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  1. How many of those are real persons and not competitors buying for disassembly/reverse engineering? And then there is the usual suspects (NSA, Russia, China, Iran, Best Korea etc)

  2. Re: Reigniting the browser wars on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how do you disable Pocket on FF Android? (Actually I use FF Nightly)

    Searching for pocket in about.config gives me nothing.

  3. OK, here in Sweden you get some controlled spoofing. The difference is that you have to own the number that will be shown. And I think there have to be a day delay when registering a new number.

  4. Go Ogle thinks I'm French, Polish and Norwegian... on Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm getting loads of of French and Polish spam on my gmail accounts. Go Ogle wants to serve Norwegian ads on my phone when I'm connected on my Wi-FI network. I live 80 miles from the Norwegian border the way bird flies. My landlord is getting the Internet and IP-television from Viasat, a Norwegian company.

  5. Blast from the past? on NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Stuntaz?

    /Tru Pimpin

  6. Re:There's a simple solution on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    And one mindless idiot that click "Thanks/Like" so that the alert stays active almost forever. I've been clicking "Not there" on a alert for at least four months now. The award hungry Peters (that scream "wolf!") likes to stack their alerts to places where you have keep your attention to the road and not click on the phone.

  7. Re:Interested in DD-WRT on Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4 · · Score: 1

    The firmware on this router is a couple of weeks old.

    Not any longer. Linux DD-WRT 4.4.2 #339 SMP Fri Feb 19 06:25:39 CET 2016 armv7l DD-WRT as of now.

  8. Re:Interested in DD-WRT on Linux 4.3 Reached End of Life; Users Need To Move To Linux 4.4 · · Score: 1

    root@DD-WRT:~# uname -a
    Linux DD-WRT 4.4.0 #180 SMP Mon Jan 25 06:34:34 CET 2016 armv7l DD-WRT

    The firmware on this router is a couple of weeks old.

  9. Re:No car hits its official CO2 output level on Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the links. I replied with points picked out of memory. My misses were using extra high grade lubrication and the returning break callipers.

    Those rules needs to be upgraded with at least driving the car for a period of time/driven a minimum distance in normal traffic where you have to break hard at least once and then put it directly in the lab. My Mercedes Vito van would get seriously lower mpg if they had done that. Crappy breaking system, I'll have to put new discs and pads on all four wheels.

  10. Re:No car hits its official CO2 output level on Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget taping all gaps around the doors/bonnet/boot shut. Change to tires with lower rolling resistance and then over-pressurize them. Disconnect AC and generator and run everything from the battery.

  11. Scroogle? on Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is bingin your bunghole.

  12. Re:Well, that was quick on Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" · · Score: 1

    The then American owned Volvo were told to shut the fuck up about some safety issues. Volvo found that when getting t-boned the roof could rip open. So they reinforced the roof and informed their owner (Ford) about their findings. Ford did nothing fix it at their end. Volvo went on banging on their drum about all safety features incorporated in the latest model (I think it it was the XC90) when Ford ordered Volvo to shut up about certain safety inventions because Ford was scared that it would be sued because fatal accidents were happening with Ford built SUVs.

  13. Re:Bug in their bug on Buggy Win 95 Code Almost Wrecked Stuxnet Campaign · · Score: 1

    You could lower the crashiness in Win95 by removing everything, hardware and software, marked with "Creative Labs". My last sound card made by Creative was Soundblaster 16.

  14. Re:Give the money to Elon Musk on Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    ESAB is a Swedish company.

    ESAB was bought in 2012 by Colfax Corp and the manufacturing was moved to China.

  15. Re:Not a big deal on Lenovo Still Shipping Laptops With Superfish · · Score: 2

    If you intend to run Linux on your Lenovo laptop, make sure everything works without massaging drivers because YOU NEEDS TO ROOT THE BIOS to get the computer to accept a non sanctioned (i.e. bought from some other store than Lenovo) network card. My G50-45 was delivered with a Realtek card that works like crap and I haven't got the Bluetooth part to work yet. I do have an Intel 7260 to replace the network card with IF THE FUCKING COMPUTER WOULD BOOT WITH IT.

  16. Re: file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Kaypro 10, with 10Mb Harddrive. In 1983 there weren't any other interfaces than MFM/RLL availlable. (Plus some exotics, like SCSI and ESDI.)

  17. Re:or not renew govt enforced monopoly franchise on FCC Puts Comcast and Time Warner Merger On Hold · · Score: 1

    +1, Funny

    No modpoints today.

  18. Re:Third option on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    I've had Defender cases for my HTC Desire and my S3. The silicone part were fine on the HTC case but the rubber on the S3 case absorbs moisture too quickly and swells.

    I got a new case on warranty. When that got too flabby, I bought 2 noname replacement skins from China. One of those skins have swelled too much. So, I'm into the last skin and the last belt clip holder. Forgot to turn in the holder when replacing on warranty and I made a special car holder for Otterbox belt clip holders. When one of them breaks/swells the Otterbox is history

  19. A friend of mine, Bosse, bought a vacation home on Merrit Island, FL together with some friends of his. He used to fly over to the states, timing the trip so he could watch the shuttle launches from his backyard. They paid extra money for insulating the villa to match Swedish standards. That saved them a lot of money because it was easier to keep the house cool. And it kept out outside noises as well.

    CSB:
    Bosse were into competitive pistol shooting so he bought pistols which he brought back to Sweden. When he needed to practice shooting, he went to to the airport shooting range the security used to train at (Don't know if it was Orlando International) and asked if he could shoot there, which he could. This was well before 9-11. One trip he got himself a .454 Casull revolver, which he took down to the range. When he started shooting, the personnel there stopped and went "WTF is that?" and then "Can I try it next, please?" /CSB

  20. Re:a question.... on Oso Disaster Had Its Roots In Earlier Landslides · · Score: 1

    Deforestation helps, but the main cause here are "Glacial deposits" + rain, because I suspect those areas were under the sea level during the last ice age. Clay deposits made in seawater is called "quick clay" when the salt is filtered away.

  21. Re:nothing new on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 1

    Those lakes are formed by permafrost. There are similar lakes in the northernmost part of Alaska and Canada. Don't know if they are the result of gas seeping out of the upper layers of the tundra or some chemical process like karst lake formation.

  22. Re:Generic? on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    Naah, that's for IT services.

  23. Re:Hacker Extortion Target on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    The criminals themselves will use old cars that handles well.

    Mark 2 Jaguar with 3.8L XK i6 anyone?

  24. Re:It's about control of information on Final Days For Australia's Analog TV · · Score: 1

    And if the Malaysians decide to go with different codecs/subtitle coding, you might need to buy a Malaysian set top box in order to watch Malaysian TV. DVB-T in the Scandinavian countries differs from DVB-T in the UK, mostly in subtitle/EPG streams.

  25. Re:If you've got good signal, digital is better, b on Final Days For Australia's Analog TV · · Score: 1

    Sounds like 16:9 plus the same signal letterboxed into 4:3, which your box/TV convert into 16:9 by padding the image with vertical bars.

    Those guys who owns that channel are complete morons because if the watcher has a box converting digital to analog signal, he already have function in the box to output the image in letterboxed 4:3