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  1. Re:Manufacturers on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    Enforced or not, if you are in a 'partnership' you are in cahoots

  2. Manufacturers on NYT: NSA Put 100,000 Radio Pathway "Backdoors" In PCs · · Score: 1

    So the only way to do this is get some sort of intercept from the manufacturer->seller/reseller->mail/postman. It looks like everybody is in cahoots with them.

  3. bc and cal on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 1

    The two I use a lot in a terminal is bc and cal.

    Put this in your .bashrc:

    alias bc='bc -i -l' Then just run bc for a interctive calculator:

    (18*(567/23))+67
    510.73913043478260869548

    e.g.

    and cal is brilliant.

  4. Re:That's what you get on USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I have seen many a BSOD on a few in my time - and once one that had dropped to the desktop with a message (and mouse cursor) 'Reboot Now? [Ok] [Cancel]'. Bloody joke whoever put MS stuff on them.

  5. Re:Enough reunions on And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is a good story re Spike and the Pythons.
    When the Pythons were in Malta filming 'Life of Brian', they heard that Spike was staying nearby on holiday. So they called him up, and quickly changed a few scripts to write him into the film.
    . They shot the first day, and all was well and good... then the next day Spike didn't turn up for filming. Hurriedly they chased him up and found he had gone home!
    So, back to re-writing the scripts again.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-k5viJ7tA

  6. Re:Linux... on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, WTF is that all about? Sounds to me like a MS wedge of money went to the reporter to sneak that in [quote below]

    The reason is that the space station uses computer-controlled SCADA systems in order to manage various physical components of the satellite. As these systems are based on Linux, they are open to infection.

  7. It was not lit aboard the space station on Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    So, we have a rather expensive 'stick'. If it isn't lit, then it isn't a torch - it's a STICK

  8. "...or in emergency situations." on Motorola Patent Uses Neck Tattoo As Microphone · · Score: 2

    When people can't connect to facebook, I guess

  9. Re:I was born a few miles from MK on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    If you lived there in the 60's then you wasn't there.

  10. I was born a few miles from MK on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 0

    ... but never lived there. It is a terrible place to live. For you Yanks, think 1960's NY City + Chicago combined with a touch of muslims (no offence).

  11. Did anyone clean the lens? on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1

    I mean, this is like looking through a dirty/wet window at a street lamp etc.

  12. Re:packages on Slackware Linux 14.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Linux packages is now gone, but there is http://slackbuilds.org/ today!

  13. All bollocks - the bloke is a prick on French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is the son of Oswald -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley so that is good CV material to start with

  14. Re:"It's not just us!!" on Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    I expect they was scared that the links would flag all sorts of virus/trojan warnings in a users browser...

  15. WTF on Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program · · Score: 1

    What do Microsoft and Facebook have to do with the Internet, ffs. They are CUSTOMERS of it, not owners.

  16. No U? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's NEIGHBOUR - get a proper spell checker [i.e. ENGLISH]

  17. Veterans on Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? · · Score: 1

    First you need to define what veteran means. Old farts like me that have been around since 1959 and on the Internet since 1995 and also in the industry for 20 years ~ or vets RAMBO style.

    If they are like me, then what is it for? If it is for the other, the a Uzi would suffice with a redirect to "I'll be back"

    It should be called "Old farts that don't have a clue"

  18. Re:$150 MILLION!? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    I expect BG donated the monies through an outlet that gets more back. Like his foundation that invests in Pharma's that him and his family have loads of shares in, and basically do a MS to shaft others then clean up the sales afterwards.

    Bill Gates is nothing but a modern day snake oil seller -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

  19. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Just teach kids maths. I guess it is all down to the stupid assumptions (excuses) that PC people have about the kid that can't learn (dslyx... or however you spell it) or try to make it interesting involving drink and food. Load of bollocks.

  20. The last bloody thing I want to do when out walking, or in a pub or on the bus or anything else when out and about is the bloody well create a word processing document or spreadsheet or what ever.

    Geez, what's going on in the world?

  21. Re:And nothing of value was lost... on Microsoft To Can Skype API; Third-Party Products Will Not Work · · Score: 2

    Skype is a household word as is Kleenex, and people want to get rid of both as soon as they have used it.
    You got that wrong. I don't know anyone that uses 'skype', nor anyone that talks about it. But I do know that people hoover, and use andrex to wipe their arse. Maybe MS think doing dirty and shitty work makes the name stick.

  22. Hating cats... on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    ... and not been near one in years, how would you know it smells of cat's piss if you don't know what cat's piss smells of?

    I would have blamed windows 8.1 and all the other crap they pre-install - perhaps it's the smell of crap.

  23. Re:' Anyone wonder what the impact will be? on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    But you need a few more crashes and 'incidents' to get the data to improve the code. More crashes please!

  24. Re:What the market will bear. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Also in the UK (as we are a relatively small Country) a lot of services run underground, so once laid they don't have so much maintenance costs.

  25. Re:I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    No, remove time from the observer and the one doing something. Both events will happen at the same speed, but it is only the 'time' measure that is wrong because humans have to measure it.