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  1. TED abusers of the dmca, and sjw friendly on TED Wants To Remind Us That Ideas -- Not Politicians -- Shape the Future (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The staff at ted might like lofty ideals but they are to be consumed not discussed - Bearing an Australian youtuber and others have been dmca'ed and Ted lost the fair use test.

    To call them communicators is a paradox when they censor too.

  2. Letsencrypt versus a 'real' CA on Over 14K 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificates Issued To PayPal Phishing Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think most people here would spot a fake site without the ev,

    Even CA's have issued 'bad' certs to people - Symantec and others have also failed the test.

  3. Replacing Kim dot com? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean 100 tech experts will be extradited to the us as well.

    Whatever you think about kim dot com (stupid name) he did prove that New Zealand will do anything for the US.

  4. Confession on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I have not been in a cinema for months, and neither have the majority of people have seen any of the oscar 2017 films of which are oddly not superhero films.

  5. Non technical people will begin to look elsewhere on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Yesterday my neighbour came in and said his computer is not working - I discovered later it was win10, looked like it had the dhcp bug covered in /. and some update had restored the default screen. It was slow even on a brand new two month old hp shop bought laptop with installed help (trash)

    I run linux so i had an enjoyable hour looking through win 10, eventually it connected and synced his email via the wndows crapware.

    I genuinely felt sorry for them that MS and there partners had screwed up the most idiotic task of reading and sending email. The hope in this is that the next version will be even more useless and drive people to avoid microsoft 'products'

  6. There was support ? on HP Plans To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Amid PC Slump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Years ago i was tasked with sorting out a hp computer for a friend so i used the live chat in windows help. Alas i was not an american - no help. Years later the phone line support (charged) gave me the wrong phone number when the windows key became invalid.

    Since i dont need or want a windows license, and can buy linux computers without the microsoft tax why would i want to buy hp internationally ?

    That old hp computer is still working but now has linux on it, hp wont be supplying the replacement.

  7. I recently had the job of restoring a vista pc who's wga key (label on the pc) became invalid three years ago, and was finally infected by a bitcoin ransom ware file locker. Nobody wanted to help.with the wga thing, the ransomware reminded me of sony corporation

    It now has a copy of linux on it and the files where backed up - it seems to suit the user.and the hardware still works

    I would love to know why the wga key became invalid and being that i am not sure i could convince anybody to part with cash for a microsoft product and discover that they dont really own it.

    I hope many people do what i did by looking at alternative solutions

  8. Its not an ereader, it's a shop. on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    You may think its a ebook thing but its a remote store for amazon. That statement works for the nook and b & n.

    I own neither so when somebody makes an reader that works everywhere without doing voodoo like calibre on content and the like i might get one.

  9. Re:Family member's WIN computer got locked out on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody took one of our vista pc (old) microsoft keys via a keygen (i guess), its not had updates since and nobody at HP wanted to help as there not american despite selling the license .

    The machine still works despite wga not working so genuine widows is an advantage to microsoft not to the user. The only windows program they use is for tom tom gps updater used about once a year..

    It will get a linux distro one day too, new hardware wont be bought from hp either.

  10. Re:I cannot buy an ipv6 consumer router - import o on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The isp thing does ipv6 but who actually manages it ? - i'd rather not become a public hotspot because its there config and updates

    I have ddwrt flashed routers

  11. I cannot buy an ipv6 consumer router - import only on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My isp has ipv6, although the router they sell has no updates i can apply.

    dlink and others dont sell them locally. Please dont blame ipv4 users for the choices that router manufacturers decide,

    ps - Love to have ipv6.

  12. This is going to be a big female future problem on Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation · · Score: 0

    If your in a cinema then no your coughs wont disguise your ringtone.

    Couple of years ago we had 'invited' guests over when an easter occurred. a girl spent most of her time with her friends who might have been with us physically the phone had the attention. Not my problem...

  13. Re:Streetlights useful to remark road in bad weath on Britain Shuts Off 750,000 Streetlights With No Impact On Crime Or Crashes · · Score: 1

    I live by a fast road in the uk , part of it has street lamps. seven people died in an overloaded renault clio late one night crossing four lanes and hitting a tree, another drove into a railway bridge that 'moved' I can give other examples but i attribute most of these fatalities to idiots. Yes the road might be more than the average 'dangerous' but that is due to the risks drivers take. The clio driver later committed suicide without using a car.

    As uk lights dont have bad weather sensors I see bad drivers not bad lighting

  14. Video ad duplication and isp quotas on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    I have three browsers two have ad block one does not and that gets little use. I use the non adblock for flash as flash can kill my linux desktop with a restart at a certain resolution.

    So i get adverts in this use case, most of the adverts where repeated, and one was an infomercial for a water heater which ran to twenty minutes was relatively local to my location and it played about fifteen times in the hour of the flash thing. The next day i looked at the band width used was incredible and decided that if I was the firm who bought the slots knew that i had seen it fifteen times then would be downright pissed off at the ad serving company.

    Sure there ad got seen fifteen times by one set of eyeballs who was a 'local' but i dont have an immersion heater. Actually i found the ins and out of bad installations of these products interesting but i soon returned to my adblock browser. If isps insist on quotas for end users then ad block makes a lot a sense.

  15. Re:Translation: on HP: Smartwatches Are a Major Security Risk · · Score: 1

    I too avoid buying original hp products.

  16. Re:They will care, probably sooner than they think on Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (Jessie) Officially Released · · Score: 1

    I don't like systemd on debian testing which i run on laptop - but upgraded our stable server and systemd picks up init.d scripts and apart from a non on boot running script (easily fixed) i feel quite happy about systemd, i can tell you that systemd in testing is a lot different to stable. So its a bit of a mix.

    i have ext3 filesystems.

    Apache 2.2 > 2.4 is the worst upgrade job imho

  17. free markets ? and angry citizens on NASA Drops $2.3M On Supersonic Aircraft Research · · Score: 1

    Concorde had its issues which only appeared much later due to the small number of aircraft.

    But it was amazing to look at.

    Its market limitation by congress of the day as it competed with Boeing's products seems to be troublesome.So is supersonic now ok ? or will the villagers be burning witches again?

  18. So what happened to North Korea? on Security Companies Accused of Exaggerating Iran's Cyberthreats Against the US · · Score: 1

    Once they where the bogeyman.

  19. Who did he mess with on 'Revenge Porn' Operator Gets 18 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Sounds like he blackmailed the wrong people [politicians] and those who paid also had the wrong sort of influence on his business.

  20. Re:I've been through this myself. on Linux Might Need To Claim Only ACPI 2.0 Support For BIOS · · Score: 1

    Did not Matthew Garret hi-light Toshiba as idiots before for bios secure boot tables mix ups.

    It raised a do not buy flag on Toshiba products with me.

  21. I retweeted a debian feed thing recently and had a richard stallman bot tell me that his thing was better.

    I have not been the same since i have upset his hollyness..Should i consider migrating to microsoft products ?

  22. Apple was always innovative on How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Sometime in 2000 there was a coffee table sized book of non production apple designs with early ereaders, cheque book size computers etc that never made it into production etc.

    Those ideas pre internet shopping have now been translated into reality in other things. Microsoft instead looked at pc boxes, ignored the internet and killed its competitors like novell to sell 'servers'. The average apple buyer knows what his/her thing can do, and the cloud and how it powers the naked selfies is something they dont care about.

    I use linux and am happy with it- the last mac i used had a motorola processor.

  23. Re:Call Comcast? on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 0

    As an european person who gets lots of spam attempts from comcrap/roach runner and twc especially trucklawyersomewhere@spammy i assume no decent email traffic comes from comcrap ranges et al. so when fail2ban id's hosts they lose visiting rights.

    Since comcrap would not action any report of mine without a legal order i sent in your on your own since they dont give a stuff.

    Most of that mention stuff never gets seen by us. Do yourself a favour and get a better isp.and if the fcc wont allow that then that is your problem.
     

  24. Admiral Michael Mccconnell and Booz Allen deja vu on NSA CTO Patrick Dowd Moonlighting For Private Security Firm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Should not this old case get a mention too ? Snowden worked for him.

  25. Re:Is this news? on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 2

    It probably depends on how you use it, if you have a issued renewal reference number then its easy.

    Never done the hm gov prove your a 'human' registration route and if all the non car taxed cars applying for it on one day that might be the reason the system is overloaded as all the not taxed cars are being taxed all of a sudden.

    I lost my photo id/paper license from the dvla an that took a couple of weeks with a paper from a post office to fix, although the online version of it looked hard work so i opted for the paper form. That's when scheduled complexity bites governments