laurent420 - Slashdot User

Comment Here it comes... (Score 0) 93

by grub on Saturday March 29, 2014 @07:29PM (#46612157) Attached to: Security Evaluation of the Tesla Model S

Big car makers and the oil industry will hammer on these weaknesses to show people how untrustworthy the Tesla is. Hell, they'll probably try to make one rear end an old Corvair just for the lulz.

Comment Re:Perfect (Score 1) 184

by Nexzus on Friday March 28, 2014 @02:33AM (#46600337) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

I couldn't really live without Outlook. It pretty much manages my life.

Comment Ob. (Score 3, Funny) 242

by grub on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:36AM (#46591785) Attached to: Hacking Charisma

Hitler had charisma in spades. He loved dogs and even had a girlfriend.
People always forget about the good things he did.

Comment Re:Watch out (Score 1) 74

by grub on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:22PM (#46570693) Attached to: Google Now Arrives In Chrome For Windows and Mac

I have location services turned off for most things.
You can also turn off background updates for any apps, including Google's: Settings -> General - Background App Refresh
Prevents the app pinging away and having them geolocate you through your IP as you travel around.

Comment Bah (Score 2, Funny) 397

by grub on Monday March 24, 2014 @11:07AM (#46563825) Attached to: Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska

Real men drone hunt in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

Comment Re:But it's still inflation? (Score 1) 194

by grub on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:52AM (#46563675) Attached to: Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong

I think the skeptics are saying that the gravity waves have been confirmed, the question is were they created by the Big Bang or sometime later as things cooled down.

Comment Re:S C U M B A G S (Score 1, Troll) 150

by grub on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:44AM (#46563581) Attached to: Apple Reportedly In Talks With Comcast For Separate Apple Streaming Path

Apple are 100% gay - in every sense of the word

They do indeed seem happy when lounging on their bean bag chairs stuffed with cash.

Comment Round and round we go (Score 1) 287

by grub on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:31PM (#46554431) Attached to: NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code

So, in essence, the NSA stole the stuff Huawei originally stole from Canada's Nortel.

Comment Re:Joy of joys! (Score -1, Offtopic) 206

by grub on Saturday March 22, 2014 @04:24PM (#46553345) Attached to: They're Reading Your Mail: Microsoft's ToS, Windows 8 Leak, and Snooping

Grease up that Yoda doll!

Comment Re: Birds can be vicious buggers (Score 2) 78

by grub on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:51AM (#46532211) Attached to: 'Chicken From Hell' Unearthed In American Midwest

Cocks - wait for all the 14 year olds to stop sniggering

I'm 48 and sniggering.

Comment keywords like terrorism (Score 2) 96

by laurent420 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @07:14PM (#46529005) Attached to: Officials: NSA's PRISM Targets Email Addresses, Not Keywords

>but does not search for keywords like terrorism

Mail from Bob:
>Hey Alice, wanna go do some terroism next monday?
I can't I'm busy, how about we terrorism on tuesday?
Take care,
Alice

Comment Mexico City tried this... (Score 3, Interesting) 405

by Nexzus on Monday March 17, 2014 @04:03PM (#46509775) Attached to: Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road

The found that people bought cheap older, less environment-friendly second vehicles so they could bypass the restrictions, making the problem worse.

Comment Re:Meanwhile... (Score 1) 747

by grub on Friday March 14, 2014 @01:57PM (#46484985) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC

Create a bogus FB account and check it out. I have a few, each for various things I'm checking out.

Comment Re:Meanwhile... (Score 1) 747

by grub on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:41AM (#46483349) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC

Join any of the closed but visible anti-vax groups on Facebook. These parties go on to this day.

Comment Meanwhile... (Score 1) 747

by grub on Friday March 14, 2014 @10:52AM (#46482753) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC

... meanwhile on anti-vax FB pages that I have gotten into, they are having measles-parties, mumps-parties, and the like. Intentionally exposing their kids to disease.

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