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Comment Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs (Score 2) 107

...that are inserted by their owners.

Always good to remember a venerability is a venerability, but a trojan is a trojan.

  - People buying legitimate blu-ray titles are not going to have this issue.
  - Even people downloading pirated content are not going to have this issue... as long as they are downloading just video files and not trying to pirate the entire disc with menus.

Comment Re:And no one cares (Score 1, Insightful) 185

And half those sort of "new generation" searchers won't know half the time if they are redirected to a phony site.

Or if they are blocked from reaching the site they want by the search provider choosing to delist what they are looking for.

Who needs an actual government internet filter when you can ask your good friends at the search providers to make the site "disappear" for a growing portion of the population.

Comment How about using a whiteboard? (Score 4, Informative) 164

No, seriously.

I know I've seen systems that use sensors you mount around the edge of a whiteboard and special markers to track where you are drawing and reproduce it electronically on remote monitors -- it's on a cheap system, but it's cheaper than flying people in airplanes all over the place.

You could also just have the whiteboard person use a graphics tablet, and skip the big arm movements.

Comment Re:He's being polite. (Score 1) 114

...and the number of people who identify as techies and still have no clue whatsoever about technical things is on the rise.

Worse is some of them are selling their services as a "techie" to normal people.

I talked to an auto parts store a couple weeks back replacing a POS PC and it couldn't get online, but the other machine in the store could, and they were calling us (the ISP) about the issue. They were both hardwired to a router (that was not supplied by us) and the store's third-party tech who installed the computer was there. He didn't know how to check an IP address and hadn't even looked at the router itself. He'd just connected the wires from the old computer they replaced to the new one and expected it to work.

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