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  1. Re:Actually not really fixed - URL not validated on Password App Developer Overlooks Security Hole to Preserve Ads (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The digital signature in question is not an external verification, but instead the one Windows does on the installer. So your UAC popup would also indicate it is a fake binary.

  2. "That... looks like a penis."

    "Yep. Not giving you my real signature..."

  3. Oh, the good ol' days on New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams · · Score: 1

    I remember one class (HS, circa 1990) where we had to "clear the EEPROMs" on our TI-85s because somebody was caught with their notes all typed in, which must have taken longer than actually studying.

    We made a program that emulated the flash process without doing anything, right down to the cursor blinking for the right count etc. We had too many useful programs that we didn't want to lose, like one called "SuperFactor!" which could do up to 4th order polynomial factoring...

  4. Re:The Copyright Joker strikes again on Pow! With Supreme Court Rebuff, DC Comics Wins Batmobile Copyright Case (newsoxy.com) · · Score: 1
  5. I pay for print on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, I pay for the print edition. Does that mean I get some kind of login to continue using my ad blocker?

  6. Re:Ziggy Stardust on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Green Day's American Idiot. Three major Marilyn Manson albums together tell a story, from Wikipedia:

    After the release of "Holy Wood", Manson said that the overarching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order; Mechanical Animals, therefore, acts as the bridge connecting the two narratives and remains constant whether the trilogy is viewed in reverse or not.[5]

  7. SELinux triggered on EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Nice. I just had an SELinux popup saying that plugin-container was trying to do something... also a pop-up about "fonts" trying to run so I said "nope."

  8. I am also a huge fan of that extension and will mourn when it dies.

  9. Re:I wonder if TiVo is long for thisworld on TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability · · Score: 1

    The newest models fully integrate the main on-demand and online services. If I search for a show, it shows me that it's available on Comcast or Amazon Prime. You can even add OnePasses (previously Season Passes) for shows like Amazon's Bosch, so it shows up in your main "Now Playing" to remind you to watch it.

  10. Re:HP28C infrared input on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Nice. A friend of mine moved and wasn't going to get Internet service for like a week. He drove around with his TiVo and UPS in his car until he found somebody with unsecured WiFi to have it download the channel listings and program info for his new house.

  11. Re:The Golden Mean on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    I disagree with the analogy. The most likely reason that not many people are going around saying "the sun will rise tomorrow" is because there are not many other people who are trying to do things like putting stickers on science books saying that, "tomorrow's rising sun is 'only a theory.'" Or blowing up themselves and sun-believers in the name of a non-sun. When that begins to happen, you will hear more from the Silent Sun Army.

  12. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1, Informative

    The proper quote is calling not collecting stamps as a hobby....

  13. Re:Because David Gerard Removed It on Wikipedia Reveals Secret of 'The Mousetrap' · · Score: 1

    Dammit out of mod points... +1 VERY informative

  14. Finally! on No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting for years!

    watch uname -r

    (from the man page)

  15. Multiple Inbox on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 1

    That's my favorite lab item. I have like 5 - mailing lists, purchases I am waiting for in the mail, TODO, etc... I wonder if it is compatible?

  16. Re:SuperSpeed USB... on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    To be technically correct - the best kind of correct - USB-IF's preferred name for USB 2.0 is "Hi-speed", not "high".

    LOL yeah. And then I see they've now added two arrows to "SuperSpeed" to show it's full duplex.

    I can't wait until they then add 8-bit lanes and still keep the "serial" nomenclature.

  17. Re:SuperSpeed USB... on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is the original nomenclature from USB 1.0 - "full speed" is a whopping 12Mbit/s (vs. "low speed" at 1.5Mb/s). Of course, compared to serial ports that were starting to push 300kbit/s, it was nice. So then USB 2.0 was "high speed" and for 3.0 they needed something "higher" than "high." Pretty stupid, especially when somebody says a USB 2.0 device runs at "full speed" it could simply be MarketSpeak(TM) saying that it won't slow the bus down below 2.0 but the device itself only communicates at 1.1 speeds.

    ( Oh, BTW, I vote for PlaidSpeed(TM)! )

  18. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Sorry, out of mod points.

  19. Re:...And one generation behind on HTML5 on Firefox 4 Will Be One Generation Ahead · · Score: 1

    You can always spot the poseurs. :)

    Seriously, elinks? elinks is the NEW version of links, which is the NEW lynx!

  20. Re:Did it really need 1 page? on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 1

    Agreed!

  21. 3 pages? on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did it really need 3 pages? Nope.

  22. Re:Four Square on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed. That's how I got into it - had a baby and most of my family live a six hour drive away. By posting updates to FB, I'm not inundated with phone calls of, "how's the baby?" or "send more pictures!"

  23. I hate Foursquare on Facebook Takes On FourSquare · · Score: 1

    1. The usual "please rob me since I am not at home" rant.
    2. I actually follow an RSS twitter search of my (current) hometown. It was very useful when the snowpcalypse came because the state highway admin was actually posting useful updates. It went from 2-3 a day to about 10-15, and it is all "I'm here and you don't give a crap!" tweets.

  24. Re:Blahgh on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    I bet somebody once said that about people rebuilding cities on top of active faults.

    Or below sea level (New Orleans).

  25. Re:Not more safe on Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look · · Score: 1

    netstat -anp | sort | mail -s 'Network Report' user@example.com

    You're welcome. ;)

    (I'm at work, so don't have time to play games with cut and uniq, or other options to netstat, but it would probably not be that hard to get a better list.)