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  1. Re: My computer restarts randomly at night on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    What if you're rendering a video? That can take a number of hours that you would rather do while asleep. Or uploading a large file to a server via an FTP client or web browser? The OS can't easily tell whether any of those things happen without making it look like spyware. The whole system is shit, and frankly Linux and MacOSX handle it much better: the system file locks that require a restart for updating literally everything Windows is annoying, Linux and OS/X don't need to reboot unless a huge or kernel update occurs. Microsoft really needs to take a hint from them before either or both OSes take over because Windows is untenable.

  2. Re:Sorry to hear they died. on Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    It's clear you don't work for the FAA or NTSB.

    He never said he did.

    You have no idea what you're talking about.

    At least he added some interesting information to the story.

  3. Re:IMHO, such employees need to be fired!!! on Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  4. The AC parent only brought up gender to set up a strawman. Which means this is just terrible syntax and gerrymandering.

  5. Re:It's as if someone had massive capacity on Once Hailed As Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Bored. Depending on the currency the cost to 51% attack is cheap sometimes but these costs are for only an hour. https://www.crypto51.app/ there would be a lot of effort for someone to have free reign over a small market cap and most of those transactions would be rejected by the legit miners.

  6. https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

    Depends on the device. I have the GPD_Win first generation, Arch linux ran fine except for having to change a bios setting and putting a couple of files in the firmware folder for Wifi. YMMV however, no idea about any of the other GPD line.

  7. Re: Microsoft : You must update to have updates on Windows 7 Users: You Need SHA-2 Support or No Windows Updates After July 2019 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly the only issue with Linux nowadays are Nvidia cards and ease of use with desktop environments, specifically switching between different ones like XFCE to KDE and handling errors. Everything else is fine. Nvidia drivers are really hit and miss depending on the card, but AMD open sourced their drivers so people or if you want to even you could make them better. Steam Proton is making huge strides nowadays, so the argument that Linux has no games is somewhat true but to a much lesser extent with Steamplay.

  8. Re:Microsoft : You must update to have updates on Windows 7 Users: You Need SHA-2 Support or No Windows Updates After July 2019 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    https://store.steampowered.com...

    Steam has Wine built in nowadays, but it's called Proton as part of its internal usage. This is the list that's compatible, and officially they have Proton enabled by default for these titles: https://steamcommunity.com/gam...

    They've also been doing a lot of work and upstreaming features to Wine, like DirectX12 to Vulkan API.

  9. The issue came up because a video game (a thing for nerds) sold a dance routine as part of the game. The game is free to play, and that game is Fortnite but the dance is being sold.

    There's some interesting law discussion with law nerds here too. In other words, the only thing that needs to not exist is your ad hominem.

  10. Re:Sony has always been like this on Developers Accuse Sony of 'Playing Favorites' With PS4's Cross-Platform Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony was so angry someone figured out how to escape the PS3 Linux jail that they removed the OtherOS option from all PS3s in its entirety for one guy trying to do it. That was over a decade ago, I still see not much has changed.

  11. Re:Why is number spoofing even possible? on FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mostly because businesses now run a VOIP system that translates a bunch of machines into a business account and they need to be able to set their public caller ID as their main business number that can direct your call to who you need and not some random VOIP address of X person trying to call you which might not even be a valid number at all, or just a number of that specific caller in Y department.

    The issue has been already solved but in a different format: domain registrars for web addresses with SSL certificates, so a system like that but for phone numbers would be a good start perhaps?

  12. I would bet some hard cash that they use either a whitelist or some program that enables a whitelist because they would be bombarded by sheer quantity otherwise.

  13. Re:NASA incompetence on NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OTOH, this project was expected to last 3 months, not 14ish years, so I don't think much of anything was wasted.

  14. Re:Dorsey Dodges Questions on How Hard is it To Have a Conversation on Twitter? So Hard Even the CEO Can't Do It. (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Youtube sometimes doesn't load a video's comments, usually noticed it in Firefox but it happens in all browsers. The spot where it would say "comments are disabled" or where the comments should be is just blank.

  15. Re:Maybe it's not that bad of a deal on Amazon To NYC After Reconsidering HQ2 Plans: It'd Be a Shame If Something Happened To Your Kids' CS Education · · Score: 1

    Alaska. They pay you to be there actually. But that's another thing entirely and I agree with your post, just wanted to point out that such a place actually exists and really does pay you.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. How about we actually go for goals without partisan bickering and namecalling?

  17. Re:Illegal Immigrants not anti-vaxxers on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Except immigrants have higher vaccination rates than the USA: https://www.who.int/immunizati... vs https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta...

  18. Re:Don't wanna Vaccinate? on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Except immigrants have higher vaccination rates than the USA: https://www.who.int/immunizati... good job, your "dirty immigrant" argument falls flat on its ass

  19. Re:Help Me Understand? on Mozilla Announces Project Fission, a Project To Add True Multi-Process Support To Firefox (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except it's already a feature in Chrome(ium) since version 67, and you can read how it works here: http://www.chromium.org/Home/c...

    This takes up a bit more RAM however, because each process has its own heap and executable thread for each tab or domain if you enable it by domains only (disabled by default).

    This looks to be almost the same thing except just by domains instead.

  20. This is not the first case of unethical data: there's a lot of valuable scientific data from the Holocaust and Unit 731, but those were taken after the fact that those groups got destroyed then after they got that data. I think the bigger question is "can there be justice for the people harmed by this?" and "how do we move forward without enabling this behavior even more?"

  21. Re:better is no internet connection on Nest Secure Has an Unlisted, Disabled Microphone (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    All the smart tvs in the future are gonna have 5G connections that are "free" so that they can still phone home and do whatever they want unless you live in a faraday cage or far away enough from a 5G cell phone tower.

  22. Re:It's not a binary answer. on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 2

    Outside of enterprise, there's only 3 big sources of Java these days: Android development (which is trying to move away from Java), Minecraft (ditto) and Steam games (very few games use a JRE, but the most recent and bigger example is Slay the Spire).

  23. Re:DB lookup? on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    https://haveibeenpwned.com/Pwn... you won't but if you're really unsure about that site's security you can browse the list of sites here, but there's no database around except in the darknet or some other file sharing service.

  24. Re:A non story on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's blackmail, not trust. They make a fake threat saying they'll expose your porn habits and nudes they hacked from your webcam unless you pay them by Bitcoin; in reality nothing happens in the end beyond that threatening email with your password in the subject or message. https://www.businessinsider.co... there's a screenshot on this article if you want to see for yourself.

  25. Re:I just noticed something on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they are paid informants trying to stir the pot by putting out propaganda that is ultimately harmful. It works because, well, look at the article, it won't even touch 99% of the people but if it kills 1% it's still a victory because the targeted people died to that propaganda.