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  1. More Disenchanted, still use it on IMDb Hits 25 · · Score: 1

    I've been using IMDB forever. I still use it several times a day. I do have some nits to pick though:

    I have started to notice lately, a lot of images for actors are missing.

    I think I would like it if the image for the actor in the movie link was one from the movie, not one 40 years later. Much of the time
    there are images in the photos (if there are any) of the actor in the movie I'm looking at.

    Lastly, there seems to be some real issues with most foreign (non-Hollywood) movies.

    Frequently there is no detailed plot summary, rating, and actors links seem to be missing.

    Looking movie names up in their original language sometimes doesn't work at all.

      That's my whine, happy birthday IMDB.

  2. Old stuff on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? · · Score: 1

    nexusplayer with kodi and netflix. I did buy an ethernet adapter for it. works much better.

    6TB NAS with movies/tv shows.

    HD Homerun with tvheadend for local stations/recording/live tv on kodi.

    PS3 for Blu-Rays and DVD's

    Network is all wireless AC/wired 1GB with router and switches.

  3. This will end well on Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com) · · Score: 0

    > Leverage Windows crypto api’s instead of OpenSSL/LibreSSL and run as Windows Service

    NSA compliant key exchange? Or just the inability to add large keys?

  4. Re:So, I actually don't understand this. on Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe · · Score: 1

    There are some good comments in the link, one of them has a video of a tank equipped with the device in use

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Re:Get Self-Employed on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 1

    Don't forget hiring a lawyer, an accountant, an accounts manager to make sure you get paid, an HR department to make sure everyone does their job, and finally developers to do all that work you were going to do on your own but now you're just too busy being the boss of all these people to do it yourself.

    Do you want MBAs? Because this is how you get MBAs.

  6. Video of the Dashboard on Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design · · Score: 1, Redundant

    An mp4 of the dashboard visualizer is on the page at

    https://www.protectwise.com/pl...

    instead of a tiny jpg.

    Looks nice for a dash.

  7. I wish on Certifi-gate: Another Huge Android Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I wish the phone I use was running something newer than 2.3.4.

    HTC updated it ONCE.

    It still works fine, but I probably need to get a new phone.

  8. Microsoft on Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where phone companies go to die.

  9. Time to open on India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    A nice VPN service.

  10. Re:Can the new buyer be worse than DICE? on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Marissa Mayer called, she's offering 1 million, umm I mean 1 BILLION dollars.

  11. Re:Skirts are okay. on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 2

    I'd probably wear a nice, not short skirt because that would be against the rules, but a nice mid length skirt.

    Do you want kilts? Because that's how we get kilts.

  12. Re:Silly but on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 2

    Wearing a headpiece indoors is excusable only if your head looks really bad - from injury or disease.

    Slippery slope here. What about yarmulkes? What about Sikhs wearing turbans? What about women wearing hijab, niqab,or burkas?

  13. Spoiler on The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the article, it's a bug in PAM.

    You shouldn't see this behaviour with SSH unless you have PAM authentication turned on. And apparently only in FreeBSD ?

      And as OpenBSD developer Marc Espie says in his message,

            Not surprisingly, as the patch clearly shows, the problem is right smack in the middle of USE_PAM code.

            I wouldn't call that an OpenSSH bug. I would call it a systemic design flaw in PAM. As usual. LOTS of security holes in authentication systems stem from PAM. Why ? Because that stuff is over designed. Difficult to configure. Gives you MORE than you need to hang yourself several times over. It's been that way for as long as I can remember.

  14. Re:Charge for false requests on Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results · · Score: 1

    I think Google should start charging them for false requests. $1 each and I bet sooner or later they are going to start having a human check them before sending the take down requests.

    How about just calling it a convenience fee, and let's make it $25.37 for no apparent reason.

  15. Re:He has a talent for understatement on IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House · · Score: 1

    Convenient when your chart cuts off at 2007 when military spending peaked again in 2010 to similar levels that we saw in the 80's
    http://www.usgovernmentspendin...

    I suppose that I could fall into the mud with you and trade insults, but I am satisfied that it would provide little entertainment and prove me to be no less correct than I am now

    Have a nice evening cold, it is always fun exchanging ideas with you

    Yeah, this graph is bad, and you should feel bad. Defense spending as a percent of GDP is a useless metric. Switch the graph to display in
    $Billion Nominal.

    The graph still is bad because it doesn't compensate for inflation.

  16. Re:Tards will be Tards on 'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked · · Score: 1

    But they can be harmful. For example, I've become convinced that Trump became obsessed years ago with conspiracy theories and he's now running for president on that...

    Please don't confuse mentally handicapped individuals with those suffering from Reality Impairment.

  17. And once again on AMAgeddon: Reddit Mods Are Locking Up the Site's Most Popular Pages In Protest · · Score: 1

    http://www.voat.co/ is currently down. I'm assuming for capacity issues (again)

    Reddit was good, about 5 years ago. It's turned from a time waster to a waste of time.

    I hang out in a few subreddits that aren't bad. The front page has become kind of a joke in a non-funny bad way.

  18. Re:It's the end of the world as we know it! on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    you pay $25/m to lease 5 static IPs...

    Comcast?

  19. Re:Nude == Rude? on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    [citation required]

    Sample size of one:

    Bristol Palin.

    Teen pregnancy prevention spokesperson

  20. Third Times the charm. on "Invite-Only" Ubuntu Mobile-Powered Meizu UX4 Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    So this is the third iteration of Ubuntu phone this year. Still not for sale in the US.

    I'm waiting for the 5th-10th iteration, when there is something of value. Maybe,

    Oh and sold in the US would be nice.

  21. If only on HP Researchers Disclose Details of Internet Explorer Zero Day · · Score: 0

    I could have read about this on Secunia, my windows xp would have never had any problems.

    Oh wait, I only run linux in my house.

  22. Re:Worst of the worst on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    United Way.

    No kidding, every year there was an abduction to watch their "moving" testimonials and feeling "forced" to contribute, after taxes, with no deductions for it.

  23. Re:Veto-Proof? on Louisiana Governor Vetoes License Plate Reader Bill, Citing Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    The skeptic in me says he vetoed it as political cover

    He is expected to announce his candidacy for President next week. So he is shifting from pandering to Louisiana Republicans, to pandering to a national audience. He has already started sending his policies to Grover Norquist for ideological approval, before he proposes them to the public, or even legislators in his own party.

    Call me a cynic but it's more likely he's holding out for some nice juicy campaign contributions from the license plate reading corporations for his election
    warchest.

  24. How about on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since it's Slashdot:

    Free Software Foundation http://fsf.org/

    Electronic Freedom Foundation http://eff.org/

    American Civil Liberties Union http://aclu.org/

    Make sure they are registered as a 501(c)(3) so your donations are tax-deducible.

    I'd skip sending money to ISIS or the Taliban. It's probably not tax-deductible and may result in unpleasant imprisonment.

  25. Re:first??? on Allstate Patents Physiological Data Collection · · Score: 2

    What will you do when all cars come with wheel sensors?
    What will you do when privacy advocates can't do a thing to prevent such a thing from happening?
    What will you do when laws are passed so that cars won't work if the sensors can't read your hands?
    Etc.

    Maybe we'll get mandatory self-driving cars before that other thing happens.

    Gloves?

    Aftermarket steering wheels?

    Steering Wheel covers?