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  1. Re:The only correct answers: on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 2

    You forgot "Sure, here's the password to my honeypot account I don't use."

  2. Re:I hope no one runs steam as root. on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    Yeah a user posted the results of that on the Steam bug tracker. It halted trying to remove a file in /boot, which I assume was the first attempt at a deletion.

  3. Re:Easy fix on Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies · · Score: 2

    He's suggesting non-Verizon users do this to protect Verizon users.

  4. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft tried the easy install, walled garden approach with Windows 8. It didn't go over well.

  5. Re:Nope on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 3, Informative

    As for bandwidth, what I don't get is how do you get your files back if you can't guarantee the people you rented disk space from actually have their machines turned on?

    Easy, do it the same way RAID does it: redundancy.

  6. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not the same. The internal storage is going to be MUCH faster than a PoS $10 SD card.

  7. Re:Short sighted on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    Ignore it. It'll shut off itself when it's done. No need to wait for it.

  8. Re:Doesn't matter even if the publishers win... on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    All modern OSs have this functionality BUILT IN. So all you need is a list (hosts file).

  9. Re:No on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    If they need more manhours worked, and they can't get more hours, they need to hire more man. Men. Employees of any gender. You know what I meant.

  10. Re:pricing on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting accessories, software licenses, and a big one is labor.

  11. Re:Summary on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 2

    A redditor suggested that Uber was using a third-party library and the functions found may never be called at all. But looking into if they were ever actually used or not would get in the way of a good old fashioned witch hunt!

  12. Re:What's old is new again on Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug · · Score: 2

    System UI is the application which controls the navigation bar (back, home, recent) and the status bar/notification shade.

    The dialog for non-responsive applications is controlled by something else.

  13. Re:Why... on Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam · · Score: 2

    Legitimate AV software that will scan for free will also fix for free. You never see it scan but refuse to fix until you pay up unless it is a scam, AFAIK.

  14. Re:"our main unclassified system" on State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies · · Score: 1

    Any sane classified network should have an air gap. You would have to physically move data off the network to get it.

  15. Microsoft could jump on this... on Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X · · Score: 1

    "The latest batch of high-performance Solid State Drives will last longer and perform better down the line in a Windows PC than a Mac PC!"

  16. Re:DDOS + Poison Pill on Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites · · Score: 4, Informative

    As I understand it, Tor hidden services are not accessed via exit nodes. Exit nodes are not needed as the destination can speak Tor.

  17. Re:Only for root users on Windows 0-Day Exploited In Ongoing Attacks · · Score: 1

    If an "exploit" requires the user to manually give it complete access to the PC to work... it's not an exploit.

  18. Re: Agner Krarup Erlang - The telephone in 1909! on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    Fast food places near me use a "single line" system. When a spot opens the cashier announces "Can I help the next guest?" or otherwise greet you to let you know they're ready to take your order. No reason why that wouldn't work in a grocery store. I think that chain you were talking about was just doing it wrong.

  19. Re:WTF? on Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? · · Score: 1

    Gmail catches so much spam that spam actually amuses me when it makes it through because it's so novel to actually see spam for once.

  20. AFAIK DoD contractors are required to keep classified data on a separate network from unclassified data. Classified network should have no internet access. "Closed areas" are used to keep the networked machines physically separate. Set procedures are in place for moving data between the two networks. This sounds like Top Secret data would be travelling across the internet (likely there will be strict standards on VPNs to use and encryption and whatever).

  21. Re:Chrome is crap now. Switched to opera. on Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes · · Score: 1

    You know Opera is based off of Chrome now, right?

  22. Title Is Misleading on How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a pre-release Xbox One, it was off-the-shelf components that met Xbox One pre-release specs. However given the systems they hacked, what they have been charged with, and why they might have wanted to assemble one, it wouldn't surprise me if they loaded it with Xbox One development kit software.

  23. 911 on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    It seems most of these issues with people being in dangerous or emergency situations because their car won't start could be easily solved thanks to 911. For the specific case of being in a bad neighborhood, if there isn't an immediate threat, call a taxi instead.

  24. Re:Whatever happens... on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 2

    For that matter, assume the school always has full remote access to the hardware they issue to the students. Same reasoning. Don't log into personal accounts from those devices or do anything personal on them. Remember the case of the school that issued laptops to students only to spy on them with the webcams... hopefully nothing like that will happen to you, but at the same time it's prudent to keep anything the school has access to cleanly separated from your child's personal life.

  25. Whatever happens... on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    If the school is going to have access to this notebook, assume from day 1 they are going to use it to log onto your child's account and monitor it, thus you should encourage your child to only use it for school activity and not for any personal activity. Schools have done worse.