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  1. Re:Still waiting for a solution to this ... on Texting Is 25 Years Old (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Agree. Word autocorrect, spellcheck has saved many a millennial (and younger) from their native tongue (text-English).
    Otherwise, the kids could never write a coherent email or report.

  2. waste it on new campus,instead of software testers on Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Or they could use the $ to hire back the Windows quality control testers they fired.

  3. California solution: find the right liberal judge on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    California will sue the FCC, and given all of the liberal federal judges in the local circuit, will likely win.
    Or maybe some of Pai's past girlfriends will come out of the closet and allege sexual harassment.

  4. configure browser, treat FB as a malware domain on We Can't Trust Facebook To Regulate Itself, Says Former Operations Manager (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Add *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.com, *.fbcdn.net to I.E. Restricted Sites zone, Privacy tab-Sites-cookies-always block.
    Add them to blocking in content settings (incl. javascript) in Chrome.
    Add them to My Rules in uBlock Origin, uMatrix, NoScript.
    Add them to Hosts file.

  5. Re:It's all stolen BUT GO AHEAD & TRUST IT ANY on 'Significant' Number of Equifax Victims Already Had Info Stolen, Says IRS (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    re: "when it's just vote suppression when we ask for an ID to vote?"

    Mexico, of all places, issues special photo I.D. cards to its voters.
    That is why there's no such thing as "undocumented immigrants".
    The illegals have plenty of documents...just not the right ones to be lawfully present in the U.S.

  6. Re:Such dissonance... on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Keep antenna away from front/sides of TV.
    I discovered that if you place the antenna too close to the front or sides of a low-end Vizio TV, the EMI interference will block reception of weaker UHF channels.

    Put the antenna behind the TV and higher up on the wall, and all of the weaker channels showed up fine.

  7. Re:To be honest, don't care about most sports on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, I've used the Telemundo trick too for British Premier League soccer on Sunday mornings (occasional early Sat. morning ones as well).
    Univision, another Spanish network, also has MLS and Liga MX games.
    The MLS games have English on the SAP audio, but not the Liga MX.

    When and Where.
    A great site for listings of soccer games and the dates/times, networks they're shown on: www.livesoccertv.com/
    The site has no live streams, it's just a big directory.

  8. Re:One of the reasons on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    MLB cut off the over-the-air radio broadcasts, so that they sell those audio streams online, as "MLB Gameday audio".
    It's about $20 for the whole season (regular and postseason). You get all of the teams, access to the home or away broadcasters, no blackouts.

  9. +1. Don't forget Equifax. Ironically, we would be better off if Chinese intelligence were behind the hack, than Russian crime rings intent on committing fraud.

    And it can get worse, much worse.
    Right-wing + internet = Trump 2016
    Trump + Twitter + Kim-jong-un = another Korean war.
    Imagine that, a presidential squabble on twitter, leads to a low-yield nuke delivered on Los Angeles.

  10. It's a feature, not a problem. on Chinese State Media Report Bloated Battery in Apple's iPhone 8 (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Maybe this is by design?
    The bloat warns you of a bad battery.
    Perhaps the bloating is a "safety", a breakpoint before the battery begins to smolder or explode.

  11. Anti-piracy.
    I think the special rental pressings have digital watermarks to track down pirates who copy and sell at flea markets.
    The watermarks are linked to the Netflix rental account.

    Studios don't really care about those who rip and burn to create personal media libraries. As long as you don't share them for a profit.

  12. Don't tempt the Beast (Microsoft). on According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Red Alert: Microsoft marketing opportunity, battle stations!
    Wouldn't be surprised at all, if close-ups of screens started showing a Win 10 look-alike.

    Microsoft becomes corporate sponsor, after CBS subscription revenue fails to meet expectations.

  13. Don't let the bad guys in, in the first place. on UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No such thing as a Constitution or 1st Amendment in the U.K. That's why they can do this.
    Real issue: Allowing millions of terrorists ("refugees") to enter in the first place.
    And they don't use birth control, so their numbers increase, until it's too late to stop the invasion. Just like illegal aliens in the U.S.
    Brits really shot themselves in the foot on this one.

    Letting radical Islam take over your country = suicide.

  14. Could State Tax On Robots Slow Automation? on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh oh, look out, another new innovation from California... San Francisco City Supervisor Pushes State Tax On Robots To Slow Automation http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

  15. Re:Size is still important on Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (bit.ly) · · Score: 1

    +1. If a site is really heavy, but I have to use it, I'll use the mobile version on my desktop. Ex.- m.chase.com (JP Morgan Chase bank). I despise the Web 2.0+ sites that have re-decorated with big poster images everywhere, assuming that all users have giant monitors.