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    Disable WPAD or have Accounts Compromised

    Don't know if this is only a MS problem--maybe not. Firefox is vulnerable too. Seems that if you still need to use PAC files and enable WPAD-- man in the middle attacks are too easily accomplished. From the latest DefCon. Please see: https://slashdot.org . Near the bottom of today's (Aug 13)...
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    One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying

    Hee, hee. If I had paid a good deal more than fair money for a new Apple laptop and it arrived with a four year old CPU or GPU I'd be considerably more than politely peeved. I'm in favor of very up to date UEFI, too. I find it comical that fools pay a fortune to advertise their foolishness with...
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    Posted like a true engineer--you da man, Kaitain!
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    Thank you very much for your enthusiasm, booman! I do not plan to build a laptop or Raspberry Pi or JaguarBoard machine. In my case they are projects that I don't have genuine enthusiasm for. I was trying to give credit for cool innovation, not attempting to build one myself.
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    One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying

    What bothers me is that Apple machines command premium prices. I don't take it for granted that any old part is worth paying brand new extra money over a non Apple laptop with new components.
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    Argh, do I have to watch all of the "Terminator" films again? Maybe you're right, yet my memory such as it is, tells me that Skynet killed off nearly all of the people as soon as it was activated.
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    MY Fonts SUCK!

    Sorry that you're having font problems, Daniel~. Not helpful, apologies. If the floppies still work (which is nearly a moot point. How the heck can you read floppies nowadays?) I had some outrageously cool fonts that looked like ?Hindi and Tibetan script, but in English. They were MS compatible...
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    One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying

    Sorry that it's difficult to find. The article was posted on Aug 7, I find it without difficulty, but we do get lucky at times. The story, if I recall it correctly is that all monitors are open to hacking that isn't beneficial. I mean, who would a thunk that our dependable and relatively low...
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    Iirc the moment that Skynet of "The Terminator" movies is activated it decides that humans are a direct threat to it and it sends ICBM's everywhere. "We" didn't attempt to disactivate it until after the missiles started flying. Skynet decided that all humans threatened its existence when it was...
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    One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying

    The repaired (thank you!) link above works. Then you have to click the "Older" virtual button at the bottom of the page three times. It's at the top of the third page. Or should be.
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    Very astute point, Dan. Who knows how long we have left. If we continue as we have my prognostication isn't a rosy picture. If a human friendly and planet saving "stop the unbelievable asininity and cruel folly of human endeavor" could be forced upon our willful selves magically that would be...
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    Thanks for posting about the Pine 64, very interesting! I wish that the jerks making a movie that I sank a grand into on Kickstarter came through on their promises. As they were liars and frauds as far as I'm concerned this will keep me away from Kickstarter forever. Live and learn, sigh. I...
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    HP...let me count the ways. I purchased an HP inkjet long ago to replace the ancient impact unit I had. It worked well enough for its day, but it went through ink like mad and the refills were outrageously overpriced. My Samsung laser printer is reliable and sparing on the toner. Black only...
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    Pretty sure that I bought that first locally assembled AMD machine for Christmas of 2004. Didn't start "rolling my own" for at least a year after that. Compared to the old hands here at GamersOnLinux I'm a newbie. It's always freakin' something! Thank you for letting me know about the ODROID...
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    Maybe I was drawn to the possibility of developing a Skynet by watching all of those "Terminator" movies. James Cameron is quite a writer, I really liked the fact that "The Indians" finally won in the "Avatar" flick. I don't know if the Skynet story is feasible or not in real life. It seemed to...
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    I was given a 386 by a pal's GF. Bought a used tiny IBM monitor for it that was in love with pea soup green. My first "real" machine was a locally built AMD box. Wowsa, that was a long time ago. Built my next three machines (with a friend looking over my shoulder for the first one.) Built...
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    One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying

    Isn't that wunnerful news? Please see https://slashdot.org/?page=2 Posted in their August 7th edition. Mod edit: fixed URL
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    The "where have you been all this time" thread

    It's amazing that some folks bought the cheapest ready-built machines of all (afaik) eMachines--then had the nerve to complain about their performance and the difficulty of updating their BIOS and such like. Those people cracked me up, but you couldn't be rude to them and tell it like it was...
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    Call me a worry wart, it's true after all. But---am I the only one who sniffs a hint of Skynet on the wind?
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    Going to Need a Job Soon

    I agree with Gene Roddenberry's wished for future. What strikes me as comical is that there could have been no Star Trek stories without breaking the Prime Directive. Very little drama could be found in simply visiting civilizations across the universe. Interference with the societies always...
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