Submission + - Waze sending Borgata Casino visitors to the middle of nowhere. (phillyvoice.com) 1

Submitted by Newer Guy on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:32PM

Newer Guy writes: Apparently police have noticed that dozens of people have been breaking down in a wilderness area in Northern NJ,a about 45 miles from Atlantic City — where Waze is supposed to be sending them.

Submission + - Radio Group Entercom gets Ramsomwared. (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Newer Guy on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:25PM

Newer Guy writes: Entercom, One of the USA's largest radio broadcasting companies has been hacked by Ransomware. It apprenly came in through a programming computer and has taken out their email and servers. All their radio stations have been affected. The ransomware people demanded half a million dollars to restore things; Entercom refused to pay.

Comment Bummer. I had an excellent Lycos email.... (Score 1) 51

by Newer Guy on Saturday April 21, 2018 @06:18PM (#56479911) Attached to: Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service

I had 8675309@mailcity or @lycos.com. As of now it is still working but I'm sure it will soon be gone. Oh well.

Comment Re: Why? My Cable Card Tuner is great (Score 1) 186

by vivek7006 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:54PM (#51538507) Attached to: FCC Votes To Fight Cable's Reign Over Set-top Boxes

I am a Comcast California subscriber. Not only is the first Cable Card free (if you dont use their STB), you also get a $2.50 credit.

Here is the link: http://www.xfinity.com/equipme...

"Comcast provides a credit to customers who have an activated CableCARD installed in a customer-owned device (e.g., TiVo or CableCARD-equipped television) or customers that own a qualifying converter (See Customer Owned Equipment Policy) if the customer subscribes to a Comcast video service that includes equipment as a part of the service. Customers who qualify will receive a monthly credit of $2.50 for each qualifying activated CableCard device or converter."

Comment Re:It'll be aired in todays conventional methods (Score 1) 438

by vivek7006 on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:42PM (#50850927) Attached to: New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017

It'll be on a torrent site 10 min after airing so you can watch it are you leisure. Now if I was them I'd put it up on a torrent site right after it aired with the commercial intact. That way you beat the pirates to the punch and people probably wouldn't care about the tv ads.

Dammit Jim .... I am a Star Trek fan, not a pirate!

Comment Windows 7 MCE + Cablecard + Plex (Score 1) 236

by vivek7006 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:38PM (#50776639) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup?

For Cable TV DVR, I have a windows 7 MCE with Cablecard which takes care of recording everything including premium cable (HBO and Cinemax). The PC is directly hooked to my primary TV. It also run plex server which streams media to Roku box hooked up to my other TV

Comment Re:Non-IPS panels (Score 1) 94

by vivek7006 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @07:18PM (#50690109) Attached to: Dell Brings 4K InfinityEdge Display To XPS 15 Line, GeForce GPU, Under 4 Pounds

These are decent TN panels but they're not in the league of IPS displays in terms of uniformity

Where does it say that this is TN display? I checked the article and also Dell website but couldn't find any mention of non-IPS display. Dell XPS has always been their premium line and used IPS display

Comment Re:Welcome to 2004 TIVO! (Score 1) 85

by vivek7006 on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:13PM (#50663785) Attached to: TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability

The only thing that works with Comcast in my area (Sacramento, CA) is Windows7 Media Center. It allows me to record all copy protected stuff including HBO and Cinemax. Not sure what my options are after Microsoft abandons windows7 ...

Comment Hardware requirements for Marshmallow? (Score 2, Interesting) 123

by vivek7006 on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:30PM (#50648217) Attached to: Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days

Moto E is a low end phone. Maybe it doesn't not satisfy the Marshmallow hardware requirements?

Comment Re:Chromebook Pixel (LS) (Score 1) 237

by vivek7006 on Monday September 21, 2015 @06:23PM (#50570197) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop?

Bingo! That is the right answer. Perfect laptop for running linux (Of course assuming that you can afford it)

Comment Intel's linux support is impeccable (Score 3, Funny) 61

by vivek7006 on Saturday July 25, 2015 @05:35PM (#50182499) Attached to: AMD Starts Rolling Out New Linux Driver Model, But Many Issues Remain

Not sure why AMD and nVidia keep dragging their foot. It makes no businesses sense

Comment Re:Hipster "designers" are the reason. (Score 1) 319

by vivek7006 on Monday July 20, 2015 @03:17PM (#50147403) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS?

100% True. Your gedit screenshot was priceless

Comment Re:Google Beta (Score 0) 142

by vivek7006 on Monday June 29, 2015 @01:31PM (#50012905) Attached to: Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users

Dumbass, there is an option for changing backgroud options. Move your ass and change it under settings menu. Jeez, how do morons like you end up on slashdot? You haven't even looked under settings options, before whining about it ...

Comment Re:My feeling on this (Score 2) 113

by vivek7006 on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:16PM (#49898629) Attached to: Is BlackBerry Launching an Android Phone?

...is that if Blackberry pulls it off, Apple should also do the same thing and release an Android phone. Then Google should make their next Nexus phone have Windows 10. And the Microsoft version of Nokia should release a webOS phone too.

And Intel should release a MeeGo phone

Comment Sometimes folks dont realize how lucky .... (Score -1) 214

by vivek7006 on Thursday May 14, 2015 @03:43PM (#49692351) Attached to: Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million

... they got. He will regret, just like that douchebag kid from Two and a Half Men

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