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  1. Re:Reverse engineering on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not a single American was killed on U.S. soil by citizens from any of those countries between 1975 and 2015, according to statistics tallied by the conservative-leaning Cato Institute.

    However, the same set of statistics show that nearly 3,000 Americans were killed by citizens from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt in the same time period - with the bulk of those killed being victims of the 9/11 attacks. Yet, people from those three countries are still welcome to apply for U.S. visas and travel permits.

    In a striking parallel, Trump’s sprawling business empire — which he has refused to rescind ownership of — holds multi-million dollar licensing and development deals in all of those countries, raising potential conflict of interest concerns and alarming questions over what actually went into the decision process behind Friday’s executive order.

    So please, use statistics and data to explain how Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia managed to escape that ban, other than having strong ties to Trump's bottom line.

  2. Re:Wait a minute... on Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    This is how this works. You check the box then they check for a cookie set from a time you previously finished the captcha. In addition to checking if you're signed in to a Google account of some sort (Gmail, Google+, Youtube, etc).

    I want to see this work on a brand new browser install.

  3. Re:Makes no sense on Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Write a bit of software to record raw mouse pad input. Do an FFT to see what noise there is. Add the noise back to your command signal.

  4. Jesus I don't even know where to get started with this.

    Docker, Python, or non-RTOS.

    I clicked on the link hoping to see maybe some Simulink model that compiled to a XPC or other embedded hardware. How is linux supposed to know to ignore the ethernet driver and concentrate on running the steering wheel?

  5. Re:Pastebin link - adblocker on Kickstarter Suspends Crowdfunding Campaign For Electronics 3D Printer (3dprintingindustry.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's 2 PDF mirrors of the pastebin:

    https://www.docdroid.net/2MEWa...
    https://www.scribd.com/documen...

    And an Archive.is mirror:

    http://archive.is/q9E44

  6. How is this any different than 90% of the kickstarters? Did they exaggerate just a bit too much?

  7. You work on getting them to stop. I'll use their abuse to my convenience.

  8. No, I assume Amazon is feeding them everything I say.

    I assume I have an NSA agent sitting on my couch just like I've assumed that since long before Snowden told us they were.

    I always assume that unless I take measures to know they're not. It's trivial to do that.

  9. Re:Voice assistants are another fad on More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have full use of your limbs? Good, some people don't.

    Have you never cooked food such that your hands were covered in meat juice? Good, some of us do.

    Is your house wired where there is always a button immediately where you need one? Good for you, mine doesn't always have one.

  10. I don't get it either. It's not even a matter of give-and-take with respect to privacy, it's "here, take all my privacy NOW! I don't need anything worthwhile in return! Just take it!"

    Posted without any self awareness of what you are currently doing.

    Using a

    1. Registered account
    2. Using an ISP that logs what and where you go (and possibly more)
    3. Using a web browser that is pretty easily identified through multiple fingerprinting techniques
    4. Paid for through a credit card or bank account that is linked to your name and identity.

    You're already being tracked.

    I don't need anything worthwhile

    I guess you don't value your time or have more of it than you know what to do with.

  11. The echo dot was all of $40 during the holidays. That's cheaper than a single z-wave switch. I've re-wired our most used switches with z-wave switches. (Of varying brands, just to avoid being considered a shill).

    People who spent thousands of dollars on gadgets that give them the benefits of existing technology that costs much less, and are just trying to convince themselves.

    And yet you own a furnace that is run off of electricity or natural gas. What benefit does that really give you over a wood fired furnace? Something that already existed and is cheaper to run if you split your own trees. I think you're just trying to convince yourself it's cheaper by shilling for the Big HVAC industry or mad you spent thousands of dollars on a furnace and want to convince yourself it's worth it.

  12. As I said in the last Echo thread, Unless you take measures to make sure you're not being intercepted and listen to just assume you are, not that I agree with that but it's just fact at this point.

    Do you think the US revolutionaries kept themselves out of sight during planning? Or do you think they went about their daily lives until they knew they could talk freely? Which one do you think would raise more suspicion?

    I assume the average Slashdot reader is intelligent enough to setup secure end to end encrypted communications, even with people sitting in the same room.

    • Alexa, play light jazz
    • On local hosted SSL IRC server: So what time do you want to do [nefarious act]
    • Alexa, set a timer for 60 minutes
    • IRC: I don't know? I think that the [target of act] will be open to attack at 08:00.
    • Alexa, add toilet paper to the shopping list
    • IRC: I'll order some fake IDs through the darkwebs, do you have a preferred state?
    • Alexa, how many teaspoons in 1/4 cup

    Since you seem to be out of the loop: Examples of end-to-end encryption include PGP, GnuPG, Protonmail, S/MIME, Inky, or pEp for email; OTR, iMessage, Signal, Threema, or WhatsApp for instant messaging; ZRTP or FaceTime for telephony; Google Duo or Wire for videotelephony; and TETRA for radio.

    So yes, if the NSA wants to listen or look in on 99.9% of my daily life, please, come sit in my living room. Fair warning I walk around naked a bit. I'll sometimes shit with the door open too. It should be no secret to anyone that I use the bathroom, listen to music, cook food and order stuff to get through through the day. All data that is easily aggregated from data that's already out there with credit cards, customer loyalty cards, etc.

    I know they're going to be aggregating and watching me anyway, I might as well get some convenience out of it.

    But if you really want to plan something it's also not that hard to take precautions to do so. TAILS, public wifi, any of the above apps. Or even easier, just go lone wolf. Keep all of the planning in your own head.

    If you want to avoid being tracked all together the Amish are a very welcoming community. They keep to themselves and everyone around here leaves them alone. I'm sure they feel a bit of social pressure to change but they don't.

  13. Re:Voice assistants are another fad on More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    We use ours every day for the same thing we used it for when we bought it.

    Even bought more to expand where we use it.

  14. My plan for the next big war:

    Navajo Teen Talkers. Hire a bunch of 13-17 year old male gamers and female social media gurus and hide chatter in those mediums.

    "Agent 45 just said he's going to plunder my mother tonight. Get that message decoded".

  15. You either undervalue your time or your time isn't worth that much to begin with.

    What is your time worth? What can I pay you to take away one hour of your day in which you aren't allowed to do anything you want? What would you pay to have an hour of time back with your family?

    Yeah, I give up money for free time. Just like I shop for food at the store instead of tilling a field and picking crops. Just like how I now pay someone to do oil changes for me. Just like how I pay the natural gas company to deliver BTUs to my house instead of going out with an axe and dragging the BTUs out of the woods.

    Your life is built on trading money for convenience.

  16. No. I have plenty to hide. I've just accepted that the NSA has already dug themselves into every day life to the point that if I don't take measures to make sure they're not listening I assume they are.

    The same reason I don't try to 'hide' something on a billboard sign on a major freeway. Any of the stuff I don't want to be seen is on an airgapped OpenBSD box with PGP or a TAILS live USB on a Library computer (bypassing the need to login). Our Library doesn't have video cameras.

    Now, if you go about hiding *everything* you do you're going to raise more suspicion. There's a reason when they interview the neighbors of domestic terrorists a lot of them go "We never suspected anything, they were nice people. Always had us over to grill." I'm sure in the future their Echo is going to show nothing out of the ordinary either.

  17. Which LG? on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember it's a Chaebol and includes LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Uplus, LG Chem, LG Life Sciences, and LG Solar Energy.

    Given how many industries they're in the chart they provide is a spurious correlation at best.

  18. With my time.

    What exact conversations are you having in your living room that you're afraid of the NSA listening too? I've assumed they've been reading my e-mails and listening to me for over a decade. Back when I was called a 'nutter' for it before Snowden told everyone what they were doing. Just like I assume that any creeper can take photos of me when I go out in public.

    Unless you take measures to make sure you're not being intercepted and listen to just assume you are, not that I agree with that but it's just fact at this point.
    Do you think the US revolutionaries kept themselves out of sight during planning? Or do you think they went about their daily lives until they knew they could talk freely? Which one do you think would raise more suspicion?

    I assume the average Slashdot reader is intelligent enough to setup secure end to end encrypted communications, even with people sitting in the same room.

    • Alexa, play light jazz
    • On local hosted SSL IRC server: So what time do you want to do [nefarious act]
    • Alexa, set a timer for 60 minutes
    • IRC: I don't know? I think that the [target of act] will be open to attack at 08:00.
    • Alexa, add toilet paper to the shopping list
    • IRC: I'll order some fake IDs through the darkwebs, do you have a preferred state?
    • Alexa, how many teaspoons in 1/4 cup

    Since you seem to be out of the loop: Examples of end-to-end encryption include PGP, GnuPG, Protonmail, S/MIME, Inky, or pEp for email; OTR, iMessage, Signal, Threema, or WhatsApp for instant messaging; ZRTP or FaceTime for telephony; Google Duo or Wire for videotelephony; and TETRA for radio.

    So yes, if the NSA wants to listen or look in on 99.9% of my daily life, please, come sit in my living room. Fair warning I walk around naked a bit. I'll sometimes shit with the door open too. It should be no secret to anyone that I use the bathroom, listen to music, cook food and order stuff to get through through the day. All data that is easily aggregated from data that's already out there with credit cards, customer loyalty cards, etc.

    I know they're going to be aggregating and watching me anyway, I might as well get some convenience out of it.

    But if you really want to plan something it's also not that hard to take precautions to do so. TAILS, public wifi, any of the above apps. Or even easier, just go lone wolf. Keep all of the planning in your own head.

  19. 5.1M is considered a failure?

    Everyone I know with one personally likes. I bought our Echo on pre-order as a Prime member and have since bought 2 dots. One for my office and one for my shop. Companies are

    It has a lot of problems, it's nowhere near Star Trek's but it's a really good Alpha. They are adding a lot of tools and it's pretty trivial to setup your own. I use HomeAssistant to run our smart switches.

  20. Re:Maybe voice activation is overrated? on Alexa and Google Assistant Have a Problem: People Aren't Sticking With Voice Apps They Try (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    YMMV: We use our voice activation lights more than we use the switches these days.

    When the kid is a sleep I'll log into the web interface and switch the lights off that way.

  21. Re:The problem is what you consider useful on Alexa and Google Assistant Have a Problem: People Aren't Sticking With Voice Apps They Try (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting
  22. Re:As a tech worker with kids... on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    play with friends? Or go to school? Or go to a store? Or play on a sports team? Some of us like being in walking distance to things.

    (We have towns out here too). Towns where you can get a house that you can do all of the above and buy a house for under $150k.

  23. Re:As a tech worker with kids... on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Here I am sitting in the 'middle of nowhere' on 20 acres. If the kid wants go go outside, we go out side. Walk on our own property. Go sledding, biking, or what ever else he wants to do. If I need a workout I'll go fell some trees. I can't imagine trying to raise a kid in a concrete jungle.

  24. My laptop drops into a mostly Windows desktop after a timeout for exactly above reasons.


    autologin-user=[name] - Name of the user
    autologin-user-timeout=[value] - Timeout before session is loaded

    If my laptop drops into a DOS looking command prompt they'll think the laptop is dead and won't bother trying to use it. If the laptop is usable the thief will probably try to use it as a laptop. It'll be wiped or dumped.

  25. What happens when Americans refuse to move to the jobs? Both here and on Reddit are multiple people "I can't find any ____ jobs near Seattle" and when they are suggested moving they can't because they have a bag of excuses. H1Bs are already moving to a new country and don't care they're taking a job in Iowa.