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  1. Setup mom w/ Google Voice for SMS because of this. on Under Fire, US Social Security Site Changes Security Policy Again (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    She'll be happy she didn't pay for a cell she doesn't need.

  2. Upgrade worked, still can't clean install on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Upgrading to Win10 worked ok but I have reasons to want to do a clean install. I can't though, Win10 refuses to admit seeing my SSD. When I go to load the storage drivers one of the disks it allows me to pull drivers from is the SSD. Awesome job.

    Then there's windows defender. The GPO that disables it doesn't actually. ffffff

    Good thing I only boot this install occasionally to play video games.

  3. Anonymous submitter, yet... on Astronomers No Longer Need To Avoid the "Zone of Avoidance" · · Score: 2

    Still a Forbes StartsWithABang link.

    Is this the only place /. can get it's astronomy?

  4. Were this ever implemented... on Crypto Guru David Chaum's Private Communications Network Comes With a Backdoor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Then anyone using would likely have to be coerced to use it. Then when some piece needed to be decrypted the likely result would be a message encrypted with another tool that the user has done their damnedest to ascertain has no back door.

    Wow good job, we've found a way to bloat data packets even further. Up the bandwidth!

  5. Re:Washing Machine hacks? on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    Really? Although it's a 2 step process, the 'Quick Rinse' cycle on my dish washer uses hot water. Then I can pull out the reticent dishes and give them a physical scrub down with a brush, stick them back in, load the soap and run the official wash cycle.

    Hot water all around. Of course, perhaps it's the fact that my hot water feed is responsive and it's the only pipe hooked to the dishwasher?

  6. mrxvt.. but I can't use it :( on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I love the broadcast feature of mrxvt because there are a number of situations I get into where it's just handy to control 20 different machines with the same keypresses.

    Unfortunately it doesn't support modern typography like UTF8. So I am using xfce4-terminal which mostly does what I need. Wrote a little script to deal with the broadcasting that leverages pconsole to get me there.

  7. Re:systemd on Fedora 23 Released (fedoramagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Insightful != inciteful

  8. Re:Amazon App tablets let you app apps! on Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? (teleread.com) · · Score: 2

    I want an E-Ink reader. I have tablets available (don't use them), and I have my phone which is what I do use. The biggest reason I don't have an E-Ink reader is the software. Kindle sucks, Nook doesn't even have E-Ink anymore, Kobo... I've heard lots of negative about their hardware, mostly short lifespan so I've never even checked out the software.

    Find an E-Ink reader that can run FBReader and I'll jump on it.

  9. Lose the skill of driving? on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I don't see many that HAVE it...

  10. Re:give $100 million each to best friends & fa on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    Erm, she's already an ex, there's very little she can do about his change in worth.

  11. DIY-ish full adjustable electric on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bought an electric adjustable height desk leg set (UpLift 900) from thehumansolution.com and bought a complete desk shell elsewhere for just the top (at quite a savings) in the size that I wanted. I like a deep desk and this one is 30". They've got even more options now for building your own desk including treadmills.

    I found that standing didn't work out for me... however the adjustable height of the desk has made my sitting time far more comfortable and ergo.

  12. Re:CSV on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    Can I get that in Libraries of Congress? I mean damn, how am I supposed to really know how big it is?

  13. Re:Aluminium -- low flammability ?? on Stanford Develops Fast-Charging, Stable Aluminum Battery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can light steel wool with a common cigarette lighter. We should definitely stop making firetrucks out of steel.

  14. OpenVMS on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It has an automatic versioning filesystem (Files-11)...

    Far as I can tell there isn't really a 'modern' filesystem that does this. Because what you need is for no one to have to think about doing it. Save the file, done. w/ Files-11 it gets a version number appended and if it's important enough to recover I'm sure someone would manage to figure out how to dig up the older revision that they want.

  15. You mean the camera market? on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 2

    Because the photography market is strong as ever from my viewpoint, both for professional photographers that don't feel the need to upgrade kit that's good enough to do what they're doing and the same for hobbyists. It's those pesky home users that just want to feel like they're saving memories by snapping with their cell phones you're not going to entice to buy a separate camera. It's just one more thing left in the closet after you get sick of lugging it around.

  16. Many have the policy, what's the practice? on The Importance of Deleting Old Stuff · · Score: 1

    Every company I worked for had a specific retention policy. What they didn't have is any automated means of enforcement.

    While a central server hack will get the stuff that's most easily handled automatically, lawsuits get to dig into the ugly bits that are still hanging out on the laptops of the employees waiting to be discovered.

  17. We're already doing it and don't know the results on How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? · · Score: 1

    So we're already engineering the climate, and doing it without a clue as to what the changes we've been making (and are still making) will ultimately end in. Do we really know enough to try adding yet more crap to the original pile of crap in order to cancel out the whole pile?

    Yikes.

  18. My wife hates the L interface changes on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    She dislikes the look of the SMS app and I haven't found a 3rd party that's not following the new Material design...

    She dislikes the stupidly separated calling and contact management. Can't edit a contact from the dialer list... WHY? Long press does nothing at all so there's no reason it couldn't just keep the original function. Then from the Contacts list it's more presses/steps to make a call or send a text than it used to be.

    And so on and so on...

  19. Re:Seriously... on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    So what's the better answer: Pricing themselves out of some markets, or making less money by pricing for the lowest common denominator? I'm more than happy to take cheaper prices, but I don't invest in media stocks...

  20. Re:Good on Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact, all my browser is saying right now in the status line is ... "Waiting for www.godotengine.com..."

    blargh

  21. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    define r4,
    3x 140mm rosewill pwm fans for the case
    1x 120mm couger pwm fan for the hsf
    gigabyte g1 gtx 970

    this thing is silent even when gaming. only time i hear the fans is when the system posts and gooses to full speed for a couple seconds.

    pardon the lack of a shift key synergy is messing with me today.

  22. Re:kill -1 on Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why do we need this? I've been in unix for over 20 years and never even heard of kill -1.

  23. Fetchmail, dovecot and sieve on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use fetchmail to pull from their account, drop it in their "inbox" managed by dovecot and create a whitelist via sieve (mail filter). You might even be able to get sieve to do that whole 'exec by email' thing if you want.

    The real key here is that what they see in their 'inbox' is only what you allow them to see since you're dropping everything except your approved From addresses (or similar criteria).

    Option 2: switch to snail mail and cancel their ISP account.

  24. Cue the speculators on Anyone Can Buy Google Glass April 15 · · Score: 1

    How many of these land on ebay? Does Google have a way to prevent that? (not interested, so no I didn't read the bloody linked article)

  25. Bay Trail-M NUC for LESS on The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video) · · Score: 2