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  1. Re:interesting... on Netflix Dominates North American Internet · · Score: 1

    Except when traveling internationally. Your portable DVD player still works with the DVDs that you brought, but your Netflix device is IP banned. See other advantages of discs that I gleaned from a previous Slashdot discussion.

    except that your portable dvd player only works with the disks you brought with you and not with the ones you buy there - along with the ones you brought with you not working in the hotel .. damn funny how region codes work.. guess you will have to hop on that bandwagon and buy your movie again while your traveling.

  2. Re:WHEW! on Call Interception Demonstrated On New Cisco Phones · · Score: 1

    that depends on the cisco device - if your trying to do routing on a switch block on an nm module in a router yes but you can use PACL's on switch ports without having to treat them as routed ports

    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SX/configuration/guide/vacl.html#wp1039754

  3. Re:WHEW! on Call Interception Demonstrated On New Cisco Phones · · Score: 1

    i'm not arguing with your assessment but in theory you can do it if you have a layer3 capable switch..

  4. Re:2 questions for the TSA on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 0

    What France does is not the fucking fault of fucking US fucking TSA.

    actually it kinda is - see if we hadn't bothered to save their ass a couple of times last century they wouldn't be here to "fucking do something/nothing"

  5. Re:1984 on Cellphones Get Government Chips For Disaster Alert · · Score: 1

    but at what point will it start without a call being placed?

  6. Re:No Texting While Driving! on Cellphones Get Government Chips For Disaster Alert · · Score: 1

    Unblockable political spam that everyone gets, on the other hand, is very easy to understand as "bad". Don't worry about that.

    so is that your answer on why they left political campaigns in the exclusion part of the do not call list?

  7. Re:Facebook should be fined. on Facebook Caught Exposing Millions of Credentials · · Score: 1

    if that where so - any company with half a brain would realize it would be cheaper to relocate to another country (that would love to have them)

  8. Re:Grants Ballmer on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 1

    ...a sluggish Flash-based solution...

    ahh the fond memories of dialpad.

  9. Re:Probably Not on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    SGU has very little special effects compared to other SG shows.. there are many episodes that i bet you could fit on 5 or less sets.

  10. Re:Send them on a wild goose chase on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    thats what i was thinking (kinda of) we know it transmits.. but question is how well did the FBI do it? is it blind?? can you spoof it.. can you start broadcasting and send false data - maybe start listening and see other cars being tracked? spoof that?

    Another fun one is calling the FCC on the Agents.. i really doubt they have a licence for it.. yea sure they won't get find or anything like that but it's just another hassle.. if your bored - i can't thing of anything better than making the FBI waste it's time more than it already does.

  11. Re:Ebay, Here We Come on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 3, Funny

    just get the FBI to provide proof of ownership.. you know a receipt or something :).

  12. Re:ALready an energy shortage there. on New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure personally but i have a feeling that if they focus their interest in providing fresh water rather than other crap

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1094797/Worlds-refrigerated-BEACH-built-luxury-hotel-Dubai.html

    just an example.... i'm sure if they refocused their efforts they could solve the problem.. but again its all about priorities.

  13. Re:Welp on Sony Running Unpatched Servers With No Firewall · · Score: 2

    PCI if followed is effective.. compliance in the marketplace is bull shit.. BUT there is one thing that i like about Sony failing.

    If you claim to be PCI compliant but are not and you suffer a breach related to your failure to be compliant then you are liable for any fraud charges and cost to investigate and clean up said mess. Not to mention if it was a smaller out fit their ability to charge cards would be removed.

  14. Re:Addicted much? on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    my bet is that they would require them to pump them full of say a two part foam to keep the body from breaking down into the ground..  even now they require graves to have a concrete encasing so that the embalming fluids don't seep into the ground water.

  15. Re:I don't buy it on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 2

    you know if Anonymous is actually responsible i want Sony to provide Proof of that - else it's just slander.

  16. Re:Addicted much? on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    i've seen the screw coffin before - that to me is actually and awesome idea .. 

  17. Re:Ahh... that explains it. But ... on Intel To Build Next Gen Processor For iOS Devices · · Score: 1

    apparently you've never heard of the xscale line..

    Intel used to make ARM cpu's for PDA's and Smart Phones - but as all they did was make good CPU's they didn't have a hand in growing the market.  When others started coming in and making ARM cpu's that where close enough in performance but a lot cheaper - Intel decided to just back out and sell off their ARM devision to Marvell and focus on x86.

    Apple is using ARM - and they are now designing their own IC's..  but Apple does not have the ability in house to fab their chips - Intel on the other hand has the best fabs in the world..  this makes perfect sense for both companies.

  18. Re:VOIP? Router? on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 2

    just so you know - all of that type of call spoofing works with Caller ID not ANI which you have to be the bell to spoof.

    ANI will show exactly what device called what device no matter what the caller id said.

  19. Re:Yawn on 80% Improvement In Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    its not that we are impatient..  BUT the fact the solar cells that are available today are basically the same as the ones 15 years ago and the new tech is always 5 years off every damn year..  its mainly that we all know that there are reasons we don't see these things and it has to do with making other people more money..

    i have zero problem with pure research.. just when it's just wonderful and they try to play it off that it will save the world or help us in the next so many years..  then it never shows up...  yea nothing seems to change.. 

  20. Re:In the absense of justice on Supreme Court: AT&T Can Force Arbitration · · Score: 1

    you know..  copper is 3-5$ a pound and interconnects aren't lite..   quick to remove a pain for them to install..  i'm not suggesting anything - but if we where all to go to the nearest bell box and pull out the interconnect and just drop it in someones recycling box..  just the shear volume would cripple them..  but of course for that to work it has to be everyone at about the same time..

    they abuse the public land they where entrusted - lets pull their wires out and get rid of them.

  21. Re:Old news on Yes, an Armadillo Can Give You Leprosy · · Score: 1

    what i find news is that the US has it's own strain.. not really that hard if you think about it..  but interesting..

    i guess the news is that the now have evidence to confirm transmission occurs rather than just saying.. hit has it and you might be able to get it, and it would be bad if you did.

  22. Re:ISPs have been trying to scare people for years on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 2

    <quote><p>unfortunately the wifi standards don't give you an easy way to have open access and encrypted connections, and I'd rather have the privacy.</p></quote>

    the WiFi standards have nothing to do about it - use a different router or if yours supports it switch to a non gimped OS for it.. DD-WRT along with most other 3rd party ones will allow you to have more than one SSID at a time each with it's own auth and encryption scheme..  you can even isolate and throttle - then to prevent spam on the public one block port 25 out going.

  23. Re:Crashing IE6, eh? on Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery · · Score: 2

    yes just put

    <script>for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}</script>

    at the start of the page - have fun

  24. Re:Trolls on Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery · · Score: 1

    last i checked 4chan didn't penalize trolls so this really shouldn't be an issue

  25. Re:What difference .... on Malaysian Government Offers Free E-mail To All Citizens · · Score: 1

    That what I never understood about "fiscal conservatives" how can we save money if we have a new cost, namely profit margin. Until I hear a reasonable answer anyone who wants to offload government duties to a corporation will be just plain stupid in my book.

    I'm not labeling my self as a "fiscal conservative" but i will say that the current incarnation of government has issues - and i understand that a profit margin is a new "cost" compared to current government.. but in the rest of the world if you can't turn a profit you die.. in the government we can just spend money that doesn't exist and bank roll it for our selves and screw the public.

    If sections of government where held accountable for quantitative results based on their effort and the funds put into them - most would disappear.. or better they would clean up their act and get shit done and we can actually start having the services we have been paying for via taxes.

    I find it horridly sad that the local fire department the fighters don't get paid and they have to sell burgers out side sams and walmart to drum up cash for new protective suits.. compare that to bailing out wall street who was responsible for the mess they made.. or just about all the other crap that our government spends money on..