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  1. Cause may be a backhoe incident on Users Report of Nationwide CenturyLink Internet Outage (ktvb.com) · · Score: 1

    I work on equipment that uses CenturyLink that stopped working today. I am told the issue is someone ran a backhoe which damaged their main fiber optics to their management system. CenturyLink offices have no internet to other offices, main databases are out.....

  2. How about trying to EARN trust. on Alphabet's Waymo and Intel Are Launching Public Campaigns To Build Trust In Self-Driving Cars (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having famous people promote the cars is a sign
    to me that the cars are not reliable.

  3. Reselling at lower price on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 2

    US sells software at $200 because if GDP, but it is $30 in Latveria. People will go to Latveria, buy all the copies and ship to USA to resell for a $150 profit each.

  4. Re:"The bag had been forfeited" on Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules (behindtheblack.com) · · Score: 1

    little troubling how? Really not that much more troubling than your neighbor saying it is his mower now. May be bad example.

    But for this scenario, the museum should have done an inventory and told the police the bag was part of the museum and should be returned to the museum. If there would have been conflict from police, museum should have asked for backup from NASA on talking to police. I would hope that NASA would schedule asking museums if the items were still being shown or needed repair or would be better returned to NASA. NASA cared enough to try to get it back.

  5. Called from Microsoft on this on Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I removed a series of updates that someone else posted. The next day I was called from Microsoft saying I am missing important updates. I was out of town and they didn't call back. Next week, did a couple more, then day after that saying I was missing important updates.

  6. Got a call from Microsoft recently on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: -1

    I removed several Windows (7) updates that were doing data collection.
    THE NEXT DAY, I received a call from someone (from India) claiming to be from Microsoft saying that I was missing some updates. No transaction requested, just a request to update Windows.

    Two weeks later I removed another update, and received another call the next day.

  7. Standard deviation on Open Source Pioneer Michael Tiemann On the Myth of the Average · · Score: 1

    It sounds like he just made an average and called it that. That's bad math. Standard deviation shows how far your average can vary.

    For those of you who don't do math.
    Values of 90,91,92,93,94 brings a standard deviation of 1.58 and values of 88,90,92,94,96 brings a standard deviation of 3.16. Same average of both groups, but the standard deviation shows how far out your variances go from average.

  8. Re:Full sized candy on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    Same.

    We go all out. Spent considerable money on candy. Kids get to the street, look at it and scream how good it is. Four parents come by to day we made their kids entire night.

  9. Is it auto installing on pirated keys? on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wondering.
    If the key is listed as pirated, a good thing would be to auto download and install.

  10. Re:No. Give the control to the users on AdBlock Plus To Introduce Independent Board To Oversee Acceptable Ads Program · · Score: 1

    The main problem with this idea, assuming it could work at all, is classification.

    Who/what classifies ads as "No video", "No audio", "digital camera" or such? Nobody wants to spend the time/expense to put classifications on ads, and the classifications are going to be terribly subjective anyway.

  11. This is not what you want.Call a security company. on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 1

    I'm familiar with the security business.

    What you really want is for police to be called if your home is broken into, even if you can't be called. For this you need a monitoring contract, which can only be done through a security company (cannot be done as an individual).

    You can use the other posts here to maybe find good open-source hardware. Security companies will generally not let you purchase hardware/software that you can modify. If there are any issues with anything, you have to prove you didn't have anything to do with the problem.

    We don't even let customers have keys to the box with circuit board (called a panel) to change batteries.

  12. Go lower tech on Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First of all, this question comes up every 4-6 months "How to store data long term?".

    Take the best pictures, get them printed on quality material, and laminate that and make a photo album. It can now easily be shown to anyone who visits and will survive past the lifespan of your children. I have family pictures from 130 years ago in non-digital format.

  13. Re:Slashdot Paradox on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 2

    2579 Characters, 465 Words

    1 Paragraph, 1 Sentence.

  14. Re:passive insubordination on Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer · · Score: 1

    "...everyone who dies of one of these diseases is proof against the claims..."

    But can the average North Korean pay the price for the drug? Or will gullible/rich Americans pay to get a fake cure?

  15. How about learning to 'fly'? on New 'Deep Learning' Technique Lets Robots Learn Through Trial-and-Error · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of http://www.newscientist.com/ar... from 2002. Robots goal was to raise its altitude without knowing its actuators ahead of time.

  16. Hikvision and "Why are you doing it that way" on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Modern IP Webcam That Lets the User Control the Output? · · Score: 1

    HikVision are not my favorite camera to use and prefer Axis or a ton of others, but they all do the same job.

    What is with needing FTP?

    You should have the corporate site web page that pulls up an image from the HikVision IP camera. That camera is password protected and will only pay attention to the web site or your programming IP address. Could do live feed or update on whatever schedule you want.

    It sounds like the main chef wants to hand-write the menu and doesn't want to do it any other way, and you are compensating for it.

  17. Surveys are likely blocked by people like us on Facebook Changes Privacy Policies, Scraps User Voting · · Score: 1

    If I were Facebook, I'd put the surveys on an a server like advertising.facebook.com. That way they wouldn't put surveys to the people using advertising blocking proxies.

    Don't survey the people that would likely give results you don't want. Then you can change the wording so Mom and Pop generate the answer you'd like.

  18. Re:You cannot fine that which does not have a numb on FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls · · Score: 1

    So then companies will contract out to individuals to make calls for them. Same problem.

  19. What about pilot's license? on Could Flying Cars Actually Be On Their Way? · · Score: 1

    In order to pilot a plane, you have to be certified pilot. Flight rage anyone?

    Similar to the Mythbusters Jet Pack. Assuming it can carry enough fuel to get somewhere, it won't ever be allowed because there isn't enough of a safety margin.

  20. Re:Relying on third party wifi inspires confidence on NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS · · Score: 1

    I can see how they could do it, but the implications are creepy.

    They could have an app or query my phone. It'd reply with my GPS position and that the signal strength to 4 towers by name/ID. Enough tags like that, they can identify the towers in 3D space and go from there.

    Enough tags like that and location can be found just from tower information.

  21. Re:Perspectives on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'll bite on this one. Thank you for posting, Gellenburg.

    I've had to go through hoops to get information to a customer and had to run around/through the IT department blocking my email. We had a time crunch, and it wasn't that sensitive of information, but policies were preventing me from sending, and we couldn't wait for IT to change rights to permit me to send this data. Sending ZIP files, for instance, was unpacked and scanned and blocked if the contents were funny. I used an unexpected archive format (my own).

    I can easily see where you could detect the file names or database footprint of, say, a payroll database file. How good would your system be at finding the same data exported to spreadsheet format first?

    Without compromising your system, what have you detected, and what couldn't you detect?

    Thanks

  22. How should that be split? on Political Campaigns Mining Online Data To Target Voters · · Score: 1

    How do we all balance out saying that its important to vote at the same time as saying that both candidates are the same?
    Should more time be spent on deciding president, or senator, or governor or mayor?

  23. Wider image and lesser quality on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 1

    Put the camera up in the ceiling in the corner and lower the resolution a bit.

    Farther away and slightly out of focus. You can't distinguish anyone, and just know how big the crowd is. That's what you want.

  24. Remember how they file their taxes on Disaster Strikes Norwegian Government Web Portal · · Score: 3, Informative

    by the government sending them a letter saying how much is owed.

    The government does all the calculations.

  25. Didn't Adam Savage have a similar story? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 1

    I thought he had some saw blades in a cylinder on the inside of his coat.