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  1. Re:Shodan marketing on Exposed HP LaserJet Printers Offer Anonymous FTP To the Public (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah what's up with his search engine? After the first page you need to register? Fuck that.

  2. Re:Questions. on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    TOR is broken as far as I'm concerned. The fact that it was funded by the US government always did seem suspicious. In fact there was a recent story about the feds paying CMU to run thousands of fake nodes.

  3. Why is this such a mystery? on The Trouble With Intel's Management Engine (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So the IME is in place in millions of desktops. Is anyone currently using any of the features? How does the software communicate with it?

  4. Doesn't matter on California Bill Would Require Phone Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    None of it matters when you have no idea what the SIM card is doing or the GSM radio. Both run operating systems we have no clues about the capabilities of.

  5. Re:Buried by lawsuits on Backdoor Account Found On Devices Used By White House, US Military (sec-consult.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NSA probably "persuaded" them to install it. The NSA spied on congress and nothing happened. Nobody was fired or went to jail. Spying on the whitehouse isn't that far a stretch.

  6. Show me a real life EMP weapon in action. I'll wait. No its because the part in question was built by the lowest bidder.

  7. Oh you can believe they're tracking you. Especially with license plate readers built into cop cars.

  8. Seriously on Benefits of a Homebrew Router (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Around 2001 I bought an Alpha PC164 board and it ran NetBSD for nearly a decade as my home router/firewall/server. Never once had a freeze up or other hardware issue. As a bonus feature I picked out the correct NIC/video/SCSI cards so it could run OpenVMS and Tru64.

  9. Re:Bad idea on Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have To Fix Copyright Law (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    It was with an old laptop using 802.11G and the router in question was a TPLINK WR-841N.

  10. I decided to give OpenWRT a try on my wifi router instead of the factory firmware. OpenWRT can barely manage 1Mb/s while the stock firmware is triple that speed. I liked all the functions but it ran like shit.

  11. AMD announced the acquisition of ATI and a few days later Intel released the Core line of processors that destroyed anything AMD could produce.

  12. I keep hearing slashdot talk about all the evil shit that Chrome does behind the scenes. So let's see some sniffer logs or some evidence of Chrome doing something its not supposed to. I'll wait.

  13. Re:Oh yeah! on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That link tells you absolutely nothing other than they have a patent on the seal. I wouldn't even think of buying one of these drives.

  14. Re:Oh yeah! on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they do away with the breather hole and paper filter?

  15. Oh yeah! on Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't wait to see the failure rate on this thing. How do they even get a hermetic seal?

  16. Re:Grease can be used as fuel. Why would you dump on ATF Puts Up Surveillance Cameras Around Seattle ... To Catch Illegal Grease Dump (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    You still need to refine and filter used grease to make bio diesel. That costs money on the small scale and oil prices have been dropping lately.

  17. Re:but do they last as long? on Nanotech Could Make Incandescent Light Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it was a Cree. LEDs are an amazing technology but the failure point is the power supply. Until the supplies run cooler I won't be buying any.

  18. Re:but do they last as long? on Nanotech Could Make Incandescent Light Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Paid $10 for a 60 watt equivalent at Home Depot. Supposed to last 10 years it claimed. It was about as bright as a 25 watt incandescent and stopped working after a month. It was in a normal table lamp so airflow was not a problem. The warranty said I needed my store receipt. I shouldn't have to keep and file away store receipts for something as ubiquitous as a fucking light bulb. Into the trash it went.

  19. You can still buy them everywhere. The only difference is the wattage is lower and its a smaller halogen bulb inside the larger glass.

  20. Re: Mobile data on AT&T Brings Back Unlimited Mobile Data To Lure TV Subscribers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're on the bus watching a movie on your iPhone with an HDMI connection to what exactly?

  21. Yeah watching movies on a 5 inch screen sure is awesome.

  22. Re: Kernel? on Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released · · Score: 0

    So it comes broken by default then?

  23. Re:Get real audio recordings on Ask Slashdot: Cheap and Fun Audio Hacks? · · Score: 1

    So your speakers work down to 3hz?

  24. People act like analog electronics are obsolete like the vacuum tube. The real world is analog.

  25. I want to use VLC for its audio compression. I dislike how all movies have whisper quiet dialog while music and everything else is ear shattering. My compression settings are set to "brick wall" so nothing can ever be louder than my choosing. In fact what I'm planning on doing is feeding the optical out from the tv into a cheap 24/96 DAC, feeding that into a real studio compressor, then finally into a power amp. No more extra loud commercials and channels.