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  1. Re:"...but still must pay a penalty..." on Eric Holder Says Snowden Performed 'Public Service' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, he's currently paying the penalty of
    * Being in exile
    * Totally going to be arrested if he comes back "home"
    * Risking being abducted by agents if he moves

  2. Re:Terrible summary on Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is a bad thing.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. This is just a bunch of touchy feely "what were my friends doing" zeitgeist.

    What is true is that people were learning Linux or BSD (because reasons), found that it was great, and Mac OS X was becoming a better "desktop *NIX" faster than Linux was. Not because they were afraid of being "boring PC guys." Not everybody felt this way, but practically speaking, UNIX underpinnings helped sway pragmatists.

    Nobody needs to side with Microsoft to get "more versatile hardware." Just go back to Linux.

  4. Super insecure running iOS 5 vs current 9.

    iPad pro is pretty great with the the pencil.

  5. Re:Next year on 7 Swift 2 Enhancements iOS Devs Will Love · · Score: 2

    Guard: http://ericcerney.com/swift-gu...

    They've basically said Swift is sorta-beta by not solidifying ABIs until maybe Swift 3. Until then they will make auto-updaters for migrating your code.

  6. PCEngines APU on Benefits of a Homebrew Router (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I dug into building my own when I wanted more control over DNS servers but didn't want to run that in a VM or have a large dedicated machine. I eventually had it take over DHCP services too.

    http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.ht...

    US Vendor

    http://www.mini-box.com/

    Works real well with BSD and it even has WiFi in the box I built.

  7. Re:One important law on CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, I dunno, veto giant bills on principle until they start sending them in the pieces they need to be in?

  8. Did Siri even answer this question before? on Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music · · Score: 1

    I would guess that this question would have gone to a search engine. Now they've got hooks to answer the question directly which... is based on a subscription service.

    The API would probably have be retooled to
    * work when you aren't signed in
    * flag and separate commands and UI from logged in and not logged in
    * return *more* annoying messages about not being subscribed when you tried to interact with the results (clicking or asking follow up questions)

    It's not worth bothering to answer these questions you'd usually take action on in the service if you aren't subscribed to it. This is really kind of a dumb thing to whine about

  9. Update program now changes your routing tables on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Apparently the "upgrade" program on the CD twiddles with your routing tables, in case you're having problems getting packages to download. By default my system wouldn't connect to the network, so I chose the shell option, cleared the tables, used dhclient on a different interface, and then restarted the process by running "upgrade." This *still* didn't work and was kind of confusing. Control-C out of the program shows that the routing tables got changed somehow (it sets the default route to the _external_ IP, I assume some "smart" detection is making this genius decision).

    Anyway, if you have this problem, use the ! in the package URL selection process to drop out and change the network settings back. It does this modification early enough in the process that this works.

    It was enough work to figure out what the problem was, and I don't have enough patience to deal with a known-abrasive community to file a bug report and do back and forth. So, hope this helps someone searching.

  10. Re:I'll download and spin it up... on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: 2

    I use both, but my criteria is that if I need complicated pf rules, I use OpenBSD. OpenBSD is too "early 2000s" without something like:

    * freebsd-update
    * portsnap
    * pkgng

    Life is too short to do all the steps to update OpenBSD all the time.

  11. Self-Regulation on House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So the manufacturers will required to make up what they think is "fair" for handling your data. They could make up anything and as long as they had a "policy," you're ok! How is that even "regulation?"

    Oh, and it's now a crime to twiddle with your own car.

  12. Re:Google Response on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 2

    Or, the actual article. That seems like a stub.

    http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...

  13. Dropbox? on Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? · · Score: 1

    Share a folder Read Only, drop your recordings in it?

  14. Re:Am i the only one... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    Marco is *probably* a millionaire from the shares in Tumblr he had when Yahoo bought them. Pretty sure that is not the reason.

  15. Re:Smart on Tesla Presses Its Case On Fuel Standards · · Score: 1

    I assume since you *have* a Model S, you've already thought through the situations where you would absolutely need a swap and either routed your use of cars around that trouble or never encountered that issue in the first place.

    The ease of transport of gasoline makes fueling a non-issue and stations ubiquitous. Do you envision a scenario where the $85 is worth it or do the stations for it need to be similarly ubiquitous?

  16. Re:Morse Code on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    I quit ham radio club in elementary school because of the code requirement. I might have been better with electronics had I been able to stick with it. Thanks for your work for future aspirants.

  17. Re:TeamView FTW on Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? · · Score: 1

    Easiest solution for your son: plug directly into the modem while you're not there...

  18. Re:Chrome Remote Destkop on Ask Slashdot: VPN Solution To Connect Mixed-Environment Households? · · Score: 1

    The suggestion in here to use OpenVPN or use a site-to-site router connection with DD-WRT using OpenVPN is the best bet. You could configure a small APU/ALIX machine to do this work if you didn't want to use DD-WRT.

  19. Re:Extreme hack No. 1: ATM hacking on Hacks To Be Truly Paranoid About · · Score: 1

    Who modded this crap up? AFC wasn't licensed back to Sun. Sun sued the shit out of Microsoft and Microsoft settled, paid up, and deprecated all of the incompatible junk they made.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:Technically, probably not a good move to dodge on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    True, but, meh? Nobody outside the USA knew what the attacks are, or if they were actually attacked. Nobody's posted any pictures of implants they've found either.

    Also:
    You left out quoting the top part where I was basically saying in absence of a kangaroo court... then this.

  21. Re:Technically, probably not a good move to dodge on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    Use this against third party doctrine?

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

  22. Technically, probably not a good move to dodge NSA on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we pretend that laws mean something...

    then they would be *safer* here in the USA where the NSA is not allowed to spy on them, because it's
    A: in the USA (FBI territory, right?)
    B: whoever it is would need a warrant.

    Now, the NSA can do whatever they want, because they're completely
    A: outside of the USA
    B: totally foreign SIGINT

  23. Re:Wireless headsets on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Microphone For Stand-up Meetings? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're willing to wear a bodypack, they make all the components you can put together for this setup.

  24. The coping mechanism is to fix the room on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Microphone For Stand-up Meetings? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microphones aren't magic like that. :-/

  25. Bad SD cards exist on Flaw In GoPro Update Mechanism Reveals Users' Wi-Fi Passwords · · Score: 1

    They're even branded SanDisk.

    Anyway, Hero 3+ Black fell out of the sky on a quad (some sort of software bug in the battery) a month after purchase and GoPro replaced it, even though they were under zero obligation to do so.

    YMMV