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  1. Re:I have read this story multiple times... on The Tech Used To Monitor Inmate Calls Is Able To Track Civilians Too (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    This just tells me that there needs to be a much higher standard for marketers and an even higher one than that for LEO.

  2. Re:Implications for ALL attackers on iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet it has implications for any other attacker who uses the same vulnerabilities, too.

    This is exactly right. They're not targeting law enforcement; they're targeting greykey and other grey-market hackers.

    Now I want to know: is there an alternative for those with older, jailbroken devices?

  3. Re:Locks in general, are not very secure. on Hackers Built a 'Master Key' For Millions of Hotel Rooms (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    the hotel management system can likely be used to flag on a master key use and send security

    To my knowledge, I have never stayed in a hotel where the electronic door locks were connected to a central system. They operate completely independently, and the auditing system must be manually accessed from each unit. There are no alarms or notifications.

  4. 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

    That you are not using it is not evidence that no one uses it.

    Other peoples' phones not having headphone jacks has cost me considerably in terms of sales, not to mention frustration. I will never willingly purchase a phone that doesn't have one.

    Apple could have and should have left it alone. To try to drive sales of Beats wireless headphones by unnecessarily removing useful, functional, and reliable technology from their product was a dickish thing to do.

  5. Verizon: 11% faster than T-mobile. And 1000% worse to deal with.

  6. (hint: there's less than that)

    Source, please. I have exactly the same mindset as the parent, and will now consider purchasing a Switch, which I would not have done otherwise.

    It wouldn't be a stretch to think that sales would be bolstered by 2.5% (1/40th the number of Switches that have already been sold) by this news, thanks to people like us.

    Just because you don't think the way we do doesn't mean there aren't many others who do.

  7. I don't see a "/s" at the end of your post, but I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic.

    Because if not, you're an idiot.

    The only reason Charter's motion didn't cause the suit to be tossed was that it was filed before the repeal was enacted.

    In other words, if the lawsuit were to be filed today, the repeal of Net Neutrality would have allowed Charter to throttle Netflix traffic without consequence.

  8. Re:The best machine guns to kill in movie theaters on Man Handed Conditional Prison Sentence for Spreading Information About Popcorn Time Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're advertising how to reach him to purchase meth, you will certainly be in trouble, yes.

  9. Re:Rules are rules - just not for all of us ... on 32 Senators Want To Know If US Regulators Halted Equifax Probe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the best comment I've seen in the past year comes on a day I have no mod points.

    Concise and excellently cited. And well-formatted to boot.

    Well done madame/sir.

  10. Re:context on Lawyers Faced With Emojis and Emoticons Are All \_("/)_/ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Who yanks their aubergines?!

    :P

    :/

    :::

    *_*

  11. Re:As any DBA knows... on Why Airports Rename Runways When the Magnetic Poles Move (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time you can see the runway, your aren't looking at the wobbly compass. If you can't see the airport, your using ILS (nor GPS or VOR or NDB) and don't care what the compass says either.

    Clearly you've never been caught in IFR conditions in an aircraft that isn't IFR-equipped.

    When all you have is a windscreen full of white and rain, a voice giving directions in your ear, and a magnetic compass, the last thing you want to be doing is calculating the magnetic/true north differential for your current lat/long in your head. When you've been told you're on the correct vector for runway 29, you want to look at your compass and see 290, nothing more, nothing less.

  12. Re:There is a fine line here on Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    You're 37, Dennis.

  13. Re: Phish? on Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF are you on about??

    Net neutrality has been the de facto state of the Internet since its inception nearly 50 years ago (not 20). No ISP felt brazen enough to violate the principles of the net until there were clearly-established monopolies in major markets that would allow for effective control of content by a few companies.

    The government getting involved is a regulatory response to companies that are doing bad (e.g., anti-competitive) things. It is literally one of the jobs of government to regulate these things.

    Through Net Neutrality (and Common Carrier status for ISPs), the government is not telling people who can do what on the Internet - it is telling companies they they can't control who does what on the Internet. As in "completely the opposite of what you said".

  14. Re:Privacy is dead for the proletariat on Ask Slashdot: Can You Convert Old iPods Into A Home Music-Streaming Solution? · · Score: 2

    Facebook has a shadow profile on people who have never agreed to allow them to collect information on them.

    Many people willingly whore out their details, but facebook will make money off you whether you want them to or not.

  15. Re:and that's the problem on Monopoly Critics Decry 'Amazon Amendment' (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm missing something here, but why aren't they building a portal (created a hosted by a third-party that is not involved as a vendor of any of the products) that Amazon and other vendors can interoperate with?

    The items could be made available from each seller without any branding about who the ultimate fulfiller would be. Need a box of pens? Go find the ones you want, pick the best combination of terms and price, and order. If it shows up the next day in an Amazon box, or a Wal-mart box, or a Google box, no one cares.

  16. The real news is that this means they're one step closer to being able to reverse male-pattern baldness!

  17. Which was what, exactly? I've heard aught of him being charged with anything in the UK.

  18. I've been saying for years that "dark matter" and "dark energy" aren't really things. They're placeholders for some type of matter or interaction we'll discover later.

    That we're finally able to detect these baryon filaments is a solid step in the right direction to finally solving the "dark" mystery.

  19. There's a corollary to that: 'Don't be afraid of the people you've hired who are smarter than you.'

    This, I think, is where many problems begin to set in.

  20. Re: You can't decree what you can't access on We're Not Living in a Computer Simulation, New Research Shows (cosmosmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while.

    In that case, I envy you.

    (Also, if you heard it, you need to start practising reading without moving your lips...)

  21. Very much this. They're grasping at straws.

    What I actually want is a lock to prevent Equifax from ever handling my information again.

  22. Re:GetRidOfSubject on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who does not regularly use Photoshop or GIMP, I find them equally counter-intuitive and confusing. I think they both require a bit of syncing on the user's part with the mindset of the developers/UI designers. Once you're locked in to their way of thinking, it generally becomes much more obvious why things are arranged as they are.

  23. Re: Actually you can on Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears you need to brush up on your understanding of basic copyright law.

    If it's recognisable as Pepe, it is a derivative work, not 'new artwork'.

    You can't take a song, change one line, and pretend you didn't rip it off. Remember that Disney enforces it's mickey mouse copyright on nearly anything with three overlapping circles.

  24. Re:Started with Bush, Expanded by Obama & Trum on Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at US Borders (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    What exactly are you saying here?

    ...that the fourth amendment protects against search and seizure without a court-issued warrant. Full stop.

    '[The fourth amendment] requires governmental searches and seizures to be conducted only upon issuance of a warrant, judicially sanctioned by probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.'

    Seems fair well cut and dry there. The border searches of private personal devices are unconstitutional.

  25. Re:I know! on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Access points allow for much faster location determination, but I returned an iPod touch and purchased an iPhone 4 instead because I needed full GPS functionality, which the iPhone has but the iPod did not.