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  1. I also have to wonder if they really are looking at all the options, because the espressobin board is ARMv8 but also has SATA.

  2. Sheevaplug on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    I'm like the other posters I started out using recycled pc's, but decided to go more green power-wise a few years ago.

    I'm using a 1.2GHz Marvell ARM CPU Sheevaplug with 512 MB of flash memory and 512 MB of DDR2 running Ubuntu. I have an additional 512 MB memory card mounted as /var and 2 x 1 TB external USB drives one as my primary and the other as a backup. 50/50 Mb fiber connection to 1 GigE LAN run to the office bedroom, and entertainment centers for lag free video (ushare) & music (mt-daapd) streaming, everyone else uses WiFi.

  3. sheeva plug + 2xTB external USB drives + dyndns on Dropbox's New Policy of Scanning Files For DMCA Issues · · Score: 1

    Seriously it's not that hard to setup your own cloud service. I spent under $400 for the whole setup that includes backups. For the lazy or people that don't want to mess with a headless Linux box, seagate sells a LAN / dyndns enabled device that is marketed exactly as a "personal cloud". Why would you trust a service when you can easily DIY?

  4. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Jythie, you are a better person then I.
    Not a day goes by I don't think of that asshole & his friends & how badly I'd like to know something really bad happened to him. Yeah I know turn the other cheek and all that, but I just can't seem to get my heart or head around that even five years later. Even now as I type it makes my blood boil, I try hard to not think about it.

  5. Re:Same code litigated to death on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    Um I read the article.
    Last year, Fox Broadcasting Company, with the support of other broadcast networks, sued Dish for its "Hopper" DVR and its "Auto Hop" feature, which automatically skips over commercials. According to the Fox, the Hopper automatically records eight days' worth of prime time programming on the four major networks that subscribers can play back on request. Beginning a few hours after the broadcast, viewers can choose to watch a program without ads. As we observed when the it started, this litigation was yet another in a long and ignominious series....

    So it is automatic hence the auto-skip part of the description, and it is another lawsuit against the same code that "sonic blue" made way back when for the replaytv (which I owned BTW) which has been purchased and litigated until dead over and over again.

  6. Same code litigated to death on Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' · · Score: 1

    This is the same code that has been sued over AT LEAST three times. What a total waste of money and effort. Can't a higher court make a betamax vrs Sony ruling and get this over already?

    Christ now the hook is 1 hr after you can forward ads. Good luck, if that's all it takes to make this legit, more power to you, but two (three?) companies have been shuttered trying to keep this code legal & alive. I'd think about that if I were on the board of dish.

  7. Re:realization on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 1

    He's good, & very dedicated, only problem is I think he's sleeping with my wife. :)

    .

  8. realization on FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month · · Score: 3, Funny

    Humm,

    Verizon FIOS: yeah ok, I have 20/5 d/u

    DAAP Music streaming
    p2p bit torrent
    VPN
    UPnP movie server
    web page
    TOR
    SSH tunneling
    File server

    Still haven't hit anything near that transfer rate in over 5 years total, I need more friends...

  9. Re:Was the exchange rate wrong? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    The amount of paid on the boat was right, but in which countries currency was was wrong. So it was like saying he paid 10K Euro when it was supposed to be 10K Rupees. Euros to rupees trade at 1:75 which is a big difference in cost. Obviously this is exaggerated, and he admittedly says that the Canadian and US dollar are currently trading close to 1:1, but that has not always been the case, as I remember traveling to Canada years ago, and the rate was 1:2.

     

  10. So how much $ was wasted in development for this on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 1

    I have to say, I hope the best for the USPS and it's workers, but the first thing that came to mind is a getting a start-up off the ground isn't cheap. Seems like a clothing line would be even more since there are goods involved meaning clothing stock, building, machines, workers, management, marketing etc... I know you need to spend money to make it, but unless someone is sure this is an idea that is worthwhile and not a pipe dream, it seems risky. How much money for all these things have been dumped into this idea that could have been used to keep the agency afloat for that much longer. Seems like one more piss poor idea after another coming from the USPS.

  11. Re:American Wage Slaves are an Even Better Value on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Really informative. Try troll bate!

    That is no ones fault other then your own for picking a bad company to work & career to work in. Stop trying to project your crap on everyone else. I have NEVER had problems taking leave / vacation and as that is both as a government worker and as a private citizen. Do I always get the week I want, no, but I always get vacation.

    Your doing something wrong, try reconsidering who you work for and what you do with your life.

  12. Re:4-digit PIN on Unscrambling an Android Telephone With FROST · · Score: 1

    "in a manner that can be quickly and conveniently unlocked by an average user?"

    Not sure why I'm bother answering this obvious troll but then use 6 characters. That still brings up the complexity /strength enough to make unbreakable before the limit hits. Please do some reading if you want protection there is some required effort above and beyond a 4 digit number PIN, it's a risk assessment for the OP to make.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password#Memorization_and_guessing
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength

  13. Re:4-digit PIN on Unscrambling an Android Telephone With FROST · · Score: 1

    "Use a 8-16 symbol password instead of a PIN"

    Agreed and this is for all encrypted phones not just android. Also if the phone supports it set it up to delete the phones contents after X amount of failed attempts.

  14. Colbert predicited it on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1

    Holy shit Stephen Colbert predicted this not more then a few days ago with pop. It's a conspiracy mobius strip of conspiratorial thinking!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ejgq0r0SEU

  15. Re:do it to your own name on 'Bankrupt' Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete · · Score: 1

    yeah apparently I'm a realtor.. Never knew, but go figure.

  16. Re:So does this include on Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Inquisition.... What a show... wait, shit wrong movie.

  17. Re:The only wasted vote, is a party line vote. on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    LOL see it back fired for me, probably because I'm in a swing state. I'm also independent & voted in the republican primary for the same reason. Now I get flyers, postcards, & door to door petitioners for both parties.

    I can't wait till this stupid thing is over & I don't see another MD yes/no on 7 / Attack ad for either of these bone heads

  18. Re:Cocaine on The Tech Behind Felix Baumgartner's Stratospheric Skydive · · Score: 1

    In Holland you can buy liqueur infused with coca leaves & other botanicals that while not cocaine will give you a nice speedy drunk feeling. No issues getting it into the US either.

  19. Re:Go to China on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    my folks went to cuba a few years ago no problem. Few extra hoops to jump through but it's not illegal, they made it back just fine

  20. Re:Wow, the slave boys getting desperate on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Except as someone else in this thread said embassy grounds are not sovereign soil of the county, populated but immune diplomats.

    Close embassy
    Evict diplomats
    Collect Assange

    No guns, no force, just diplomacy

  21. Re:Would this be usefull in reverse? on Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload · · Score: 1

    Of course sorry that was silly of me. If the hash is made of arabic character directory names & registry paths your right.

    So what identifiable parts could be used? MAC I suppose although as you said that could be spoofed if known. What about the processor clock, are there any uniquely identifiable parts besides the network card?

  22. Would this be usefull in reverse? on Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload · · Score: 1

    /Puts on my black crypto-anarchy hat

    My understanding is the first thing LEO does when it encounters encryption or drive analysis, is pull the drive & make a copy. Then take the drive and analyzes it on a separate machine or using forensic hardware.

    Would something like this be useful in reverse, because without the original computer that contains the correct configurations, the key could be given out but the since the hash needs internal qualifications to match it would not jive because they wouldn't plug the drive back into the old computer.

    of course there is always rubber hose crypt, and permanent lockup, NOT obligatory xkcd, blah blah blah yeah I know all that & doesn't add to this conversation. /black Hat

  23. Re:It's the server that's not on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1

    (it's impossible to make _any_ server 100% guarantee secured, I know)
                    So...Bitcoin is insecure. Period

    Nope try again. There are such things as physical / paper wallets & cold storage which is secure.

    If your trying to troll you need to try a little harder

  24. If you had a color get off my yard on Radio Shack's TRS-80 Turns 35 · · Score: 1

    like so many others I got my first programming chops & computer knowledge from the TRS-80 my dad brought home. Did anyone else try copying the software from the back of the old compute magazines?

    I remember soldering a speaker wire up to the unit since there was no computer speakers back in the day. I described that one day to my much younger sister, and realized how silly it sounded 30 years later were a pair of speakers are $10 and actually sound good.
    Best was when we got a disk drive instead of the tape which was such a hassle.

    My dad has it still in the closet and kids that it is part of my inheritance. Figures in another 10-20 years it will be worth something.

    God I feel old, Now get off my yard!!!!

  25. About damn time on FCC Rules That Verizon Cannot Charge For 4G Tethering · · Score: 1

    In the mean time if your on a JB iPhone you can use the teatherme app from cydia to over ride the provder settings. But I know from all the slasdot haters the only reason to JB an iPhone is if your a Gasp... Pirate.