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  1. Re:Oh for christ's sake on Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Give them a break - no one realized that Senator ;); -- Drop Table Votes; was running for reelection.

  2. Re:Saves money my ass! on FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just switched from Dish (back to) DirectTV just for the free-data streaming of content that I'm already paying for. Based on history, in 4 or 5 years Dish will have a better deal again, and we'll switch ... again.

  3. Indeed. Here's a youtube vid of the car on Das Ring

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

    Enjoy!

  4. Re:I'm not ashamed of it... on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    if
    (this_is_true)
    {
    print("hello world");
    }

    5 lines in 2 seconds...

  5. There is also a limit (in kb, not the number of addresses) in a To: or CC: field. But I guess if you are sending mail to a listserv or alias that points to multiple addresses then that doesn't even kick in.

  6. Re:Cost of the target. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    50 meters at 100 miles is just about 1 minute of angle - a VERY good grouping for just about any gun. At 100 yards, just about 1 inch from center to center of the bullet holes furthest apart in a group.

    Inaccurate? Hardly.

  7. Re:The popularity of open offices has exacerbated on Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are Top Distraction in Workplace, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Not only are our half height cube walls WAY more expensive than stick and drywall ($1200 per wall, 4 per cube 8 cubes in our area) but we have no privacy. The big issue with a lack of privacy is that 3 of us work with instructors and discuss student grades, etc. Which leads to possible FERPA violations - our dept. secretary and work study students have no business hearing me talk about a students grades with an instructor. And, since I am an adjunct instructor as well as a admin/professional employee, I discuss my students grades with them - and NO ONE else in my department has the right to hear any of it.

    Did the facilties folk or my boss listen? Nope...

  8. Re:Ubuntu is a buggy mess on Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I upgraded 17.1 -> 17.2- > 17.3 -> 18 . Took a few cycles of updating and dist-upgrading but it worked fine.

  9. Re: The I in IDE makes them all suck on Rust Implements An IDE Protocol From Red Hat's Collaboration With Microsoft and Codenvy (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically it is a network connection required version of what javadoc does in various editors...

    So. What does a network based API do that a local copy doesn't do? Especially if that local copy can be updated and include the docs for your own stuff?

    Of course, the fact that Microsoft and Redhat are working together on this is cool too....

  10. plugh on New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' (ifcomp.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is all.

  11. Actually a good use of a raspberry pi for your home network at least. Mine does DHCP duty as well as DNS - caching for the World, spoofing a few domains for ads, and a non-real domain for my home network.
     

  12. The scam a few years ago was to go in, grab some gift cards, record the numbers, and check every so often to see if they'd been activated. That is why gift cards now come in "peek proof" containers instead of just being rubber cemented to a piece of card stock.

  13. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    At least that way you can call Phone 1 from Phone 2 when you can't find Phone 1 ...

  14. Re:Bad bands trying to hide a lack of talent on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Posted similar elsewhere already, but I'll second this. Often high quality recording straight off the sound board. And still available free online today via archive.org. Almost 11000 recordings...

  15. Re:Give Out an Official Recording on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This day and age? Hell, the Grateful Dead did it for DECADES ... and yet, they always seemed to sell tickets to the next show.

    Why, you can even go and download high bitrate MP3s of shows, often recorded directly from the sound board. Here ya go - only 11000 recordings... https://archive.org/details/Gr...

  16. Re:Most popular? on Ubuntu 16.10 Released, Ready to Download (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course, there is also LMDE - Linux Mint Debian Edition. Rollign release based on Debian -testing plus some customized Mint stuff.

  17. As both a buyer and seller I think gunbroker's auction system is much better than ebays. Just the 15 minute rule alone (any bids in the last 15 minutes sets the clock back to 15 minutes) turns a GB auction into an actual auction as opposed to a sealed envelope bid that closes at a specific time. Cheaper rates, no forced payment methods, etc. are all great for sellers as well.

  18. Well, there is that.

    But if your test of support is "boot livecd or similar image off usb flash drive adn see if it all works" then it would appear to work. Only when you go to actually modify/delete/create partitions on the hard drive is when this particular nastiness seemed to show up... and while you may find an understanding blue shirt that will let you boot with unknown media as a pre-purchase test good luck finding one that will let you actually install before you buy.

  19. Re:Obviously a shitty email on Tesla Is Suing An Oil-Company Executive For Impersonating Elon Musk (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    and I would demand that the person use their corporate account, not some yahoo/gmail/hotmail/whatever address that happens to match spelling on the user part ...

  20. Re:Won't work. on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, with name based virtual hosts you certainly need some sort of name to send the request to, whether provided by DNS or /etc/hosts or whatever.

    And yes, running your own DNS is trivial. IF your provider isn't blocking requests out that aren't headed to their own servers, much like smtp and port 25....

  21. Indeed. I was willing to pay $40 for a Raspberry Pi kit to run DNS on my home network and spoof many of the common advertising domains, pointing to a webserver on the Pi that simply serves up a 404.

  22. Re:That means...... on SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, to the other 7 billion people on this planet *you* are "the other guy". Why shouldn't the presence of possibly billions of billions of alien life change that?

    Besides - this just means there might be some sort of giant super mirror out there. Cool either because, well, aliens right? But I would imagine also that the astrophysics folks would get some serious geek out moments from it...

  23. Re:This is what happens on Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, some of us click the links within a VM just to see what kind of nastiness is hiding on the other end.

    As for the status bar simple javascript can keep it covered with something else... or do you not remember the scrolling ticker tape status bars on the pages of the late 90s and early 00s?

  24. Re:Numbers Are Easy on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Numbers are easy, until marketing and/or legal gets involved.

    Porsche numbered their cars based on project number. So the iconic 356 is the 356th project that Porsche Engineering undertook.

    Except Ferry didn't want his first customer to think they were the first... so the first project was #7, so the 356 is actually project number 349 (this is where marketing kicked in for him).

    This carried on with sub assemblies - the 744 transmission, etc.

    Then the 901 was introduced. And after they made 34 cars, Peugeot called their legal department and it was decided that they had an issue with any other car maker making a car and badging wtih a 3 digit number where the middle number is a 0. And so overnight the 901 became the 911.... of course, one of those first 34 cars with the 901 badging are VERY collectible, even over and above any other early 911...

  25. Is slashdot and the corporate overlord of the year a "media company" ? Sure, most of the slashvertisements point to other "news" sites, but there is also the ask slashdot, the ability to post from a journal, etc. Is that just providing a platform to us plebes to comment on "news" "articles" with a nifty rating system that gives us some sort of social gratification?