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  1. 6 Million is a Gross Underestimation on 6 Million Americans Exposed To High Levels of Chemicals In Drinking Water, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The contamination areas includes, Southern California, Northern California, Central California, Texas and large swaths of the Eastern United States (from the Great Lakes to Massachusetts) and down the seaboard to Florida. I would say 6 million is a gross underestimation - considering how much produce is shipped outside of California,and the population density in the affected areas.

  2. My LG Smart watch can't even f'n keep time on it's own. If it sits on its base charging, but not bluetooth connected to the phone - within a day or two the time will go out of sync. Within 5 days, the time will be off by at least 30 minutes, and the date will be wrong.

    A watch that can't even keep time is NOT a freaking watch.

  3. While in the Real World, WSL is contained on Linux on Windows Exposes a New Attack Surface (eweek.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. Better, Faster, Stronger. on Google's Open YOLO Project Will Remove the Need For Passwords On Android (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lets reimplement OpenID! Now with 100% more YOLO.

  5. DC Heroes, in general aren't as popular as Marvel's Super Heroes, also DC Super Heroes rely far more heavily on otherworld-heroes and gadgets gadgets gadgets.

    Flash, Aquaman, a handful of others are from Earth #1 and don't usually utilize gadgets, whereas
    Superman :: Otherworld
    Batman :: Gadgets
    Wonder Woman :: Gadgets, Sometimes is Otherworld
    Green Lanterns :: Gadget, Gadget-itself is Otherworld
    Blue Beetle :: Gadgets
    Booster Gold :: Gadgets
    Cyborg :: Is-a-Gadget
    Hawkman & Hawkwoman :: Otherworld & Gadgets
    Martian Manhunter (Jon Jonzz):: Otherworld
    Mister Miracle :: Gadgets
    Dr. Fate :: "Magical" Gadgets

    The "gadget" aspect of DC is just far less interesting than Marvel's Mutants.

    On the other end of the spectrum, DC's adult-line of characters were top-notch: The Question, Spectre, Sandman, Constantine.

  6. Re:CAN you even refuse it? on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Via elevated command line, the following command hasn't changed since windows 2000.

    Win2K, the Best Windows©, and all in ONE version. NO Starter|Home|Pro|Business|Ultimate|Enterprise Edition needed, Thanks!

    It's actually starting to be worrisome, just how much control is being taken away from the end user. The "PC" was almost like a last-bastion, as Mobile (outside of pure linux) is locked down for almost everyone but the select few that root their phones.

  7. Except they haven't done that. ALL of Firefox's tabs are within the same "plugin-container.exe" process.

  8. Re:for a minute there i thought i had freedom. on Firefox 48 Released With Multi-Process Support, Mandatory Add-On Signing (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It's happened on Chrome's "store". I haven't heard of any such skullduggery within Firefox's realm.

  9. Splitting Firefox's tab data over into the "plugin container for Firefox" hasn't done much to improve Firefox's GUI performance. Once FF hits certain ram limits, it will start ignoring mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts. So while FF may claim its NOT unresponsive, I think the fact that now it's acceptable for FF to IGNORE hardware input from the user, instead of delaying it until it can process is far worse.

    I can't wait to get off this sinking ship. Maybe Piro could crowdfund Tree Style Tab for Chrome.

  10. Add-On Signing is optional in Firefox Developer (aka Aurora), and Firefox Nightly.

  11. Re:The link is in the title on PSA: Windows 10 Is Still Free For Those Who Use Assistive Technologies (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Technically, except it has an odd hash-id: "?tduid=(3d0a9b914f4e1448707e8ed162c69bb7)(266696)(1503186)(skim33330X911647Xa68e5caea18d748c47809d1b2ce9d04b)()"
    The "reserve windows 10" link without that, works perfectly fine - it would seem.

  12. Stephen King death hoax spreads on Facebook on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Does it work better than a tree? on New Solar Cells Can Convert CO2 Into Hydrocarbon Fuel (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    +1
    So...nothing new under the sun, just different catalysts.

  14. Re:Browser Extensions on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1
    Addenum Notes:

    Firefox: All Plugins are uninstalled; Thus I disabled "Flash Control"

    Chrome: prefer "Post It All : Sticky notes" to "Page Notes"

    Opera: last item is uMatrix...

  15. Browser Extensions on Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition · · Score: 1
    Firefox Developer Extensions

    Add-on Compatibility Reporter
    Add-ons Manager Context Menu
    ContextMenu Extensions (Piro, not signed)
    DOM Inspector
    Element Inspector
    Enhanced Steam
    Greasemonkey
    LastPass
    Multiple Tab Handler (Piro, not signed)
    OmniSidebar
    Remote XUL Manager
    Session Manager
    Stylish (only because "User Style Manager" is broken)
    SuperUserContent (doesn't really work as well as Stylish or USM)
    Tab Groups
    Tabhunter
    Tree Style Tab (Piro, not signed)
    uMatrix
    url-addon-bar
    Vertical Toolbar

    Chrome Canary Extensions

    Better History 3.9.14
    Bookmark Manager 2.2016.128.11729
    Context Menu Search 2.93
    Flashcontrol 9.2.415
    LastPass: Free Password Manager 4.1.20
    Nimble Bookmarks 1.1.0
    Page Notes 2.4.10
    Post It All : Sticky notes 0.0.1.0
    Project Tab Manager 3.0.1
    Sidewise Tree Style Tabs 2016.5.5.0
    SimpleExtManager 1.4.3.12
    SimpleUndoClose 1.3.5.3
    Stylish 1.5.2
    Tab Manager 4.3.4
    Tab Modifier 0.14.3
    Tampermonkey BETA 4.1.5259
    uMatrix 0.9.3.3

    Opera Extensions

    Bookmarks by the Side
    Classic Tabs
    Colors Dev Panel
    CSS Diff
    DevTools Theme: Zero Dark Matrix
    DomFlags
    Download Chrome Extension
    Download panel
    Flashcontrol
    Front End Developer Tools
    LastPass
    MyMenu
    Project Tab Manager
    Sidewise Tree Style Tabs
    SimpleExtManager
    SimpleUndoClose
    Stylish
    Tab Modifier
    Violent monkey (likely switch to TamperMonkey)
    Matrix

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    Still at 29.5 (after pasting all the character counts, it stopped increasing after 29.5 and would not go up, nor let post)
    Lorem Ipsum to the rescue.

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  16. Re:Thousands? on New York DA Wants Apple, Google To Roll Back Encryption (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Johnny sold a controlled substance. He also doesn't have a business license, and didn't pay tax. They gonna get 'im good.

  17. Re:Fuck off and die already on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian Women are like American Women...well except for that pesky Puritan heritage bit.

  18. Re:Fuck off and die already on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Get HideMyAss or something else, and stream from CBC :-) Live Events at crazy hours plus some recasts during "normal" North American times.

    Oh yeah, and no puff pieces.

  19. That a self-grandizing twat from Epic games that regularly spews diarrhea from his mouth - somehow prevents even a modicum of reasoning from the Slashdot masses without devolving to M$ Sukz. Jeebus the Halloween Papers? Really?

  20. ...and Google Fiber is a subsidiary of Alphabet on Google Fiber Reminds People It's a 'Real Business' (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2
    Google Fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    On August 10, 2015, Google announced its intention to restructure the company, moving less central services and products into a new umbrella corporation, Alphabet Inc. As part of this restructuring plan, Google Fiber would become a subsidiary of Alphabet, and may become part of the "Access and Energy" business unit.[8]

  21. No it isn't on Google Fiber Reminds People It's a 'Real Business' (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of the Alphabet child companies have to be self supporting. I don't recall if the deadline has past yet or not. Which is why - if you've been paying attention - some things have already been divested, such as Boston Dynamics robotics.

  22. Re:Exists as an Alibaba holding company. Plus mail on Verizon Nears Deal to Acquire Yahoo (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. Yahoo is only selling its "core" business. This deal has absolutely zero to do with Yahoo's Alibaba stake.

  23. Re:I was wrong. on Verizon Nears Deal to Acquire Yahoo (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. You are wrong. Within the last week or two Yahoo broke email. For both the new and old(er) version of Yahoo Mail.

    Previously: Search mail, and the left side-bar would show folder locations of matching emails with (# of matched mails).
    Now: Left side-bar just shows normal folders, with their unread counts.

  24. Amazon owns Zappos. Losing a single fringe-brand wont even be a blip. Amazon certainly wont fold to Birkensmuck. The publishers they've gone toe-to-toe with were Titans compared to some shoe-brand that almost no one has heard of.

  25. You are choosing to NOT be on Netflix (US/Canada)|Hulu|Amazon|YouTube RED...hmmm yeah
    Let's see how long that lasts.