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  1. Re:So let me get this straight-- on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In Michigan, they do it a bit differently.... If you are getting a new plate from the dealer, they put a temporary plate in the back window that gives them time to process all the paperwork and get a valid plate from the state for that vehicle. In all other cases, you have a "transport exception" - the way it was described to me is as long as you have the paperwork showing you just bought the vehicle, you can transport it from the place of purchase to your home without a physical plate attached. In my case, I bought my new car roughly 45 minutes from home, and the plate I was transferring was on my old car at home (it wasn't worth enough to bother trading it in). I left the dealer, drove home, and moved the plate onto the new car.

  2. Re: Why single out Google? on Should the FTC Investigate Google's Location Data Collection? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And if I remember correctly, it was the same government (or at least different people in the same chairs) that mandated those GPS trackers be put into phones, under the argument that E911 needed it to transmit your location to first responders. So, they're now deciding to complain about an issue they created...

  3. Re:Effective date on California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    While I get the joke, April 1 is on a Sunday, so they probably went for the closest business day. Whether or not that was necessary for this is another discussion entirely.

  4. Good, Now... on Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...go after the idiots that have sent me two text messages from random cell phone numbers lately saying someone is fraudlently accessing my Verizon account, and providing a [RandomIPAddress]:8080 address hidden behind a URL shortener to try and get me to "verify" my information to prevent my account from being suspended.

  5. Re:Overcomplicated or what on Google Allo For Chrome Finally Arrives, But Only For Android Users (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The camera isn't needed on the computer, the computer screen displays the QR code and you scan it from within the Allo app on your phone (which most likely DOES have a camera)

  6. Re:Offices with doors? on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We're in the middle of the build process for a new building, and I will have an office with a door (and a window!). I'm our entire IT department, so I have to share my office with the server rack, but we didn't have any other good place to put it...

  7. The only thing the management agent does is handle the "auto-renew" for you. I manually create LE certificates for a domain we use for work (and would do more for our remote access panel, but LE has made the decision not to allow creation of certificates without a domain, so our server that is only available by IP gets left out). Other than the certificate data itself, we have nothing special installed on our server.

  8. I've had a Switch since day one, and I've had a total of 3 updates:
    • "Day one" system update that enabled eShop and other features
    • Update to enable SD card storage(maybe that was just because I put an SDXC in it, not sure)
    • "Day one" update for Zelda (not sure what it did, but it was there)

    For what it's worth, none of these updates took more than 2-3 minutes to do. Would the system have been usable without them? Most likely (except for maybe the SD card one). So are there updates? Yes. Is it a "required" type of thing, where you basically always need a connection to be able to use it? No.

  9. Re:Fingerprints aren't witnesses. on Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    If they found that key on their own, no....if they forced you to provide the location of the key, yes. (I'm assuming in this case that they already have you in custody, so the whole "we know this key is in your pocket, give it to us" doesn't apply)

  10. Re:Contracts? on Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month · · Score: 1

    The truth of it is that there's no contract in play here any more. For those who still have the unlimited plans, their contract ran out some time ago, and Verizon has been letting them keep the same plan instead of forcing them to sign a new contract and move to the newer plans.

  11. My Setup on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    Server: -2.5TB server in the basement - Plex Media Server Living Room: -Samsung Smart Blu-Ray player w/Plex client Bedroom: -WDTV Live (DLNA to Plex Server) Roaming: -Chromecast with Plex app on phone

  12. Re:Duration Tracking on Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If I had to guess, it's a case of "user X accessed pages found on slashdot.org between 16:35:22 and 17:05:22" = 30 minutes "duration tracking"

  13. Re:Any possibility that sunscreen causes cancer? on Miami Installs Free Public Sunscreen Dispensers In Fight Against Cancer · · Score: 1

    I've had this discussion with people in the past, and personally, I feel that there's a big difference between an increase in cases of autism (or anything, for that matter), and an increase in DIAGNOSED cases of autism. In the past 10 years (or so), our understanding of the signs of autism has greatly increased, which would then lead to a increase in the number of cases. Does that mean we're doing something to cause that increase? Not at all, it just means that we have a name now for what's "wrong" with those kids that 15-20 years ago were just labeled as "weird" or worse.

  14. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    Speaking from experience, restless leg syndrome shouldn't be on your list....I'd never had an issue with what is commonly known as RLS in the past, but after being put on a new medication, I developed symptoms of it....when the medication was changed, the symptoms went away.

  15. Re:IDEA on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Or, for those who didn't understand the whole issue, they would just complain about site X no longer working.

  16. Re:Is LO catching up with MS Office? on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    Unless they changed something that I haven't read about yet, they haven't moved to a subscription-only model for Office quite yet. They do offer it as an option, but it's still an option to go out and buy a physical copy of Office 2013 (the last "official" release for Windows) as well.

  17. Re:Seriously! on Hacker Set To Demonstrate 60 Second Brinks Safe Hack At DEFCON · · Score: 2

    I didn't read the actual article, but from some other comments on here, it sounds like this is doing a bit more than a traditional safe: Counting the funds inserted and Transmitting this deposit to the bank to name just a couple things. This means: - Network/Internet access to some degree, including all the necessary security features (SSL, etc) - Peripheral access (bill reader) - Some sort of confirmation on the safe that the deposit was completed Considering this has been described by some as an "ATM in reverse", it probably makes sense to use the same code base as an ATM, which in many cases means XP embedded (or its newer versions).

  18. Re:Not ALL their products on Google Is Dropping Its Google+ Requirement Across All Products Including YouTube · · Score: 1

    While I'm guessing it wants just a Google account, and not specifically a gmail account, that's still not the same as a G+ account.

  19. Re:The. ignorance is strong in this one. on Cashless Adoption Growing In Europe · · Score: 4, Informative

    If I had to guess, this isn't a case of "government tapping into my bank account", but rather a case of having previously given them payment information tied to this account, and as a "courtesy", they auto-renewed the registration when it was due. Heck, an "auto-renew" setting may have even been turned on and forgotten about...

  20. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Google's Niantic Labs Sorry Over Death Camps In Smartphone Game · · Score: 1

    Weeks? Who do you know? I've had portals waiting for approval since September without an answer one way or the other...

  21. Re:Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Fair enough....I haven't tested the "other side" of this (using a shared key to access a network) because I don't use FB, Skype, or Outlook, but I would hope that the option I mentioned earlier (that "share this network with my contacts" switch) isn't an option for networks that you got the key for through Wifi Share. Maybe someone who's actually used the new feature can weigh in on that part of it

  22. Not Exactly.... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been running pretty much every build of Win10 since the preview first came out, and this isn't accurate at all....Yes, the Wi-Fi sense option is there, but when you connect to a new network, there's a "share with my contacts" checkbox that you have to turn ON for this network to be shared. The Wi-Fi Sense "master switch" may be on by default, but you have to specifically allow each individual network to be shared.

  23. Re:That's stupid on Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    HTC actually has come up with a good way to handle this. They've moved many of their "factory" apps into the Play Store, so they can push updates that way independent of the carriers. I've even received lock screen and Sense (their "home screen" for those unfamiliar with it) updates though this method. The only thing they can't push is updates to Android itself this way.

  24. Re:Cellphones without GPS on FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation · · Score: 1
    I believe that all phones are required to have at least a basic GPS receiver (even the so-called "dumb phones") for E911 purposes, basically so that if you do call 911 from your phone, and you're not sure of your location, they can still find you.

    Phase II E911 rules require wireless service providers to provide more precise location information to PSAPs; specifically, the latitude and longitude of the caller. This information must be accurate to within 50 to 300 meters depending upon the type of location technology used.

    From: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wire...

  25. Re:not limiting attempts on Security Evaluation of the Tesla Model S · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If the login delay is implemented based on the user ID and not the IP address, it wouldn't matter how many threads/machines you had attacking.

    On a completely random note, I think the amount of time to do this attack, even with the current setup, would make it nonrealistic. Someone above listed the steps to break into a Tesla using this vulnerability (how accurate they were, I don't really know - or care for that matter). There's one big factor that is being overlooked, however. With relatively few Tesla cars on the road right now (I don't know the exact numbers at the moment, but compared to all other cars on the road, I think we can agree that "relatively few" is a safe estimate), this particular attack isn't one that could be done with the "normal" way that I imagine stealing a car goes:

    "Hey that's a nice car...lets steal it!"

    For this attack to work, it would have to be done one of two ways:

    1. Break into "random" Tesla accounts until you found one in your area
    2. Exploit this attack to steal the car

    OR

    1. Find a Tesla parked somewhere.
    2. Somehow figure out that car's account
    3. Break into that account
    4. Use exploit to steal car

    Basically, the time it takes to break into one Tesla account is irrelevant. The goal is to break into the RIGHT Tesla account, which I imagine, unless you already knew a lot about the owner of a particular car, would take a lot longer than this 69 year number being thrown around for breaking into a single Tesla account by brute force.