cyfer2000 - Slashdot User

Comment Wow -- thanks Slashdot! (Score 3, Funny) 240

by l0ungeb0y on Monday September 22, 2014 @12:50PM (#47965835) Attached to: Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave

I was just about to try out Wave on my new iPhone after I finished deleting system32 to make my PC go faster

Comment Let's Regulate Canada (Score 0) 324

by l0ungeb0y on Friday September 19, 2014 @03:09PM (#47948559) Attached to: Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation

All major media based .coms should just block access to all users coming in from Canada. Let's show those backwater twerps what power they really have over the Internet.

Comment Re:Federal Overreach (Score 4, Insightful) 156

by l0ungeb0y on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:38PM (#47941545) Attached to: Dealership Commentator: Tesla's Going To Win In Every State

Yeah, except that a single company shouldn't have to spend a bajillion dollars in order to be able to sell cars without having to kowtow down to dealer cartels. That's why the Federal Government needs to get involved -- no one should have to sell their product through a middleman.

Submission + - Apple's "warrant canary" disappears, suggesting new Patriot Act demands (gigaom.com) 3

Submitted by wiredog on Thursday September 18, 2014 @02:07PM

wiredog writes: Interesting in light of their privacy enhancements in ios8.

Comment Re:Licensing issues (Score 1) 97

by wiredog on Thursday September 18, 2014 @07:03AM (#47935047) Attached to: How Flickr Is Courting the Next Generation of Photographers

Flikr has CC licensing. IIRC, you have to opt in to the Getty thing.

Comment Control 4, Crestron and AMX (Score 1) 115

by wiredog on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:58PM (#47928761) Attached to: Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home

Don't appear to make tv/home theater remotes.

Comment I wonder how can they shoot their weapons (Score 1) 981

by cyfer2000 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:37PM (#47928431) Attached to: ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children

without math, how can they learn to shoot their weapons?

Comment Not really a lie (Score 0) 191

by wiredog on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:46PM (#47918641) Attached to: Tim Cook Says Apple Can't Read Users' Emails, That iCloud Wasn't Hacked

Apple doesn't run public email servers. At least, I don't think so. Nothing like gmail, anyway. So they aren't transporting your email. Unless they back up your mailbox to iCloud. But iMessage is encrypted, and Apple has stated many times that it can't read that traffic.

Comment Safe deposit box (Score 3, Interesting) 268

by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:52PM (#47910917) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?

External hard drives are cheap. I Have one in the safe deposit box at the bank, one at home, and I rotate them every couple of months. I just do a copy of /Users (on my Mac, /home on Linux, not sure what the WIndows equivalent is) to the hard drive.

Comment Clearly, someone at MS said (Score 1) 330

by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:25AM (#47909249) Attached to: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang For $2.5 Billion

We must not have a Minecraft gap!

Submission + - Canon printer hacked to run Doom video game (bbc.com)

Submitted by wiredog on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:24AM

wiredog writes: From the Beeb, the news that security researcher Michael Jordon has hacked a Canon's Pixma printer to run Doom. He did so by reverse engineering the firmware encryption and uploading via the update interface.

But does it play Barney Doom? And can you get Linux running on the thing?

Comment KIlling off the Microsoft Store Name Too (Score 3, Funny) 352

by l0ungeb0y on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:39PM (#47884019) Attached to: Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows

In favor of "Blatant Attempt at Ripping-Off the Apple Store" Not as catchy, but accurate

Comment Move To China (Score 3) 348

by l0ungeb0y on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @01:20PM (#47873265) Attached to: When Scientists Give Up

I'm sure Chinese Firms would love to have scientists educated at the top US Universities conducting research for them. America is fast becoming a Design and Services Economy, best to leave the real innovation to China and others.

Comment Re:Doesn't this pretty much kill 4chan? (Score 1) 134

by wiredog on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:42AM (#47826093) Attached to: After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy

What is the legal status for hosting a server with illegal information on it?
If they don't know, then they are not responsible. It's in the DMCA, or possibly the CFAA.

Comment Re:Seemed pretty obvious this was the case (Score 2) 311

by wiredog on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @01:16PM (#47818057) Attached to: Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak

Oblig. XKCD.

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