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  1. Someone hasn't learned the lesson of Sony on DJI Threatens To 'Brick' Its Copters Unless Owners Agree To Share Their Details (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The PS3 wan't jailbroken until Sony tried removing features. This is going to lead to some great advancements in open source drone firmware.

  2. Re:DMCA to the rescue? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Recover From Doxxing? · · Score: 1

    Buy an hour or two of a lawyer's time to send a nasty letter to Bluehost's lawyers. They'll listen to them.

  3. Re:...and here I was, about to buy an Apple laptop on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 1

    When I was looking at trying to get back into creative writing, I looked at Scrivener. It's a nice app, but I already had online services I liked for notes and research, mainly Evernote and Trello, and it didn't seem to have good options for integrating with them.

    Turns out, Emacs does all that stuff. All it costs is your sanity an assload of time to learn.

    Also, Optimus is kinda-sorta okay. There's a utility called Bumblebee that handles turning the Nvidia chip on and off, and you basically end up running a second X session on the Nvidia with the output piped into the normal session. It's done by launching any app you want to be on the GPU with a wrapper app like Optirun.

  4. Re:Often, there is no grand conspiracy on FBI: North Korean Hackers "Got Sloppy", Leaked IP Addresses · · Score: 2

    It doesn't require a grand conspiracy to doubt North Korea had enough lead time to compromise Sony so thoroughly in response to The Interview. It also isn't a Oliver Stone-esqe reach to observe that there are anecdotal reports all over the place of hackers planting false trails to China and Russia to blend in with real attacks from both places.

    In the absence of actual publicly produced evidence from someone *without* a history of lying to the public and Congress, it's safe to assume that the "North Korean IP addresses" aren't actually in North Korea and are compromised machines they have been known to use in the past. How often do you see a system that's only been compromised by *one* piece of malware?

  5. Hypocritical... on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somehow I doubt they'd see it the same way if someone setup a rogue femtocell on the sidewalk outside an FBI office...

  6. Re:Time for medicare for all in the usa on Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data · · Score: 0

    Perhaps you're too busy just holding on to what you've got to realize that, statistically speaking you'll be joining those unemployed people on welfare sooner rather than later.

  7. Re:how dark can it be on the ISS? on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the exception of the cosmic rays shooting through their eyes....

  8. It's the batteries, stupid. on Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Apple, Model X · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If nothing else, both companies desperately need better battery technology. Could be they were talking about swapping patents or joint R&D.

  9. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's rewriting history slightly. Was it "rammed through" the Senate? Certainly. Though, if memory serves, the House was under Republican control at the time. Also, for the last goddamn time, the ACA is not a *leftist* law. The "left" is still pissed at Obama and Congress about getting knifed in the back over a public option. The ACA started life on the right at the Heritage Foundatrion in 1989. It's a testament to how hard the right worked throughout the '90s and the aughts to drag the country their way that the ACA became centrist enough for Obama to latch onto it like a limpet.

  10. Re:I skim RT daily on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 2

    I watch their video stream at home. their coverage of human rights issues inside Russia is the darkest of comedies, and their skew on Syria is super obvious, but I'm in the market for a news source critical of my government, and they certainly fit the bill better than MSNBC or CNN.

  11. Re:Holy crap ... on FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle · · Score: 1

    If anybody other than Verizon had done this to somebody, they'd be in jail.

  12. Re:No idea who to root for in this... on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    How about the people trying to route around them? Like Bitcoin? It's not just for goldbugs anymore....

  13. Re:It's hard reading on Adrian Lamo Explains His Decision To Expose Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    It though it boiled down to "Pay attention to ME!!!!!!!!!!!!"?

  14. Automate your own response? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 1

    The reasonable thing to do is just block everything from their domain or that includes their name.

    However that's no fun. What is fun is whipping up a python script and using a service like Tropo to respond to every single message with a phone call to tell them that the email is unwanted. Of course, to ensure that they can effectively identify the offending mail, the script should read it to them in it's entirety and ask them to press a button to acknowledge that they've understood and will stop. If the call gets... disconnected for any reason, it should call back and start over until it gets it's acknowledgement.

  15. Re:Welcome back AdBlock on Advertising Network Caught History Stealing · · Score: 1

    If you have moral compunctions about blocking ads in general, Noscript is the way to go. Normal ads will get right through while flash and javascript ads won't be executed unless you whitelist it.

  16. Re:Serious question on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    The Hurd has one thing going for it. It's design called for putting as much functionality as possible into client-server interfaces. This made it run horrifically slow. However, now that we're in the multicore era... It might actually be a path forward. Fortunately, BeOS went the same direction, and it's not quite dead yet.

  17. Re:A toy for now on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    If you've got an install with working X11, more power to you. I spent days trying to get it to work.

  18. The Net interprets censorship... on DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names · · Score: 3, Insightful

    John Gilmore's quote was always an oversimplification. The net itself doesn't do anything but move packets. The people that use the net are the ones that find ways over, under, and around censorship. And this is censorship. We can argue about whether or not it's justified (and in the case of websites selling Chanel knockoffs as the real thing, it might be) but the fact the ICE and DHS have exerted control over ICANN is not good.

    I'm a US citizen, born and raised here. The prospect of my government having the power to control the web scares me shitless. It's time to start working on a decentralized, cryptographically sound successor to DNS. It's also time to get serious about IPv6 and IPSec (encryption at the network layer) as a way to foil deep packet inspection.

  19. Re:So Open Source Caught This? on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    Umm... Actually some "unofficial" Hero roms had this problem, and it was fixed. I can't remember exactly what the fix was, but a search of the XDA forums might be enlightening.

  20. Re:PalPal Sucks! on Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest keeping an eye on it. Checkout is what Google is using for payments in the Android market, so you can bet they're busting their asses to get it up and running wherever their phones are. I know it's up in the UK....

  21. $40? You're getting robbed my friend.... on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: "NetSol is no longer a monopoly."

    I pay less than $10 a year for my domain + google apps.

  22. Re:Apache Rewrite Rules! on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, the 307 was meant to minimize the damage from false positives. No matter which type of redirect is used, a person with AVG will still get to see the page so long as the rule works right. It's just the linkscanner that's being redirected, not the browser.

  23. Re:What's the best method of defeating all this ** on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec

    Now if only people could make it work...

  24. Any chance of a chat log? on Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board · · Score: 1

    Seriously. It'd help if there was anything more out there than innuendo. Personally, I wouldn't put this crap past either Anonymous or the Co$.

  25. Not exactly news... on Microsoft Planning to Buy Open Source Companies? · · Score: 1

    Does no one remember Hotmail's troubles trying to dogfood after being borged?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail#Transition_over_to_MSN