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  1. Aaron Swartz - JSTOR on Tearing Down Science's Citation Paywall, One Link at a Time (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Died making this easier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    JSTOR is still available, I got it years ago.

    If his name is fuzzy he founded Reddit.com

  2. Glad I use an Android on Microsoft Formally Bans Emulators On Xbox, Windows 10 Download Shops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've just always used a MAME emulator on my phone, just about any of the old ROMs are available for it. They don't phone home, just a bit of work getting used to playing them (Bubble Bobble).

    https://games.slashdot.org/sto... will take you to 30+ gigs of free ROMS for Mame.

  3. Re: Part time, not full time on Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000 Part-Time Employees in US (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    People do contribute to their 401K. Employers typically don't match if you're part time.

    I've found part time or a job not seen as lasting till one is 65, a 401A is the best approach.

    You pay the taxes on any monies contributed but you pay no taxes when cashing it in or any pentilities for early withdrawal.

    You also won't get two people to agree on what a 401A really is either, but the above is true.

  4. It's all in the timing on Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Really Collects (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm an Win10 insider receiving Win10 6 months early. Reading it's TOS I never installed or wished to be part of Win10. The way it read, if connected to another's system it was free game for data collection as well.

    Gaming won out, just last week I purchased Win10 Pro (for it's grpedit.msc (group editor)).

    This change only requires me to disable licensing to install what I want now (a very old and proven version of Comodo firewall).

  5. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There's literally nothing you can do if you're paying an ISP for connectivity.

    The only way you can begin to have any kind of privacy is to connect through somebody else's connection (public or otherwise). From there, you can encrypt and all that good stuff. But with this new law passed, there's quite literally nothing you can hide from your own ISP.

    Actually you can, I found this out by accident meaning it wasn't meant for this reason. I used OpenDNS and by doing do became a ghost to my ISP.

  6. Astronomical observations don't always need to be reported as "mysterious," tbh.

    No they don't, These x-ray sources were called Quasars and mysterious, now seen as the birth of a super massive black hole,
    http://chandra.harvard.edu/xra...

  7. PCI express passthrough is the term to search for.

    A good writeup:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2z0evz/gpu_passthrough_or_how_to_play_any_game_at_near/

    Sure answered my question, I have two different Nvidia cards (GTX-570/760) did wonder if they would work together under VT-D (Linux Mint-Cinn), looks like they will. Now it's just a matter of DirectX.

  8. Re:Where to get /etc/hosts from on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Every hacker once knew the importance of push-button phones and the "redial" button.

    As the handle would suggest I ran an 8 line chat board, some phreaker from England married a girl in our small town in Washington state

  9. Assembly Language, on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    I taught myself Basic on the TRS80, and into Assembly Language, I've always been a pirate (TRS80 had very little, I was making up for it), Amiga came out and I went that route, the Basic was so bad I had to quit or toss the system, and Assembly language is what I've forgotten, I knew it at 286, more registers than I know of now.

  10. Re:Tandy drmos in RadioShack on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    were awesome necause Tandy looked better than the PCClones. They. yended to be passive cooled processors and thuds quieterr as compares to the bulky beige PC/Clone.

    There was a magazine called TRS80 and it would have programs you could input. I'd spend 6 or more hours inputting them with cassette storage lots of peeking and poking.

  11. Re:Ignore them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    Rarely log in but do visit every day as I have for years) but even some very good discussion groups are becoming pretty stupid. Trump this, dems that, typically where politics shouldn't be a part. I'm finding ore and more free time as I back away from visiting old haunts.

    It's referred to as the Godwins law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches.

  12. Re:Ignore them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    Nothing requires you to do anything about them; just treat them as meaningless noise, and act the same as you would have acted if their unhelpful post did not exist.

    I came to post the same thing, don't acknowledge them, I've seen threads get so heated one threatens to kill the other, this when ones IP address was in the headers.

    Your first and last mistake is to reply to a message of such nature, they just get bolder and worse. It's how I've always done it (Usenet example) I've never been in a flame war for the simple reason that I never replied to a troll no matter what my Mom had done the night before, and I've never blocked anybody, We had one troll that hated everybody and of interest to see who would pay them attention as at that point it was all over, but the threat.

    It also taught me to write more of a neutral reply or question, doesn't give them an in.

    As a plus you come across as a better person than them because of it. Maybe not at the time but in the future when it's reread. Personally I write for the future and my kids, I'm always posting to them in the chance they ever come across it, and I can claim over 20K messages I've posted. While always on the Usenet, I was tomshardware first hit for the longest time :)

  13. Re:Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything on linux desktops was more configurable 15 years ago than today, unfortunately. It's the apple effect, people believe that to make something user friendly means to eliminate all the choices.

    Linux KDE was my first version, I had to quit as it was so configurable. I'd make 10-15 changes find something now being shown and no clue where to change it at, it was too much for me so switched to Cinnamon

    I bought a new system, burned it in just today, and plan on going back to KDE Plasma for the program "KDE Connect" alone. I'll just keep the changes to one at a time...

    I lost Win7 over this purchase (too many changes), i7-4790K with dual video cards, a tad bit overkill for Linux :) but Windows has nothing to offer.

  14. BF3 (Battle Field 3) under Wine on Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd do anything to play that game again (other than installing Windows a given).

    BF3 is the best game I've ever played and I've play a lot of them yet BF3 just blew me away. I'd sure like to play that game again, I had 3000 hours into it and could still played 6 hours a day,

    Crazy talk I know - , BF3 under Wine... but one can hope.

  15. Re:Microsoft's Malware Operating System? on Microsoft Targets Chrome Users With Windows 10 Pop-up Ad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the difference? I'm not trying to be a smart alec, or bash Microsoft. This is an honest to god serious question.

    My take on it, Malware is used to gain a profit in some manner and unwise for it' to be noticed. Microsoft has no need to hide their activity, as if you complain your shown the tos they had agreed to

    malware in unwelcome, Microsoft was invited to do what they want by agreeing to their Tosl)

    Read the Tos see what it allows them, it's insane.

  16. Re:Windows 10 makes computers Great Again! on Microsoft Targets Chrome Users With Windows 10 Pop-up Ad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Once again, anyone who adopted Windows 10 is naive beyond belief. I hope they enjoy their further ads and spyware.

    I logged in to became an insider to run Win10 6 months before it's public release. While downloading I read the Tos, they were out of their minds to think I would of allow them to do this to my computer. The same Tos used by the public now.

    I had to log into win10 this weekend to set up an account, I haven't had access to Hotmail in many years (8?) yet before they locked it up I had set my email to be forwarded to Gmail, and as problem downloading Win8 - seeing if logging in would help (it did).

    My logging into win10 was as my hotmail.com account it gave me my Gmail account, this went on till I saw my hotmail.com address, hit enter and got my account back, yet a picture I never released was used as my profile image, I was very mad at Microsoft, then found that file on the system damn my fault, the tos game them the right.

    Went to into my hotmail.com account finding 2k pieces of email on a server who's Tos I would of never agreed to. My email had been sorted, all /. replies to my post had been sent to me over the years, everything else stayed behind.

    Logging in using win10 required a password and used one generated by a password manager, now if I'm not online and suppling that password I can't get in.

    It's over, I've no need to ever use Win10 again.

    Why the Hotmail.com account? I see it as a badge of honor I've kept it no matter the ploy they had used.

  17. Re:Not a single time traveler? on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump does not have what it takes to be "the greatest monster in human history". Even as a villain, he is a joke.

    I'd say he's all set up, it's just a good thing he doesn't have a temper.

    "It is the president’s sole decision, and he must input the codes in secure communications with a Pentagon command and control center to launch US nuclear weapons.

    “He doesn’t have to check with anybody,” said vice president Dick Cheney in 2008. “He doesn’t have to call the Congress. He doesn’t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/news/...

  18. Re:Worrying on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The really worrying thing is that he is so easy to trigger.

    "Trump took the jab personally. He filed a $5 million lawsuit against Maher for breach of contract, alleging that when he provided his birth certificate to Maher proving he is not, in fact, the son of an orangutan, Maher never came up with the $5 million" http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

  19. Re:Compared to Firefox, Edge is doing great. on Windows 10 Gains 14% Desktop Market Share in 2016, Edge Continues to Struggle (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    But is Edge optional, or the default choice? If it is the default choice, how sure are you that people who use Edge have chosen to use Edge? And how sure are you that they just didn't take what was on the system because they don't know how to install another browser or simply don't care to install another browser?

    It's passed as such but one is unable to change it's operation.

    If I wish to view a PDF edge pops up and it's not a program meant for PDF many expected options are missing. So I'd select FoxIt (which came pre-installed) over and over again, yet Edge continues to open a selected PDF, open with: all tried - it has to be done manually.

  20. Re:Programmer throws wife under bus on Programmer Finds Way To Liberate Ransomware Affected Smart TV, Thanks To LG (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    She's a pirate and a moron, apparently. Good job humiliating your wife!

    In all honesty I'd open a message titled as a " FBI message bearing a notice that suspicious files were found and the user has been fined.". I'd open it as a text file as normal, but open it just the same.

  21. Advertising, word of mouth, what your clan decides on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    Advertising, word of mouth, what your clan decides on

    On the subject of word of mouth this game is a great example, you had me sold. I really
    enjoy BF3, my shooting is really bad yet my points come from taking flags, if being sold
    as being better than BF3 I went looking.

    (Sorry about this post it wasn't meant to turn out this way).

    My site for gaming info is Gamesfaq.com, Checking out Soldner for it's enjoyment level
    (forums) and for it's platform (Linux, oh pls, oh pls).

    You built it up to the point I was going to give it a try, it was my type of game.

    Going to the site to see what it was all about, I'm afraid only two cheats (not really
    cheats but tricks and easter eggs) and one review was given, titled "Soldner lowers
    standards for games everywhere"" 04/11/05 Temp89 and one star.
    http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/561...

    I've been going to this site for a long time for walkthroughs, a deader area I've never
    encountered.

    I believe you in it being better than BF3 and I really wanted to give it a try, yet with
    really nothing written on it and zero forum questions, that type of activity over 11
    years tells me that finding on-line players on a server would a rarity, or be only
    one or two servers seeing any real active.

    That game has been on gamesfaq.com for 11 years and never seen any real activity.
    I didn't read the review I really didn't' want to know.

    To answer your question, it was visiting this site that put the brakes on for me, as from
    what I saw nobody not only didn't like it, nobody even cared enough to publish an FAQ.
    Normally a race to be the first.

  22. The trading recipes is seriously underrated on Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or at the least once was.

    Back when Fidonet was as close to the Internet as one could get (affordably). It was evident that one of the most popular subject within the Usenet were the trading of recipes. Something I never expected, the popularity and the amounts (recipes) available in that area were just vast.

    I never followed the subject further than that spending my time in other areas; but still curious that while Usenet sex/files/hacks/banter went hand in hand, never once heard of areas trading recipes other than being just another newsgroup. It was something one (I) stumbled across, as if many participated yet dare not talked about it.

  23. Re:Impressive and ambitious, but... on China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    we would really need a maximum of international cooperation

    Remember the ESA lander that crashed on Mars this year? Initially they were partnered with NASA for their landing system, but NASA's budget was cut so they backed out and the intellectual property that had been shared up to that point was not usable. Hence an untried landing system when others have worked on Mars in the past.
    It would be nice to have international cooperation but congresscritters have other ideas.

    One of the most impressive space missions I feel is the ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, and it's rendezvous and orbiting of the comet 46P/Wirtanen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The Voyagers are in a class of their own.

    Landing seems their weakness, surmounting all obstacles and a redundant landing system (to prevent rebound) placed Rosetta's Philae lander in the shade where the batteries shortly died.

    So close.

  24. Re:Impressive and ambitious, but... on China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The one thing that is a bit a pity, and I realise it sounds naieve and wishful, I expect for humanity to be truly succesful in space exploration and possibly having otherworld bases, we would really need a maximum of international cooperation, which would include the Chinese.

    In that respect shouldn't we share what we know with them,

    The paper says the Chang'e-4 lunar probe will help shed light on the formation and evolution of the moon.

    That the Moon is the result of a Mars size planet colliding with the early Earth?

  25. Re:Most already pay for and carry their own tracki on Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    device.. and many of those consider it a status symbol. Why are you surprised? Personally, I'm just disgusted.

    I even know people who know better buying garbage like Amazon Echo. It saddens and sickens me to see shit like this without any regard whatsoever to the consequences of the death of privacy and thus security and free speech.

    Do you have a Samsung HDTV? It's a tracker and they keep the info received forever the ToS reads, while it's for your benefit and they meant it for that reason, They keep a record of every word said, action you make and viewing habits, for voice activated, gestures and targeted ads.

    I've read their ToS my Samsung is my computer monitor it doesn't connect to the Internet and I've never created an account for it, it had built in webcam I'd of taped it as I do all the cams that come this way.

    Twice in the past they have issued warnings to all that will listen to be aware they can hear every word you say.

    I could ramble on, all of it goes against everything I've practiced and I've nothing to hide.

    It's hard being secure anymore without looking like a paranoid.