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  1. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    It's Virginia. With a speed limit of 25, they will choose a speed of 39 or below. Because 15 over in Virginia is reckless driving, and it's a mess. They will also have a following distance not to exceed 2 yards. And if you follow those habits, and don't have any sort of military base stickers on your windshield, you likely wont get pulled over.

  2. Re:two thirds of users... on Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty typical of what you see in a news site running noscript. The big blocking portion of the page, not the crap underneath. I read a lot bouncing around a bunch of sites I've never heard of, but I don't run a lot of javascript. I used to use dev options to make the page readable, until I realized how few keystrokes it took to disable stylesheets. I've been reading a lot of vanilla html ever since. Remember when websites used to choose their sponsers? Those were better days.

  3. Re:privacy? on Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about targeted advertising is that I search for things I know nothing about, rather than things I'm interested in. So I get advertisements based on this or that which is related to something someone mentioned and I had no clue about until I googled it. The things I do have an interest in, I find information about from specific sources. Although, when it THINKS it knows what you're interested in, provides those ads as a replacement to one of the "one weird trick" ads. Oh, and as soon as we move to targeted ads on TV, expect to see one weird trick every episode, at a minimum.

  4. Re:I wonder if they're going to use this as "proof on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    My problem with the situation, is that the teachers didn't respond appropriately for EITHER. If it's a ...

    bomb - evacuate school, call PD and FD don't touch or in any way fuck with the bomb.
    clock - send kid on his merry way.
    something I don't understand - confiscate the item, harass the child and send him to the police department in handcuffs(if they make them that small)

  5. Re:Other employees did the same thing on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    Read the summary, it's not that long. "less prominent government employees would have probably been prosecuted for doing the same thing." I can tell you that that sentence is true. But we can argue about Colin Powell and Bush Jr all day, but the fact remains that she broke the law. And many other people who aren't in prominent positions also broke the law, and were prosecuted for it. Just because other prominent people were above the law in the past, doesn't mean we can't enforce it now, and maintain that expectation for future officials. Doing otherwise is a great way to maintain the situation we currently find ourselves in.

  6. Re:30% on ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles · · Score: 1

    Most games are.

    In fact, I don't recall ever watching a game on ESPN. It's all sports highlights. The previous day's games summarized into a 15 minute loop that plays all day long. I really don't see why they should charge $10 per customer per month. They seriously only produce 15 minutes worth of content, to use the term loosely, per day. How do you like my coverage of ESPN's coverage of anything. Did I mention they loop the same 15 minutes of highlights all day long?

  7. Re:This is nonsense on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    Q. How do you stop bullying by creating a police state with constant surveillance?

    A. You can't

    FTFY

  8. Re:CNNIC on Microsoft Outlook Users In China Hit With MITM Attack · · Score: 1

    I agree. Hopefully more user agents(MUA and browsers) will come with some system of certificate pinning on by default, just to be on the safe side. I'm confident that would offer motivation to keep CAs honest. And it's quite likely that we'd find a few that aren't so honest. Although, there is still what I call the "lavabit attack" (certificate theft by court action) which, if successfully kept silent, would be completely undetectable.

  9. Re:I agree on MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity · · Score: 1

    With cash I have to authorize every single transaction by reaching into my pocket. With credit/debit card transactions, I only need to have reached into my pocket at some time in the past to pay. Cash and bitcoin put the power over payment back into your hands, instead of the merchant. You, (or someone who stole your key) has to authorize every single transaction. It is true that it makes takesee backsees harder to pull off. But, they're already a pain anyway. Mastercard doesn't provide any recourse for unauthorized transactions, you have to take that issue up with the merchant. They just make it easier for their paying customer to withdraw your money.
    Some form of crypto should be used for ALL digital transactions. The fact that when I make a purchase with my MasterCard provides the party that I'm paying enough information to continue making charges whenever they like absolutely infuriates me. It means I have to trust both the integrity as well as the security practices for every place where I use my card. If only we had a technology that could fit on a credit card that could digitally sign a transaction so that a register never sees the key. Maybe that kind of technology will be made available 10 years ago or so.

  10. Re: Well at least they saved the children! on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 1

    Or....They could illegally discover evidence, then walk to the nearest payphone and make an "Anonymous" phone call. Possibly to his/her own voicemail.

  11. Re:Only haters hate, for the most part... on Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? · · Score: 1

    Or another option would be to be able to disable IAP on your phone completely. Or on a per app basis. I use android and wish I could individually revoke permissions from any app. There are MANY apps I've chosen not to download because of required permissions. So many that it's become somewhat of an inconvenience. And in addition to that, after I made my last purchase in the app store (It's not very often) I deleted my CC info from my account. I try to make a point to do that. That way if I do slip up, the IAP will fail. I dislike the entire concept of having payment information stored online. I dislike the ability for an entity withdraw money from my account without my knowledge. I dislike the bank systems that do not require a mechanism for my approval for individual transactions. I feel that doing things the way normal people do them is giving these organizations more control of my assets than I have. My bank has the ability to stop transactions(like when my wife tried to use her card while traveling). When I tried to stop a transaction I didn't authorize, I was told to contact the merchant. When I'm given the options to give up control or don't play, I choose the latter.

  12. Re:Unlock / decrypt? on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 1

    for anyone with hulu plus, here's a southpark clip from about a decade ago that's sums up my feelings toward airports in general.
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/265294/it's better than flying
    everyone else will have to find a crappy handshot video of a tv on youtube.

  13. Re:Why does it broadcast *all* SSIDs? on Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Because it's easier to De-auth 1 visible connected client, and listen to the probe requests as it tries to reconnect. I believe that's called SSID decloaking, or something like that. There are enough of the right tools to be able to do this automagically while driving down the road with a laptop and a gps dongle. If there isn't a tool that does all the magic, I'm know that a mix of them could easily make all the necessary output that could be put together after a 2 hour drive through town. People still make wardriving tools. But we have so much wifi now that most would be wardrivers don't make it past the driveway. Long story short, it's even easier than that.

  14. Oh, but you can. Well it's not exactly the same thing. Have you heard of a femtocell doodad? When I first heard of stingray, I thought back to an interview from a guy at blackhat or defcon, I can't remember which. Anyway, here's a few links. I remember hearing them say that the traffic from the devices communicated w/o encryption to the servers. Supposedly that was fixed, but may very well still have more vulnerabilities like this one.
    http://hackaday.com/2012/04/12...
    so 1) they already do sell things with retarded capability to consumers
    2) the argument "we don't want the criminal element to know we have this kind of capability because they'll know how we find them" is invalid.

    http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/1...

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...

  15. Re:Outside the range? on Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    But it's not outside the range of national security as defined by
    US Code Title 8 Chapter 12 Subchapter II Part II â Â 1189(d)(2)
    the term âoenational securityâ means the national defense, foreign relations, or economic interests of the United States
    or you can look it up yourself here
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...

  16. Re:Finally... on Stricter COPPA Laws Coming In July · · Score: 1

    I play on changing my age on a few accounts to ward off some obnoxious tracking...

  17. I don't like subjects on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1

    Love it! 126 million, and last time I was still topped out at 25kbps....

  18. Re:On-the-job training on Ask Slashdot: How To (or How NOT To) Train Your Job Replacement? · · Score: 1

    Agree with this guy. As a contractor, there really shouldn't be any expectation of long term work. You don't need to teach this guy how to develope, just how to maintain your system. That's it. For example, companies buy MS Office all the time, then hire some guy to maintain the entire network. As opposed to pay microsoft to send a guy out from time to time. Microsoft and Cisco etc, have certification standards so that dumbshits can't just say, "oh, I got this" with absolutely no clue. This reduces the risk of dumbshits tarnishing their companies name when said product fails to work. Basically, they wan't you to give this guy a YOURNAMEHERE certification. I do think you should get some reimbursement for any extra time you spend training this guy. Or you could try to offload some of the tedius tasks onto him and finish ahead of schedule, assuming you're paid for the job rather than the hour. I'm pretty sure that they never intended to keep someone that charges as much as you in the long term. You're expected to find other work at your level until they need something new developed. And if your last job looked shoddy because some kid couldn't maintain it, you aren't getting the next one from this company. Why does microsoft keep in business even with windows 8? Companies don't need a hot shot developer to to maintain it, just some kid fresh out of college will do.

  19. Re:Nice Try China! on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content? · · Score: 1

    If you don't want google to know everything you do on the internet. Don't use google for everything you do on the internet.

  20. Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Speaking of night and weekends. If we could get a billing arrangement where our night time use wasn't counted, or counted as half it would make billing schemes like this much more tolerable. I still have a habit of saving my larger downloads for when I go to bed anyway, It goes through faster, I'm sleeping while I wait, and it doesn't disrupt my other activities. It will also only disrupt that one other guy up late downloading porn .....also. I have no idea how many users they intend to put on the same node with 1 gb caps. I feel it's safe to say that users who use that little aren't up in the middle of the night on the web. And in that case, without people like us, the network would be completely unused during those times.

  21. Re:Software/hardware on First Debian/Ubuntu Bootable ARM64 Images Released · · Score: 1

    they also eat sausage...

  22. Re:Console users are retards on Wired Proclaims the Death of the Game Console · · Score: 1

    I must be a retard then because I bought several consoles. Mom bought be an NES, loved it. Bought a SNES, loved it more. Got a N64 for christmas, loved it. Bought an Xbox, loved it. Bought an Xbox360. They ALL still work, more than I can say about the computers I've owned over the last 2 decades. Xbox 360 burned a few disks, and 1 HD broke. Aside from that, a console is a bare bones dedicated system that doesn't need to be upgraded, and there is no need to check hardware requirements before buying a new game. It says Xbox, it'll work. Not going to mod my games...ever. For the same reason I quit playing WOW, picking flowers and skinning, and doing errands for NPCs(quests) quickly started to feel like work. FF8 was too grind intensive for me. As far as PC custonization goes, you can improve your performance, but on console it provides for a more even playing field. I don't have to listen to anyone whine about how they're lagging or their computer keeps locking up when we play on splitscreen. My buddy can say "hey, lets play CoD" and I can just log into my name from his console, because an extra controller is cheap and it's game on. I also usually buy most of my games a year late, because I'm che--- letting everyone practice and get up to my level. I do have fun on PC games, but I do enough damage with basic understanding of game mechanics and just reading the descriptions provided. I was a champion kite tank on my warlock a while back. I used to run the tank out of the party, then drag the party kicking and screaming through the rest of the dungeon. Their is so much PC customization, but some of those same people refuse to accept anything but the blizzard recipe of 1 tank 1 healer 3 dps. Long story short, I hand my kids a controller, they play and leave me alone. But I'm constantly being called to *fix* my 10 yr olds linux box and my wife's win7 laptop. I like to be able to say, I'll fix it later, go play xbox. Angry birds isn't going to replace any of that, now I just carry my phone instead of lugging around my gameboy...that I haven't used in years anyway....nevermind.

  23. Re:I think it's safe to say on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 1

    How's the mileage on the horse? And can he pass emissions?

  24. Re:Doctors have been doing this for a few years on US Navy Considering Wii Fit and DDR For Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    WRONG! The navy is filled with some of the laziest people you'll ever meet. Everyone in the navy I've known who had a wii just flipped the controller and never actually did any of the swinging that makes it "active". I'm fairly certain they don't even get off their asses to put in a different game. On that note you can't really blame all of them, depending on where they work they may not have the space to move around enough. So unless terrorism involves flicking grenades with a Popsicle stick, there will be no wii training camps.

  25. Re:Where to nuke? on Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Millions of little radio active asteriod pieces is the perfect solution!