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  1. Bingo, the NRA is acting like we should all just drop our kids off at a camp style school that raises them right and teaches them to be fascists.
    Meanwhile, they can't stop talking about how colleges brainwash kids into being liberal.

    Interesting lack of awareness and introspection.

  2. Re:to pay a "living wage" on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Regulations at a national level are often necessary for just this reason. Big fish in little pond's.

  3. Re:to pay a "living wage" on Car Makers Used Software To Raise Spare Parts Prices (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Car dealers don't pay huge wages either, outside maybe sales. There is enough markup that car dealers have multiple laws written specially for them and they have historically been one of the powerhouses of local politics, right alongside property developers.

  4. dude, I know your old, but this is slashdot... you must be getting confused.
    ;)

  5. Re:One thing I don't miss about cassettes on Canon Has Sold Its Last Film Camera (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring back DAT drives.

  6. Re:easy peasy on Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say · · Score: 1

    If only apt was as good a zypper...

  7. Re:Interesting Explanations on Amazon Explains Why Alexa Recorded And Emailed A Private Conversation (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    My theory, made up from whole cloth.

    This was a hidden feature intended for law enforcement or something like that. It was hidden in the firmware.
    A rogue employee turned the feature on in order to call attention to it.

  8. Re:Why spray them? on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You would probably cause alot of erosion digging up weeds constantly.

  9. Re:Why spray them? on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you underestimate how fast weeds grow, after a month, weeds could be huge. Some weeds can also have roots up to 10 feet deep.

  10. Re:reboot... and reflash with something like cur l on FBI Tells Router Users To Reboot Now To Kill Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I own several and I've used dd-wrt, tomato, and merlin with no problems. Usually, in my experience, the hardware problems are there without the 3rd party firmware. They're just obfuscated so you can't figure out which part works and you just reboot the whole thing.

  11. yup, turned down a bump from 72k to 100k because of a higher cost of living and childcare costs.
    Midwest to NY metro.

  12. Re:Vs. Carrier Apps on Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped With Malware Built In (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can use the adb toolkit to pull that stuff off your phone. https://github.com/pborowicz/h...

  13. Re:My family has multiple ZTE phones on Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped With Malware Built In (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    without root, you can pull applications out with the adb toolkit

  14. Re:Right of Way laws are political, not logical. on Uber's Self-Driving Car Saw Pedestrian 6 Seconds Before Fatal Strike, Says Report (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    Take your bullshit elsewhere, streets are for people's benefit.

  15. Re:Time for Regulatory Control on Uber's Self-Driving Car Saw Pedestrian 6 Seconds Before Fatal Strike, Says Report (tucson.com) · · Score: 1

    Very true, the decisions these systems need to make should not be decided by a bunch of Uber bro's.

  16. Still waiting on the Uber apologists to show up and tell us how much safer these systems will be and how these accidents will only happen once ever. Like developers never reintroduce errors.

  17. Facebook says they are only storing hashes, NOT the original picture. So there's really no reason users can't create the hashes, with maybe a flag to view the image being blocked the first time the hash is matched. That would prevent abuse.

  18. Re:Is this going to be worse than the Russian brea on Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I usually use afew different speedtest sites.
    https://sourceforge.net/speedt...
    http://speedtest.xfinity.com/
    https://fast.com/en/

    I also monitor my routers bandwidth and compare to xfinity's graphs. I test speeds inside various VPN's if I'm suspicious about site or type throttling. I have some iperf endpoints I can use for testing more in depth.

    Alot of times, it's just noticing whether a problem exists, I keep up a remote connection to my home using x2go most days, so I notice outages. When I notice problems, or my wife does, I can drill down and figure out if it's DNS, wireless, or an actual ISP problem.

  19. Re:Web-Facing Control Panels on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    All of those can be mitigated without too much work. Let's no cower under our beds like NRA members.

  20. Re:Which open router software? on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Merlin works well if your running an Asus device.

  21. Sure, I've never seen a developer reintroduce a bug.

  22. Re:Is this going to be worse than the Russian brea on Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a business needs service now. Free service later doesn't do much good. For what it's worse, the problems I had with, "not my department" were business class service.
    I've always been pretty satisfied with their consumer service. I use the X1 dvr and it's pretty awesome. Their on-demand selection is head and shoulders above AT&T's. Their internet is totally suitable, especially if you know what your doing.
    My main complaint is that even if you know what your doing, they play weird games on the backend sometimes. These can vary by region.

  23. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm equipped for non-sequential delivery. Just rip it to my home server and send it back.

  24. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    DVD's may hang around as the only place to get that odd program without having to take out yet another subscription.

    Only place without a VPN...
    I watched the Handmaid's tail too. Strangely enough, the first season is on Spotify video now.

  25. Re:Is this going to be worse than the Russian brea on Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast has great service in many areas, it has terrible service in many others. They also don't always know which department handles a given account, in my past experience. Some of this might have improved.

    Currently, I use them and get reliable internet. Their major policies are mostly OK. They don't block ports. They answer queries and transfer me if I'm too technical.
    I ,however, don't use their router or their DNS. I know how to insure I'm getting what I pay for. Those who are minimally technical or not technical may have worse outcomes.