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  1. Re:Haven't I heard this before? on Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers · · Score: 1

    So you think your router BrandX with firmware ABC.EFG has no vulnerabilities that can be exploited.

    Nope. That is why I prefer to go and drop OpenWRT on a router and then go and configure that properly and lock it down nicely. Also I don't use some strange crap provided by the ISP, that is still quietly sitting in the box it came in under the shelf that has all of the other equipment.

  2. Re:Actually great UX for everyone else on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    A better solution is just to give up on buying disposable razors, or at least the fancy ones. Go and get a butterfly razor and then you don't have to buy the silly expensive blades and can get good cheap ones. The other option is to give up on safety razors all together and go and buy a couple nice straight edge razors and learn how to maintain them.

  3. Re:n=6? Seriously? on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1
    First thing that popped into my mind:

    And they have much to be concerned about. There's always the threat of an attack by, say, a giant space dragon, the kind that eats the sun once a month. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention my nose is on fire, and that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers?
    ...
    I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?

  4. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 2

    Well a couple of good places to start for standards in this area would first be the NERC CIP standard and once you have got that down then proceed to the Cybersec Procurement Language for Energy Delivery Systems (warning PDF) for a set of industry best practices that are highly encouraged to be in vendor contracts. While they are written for energy management systems the ideas and regulations should mostly be applicable to all other systems that need computer security as well.

  5. So dangerous they can't fly but on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So let me get this straight these people are so dangerous that they can't fly yet aren't dangerous enough to be brought in for questioning, gotten off the streets for the safety of the general public, and are likely not under direct surveillance? I am a bit confused here.

    And before someone mods this troll that was sarcasm. I also happen to believe that if the administration were to reveal their "State Secrets" it would be something like the emperor has no cloths.

  6. Re:well hot damn on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    That is why I said it depends. I would likely be amenable to someone like that. At the same time a business person with the proper mindset would work. The right mindset would be that the shareholders in the US government would be the citizens with each citizen holding the same amount of shares. Since in their previous position would have been to maximize shareholder value they could do the same in government which could be good with the previously stated mindset.

  7. Still wouldn't vote for him but ... on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    I still wouldn't vote for him. That said he really is what the political process needs. In his rantings he has brought up a number of things that should be discussed. Like it or not he has proposed something on dealing with ISIS, he brought up the illegal immigration issue in a very bold and blunt way, same thing with the H-1B visa issue. Unlike most candidates he is providing a bold vision that others must address which unfortunately his opponents are just dithering on or quietly stating me too. He has a huge cult of personality thing going for him which allows him to get away with saying some of the things he has said. He may very well be the next Jessie Ventura, someone who is running to stir the pot but ends up winning.

  8. Re:well hot damn on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would rather have a person who has run several large non-profits over a business mogul as President, because they know how to make an organization run on limited funds and making do with what they have.

    Depends on the non profit. If they ran a hospital or group of hospitals I wouldn't trust them, I have heard way too many stories from my father (biomedical technician) about the decisions made by management. This even excludes a lot of the other much more dodgy non profits that mostly use the money they take in to just pay salaries and expenses while doing very little actual good.

  9. Re:Epic fail on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    Yup. The dimensions just seemed to look to be like it was designed to be shipped in a 20' container (just under 8' wide and 8' tall and few feet shorter than a 20' container). I never thought or said they were practical or were better than the box that they would be shipped in. The one advantage it does have is it looks sleek, new and boldly advertises that the owner is a smug asshole of an environmentalist. Also I have looked into getting a shipping container to use as a hunting shack and the only real question that I am still asking is do I get a single 20' container or 2 20' containers to weld together. I lean towards 2 containers as there will likely be more than just myself staying there.

  10. Re:Everything about it is wrong on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    Hey quit giving away my idea for a hunting shack.

    Having looked into this a nice 20' container can be had for about $1300 and shipping is only a few hundred more if you are close to port that has them (I do so that is good). Although I would prefer fold away beds, a wood stove, and could do without the shitter as my property has an outhouse already. Then again building things hasn't been a problem for me and I have been working with metal for a while so for me it would just be the material costs.

  11. Re:Yeah it's awesome... on Off-Grid Home Ecocapsule To Hit the Market This Year · · Score: 1

    Well it looks like it will fit nicely into a standard 20 foot container with room to spare.

  12. Re:Touch is retarded UI design 4 long periods of u on Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design · · Score: 1

    Well sometimes a giant wall of glass is useful for everyone to look at to be able to get on the same page while having their own local screens to view specifics they care about as they coordinate efforts when shit goes wrong.

  13. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    But it wasn't ruled a tax break but instead a tax, but that was only after being ruled not a tax. So I conclude that we have either entered the time where we now have quantum law that can exist in multiple states at the same time or in reality the justices on the US Supreme Court have shown that they lack the mental power to create a logically consistent set of rulings and should all be removed from the court. The ACA ruling was especially bad example of this but others haven't exactly been good. How incompetent do you have to be to overturn your own ruling within the same decision?

  14. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Well way back when I worked at a gas station we would always joke that diet soda only works if you drink the same amount as regular soda. We had people who would come in every day a buy a 12 pack of diet soda every day and all of those people were about 300 pounds and lacked elbows. That was a great job for people watching and picking up on some odd stereotypes.

  15. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    There is a market and it is pretty much saturated with about 80 years worth of vehicles. Depending on what you like really nice once can be had for less than $10,000 and it goes up from there. I have a car that if it were restored to be a concourse car it might fetch $12,000 but that would require sinking in many times that amount into it.

  16. Re:Patched on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    The simple solution to that is this.

  17. Still not up to Lucas level of electronic security on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tesla's efforts still won't provide the level of electronic security from remote hacks that old Lucas equipment did.

  18. Re:Future market on Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    So your saying that my '68 midget will be worth a fortune then, or it will be once I replace the Lucas parts.

  19. Re:Oh Great! More Central Planning! Just what we n on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    And to add to that my '02 BMW 325i consistently gets 33-34 MPG commuting to and from work and on open highway gets about 37 MPG, these are American not British gallons as well as being a gasoline powered vehicle with 145,000 mile on it. Again a very comfortable and safe vehicle as well.

  20. Re:Oh boy, here we go... on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    communal food freezer/refrigerator

    Not sure of your historical knowledge on this point but meat lockers were a common thing in the early half of the 20th century. They still exist but tend to offer limited locker services but most often offer full butchering, processing, and freezing services. There are also ways to preserve food that don't involve freezing or refrigeration but canning and drying seems to be more of a lost art now.

  21. Re:Could not agree more on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered if the raising of the minimum wage is partially deliberate to hollow out the middle class. Raises aren't keeping up all that well and the bottom keeps being raised. When I was in high school and college I worked at a gas station and made pretty reasonable money. When I finished there I was making $12.50 an hour base pay and minimum wage was something like $5.25 (or was it $4.75?). Any way I still see my former manager (his store is on my way to work so I stop there) and asked out of curiosity what corporate was paying assistant managers (what my position was) and while it has increased in the last 18 years it now is only $16 an hour yet minimum wage is now $9.

  22. Re:She won't be president on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1

    ... it is looking like something nasty could come out of it. The sweater is getting unraveled.

    With Hillary that would truly be something nasty.

  23. Re:Samzenpus got hit in the head this morning on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1

    Well those corals are sharp and point while Cecil was cute and fuzzy. Huge difference, my kid would never own a coral stuffed animal. Joking aside the one benefit of wall to wall Cecil coverage is that it has temporarily stopped the wall to wall Trump coverage.

  24. Re:Offline Maps on Nokia's HERE Maps Sold For $3.2 Billion To Audi, BMW and Daimler · · Score: 2

    You could use Navit and use the extracted data from OSM. There is even a tool provided by Navit to download the map data you want.

  25. Re:News at 11 on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 1

    Nice. Having been to a number of places that are a 1 it is great. Until recently my wife has never been to a place that is less than a 5 and until she was at the lake lot we recently bought she had never seen the Milky way, or watched satellites go trucking across the sky. We haven't been lucky enough to be up there and awake when the auroras where happening so she still hasn't seen them.