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  1. Re:Glacial speed of fixing critical bugs on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 2

    Quite high.

    Kiddie calls a SWAT on your home.
    Kiddie makes your smart TV switch to a video of a violent scene that matches the call and turns the volume up to 90%.

    Swat team kills you, see's it 's just the TV, then kills your family and dog out of spite.

  2. Re:The only fix... on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    This is why I buy BMW. I can request everything and even pick it up in Germany at the plant, drive it around the Ring a few times and then they will ship it to the USA for me for it to arrive when I arrive back in the states.

    Cadillac and Lincoln? they don't give a rats ass about the customer, and that is why they are both at the bottom of the heap for luxury car sales.

  3. Re:The only fix... on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect, it is very simple to make 100% secure.

    you find the Onstar antenna wire, and remove it from the telemetrics module.

    Honestly in today's world only a fool wants onstar. you have a freaking cellphone in your hands, your infotainment system can use BT tethering to get any data. Why the car needs it's own connection is utterly insane.

    And yes, I know remote unlocking from the onstar service, sorry but if you lock your keys in the car on a regular basis, you deserve to have to pay for a new window replacement regularly.

  4. Still broken. on GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar · · Score: 1

    Onstar is easily compromised vial MTM attack and has been for 2 decades now. They need to give it decent encryption and allow the car owners to set passwords/pin numbers in the car system themselves that the car will ignore all communication attempts without it.

  5. Sony Vegas or AVID.

    I want a pro video editing suite not the useless buggy toys we keep getting. I would happily pay a lot for it as well.

    After Effects would also be nice, but I have been doing a lot of compositing in Blender lately.

    And no Blender is NOT useable for video editing, it's a kludge.

  6. Re:good for schools on Amazon Reportedly Aiming For the Low End With a Loss-Leader $50 Tablet · · Score: 1

    $50? last time I bought textbooks it was $150 a pop and the science one was $250. Where are you getting super discounted textbooks at $50?

  7. RCA already wins this with a $39.00 tablet in most walmarts. $50 is overpriced for the junk level stuff.

  8. 90% of the titles are actually download only now on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you get a disc that tells it to download a 20gb "update" that is actually the whole freaking game.

  9. Car drivers suck + bike riders suck = crash on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 0

    Most car and truck drivers have zero clue how to drive around a bicyclist. couple with that bicyclists being morons and blowing lights, riding down the wrong side of the road, or in general riding stupid and you have what we have today.

    Bicyclists tend to ignore traffic laws, I see FREDS (the trendy ones all wearing spandex and riding $9500 bikes) blowing traffic lights all the time, but the worst is the casual rider that is riding on the sidewalk on the wrong side of the road, they will cross the street and get massacred by the person turning left because they are completely invisible to the car that is turning.

    Car drivers need to be smacked in the face, no you are not important and your non important ass can wait while that bicyclist is in your lane. Boo hoo you big baby that you have to slow down for the bike that has the full right to be there.

  10. Samsung 12.2 tablet on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Hands down the best. anything smaller is a toy.

    Yes even my Surface pro is sad compared to that wonderful sized screen.

  11. Old tech on Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors · · Score: 1

    You can buy those to flood the front of your car to screw with police LIDAR so they cant get a reading on you or they only read 0. Except mine has a 1 mile range.

    for $60, is he doing it from 1 mile down the road? I bet his only works from a hundred feet away.

  12. Re:How the hell did this get on the front page? on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Editors? you must be new here.

  13. Re:people pay attention to likes on youtube? on DDoS-Style YouTube Dislikes For Sale · · Score: 1

    Just press and hold the power button on your computer for 10 seconds, this is a hidden dislike button.

    Alt-F4 is how you gain admin rights in IRC.

  14. Not doomed. on NASA's Ten-Year Mission To Study All the Ways the Arctic Is Doomed · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be just fine, warmer but just fine. Honestly all you people have zero clue as to reality. the temperature on the earth can increase 500 degrees and the planet will be perfectly ok. Look at Venus, the planet it's self is still in it's orbit, and doing great. No chance of deorbiting and crashing into the sun, no chance of being flung into deep space. as a planet it is doing well.

    Earth will do just fine and probably better after all the pesky people have been boiled off.

  15. Re:Not normal driving. on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    USA, unless you are completely inept you get one. Hell my daughter IS completely inept at driving and still got one.

    I think the only way to not pass the drivers training class is to bring a gun and shoot at other drivers. Except Detroit, it's part of the required driving test to shoot at targets whine driving, but only holding the pistol sideways.

  16. Re:Not normal driving. on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    It can be fixed. MAke is significantly more difficult to get and keep a drivers license. In the USA that means moving from "are you breathing" to "are you competent"

  17. Re:Only because it is free. on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I know several that have reverted. Driver issues and general buggyness. Like booting to a black screen very common bug that Win 10 has.

    Microsoft answer was, dont shut the computer down, just let it sleep.

    windows 10 is an early beta release.

  18. Re:In other news on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or speeding in residential areas. Those people are the scum of the earth.

  19. Not normal driving. on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are confused by BAD driving. People in general really really suck at driving and a computer will have problems with that.

  20. Only because it is free. on Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    It would not have even a 5th of the uptake if it was not 100% free right now. Hell even illegitimate windows 7 installs become legitimate with a win10 upgrade applied to them.

  21. Re:I really just don't get it. on FBI: Burning Man Testing Ground For Free Speech, Drugs ... and New Spy Gear · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see you dont know ANYTHING about the revolutionary war.

    1776 was a bunch of rich people convincing the poor to fight for them. George washington was just pissed his riches were being taxed along with all the other "founding fathers" It was a fantastic job of convincing most oft he citizens to fight for "freedom" that only the richest men enjoyed and they shovelled that " you can be too" BS down their throats to help convince parents to send their kids to die for the rich guys.

    Tea partiers don' know anything about american history other than the propaganda crap taught in high-school. It's why you guys are not taken seriously.

    The biggest difference, back then the rich guys had the balls to actually be near the front lines and even on them. Today our country is ran by 100% cowards.

  22. And Thus starts the Jihads! on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    A Jihad on you, and a Jihad on you..... Dammit I need a Jihad on my self. Jihads for everybody!

    All religions fall apart as made up crap once they are investigated.

    Except Cthulhu... you cant take my great destroyer from me!

  23. Re:Sorry, but Apple still deserves most of the cre on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yep Xerox got the UI right.

  24. Re:So can I sell my used copy? on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It amazes me the people that defend game and software maker immorality. Good for you!

  25. Re:Answer is easy on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 2

    You think way too small. You can buy decommissioned aircraft carriers for cheap.

    Time to go all snowcrash and build a floating nation.