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  1. Re:Really? on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Woodruff was injured, not dead in the Iraq explosion. Check your favorite news archive for "World News Tonight with Elizabeth Vargus and Bob Woodruff"...

  2. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Linux distros are all over the map... there's several with such limitations.

  3. Re: Users would also like... on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Uhm, let me check my Mac Mini... yep there's still an SD Slot there.

  4. Re:Really? on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    GPS already is known to have government confusers installed... it'll lie to you or give no answer when instructed to by the military. This was deployed in Massachusetts during the ABC News' Bob Woodruff bomb scares.

  5. Re:Security / Jamming on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was told back then that the HBO Hacks was really an authorized publicity stunt... it was first aimed at censoring movies so kids could watch, then was misinterpreted by CBS News... too bad we don't have the CBS Latenight News to correct CBS Evening News anymore.

  6. Re:Not all can be hijacked on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to use Norton Crashguard to get my Prodigy shows out in 1999... too many people throwing blue screens around back then.

  7. Re:Windows 95? on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked with Access in the early 2000s and found it as rapid an application development tool as Visual Basic 6.0. The company database worked well until it hit a million records in the transaction log. Then we moved to SQL Server and everything turned over with just a minor change to the data source string.

    Today's SQL Server and Oracle are bloated with things you'll never use, but have taken the magic of sort routines and indexing far further than can easily be explained.

    Processor in space? There's the problem... satellite control software belongs on Earth!

  8. You must have lost Y2K... even Red Hat had some bad days back then.

  9. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 0

    The headphone jack is a way into the inside of the phone for water, dirt, and dust. If it's unused it shouldn't be there.

  10. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You have unchecked a checkbox in System Preferences in order to do this... eventually, that box will be automatically checked and disappear.

  11. Re:External monitors too on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    See the link I posted about about authorizing the DisplayLInk Driver.

  12. Re:with apple it's ATI or intel video only on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    DisplayLink isn't out of business... it's just having driver issues.

  13. Re:Killed USB video on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like you don't have the right driver, or the driver hasn't been accepted by the user's system for sign-off reasons. Try this URL if you're talking about DisplayLink.

    DisplayLink Support page

  14. Re:Seen this on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which Linux distro are you talking about? Through history, there have been such glitches on Linux.

  15. Re:As usual with updates on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Register has always been a tabloid/sensationalizer of IT news... a few blown upgrades leads to an article like this.

  16. Re: Users would also like... on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Floppy has been sucessfully replaced by SD cards. Stronger device, smaller, and gigabytes have replaced 1.44 megabytes.

  17. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Uhm, let me right-click on this Mac... pop-up menu comes up in Firefox.

  18. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I haven't used the headphone jack in years... good Bluetooth has replaced the wired equipment.

  19. Re:See, told you so on Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The main "merge" is the Mac App Store becoming the exclusive source of apps, locking down the MacOS in the same way that iOS can only gain apps from the official App Store.

    This cuts small developers and unofficial tools out of the market, but it has the advantage of nobody being able to make a Trojan horse or virus. It's one step backwards in freedom, but one step forward in protection of the Internet.

  20. Ruined maps on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that the "weather maps" disagree with what is seen from space...

  21. Re:What happens with erroneous data? on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The key thing here is that if this thing's algorithms kept secret, then it could be cited falsely in witch hunts. As much as this stinks, we need an open source project to bankrupt this commercial interest.

  22. Re:84? on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It means they weren't just publishing one account, it's enough to play whack-a-mole

  23. Re: He is sorely missed on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Compare Apple's App Store to the unregulated Konfabulator/Yahoo! Widgets system that went ka-put. Apple's tying apps to a registered system compared to the no-rules distribution on the web.

    When nobody was checking widgets, there were all sorts of Trojan Horse schemes all over the place. Privacy was completely lost there... that's why Apple requires you show them source code in a format they understand.

  24. Re: He is sorely missed on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple watch was on the border line of Jobs/Cooks

    Earrpods is just a late-to-market Bluetooth headphone... point release over the existing headphones.