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  1. CCleaner as Security Software? on The CCleaner Malware Fiasco Targeted at Least 20 Specific Tech Firms (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    CCleaner was always garbage that hosed the registry and "cleaned up" /TEMP. Completely useless and in many cases caused problems due to removal of placeholder registry items.

  2. Re:Go on then. on Will Linux Innovation Be Driven By Microsoft? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Netscape and even the first runs of Mozilla's Phoenix were ungainly beasts clocking in at ~25MB downloads and ~50MB+ installs when Opera 5 with a mail client was ~3.5MB.

    I imagine if Opera had of been an American company it wouldn't of even been a contest.

  3. Aye. Our Canaan prefers heavy palms, deep bushes, or behind a tree as a last resort.

  4. Shit is Stupid Now on The Father of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Stuff has been dumbed down for the masses. Compare any "music streaming service app" to WinAmp from 1998 - none of them even have 1/4 of the features of WinAmp 2.8/2.9. Do any of them even let you actually rate songs? Or just the mindless Thumb.

  5. The other thing to keep an eye on these days are WebSockets, I would be surprised if this JS BS incorporates that now or the near future. There don't appear to be memory limitations to WebSockets either.

  6. Paxil is the Devil on Researchers Find Antidepressants Increase Risk of Death (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Paxil made me completely apathetic, with a diminished sexual interest, and lack of appetite among other symptoms. I'd rather be depressed and have periodic "black moods".

    Limited usage of THC works wonders in comparison - with none of the anti-depressant symptoms.

  7. The only cookies I allow with uMatrix are the ones set by the primary domain, all others are dropped.

  8. Daisy Chain two adapters to microUSB cable on iPhone 8 and iPhone X Will Support Fast Charging, But Only If You Buy a New USB-C Charger (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use a decent gauge regular microUSB cable, you can chain two adapters to plug into a USB-C charge port.
    1) USB-A to Micro-USB (c.f. an OTG adapter would work),
    2) A Micro-USB to USB-C adapter,

    You should get 3.0 Amps @ 5V -- which is about as fast as you can get. Even Qualcomm's QuickCharge doesn't do much more than 15watts, as QC does higher voltages at a lesser amperage for parts of the charging cycle.

  9. Re:People are just picking that up now? on Apple's 'Shoddy' Beats Headphones Get Slammed In Lawsuit (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    I spent < $60 on a pair of OSTRY KC06A IEM's

    * 10 mm CCAW double cavity driver | * Eardrum Bionics Technology diaphragm | * Titanium housing
    * Sensitivity: >102 dB @ 1 kHz | * Impedance: 16 Ohms +/- 15%
    * Frequency response: 20 Hz - 20 kHz | * Distortion: < 1% 110 dB (@20μpa)
    * Channel imbalance: Rated power: 10 mW
    * 4.43 ft environment-friendly antibacterial TPU cable

    Best IEM's I've had. Even blocks the "scraping sound" of the cable rubbing against clothes.

    Comfortably stays in your ears without using the over-the-ear hooks as the cable is firm enough to wrap around your ears. The headphones sit upside-down (in your ear) compared to other IEMs.

  10. Re:Buying Movies on Disney Is Lone Holdout From Apple's Plan to Sell 4K Movies for $20 (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have another lackluster summer in 2018, the content producers might wise up.

    Of course, they might not be able to afford a clue by then.

  11. Re:Different motive on China Joins the Growing Movement To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
    Oil isn't going anywhere... until it's gone. A partial list of products made from petroleum (144 of 6000 items):

    One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like: Solvents, Diesel fuel, Motor Oil, Bearing Grease, Ink, Floor Wax, Ballpoint Pens, Football Cleats, Upholstery, Sweaters, Boats, Insecticides, Bicycle Tires, Sports Car Bodies, Nail Polish, Fishing lures, Dresses, Tires, Golf Bags, Perfumes, Cassettes, Dishwasher parts, Tool Boxes, Shoe Polish, Motorcycle Helmet, Caulking, Petroleum Jelly, Transparent Tape, CD Player, Faucet Washers, Antiseptics, Clothesline, Curtains, Food Preservatives, Basketballs, Soap, Vitamin Capsules, Antihistamines, Purses, Shoes, Dashboards, Cortisone, Deodorant, Footballs, Putty, Dyes, Panty Hose, Refrigerant, Percolators, Life Jackets, Rubbing Alcohol, Linings, Skis, TV Cabinets, Shag Rugs, Electrician's Tape, Tool Racks, Car Battery Cases, Epoxy, Paint, Mops, Slacks, Insect Repellent, Oil Filters, Umbrellas, Yarn, Fertilizers, Hair Coloring, Roofing, Toilet Seats, Fishing Rods, Lipstick, Denture Adhesive, Linoleum, Ice Cube Trays, Synthetic Rubber, Speakers, Plastic Wood, Electric Blankets, Glycerin, Tennis Rackets, Rubber Cement, Fishing Boots, Dice, Nylon Rope, Candles, Trash Bags, House Paint, Water Pipes, Hand Lotion, Roller Skates, Surf Boards, Shampoo, Wheels, Paint Rollers, Shower Curtains, Guitar Strings, Luggage, Aspirin, Safety Glasses, Antifreeze, Football Helmets, Awnings, Eyeglasses, Clothes, Toothbrushes, Ice Chests, Footballs, Combs, CD's & DVD's, Paint Brushes, Detergents, Vaporizers, Balloons, Sun Glasses, Tents, Heart Valves, Crayons, Parachutes, Telephones, Enamel, Pillows, Dishes, Cameras, Anesthetics, Artificial Turf, Artificial limbs, Bandages, Dentures, Model Cars, Folding Doors, Hair Curlers, Cold cream, Movie film, Soft Contact lenses, Drinking Cups, Fan Belts, Car Enamel, Shaving Cream, Ammonia, Refrigerators, Golf Balls, Toothpaste, Gasoline Americans consume petroleum products at a rate of three-and-a-half gallons of oil and more than 250 cubic feet of natural gas per day each! But, as shown here petroleum is not just used for fuel.

    From: http://www.ranken-energy.com/p...

  12. Re:El Nino on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
    We don't get an "El Nino" every year, there is an El Nino (heating) / La Nina (cooling) cycle.

    El Nino events are associated with a warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific, while La Nina events are the reverse, with a sustained cooling of these same areas. These changes in the Pacific Ocean and its overlying atmosphere occur in a cycle known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

    from: What are El Nino and La Nina events?

    Also: El Nino and La Nina Years and Intensities.

  13. Re:This explains the dearth ... on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, after evolving from $400 to $1000 with no user-replaceable battery, no dual-sim slot|SD-card slot, the Pixel has evolved to no head-phone jack either. Sweeeeeet.

  14. Baaah Baaaaah. on Android Oreo's Rollback Protection Will Block OS Downgrades (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    What ClickBait, This has nothing to do with customROMs.

    "RollBack Protection", prevents the device from booting from an earlier major version of Android. So as to prevent would-be thieves from easily wiping the device and obviating Android Oreo's security mechanisms.

    Android 8.0 Oreo Review

    No more OS downgrades—If an attacker steals your phone, Android has several security features in place that will make it more difficult to access your device. It doesn't help matters much if the attacker can just downgrade the operating system to a version that didn't have those protections in place, so with that in mind Android 8.0 introduces "rollback protection" into the Verified Boot process. With rollback protection, Verified Boot will no longer start up an OS that it detects has been downgraded to an earlier version.

    Developers (or Android-obsessed journalists) that need to downgrade their device to an older version for testing or checking something can disable this feature, which will trigger the usual slew of boot-up warning messages. Google also says it has "hardened the bootloader unlocking process," which should make it harder for bugs or malicious apps to unlock the bootloader without user approval.

  15. Re:Duck it -- was Re:Monopoly on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Brave uses Apple's WebKit - which has none of Google's Blink updates since the April 2013 fork where Google ripped out all of the iOS/Mac dependencies among other refactoring.

  16. Seems Implausible on Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Facebook claims to know where everyone lives...and Google Maps can't even find our house - it's claimed to be on a side street behind us where other houses that are on that side street are. They (Google) fixed it once after 6 correction submissions over 2 years, but it got retconned.

  17. Re:IRC is still free I think on Billionaire Brothers Want to Build a Cheaper Rival to Slack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yahoo Mail is better than GMail at this point.Gmail hasn't added any quality-of-life improvements in years. I'd be curious as to what all the engineers that support GMail actually do since Marissa Myers left.

  18. Useless ClearChannel stations on Traditional Radio Faces a Grim Future, New Study Says (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    AM/FM radio is in the midst of a massive drop-off as a music-discovery tool

    Radio in the US hasn't been a "Music-Discovery Tool" for the last 10-20 years since ClearChannel acquired nearly every FM station and made DJ's irrelevant.

  19. HGST and Toshiba have been at the top for years on BackBlaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 (backblaze.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Editor's note: In short: hard drives from HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, and Toshiba were far more reliable than those from Seagate

    Which has been the case since BackBlaze started releasing it's reliability numbers, aside from a few instances where a specific model of Seagate performed unusually well.

  20. Re:Lower prices, at first. on Amazon Just Made Shopping at Whole Foods Cheaper (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone pays. Not just someone else. Well everyone that's not rich, and everyone that's not a corporation.

  21. Re:They're full of 18650's. on People Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries To Power Their Homes (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    High drain 26650's are the real schnizzle at about 5 bucks each.

  22. Anyone that buys Sonos or other "smart speakers" are unfortunately ignorant. Buy real speakers and add a Bluetooth 4.2 dongle for $20, or a google Chromecast Audio Puck for $35.

    My fucking speakers don't need a TOS.

  23. Total Commander on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Total Commander - there isn't a comparable File Manager, although DoubleCMD and MultiCommander at least try.

  24. Re:I had posted this elsewhere. My op on Ask Slashdot: Female Engineers, Could You Please Share Your Thoughts On the Google Memo · · Score: 1

    I was mentioning this to the wife recently, "Before there was oodles of money in IT."

    Prior to the tech-explosion, there were geeks that were into computers, and anywhere's from 25% to %50 of the computer-related courses were populated with women, depending on the course in question -- math, logic and statistic courses tended to be more diverse than the purely programming side of things.

    Yet now, IT can be one of the best paying jobs available, and our fields have been invaded by the commons and alphas.

  25. The US doesn't have student wage? Granted the difference between Canada's student wage and minimum wage (18+) is about the same it was in the 80's, $1.40 less.