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  1. Block all ads anyway like any end user should. Ads are a blight on the Internet and, despite them paying for some content, the largest vector for malware. I've been blocking ads since 1999. I will never not block ads, even if doing so is illegal.

    Did you catch the article yesterday on /. "Microsoft intensifies data collection on Windows 7 and 8" they are hard coding sites, bypassing the HOSTS file.

  2. Going to be a run on blow up dolls and wigs on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Thus from an old market a new market emerges.

  3. Read an article - saying outside he's a dead man on Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' · · Score: 1

    That if Assange were to go outside a drone would most likely take him out.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

  4. Can't make it as a fighter so... on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    It's becoming the anti-anti-tank weapon.

  5. Just a sometimes Windows user on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    Who deviates from the norm of a simple command, to ones of sentences long.

  6. Just has to be good, right? on Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest · · Score: 1

    I've watched the movie many times. funny stuff. But as mentioned a series could be a hard thing to pull off.

  7. Re:PrivacyBadger = ABP code & inferior vs. hos on EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

    5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
    6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
    8.) Protect vs. spam
    12.) Keep you off dns request logs

    From a HOSTS advocate:
    Only if one has that address in their HOSTS file to begin with.

    Can't post what I want: Filter error: Lameness filter encountered

    but 6 days of phone calls up to 6 a day, then hijacked to a PS3 to face this
    http://i60.tinypic.com/2iiip3r...

    Still don't know if I should report it to the FCC as at face value it's a violation of the Net Neutrally act. - an ISP can't redirect for profit, thing is I use OpenDNS.

    Yes system was check very thoroughly (autoruns) nothing on my end.

  8. Re:Got an alert! My first one with PB, one years u on EFF Releases Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers · · Score: 1

    it's just http://testmy.net/ was Google yet they hid the fact, vs Flurry.com, it took some digging and many links from original ToS but you would find a Google ToS. A post reply was by one of the admins of how much they enjoyed working for Google, and I questioned the ToS; It was changed to a Google ToS; Changed now to: no clue (not read yet)

    Read, it takes a link from "Third Parties & Use of Cookies" in the Privacy Policy to show it is a Google site http://www.google.com/policies...

  9. Got an alert! My first one with PB, one years use. on EFF Releases Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers · · Score: 1

    https://www.robtex.com/ clicking on a disqus.com icon you will be met with a requester to abort and reason: "Logging into Disqus can allow it to track you around the web". Answering no shows what u had to post was not that important.

    My Post was to help, the IP address 72.21.91.29 shows over 100 pages containing malware (most I've seen) but it's a feed for the UseNet where Malware is expected and fairly obvious. Not a big deal.

    I took a back door approach to get a disqus.com account (through robtex.com) I had no ToS (privacy policy) to read.

    Post to Robtex.com can be posted without account, and how I will from now on.

    Was kool though, sitting unobtrusively all this time in the menu bar, when it tosses up an alert you take notice. The reason for Privacy Badger showing a plus, sorry but many just say a bad site ahead awaits u.

    That Disqus.com didn't make the HOSTS file? No clue, I dropped the ball.

    I have checked https://www.robtex.com/ while I found no Google links before, nor mention of Google in the FAQ (no ToS), the site reeks of Google (very nice, good useful info). It's no big deal, it's just http://testmy.net/ was Google yet they hid the fact, vs Flurry.com, it took some digging and many links from original ToS but you would find a Google ToS. A post reply was by one of the admins of how much they enjoyed working for Google, and I questioned the ToS; It was changed to a Google ToS; Changed now to: no clue (not read yet) but just assume Google and do what you do - I leave Google alone but for advertising, and data collection other than what I know (my choice) is going to be Public domain (my searches for one).

    FWIW https://disqus.com/ gives no alert.

  10. This is going to screw those who don't use them on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 1

    Just as downloading music screwed those of us that didn't.

  11. Re:Anyone thinking about health here? on A Fermilab First: Detecting Oscillating Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Man I'd hate to be someone in the middle of that path without knowing it, perhaps where a fault or something ejects lots of these neutrinos upward through some guys bedroom where he sits idle for hours absorbing them.....

    Now he's just been bombarded for days on end and starts developing weird symptoms without a clue why.

    Seems like this should be regulated.

    A friend showed me "his" computers where he worked as the computer tech. This WiFi and that WiFi. All I could say was do you know how many waves you have going on here; the people were seriously immersed in them.

    Now were all in his office.

  12. First and formost you root it on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    Find a site that supports your device. You can get rooting information and the real answers your looking for, as CyanoGen isn't the only ROM out there; many are made by users who will access that site.

    Once rooted (jail broken) you can add a HOSTS file, programs to change the permissions of a program (as any game is going to want your info and out), just a lot more freedom to do what you want.

    Older Android devices you need to access your developers options, newer devices you need to get it to show by opening up the (about device) option and I forget just which one but by tapping 7 times on it will work, when you get close to 7 you will start getting warnings.

  13. Re:I thought we knew... on A Fermilab First: Detecting Oscillating Neutrinos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, oscillating neutrinos have been detected before. They just were from the sun, not human made.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    IIRC it's how we detect a supernova before we see the fireball--the neutrinos are so small and move so fast that they make it out of the core of the exploding star a short time before the star actually explodes, giving us a chance to train an instrument or two on the star.

    Astrophysicists in the room, feel free to correct me.

    Yes, had detectors all set up waiting for a hit when super nova 1987 came our way, proof positive of neutrinos and their production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    1987a was only seen in the Southern Hemisphere, was said the astronomer who saw it through telescope did a very odd thing, went outside to look at it :) .

  14. Re:Summary is kind of deceptive. on A Fermilab First: Detecting Oscillating Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Actually, oscillating neutrinos have been detected before. They just were from the sun, not human made.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I was disappointed mass less neutrinos that oscillate, not so mass less. Now I'm reading almost mass less. This is an area one has to keep up with daily or be left behind.

  15. Re:Right or wrong vimeo.com took them down on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    Checking (an ah damn moment) I do have them blocked twice t.vimeo.com and utmtrk.vimeo.com

    Yet show ocsp.digicert.com (Gateway) to b.global-ssl.fastly.net that sends me to safebrowsing.cache.l.google.com

  16. Right or wrong vimeo.com took them down on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Find it hysterical on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    There are no such background services when running these exact same applications on Linux, updates are installed through the system wide package manager.

    I like the way Linux updates it's packages, and even go back a version or two if need be.

  18. Re:How to document for Windows 10 privacy? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    So what about the teeming thousands that are buying new computers as we speak to get ready for the new school year to start?

    And no clue. I see it all the time, to where I feel I'm the only one around that cares.

  19. Re:How to document for Windows 10 privacy? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    For a start, block these in your router, or hosts file:

    http://pastebin.com/ULJjVM7w

    Got em, thank you.

  20. Re:How to document for Windows 10 privacy? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone created a list of all the things one needs to do to change Windows 10 settings towards privacy?

    (I know about the Reddit thread, which is full of fail because it tells you to use group policy editor, which does not exist in Home, leaves out items that are mentioned later in the comments, and doesn't describe exactly what each step does.)

    The Government (US) will issue a PDF of all the switches to throw so in can be used in their environment. At least they have for every other OS.

  21. Re:Find it hysterical on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    Windows is not the darn enemy thanks to Google and I am sure Apple does the same thing. How do you know Chrome doesn't do the same even if you do not open the browser but have Google Update service on?

    I don't run Chrome, I did once yet still have those two services runnable both Google update service (gudate, gupdatem). First think I did was disable those services (at least they are in plain sight).

    Mozilla has a maintenance service; it's the same thing, and yes it's disabled

  22. Re:Justifiable under ISLAM on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 1

    Ok not the first commandant but a section of the ten commandments in the Qur'an.

  23. Justifiable under ISLAM on Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depending upon how one reads the first commandment " take not life, which Allah hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Re:Was SMM ever really needed? on Researcher Exploits 18-Year-Old Design Flaw To Compromise X86 Chips · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that SMM is used, before all the TCG stuff about Secure Boot, etc., basically to control fans and shut down the system if the temperature is too high. And also to make USB keyboards appear as PS/2 hardware to DOS.

    Intel uses the chip of the keyboard to fix an issue with memory managment, don't want to mess with the keyboards.

    Just read what was posted and the reply, it's more so important in a DOS environment as it's a gap in the first meg of accessible memory that's the issue.

  25. Re:Was SMM ever really needed? on Researcher Exploits 18-Year-Old Design Flaw To Compromise X86 Chips · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that SMM is used, before all the TCG stuff about Secure Boot, etc., basically to control fans and shut down the system if the temperature is too high. And also to make USB keyboards appear as PS/2 hardware to DOS.

    Intel uses the chip of the keyboard to fix an issue with memory managment, don't want to mess with the keyboards.