Comment Re:Why would CBP need to buy access? (Score 1) 100
They should have access to this data by law, for free.
There are restrictions in place on data they collect, data they purchase do not have the same protections.
Comment Missing the larger point (Score 1) 100
Many replies here that DHS either already has or should have this data miss that data purchased is not subject to the same restrictions and protections as data they collect.
Comment Re:Football Piracy? (Score 2) 48
football is the name of the game. every single country except one calls it football.
what you call football is what every single country except one calls it american football.
Australia and the Republic of Ireland also use soccer to differentiate it from the various other forms of football that exist there, not too different from America.
Fwiw, the word soccer was created at Oxford and still appears occasionally over there, i.e. the TV show SoccerAM
Comment Re:regional? solution is obvious (Score 1) 201
New England should move to Atlantic Time with Nova Scotia and the Canadian maritimes
Comment In memoriam (Score 1) 16
{S Goodbye
Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 1) 1605
Trump's mother was an immigrant, you roaster
Comment Re:civil libertarians. (Score 1) 37
Uncivil ones, as well
Submission + - Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Ridesâ"and This Time, (wired.com)
UnCivil Liberty writes: Following in the footsteps of three MIT students who were previously gagged from presenting their findings at Defcon 2008 (previous Slashdot coverage here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory... here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F... and here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fit.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F... ), two Bay State teens built on their work in hacking Boston's MBTA CharlieCard system, reverse engineering them and presenting at this year's Defcon without interference.
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
'the four teens extended other research done by the 2008 hacker team to fully reverse engineer the CharlieCard, the RFID touchless smart cards the MBTA uses today. The hackers can now add any amount of money to one of these cards or invisibly designate it a discounted student card, a senior card, or even an MBTA employee card that gives unlimited free rides. âoeYou name it, we can make it,â says Campbell.'
Comment Re: How does CNET still exist? (Score 1) 48
How does Slashdot still exist ðY
Comment Re:lasted almost as long as the internet itself (Score 1) 40
Old school
Comment Re:Safer does not mean safe (Score 1) 164
It was the same line they used for Camel Joe, he's a cartoon and cartoons are for kids!
A whole line of popular adult animated shows from the 90's on (The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, etc) prove this thinking false.
Comment Don't see the appeal (Score 4, Interesting) 77
I don't even use the *current* interface, I try (but don't always succeed) to hit "load basic HTML" every time I log in to my mailbox as I dislike the current interface and don't need all the extraneous stuff.
Keep it simple (stupid)
Comment Re:Where were you....? (Score 1) 126
Where were you when this saga started? I was with a different wife in a different state in a different job in a different religion... basically I was a different person. What about you?
High school, under a different Slashdot UID that I lost the password to and now can't even remember what the username was.
I literally just messaged a friend from high school the link to this story as it was something we used to talk about back when we were teenagers, we are now both almost 40...
Comment Vizio SmartCast (Score 2) 65
From TFA
"When we purchased new models, we found that despite our efforts they still had no source code included with the device, nor any offer for source code. People buying these models would never know that there was anything special about the software in these devices, or that they had any rights whatsoever connected with the software on their TVs.”
Having recently bought a Vizio SmartCast and being a bit of a nerd I found myself digging through the menu system looking at the credits and GPL software and license was acknowledged with directions on how to mail to get the appropriate source code. Must be specific to my model or not widely deployed on other models.
Comment Re:nonce (Score 2) 56
Has a rather different meaning in the UK
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wiktionary.org%2Fwiki...
This was the first thing that crossed my mind, not the greatest choice of shorthand.
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