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  1. Change that to TRANSIT buses and soccer moms and i'm with you in Atlanta.

    OTOH the school buses in my burb are actually pretty considerate.

  2. Re:This is a big bitchslap to Mozilla on Pwn2Own 2016 Won't Attack Firefox (Because It's Too Easy) (eweek.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The only advantage Firefox gives is that one can run NoScript to block all scripting completely."

    However, that's a pretty significant advantage.

    I would love to see how firefox compares with that one addon in place since that's how I run.

    Possibly a 'hardened browsers' version of the competition?

  3. Re: Nexus aren't satisfactory on Google To Take 'Apple-Like' Control Over Nexus Phones (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall hearing they also do it to avoid people getting cheap slow *sd cards and complaining about the speed...

  4. Re:The elephants in the room on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    That's typically the case.

    i suppose you could rely on local AV and Outlook's built in filtering for smaller installations. But there are a lot of things you can do on small installations that don't scale to enterprises.

    MultipleAV engines and more comprehensive spam and malicious email filtering in line seems to be the best and common practice however.

    1) Postini did not go away un-replaced, Google worked to migrate users to their new filtering service. Basically Gmail, but you could have it pass through to your on-premis environment. It was wonky and they didn't get all the features and capabilities in place in time and we went elsewhere.

    2) General market shrink is the reason for loss of some email filtering vendors. Filtering has been integrated in services such as Google Apps for Business and O365, and invariably if you go with those services you go with the included filtering. These services have been growing gangbusters and include email hygiene as part of the base service.

    if the included service is good enough it is a difficult business case to make to spend on a standalone filtering service.

  5. Re:It isn't an all or nothing approach... on Why James Hansen Is Wrong About Nuclear Power (thinkprogress.org) · · Score: 1

    If by 'REALLY bad' you mean expensive TMI might belong in the list, but not a single person died or even got cancer as a result of TMI.

  6. Back together again? on Sony Attempts To Trademark "Let's Play" · · Score: 1

    Antonio Banderas and Columbia Pictures might has something to say about this also...

  7. Re:Blackberrys BES is one of their few selling poi on BlackBerry Will Continue Operations In Pakistan (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter. People compared the heavily limited locked down enterprise blackberry devices with their personal unrestricted iDroids. What a shock, iDroids won by a mile, even while Blackberry was still ahead of them..

    Security? Management? Not part of the end user world view.

  8. Wait...the web has sound? on Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Most browsers can be configured to avoid such issues to a greater or lesser degree..

  9. Scratching an itch on FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska · · Score: 2

    Doesn't just work for software apparently. That public works guy sounds like a hero.

    Be nice if the city here would work on things like this instead of putting our lanes on a diet so they can screw up traffic squeezing in bike paths.

  10. Re:It's more people than that on Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Significant road penetration by humans is quite rare.

  11. Re:Cure for symptoms on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    http://sorrentotherapeutics.co...

    resinoferatoxin is considered ~1000x 'hotter' than pure capsaicin and is being developed for permanent pain relief uses in cases such as end-stage cancer.

    It operates by causing the pain receptors to fire continuously until they die and you don't want to be awake for that, so sedation is required. Since it is targeted in nature, it may be applicable in the GP's wife's case where the issue is with specific nerves.

    [The] higher potency combined with the specific targeting of TRPV-1 allows for selective destruction of the pain-triggering nerves, potentially producing a long lasting and permanent reduction in pain after a single injection.

    I stumbled across it a while back for unrelated reasons (I enjoy eating quite spicy foods and they love comparing it with peppers) it is being developed to provide relief for chronic pain.

    Obviously any interested should check with their doctor, or the company developing this for options. I have no idea if it will work in any given situation or not, or when it might be available, and am not a doctor..

  12. Re:Screw emissions, i don't want my car failing MO on Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? (citiesofthefuture.eu) · · Score: 1

    Damn I miss 100 watt bulbs everywhere :-)

    LEDs work well enough though. Just a few CFLs left waiting to die now (or me to get pissed enough to help them along...)

  13. I have a vehicle ('95, in Georgia) that requires an annual dyno test.

    Finding a working inspection station for these is getting harder every year. I can't imaging telling a pack of people with recent cars to go find them. ('96 and later models don't have to do the dyno test here so they are getting pretty rare...)

  14. Re:GOOD! on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    Troll much?

    Complete and utter bull. Even if you are perfectly punctual it is simply random whether you have been or will be shafted by some other person.

    In my case it was some Kyesha chick in Mississippi who stuck my google voice number in the hat of bill collectors a few years after I had it.

    Took years before those calls dried up. Explaining it is a bad/unrelated number is irrelevant. Blocking is irrelevant. Welcome to the world of only answering known numbers and all else to voice mail.

  15. Re:Postini refugees abandoned again on Intel Pulling the Plug On McAfee/MX Logic Anti-Spam (mcafee.com) · · Score: 1

    Proofpoint is another place Postini refugee's went that I'm partial to. Exchange shops particularly are being be sucked into O365/EOP as MS leverages their other products to draw them in. Interesting Times for email filtering providers other than GoogleSoft for sure.

  16. Re:Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    In ths spirit of Halloween Broom-Hillary vs. Trumplestilskin?

  17. Re:I'm going to make this easy for you! on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If one of us lies to a government official under oath or not, we are fined or go to jail (or both...)

    Why doesn't this apply to government officials (of any stripe)?

  18. Squad Leader: Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.
    automated assistant: Approach, and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, "or else".

  19. Re:2 years? on Comcast Planning Gigabit Cable For Entire US In 2-3 Years · · Score: 1

    "Do something about it" You mean 'vote' - yeah, that's been working great of late. Oh wait, is that not what you meant?

  20. Re:A comparison would be good on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    I suspect your situation is common (it matches me, down the the services mentioned...and yeah, what is up with SyFy being blocked....?) Catering to the cableTV cutters just makes sense. Even people that aren't interested in managing media systems and multiple services can go down the Roku et al. road and have a simpler, cheaper, and in some ways superior, experience to what the cable companies provide.

  21. Re:What is the story here? on Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted In Belgium · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you're making fun of the repetition in the summary (since fixed) or if that was a mistake.

  22. Re: Amen brother! on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    LIberal.... Hacker.... I blame public education...

  23. Isn't it about time to change this meme to... on Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Putin's Russia... ?

  24. Re:Of course it is ... on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 2

    The TSA is a pathetic joke, beefed up by reactionary politicians,

    Having the state (in the form of the TSA) solve our real or perceived issues is a the opposite of a reactionary approach, It is actually a progressive one :-p

  25. What is sad is you think you aren't already. Now be a good little federal asset and go back to work.