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  1. Re:What are they waiting for? on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Because the CEO already got theirs and they can just step down and keep their share of the profits. Leave it for the corporation to handle without them.

  2. Re:people charge of traffic lights are engineers b on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    I was stuck at a faulty red light with a sensor once. I waited for almost 5 minutes, wanting to call the police out to get me out of the stop light. Yes, I'm pedantic enough to annoy my wife like that. I knew that backing up and pulling forward would work, but it shouldn't have been necessarily.

  3. Re:Welcome to the Information Age! on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    The US is finally moving to chip and pin for credit cards by next fall.

  4. Re:Welcome to the Information Age! on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    What makes you think there are standards? I can almost guarantee that you're vendor-locked the moment you start building the system.

  5. Re:Welcome to the Information Age! on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    I think it's a bit more likely to go undetected if you do it wirelessly.

  6. Re:instead of.. on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 2

    Our Constitution's Bill of Rights has a provision against cruel and unusual punishment.

  7. Re:There are 6 of them now? on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    And they may have set up a server farm to download from him to raise the hit count and claim them all as unlawful distribution.

  8. Re:If he sold phyiscal copies on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    Or do you mean that he put a sequence of 0s and 1s in a particular order, and other people freely gave him money in exchange for a physical representation of that sequence?

    I hope you don't write software for a living.

  9. Re:If he sold phyiscal copies on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    The laws aren't indexed to inflation, I don't think. So it's going to be even more silly one day.

  10. Re:If he sold phyiscal copies on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    buying a DVD for between 20 - 40 Euros is a huge rip-off.

    Not necessarily. I understand theater tickets might cover most of the costs, but a lot of movies cost $100 - $150 million to produce (sorry for USD numbers). To recoup that and then be rewarded for taking such a financial risk is not such a bad thing. Especially since you also have to cover the cost of all the flops that had to be made along the way.

  11. Re:I don't know .... on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they would use trifluoroethane now.

  12. Re:Windows 8 app store? on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    KineMaster Pro is a pretty good video editor

    Says someone who's never used a major brand of NLE. That looks like iMovie.

  13. Re:Enlightening: I'll actually check into that... on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    I would *think* those fertilizers would help botanical sea-life

    Yes - it can cause an Algal Bloom. Blocking the sun and generally detrimental to all other sea life. Think of it like a HOSTS file for the ocean.

  14. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    While that's mostly true, anything that lowers the price of fuel will increase consumption.

  15. Re:Easy, India or China on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    As everyone can see in Iraq.

    There are blind people in Iraq, too, you insensitive clod!

  16. Re:Clickbait on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    More like the Microsoft App Store is a bad example of clickbait.

  17. Re:Windows 8 app store? on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 2

    There isn't much in the way of video production / compositing /3D modeling software for Android, now is there?

    Let's also remember that the average consumer throttles their smartphone/PC/laptop about 1% of the time.

    And Apple's model works for the "average consumer." How about people who are producing content rather than consuming it? Right now, they use desktop PC's and software that will never been in the MS walled garden.

  18. Re:Truly sad on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    Except in the case of a systemic infection like Ebola. Even sweat is a disease vector with Ebola, because it breaks down the endothelial cells.

  19. Re:That's a garbage lawsuit on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    Rather, 1920i.

  20. Re:That's a garbage lawsuit on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    Then it would be 960i

  21. Re:Middlemen on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is a middleman to news - as are the Gawker sites. You may find utility in the public forum, but that doesn't change what Slashdot is. It's the Facebook you find acceptable - you like the moderation system here better than "Likes." You could go directly to the source to read your news.

  22. Re:Middlemen on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 2

    So what brings you to Slashdot, then?

  23. Re:But Jezebel IS a blog on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 1

    Oh, good. Someone already explained this for me. Their site is set up (like every other Gawker site) in more or less a Slashdot fashion. A (more long-winded) summary, a buried link to the original article it's regurgitated from, and then the comments.

  24. Re:AppLocker on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    Or even an Excel macro...You'd be surprised what you can wrangle vbscript to do within a macro on a spreadsheet if you have no other options.

  25. Re:Just refuse the new gear on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    A) I believe that will continue to work just fine. The only problem is if there are user-configurable settings for that. You won't have a direct IP connection to the modem in bridge mode without removing the router from the middle.
    B) is the reason everyone wants to put it in true bridge mode. It eliminates that problem 100%.
    C) I wonder if you can just backup your whole set of NVRAM settings so you can reset and reload if anything goes wrong. I haven't looked into that but it might be available over telnet.