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Comment He seems to forget... (Score 1) 192

The computer on the other end of that modem was (mostly) the PDP-11 at Seattle Pacific College. They sold RSTS/E time to Lakeside School for some of their students. The SPC staff found certain students to be pests, but they were more than capable of shutting that stuff down.

This was waaayy before the Altair (or Scelbi, or Mark-8, etc.). Maybe Kenbak-1 era. But RSTS/E was a fun system to use. R.I.P. DEC

Comment Re:How do you verify a law enforcement request? (Score 2) 27

Did you not read the article? He sent the requests to the VERIZON CORPORATE LEGAL TEAM that specifically deals with LE requests. Not a half-trained clerk in a rural town, but the core group in Verizon's Legal department that's supposed to be able to vet these and respond to legitimate requests. And they just rolled over and handed him the goods with no validation. And apparently not for the first time, either.

Either Verizon's training and oversight are completely substandard (and what else are they screwing up?), OR they're so completely swamped with LE requests (real and fake) that they just cave and fulfill all of them indiscriminately. I'm glad I'm not a Verizon customer. She should be suing them for all she can get - at least the pre-trial discovery might uncover the extent of the rot.

Comment I works on /. articles also.... (Score 1) 71

Here we have an ordinary post:

Wang explained: "TGF-beta has two opposite roles .... When the surviving stem cells receive the signal to regenerate, they divide, make new cell and develop into a new follicle."

Now, at this point, the text follicle has died. But if we apply a little TGF-beta:

"When the surviving stem cells receive the signal to regenerate, they divide, make new cells and develop into a new follicle," Wang said.

See? iThe quote is good as new.

Works for entire postings as well. Just give them a little time, and they'll reappear.

Comment Re:Extremely fishy (Score 2) 344

Nope - that's typical for CenturyLunk. A block away from me CL has fiber, mostly for a commercial area. In my neighborhood - 1.5Mbps DSL is the *only* option from them. And they don't plan on *ever* offering higher speeds at any time in the future. They make far more profit wiring apartments and condos, so they're not interested in the single-family residential market. But they *do* have an exclusive francise with the city that keeps other players like FIOS out. At least Comcast does provide service, and eventually some wireless alternative will be available.

Comment Wall them off... (Score 1) 36

This is why my Wyze cameras are on their own SSID, over a dedicated VLAN, running the RTSP-only firmware, and generally cut off from Wyze. And the Chinese P2P library that connects the cameras and the app.

A bit more of a bother to set up, but reasonably secure. I can do the motion detection/feature recognition on my own systems, without dumping the streams all over the "cloud". But for $20, they're not bad for fill-in cameras, or experimenting.

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