their servers?

  2. Re:Don't be silly... on Firefox 39 Released, Bringing Security Improvements and Social Sharing · · Score: 1

    Certainly you mean Firefox 1337, correct?

  3. Re: No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    I do in the manner you mention but now I am not so worried about it anymore.

  4. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However, just because I gave Person A access to my wifi, that doesn't mean I give everyone Person A knows access to my wifi. This could end up in legal hot water territory.

    I guess that I just won't be giving any guests access to my network anymore. They can pony up and get their own mobile data plan for their devices.

  5. Re:Refill on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    Our experience with refurbs at work are horrible. They always leak and we've had a few damage printers. We stick to OEM now. It's just not worth the bother.

  6. Re: What is it? on iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch · · Score: 0

    Hopefully one of the features shows dollar signs on the display when enough force is exerted that the screen cracks!

  7. Re:WindowsME 2.0 on The Unintended Consequences of Free Windows 10 For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Well, they've been in the news lately as shipping specific product to reviewers / benchmark testers and then shipping utter garbage to everyone else.

  8. Re:Number of comments is really down on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    No kidding. Whose bright idea was it to overlay the comment count and icon over the title? It obscures long titles now.

    I think the UI designers unzipped their pocket full of tricks and forgot to zip it back up again, it's turning into a how-not-to-do-UI example.

  9. Re:Change or die on Is BlackBerry Launching an Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    Sure, they'll fire a bunch of staff, but management will somehow miraculously come out unscathed.

  10. Re:Icehouse Earth on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    7.5. Watch reality TV

  11. Re:Conduits everywhere. on Ask Slashdot: If You Were Building a New Home, What Cool New Tech Would You Put In? · · Score: 1

    Make sure that they run whatever cable you decide to run (ethernet, fiber, whatever) in conduit, ideally with junction boxes on a relatively regular basis (at bends, etc), so it is easy to draw new wire through when you need to.

    Yes, the electrician will say "you don't need to do that; that's silly." Ignore him. Do it.

    Do not put junction boxes at all bends. Electrical code in almost all regions require junction boxes to be accessible (you can't cover them with drywall), so that means you'll have a metal cover plate on your wall where these boxes are. If you're concerned about bends, adjust the conduit diameter accordingly.

  12. 1a) Wire all lights separately from outlets. If you pop the breaker you'll still be able to see...

  13. Re:three hundred dollars for a desktop speaker?? on Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk · · Score: 2

    Which cost about $10 to make. No wait, less than that, as they obviously took shortcuts somewhere. Otherwise they wouldn't be catching fire.

  14. Re:Will anyone exploit it? on Macs Vulnerable To Userland Injected EFI Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Out if interest, what "infections"? Do you have any examples.

    Keep in mind malware = virus for most computer users.

    I myself have cleaned two MacBooks of malware in the last six months. We don't use them here at work, but I had a neighbour bring over their two MacBooks because they had a "virus".

    It turns out their children (adult children!) were going to free TV sites and the like and had their web browsers taken over (yes, including Safari. They had two browsers on these laptops, Chrome and Safari). Both machines were unable to connect to the internet. It also slowed the entire machine to a crawl, I had to wait almost 10 minutes for a terminal to open. This is not a virus per-se, as it only infected the local user accounts, and it fucked up both browsers so badly that browsing the internet was impossible, I couldn't even get it to load Google's search page. netstat showed that there were serveral processes running trying to talk to the internet. Now fixing these was not that difficult, as it only "infected" the local profiles.

    However, they were the ones who brought it to me and said it was virus-infected. I guess they had a PC laptop before the MacBook, and only bought the MacBook because they were told it can't get viruses. Both told me when their MacBooks break down they won't pay the premium to get another Mac laptop.

  15. Re:Power User? on The Tricky Road Ahead For Android Gets Even Trickier · · Score: 1

    Using something besides Safari comes to mind.

    And no, the extra 'browsers' on iOS are skins, not actual full browsers... It's still using Safari underneath it all.

  16. Re: Dry Heat on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 2

    I was curious, so I looked this up - 2013 birth rate numbers for India are 20.22 per 1,000. This translates to about 47 births per minute, using the old numbers.

    Population (est): 1,236,344,631
    Birth rate: 20.22 per 1,000 of the population.

    So 1,236,344,631 / 1000 * 20.22 [24,998,888 yearly] / 365 [68,490 daily] / 24 [2,853 hourly] / 60 = 47.56 every minute.

    If my math is wrong, I'm sure someone will point it out, but 1000 since Monday is rather conservative.

  17. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    Where I am, you are not covered unless you are explicitly insured for driving to and from work. In fact, there's two tiers: if you have to drive a long distance to work you pay more. And this is only commuting to work - if you use your car as a part of your work the insurance is even higher.

  18. Re:What does it say about you? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to read the fine print. Text only email, no HTML, or it counts against your 25MB limit!

  19. Re:Why you should care on Windows 10 the Last Version of Windows? Not So Fast. · · Score: 0

    It sounds to me like Microsoft doesn't even have a clue what they're doing with Windows.

  20. Re:Developers! Developers! Developers! on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Too bad that's not the parameter list wget accepts. I can see that causing confusion.

  21. Re: Not forced... on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 1

    Does the tailing car have a massive magnet on the front? If so, then maybe.

  22. Re:"affect the labels relationships with other ser on Apple Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Over Music Deals · · Score: 3, Funny

    The future of music sure sucks, doesn't it?

    Internet down = no music
    Music streaming site down = no music
    Music library site down/out of business = no music

  23. Re: Just downgraded on Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer · · Score: 1

    I downgraded (upgraded?) a month or so ago and now my Nexus 7 2012 is usable again. I tried resetting everything using lollipop and it was still utterly unusable.

    I also monkeyed around with some certificates so that the updater stopped nagging me to install lollipop again. If anything google could make it easier to turn off the updates.

  24. Re:My Killer Watch on Apple, IBM To Bring iPads To 5 Million Elderly Japanese · · Score: 1

    Oh, then that could be an interesting bug. Especially if you have a tattoo...

  25. Re:big dropoff in new tech over age 70 on Apple, IBM To Bring iPads To 5 Million Elderly Japanese · · Score: 1

    Then, ask them to do the exact same thing, except with an editor that has a different name (no, not just renamed, but something that looks at least slightly different, but uses the exact same mechanics for saving a file).

    For kicks, the two separate programs should be Office 2003 and any Office version above 2007.