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  1. Misinformation on China Says it Cloned a Police Dog To Speed Up Training (xinhuanet.com) · · Score: 1

    I treat this like all "news" coming out of China: As misinformation or a downright lie to make it seem like China actually achieves things, which i highly doubt it does. See also the FUD stories about people injecting themselves with fruitjuice and other bullshit like that.

  2. Re:Send it to Sweden on China Won't Solve the World's Plastics Problem Any More (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Sweden will not just take any of your garbage, it has to be presorted by quality, and that costs money. The UK is not willing to spend that extra money and now they're complaining nobody will take their low quality trash for a few pennies a tonne.

  3. I don't know if you're just being ignorant or stupid.

    Charles Babbages' Analytical Engine was the first general-purpose computer.

    And more recently, the Raspberry Pi, also English.

  4. Cloudflare is probably a massive NSA operation to track users across websites, including such things as intercepting their logins. It'll never be allowed to be taken down...

  5. Then get sued when someone's cat/dog/owl eats the dying or dead rodent, and dies too...

  6. Re:I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the UK already sends lots of garbage to Sweden, but the problem is, that is has to be presorted and it just costs more. They could just indiscriminately send all their waste to China for next to nothing...

  7. Re:Microsoft-biased statistics? on Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time (onmsft.com) · · Score: 2

    iOS 25%
    Android 18%
    MacIntosh 9%
    ChromeOS 1%
    Other 1%

    Source: the link in the story that goes to https://analytics.usa.gov/

  8. Does it still count as hacking if the camera comes preloaded with a telnet backdoor with login admin:123456 and publishes its IP address to several chinese dyndns servers as soon as you plug it into the internet?

  9. Re:What Config Key Do I Disable/Delete? on Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome has this ability too and has abused it in the past.
    And it phones home all the time.

  10. This is just back to basics for what facebook's original intention was; mark zuckerberg's personal snoop and fap source.

  11. Here, in the Netherlands, HBO has withdrawn its service, but you can stream Game of Thrones, a day later, IF you get triple play with the Ziggo ISP for at least 1 year AND a mobile phone subscription with Vodaphone. But wait, you're not done... you have to pay another â11.95 just for the privilege of their buying their "Movies and Series XL" package. So, you're in for at least â60 a month, just to watch GoT.

    So, there you go, waiting for the stream to start, and what happens? Nothing. Misconfigured routing table in their network, so nobody can watch it, and somehow they manage to break access to a large part of the internet, including slashdot. This is the first time i can access this site since Monday morning.

    Oh, and Ziggo is the largest ISP over here, after their merger with UPC... You'd think they'd be a bit more professional.

  12. Well, after 2038, it will be 1970 again, so we can start over and do it better this time...

  13. Aldi no longer all-own-brand on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Aldi hasn't been all-own-brand for years. They sell things like coca-cola here in the Netherlands...

  14. Anatolia/Black Sea Area, not Turkey. on Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Turkey didn't exist 10.000 years ago. Call it Anatolia or the Black Sea Area. There's no reason to dumb down this stuff on Slashdot, is there?

  15. Don't upgrade from Jarvis to Krypton... on OpenELEC 8.0.4 Kodi-Focused Linux Distro Now Available (openelec.tv) · · Score: 1

    You will get an unwanted UI change, broken samba, and glitchy/broken menus when you switch back to the Confluence UI.

    And for some reason, it turns from snappy to sluggish.

    Aren't these things properly betatested anymore?

  16. 130000 years is a long time ago... on New Study Suggests Humans Lived In North America 130,000 Years Ago (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We've developed electronics in a relatively short time.
    Who's to say they didn't develop space-or interdimensional travel and went somewhere else? (And neatly cleaned up after themselves, for the most part).

    It's not like sci-fi hasn't dealt with this concept before.

  17. A lot of these things are broken by design and can't be fixed.
    Companies have been dumping IP cameras here for bargain prices right after the vulnerabilities made the news, instead of trying to fix them.
    So now you have a â140 camera you paid â30 for, which has telnet open to the world and announces its local IP to 4 different chinese dyndns servers and neither of these "features" can be disabled...

  18. Hurt Google in the wallet. on Still More Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos (morningstar.com) · · Score: 1

    This is where you hurt Google, in the wallet, because reporting hate videos does nothing, as long as they get views (and ad revenue).

  19. Re:Unnecessarily complicating matters on GlobalSign Supports Billions of Device Identities In an Effort To Secure the IoT (globalsign.com) · · Score: 1

    admin:123456, with an open telnet port, and the first thing it does, is try to get the outside IP and contact 3 different Chinese dyndns servers to make sure their trojan horse inside your network is known to the world...

    This is done on purpose, i'm sure of it.

  20. Re:NIMBY in full effect on France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Your organs are useless once you're dead. They're harvested when you're "technically dead" (aka still alive).

    Depending on how much they want your organs, they will adjust the "technical" limit to their needs.

  21. I guess they need someone acerbic in charge or they'll turn into Microsoft and take the easy way out on everything...

  22. Re:HP Printer Issues on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, i have some bad news for you...

  23. They put insulation inside fuel tanks with racing cars too, for several reasons.
    I found the patent for the airplane version: here.

  24. Re:I haven't run into this issue either, but ... on Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Anniversary Update Freezing Issues (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember something similar to this with serial mice in Windows 95 and you had to manually edit an .ini file to stop it from losing the connection... I wonder if the bugs are related.

  25. Re:Required reading - limits to growth on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    With a bit of luck, you'll just end up in 1970 again after the last bit of 2038 flips over...