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Offtopic but I couldn't help it... It looks like they're still running win xp! I suppose the pc is air gapped yeah..

The law that regulates elections in Greece is flawed (IMO). It assigns the percentages of small parties to the first one, to help it achieve majority in Parliament and be able to govern. This may sound wise, but motivates mainstream parties to not cooperate with smaller ones, and keeps minorities out of parliament.

AFAIK there are countries (NL?) that traditionally could not elect self-contained governments so parties were forced to cooperate with other, which in turn created politics of accommodation. I think this is healthier than blocking minorities out of parliament.

Syriza got elected with 36.3% back in January, while ~64% of Greeks voted.

Also, what happens if a voter agrees with none of the choices (parties)? Is he responsible for what their government does? (Legally yes, that's democracy, but ethically he should be given the right to object)

Oh, let's not forget that Greeks leaving outside Greece (some say we're another 10mil out here) were not given the chance to vote neither in the elections or referendum. We had to travel back to do so...

So can anyone propose a sane way to check devices for vulnerability? Obviously one can disable NetUSB in the web interface, but that may not be enough.

Nmaping port 20005 is not accurate enough.

I want to check 3 of my routers, both from LAN and WAN.

Why not run DD-WRT? It is frequently buggy (performance wise) but should be fixable.

Yes this is not real battery care-taking. Ubuntu does it by default like that (I guess linux kernel in general). Although the low and high thresholds (97 and 100% resp.) are adjustable.

You're right. Someone should have done it in each OS. In linux it's just a matter of echo-ing a few numbers to the write "files". I just made a script to do it, see my other comments here if interested.

Sure, but do you know what cells these batteries use? They're usually cheap chinese ones, of less than half the rated capacity. A proper replacement will cost much more.

I did go mid-way, buying high quality Japanese cells and installing them in a chinese pack. A bit cheaper than a new official battery, but required some work.

Isn't battery warranties usually 1-year long? A device would have minimum 2-year warranty in Europe so you can find yourself in the middle...

They're not well tested but seem to work. Let me know if you have improvement suggestions that are easy to do.

Chris

Wrote a small script to easily put my Thinkpad battery to storage mode (50-70% SOC) and back to full charge: https://gist.github.com/cmavr8/204132a008d4ebabce94

Also one (lame) for bat stats on linux: https://gist.github.com/cmavr8/bdf591d8dc66290ae87a