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  1. Re:Where's my UTF8? on The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More · · Score: 1

    Yeah, slashdot was a tight little community with the devs actually a visible part of it, but all that changed when the fire nation attacked.

  2. Re:uBlock Origin master race on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 2

    Flash? Huh? Youtube still supports flash player video?

  3. Re:modern security weakness is inbound signaling on Hackers Steal Bank's Crypto Credentials, But Are Foiled By Their Own Typo (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I am sorry, 1% of a country's GDP is ALWAYS a lot of money. Well, except Greece. But for most, transferring such a large sum to a foreign, private destination should be a huge red flag.

  4. If it can leverage the power of web3.0 and make it into the cloud there is no telling where this threat to international safety could end!

  5. Re:Lolwut on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At this point if Apple do not assist, we can only assume they are harboring TERRORISTS. How long with these monsters be allowed to go unhindered on US soil? Drone strikes are of course, the only answer.

  6. Could these spearphishing viruses use the IoT to vector into self-driving cars and thus, synergize with illegal 3d printer technology?

  7. Hence the quotes :)

    You are right though, but it is easy for the rest of the world to look at America and see not the poor and unemployed, but the rich and upper-classes.

  8. Interesting point, but you do realise that to the rest of the world, America is the "1%"?

  9. Your computer already has adds. It even has multiple types. Your computer is perfectly happy doing both integer and floating point adds, as well you likely have a graphics subsystem that is VERY good at doing a lot of adds at the same time!

  10. You mean luxottica?

    Ray Ban has been nothing but a brand name for quite a few years now. In fact, Luxottica owns damn near all sunglasses brands.

  11. Re:Not computers. on Ransomware Hits UK Website, Defaces Homepage · · Score: 3, Informative

    All gets routed to a Fiji call center where the http requests are received and operators type back to your browser the CSS and HTML. Images are the hard bit, there is a guy with a webcam and a whole pile of photographs, as the requests come in he lines up the right photo and hits the capture button.

  12. Aww, give em a chance, it was only out by three orders of magnitude.

  13. Re:There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, whitelist to allow persistant cookies for the sites you need to or use something like KeePass to auto log them back in.

  14. Re:There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that, ABP and noscript have my back for those kinds of shenanigans.

  15. Re:There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    There is an option to "reopen last session" on start. You get all your tabs back :)

  16. Re:There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, not sure what the fuss is. I have 'delete cookies when I close firefox' as default action, then I can allow sites to specifically keep their cookies.

    This has been a standard feature of firefox for quite a while now and despite my other misgivings about their browser (the main of which being that all the features they have removed and said 'third party addons will replace this', have indeed been replaced and the browser runs like crap with the amount of them I now need to use) it still functions better (but not faster) than others.

  17. Re:There's no doubt that... on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Basically, this. Implemented into something that boils or floats the more insightful threads/posts toward the top of the page by default. It might also stop the waves of people who just reply to the first post, so that their message is read before anyone else's, regardless of how on topic they are within that thread or the first post itself was.

  18. Re:tl;dr on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you watch the video?

    He takes the fact they can make the cells and road as a given, he calls bullshit on how they can extract and transport that power in any useful way.

  19. Re:tl;dr on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Heh, I came here to post exactly this. Dave tends to only call bullshit on things that merit it, and as an electronics engineer this is his bread and butter.

  20. Re:Take back Slashdot on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Oh, OH! And while we are at it, can we have some smilies? Specifically, MLP ones?

    Come on, this works in politics all the time, can't I tack a rider onto this good list of features?

  21. Re:Families need faster on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    4.5/.5 here, yup, sitting almost exactly 4km between two adsl exchanges :/

    If we run two netflix HD streams at once, they keep both switching back and forth between HD and SD.

  22. Re:640 kilobytes is all anyone will ever need on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    In the middle (well, off center to the side a bit), of one of Australia's larger non-capital-cities. Best any telco can give me without 4-digit price tags is 4.5/.5

  23. Re:DQ'ed on To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot · · Score: 1

    In the video they actually talk about the controller for the motors having acceleration curves programmed in.

  24. That word on Ransomware Hits Three Indian Banks, Causes Millions In Damages (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Amateur Russians."

    If they are actually making money from this, then they are firmly in the "professional" bracket.

  25. Re:Internal subversive on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't doing a very good job. Most people just don't care about it.