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  1. Re:This guy should be in prison on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Just reply to a cop "I didn't know speeding was against the law on this road" when he pulls you over and see what that gets you. Say that to the judge when you contest the ticket.

    Ignorance of the law is not a defense is common knowledge.

  2. I have no problem with its UI. My complaint is basic stuff like Search messages need to function properly. I can enter a term that I know is in my history but it doesn't find it--or if it does, it's incomplete. If you were to scroll back into history, the farther you scroll, the less it loads as it "waits" for the old entries from the cloud to come in. I don't really care about emojis which could be disabled in v7. These things makes it much less useful from v7.

    A workaround to the search is your entire history can be exported and I can search that.

  3. Re:Would Love Buckling Spring on Modern Layout on 'Why I Use the IBM Model M Keyboard That's Older Than I Am' (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Model Fs are better than Ms because they feature n-key rollover whereas Ms are limited to 2 keys. Ms are actually membrane-based; Fs capacitance-based.

    Only the XT/AT keyboard has the modern layout and I hate the original 5150 layout.

    I currently have several M15s (split keyboard from Options/Lexmark) at home.

  4. Re:A safer world? I think not. on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just viewing some dashcam channels will show how there are some really bad and dangerous drivers. Love it when they get instant karma.

  5. Re:The actual cross-walk rules on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't get the impression Cruise's vehicle yielded.

    the pedestrian was 10.8 feet away from the car when, while the car was in self-driving mode, it began to continue down Harrison at 14th St. Shortly after the car accelerated, the officer pulled it over.

  6. From Wikipedia

    In the late 1980s Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.,[24][25][26] which became ARM Ltd when its parent company, ARM Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.[27] The new Apple-ARM work would eventually evolve into the ARM6, first released in early 1992. Apple used the ARM6-based ARM610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.

  7. Re:Bad news for investors on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What used to be EDS is now DXC.

  8. Re:The "wonder" years. on SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died (jerrypournelle.com) · · Score: 1

    Alas.

  9. Re:screenshot button on 'See the Future Firefox Right Now' (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Print Screen key only works great if your screen shows everything you want to capture. If it goes off screen you need to use the developer full page screen shot command or use this new feature in 57. Just tried this feature and I'm not so keen on using it because it uploads the result to screenshots.firefox.com.

  10. Re: If It Weren't For Russia on Microsoft Launches A Counterattack Against Russia's 'Fancy Bear' Hackers (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    They weren't stopped there by force. They stopped on their own and returned to their capitol due to internal reasons. I can't remember what that was but is detailed in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Wrath of the Khans.

  11. Re: yes, Sonic in californua on Ask Slashdot: ISPs That Respect Your Online Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Sonic resells AT&T U-verse through a wholesale partnership with AT&T. Their contract disallows monitoring and usage caps. If you're worried Sonic provides OpenVPN access where your IP will be on Sonic's allocated subnets.

  12. "Reliable" is relative. The cost of ownership of a Ferrari, and even a 308 requires dedication and planning. http://www.birdman308.com/tuto...

    The 308 is one of my all-time favorite cars but if I don't have the time to perform the maintenance myself I would not own one. Especially if it's a steel body prior to 1984. Another favorite is the F355 but that has maintenance headaches, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Re:Just a guess.. on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My swag is solder whiskers from RoHS directives. Anyone familiar with these devices that know if they're on the list of exemptions?

  14. Re:Why go public instead of notifying the FBI? on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Seems like Brian connected the dots.

  15. Re:Russians hack everything on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Or "Future" in Japanese. The author watched Mirai Nikki and was inspired by the anime. All in BK's article.

  16. Re: Netgear *firmware* on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't do this on U-verse residential gateways. There's a pseudo bridge mode but not the same thing.

  17. I agree. It isn't practical to patch because if they haven't been patched before and most of their owners are probably ignorant of their pwnage. Wait 6 months and many of those devices would get out of date quickly. A whole government organization would be required to constantly monitor them and I don't think people would want that from the government. These botnets are globally spread out so there would be jurisdiction issues.

  18. Re:Personally I disagree on Why Your Devices Are Probably Eroding Your Productivity (kqed.org) · · Score: 1

    It has to do with focused and diffused modes of the brain. In focused mode, you're using neuro pathways that are already established to perform a task you already know how to do. Diffused mode is where you're trying to subconsciously use untapped areas of your brain to gain that creative ah-ha moment to do something you've not done before. Most people can't be in both modes at the same time, much like optical illusions where you can't discern two different pictures superimposed in the same image. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

    While you need to perform these mini breaks you should only do them after focusing on a certain task for, say, 25 minutes to maintain productivity and keep procrastination from creeping into your workflow. Then you take a break to let your mind wander and allow your subconscious to use other areas to help gain insight on your overall task.

    The following videos from Barbara Oakley explain it a lot better. She also explains why multitasking is not good for focused mode thinking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Google Talk (1 hour)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    TEDx Talk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Re: cygwin on There's Bugs In The Windows 10 Implementation of Bash (altervista.org) · · Score: 1

    I may be in the minority but I have a Windows machine as my main workstation and I use cygwin as an interface to console applications for interfacing with UNIX machines. If I need to manage Windows boxes, I'll use Powershell, but if I want to check out things or remotely script simple stuff on UNIX machines I like using cygwin.

    Therefore I tend to install apps like ssh and tmux. Occassionally I would issue a wget command here and there, or a Q&D Python script. I don't run X applications--I have Linux VMs in those situations. Having a VM just to dabble on Linux is wasteful in my environment. My issue with BashOnWindows is it's a separate install for every user who enables it on a machine. It's a simpler approach from a management perspective as there's no privileged access of any sort since every user who installs it has root access. But I prefer one installation, which cygwin allows. I run as a regular user and use the administrative account for management purposes only and cygwin also allows me to separate management duties.

  20. Updated host and link on Hackers Hit 6,000 Sites On Active 18-Month Carding Spree (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Bandiwidth is *free* fallacy.. on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    It still costs something but that cost for the hardware is dropping faster than Moore's law to the point where it is not practical to even monitor for a relatively small ISP. The main area of cost for ISPs is the last/first mile. For cable companies node splits are very costly and this is the reason why this executive is complaining. But when you have a proper infrastructure, upgrading is not a big problem. Witness AT&T lifting GigaPower subscribers capped usage.

  22. It's already happening with IP cameras and IoT. https://twitter.com/olesovhcom...

  23. Re:Using government to advance one's business on Netflix Pushes FCC To Crack Down On Data Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    > Hasn't the sorry story of public roads taught you anything?

    Like the sorry state of telco copper?

  24. Re:If people only knew... on Netflix Pushes FCC To Crack Down On Data Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    My ISP's CEO, a relatively small one compared to the incumbents, has stated their data transit costs between 2007-2012 was 1-2% of their total cost and data transport costs are dropping faster than Moore's law because fiber capacity has been doubling every 9 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  25. The Android subreddit was discussing this a day ago. In actuality some Android devices have slightly better performance in the multi-core benchmark while their single-core scores are much lower, although take comparing different platform scores with a dash of salt. I don't follow mobile devices but some people attribute some of this performance to come from NVMe storage in newer iPhones. https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro... has one of the benchmarks posted.