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  1. Re:The way to fight this on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    He was talking about having the router honor it, not Windows 10. All they need though is to have a single connection go through and everything else blocked may be moot.

  2. Re:Everyone's phone, DSL and copper on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a great trick for getting a call out from the occasional phone in a semi-public location intended for answer-only with no dialing mechanism.

  3. Re:Offline, single player ... on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 1

    It's sad that there's not really a good way to play competitive games with random people on the Internet as a whole. I used to enjoy things in the early days of Quake and TF as players were so happy just to be able to meet up online and play these games with more people. It didn't take long for things to deteriorate as the barriers of entry became lower and audience broadened. Last year I tried to play some online RDR with my nephew and after initial good experiences the servers were hacked to hell by disruptive people and we gave up.

    Invite only I guess...

  4. Re:Isn't this what --preserve-root is for? on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    find/exec with an ls command that can be replaced with rm can also be useful for previewing the destruction

  5. Re:Apple products are fine and dandy... on One Hoss Shay and Our Society of Obsolescence (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if mine will hold a charge any longer, but it lives in my car as an adjunct to the stereo functioning perfectly. Not bad for rattling around in a glove box.

  6. Re:Hype Brick or real Brick? on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    I have a feeling something like this happened with my nephew's system when he attempted a Win7->10 upgrade. Not sure why and he may have messed up, but he claims it was bricked to the point he couldn't get into the UEFI and gave up on it. It might be reparable with a fixed UEFI I suppose.

  7. Re:Isn't this what --preserve-root is for? on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    find/exec with an ls -l command that can be replaced with an rm command can also be useful for verifying what's about to happen

  8. I suppose Mandelbrot really needs elimination as a word now. Way too much potential for confusion

  9. Re:Hole Punch - Double Sided Floppy on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Remember cutting open and washing floppies to fix read errors from a dirt or water spot? I remember tediously recreating an Ultima IV disk from two flawed copies sector by sector. Good times

  10. Re: what's the problem? on $50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card · · Score: 1

    I agree, even if it's not a complete show-stopper, it seems unnecessary and ought to be fixed.

  11. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    What is the functional difference?

  12. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    You did hear what just happened in NSW right?

  13. Re:Acceptable ads? on AdBlock Plus To Introduce Independent Board To Oversee Acceptable Ads Program · · Score: 1

    They blew it when they decided to act like they're more clever than the users. They declared war and it's on. Advertising is not a two way street for me. I'll give my information feedback in some other way.

  14. Re:Kill them all. on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 1

    It only works with a sufficiently complete level of brutality, and I don't think we're willing to go there anymore

  15. Re:That's NOT the cause on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 1

    Tyler Durden is most disappointed

  16. Re:Hardware is trusted on LightEater Malware Attack Places Millions of Unpatched BIOSes At Risk · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's that sinister. IIRC it was pretty standard practice to require a motherboard jumper change to enable updating BIOS. I think it was abandoned out of simplicity because users found it to be a pain in the ass.

  17. Re: Just let go. on A Year On, What Flight Simulators Can't Prove About Flight MH370 · · Score: 2

    These days I'm surprised that "impact" wasn't used

  18. Re:Wilderness State Park on New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places · · Score: 1

    The Sand Dunes park is also one of the places least affected by light pollution, beautiful viewing. Unfortunately the presence of 24 hour lighting in nearby ranching operations is increasing.

  19. Re:This pays credence to my rant about tech on Can Students Have Too Much Tech? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if it has so much to do with just the presence of a computer in the home. Thirty years ago these computers were not generally connected to a global info store, nor did they have any large role in 5th to 9th grade education in the school. You couldn't really use them to reduce effort at school unless you were doing something clever.

  20. Re:Translation ... on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 1

    Sometimes things go so tragically wrong. http://www.westword.com/2000-0...

  21. Re:LOGO on Little-Known Programming Languages That Actually Pay · · Score: 1

    You could minor in LEGO

  22. Re:While we're on the subject... on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if still exists, but Scientific Word was a pretty good front end for it many years back.

  23. Re:They used to call me paranoid... on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    Cool, yeah I wasn't aware that my replacement ADSL modem was willing to operate in bridged mode... it is so I'm happy to eliminate an unneeded layer of routing.

  24. Re: +1 for this Post on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    I'm on an N56U and very satisfied

  25. Re:They used to call me paranoid... on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    What are the issues you have had with double NAT (once at the modem and once at the wireless router)?