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  1. Re:Export to excel! on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Be sure to format the file as an HTML or CSV, but save it with an .XLS extension so excel will annoy users several times per day when they open it that it doesn't match the extension.

    Your average user that can't figure out how to change a file extension is also going to have trouble figuring out how to open a csv in excel, on my systems by default csv opens in notepad.

  2. Hopefully the ticket will add this common sense to the programming.

    What ticket? Did you even read the title of the article you're posting on? It says right there "Doesn't Get a Ticket"

  3. Re:The contriversial parts in brief. on Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised there is no standard for encrypted DNS yet, can someone explain why it isn't a thing?

    Isn't that what DNSCurve (http://dnscurve.org/) is about?

  4. Re:Writing that must've taken some skills on EPA Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including In a Porsche (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    but pipes exhaust fumes back to the engine to burn some of the unwanted stuff.

    I haven't followed the VW stuff too closely so I don't know for sure if you're correct on it being this but what you're talking about sounds like an EGR. If that is what they disabled then its purpose isn't to reburn stuff but rather to introduce an inert gas into the combustion chamber, the inert gas effectively decreases the volume of O2 in a combustion cycle and allows the exhaust to come out cooler than it otherwise would this reduces NOx emissions.

  5. I see a personal defense round (9mm), a varmit hunting round (5.56) and a good deer round (7.62x54mmR). Is there something wrong with those?

  6. Re:There was a sudden disturbance in the force... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Muzzle loaders are exempt from most of the federal firearms regulations. hence why convicted felons are allowed to purchase them, at least under federal law. Generally larger diameter than .50 is regulated, there are a few exemptions, shot guns come to mind, but those are limited to specific guns which generally carry other regulations (sporting requirements on imported shotguns). No there isn't a special license required for any firearm under federal law afaik, there is however a special tax stamp and registration which includes an extended background check and extra paperwork requirements.

  7. Re:There was a sudden disturbance in the force... on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Type 3 FFL holder out of Louisiana here, just checked my ATF regs manual, what do you know the AC claiming to be a type 3 FFL holder (registered firearms collector) is telling the truth.

  8. Re:11 cents a minute? on FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The prisons need to enable inmates to call only the numbers they've been authorized to call.

    News to me. I've gotten calls before from inmates and none of them ever mentioned needing to pre-authorize the number.

    Depends on the situation, I don't think the county/parish jail requires pre-authorized numbers, that way when you first get locked up you can call around to find a lawyer. But the big boy state prisons shouldn't be letting offenders just call you at random

    Someone has to approve applications to enable telephone numbers.

    Why?

    Investigations checks out the number looking for things does this number belong to the offenders criminal contacts? Or the offenders victim/victims family? Those things get denied.

    Someone needs to process the background information and telephone bills that are sent in to verify identities. Someone needs to manage the billing and payment aspects of all of this. Someone has to archive the recordings. etc etc. This operation is contracted out like anything else. The prison can't reasonably do this, nor should they be doing it.

    Yeah, you're suffering from a bad case of privatazation-itis there. There is absolutely no reason that administrative staff could not be trained to manage such a system as part of their responsibilities except that the profitability of the private sector would suffer thereby. Just like there is *absolutely* no reason that the private sector should be able to run a prison at less cost than the government can. (Except by compromising reasonable wages and safety by so doing.)

    Yeah all that stuff is handled by investigations in the prison I worked at. Storage may or may not have been onsite I couldn't say for sure as I didn't work in IT but they had a fairly substantial IT department and were miles away from the real world so I always assumed it was onsite.
    The private prisons do in fact majorly reduce wages Captains at CCA prisons make less than Cadets in academy at the state prison I worked at make.

  9. Re: Only if you use App Cards with APPS! on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Chip and PIN was compromised years ago.

    Can you cite one instance of chip and pin being compromised?
    Heres a tip, that chip and skim paper was about faulty terminals that allowed you to guess the nonce they would provide, the actual chip and pin design itself was and still is secure. Idiot manufacturers just didnt build to the chip and pin spec in their terminals.

  10. Re: Only if you use App Cards with APPS! on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Hey right. The sales point cannot notify security, and film the people in the sales area. Right. To see who is using the card.

    Notify security so they can do what? When a card gets reported stolen it just stops processing payments, it doesn't print out something on the terminal telling the cashier to arrest you and as soon as the card gets declined the offender is going to know the jig is up and make himself scarce asap. Filming the sales area is all good and well but the kind of criminals who steal cards go places they can avoid being filmed.

  11. Re:Only if you use App Cards with APPS! on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 2

    So I steal your card and use it, scribbling a sig if needed.

    My bank will reverse the charges provided I report it stolen and the card will stop working at that point. Thats how it works with both mag and chips, no difference there. What does change is you have to actually steal my card, whereas before all you had to do was get ahold of it for a few seconds to scan the mag strip so you could clone it later.

  12. data:// on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    Now he just needs to get the javascript powering this to fit in a data:// uri and it can be entirely hosted in the url.

  13. An idea. on The Install Size of Every PS4 and Xbox One Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why don't games just come on special SSDs? They could have two chips, one containing original game data and that chip is set read only after production, the other larger and read/write one contains updates and save data and then unionfs the two together so writes automagically go to the read/write larger one. Then you could just insert the SSD in a special cartridge so its easy to insert into and remove from the console!

  14. Re:I always assumed they were on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    Their job is NOT to find contraband.

    Their job is to find hazardous materials that are not allowed on the flight.

    I'm not sure you understand what the definition of contraband is. The traditional definition has nothing to do with the DEA. The common definition would include anything not allowed on the flight, drugs, weapons, explosives all that crap.

  15. Re:Any other event driven scripted HTTP servers? on Node.js v4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Undoing accidental mod

  16. Re: wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    , because I know that Google is a business, and is not really my friend.

    Don't forget to not buy linksys, neatgear, dlink, asus, buffalo or any of those either. They're all businesses and not your friend.
    To negate your paranoia bout google 'decreasing your privacy' for $200 this thing isnt capable of deep packet inspecting your bandwidth, it just doesnt have the hardware for it and I seriously doubt google is vpning all of your traffic into them to inspect it on their own gear.

  17. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    There's an option in the app to disable any communication back with google. It apparently has crash reporting that you can disable in the privacy settings... Not exactly giving google control over your network.

  18. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    I mean so can my laptop....

  19. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    Where are you supposed to plug in that switch when the only Ethernet port on the device is in use for your WAN connection?

    RTFA It has one WAN port and one LAN port, two ethernet ports total. You plug the switch into the LAN port and you plug your WAN connection into the WAN port. Hell the pictures from the article show two ports and two ethernet cables.

  20. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    So the jist of it is... you're not interest in any home aps right? Your list of features isn't satisfied with any consumer grade home access points.

  21. Re:So basically... on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    Not that they necessarily don't want encrypted back doors in their products.

    That kind of contradicts what Vinton Cerf from google said in the article:

    "If you have a back door, somebody will find it, and that somebody may be a bad guy," Vinton Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist and the co-creator of TCP/IP, said in a speech earlier this month. "Creating this kind of technology is super, super risky."

  22. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    So can just about any router out there nowadays. Most implement this by daily polling a remote server for the latest version if remote-ver > installed-ver pull and install. Not exactly remote control.

  23. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    So, which LAN port routes to the DMZ, if it only has one?

    Depends on what you mean by DMZ, if you mean forwards all ports to, then it doesnt use a specific lan port, you tell it which device you want to be in the DMZ and it does it same as any router.

    If however you mean which port gets put in a separate vlan group so it can be on a separate subnet entirely... then none this is a home router if you want that functionality get something else. That's not home router functionality.

  24. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    It's a bridge, not a router. takes like 30 seconds of googlign to look that up.

  25. Re:wan port on OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? · · Score: 1

    Use a switch to put the ports where you need them, this is a good thing. And you still have the same number of points of failure with a switch built into the router, only if the switch is built in when your switch dies so does your router.