Comment "Liars Everywhere Hate This Simple 3-Step Trick!" (Score 1) 93

by sfled on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:50PM (#59496420) Attached to: 'Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?'

SCAN? Or is it... <cue mystery music> SCAM?

Comment That's some fine reasearch right there! (Score 1) 164

by sfled on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:39AM (#58972046) Attached to: Canned Laughter Makes Jokes Seem Funnier, Study Finds

This just in from the "No shit, Sherlock" School of Neuroscience: If you hear others laugh, you think stuff might be funny.

Comment FTFY (Score 4, Insightful) 212

by sfled on Sunday March 11, 2018 @04:20PM (#56243891) Attached to: EPA's Science Advisory Board Has Not Met in 6 Months

"... it's being sidelined to avoid getting in the way of agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's anti-science agenda..."

Comment FTFY (Score 1) 83

by sfled on Sunday March 11, 2018 @04:19PM (#56243885) Attached to: Report Says Radioactive Monitors Failed at Nuclear Plant

"... it's being sidelined to avoid getting in the way of agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's anti-science agenda..."

Comment Re:This stuff needs to END - whats wrong with ppl? (Score 1) 1219

by sfled on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:41AM (#55292367) Attached to: Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded

The insanity goes even further back than the shootings you cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:I'm sure the FCC would care... (Score 1) 210

by sfled on Saturday June 10, 2017 @12:20PM (#54592181) Attached to: No, Your Phone Didn't Ring. So Why Voice Mail From a Telemarketer?

Do the spammer a favor, and post their number on /b/ :-) Helpful

Comment Re:Another conversative buttfucker (Score -1, Offtopic) 368

by sfled on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:20AM (#54567961) Attached to: Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI

Another conservative buttfucker

Top or bottom?

Comment ITT (Score 1) 469

by sfled on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:08PM (#54455507) Attached to: Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America?

Accordingly, everyone in this thread is potentially a Russian social media meddler.

Submission + - Netgear adds support for "collecting analytics data" to popular R7000 router

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Netgear's latest firmware update for the R7000 includes new support for collecting analytics data. The update release notes include this caution:

NOTE:It is strongly recommended that after the firmware is updated to this version, log back in to the router s web GUI and configure the settings for this feature.

An article on Netgear's KB states updated last week that Netgear collects information including IP addresses, MAC, certain WiFi information, and information about connected devices.

Comment Re:"Longest, deepest" (Score 1) 220

by sfled on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:02PM (#52229833) Attached to: World's Longest, Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens In Switzerland

Promptly nicknamed "Deine Mutter".

Comment Slashing (Score 2) 162

by sfled on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:56PM (#48757869) Attached to: What are you most interested in seeing out of CES?

The price cuts to last year's stuff that come shortly after the show is over.

Comment Re: Autonomous vehicles (Score 1) 162

by sfled on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:55PM (#48757849) Attached to: What are you most interested in seeing out of CES?

The price cuts that come to last year's stuff shortly thereafter.

Journal Journal: One cavity (two if you count the one between my ears)

Journal by sfled on Thursday November 13, 2014 @07:25PM

Dentist, finally after years. Meh. Too much upsell, but they did find a cavity. So far, so good.

Comment Wait, it's 2014. People still pay for porn? (Score 1) 216

by sfled on Saturday January 18, 2014 @02:01PM (#45999393) Attached to: Porn Will Be Bitcoin's Killer App

We should commission a study or something. Who are these folks? Good $deity, I haven't paid for porn since... since... (hang on, I'm thinking, dammit!)

Comment Re:We need a new right... (Score 1) 205

by sfled on Saturday July 06, 2013 @10:11PM (#44206793) Attached to: Sky Deutschland Considering Using Bone Conduction To Force Ads On Train Riders

True. I cut Cable TV because a) the programming was rank and; b) the ad time has grown to nearly 16 - 18 minutes per hour* of "show". So, yesterday I turned the radio on and went off NPR (US public radio), every station bar none was playing an ad.

I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus, NoScript, BetterPrivacy, et. al.

I don't mind ads I just hate being carpet bombed.

*Official old guy here: Eight minutes of commercials back in the day.