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  1. For all my Sun peeps... on Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    IBIS.

  2. Transfer tech? on This Guy Is Digitizing the VHS History of Video Games (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Curious about capture method(s) I have a D-VHS deck which among other things... will output analog VHS to firewire.... I would be interested in seeing a delta on this capture versus D-VHS to FW... still.. very cool.

  3. Last feature in readme.. on PlayStation 4.5 Update Brings HDD Support, PS4 Pro 'Boost Mode' (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    3D-Bluray support added to PSVR headset... there have been some work arounds but this is a good thing.

  4. As long as the smaller batteries allow for expansion in situ, this is great... better than destroying an otherwise good product (and yes, I am an iPhone fanatic).

  5. Re:Is anyone actually suprised? on Two Years Later, White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition · · Score: 1

    What you can (and should) blame Obama for is waiting this long to answer it, 2 years? They easily could have said hell no right after the petition closed, why wait?

  6. Re:the Nazi regime forbid the university on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 1

    verboten...

  7. And this is why... on Australian ISP Offers Pro-bono Legal Advice To Accused Pirates · · Score: 2

    I cringe when I consider how this would have played out with Comcast as the ISP and Universal as the media company... oh, wait....

  8. Advice is one thing... on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    I always carry a camera and will readily use it, but before you take your newly re-discovered rights watch this....

    https://www.facebook.com/micha...

    Knowing your rights isn’t enough; I am not suggesting this advice is wrong but you need to fully understand that if you find yourself in a situation like this that you are risking a confrontation with an officer that has deemed him or herself ‘worthy’ of your camera. Police must learn to respect the citizens they ‘protect’ and stop this kind of behavior.

  9. Re:Assuming.... on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Any number of scenarios could present themselves, dense housing with open space for development; or the soon to be vacant neighbors property, if they didn’t want the studios larger their reaction to ‘tract’ housing is going to be enough to make them reconsider where they should live. He might not be playing chess, but I don’t believe it is checkers either.

  10. Assuming.... on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These new residents are all voters; he might get permission to build his studio shortly after they move into their new homes....needs of the many indeed.

  11. Seems like a good guy.. on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 2

    He was one of the least hurt by the sanctions regarding the Ukraine, seems like he cares... wonder how taxation on this is going to play out....

  12. Wish I had... on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    My last customer service 'interaction' with Comcast involved a rate offered for services when unbundled (not part of one of their phone/internet/cable 'deals')
    Navigating their promotion site I found I could get my current package for 15 dollars less per month, I wasn't allowed to select it because I already had it; Calling them I asked for assistance, they insisted it was a bundle price and I couldn't, I explained how I got the idea, they followed the link and agreed; service rep assured me they could fix this but it would take logging a ticket and that they would call me back in a week or less.

    A week later, no call back, I call and reference my previous call, they check and tell me it has been fixed; strange, they didn't call, so I asked when they would adjust my billing; what followed is how I believe Comcast treats all of its customers... what was 'fixed' was the website, they logged the back line ticket to the web developers to fix the clearly broken (to them) offer; to confirm I was satisfied the CSR asked me to follow the link and confirm that I was no longer offered the better rate.

    I really wish I had recorded both conversations, brilliant and classic ZFG.

  13. Re:Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe, but maybe the fault lies with the criminal, they printed credit cards that looked and felt real enough to fool a store clerk who handles them every day, what are the odds that clerk called the bank with the phone number on the back of the card? I have worked in retail, the check/credit card fraud was amazingly simple back then and still they got away with it, the rule of more secure less convenient does come into play but Apple understands this, each sales person is also a 'register' and the the clearing service they use needs to be explicit in dealing with all rejections, sometimes saying no is really a good thing.

  14. So if groups with disabilities pay up they can have 'fast' service? Next up, every day net neutrality exists a kitten dies tactic?

  15. Re:JVC DigiPure SVHS/DVHS decks and/or Panny AG-19 on Ask Slashdot: Which VHS Player To Buy? · · Score: 1

    ^^^ DVHS, some decks also had firewire outputs, firewire out to firewire in on a machine avoids the need for third party A2D.....

  16. It's a trap... on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 2

    pleading guilty might make a case for extradition stronger and the case for extended clemency weaker? a convicted felon versus a suspected felon might have different standing in regards to who would accept him.... IANAL but it sounds like the game of checkers has just been moved to chess.

  17. Treadstone ends, Blackbriar begins... on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 2

    Likely the 'new' program is already up and running, this just provides a distraction for the masses.

  18. Re:Clearly this has been Photoshopped. on Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander · · Score: 2

    Oh, they likely paid for one license..... and it is owned by the people :)

  19. Re:Mod question... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 2

    It should be.... sounds like a cable exec loaded up a bong (its medicinal) and this idea was the result.....

  20. Re:Better use for NSA capabilities: Watch Congress on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 2

    heh, with their 3 degree's rule I suspect they already are... I wonder how they keep their own names off the lists, or if they even bother, very likely they create alter egos and live their real lives through them.

  21. You know spies.... on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bunch of bitchy little girls. Good news for you, I'm a drunk and a washout already, so I can talk to whoever I want, burned or no.

    - Sam Axe

  22. Re:High risk on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    unless you add a wireless dongle (they come in Bluetooth and wifi but they still require physical access and close proximity).
    every person that has done a 'reflash' on their car to get more performance has done similar things, I can with the right parameters make my cars motor throw a connecting rod through the block, I don't consider this hacking, I consider it sky is falling stupidity... if they had done this through on-star, now that, I would consider hacking and truly the danger that should be exposed by this article.

  23. ZFS - incremental/snapshot? on Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? · · Score: 4, Informative

    two pools, internalPool, externalPool

    use ZFS send and receive to migrate your data from internal to external, you and do whole fs or incremental if you keep a couple of snaps local on your internal disk, this can get excessive if you have a lot of delta or you want a long time.

    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.html

    of course you will need a system that can use ZFS, there are more options for that than time machine, its block level and its fast, and it doesn't depend on just one device, you can have multiple devices (I like to keep some of my data at work, why? my backup solution is in the same house that would burn, if it burned...)

  24. This might matter. on EU Parliament Supports Suspending US Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    So they've voted against sharing data from the EU's citizens only when its exposed that the US wanted the same level of detail on the government(s) supposedly protecting the interests of those citizens? It might matter if the NSA/CIA wasn't already able to get most if not all of this data from their 'unofficial' channels, but I am afraid that train has left the station.

  25. Re:The next bug.... on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    And as an added bonus, they are under 18, so they have some hope of being treated as children in the eyes of the law, they just need to make certain all is done before they turn 18 and that they aren't tried as adults anyhow.