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  1. ...YouTube Red, but not in sweden... on YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads · · Score: 1

    Is there any way I can pay youtube a small amount of money, so I wouldn't have to deal with ads at all, that isn't "Youtube Red"?
    "YouTube Red is not currently available in Sweden."

    Youtube redoing the ads is the reason I installed ABP again; before that a simple DNS block did the trick.

  2. Hasn't google been doing this for years, adwords and shopping and stuff? What's new?

  3. slashdotted? on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't actually get it to work (other than complain about certain words, like lesbian).

    Is it slashdotted?

  4. Re:Removal of 'gay / lesbian' is controversial?? on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, it does explain it if you search for it:

    "You have entered an LGBT related search query. Please realize that while Kiddle has nothing against the LGBT community, it's hard to guarantee the safety of all the search results for such queries. We recommend that you talk to your parent or guardian about such topics."

    Ie, the search term leads to too much porn to be able to filter out.

  5. Re:They "cheat" but it's still very useful on Researchers Make Low-Power Wi-Fi Breakthrough (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    (That needs to be modded up.)

    I find it very interesting. It basically means I can have a wifi device powered by a CR2032 battery for years;
    something a BLE device can do, but a z-wave device needs a CR123 battery.

    Wifi is a much more complicated protocol, but I think the point is that it works, as opposed to z-wave (xor checksum? really?) or BLE (good standard, but noone can implement it so it works).

  6. ....predictions. on The Story Behind the Worst Computer Game In History (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt "one bad game" brought down the industry. I'd say it's

    1) making someone make a game ready to publish in 5 weeks (!!!)
    2) not doing any research on target audience
    3) predicting this game will sell MILLIONS of CONSOLES (not just games) on a saturated market

    I think we need to focus on who made those decisions.
    Not the genius who made a not-too-bad-game in impossible time.

    Because those kind of decisions is what's bringing down companies.
    We want to know how they appear and how we can stop them.

    Hiring a genius that follows orders and does impossible things never brought down a company.

  7. Can I use this "hack" to get my old, bot-stolen (because I obviously didn't care back then), twitter account back?

  8. Re:E-mail is the universal key on Hackers Break Into Ringo Starr's Twitter Account With Simple Password Reset · · Score: 1

    I use the same scheme, although I'm harder with _everything_ gets their own email address.

    Small companies that look at things manually usually get confused when I fill in the email address "smallcompany.com@example.com". One even canceled an order because they didn't believe the email address. (Apologies and rebate though when I told them that yes, that's the correct one.)

    I also sort every @example.com in a separate mailbox. If anyone have a good tip of a good imap server/mail reader combo that can handle about a thousand incoming mailboxes I'd like to know, so I can stop using gnus and mbox.

  9. How? on A New Technique Makes GPS Accurate To An Inch (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The accelerometers on the phone are usually not that good, at all. "A mobile device" yes, but that's nothing new - the sensor fusion technology is old (kalman).
    Anyone that figured out what the new part is?

  10. again?

    Last year, same issue, different channels:
    http://www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur--nojen/700-000-hushall-kan-mista-tv-kanaler/

  11. but projectors? on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So what are we supposed to use to connect to the old legacy projectors that is hanging around in offices and only talk VGA?

    Is this a conspiracy for companies to buy new, bright, high resolution and silent projectors? I'm all for it.

  12. Re:Eventually... But not yet on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure DisplayPort isn't another Betamax?

  13. modules, boxes, refactor on The Best Ways To Simplify Your Code? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    1. refactor
    2. while you do that, divide up the code into modules that is a black box from outside
    3. refactor those boxes as needed (split into more as needed)

    and don't be afraid to do that before your program is finished, if it seems needed.

    The time you save on a refactor is often quite a lot, so you shouldn't be too afraid of doing it.

    Also making boxes like that helps testing.

    But then again, I thought that was already what most projects did.
    It's kind of a central point in most programming paradigms (both functional and object oriented).

  14. Re:Seriously DON'T do it. on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    My old dishwasher got something wrong with the temperature sensor, so it constantly boiled the water (when it was on) up to the point where the built in temperature breaker would kick it off (which was at >100C???!?). It did all this completely by itself without me modding it and usually without any error code (it alarmed about overheat twice during the three months before I noticed that it was actually a permanlent error).

    I somehow feel safer modding things and knowing how they work than to trust engineers to do it correct, these days. I don't blame the engineers though -- someone probably went "but we can save 3c if we don't have this safety feature, remove it, that's an order". Luckily it _was_ still on _my_ dishwasher (the high temperature breaker)...

    Dishwashers are highly servicable anyway -- but you can't user-_service_ the parts. You can however quite easily user-replace the parts.

  15. kitchen appliances on Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? · · Score: 1

    As far as I've seen, all kitchen appliances are the same - but they are the same as in VHS players and CD players are the same.
    They have the same components, but they keep coming out with control boards that aren't compatible at all.

    It's probably easier to put in a raspberry pi with a relay board than to try to hack the control board.

    It's not like a dishwasher is very advanced. There's some water level sensors, valves for letting water in, pumps (one around, and one out?), heating element and hopefully a temperature sensor that can be read. Do whatever program you feel like. How hard can it be?

    That said, I'm still confused _no_ appliances (except iKettle) talks wifi (or anything, like BLE or zwave) - other appliances like TV and receivers have been talking to the user over the LAN for many years now.

    That said, my next appliance to hack will be my Tea Maker.

  16. ...third party sites... on AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy · · Score: 1

    Does it include blocking third party sites? It's the main reason I block ads - and I'm not using adblocker, but third party site blockers like RequestPolicy and DNS blocking.

    I don't mind seeing non-intrusive ads, but I don't like being tracked by third parties.

  17. backup on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    ...who cares, given that we have a backup of life?
    It's not like their "good life" is making it worse here. (Quite the opposite, given investment on earth.)

  18. ...dangerous ideas... on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ""Never before in our history have enemies outside the United States been able to propagate genuinely dangerous ideas on American territory in such an effective way"

    I first thought he was talking about the idea that people might go to jail for merely visiting webpages.

  19. When did "open" become "you need to be certified"?

  20. ...and guns? on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Would they also like to force everyone to buy guns that can only shoot blank ammunition?

    I'd like to see that debate.

  21. I wonder, what kind of roads and tyres are involved here?

    I can't remember having a problem with wet roads while driving in a way that wouldn't be seriously uncomfortable - unless there's a few inches of water on the road or I'm driving crazy cars (like that 700hp Cadillac test car with slicks that didn't want to move with or without traction control). Am I just getting way too good tyres?

    Unless the "wet" is frozen. But that's a completely different game.

    But if anyone builds me a car that warns me of black ice in advance, I'd like it.

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

    People just get so angry when bad driving is identified by sound.

  23. I haven't replaced serial ports... on What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...I know I haven't managed to replace serial ports. I haven't found any stable RS232 converter on USB...

    Either drivers don't work, or everything I get is badly made (fake?).

    Kind of weird that *serial* ports don't work well on an *universal serial bus*. But ah well.

  24. Re:But it's running Windows. on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    Footnote: I work with OS-less devices (ARM7, 32kB RAM/256kB ROM). If a worm manages to target these IoT devices I will be _very_ impressed.
    It will probably happen eventually, but I _will_ be impressed.

  25. But it's running Windows. on Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware · · Score: 1

    "The worm is detected by almost all security vendors, but it seems that it is still being used because modern day IoT devices can't yet run security products."

    I thought Conficker worked on *Windows* OS. That can run antivirus.

    "but it seems that it is still being used because modern day IoT devices can't yet run security products."

    I'll allow you to say this when a worm is targeting Receivers or Fridges. Or even Raspberry PI. Not when the targeted item is running Windows.