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  1. Just off a cruise... on With No Guidance From Google, Makers Creating Own Glass Accessories · · Score: -1, Troll


    We had a family cruise last week. There was a glasshole walking around the ship for the duration. Why? WHY?!

  2. Re:Ask Apple on OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014 · · Score: 2
    According to the manpage on OSX, it's ipfw from FreeBSD:

    The ipfw facility was initially written as package to BSDI by Daniel Boulet
    <danny@BouletFermat.ab.ca>. It has been heavily modified and ported to FreeBSD by Ugen J.S.
    Antsilevich <ugen@NetVision.net.il>.

    Several enhancements added by Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>.

  3. Re:Ask Apple on OpenBSD Looking At Funding Shortfall In 2014 · · Score: 2

    The SSH that comes bundles with every Mac is OpenSSH, also made by the OpenBSD people. No idea what else has OpenBSD fingerprints on it within Mac OSX.

  4. Re:conduit in anticipation on New Home Automation? · · Score: 5, Funny

    While he's at it, he may as well install some Twinax in case someone with an AS/400 comes for a visit and needs some Token Ring love.

  5. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    Sure, they are expensive, but the auto-away feature alone (motion sensor sensing no movement for a set amount of time) has saved us a lot of cash over the past two years. It also knows the outside temperature and learns how long it will take your house to warm up/cool down based on that and adjust its on-times accordingly.

    Quite the nice piece of adaptable hardware which has seen our energy usage drop ~15%. Of course it's impossible to say that was all Nest that can take the credit for that.

  6. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: -1

    We have a Nest and love it. The only problem I had until now was the lousy central humidifier support.
    Even with the recent cold snap here when temperatures 'as cold as Mars' our Nest never failed to start the furnace.

  7. Re:Track your every move on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    Ha! Well done!

  8. Re:My bank's app... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    Holy smokes, I never thought of that. Good catch!
    We should start a company and get a few million on Kickstarter next week... ;)

  9. Re:My bank's app... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know, but it is 2014. Surely even a conservative business like a bank could use case sensitivity. They don't even allow special characters and have a limited size (8 chars iirc)

  10. Re:My bank's app... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    Err, sorry, not specifically the app, their actual site. Case insensitive everywhere.

  11. My bank's app... on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 2


    TD Canada Trust appears to not use case sensitive passwords or allow special characters. Try it with your password using UPPER, lower and MiXEd case.

  12. Re: Slashdot Beta for the blind? Slashdot Beta for on Hubble Images Become Tactile 3D Experience For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Slashdot Beta - A roll of the Dice...

  13. Shouldn't be hard on Hubble Images Become Tactile 3D Experience For the Blind · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Feel this 3D printed model of a star?"

    "Yes."

    "Imagine countless billions more of them so far away you can't touch them."

    "Whoa."

  14. Re:Many eyes... on 23-Year-Old X11 Server Security Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Many eyes" is bogus, "the right eyes" is more appropriate.

  15. Use a YubiKey with LastPass on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1


    Use one (or up to 5) YubiKeys with LastPass. If you aren't worried about the security of the key (losing one, having one stolen), you can use one slot in the key as a static password, the second slot can be used for YubiCo's one time passwords.

    I wouldn't do it that way but do use a YubiKey for the OTP functionality.

  16. Re:Can eruptions like the be averted? on Researchers: Global Risk of Supervolcano Eruption Greater Than Previously Though · · Score: 4, Funny


    Good idea. Some ABS pipe from the lumberyard should do the trick.

  17. Re:Insurance on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Your sig is relevant to this story...

  18. Re:"has become"? on Yahoo Advertising Serves Up Malware For Thousands · · Score: 1

    I meant running in the browser, not playing Minecraft. That ActiveX or PDF are also insecure doesn't change the fact that Java (in the browser) is shit and always in need of security updates.

  19. "has become"? on Yahoo Advertising Serves Up Malware For Thousands · · Score: 1, Insightful


    a reminder that Java has become an Internet security menace

    Java has always been a security menace.

  20. Re:25,000 members on The Geek Group's Hacker-Oriented High Voltage Lab In Michigan Damaged by Fire · · Score: 2

    Maybe that's how the fire started. All 25,000 soldering irons plugged in.

  21. Re:You are responsible for it. on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 1

    I think the fact that no human at Facebook read the actual message, it's automated, is what will get this dismissed. Much like gmail.

  22. Re:It's worth noting on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 2

    Facebook should call them "Post Cards". The sending and receiving parties get to read them as well as the delivery service.

  23. You are responsible for it. on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 5, Insightful


    You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on. It's in their ToS which most people agree with because they just HAVE to see their 3rd cousin's dancing cat videos.

    Bitching is easy, doing something about it is harder.

  24. "Yes across the board." on The UK's Internet Porn Filter and Fighting Censorship Creep · · Score: 5, Insightful


    I would hope Linda and others would have the fortitude to say "Yes across the board" and hang up. It's better to face the odd goatse than to have the government spoon feed you.

  25. That's a problem... on Chinese Icebreaker Is Stuck In Ice After Antarctic Research Vessel Rescue · · Score: 5, Funny


    That's the problem with Chinese ice breakers. You get stuck again in an hour.