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Comment hardware vs software (Score 5, Insightful) 233

    you are missing a critical point. break out the IO on the USB dongle. Make it turn lights on
    and off. sure, you can slave it to other USB devices, but there is a nice IO header on the
    PI for those who wish to play with it. it's comparing apples to oranges.
    The PI was made with hardware tinkering in mind, the USB dongles - not so much.

Google

Submission + - Gmail drops support for connecting to pop3 servers with self signed certs (google.com) 2

DECula writes: In a move not communicated to it's users before hand, Google's Gmail servers were reconfigured to not connect to remote pop3 servers that have self-signed certificates, leaving folks with unencrypted connections, or no service when getting email from other services.
Not good for for the small folks. One suggestion was to allow placing the public keys on Googles side in the user configuration. That would be a heck of a lot better than just dropping users into never never land.

United States

Submission + - Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Here's some breaking news I saw MSNBC this morning that I haven't seen reported anywhere in the print media yet. NBC reporter Pete Williams reported on Chuck Todd's "The Daily Rundown" that (police) "had been hopeful that they could extract some information from the computer at (Lanza's) home. He was very into computers. Before he left his mother's house on the morning that he shot his mother while she was sleeping, he damaged extensively his computer. He took the hard drive out, pulled the disk out, and did a lot of damage to it," said Williams. "It's not clear that (police) are going to be able to extract any information or not." It has previously been reported that Lanza left no online footprint. Police had been eager to examine Lanza's computer in hopes of determining a motive in his killings or finding records of purchases of firearms and ammunition. "If he visited certain websites, they are going to glean whatever information they can from that and see what it means," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. "Does he have friends he communicates with online? Was there a fight with somebody?""
Politics

Submission + - Secession petitions flood White House website (politico.com) 1

RNLockwood writes: Political.com reports that several petitions to secede from the Union have been created at the White House site, We The People, for many states; all since Obama's re-election. Texas and Louisiana lead the list with Texas needing only 7,000 more signatures to qualify for a White House response, probably less now as more Americans have become aware of the petitions. (Probably there is no mapping to post election racist tweets Post Election Racist Tweets Map )

If the petitions spark the state legislatures to petition congress and the nation agrees to allow Louisiana and Texas to secede the we will save a LOT of money. For instance the Corps of Engineers will no longer be spend tax dollars to prevent flooding in Louisiana. Think of the savings if all the Federal buildings, bases, and facilities in Texas are closed! The residents of those states can take charge of their problems without federal interference at last. Since the citizens and businesses won't be paying Federa taxes, money saved will be used to create jobs, prosperity will follow, and show how just right Romney and Bush really were.

IMHO this is an experiment worth trying!! Slashdotters, get busy and sign as many of those petitions as you can.

Comment blame games, politics and spammers (Score 1) 170

"If Spamhaus signed up one of their "spamtrap" email addresses to our mailing list" ...

If you are that freakin paranoid, then you KNOW you are doing something that agitates those of us
that have to deal with the end result of your "work" on a daily basis.

Only you have the power to clean your lists. Go forth, my son. Empower yourself and waste not
another breath in the realm of wizards.

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