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  1. Funny from Mr China/Mexico Clothing Line on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    TGrump is pathetic. His clothing lines are made in Mexico and China while his hotels are cleaned and serviced by numerous illegal aliens. What a pathetic joke he is.

  2. The car thief version will be called GoneStar on Hacker's Device Can Intercept OnStar's Mobile App and Unlock, Start GM Cars · · Score: 1

    Trust me grasshopper as I have foreseen it.

  3. You hear Ted Nugent mumbling in the distance on Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest · · Score: 1

    Terrible Ted is going to find his head up on a wall over this.

  4. Re:What a guy on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: -1, Troll

    While you are gloating, just remember the convicted international war criminal who invented this BS.

    My bill rate is back up to well over double what it was when your crooked warmonging pals were in power.

  5. Donut shop cops are whining on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if they were being arbitrarily searched without warrants and having their cash seized without any justification they would feel more like the rest of us.

  6. Don't be bleeding out on my ground for no reason on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to see that happen but if you break into my house you probably should do it when I am not here for the sake of your own mortality.

    Perhaps the number of laws being broken by this whole black bag show should finally be addressed.

    If the "law" pathologically disregards the law then why the hell should anyone else give a rats ass about the law?

    Personally, I don't think anything I do is worthy of anyone time to snoop but who knows maybe spying on my search for a good place to take a vacation will save somebody else some time.

    Blanket surveillance through global system compromise is a bunch of BS anyway since there is a high degree of probability that those who want to hack the surveillers using their own tactics.

    The reason that we have locks is because thieves actually steal stuff. Increasingly we are having trouble distinguishing the good criminals from the bad.

  7. I have the same issue. on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    While I do like the progressives for driving because they give me good dash focus again I found the same issue you at my 8 foot wide 2 host desktop. Fortunately for me the solution is simple as I am near-sighted and I can/do continue to work without glasses. The aperture of progressive lenses does cause a much more pronounced physical movement track to be required and for me that was very noticeable and very annoying. The non-progressive bifocals had a much wider horizontal aperture.

  8. Re:Downloaded way too much bongwater already on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    I don't always post under the wrong article but when I do I drink Dos Equis before, during and after posting.

  9. Re:les take Paris Hilton as hostage and demand fre on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It's the thought that counts. You probably have good plan anyway since she is probably banned from her own hotels.

  10. Downloaded way too much bongwater already on BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers · · Score: 1

    This will backfire like a well fed big dog that hasn't been out all day. If you railroad people to use your broken, half-baked, unreliable networks and render our highly reliable self-contained devices that we pay for inoperative, well what is to stop us from promoting our machines to be APs with your MAC, your AP name and a big path to nowhere while we drink Long Island Iced Tea in your bar and surf 4G on our Note 4? Go ahead, block my phone too. Maybe you want to call your bankruptcy attorney to discuss your business model first. I was in a Sheraton last week that could not come up up with 2.5M down or get above 80Kbps up on $10 a day "10Mbps premium" service. I took the laptop out in the hall and wandered around too. The pipe was fried everywhere. If my MiFi AP had been blocked and my ability to work affected as a result the whole chain would have earned red-tag status on the extended stay far away plan. Some people just don't think things through.

  11. Re:what an embrace means. on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    Compound Cash Stack Shrinkage Error, rebooting ;)

  12. Re:Sounds like my Sony Blu-Ray player on Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd say sue Sony but their lawyers are a bit busy right now.

  13. DNS zone seeds, Tor resolver, IPv6 tunnel funnels. on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    The "I will remove your phone number from the phone book on the payphone at the end of the block and you will then cease to exist" mentality is truly laughable. I would say these fools need better experts but hey, who am to judge the comedy value of the overfunded clueless people of the world? The problem with MPSonyAA is while they may have more money, other people will always have more brains. Resistance is futile and greed is pointless.

  14. This is subjective and assumes pure grid-tie on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    My experience has been that the best direction is the one that serves the panel owner best. While west may make the grid happier, the real question is what actually provides you with the best ROI and that may not be west.

  15. Re:Divert the calls to level 3 on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 2

    While the Rambo style vigilante response option sounds good on the surface (and don't get me wrong, my natural response would be along these lines if it were not for the legal implications) the problem is that when you do this, you are now violating the same regulations as they are and you are arguably by definition "retaliating" which stacks even more regulatory violations on your illegal response. They have a bus full of overpaid lawyers ready to swoop on you if you "attack" them. For this reason I strongly recommend against this type of response even though the BOFH in me would very much like to employ it.

  16. High dollar litigation with the FCC is effective on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the past I have had to deal with L3 on some similar nonsensical "our abusive users are not our problem" crap. As you have already observed, they have a well refined hearing problem. First, decide how much the per call impact is to your business in your opinion. Estimate the number of calls per day and multiply by the per call rate and then by the number of days to come up with a daily and sum "rate of damages". Then have a lawyer letter drafted and sent to their legal department and make sure the letter shows that you also sent a copy of the draft to the FCC Attn: Fraud & Abuse at 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554.

    In about the time it takes you to go to lunch, the problem will subside. At L3, FCC copied abuse resolution rolls down hill, pretty fast.

  17. Re:I live there, just a small town on Thanks To the Private Space Industry, Things Are Looking Up For Space City USA · · Score: 1

    It's a great place to be. But then again I have never been the trendy/hip/boutique type. My small town on a river with the slow tide is fine with me. It's finally getting cold enough to go shrimping.

  18. Re:Bring back the shuttles. on Thanks To the Private Space Industry, Things Are Looking Up For Space City USA · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Are you still running LSI11 platforms in your datacenter? People who don't know the issues with the shuttle are imagining they can drive from the trunk with no camera. I could make a 69 Cadillac Eldorado into a hybrid with a range of about 10 blocks as long as it is not up hill either way.

  19. Re:Titusville, Florida on Thanks To the Private Space Industry, Things Are Looking Up For Space City USA · · Score: 1

    And you have F.O.S. tattooed on your forehead.

  20. I guess I will delay not buying it. on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 1

    I would have gone ahead and not bought it now but I guess I will have to wait until AT&T stops doing the nothing they are once again trying to blame on someone else.

  21. Re:If they're going literal.... on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Please take a big handful of acorns from Steve King's bowl on the way out ;)

  22. Re:Find a real data source you can trust,not a 'te on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, it is actually 90down * 10up.

  23. Re:ndt on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    Interesting, traffic shaping based on URL path, cute, bogus, not surprising.

  24. Find a real data source you can trust,not a 'test' on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    I have 90Mbit up * 10Mbit down lightning service from Brighthouse and it is quite real. I can say for certain it is real because I have a co-located machine at Terramark on a 1GBit link running SNMP and I move enough data both ways to be able to do the math to validate. The fact is that they deliver well over rated speeds as well as I routinely push 11Mbits sustained up and pull over 100Mbits sustained down. Sustained to me means over at least an hour down with some of
    my sustain up running 8 or more hours(a lot of cameras, a lot of data pushed offsite everyday).

    One thing you really need to understand in this battle for bandwidth is that you are absolutely owned by your network transit path. An interior network (you are part of your ISP's interior network in the context I refer to) may have plenty of capacity while their edges may be grossly inadequate (as in Comcast and AT&T the last time I was on their pipes) and this fact can thoroughly convolute your test results because they can (and some definitely do) divert bandwidth test traffic onto a better path than you will ever see with real traffic.

    The short answer IMHO is that you can only really determine true bandwidth with a real, uncongested validation point that you can trust. Bandwidth tests are circumvented other ways too. One trick is traffic shaping with a burst that gives you full rated pipe for a minute then hacks you down step by step until you get what they decide you get sustained. That will show high bandwidth in a test but the ISP chosen rate will surface when you actually move some traffic around.

    Personally, (and Larry Ellison may want to kill me for this) I have used various Oracle image downloads (not little Java tarballs but ISOs for Solaris and other various big Oracle stuff) as a basis for occasional test in the past. My trust in this methodology stems from the fact that I can routinely pull over 300Mbits from Oracle to my co-located host and I can nearly always saturate my inbound to well above spec on Brighthouse.

  25. You really need the Extech Tach+IR too on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    I use the Extech Tach+IR's laser temperature sensor to check and deliver precise meat temperatures.

    You can make a test cut and in one second of laser thermal analysis you know the meat temperature to 1/10 of a degree. It is much more accurate than analog

    You could also use the tach function to precisely set the rotisserie RPM but I tend to avoid dizzy meat options.