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Comment This can't be true (Score 2) 70

by profet on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:43AM (#65112309) Attached to: People With ADHD Have Shorter Life Expectancy, Study Finds

I'm thinking to myself, this can't be true. As I open Slashdot on my phone while juggling work texts and walking into traffic.

There is no...

Comment Re:What do you want to achieve? (Score 1) 66

by profet on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:36AM (#61331928) Attached to: The IRS Wants Help Hacking Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets

Don't really need to crack the wallet for that, just need the xpub. Which is probably available unlocked on the user's PC or phone.

Comment Need this for friends (Score 5, Interesting) 226

by profet on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:52PM (#55793407) Attached to: How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election

Would be lovely to see a list of posts shared/liked by friends to your timeline rather than just things you've clicked on.

Comment Re:Run a Tor exit node to conceal your illegal act (Score 2) 241

by profet on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:43PM (#52941243) Attached to: Cops Are Raiding Homes of Innocent People Based Only On IP Addresses

Could smart criminals just also run a Tor exit node, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?

A Tor exit node is just a tool used to obscure your location. Nothing more. So let's rephrase your question as such:

"Could smart criminals just tape over their house numbers, and just use it to blame anything that they get caught on?"

Uh... no...

A Tor exit node is the last "hop" or "layer" before data exits the encrypted tor network.

So let's rephrase the parent's question as such:

"Could smart criminals just operate a package exporting company and just blame other people when they get caught for exporting contraband?"

The answer is yes.

Comment Still no spell checking (Score 1) 99

by profet on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @11:20AM (#48608875) Attached to: Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator

All these new skype features, yet they still lack basic spell checking.

Someone needs to drag their project manager out back and beat him with his Macbook.

Comment Re:Right on Adobe! (Score 1) 731

by profet on Thursday May 13, 2010 @04:47PM (#32199744) Attached to: Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ

This may be a flawed analogy, but wouldn't it be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel? That impedes all the companies that sell only "normal" gasoline. They're stifling competition! If you want to use "normal" gasoline, buy a car that runs on that.

That is more than flawed... its plain wrong.

Lets try and fix it.

It would be akin to a company releasing a car that only ran on diesel, preventing companies from creating diesel in unapproved ways (from algae, corn, discarded food products), and then having some approval process for checking diesel that would prevent certain companies from selling fuel for the car.

Submission + - Senator to FCC: no broadcast flag for you!

Submitted by Flag waver on Thursday January 11, 2007 @04:50PM

Flag waver writes: Senator John Sununu (R-NH) will introduce legislation that will prevent the FCC from creating technology mandates for the consumer electronics industry. As a result, the FCC would be hamstrung in its efforts to revive the broadcast flag. '"The FCC seems to be under the belief that it should occasionally impose technology mandates," Sununu said in a statement. "These misguided requirements distort the marketplace by forcing industry to adopt agency-blessed solutions rather than allow innovative and competitive approaches to develop."' Sen. Sununu previously tried without success to remove the broadcast flag provisions from the massive telecommunications bill that died before reaching the Senate floor during the last Congress.

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