You sure it's not just a case of all of them getting ahold of the same batch of bad drugs?

I don't think anyone hates Comcast because they're number 1. People hate Comcast because they're Comcast.

I never gave them any false information.

I told them my name was Cash.

ACLU for New Jersey has had a camera app that transmits to the cloud for years. ACLU just recently (as in days ago) rolled out versions for multiple states, apparently only differing by which ACLU office they notify.

https://play.google.com/store/...

http://www.androidheadlines.co...

Could be worse. There are sites (yes, slashdot, I'm looking at you) that re-edit your URL to put the mobile site back.

Good points. I'd been under the impression that link local addresses were the only ones based on MAC address, but a little investigation shows me that there are schemes that also use the MAC address for public addresses.

And you're also right that admins are likely to choose addresses that are simpler for them if they assign them manually.

But all this is moot if a working firewall is in place. And that's really no different than the IPV4 situation.

Simple nmap scan? Yeah.

If they can scan 10,000 addresses a second they should be able to scan your home address space in not much under a million years.

Assuming you didn't do something radical, like, maybe, used a firewall.

It's more like saying a fax isn't an answering machine. Both use the phone network, but neither depend on the other.

I live next door to a Costco. If I'm running low, I can run next door.

If I had one of these buttons, its battery would be dead by the time I need to order again. My Costco package of TP or paper towels usually lasts me about three years. Laundry detergent maybe a year or so. My 4-pack of giant toothpaste tubes is a couple of years worth.

It's not so much that I'm organized, but I usually become aware that I'm low on those things a month or two in advance, when the gaping hole in the closet where I keep that stuff jumps out at me.

OK, now that the whole front page is non-fool gags, are we done now?

Either post some actual April-fool type stories, or go back to regular news.

Please?

I don't have any experience with MOOCs, but I can tell you that (in general) if I get an older student (30+) in my class, he or she is very likely to be near the top of the class.

The older students generally know why they're there. They have motivation.

I'd imagine the same thing holds true with MOOCs.

There was a time when I looked forward to coming to Slashdot on the 1st of April. All of the April Fool gags from around the Internet (or at least most of the ones of nerd interest) were linked here.

It's OK to have *one* home-grown gag. **One**. After that, it just doesn't work.

I briefly had a roommate who was a pilot with a commuter airline. His salary was $8K. This was in 1983 or so.

Image a robot that can only pick things up off the floor and put them away.

Then work on that problem for ten or twenty years until you can build what you imagined.

It's not conglomerating a bunch of tasks together that's hard, it's that some of the tasks themselves are very hard.

I'm not exactly sure what the rules are. My initial attempts at a password contained "^" -- I figured it was safe, because it was in the list they suggested. I kept simplifying the password and it kept rejecting me. Each time I had to re-enter half the security choices -- it kept my answers, but not the questions.

I finally gave up and chose a completely new password, and this one didn't include "^". Took it the first time.