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  1. Hah! Sure, blame the players .. on 'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "PC players who completed the download of .37.2 and then started a new game save will have a corrupted saved game," wrote Brian Ekberg, Forza's community manager, in a forum post. "Avoid creating a new saved game on .37.2, and only play on .35.2 to avoid this issue. As long as you have an existing save and have not created a new one on .37.2, your saved game will work correctly once the update is available." Riiight - it is completely Forza's responsibility to restore saved games in this case.

  2. Funding for awareness drives? on New California Law Finally Makes Ransomware Illegal · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing here -but this might have to do with funding. Awareness drives usually cannot be funded unless there is a specific law. With this law in place, maybe there can be funding to raise awareness amongst everyday people on how to protect themselves from ransomware.

  3. Yay sidebar! on LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI (documentfoundation.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish more applications would use a sidebar - with monitors spreading horizontally for video display reasons, there is an awful lot of whitespace that isn't used by most word documents, webpages etc. Vertical space is getting to be a premium now.

  4. Are permissions fixed yet? on Android 7.1 To Roll Out To Nexus Devices in December; Preview Goes Out This Month (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    I finally moved away from Android this year - mainly because I still could not turn off permissions per app. I could not, for example, allow GPS for Google Maps and disable it for Yelp. I know Cyanogenmod has something similar to this, but I cannot install Cyanogenmod on my work phone.

  5. Ding ding ding! I agree, I do not understand why this is bad. When my grandfather went to school, he was a rarity in rural India. My father went to school - he did well, and learned more than his father. I went to school, and learned more than my father. My son did kindergarden last year, and definitely learned more than I did at his age. And this is how things are and should be. Each generation should learn more than what the previous one did. And I don't think my son (or indeed, any of the other kids in his class) found kindergarden particularly onerous. Like all kids, they had their pluses and minuses - some learned to read really early, while others were good at problem solving. W.r.t summer holidays - I personally think a much better approach would be to have multiple smaller holidays through out the year.

  6. At what point is this illegal? on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this constitute a breach of contract? If not, why not? Legally, at what point is it no longer legal to make changes like this?

  7. 4 inch screen high end Android phones on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I miss 4 inch screen, high end Android phone. If I want a phone with a good screen I have to go to 5.5 inches or above, or settle for a low end, slower phone.

  8. 30 million lines of code?! on How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is a lot of code, is that a realistic number for a router? I'm genuinely interested in knowing.

  9. Re:Looking for a good one is hard on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    You need LXTerminal.

  10. LXTerminal on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 2

    LXTerminal - no dependencies to GNOME, light, supports tabs, moving tabs and naming tabs, copy and paste. I don't need anything else from terminal emulators. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerm...

  11. What was the question again? on Open-Source GPU Drivers Show Less Than Ideal Experience For SteamOS/Linux Gaming (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    What does licensing have anything to do with performance? If NVIDIA released an open source driver for their hardware, then open source drivers would win the performance shoot out. Their drivers will always be better than reverse engineered drivers (open source or not). The question really is, if you care about licenses and gaming performance, what hardware will fit the "good enough/open enough" requirement?

  12. Didn't RTFA, but I watched part of the video .. on Stanford's Autonomous DeLorean Can't Time Travel, But It Can Do Donuts (stanford.edu) · · Score: 1

    Why is the person in the driver seat holding a joystick on a self driving car?

  13. Editors, please proof read submissions! on LTE 4G Networks Put Androids At Risk of Overbilling and Phone Number Spoofing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't expect everyone to have perfect English (I don't), but editors should do some proof reading before they post articles. The vulnerabilities were discovered by 8 scientists *who* documented them in their research. or better yet: These vulnerabilities were discovered and documented by 8 scientists as part of their research.

  14. Re:...except for the bits that don't. on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather my house had snap on interior bits, and conventional screws/nails in the exterior.

  15. Re:Umm on Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights · · Score: 2

    Not all information on the card is plain text. See BrianKreb's comment on the reporting site. Quoted here: It’s not all on the boarding pass. Read the story. Some airlines treat frequent flyer codes as semi-secret, and redact them from boarding passes and email communications, but leave them in plaintext on the barcode. The story gives one example.

  16. Bad design? on Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is that kind of information on the bar code at all? Why isn't the bar code just a handle that allows information to be retrieved from a remote (secured) system? If this is the norm for bar codes, teach me - why is it so? I

  17. Re:Wise decision on Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy · · Score: 1

    How do we always get some folks commenting about sanitation when the discussion is about something entirely different? Talk about irrelevant posting - looking for easy karma, are you?

  18. Ironic! on AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones · · Score: 1

    So I need to cheer for malware this time?

  19. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly this. Machines are replacing people, which is fine in itself. However, the money generated by those machines goes into the hands of the few, and the people whose jobs are lost are left high and dry. Machines should be helping people, but because of the way they are used, they are helping only a small minority.

  20. Sugata Mishra's Hole in the Wall experiment on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Read this: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/s... A very interesting read - Sugata Mishra left a computer with internet access in a hole in the wall near a slum. Kids flocked to it, and taught themselves how to use it, even surf the internet.

  21. Re:Congratulations, dev. nations. West.. not so mu on India Mulls Using Nuclear Power For Its Chandrayaan-2 Mission To the Moon · · Score: 1

    And how is that relevant? Do you think that every citizen in India is now doing space research? Or do you think the country should suspend all research and any semblance of forward planning and just build toilets? For crying out loud - every time there is an article about India on Slashdot, some one comments about toilets. Post anonymous - your bias is showing.

  22. Re:Thought I'd get here... on Google Partnering With Indian Railways To Provide Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    For intelligent people, the majority of Slashdotters are singularly obtuse when it comes to India and toilets. Yes, there should be more toilets - but there is more to life than toilets.

  23. Talk to local companies on Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? · · Score: 1

    Talk to local companies, especially ones that are giving back to the community. There may be a few that are willing to donate old laptops that IT no longer supports, and these laptops will be good enough for your described usage.

  24. Re:Brilliant idea on If You Want To Buy an Apple Watch In-Store, You'll Need a Reservation · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!

  25. Parents? on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 1

    Don't parents help? If college costs $150000 for 4 years, don't American parents help? I am genuinely curious about this. Also, why not halve the costs by staying at home and finding a college close by for 4 years, and then leaving home? This question isn't on topic, but I'd really like to hear some Americans comment on why parents don't help with costs.