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  1. Re:So anyone with a kid ... on Comcast Expands $10 Low-Income Internet Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In my part of the country, EVERY child is eligible for NSLP.

    In my neighborhood, some of the kids appear to be getting three or four lunches a day. Can they do something similar with Comcast's plan and get a 50 MB/s connection?

  2. Re:The keyword is "being confirmed" on It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The keyword is "being confirmed".

    Right. Because if this was the USA and it turned out to be an old person driving a large sedan, it would have been confirmed as being "Thursday".

  3. Re:When will they get it? on It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reality is that the attacker was stopped by the first man with a firearm.

    Actually, no. Video made of the truck just getting started shows French police shooting at it. It continued on for at least a mile. One or two snap shots aren't going to have much change of stopping something like a truck. The truck stopped on its own, then they killed the driver.

  4. Will this interfere .... on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    ... with the inevitable Pokemon Go autopilot seek mode?

  5. Re:It's a net safety issue on Consumer Reports Calls For Tesla To Disable Autopilot (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    It will probably be decided based on whether the human or autopilot accidents cost insurance companies more or less. They couldn't give a damn about anything like dead meatbags until they have to pay for it.

  6. ...given an alphanumeric sort, 10B and 10C fall outside the range of 089 to 100. So TFS got it wrong.

    I'd like to know which favored customers had accounts in branches 10B and 10C. And what sorts of trades slipped by SEC scrutiny for 15 years.

  7. It was me on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's no mean feat considering I wasn't allowed to cross the street back then.

  8. Re:The good old times on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Next, you'll tell me that he had a bag of peanuts as well.

  9. Will this require ... on NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... the installation of some software on various nodes of the Internet backbone? Because I have a patent for a piece of software that replies to any such request to install such software with a reference to the response given in Arkell v Pressdram.

  10. Was it possibly .... on Researchers Found a Hacking Tool that Targets Energy Grids on the Dark Web (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    ... derived from Nitro Zeus? This is why one has to be careful about weapons proliferation. Even if you go in thinking that only the 'good guys' will get them.

  11. This skit sounds familiar on Oracle Asks Judge To Throw Out Java/Google Verdict...Again (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle: None shall pass.

    Google: Now stand aside worthy adversary.

    Oracle: 'Tis but a scratch.

    Google: A scratch? Your arm's off.

    Oracle: I've had worse.

  12. In related news ... on First Water Clouds Reported Outside The Solar System (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    ... the Seattle city council passes a resolution making WISE 0855 a sister city.

  13. Compelling reasons? on Ask Slashdot: Should You Upgrade To Windows 10 For Accessibility Features? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For the visually handicapped to switch to it? Yes. They won't have to look at it.

  14. Hello. on Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is Lenny.

  15. Re:Facebook will pay carriers on Facebook Lays Out Blueprint For Connecting Hard-To-Reach Rural Areas (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't usually quote this source. But it seems particularly applicable: Revelation 13:15-17

  16. That Maintenance port ... on 'New Way of Stealing Cars': Hacking Them With A Laptop (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... you see under my dash isn't really the maintenance port. The real one was unscrewed and stuffed up into the wiring harness. The one you are plugging your laptop into is a modified USB killer.

  17. Re:Easy way to get past the robot on Uber Hires a Robot To Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a Security Guard (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    K5 was doing fine until the car thieves brought this along with them.

  18. Re:In other news on Canadian Man Invented a Wheel That Can Make Cars Move Sideways (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In Australia, they've had people driving sideways for quite some time. It's called hoon driving.

  19. Re:Seriously? Nobody? on Spanish Authorities Raid Google Offices Over Tax (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:DBan for platter. Parted Magic for SSD's. on Study: 78% of Resold Drives Still Contain Readable Personal or Business Data (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.dban.org/ isn't DBAN anymore. Blanco bought the domain as some sort of bait and switch. Get DBAN from https://sourceforge.net/projec...

  21. It works with Louie-Louie.

  22. This.

    Location doesn't matter until it's time to put your startup under Alphabet's management. 'Future potential' is the acquisition price Google and others are willing to pay. Not the earnings potential.

    OTOH, if you want to be bought out by Microsoft, come to Seattle.

  23. Re:heh on Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    "[O]ur bodies are gifted from Allah (God) to us to look after and not to destroy,"

    Ahem. That bomb you have strapped to your chest ....