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  1. Re:I've been reporting sellers lately on Amazon Lawsuit Aims To Kill Fake Reviews (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I got tired of receiving follow-up communications requesting reviews after I buy something. It seems to happen almost half the time now.

    This is where to report these sellers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/...

    I had no idea they were breaking the rules by doing this.

  2. Re:Debris killed girl in Austrailia on How Some Creative Hacking Kept Skylab From Becoming Space Junk (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    It was actually a toilet seat, they made a whole documentary TV show and movie about it. It had some pretty funny parts.

  3. Re:If you did not pay for the product, you are one on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does this apply to Linux too?

  4. Re:The country is too big on Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA · · Score: 1

    With 50 states, there could be variations about all these civil rights / privacy / security issues and people could just live wherever they feel comfortable instead of putting everything into two irrelevantly similar baskets (political parties) and swinging from one to the other every 8 years.

    Civil Rights shouldn't be negotiable.
    Also, poor people have a disproportionately hard time moving across town, so across the country is just not an option.

  5. Re:Will Use Neither on LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million (lastpass.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as two-factor encryption for cold data.

    Using a keyfile and a password is the same thing as using a complex password. You just know one and you have the other and you chain them.

    That's the the very definition of 2 factor authentication. The 3 factors are Something you know, Something you have, and Something you are.

  6. Pronunciation on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: 1

    Let's get this out of the way early. Ehould we pronounce it as "Flif" or "Eff Life"?

  7. Re:Should we even send more probes? on The Case For Going To Phobos Before Going To Mars · · Score: 1

    I know they're trying to talk up Mars, but at this point its debatable whether its even worth sending more probes.

    It's a waste of money and we've found out its just another rock in space with no special chemistry and nothing we can't study here on earth.

    I'm not sure what "Mars" you are thinking of, but it isn't the one in THIS solar system.

  8. Re:Click-bait BS on 500 Million Users At Risk of Compromise Via Unpatched WinRAR Bug · · Score: 1

    However, the bug is that there's a buffer overflow in the SFX program - you can give it a malicious HTML file that cause it to execute code.

    So what you are saying is that an EXE file can execute code?

  9. Re:Yawn on Samsung Pay Launches In the United States · · Score: 2

    And there is NO WAY I am voluntarily giving my finger print image to ANY entity, EVER.

    Touched anything with your bare hands recently?

  10. Clouds on Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See · · Score: 1

    Lots and lots of clouds.

  11. Re:Read the article on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The title is misleading. The unfriending was part of a range of things that the one coworker did to her coworker.

    It's more than misleading, it is an outright lie.

  12. Re:What? on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read the article you will find the it says the EXACT OPPOSITE of the Slashdot headline.

    "The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News.

  13. Re:What vacation? on IBM's Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At the startup where I've worked for six years...

    How many years can a startup be operating before it's no longer considered a startup?

  14. Re:Long term storage on Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage · · Score: 1

    So when does the public get access to data we paid for?

    You don't; in the same way we don't get to drive around the the tanks that the military buys with our money.

  15. Re:Why does he waste his time? on Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole · · Score: 2

    Who cares if information is preserved in a black hole? What purpose does it serve? What can it teach us about the universe? I'd actually like to know the answers to these questions.

    But... Hawking is undoubtedly a brilliant mind. Why has he been wasting his time for years trying to decide whether or not "information is preserved in a black hole"?

    I'm admitting my ignorance here... Someone please explain to me what the relevance of this is...

    The problem is that we don't know what we don't know yet. This discovery will act as a stepping stone for other discoveries that we can't predict; some directly useful in every day life, others not so much. Scientific advancement is all build on the shoulders of those who came before; this discovery lifts us a little bit higher, ready to catch whatever comes next.

  16. Re:If only I could convince the manufacturers ... on Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    That isn't as useful as removing, it though. It is still there, taking up space. I have an older LG android phone (4.0.x) that has only 2GB of internal storage, so every last MB is precious.

    Nope, doesn't take up any space that would be usable to you. In Android the system is split in to separate partitions for the system applications and user applications. Even if you could delete something from the system partition it will not make additional usable space in the user partition.

  17. Re:Just wait for round 3 on More Ashley Madison Files Published · · Score: 1

    When the federal government didn't revoke the clearances of the users of AM that were cleared and one of them gets blackmailed by the Chinese into doing something illegal. I'd bet good money that the Chinese scrambled to get ahold of this data and cross reference it for some easy targets.

    It's hard to blackmail someone with public information; that usually requires inside knowledge of secret information.

  18. Not ignored on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 4, Informative

    “Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual’s metabolism,”

    It isn't being ignored; it's part of the equation, and always has been. Metabolic rate acts as a multiplier on the "calories out" part of the equation.

  19. Re:Finally ... on Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design · · Score: 1

    Oh, apparently I stepped on a meme without realizing it.

    Thanks for the whoosh. ;-)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. New Language? on Buzz: a Novel Programming Language For Heterogeneous Robot Swarms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I read the story, but I don't see why this needed to be a whole new language, rather than a library.

  21. Re:Home key? on Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices · · Score: 2

    Long-press the home button

    Is the home button the little triangle, circle or square?

    http://files.tested.com/photos...

    It's the circle. The mini tutorial that comes up on a clean install points it out and explains it. Even if you skipped the tutorial, 15 seconds of button mashing will reveal it. But you knew which button it was already, you just wanted to be purposely obtuse.

  22. Re:Uh-Oh on Underwater Chemical Garden Powers a Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Well... we are parasites.... no question about it...

    Not true, it's more of a symbiotic relationship. We are part of the food web, just like every other creature on the planet. Our body waste (and eventually our own dead bodies) will go on to nourish many bacteria species. We actively plant trees and grow food. It's the same relationship our own gut bacteria have with us.

  23. Re:No Compromises on OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS · · Score: 1

    Why use such obscure terms? I had to google it and it just means there is an optical stabilizer. "Optical stabilizer" is only a few characters longer than "OIS camera".

    That's just the way I've seen it listed in every article that mentions the feature. I've seen it so often, and I'm by no means a camera geek, that I figured it was pretty standard.

  24. Re:No Compromises on OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS · · Score: 1

    With SD cards it isn't the storage space that really matters to me, it's the ability to remove it. If my phone won't boot I can still get to my data by putting the card in to a PC. On phones without SD slots the data is gone forever if the phone won't boot, won't charge, or otherwise misbehaves.

  25. Re::( No Cyanogenmod on OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS · · Score: 1

    Odds are CM will still be available for it for users that want to install it on their own.