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  1. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    Or by your fingerprint. Or, in my case by a 12-character secure password.

  2. I don't want NFC for payments... on Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only · · Score: 1

    I want it for external encryption, with my Yubikey Neo. Until that works, I'm unlikely to upgrade from my 4S.

  3. Re:Bullshit on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1

    Not sure how I did it (I keep my 4s in a pocket with just a polishing cloth), but I've got a 1/4" scratch on mine. I've dropped my 3s in the past, but never dropped my 4s.

  4. Re:in the meantime : on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, but I'm a software developer who live in emacs with multiple frames spread across two 2560x1440 27" monitors with each frame usually split into 6-10 windows. 30Hz is just fine for that.

  5. Re:in the meantime : on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 1

    I just bought a Seiki 39" 4K TV for use as a monitor. I paid $329 (USD) because I was too slow to get the sale price at $299.

  6. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    No, because that doesn't work with sudo. Real pros use:
    cat | [sudo] tee [-a] filename

  7. Re:Avoid IoT at all costs on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 1

    If you need the key embedded in the chip in your fridge, and the engineers weren't complete idiots and they aren't all the same, then downloading a script may not be enough, you may have to hook up a sensitive a/d converter and run 1000s of probes to determine the key. The potential pool of people who would do such a thing to avoid ads on their fridge is much smaller than those who would simply cover the screen with their kid's art.

  8. Re:Avoid IoT at all costs on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 1

    The trouble is, you might first have to conduct a side-channel attack on the crypto chip in your fridge to get its key so you can properly encrypt the messages to say "everything is all right".

  9. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    You had bits? Back when I started, zero hadn't been invented yet, so we just had to pile up stacks of 1s in unary!

  10. I wish I'd known... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 2

    that I'd make way more money as a lawyer :-)
    Then I could spend my time doing computers as a hobby and actually enjoy it.

  11. Re:I'm interested in this sort of thing for my hou on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 1

    Looks like home depot has a PIR sensor switch (which we'll have to put in the new bathroom due to CA's Title-24) for $19.97, but a 10 pack of normal switches for $5.90...
    A bit of a step up in price there.

  12. Re:I'm interested in this sort of thing for my hou on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 1

    Different pockets.

  13. Re:I'm interested in this sort of thing for my hou on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 1

    We have two big dogs, and I'm not really worried about a break-in, but I still don't feel comfortable ceding my coming and going to a for-profit company with unknown security practices.

    If I were really worried about a real break in, I wouldn't have had the alarm system ripped out during the remodel...

  14. I'm interested in this sort of thing for my house on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 4, Informative

    But I'm sure as hell not going to run my door locks over wireless with some consumer product that's produced as cheaply as can be for the mass market.

    On the other hand, I know that roll-it-yourself security is almost always broken.

    So, I deal with having to reach into my pocket to get my keys, and turn on lights with a switch rather than automatically.

    Somehow I survive.

  15. Re:Why is on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 1

    I _could_ care less, but I don't care enough to try to not care that hard :-)

  16. Re:Price of using scientists as political pawns on Lawrence Krauss: Congress Is Trying To Defund Scientists At Energy Department · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm still driving around in my ~11 year old car, but when I get a plug-in hybrid I'd plug it in at my solar roofed house...

  17. Re:Price of using scientists as political pawns on Lawrence Krauss: Congress Is Trying To Defund Scientists At Energy Department · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree, we shouldn't be subsidizing the green industries, instead we should just regulate the shit out of the extraction industries which manage to externalize so much of their costs.

    How much should the coal industry pay for the ~1M deaths/year?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

  18. Re:Apple TV? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was definitely snark. I've got a Harmony remote, and the AppleTV remote sits in the cabinet with the other random TV related stuff.

  19. Re:My two reasons. on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    Or, you can torrent it for free! :-)

  20. Re:Wonder why so relatively early in the year... on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    Re: #3

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X...

    No one sees any reason to pay for the beautiful Apple gear in a server room. Plus, I'm not sure that OSX is really server grade at this point.

  21. Re:Apple TV? on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    You mean you can't find the remote app on your iphone?

  22. Re:Emu on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a Rat-Thing myself

    http://villains.wikia.com/wiki...

  23. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    No, aim to kill. You don't want to leave the criminal as a witness.

  24. Re:Don't. on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? · · Score: 1

    And if they use a diamond saw or cutting torch or plasma cutter?

  25. Re:Database Scaleability. on Ask Slashdot: Which NoSQL Database For New Project? · · Score: 1

    Where has this idea that Databases can't scale come from?

    the CAP theorem

    Consistency, Availability, Partition-Resistance. Choose any two.