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  1. Re:Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I usually only let Windows auto-install drivers rather than downloading the installer package to try to avoid the junk. I seem to remember Windows 10 offering a way for OEMs to push the bloat down the wire with the drivers now, though, and I don't know if they've started doing it.

  2. Re:Not meaningfully different from in-vitro on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    I count it. You don't. Without any useful argument, that's pretty much it. Mitochondrial DNA carries all sorts of information setting up how metabolism is carried out, which is as much a part of a person as how their kidneys are made.

  3. Re:So no cable ripping, but... on IEEE Sets New Ethernet Standard That Brings 5X the Speed Without Cable Ripping (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The major connector difference with Cat6a (which is multi-Gb) is the cable shielding required and connected to a shield on the RJ-45 connector. If you're not replacing cables, you'll have no shield to connect.

  4. The screenshots make it seem just like the Google multi-account sign-in. They remain completely separate other than the simultaneous authentication being possible in the browser (and the cookies to back it up). Not sure what you're talking about regarding "linking."

  5. I should mention that I don't have a facebook account, so would this mean I'd have to create one if, say, some team I join happens to use that crap?

    It's a separate account anyway. Facebook users have to create a new account too. Just like Slack, for that matter. I really doubt you'd be required to create a personal account to use it.

  6. Re:Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an entirely separate issue and the reason I don't personally use HP. However, it's not so bad that I would have recommended against them. Especially for everyday consumers who let the ink dry out in the printhead.

  7. Re:Not meaningfully different from in-vitro on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    But pretending this offspring has three equally biological parents is disingenuous.

    They're not equal in parentage, but they're definitely equal in being biological donors whose DNA pass on to future generations.

    I don't think anything equates them as being equal, but it's still an awful lot of genetic material to not be considered for biological parentage at all.

  8. Re:Fooling Darwin on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    So is "Darwin" just a scientific challenge or your God? Because your words betray you.

    The children with no parents are not the fault of the parents who want to start a baby from scratch - keep the blame with the parents that abandoned them.

  9. Re:Why are we doing this? on World's First Baby Born With New '3 Parent' Technique (newscientist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop being selfish (needing your "damaged" genes to propagate)

    The damaged mitochondrial DNA was replaced completely - and will propagate the replaced DNA as well.

    There are plenty of children that need to be adopted.

    A baby is a child, but a child is not a baby.

    Raise one of them, and accept they won't be propagating your genes but they will be propagating your values.

    Depending on the age of the child, there's no guarantee you can change/undo what's already been done.

  10. Re:Just don't buy HP on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, great hindsight there. If you said so in March with details on why, that would have actually been useful.

  11. And painful enough to render a NAS useless, too.

  12. Re:So no cable ripping, but... on IEEE Sets New Ethernet Standard That Brings 5X the Speed Without Cable Ripping (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if serious, but new signaling. Why would you need to change out the jacks? RJ-45 has been sufficient for quite a long while.

  13. Re:How the F*** do you rideone of those holes down on Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Water Plumes That Rise Up About 125 Miles (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Imagine the PSI 100 miles up after being slowed by wind resistance, gravity, etc. You just fly by in low orbit and pick some up.

  14. Re:We need a web of trust on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    StartCom may not be worth your entire trust but it is still better than nothing

    A false sense of security is actually worse than nothing.

  15. Re: I'm Confused on Mozilla's Proposed Conclusion: Game Over For WoSign and Startcom? (google.com) · · Score: 1

    But I've moved on to LetsEncrypt

    Hence Startcom's motivation to sell out - there's no good reason to compete in that space.

  16. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    growing, weekly -- percentage of the overall population believes that "climate change" is not the immediate dire threat the Alarmists make it out to be.

    In direct contradiction to what the Bible actually teaches-which is that mankind was given this planet to tend and take care of. This means that human actions have consequences and that climate change is a direct result of failing to live up to that standard.

  17. Scary thought: Clippy with AI on Microsoft Patents A User-Monitoring AI That Improves Search Results (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Clippy was bad enough on his own. I don't think giving him an AI and access to every program would be any better.

  18. You could probably just stick a display driver board and a regular KVM board inside an actual old gutted laptop, provided you know how to connect keyboard/trackpad to the USB on the KVM.

  19. Re: Let's get physical on 19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If there's enough left of the phone when the battery comes out...

  20. Re:Makes more sense on Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    With Verizon, they don't even know how much data you're using, but they'll be glad to charge for more.

  21. Re:200 Million Yahoo "Users" on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Definitely a sound technique, but even at the size of Yahoo, I'm not sure if this would have happened. The transition to something like SHA1 probably happened long enough ago, that MD5 was still relatively secure.

  22. Re:So long, Netflix, it was good while it lasted on Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They already tell you what to watch, since they decide what to make. Many an idea dies because a studio won't pick it up because they think it's not marketable.

    Not really entirely true. Once I run out of new content that I actually want, the money spigot STOPS. I won't pay for what I don't want. If I continued to pay for Netflix and they had nothing but shovelvision, I would be under their control.

  23. Re: Let's get physical on 19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, Samsung has lots of *hot* features that other makers don't have.

  24. Re:And how many lied... on Microsoft Asked To Compensate After Windows 10 Update Bricked PCs (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    No, that's specifically what the recovery key is for. Your password won't work on another computer, because of TPM - but the recovery key is intended for situations like this.

    See: System Recovery details here.

  25. Re:And how many lied... on Microsoft Asked To Compensate After Windows 10 Update Bricked PCs (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to unlock the drive before cloning it. You can unlock it later - or from another PC. The important thing is that there is an opportunity to make a backup.