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  1. Re:Taking advantage of all the CRAP on Hackers Stole Customer Credit Cards in Newegg Data Breach (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    One of us is misunderstanding what HSTS is for. From my reading, it appears that this helps mitigate man-in-the-middle protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking, but it would not do a thing to prevent a browser from accessing a third-party or spoofed site with a valid certificate. Am I misunderstanding this?

  2. Re:This is to be expected on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Connect to Slack over IRC and XMPP. I tried this for I while but it was awkward in my experience.

  3. Re:Person of Interest on GE, Intel, and AT&T Are Putting Cameras and Sensors All Over San Diego (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    All we need now is for someone to build a computer system to analyze all the data, and call it The Machine

    Probably end up being more like Samaritan...

  4. Re:Sounds just like Samsung and ISIS. on Apple is 'Intransigent, Closed and Controlling' Say Banks (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    ISIS payments became Softcard at the end of 2014, which was then purchased by Google and pretty much became Android Pay. It originally started as a partnership between mobile carriers.

  5. Or CPUs...yes, I remember the Socket 4 form-factor.

  6. Quite the downside for Gear users on Samsung Reminds Us That You Can't Make People Use an App They Don't Want (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I got a Gear S2 a few months ago as a promo when I upgraded my phone, and I've been pretty happy with it. However, the only streaming music service that actually seems to work with the tizen device is Milk Music. Pandora (which I've been using for years, and continue to pay for on an off) doesn't have an app for the Gear. I can't seem to find a working standalone streaming service that doesn't simply control an app on my phone or not work well from the outset.

    Granted, there are other issues with the Gear S2, like the fact that it doesn't support WPA2-Enterprise, but all in all I've liked having it. But if I can't use it for advertised purposes without having my phone in range, then it's not as useful to me.

  7. Re:How does it compare? on Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you'll wander over to the PowerShell Github repo, the readme does state that it is released under the MIT License. Of course, they bury that info at the very bottom of the page.

  8. Re:"3 whole buttons to talk to Nana? Bullshit!" on Google Duo Video Chat App Arrives On iOS and Android With End-to-end Encryption (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    There isn't yet a decent cross-platform solution.

    Not that I'm a Microsoft famboi or anything, but what's wrong with Skype? It seems to support more platforms than this Duo thing does. And it works well enough for me and everyone I use it with, on a multitude of platforms.

    Have you tried to use skype with video on linux? there is no group video chat, and in the latest alpha they removed video altogether, even one to one. They also removed 90% of the settings options.

  9. Re:It's free beer on Developers Frustrated with GitHub Prod For Changes In Bug Reports, Transparency · · Score: 1

    I use RabbitVCS with Nemo or Nautilus. it's a competent replacement for Tortoise on Linux.

  10. Re:One would think... on Arrested Nigerian Email Scammer Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Of the hundreds of emails I get each year, want to hazard a guess as to how many actually know what it means to "sign" an email? most think that means typing their name at the bottom. I had a user one ask me to help them set up a digital signature...by which they meant scanning a piece of paper with their signature on it to paste into Word documents. And that was for someone who would be considered an "Executive" level in academia.

  11. This sounds like a video game... on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the Chaos Gate field codes in the .Hack series....

    http://dothack.wikia.com/wiki/...

  12. Re:Fuck Obamacare on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    The Fed doesn't require car insurance. However, most if not all states require vehicle owners to carry some sort of liability insurance. http://personalinsure.about.co...

  13. Predated by...Logitech? Sony? on The Verge: Google Is Working on a TV Box Of Its Own · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We got a Logitech Revue when they dropped the price on them a few years ago. Been pretty happy with it, although not with the major broadcast networks who think that there's a difference between watching browser- based streams on a computer vs on a set-top android box, but that's another post.

    Sadly, Logitech last released an update for the Revue with Android 3.2, and nothing new since then; they dropped support for it, and the only updates it seems to get any more are for the Google Play Music app. Some of the other providers, like Crunchyroll, have an app that will work with the revue, but many don't. The Revue was a good idea, seems to be pretty well implemented, but perhaps ahead of its time.

  14. Re:australian article and slashdot summary are wro on Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle" · · Score: 1

    Actually, when people inside and outside of Texas say "the University of Texas", they are referring to that school in Austin. The summary is definitely incorrect; University of Texas at Dallas is a different institution and while both are members of the UT System, Dallas is not a branch campus of Austin but a separate university in its own right. It would be like saying "University of California" and meaning the school in San Diego and not UC-Berkley. Or, an example for Texans, saying "Texas A&M" and meaning Prairie View A&M, which is also part of the TAMU System but not simply a branch of the main campus in College Station.

  15. Re:100 more will die today on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre

    "At 12:33 p.m. JST, a man hit a crowd with a truck, eventually killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife[1]), killing four people and injuring eight.[2][3][4][5]"

  16. Re:$5000 dollars? on Canada Creates Cap On Liability For File Sharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    or 411631.5 Yen. or 3144.99 Pound Sterling. or 3899.6450 Euro.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=5000+CAD+to+USD

  17. Re:Egh. on OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Yeah...I remember when "The Internet" was a big enough buzzword on its own...

  18. Re:Business as usual, but it still seems absurd on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    Line-item veto. In Texas, it's granted to the governor only over budgetary bills, but it's one of the ways an executive could potentially put a stop to the amendment abuse. Granted, of course, that said executive isn't the one who pushed for, or is at least complicit in, adding these ridiculous amendments in the first place.

  19. Re:But... on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Oh, Lamar Smith... on SOPA Provisions Being Introduced Piecemeal From Lamar Smith · · Score: 2

    Well, you're talking about the representative from the Austin area...which tends to be a lot more liberal than the rest of the state. He also has name recognition, as well as a given name that has some ties to Texas history.

  21. Re:I have an idea on Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus · · Score: 1

    Actually, that illustration you have for "Apple were [sic] first" is not an apple device at all, but a Compaq IPAQ, originally released by Compaq in 2000. it's nominally a predecessor of the Touchpad, along with Palm. Perhaps you were trying to reference the Apple Newton, which first released in 1993? However, if you are looking for the first touchscreen telephony device that would be the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, of which the initial prototype was demo'd at COMDEX in 1992.

    So...no, Apple was not the first. They were one of several companies working on similar technology through the 80's and 90's, each of which had their own take on things. Oddly enough, the iDevices remind me of the Palm IIIx and m500 devices I used back in the late 90's/early 2000's with the "screen full of icons" layout.

  22. Re:Why should they? on XBMC Developers Criticize AMD's Linux Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What leeches? The drivers don't cost the user anything extra (far as I know?). If I've already paid for the hardware, I expect drivers that work and support all the functionality, and there is no valid excuse for any hardware manufacturer to withhold them.

  23. Froogle to Google Shopping to...um...googlebay? on Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results · · Score: 1

    So Google is taking what is really a useful tool for consumers and make it another bidding system...only where the seller is doing the bidding. Now, if this means that all the ebay ads for products I'm searching for disappear, I wouldn't complain too much. however, all I see is this becoming another useless marketing site for moneyed resellers to push their drek, and price fixing so there won't really be any more deals to find. I don't mind ads but if I want to read a site with nothing but, I'll go to my local newspaper's classified section.

  24. Re:What a rip off on MS Will Remove OEM 'Crapware' For $99 · · Score: 1

    As I used to write many times on SpywareInfo.com's forums...MSCONFIG is not a solution. it's a diagnosis tool. Once you diagnose the problem, either uninstall or disable the problem startup items correctly, then return msconfig to normal operations state. As a home service tech for three years I actually "fixed" at least a dozen PCs were the user had "stopped" their problem with MSCONFIG...except in the process they also disabled their audio drivers, or print utility, or some other vital system service. The most fun was that disabling things with MSCONFIG didn't even stop half the crapware/malware/virii; most of them just recreated their startup entries automatically the moment it was missing anyway.

    Cleaning a PC, or tuning, requires looking at data (hijackthis log, CCleaner, whatever tool does the job best nowadays), identifying the problem items, and correctly removing or disabling them. Step 2 (identifying) is the most difficult, and I dare say most home users wouldn't have a clue about what the dozens of startup entries and services actually do. Personally I think the $99 price tag to optimize a PC is a bit high, but then we charged $65/hr to do it at someone's home or business ($45 if they brought it to us), and most malware cleanups took 12-15 hours although we stopped charging at 4 hours.

  25. Re:Good news everyone... on Court Rules Workers Did Not Overstep On Stealing Data · · Score: 1

    It's certainly copyright infringement and that would have civil implications.

    Where in the world did you get copyright infringement out of this story? and yes, i did RTFA. There is no mention of copyright at all. It may have been a violation of some "trade secret" law, but certainly not any copyright laws.