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  1. Re:Ok, bye bye intelligence access on US Tells Germany To Stop Using Huawei Equipment Or Lose Some Intelligence Access (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As an European, I don't feel identified with this person's comment and tone.

  2. That's a very insightful question. I guess they did it to keep practising the landing, or to do the first double landing and get the nice video that they got, or maybe so that they can disassemble the rockets and reuse or recycle some materials.

  3. Por que no los dos? on Russia Wants To Launch Backup DNS System By August 1, 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So, if my browser looked up each page in both DNS systems, and showed a warning in case of a mismatch, that would give me a higher certainty that the source is not being intercepted at the DNS level, right?

  4. > and the price will continue to go up as long as there is such a stream of newcomers

    If only there was a name for something like this.

  5. Re:Laugh today, innovate tomorrow on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I was actually being serious. Face ID is supposed to be using the extra depth sensors for further accuracy. It's supposed to be better than the current Android and Windows Phone face recognition.

  6. Laugh today, innovate tomorrow on 10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    We laugh now, but we all know that next year's (or the year after's) flagship Android phones will have Face ID.

  7. Re:Why even timezones at all? on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    In the global company where I work we just use EST to schedule meetings and so on.

  8. Re:Software updates only on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    You typically have 30 days to return anything.

  9. Re:Ridiculous on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    $129 is really cheap indeed, even for Chinese Android standards. Is that the full price, or is that just the initial price and monthly instalments aside?

  10. Re:Ridiculous on PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know you don't need to buy a high-end phone, right? I am perfectly happy with my medium-range Android phone.

  11. Re:Why is this necessary? on Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And nuclear.

  12. Can you not disable that information in your browser of choice? Or change browsers? In that case websites won't be able to tell whether they should serve the light or full version of their site, but it's your choice.

  13. Yeah, I could consider it for my own website. Are you using a desktop browser, or one that supports the battery API and shows as "charging"? I'll show you a "remove ads" button in the corner.

    When you click on it, ads disappear and you get 20/30 seconds mining (the time it takes you to read the dialog explaining what is happening). After that, mining stops and no ads in the whole site for the current session. I could even replace the "remove ads" with a "stop mining" button that restores the ads, in case the user changes their mind within the 20/30 seconds.

    As a user I'd prefer to enable in websites rather than suffer their obtrusive ads that I never click to anyway. Slashdot, Youtube, Facebook? Yeah, I'd rather do some mining than have their ads in the middle.

  14. Re:Not going to happen.. on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That is what export formats are for.

  15. Re:Not going to happen.. on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The EU might force them to implementing interoperability standards, especially if one of them grows into a de-facto monopoly.

  16. I am fine with the ads in most websites. The worst offenders these days are Slashdot with their tall floating banners and Cnet with their autoplaying videos.

  17. Slashdot Ads on According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is with the huge banner that Slashdot lately has? Worse yet, it's floating and moves with scrolling, making it impossible to read anything on a short window. Will Slashdot finally be the site that makes me use adblocking software?

  18. Re:Which Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 2

    My 83-years old father uses Ubuntu. Granted, I was the one who installed it and he only uses Firefox.

  19. Re:Still no battery life on The New Apple Watch Series 3 Has Cellular Built-In (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I got my Garmin Vivoactive HR. Way less features than a smartwatch, but I can use it for most part of a week with no need to think about the battery.

  20. Re:Here is my question? on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    There is, mr. programmer.

  21. Re:Competes against built-in on Kaspersky Launches Its Free Antivirus Software Worldwide (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is whether you want to open your machine to NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP or to NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP/FSB/FSO/SVR/GRU.

  22. Re:3 hours seems a bit much on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You got it almost right. The almuerzo is a light meal, which is in the end closer to the lunch that many people outside Spain eat. It's kind of just renaming and shuffling meals. Spanish lunch is the dinner (main meal of the day), whereas Spanish supper is typically a snack, salad or something small a couple of hours before going to bed.

  23. Re:Well look who just went out of business! on South Korean Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million In Ransomware Demand (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also, can they be prosecuted for these payments? They are in the end sending money to an illegal organisation.

  24. Re:No. on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are not salting and/or using different keys, you are encrypting it wrong.

  25. As a non-native English speaker, the subtitles, whereas not really necessary, do come in handy.