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  1. Re:What kind of dumbass company... on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Port it? are you really that completely clueless?

    You simply fucking compile it with the same compiler flags you used for the first version. Compiling android 5.1 for a 4.4.4 phone is absolutely trivial.

    And how about just release the god-damn bootloader lock so if people want to do it themselves on out of warranty hardware, they can. HTC and Samsung HATE their customers by locking the bootloader down so hard it's insane. Latest samsung phones are deemed to never EVER be able to run a full cyanogenmod.

  2. Re:Samsung != Apple on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 1

    HTC ONE M8.... still stuck on the craptastic 5.0... HTC and AT&T suggests throwing it away and buying a new phone if I want updates.

  3. Re:The new normal for Android on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 2

    Arduino phone....

    http://www.instructables.com/i...

    If you control the source.... you control the spice....

  4. Lawyers need to be outlawed. on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    Because old lawyers become judges... and it perpetuates the "good ol boy" club.

  5. Re:Call for mass-forking of Android on Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices · · Score: 1

    No it wont. You seem to not understand consumer demand.....

    Want an example? sure!

    Look at any phone running a Microsoft OS.

  6. Re:Who cares on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 1

    " Its been said countless times but Apple has made their money off salve labor. "

    Oh dear god.... The rumors are true and that explains where all the interns go.

    They freaking turn them into a salve!

  7. Re:will they "cost no more to" buy? on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 2

    Both. When the batteries are full I pump excess back to the grid.

    I still have another 10 years on my batteries (5 years old, batteries last 15 years typically in properly designed solar), so not a problem. The solar panels have another 25 years before replacement.

  8. Re:Not just MS Office on Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan · · Score: 4, Informative

    "and the user has no way to "jailbreak" their Mac to allow them anyway."

    Make things up much? Just Boot into recovery mode, start a terminal, type csrutil disable then reboot.

  9. It was unstable before that. on Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan · · Score: 1

    Honestly Office on OSX has ALWAYS been a steaming pile of crap. It's one of those MS apps that remind us why Microsoft hates anyone not on windows.

  10. Re:Labor cost to install remains the biggest issue on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 1

    If you cant DIY it, then give up now as install costs will never go down and will only go up. You are paying for labor and insurance for the installers and those rates go up every year and never ever go down.

  11. Re:will they "cost no more to" buy? on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 1

    In my 15,000 watt installation well over 50% of the cost was the solar panels.

  12. Re:Won't buy from Motorola or Verizon again! on Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Easy, stop buying phones from them and only buy from play.google.com

  13. Re:Call for mass-forking of Android on Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices · · Score: 1

    I so wish that the next version of android that google tells carriers to fuck off.
    I am so done with the baked in crap from HTC/Samsung/etc and the deviation from pure android get's so bad that some like HTC confuses some people.

    New version require it to be pure with NO apps baked in and permanent or they cant advertise or use the name "android" in any way. It will force them all overnight to stop it. They also need to force them to push out updates 15 days after google does or lose the rights across all products.

  14. Re:DUH... on Researchers: Thousands of Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hacking · · Score: 1

    The real answer is that they do know and they don't care at all in any way. IT has been shown to them in plush meeting rooms on the big projector screen while they sit in their $12,000 chair. They are told about every problem and they just do not care in any way.

    The fix is to make Hospital Administrators Personally liable for any data breach, and to allow suing the Executives and Board members of companies directly for selling highly vulnerable equipment.

  15. No cost for me.... on The Real Cost of Mobile Ads · · Score: 2

    I block them all. The biggest advantage for an android phone over all others is that it's easy to blot out all ad's from all networks across all apps.

  16. DUH... on Researchers: Thousands of Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hacking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most anyone that has dealt with these devices have known this for a decade. Almost all MRI machines are insecure in every way. Hell even the little drug dose meter boxes have an open serial port on them.

  17. Re:Dear Mr Musk... on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    That is very cool.

  18. Black Hat holy grail. on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This right here would be what makes black hats drool. Get a payload in the Windows update server that is signed with keys that pass. you do that and you utterly own 60% of the internet in a span of 8 hours.

    If you were smart about it, you would do a quick test that is benign. changing only 2 bytes in a MS patch and then look for it. If that works you get your best rootkit that you can conceive and get it out there. now WAIT for about 25-45 days and have it download and install the nasty that you want to unleash.

    Luckily 99% of the black hats are so ADD that they shoot their load as soon as they can and brag all over the internet. It's that 1% that you never hear about and are never caught that are the truly dangerous ones.

  19. Re:Dear Mr Musk... on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    Which tells renters of apartments to stuff it in their rears.
    for every homeowner there is 10 renters. Are you supporting a law change that forces landlords at gunoint to install charging stations (or allow tenants to install a charging station and give them a credit if they leave it behind) for renters if they want one?

  20. Re:Dear Mr Musk... on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    And they installed it for free? Around here it requires an electrician and they charge $150 an hour and it takes them 6 hours to install a EV charging station.

  21. Re:There's an even greater flaw here. on New Attack Bypasses Mac OS X Gatekeeper · · Score: 0

    Yet its still better than anything that Microsoft can come up with.

  22. Dear Mr Musk... on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Give us a 300km electric car with 4 seats that has a base model retail of $19,995 and you will freaking change the world overnight.

    80% of the american population does not have the income to afford a car that costs more than that. 70% cant afford a car that costs more than $14,995. and with rent at criminal levels along with wages being doubly criminally low..... you need to offer a very low cost economy version for the poor people in the bottom 80%.

    Make it charge from 120V 15A outlet only and these same poor people will be able to afford to charge it.

  23. She is still a horrible person... on Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping · · Score: 1

    Just ask anyone that worked for her.

    Honestly is she that delusional or is there some secret money machine from running for president? Because I can not figure out WHY she is running.

  24. Re:Matirx KVM Switch on Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? · · Score: 1

    Wont work unless the HDMI matrix has EDID management so the computers do not see the displays appearing and disappearing.

    You need a good quality one, not the junk from monoprice. About $1100 for a good 4X4 with full edid management.

  25. Not better than Zinc Oxide. on New Nanoparticle Sunblock Is Stronger and Safer, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    You cant get better than a white opaque paste.