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  1. Re:Why ? on AT&T, Audi Announce In-Car 4G LTE Plans, Starting At $99 For 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Radio (Pandora or Iheartradio) and navigation. That right there will kill satellite radio. Now that iOS 7.1 features CarPlay, more so. While nothing has been said yet, I'm holding out for an aftermarket head unit that will support CarPlay.

  2. Re:What's so complicated? on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 1

    At lest that's the best analogy any of our heroes in office can come up with; let alone understand what the Internet actually is. Well, except for maybe Al Gore.

    We are so screwed.

  3. Re:Sadly, Elon Musk is proof that on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    In reality, that will never happen. There is no a biosphere on Mars, and even if you terraformed the planet, it it's sustainable without artificial support. You can thank the weak magnetic field for that. No shield = atmosphere gets stripped away into space by the sun. So the moment this new emergent species gets thrown back into the stone age, they will die off as would the rest of the planet.

    And I'll leave you with one final thought. You can take man from nature, but you can't remove the nature from man. War happens. It's what we are good at.

  4. Re:Was there any ACARS data? on 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight · · Score: 1

    Like a bomb? Oh that Islamic fanatics are at it again. Missing passports my ass.

  5. Re: yeah. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    On the WLAN zone no doubt. Checkbox removed and all is well. Except for the fact the cert doesn't uninstall itself.

    Providing instructions or a batch file of some sort for Windows users would be a step in the right direction; if this was a genuine mistake.

  6. Re:Work where you grew up on Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living · · Score: 1

    Not now you can't. Good luck finding a house for 180k in Katy, TX. At 200k and depending on the local tax rate, anywhere from $1,300 to ,$1,500 a month for a single-floor four bedroom house. BTW, I just closed on a house not too long ago. I've been in the market for well over a year now.

  7. Re:Yes, but... on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 1

    The ACA (Obamacare) is legal on the basis that it's a tax. SCOTUS said so. That said; your liberty has been rooted under the auspice of saving tax dollars through the taxation of behavior. AKA, social engineering.

    Examples include (but not limited to)...: Smoking, drinking, eating, exercise, calorie burning logging, who you hang with, how you vote, do you play video games, watch TV, movies, soft drinks, drugs...your genetic lineage...etc.

    With ACA, you are the governments "bitch". YOU ARE A SLAVE! We all are.

  8. Re:System Administration on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? · · Score: 0

    But do you really want to compete with 22 year old junior sysadmins? Have you been running a data center out of your basement they way they have?

    A 22 year old junior sysadmin is either completely out of his/her element, or more focused in a vertical segment of the network of a fortune 500. Jr or Sr System administration is generally reserved for people that have lots of experience built upon institutional knowledge. Sr sysadmins are damn near close to being an IT director, but do more grunt work whereas an IT director is purely focused on the business side of things (such as planning for future growth and budgeting).

  9. Recommended Career change on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Change Tech Careers At 30? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I was in your situation given your experience and passion, I would focus more on private home and SMB side of things. Consulting, sales, and perhaps some end-user support. I doubt system and network infrastructure administration is your thing. Perhaps later on, but now.

  10. Re: Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    ...implementation that could have been avoided with proper end user precautions; such as changing the default password.

    -sorry for the broken post. Posting from iPhone with the return button in the way.

  11. Re: Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    I was trying to quantify "flaws". Was it a zero-day exploit, or just a poor security im

  12. Re: Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    Uh oh! Last night I performed a firmware update to DD-WRT from a previous build. When it rebooted (watched LED status on the box), I could press "ok" on the page and it automatically let me in the configuration page. It didn't prompt me for credentials. It should after a reboot, right? I mean, a full reboot effectively drops and forgets the session; or so I would think. And no, I don't cache/save passwords in my browser.

  13. Re:Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Take SonicWALL for example. A business class router that forces you to create an admin password upon first setup. I'm guess other home routers also offer this ability in addition to the examples you've mentioned?

    At the risk of sounding arrogant and condescending (not trying to be), but most people should just let their ISP provide and manage firmware updates for them. That, or go with Apple Airport where firmware updates occur along with standard Apple updates. Point being, rather than the user having to hunt for the updates themselves, they should either be prompted to perform an easy update, or just let someone else manage the device for them. Normally if someone shits on their own machine, I could care less. But if their negligence causes them to shit all over the internet with malware, well that just isn't right.

  14. Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And just how are these 300,000+ routers being reprogrammed to use alternate malicious DNS settings? Is this conducted via some common firmware exploit, or dumb users leaving default admin password in place?

  15. Re:hunters and conservation on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Hunters do kill wildlife. But they also foster an environment for which their prey can thrive first and foremost. What's the point of sustainable hunting if you thin out the population to extinction. This is where conservation comes in to prevent that very scenario from happening.

  16. Re:Teenagers will do stupid things? on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 2

    What's truly frightening is that the brain does age. As you get older, it's no longer pliable at age 35 as it is when you're 18. That means if you're still acting like a "child" at 25, there's not a whole lot of time left to play catchup. Chances are, these people will act immature for the rest of their life.

  17. Re:Stupid question on How An Astronaut Nearly Drowned During a Space Walk · · Score: 1

    Water would float around and collect in blobs. There's no gravity after all. If anything, this would feel a lot like waterboarding; or so I would imagine. Not enough to kill you, but make you feel like you're drowning.

  18. Re:No big deal on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the folks at Monsanto were thinking the exact same thing. Once we hit a "brick wall" with our food stuff, we're going to have to go back to original seed stock. Possibly from the doomsday vault. Can't really do that with mammalian life.

  19. Re: Hurray? on VA Tech Experiment: Polar Vortex May Decimate D.C. Stinkbugs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Depends. Overall I think you are correct. I seem to remember one season in Houston where we had a bad outbreak of mosquitos because they hatched near the coast and migrated N and NW. Last I checked, the coast rarely if ever falls below freezing even if Houston does. The Gulf of Mexico holds a lot of thermal energy throughout the winter to keep the air above it relatively warm.

  20. Re: Live in a cave on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 2

    In what car?! All modern mainstream vehicles still use a master cylinder in tandem with a booster and ABS. Even if you lose all engine power, should still be able to apply the brakes. Although it will require more force to push the pedal down, it should still be doable to bring the car to a complete safe stop.

  21. Re: Live in a cave on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    There was a recall issued on my 2010 RAV4 for that very reason. They replaced the weatherized floor mats (if you have them) and the gas pedal for one that is shorter at the bottom leaving extra room between it and the floor. In my case, it was a simple swap because it's all drive-by-wire (no physical linkage) and I had the normal floor mats that stayed in place with two hooks in the back.

  22. Re:Toyota recall ? on Why Your Phone Gets OTA Updates But Your Car Doesn't · · Score: 1

    I know this isn't a car forum, by my 2010 Toyota RAV4 lost its traction control one night. Anti-Lock works, as does the hill assist. But starting on a green light on a slick road, nope. Wheel will keep on spinning as long as I keep the throttle down. It's not supposed to do that. I took it to the dealer and they found nothing wrong in the diagnostics. I even went so far as to disconnect the battery for 30 minutes hoping it would "reset" whatever stuck logic was in place. Nope.

    At least I can drag race now :-/. Seriously, it sucks not being able to find the root cause.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02...

  23. Re:I don't get it on European Space Agency Picks Plato Planet-hunting Mission · · Score: 1

    Pull this off (artificial wormhole/portal), and we won't need the rest of that stuff.

  24. Re: Callous knobhead on Math Models Predicted Global Uprisings · · Score: 1

    Hopeless. It makes me feel hopeless that people would vote for someone out of white guilt and tribal pride. Not once, but TWICE!!

    I just read that most people know more about pop culture than their own congressman. Fucking ignorant little shits. If they're feeling the pain and stress, they deserve every bit of it. Suffer and suffer some more! Ignorance should be painful.

  25. Re:(Over valued)^2 on WhatsApp: 2nd Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time · · Score: 1

    You know the old adage "Easy come, easy go". Sure it's overvalued. But the investment is smart if you put in and pull out. Don't be the sucker holding the bag.