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  1. support contracts required to get updates on Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Cisco requires you to pay for a support contract (yearly) to have access to the updates for a switch when they already charged 3x what it's worth to begin with.

    I don't know how that's even legal when you have big security holes like this. The product is not fit for use, yet you have to pay even more $ to make it "safe" again.

  2. Any given phone number *could* be registered with any number of providers. However, only 1 actually owns it at a time. If you want to spoof 1 number you do own when calling from another # you also own, that should require the 1st number being listed as an alternate (verified by them) with the 2nd provider. If the provider of the actual phone line has no evidence of you owning the # you're spoofing, it should simply be blocked.

  3. By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.

    I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.

  4. Doing better than Intel on AMD Releases Spectre v2 Microcode Updates for CPUs Going Back To 2011 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sandy bridge Intel still hasn't been patched, and that's only a few years old.

  5. That was the point I was replying to. Why would anyone think sending cops in guns drawn is the right move for a situation where no danger or distress is expected? I'm didn't say the cops shouldn't go. My intended implication is in regard to the extreme militarization our police forces have undergone.

  6. Just what we need... more cases of cops pointing guns at innocent people.

  7. Like it or not, that's not the way it works with our electoral voting system.

    I voted for Bernie since the DNC stole the nomination from him. However, I did it in a state that was a practical guaranteed win for Hillary (which she did). Had I been worried that she had any chance of losing the state, I would have voted for her. I don't think I deserve any blame for what we ended up with from that choice.

  8. Re:I wish the US would do this. on Energy Firm Slapped With $65,000 Fine For Making 1.5 Million Nuisance Calls (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, my SIP phone provider won't let me do that. I can only set the CID to a number I actually have. If all of the providers enforced that, this wouldn't be a problem at all.

  9. That's an incorrect assumption. I don't agree with the choice either, but there are a lot of people that do scientific work under Windows.

    I know of a particular microwave propagation simulation software that only has full support under Windows. It's possible to send the compute work to a Linux system, but all of the visualization and modeling portion is Windows only.

  10. Fuck, if I were in charge after the 3rd snooze was up a big middle finger would fill the screen and say "Fuck you, you lazy piece of fucking shit. This is a message from Bill fucking Gates: Get a fucking ipad and use gmail you sorry excuse for a human being." and the computer would lock itself until updates were completed.

    And what about long running software? If someone is running a simulation that takes 2 weeks, do you think it's acceptable to reboot the computer on them forcefully after 13 days?

  11. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what I remember using TSR in DOS, and I wrote some.

    You'd make your TSR as a function that was called in lieu of the timer interrupt - you'd replace the address the timer int would jump to with the address of your function, and then at the end of your function you'd jump to the original timer interrupt address to let it do it's usual thing. That also allowed multiple TSRs to load; they'd just chain 1 after the other and the last 1 would finally call the normal timer int. As such, the TSR code ran every time the timer interrupt fired.

  12. Re:Win 10 on Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows · · Score: 1

    This is not true at all. Total memory amount can be whatever. What matters is properly loading memory channels in a balanced way. Depending on how you go wrong, and on what hardware, performance hits can be a LOT worse than 20% too.

    To match the example, if you had a dual channel memory controller with 4 slots of RAM (2 DIMMs per channel), (2) 2G DIMMs and (2) 1G DIMMs would give you 6GB of balanced memory, assuming you install it correctly (a 2G and a 1G on each channel, ie 1st slot - 2G, 2nd - 1G, 3rd - 2G, 4th - 1G, but this varies by boards)

  13. Re:I once bent a paperclip into a SIM removal tool on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I had an HVAC tech fix our AC once by shoving a rock under the control board to flex it - it had a cracked trace that wasn't conducting well. Rocks can fix electronics too!

  14. Goodbye free speech on 8 Yelp Reviewers Hit With $1.2 Million Defamation Suits · · Score: 0, Troll

    What ever happened to free speech?

  15. Re:It freakin' works fine on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    And how do you stop all those mounts if you want to? There is no more netfs initscript on RHEL7 - if you want to stop all nfs mounts, you have to do them 1 by 1, with "systemctl stop mountpoint.mount".

  16. Re:Stupid on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    And yet here you are. I'll go out on a limb and guess that you ended up getting that higher education and a well-paying job in the tech sector despite all this.

    Actually, no. I never got my higher education, primarily for financial reasons. I have a good tech job though. That is because of all the time and effort I spent on my own to learn all this stuff. All the information I learned from is freely out there - anyone with the motivation can do it themselves. Years ago, only the privileged had access to computers. Now you can get a barebones brand new system for a couple of hundred dollars, or a used system for even less.

    If you ask me, it's in poor taste to complain about this issue as a white guy.

    If not a white guy, who is supposed to be the one complaining about white guys being excluded from all the special programs?

  17. Re:Stupid on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the kind of person who thinks there is not any inequality in access to education to begin with

    There is definitely inequality in the system, but it goes both ways. As a white male born to middle income parents, I was not eligble for the vast majority of scholarships I seeked. Despite having good grades in honors/AP classes and getting a very high SAT score, I got squat.

    Why? It's because so many of the scholarships were specialized to various minority groups and to females. Things like this are why I personally have a problem with education programs targetting specific groups. Equality means equality, or at least it should.

  18. Re:Step 1 on How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or spend a lot less, and buy skull candy earbuds.

  19. Re:" why T-Mobile finds it profitable" on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1

    I got talk&text working on mine (also a Samsung S3) flashing it myself, but haven't gotten the data working.

    I've found someone that does remote flashing, and am going to have them do it for me. I will have them do it from a VM I set up, and will log all usb traffic, so I might be able to figure out what was done from that.

  20. Re:Let's save Bennett some time on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1

    real used market developing

    There are over 20k used iphones for sale on ebay right now, nevermind all the other various android devices.

  21. Re:" why T-Mobile finds it profitable" on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1

    I pay $12 a month for my cell service with them. 1 downside with page plus though is they are 3g only - if you want to use a 4g phone with them it requires manual flashing instead of auto activation.

  22. Re:Give up the keys on Ask Slashdot: Intelligently Moving From IT Into Management? · · Score: 1

    Because he'll NEVER figure out how to get root access with only full sudo!

    Apr 29 16:19:45 REALLYSECURESERVER sudo: newguy : TTY=pts/4 ; PWD=/home/newguy ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/bash

    Right. Just like nobody will ever figure out what that log message means.

    Once you have root, modifying logs is easy.

  23. Re:Darmok and Jalad on Yahoo DMARC Implementation Breaks Most Mailing Lists · · Score: 1

    Where did any of the words they told those stories come from?

    If they don't understand regular language, how do they understand Picard's story?

    So many holes, and so stupid.

  24. Re:Darmok and Jalad on Yahoo DMARC Implementation Breaks Most Mailing Lists · · Score: 2

    Worst. Episode. Ever.

  25. Re:why do people use landlines again? on How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33% · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of non-unlimited plans out there.

    I have a $12 a month plan with only 250 mins and texts. Low limits, but cheap as hell. Only 5c a min if I go over, which I've only done once in a year.
    www.pagepluscellular.com