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  1. Serious question...

    Starting with Windows 10, I've found that Microsoft seems to reset a lot of security preferences with every single windows update that runs. Case in point: UAC. It turns back on each time.

    Does this stick around past an update?

  2. Re:Let's Encrypt definitely helped... on More Than 50 Percent of All Pages In Chrome Are Loaded Over HTTPS Now (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Just use the Let's Encrypt client in manual mode (letsencrypt-auto certonly --manual) then install the generated certificates the "old" way.

    While my OS has the lets encrypt client available, I've got one service I run on it that doesn't have any predefined rules for generation and auto-renewal. Manual mode works great for this, its just a little annoying to use.

  3. I don't see how any company without a national footprint could possibly handle keeping a database up to date of what items fall under what tax category and rate depending on the purchasers jurisdiction. I think it would truly be almost impossible.

  4. Re:insurance fraud at best on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points when I need them? +1 hilarious

  5. Re:OMG! on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I miss the pink April Fools /. personally.

  6. Re:make nobeta the default on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    A 7 digit UID is now a loyal old fart? This site has changed. (Do we still do my UID is lower than your's any more?)

    You betcha we still do. Mind you I'm scared of waking up the really low UIDs

    Crap. You woke me up!

  7. Re:Grandfathering existing free accounts or not? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 1

    I subscribed to their service at one point, and when I just logged in, I got an offer for something, but my service still shows up.

    I haven't gotten an email from them about my service ending period, so I dunno what will happen with me.

  8. Re:CMS? on Dangerous VBulletin Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 3, Informative

    vBulletin added a CMS and blog component in a previous major rewrite.

  9. Ticketing once per calendar day on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I know that at least in some areas, they can ticket you once per calendar day for certain parking offenses. I knew a cop who worked the late shift; whatever parking ticket he was writing at 11:59pm, he'd stay by the car, and write them another at 12:01am.

  10. Re:Get TeamViewer on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    Even remote desktop connection will work fine in most instances. It's built into Windows XP and newer versions.

    But only for Pro versions of Windows, so for most off the shelf PCs, RDP isn't an option.

  11. Re:Yeah! on Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation · · Score: 1

    All my extensions were disabled by the dev channel when that update came through. It gave me a messagebox when it ran the update letting me know it disabled them, and it doesn't give you a way to re-enable them. You do have to dig through the menu to re-enable them. This is after a previous version already made it so to distribute them internally you had to save the crx file, open the extensions page, and drag it on there.

    I understand the point is security, but they're making legit purposes harder to deal with.

  12. Re:No, he didn't on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 4

    My bad. That was the ProtectIP one, even though this still sounds like the same thing.

  13. No, he didn't on DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He said he'd postpone it until further research had been done... In other words, pass the bill now and then shove it down our throats later.

  14. Re:What's the point? on MIT Algorithm Predicts Red Light Runners · · Score: 1

    I say take that a step further. If the light communicates with a vehicle that it thinks is going to run the light, don't increase the yellow time since that could encourage additional cars to enter the intersection; instead increase the pause between the light turning red in the current direction and the light turning green on the opposite approach.

  15. Something's missing... on Tom's Hardware Pits Newest Firefox, Opera and Chrome Against Each Other · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't the summary have the fact that they say Firefox 7 as the winner? Seems like a big glaring omission from this summary...

  16. Re:What does being a widow have to do with anythin on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know when my grandmother died, we had just helped her renew her AT&T contract a month before. I called AT&T from her phone and requested to cancel the service and asked how much the ETF would be. The girl on the phone acted surprised I'd even asked. She essentially told me that they would never charge an ETF for a line for someone that had passed away, mostly because they didn't want to cause any more hardship on the family. I'm sure thats crap and its just that they can't really hold a deceased person to a contract, but I was surprised how easy they made it to close the account. Its a shame Verizon's level 1 support couldn't have done the same thing.

  17. Tickets on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I've gotten two tickets in my life. First was speeding near my house. I was helping a friend move, and had my car loaded down. I'd had a hard time even getting up to 70 on the interstate. The sheriff said I was going 80 in a 55. I know I was going 50, because I hadn't been able to even come close to that. I wanted to go to court, but couldn't make the court date. Found out later that the sheriff that got me was an idiot who probably couldn't operate the radar properly anyway.

    Second ticket was for not stopping at a stop sign. I actually saw the cop a half mile down the road in front of me trying to turn around when I got to the intersection, and also knew I was in a speed trap town, so I purposefully made sure I did a legal stop (made sure the car was completely stopped and counted to three). Even if I hadn't done the counting, I still know I was there long enough while stopped because I let cars go from other directions. It was two miles down the road that the cop even got there.

    I'm not saying I've never sped, or never rolled through a stop sign, but there's nothing as aggravating as a situation like mine.

  18. Well... on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Chattanooga TN (which has been busted before for deliberate short yellows with our traffic cameras) has video. It takes constant video of the intersection when the system detects any cars are nearing. The flash is for the specific stills it takes. So, with this vendor at least, you get both. If you go to challenge the ticket, you can request to see the video.

  19. Re:How to fix Netflix PS3 on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    I've got a slim, which seems to be unaffected. I streamed some Netflix, downloaded a demo from PSN which played, etc.

  20. Re:DreamHost on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    DreamHost has been great to me. You do get what you pay for though. At $10 a month, I don't feel like I can complain too much. I did have a few problems with the server I was on, but three support tickets later and I got on a brand new server they had just provisioned, and its been awesome.

    I'll also point out that webhostingtalk.com is a great resource for web hosting reviews and the like. It's where I've found multiple hosts I've used.

  21. Re:Don't hide. on ICANN Studies Secretive Domain Owners · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much it. I've made the mistake of having my address display at times before. The junk email was one thing, but the junk snail mail was annoying as anything.

    Since you can't really use the privacy services with the .us domains (and others, I can never remember which ones spefically), I've been tempted a few times to rent out a PO Box to filter out the crap.

  22. Re:Banning texting at the federal level on Antitrust Pressure Mounts For Wireless Providers · · Score: 1

    Secondly, what are we actually defining as texting? Technology changes so rapidly that a measure like this can only be relevant for a short time.

    July 1, texting while driving became illegal in Tennessee. Now what I want to know is this. What is it defined as? I do have an iPhone, and don't text when I'm moving because with the touch screen, I can't just feel my way around the keyboard and have to be looking at it. I already had stopped, because to me it seemed dangerous. But, it is an iPhone, and I play music through it to my stereo. If I'm driving and I'm holding it hitting the next button (again, I try to do this in a way so that I'm not taking my eyes off the road while actually moving), is that illegal? On a traditional cell phone, its pretty cut and dry: if you're using a cell phone while driving, you're probably either talking or texting... But as devices get smarter, where is the line drawn on what is "illegal texting" and what isn't? (If any Tennesseans know the answer to what they've specifically said in our law, please speak up!)

  23. Re:why "to the State of New York" ? on Internet Astroturfer Fined $300,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    According to TFA...

    Lifestyle Lift is like a franchise. They have offices in a bunch of places, including 21 in New York, and they also advertised specifically in New York, hence harm was done in the state of New York. I'd think that the Michigan AG could now also perform the same type of fine, and probably other states that the company has offices in too.

  24. Re:Some say that the freebie version will end, too on Google Apps Leave Beta · · Score: 1

    It's still there, it's just moved on the page. Under the big "Try the 30 Day Trial" button is the "Or explore Google Apps Standard", which does have a sign up page.

    http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

  25. Re:Using OpenDNS on Comcast on Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic · · Score: 1

    Same here. I'm getting the OpenDNS error pages in TN.