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  1. Re:Irrelevant in Australia on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably they would be, in about 18 months time.

  2. Irrelevant in Australia on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Seeing that I live in Australia, I am sure this service will be denied to me, in any case, as I am sure Foxtel will have exclusive rights and will try to continue to enforce their ludicrous 1990's approach of making people sign up for Rugby, Cricket and some other shit sport I don't care about in order to watch one TV show at about $79 a month. Currently, if you want Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley, legally, in Australia, you're compelled to buy multiple different "packs" from these clowns and the price really is $79 a month. Or you can buy Private Internet Access for about $15 a year and torrent.... Why do you think Australia leads the world in piracy?

  3. Pity you can't run BSD or Linux on it on Preview of AMD Ryzen Threadripper Shows Chip Handily Out-Pacing Intel Core i9 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Seems that if you max out the Ryzen on Linux or BSD, it can (under certain conditions) cause a reset:
    https://hothardware.com/news/freebsd-programmers-report-ryzen-smt-bug-that-hangs-or-resets-machines

  4. Yeah but does it run WINE? on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    Now I can install Ubuntu under Windows in Parallels on my Mac. If I can get WINE running under that, I can just about go full circle...

  5. Re:Who are the people on the graph using both?!? on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Ok everyone - it was a joke...

  6. Who are the people on the graph using both?!? on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    I use tabs and I understand some people prefer spaces but what kind of hybrid-hell-beast uses both??

  7. "Entire" computer? on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical Verge. "Documents, desktop, pictures" = "entire computer".

    No. No it doesn't. When someone says "entire computer", I think "that means the entire computer" not "that means my documents". Google Drive cannot backup c:\windows\ or other locked / key files. The title of this article makes it sound like this is a full disk backup, which it's most certainly not - all they're letting you do is change the directory Google Drive syncs. ownCloud has done this for literally years.

    TheVerge is supposed to be a tech site but they don't seem to understand much outside of fashion blogging.

  8. It gets hacked by Gilfoyle on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    What happens if you put a computer inside a fridge? It gets hacked, of course:

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

  9. He means "Hyper-V Server".

  10. Re:Attitudes on Amazon Cloud Chief Jabs Oracle: 'Customers Are Sick of It' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Frankly, if my city gets Nuked, the viability of my business is probably going to be somewhat in question, in any case. My ability to recover my up to date accounts receivable data will probably be more than a little redundant, when all of those debtors have been vaporised, money is worthless and, if by some miracle I'm not dead or dying of radiation sickness, I still have access to an electricity grid, to run my computers.

    If you're running anything smaller than a country and "nuclear war" is in your contingency plans, you're probably focusing on the wrong concerns.

  11. Look forward to this being leaked. on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I look forward to hearing about some ISP sticking all this data in an internet facing, insecure MongoDB and it all being leaked. Then we'll all be able to search people's entire online lives on pastebin. And you know this shit is going to happen, too.

  12. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You want evidence of price discrimination, change your location to Australia. Boom - everything just doubled in price. Steam, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft - they all do it. It's even got a name (australiatax). It's even cheaper to fly to the USA to buy from these companies and then fly back, than to buy it here (https://www.neowin.net/news/its-cheaper-to-fly-to-the-usa-than-buy-adobe-cs6-in-australia). Amazon is most certainly one of the guilty parties here.

  13. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your ISP can still see the destination, HTTPS or no. So if you're hitting up their DNS for pornhub's IP, https isn't helping a whole lot. And if the URL you visit is https://amazon.com/golfclubs - they still already know enough about you to sell something to advertisers, without seeing the details of the site.

  14. Aaaand we already have the first rumour of a fire on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even kidding. There's been a fire at a Samsung Store stocking the S8's. No one is confirming it was the S8's that started it - but no one is confirming it wasn't. Either way, it's publicity Samsung could have done without.

    https://9to5google.com/2017/03...

  15. Re:Lock her up already on Theranos To Investors: Please Don't Sue! Here, Have Some More Shares (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My assumption is he wanted to distance himself from the situation as fast as he can. There's a clear lawsuit or more coming for this company, which is privately owned, not publicly, and being a major shareholder in a privately owned company that's getting super-sued is ?possibly? bad news. That was my assumption - he wants the hell out before it gets worse.

  16. Exactly this. Everyone on Android is going to be integrating with Google's Assistant - no one is going to work with Samsung's. Especially considering its primary focus is to help users "use the Galaxy S8".

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

  17. They're only earning less overtime if their outgoings are also 10B. Inflation of 2.3% on outgoings of $400,000 is still less than 1% of 10B....

  18. Re:Melodramatic much? on Malta's Azure Window Collapses Into the Sea (timesofmalta.com) · · Score: 1

    it's relevant to Slashdot because it lines up the obvious opportunity to make jokes about Windows Azure...

    That's seriously the only reason I can see this article made it to the front page.

  19. Re:Not a Microsoft story on Malta's Azure Window Collapses Into the Sea (timesofmalta.com) · · Score: 1

    I came here only to see the jokes and I'm not disappointed.

  20. How do you protect yourself from wireless hacking on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    By using a wire.

    I know this sounds redundant and trite but I'm serious. The question asks about how to not use wireless on Windows 10, yet few people seem to be giving the stunningly obvious advice of not using wireless on Windows 10. Disable the wireless NIC. Don't use wireless. Don't join a wireless network. Tada! You're not using wireless!

  21. 75L of urine in a pool on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is a real problem in those little seashell pools you get that hold about 80L...

  22. $3,000 a month rent for a 2 bedroom house? He should have moved to Port Headland in Western Australia, where you could have paid up to $2,000 a WEEK to live in a seatainer.

  23. Developers! Developers! Developers! on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean Steve Balmer will have to come out stage yelling "AIs! AIs! AIs!"?

  24. Re:Queue the headphone jack comments on Apple Sets a New Record For iPhone Sales (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, I am not an Apple Fanboi - but when they were APPLE COMPUTER (as you put it) they didn't have anything to take over when the Apple II got long in the tooth. Then they didn't have anything to take over when the iMac got long in the tooth. Then they didn't have anything to take over when the iPod got long in the tooth. Now it's the iPhone.

    What does Microsoft have when Windows & Office are "long in the tooth"? What does Google have when search / ad revenue is long in the tooth? What does Exxon have when petrochemicals are long in the tooth? All these companies, including Apple, are diversifying their revenue as best they see (Microsoft with Azure, Apple with services, like iTunes, Appstores, etc. Google with ideas that never pan out. That kind of thing).

    Why are people always predicting the imminent doom of Apple? For like 30 years, Apple has been "going to fail any day now". Frankly, Apple (and Microsoft and Google and many others) have so much money that even if the iPhone suddenly stopped selling because someone else makes "the next new thing" - Apple can just buy that thing out or buy a team to replicate it.

  25. All my sympathy... on GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't care if this is a mistake and screw up of their own making (and it is, on every level) - if you've ever worked as sysadmin you have got to feel for these guys.