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  1. Re:LOL ... whatever ... on WhatsApp To End Support For BlackBerry, Nokia, and Other Older Operating Systems (whatsapp.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, you're wrong. Whatsapp may be relatively small in the US, where most people pay so much for their mobile connection that the providers could afford to deliver free sms with the subscription. In most other countries the providers have treated sms (and certainly mms) as a cash cow, and are now repaid with the popularity of internet message services that remove the need for sms. WhatsApp is the largest of those services, and the most widely used one too. Others like Wechat or Line are mostly used in China resp. Japan. I use sms onbly as a last fallback, when I need to message someone with no mobile internet or an old prone.

  2. Re:Police data IS sensitive and should be protecte on Turkish Gov't Retaliates After Hackers Release Police Data Via Twitter (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Turkish police innocent? Since the current president got the idea of becomming the next Sultan and his family got caught doing buissiness with IS the police there is used mostly to repress his political enemies and minorities like the Kurds. Let the traitors who work undercover for that police be smoked out and meet their deserved fate.

  3. Perhaps - but where to find a volunteer to fill an "acceptable ad list"? I would report an ad slipping through the block for free, but I certainly would not work on the second (unless they paid me so much I'd forget my concience).

  4. Re:Block Ads in android apps & hack all apps e on Adblock Plus Comes (Somewhat) Clean About How Acceptable Ads Work (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Lucky Patcher uses a combination: hosts file and it can disable the advertising services in Google Play Services. You can do that also with tools like https://play.google.com/store/... , I used that to disable the analytics spying service too.

  5. Re:I want to de-escalate the advertising war. on Adblock Plus Comes (Somewhat) Clean About How Acceptable Ads Work (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have a full scale war. And because advertisers have destroyed each medium where they get a hold on - the main reason more and more people don't watch TV anymore - the users need to make a stand. NO ADS! NONE. The only acceptable ad is a blocked ad.

  6. Re:Punishes users and good advertisers on Google, Yahoo Cry About Ad-Blocking (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only good ad is a blocked ad.

  7. Re:Well no shit, Sherlock on New Google Data Shows Dangers of Third-Party App Stores (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Use Raccoon and download the playstoire version toyour PC. Then you can always go back.

  8. They also mean potentially harmful to their profits: adblockers, tools like Lucky Patcher that can hack playstore verification and disble ad services, etc. are all banned from the playstore.

  9. Re:What about telemetry/spying features? on Microsoft Launches Windows 10 Update History Site To Share Update Release Notes (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh well, on Android you can disable all Google ad services when you're rooted. I'm sure such manuals will apear for windows 10 also, given some time.

  10. Re:Animals escaped, close barn door on Microsoft Launches Windows 10 Update History Site To Share Update Release Notes (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they only do that for windows 10 updates, which are mandatory anyway. Not for windows 7 updates.

  11. At the moment, I clean all windows 7 computers from those spy and nagware infestations with this script:

    wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /quiet /norestart
    and the same with KB's
    3035583
    2952664
    3022345
    3068708
    3075249
    3080149
    3021917
    3083324
    2977759
    3112343
    3123862

    (stupid /. doesn't let me post the entire script, complains about repetition).

    After that, I reboot, let windows update run again and hide the mentioned updates. Until they get updated and apear again.

  12. Re:What about global warming? on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Cool? Relatively easy: the temperature is high, but the density is very low so the total amount of energy is still manageble. The density being so low is the reason the temperature has to be so high anyway, the center of the sun is much cooler but the density there is much higher.

  13. Re: BREIN are complicit on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    They all reside in the same office building. While all independent in name, this does suggest unwanted informal connections.

  14. Re: Well then... on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 1

    So is that is the reason only socialists in the US were angry at Snowden and Assange, and the ultra-right wing applauded their actions?

  15. Re:yes, or simply try to imagine what sort of dama on Porsche Builds Photovoltaic Pylon, Offsetting Luddite Position On Self-Drive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The Beetle is made bij VW, not Porsche (although they belong to the same concern).

  16. Re:APorsche Self-Drive? on Porsche Builds Photovoltaic Pylon, Offsetting Luddite Position On Self-Drive (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And not to forget you need an automatic transmission for that. Real drivers use manual transmission. Does Porsche even deliver automatic transmissions (outside the US, where most "drivers" don't know how to use a manual transmission)?

  17. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    After which you'll find your embarrassing pictures have suddenly been ported to the internet...

  18. Re:Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My Swiss Army Knife can kill people too. Although I use it mostly to remove screws from computers.

  19. Re:Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    You can't fire just a "lower", you need other parts for that too. That some US law defines that to be the defining part of a firearm doesn't change the physics.

  20. I hate predictive keyboards because I type in more than one language and they always mix those up. I use Hacker's Keyboard, which has some nice extra keys present on PC keyboards when you use remote access tools.

  21. Re:Can't even deanonymize the USD transactions on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Paycheck? In Europe? Checks have been extinct here for a long time because the banking system works less bad here than in the US. I can only get my salary on a bank account, they won't even pay cash if I asked.

  22. Re:End anonymity for cash on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have one, that worked well for millennia: gold and silver. And actually anything that has a high value density and doesn't rot away in time can be used as a currency.

  23. Sweden, home of The Piratebay on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 0

    They should know how to deal with unwilling braodcasters there. Just pirate what you want to see and drop TV completely.

  24. Re:Thus spake Zuckerberg on WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a provision made by the authorities when Facebook bought them that this coupling was never alowed? Is this some lawyers trick to circumvent that?

  25. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually that's not a bad idea. Their families might persuade them a little harder not to join some terrorist groep. Whe should extend that to drone operators too: they shoot a hellfire missle at some wedding, we rape their wives and kill their children. Perhaps next time they take a better look before pressing that fire button.