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  1. Re:Record License Plate Number? on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 2

    Cameras do not always capture plates well. This was security soon their job.

  2. ...the Middle East and beyond...

    Really, why single out the middle east, to what purpose?

  3. Emotional security. on Cyberattacks: Do Motives and Attribution Matter? · · Score: 1

    Finding out who or why is often driven by vindictive emotional reasons. You should always find out how first, patch, then look to answering who and why.

  4. PLEASE on Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the love of all that is holy, do not take it to a school in Texas.

  5. Re:Host it yourself on Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? · · Score: 2

    This is why I specifcally mentioned a business class, cable account. Business class so you can host without interference, and get a static ip, cable as is sccalable to usable upload speed.

  6. Host it yourself on Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you do not trust cloud providers for whatever reason, then DIY. A business class account with a static IP works best, but it can by done with dyndns, etc. Set up your server, and and a VPN to your network. OpenVPN clients are available for just about any device, and then you can access anything you are running inside your lan, UPNP, SMB shares, whatever. You can pick up a crappy firebox on ebay and load an alternate firmware in it for cheap (I got one for 5 bucks at a church yardsale). Or you can just port forward and run your VPN software on some boxen inside your router.

    My total cost is about $130 to comcast a month for a single static and business class 50/10, and my own time. This setup allows me to run whatever services I deem fit, and typically keeps me clear of ISP DCMA notices. I did get one, but once I pointed out that I repair random PCs that do not belong to may, and many may auto launch a torrent app, it was quickly dropped.

    Add a chromecast or two, slingTV, and a good antenna, I do not need cable TV at all, and can stream all my services out.

  7. Vote with your wallet... on Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days · · Score: 1

    Buy a nexus or GPE edition phone, even a good used one. Alternatively get any popular model that has an active ROM community and contribute back to it.

  8. Let's not forget on China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment · · Score: 1

    Potential gubbmint backdoors. Cuba would prefer China's to America's I'm sure.

  9. Re:Why bother? on Hajj Pilgrimage Safety Challenges Crowd Simulator Technology · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is not a Muslim concept. Christians to often say things such as "god moves in mysterious ways" or "god decided it was their time". It is simply a form of dissociation from the negative emotions generated from such an event. Be those emotions, pain, horror, shame, guilt, etc...lay them at Alah, God, Jesus, the saviors feet.

    In many ways it is an abrogation of personal responsibility, and a key problem with many religions, but a part of human nature it would seem.

  10. Re:Nothing to see here, move on on Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over · · Score: 1

    +1 Not latino descent at all here, but can we share a churro and some resposado?

  11. Re:History too on Chrome For Android's Incognito Mode Saves Some of the Sites You Visit · · Score: 1

    So that's why furriesanddonkeys.XXX keeps coming up on my bosses pc. I told him about incognito mode...

  12. Re:Which will come first? on Battery Advance Could Lead To a Cleaner Way To Store Energy · · Score: 1

    Affordable, working, fusion. Oh and flying cars come first.

  13. Re:At Least Someone in Government Has a Brain on Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption · · Score: 1

    I think the meant attacks from us nuts that actually care about government.I tension and.computer security. Not attacks from elite Chinese esionage groups or Czech mobsters.

  14. Re:Troy Rising on NASA Funded Project Could Mine Asteroids For Water With Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately we are only up to the Kardashian scale. Sad.

  15. Re: The lesson here on Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    OP is referring to a factory smog pump. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  16. Re:Best alternative? on AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Bitdefender free

  17. Re:Bad apples. on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1
    Yes.. the message should be, improve your industry or the whole house of cards WILL collapse and take the good guys with it.

    I use adblock everywhere. I am the member of some forums that ask, politely to not block. One of which, the one I use most (homebrewtalk for the curious), I am a paid supporting member. So no, I will not unblock the ads, even though theirs are vetted and simple. it is principle. The industry is built on deception and annoyance.

    Change that industry wide and you can live. Otherwise I will promote ad-blockers everywhere I go.

    I work in a small IT and repair shop. One of our number one services is malware removal. The top two ways malware gets on a system.. ads and email (often spammy ad ridden email). I will give adblock to every single one of my customers and tell them why. The shit has to stop.

  18. Re:Alarmists - wrong on global warming since 1978! on Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings · · Score: 1

    "Still might come to pass" in 2050 is far different than "5 to 10 years" from 1978. But keep moving the goal posts and you may eventually figure out a way to prove them right.

    Lets not use ad hominem, lets instruct the troll:

    5-10 years in 1970 was for a time to start making hard decisions, from a report with limited data by experts in 1978

    2050 is current estimate of OMG this is now a juggernaut we cant stop and everyone is in deep shit (except coastal areas, they are washed clean by the waters.

    They are different milestones in a progression. Cherry picking and saying someone is moving the goalposts is ignorant at best or willfully negligent at worst.
    If the worst does come to pass, it should be people like you who are strung up right after the boards of companies who willfully chose to do nothing.

  19. Re:And it has been fixed on Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password · · Score: 1

    Nexus 6 babeeeeeeee

  20. Re:My HTC One M8 GPE edition got updated last nigh on Android Lollipop Can Be Hacked With Very Long Password · · Score: 1

    Then get a Nexus or root.

  21. Re:It's nice to see Alabama enter modernity after on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 5, Funny

    No.. the chapter will be titled "Evolution and Global warming, the Democratic plot to have homosexuals take over America."

  22. gstoddart -- while I normally agree with your increasingly cynical and bitter rants, I have to disagree here. Fourteen years ago may be the last big nail in the coffin, but it started long before.

  23. To clarify some... on Plex Is Coming To Apple TV · · Score: 2
    I have been using plex for over a year. I do not subscribe, I have use the free system as a media server on my primary home machine.

    When I got a chromecast, I did pay for the 4.99 app so that I could use it to stream to the chromecast. I was using Bubble UPnP + MxPlayer for android playback, but BubbleUPnPs chromecast support was limited. Now BubbleUpnP has it but requires a separate paid transcoding server, so I stuck with Plex across the board.

    Paying for plex allows easy setup of across the internet streaming. I never needed that feature since I have a business class connection, static IP and VPN at home. When I am travelling, my devices llook like they are on my LAN anyway, so need to stream some other way out of my network.

    The only issue I have had is that randomly (after days) the plex server program will stop responding and need a restart. That is easy enough to do, although I could probably post on their forums and look at the logs to determine why.

  24. Known this for a month on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1
    I do not know which KB kicks it off but you will get a windows.bt folder on your main OS drive with about 22k files in it. We saw it as failures for our backup customers, as the folder is locked from file level and shadow copy access and our backup software logged the failures.

    For people with little storage it makes no sense, but I have not seen it perform this operation on a machine with very limited space. Otherwise it is just a pre-download so that installs proceed faster when a user decides to go. I have much less of a problem with this than the telemetry issues.

  25. Re:Awesome on Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time · · Score: 1

    I block ads for the same reason I don't invite methods into the house.

    What about procedures & functions?