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  1. Assuming they used the 4 digit pin instead of a password yup just 10K passwords.

    Everyone just uses the 4 digit pin because typing anything longer several times a day just to use your phone is a serious pita.

    Otherwise what do they expect to find that they haven't already gotten from the phone company call recor--err "metadata"?

  2. I don't understand why he keeps posting dead links.

  3. Re:Verizon tops AT&T in IPv6 on IETF's Tips For Network Admins On How To Avoid Draining Smartphone Batteries (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Just to be sure we are talking about the same thing if you for example setup a ftp server on port 21 bound to your ipv6 address can you reach it from another connection with a ipv6 address? I can reach the internet with my ipv6 address it's just the internet doesn't seem to be able to reach me.

  4. Re: Fixing market failures is a good use of govern on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    You find a 40"+ zero turn electric lawn mower you let me know that would be awesome.

    Otherwise most of the robotic lawn mowers are not rated for a lawn as large as mine. I haven't seen any that are rated to do 2 acres. I wonder how long it would take for it to walk off if I did buy one.

  5. More often than not nowadays phones don't even include a charger just a usb cord in the box and you are just expected to have a extra usb charger laying around somewhere.

  6. Re: Ghost electric vampires finally dealt with on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    The last time I was using a laptop full time I had 5 chargers for it one for everywhere I used it and one to carry around.
    At $12 each I didn't lose any sleep when one broke. At the time universal laptop chargers at Walmart were $99/each.

    Your about right on the phones that's why they have had 2 year upgrades for the past several years.

    Whats wrong with the iPad? I've got a 4 year old iPad 2 that works fine. I hear its pretty slow on ios 9 (I'm sticking with ios 6.1.3 till I can upgrade equip) battery still runs it for about a day & a 1/2. I'm using a power strip with built in usb ports to charge it no idea where the original apple charger went.

    Wow that's pretty nice the nvg510 modem att gives out is good for about 6 months and costs $100 a pop to replace.

  7. Re:Ghost electric vampires finally dealt with on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    And the current rental fee pays for what now?
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
    The FCC isn't cracking down on them because the rates were reasonable.
    Afaik most can you just have to set it up. The last stb I messed with could be scheduled to switch channels and switch on and off.

    Even my old Panasonic tv/dvd/vhs/fm combo could do that. If you set the clock on it anyway.

  8. When do they become designer? on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    Seriously? when you get to pick the gender and colors.
    Realistically? when you can say "we should give him wings and a nice prehensile tail" and not be joking.

    Although giving your child bright pink hair is probably not the best idea.

    I think spots would look neat.

  9. From what I can find there is no cellphone with support for ATSC. I see that I can get an ATSC adapter that will allow me to watch tv but that's hardly the same.

  10. Re:Ghost electric vampires finally dealt with on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And its supposed to record all your shows while you're not home switched off and unplugged right? Most all stbs today have an auto off set by default if its not set you can set it up yourself.

    I know a guy who plugs his phone in at night then turns the powerstrip off its pluged into to save energy.

    Then he wonders why his phone isn't charged in the morning.

    Lets not do that.

  11. Re:gmail is what has broken email. on What Gmail's New TLS Icon Really Means: Email Encryption Is Still Broken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well if anyone else had wanted to provide a reasonable amount of storage, allow attachments bigger than 4MB, provide both pop3 and imap access, not inject advertising into your outgoing mail, for "free".
    They could have been the largest email provider.

    But no one else wanted to do that for "free".

  12. At&t Arris nvg510 has a dhcp time of 24 hours, 10 minutes if you enable ip passthrough. ADSL2+

    Maybe someday our local cable company will be brave enough to admit they don't have speeds as good as dsl on the flyers they send out.

    At&t is selling 12mbps while suddenlink is selling 8mbps.

  13. Re:IPv6 is such a disaster on IETF's Tips For Network Admins On How To Avoid Draining Smartphone Batteries (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for verizon wireless to start giving out routable ipv6 addresses. The At&t dsl line at work has had a valid ipv6 address for the last 3 years.

    On a verizon 6620l I am assigned a ipv6 address that is unreachable.

  14. They won't sell us phones with ATSC tuners here in the US.

  15. Re:It's pretty simple. really on NASA Is Already Studying What Sort of Person Is Best Suited For Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I really thought by now that we would have a permanent beacon strobe on the moon.

    Wouldn't that be neat? During a new moon you would just see this flashing light blinking out NASA (SPACEX if budget cuts keep up) in morse code.

    Why? why not?

    Think about it you could go outside with your kids and point and say see that blinking light? We put that there.

    We really ought to have something on the moon. A permanent base would be nice. The moon is much closer and is roughly the same distance away year around. With the added bonus that you can see the surface with ground based telescopes on earth.

  16. Re:Gold, Platinum... on The RIAA Says 1500 Streams = 1 Album Sale (riaa.com) · · Score: 1

    Or those commercials that say X number of million people can't be wrong.
    Yes yes they can just ask AOL.

  17. Re:flawed methodology on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    1. I think anything less than a 10 year study would be a waste of time.
    2. Hey man got any cash? Yeah that's how that works everyone shows up on the day the check comes but you won't see them the rest of the month.
    3. I glanced at tfa and I didn't see how they were picking people either.
    4. Back to 1 I think it's entirely too short of a test even 10 years may not be long enough.
    5. With only 300 people I think they will run into issues with the small sample size.

    Hopefully this is going to be a living wage not minimum wage. You wouldn't want to quit your day job but you would be able to quit and retrain for another profession without losing your house.
    Sounds like it will make for an interesting documentary though.

  18. Re:5G, Dead on Arrival on AT&T To Begin 5G Wireless Field Trials This Year (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Even at work verizons 4glte service is faster than the buisness class dsl line so not sure how a pico-cell would help that.

    Last I checked verizon was still playing the lock in game with their feature phones. No free apps few paid apps and friggen everything is a monthly charge the cheapest app for weather on my samsung convoy 3 is weatherbug for $2.49/mo no option to buy the app. The same app is $2.99/yr on ipad for ad free or free with ads.

    But that's probably going to be a moot point as we are not that far off from their 2020 deadline for shutting off their 2g/3g service and they have yet to release any feature phones with 4g chips.

    I suppose they've decided to just stop selling phones.

    I am not going to pay an extra $10/mo devicethatdoesnotworkasaphone fee.

  19. Re:Who are you, Beau "BeauHD" Hamilton? on Authorities Reportedly Question McAfee's Ex-girlfriend (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Greetings not timothy!
    Welcome to slashdot.

  20. Re: Less than zero is a valid timestamp on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Doubtful the iPhone won't accept any time outside of the 1969~2038 range. Then again that might be a function included with Universal Roaming. Either way the doctor strikes me as a android type guy.

  21. Re:Less than zero is a valid timestamp on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry I must have missed something are there not any full moons in the future? My ipad running ios 6.1.3 allows me to set the time to as far in the future as 2038.

    Does the game check to make sure you've not started at the same time or something that you would need more than one full moon?

    Setting the clock back to 1970 does make it rather obvious something's gone terribly wrong though as it breaks https.

  22. Re:Networks no longer exist on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Have a Pager? Do You Find It Useful? · · Score: 1

    Yeah afaik there is no company that even provides pager service in my area. I don't remember ever seeing someone with a pager around here in years past either.

    So I think we just jumped from smoke signals to cellphones and skipped over pagers. Although I do believe some areas around here are still using smoke signals.

  23. Re:Less than zero is a valid timestamp on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My question is why does it even allow you to set the clock back that far? Are they expecting a lot of sales to time travelers that never go back farther than the 1970s? At this point nothing made today should accept a year less than 2000. Idealy the clock would have a hard coded default time of when it was manufactured.

  24. Re:Again with the misspelled acronym on UK GHCQ Is Allowed To Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If i'm reading this right a private company in the Netherlands was attacked by the GCHQ. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as espionage. Shouldn't the Kingdom of the Netherlands be pissed?

    Iirc the US was pretty pissed about the chinese hacking their companies.
    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  25. Re:This equates to street prices of $70 for a 240G on OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It weighs about 51 grams.