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  1. Downloading through TOR on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why were you downloading torrents through the TOR network? Its pointless and clogs exit nodes.

  2. Tried that along with Waterfox. The browser is fundamentally broken.

  3. I was a Firefox user for a long time. Then it started getting slower. Then they copied Chrome's interface. Then they started adding useless buttons like a paper airplane. Around that time I switched to Chrome and found it much faster and more responsive. I don't have to enable beta multi threaded support or third party builds for such features. Firefox is circling the drain.

  4. Nobody even wanted that land until Israel became prosperous.

  5. Re:Don't get it on Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So anyone that old is off the grid and unreachable? I doubt anyone would care what NDA they signed back in 1991.

  6. Don't get it on Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the social media age. A team of people probably worked on this at one point. How hard would it be to try and track someone down? Same goes for how awful and unplayable some NES games were. Can't we find ANYONE who worked for LJN and ask them some questions? Like all this stuff is centuries old and we're guessing at the original intent?

  7. Re:Slashvertising on New vs. Old: a Comparison of 23andMe's Health Reports and the Raw Data (enlis.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought about trying their service but for $199 I'll pass.

  8. Re:Security as a trade-off on Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    What are you even talking about? How is OpenBSD useless for 3d modelling and animation? If the software is available for Linux it should compile on OpenBSD. Oh and there is virtually no video editing software for Linux. What is around is buggy and still in alpha stages in terms of what Adobe pushes.

  9. Re:revolutionary technology on "Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    The ADA would sue because pencil and paper discriminates against people without arms.

  10. Re:Stop! on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1

    My browser blocks flash from playing automatically by default.

  11. Re:Exploit is though Chome browser on Somebody Just Claimed a $1 Million Bounty For Hacking the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I though Apple wouldn't let other browsers run on iOS? Everything else was just a skin for Safari.

  12. Re:so... on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can be sure if anyone said "fuck" on the air the FCC would notice.

  13. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    In other words pretentious douches.

  14. Re:What's up with the ' on Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought only old women and neck beards spelled it that way. It makes you look like a pretentious douche. Are you supposed to pronounce it differently that way?

  15. Re:Newer devices on GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    You're joking but I recall reading that HURD finally supported partition sizes larger than 2gb. This was at a time when drives were pushing 250gb in size.

  16. Re: Dropping stderr and syslog messages... on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    When it comes to troubleshooting, you can't go wrong with flat text. Readable with any tool.

  17. Re:systemd deprecation warning on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 2

    I'd love to know why a window manager er uh "desktop environment" needs its own sound daemon and associated controls. Sounds like something the OS should handle seamlessly to whatever asks.

  18. Re: Dropping stderr and syslog messages... on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    You can still do that, but now you need the new set of those utils to ready binary logs. Tell me again the point of binary logs?

  19. Re:The Commit Message on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    Oh boy your reboot takes 10 seconds less. Ever boot big hardware? That shit can take 10 minutes alone.

  20. Re:Let me be the first to put this here on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh shit he could possibly face MONTHS of incarceration in a minimum security jail and fined 10% of his profits.

  21. A few years ago I got curious and started scanning the local subnets on my ISP for open telnet ports. Found one DVR type of device with four cameras and four hard drives running with disks 100% filled. The default logins worked and found myself at a busybox prompt. What was interesting was there was always a few others logged in from countries over seas. I managed to tftp a fragment of a video file but couldn't recognize the area. There is no reason for multiple telnet logins to a DVR box.

  22. Re:Why the Ads? on Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon · · Score: 1

    A Slashdot reader who doesn't user any form of ad blocking?

  23. Re:NO MORE TELNET? on Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    At this point telnet has had less vulnerabilities than ssh.

  24. Re:lesson learned? on eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That may be true but the software could be full of security holes. Millions of people compiled OpenSSL while never once reading it. Turned out to be swiss cheese.

  25. Agreed on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 2

    Elderly and technology do not mix. Especially someone with a failing memory.