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  1. Re:Could be worse... on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing. A radio station around here plays Justin Bieber and Kanye West, DURING THE DAY.

  2. Re:That's not what WSJ/Fox News is saying... on HBO Hacker Leaks Message From HBO Offering $250,000 'Bounty Payment' (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Let me paraphrase:

    "We were going to pay him a relatively modest amount with plausible deniability, but won't now because he leaked that, which only gives incentive for others to hack us."

  3. Re:$265M Boondoggle on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    "another aliterate asshole"
    You're both alliterate and illiterate.

  4. Re:PCI Compliance on OpenSSL Support In Debian Unstable Drops TLS 1.0/1.1 Support (debian.org) · · Score: 1

    It is not a MUST. It is deliberately breaking things. Even if TLS 1.0 support is possible, YOU have the ability to disable its use if you can't use it for some reason.

  5. Re:Preceeded by IBM? on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is. The 5100 was not a personal computer. And, they were often referred to as microcomputers or home computers, not just PCs.

    PCs, as the term was most commonly used, were not PDP-8s, or DG Novas, or IBM 5100s, or HP 9100As, et al, as the GP/AC claims, but computers which a person could reasonably afford, not ones which would be used by a single person but normally bought by some enterprise.

    The Altair was first, then a bunch of S-100 copies (IMSAI, NorthStar, Poly, etc.). There were also the lower cost educational trainers - KIM-1, SYM-1 (VIM-1), AIM-65. But it was when the TRS-80, Apple ][ and Commodore PET came out that they really started to sell to the general public, and not just techie hobbiests.

  6. Re:Had no idea this was even a thing on Popular Password Manager LastPass Doubles Price of Its Premium Plan, Removes features From Its Free Service Tier (neowin.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Let a bunch of faceless strangers on the Internet keep all your passwords for you?"

    They don't. They keep encrypted versions of your passwords. All encryption/decryption happens locally.

  7. Re:Beyond "fine red mist" on Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "700mph..cheesh"

    I agree. Cheesh and Chong were great. Loved their movies.

  8. Not paid enough? Quit, because you can obviously get a better job.

    Safety? Same thing, except OSHA is rooting for you, too.

    Short form, paraphrased from Ann Landers and John Prine: "STFU, You have no complaints, you is what you is, you ain't what you ain't."

  9. Re:Bandwidth Per Subscriber? on Verizon, AT&T Customers Are Getting Slower Speeds Because of Unlimited Data Plans (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Well, yeah. But some are more concerned with coverage per area.

    If you live in a major metro, and never leave, TMo might be great. If you travel and want coverage wherever you go, not so much.

  10. Something new? on Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "New Nevada Track Test"

    I'd like to welcome our most recent member - New Nevada, which joins New England, New Jersey, New York and New Mexico in making news!

  11. Re:Rabbit ears? on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    No, rabbit ears are VHF dipoles, made with 2 telescopic elements. Turn them to point them, adjust the length for the frequency.

    The corresponding UHF antenna is a "bow ties" (and often just a loop).

    Network broadcast stations were on both VHF and UHF.

  12. Re:Free, assuming your time is worth nothing. on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yep. A cheap Roku TV (<$150) and a 16G USB stick, and you can pause OTA TV for up to 90 minutes. Start your show, pause it, go off and do other things for 30 minutes, then come back and FF through the commercials.

  13. Re:Not really why you'd use a DSLR on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing replaces big glass and its ability to collect light. And, Gundrota's "computational photography" doesn't need a phone - it's just post-processing.

    Sounds like the guy responsible for the huge success of Google+ isn't happy about the small size of his golden parachute.

  14. Re:Sometimes an old system is best on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Electronic machine that prints the ballot out on paper (so you can verify). You deposit the paper into a bin (or the machine does it automatically). "Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe."

    Your .sig is especially relevant.

  15. Re:Not being used any more on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 2
    AC wrote: " I know that one box that according to the ledger should have contained over 350 votes actually contained less than 50. "

    Then it should be easy for you to provide an authoritative reference for that claim.

    'Cause, The Detroit Free Press didn't report anything like that - rather they reported fairly widespread, but minor discrepancies averaging 2 or 3 per precinct both over and under -

    In 158 precincts, the number of ballots tabulated by the optical-scanning voting machines was inexplicably less than the number of people who signed in to vote. At least 362 ballots were not counted in those precincts, even though the voters had been listed in poll books.

  16. "What do you folks recommend to people who are not as tech-savvy?"

    Don't take tech advice from a newspaper.

    ( I don't disagree about installing multiple anti-virus programs, but the NYT is not a highly regarded tech journal)

  17. Pay someone. on Apple Paid Nokia $2 Billion To Escape Fight Over Old Patents (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "...our plans is to... " reads the official transcript...

    With $2,000,000,000, they should be able to pay someone who can write in English.

  18. Phone pranking? on An End To Phone Pranking (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm guessing the article is confused.

    If it's an emergency phone call to the Coast Guard, they could just use the GPS support like E911 so they get a location from the cell phone. Surely, that's the only type of phone being used on a boat these days.

    I think what this is really about is people calling in on VHF (marine) radio, not a phone.

  19. Good thing Trump doesn't read /., or he'd be tweeting about how Obama has AIDS.

  20. If you don't leave, you _are_ breaking the law, whether you throw the brick or not.

    As used in this chapter, the term "riot" means a public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual...

    --18 U.S. Code Section 2102

    Section 2101 makes it illegal to "participate in" a riot. If you're part of the assemblage, you're a participant.

  21. Make it Six Sigma, which is really 4.78 sigma (or something like that, I forget the actual number), because they allow a fudge factor to accommodate the fact that 6 sigma isn't realistic.

  22. Re:Not a protest on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Protip: If you find yourself in a rioting mob, leave.

  23. Being a graduate of a school does not present even a minimal conflict of interest, unless there's some ongoing relationship.

    If you disagree, please cite relevant case law.

  24. Re:Not a protest on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Maybe they were protesting against windows."

    As a trademark, I'm pretty sure Windows should be capitalized.

  25. Re:Not a troll. on Apple Ordered To Pay $506 Million In Damages For Processor Patent Infringement (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OTOH, why shouldn't the benefits of those inventions developed with public funds go back to supporting the public university, reducing the public's burden for supporting them? Shouldn't the public receive a return on their investment? The alternative you seem to be suggesting is that those inventions which are paid for by the public end up benefiting private companies.