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  1. Re:The fools! on NASA Reconnects With 'Lost' STEREO-B Satellite (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

  2. Re: Safe mode? on NASA Reconnects With 'Lost' STEREO-B Satellite (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    I blame systemd.

  3. Maybe they caught them all? on Pokemon Go Daily Active Users, Downloads, Engagement Are Dropping (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, that is the goal of the game, is it not?

  4. I think mauve has the most RAM on Mozilla Is Changing Its Look -- and Asking the Internet For Feedback (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This idea has as much relevancy as any other idea for updating Firefox I have heard recently.

  5. Create Facebook accounts for all of them on German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hack into the system, download the images, and create Facebook accounts for all of them. Facebook is way better at facial recognition. All their friends will help identify them and add even more images.

  6. That's why I'm still on Vista on Microsoft Announces 'Cumulative' Updates Will Become Mandatory For Windows 7 and 8.1 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 2

    Supported, but the normal way. Not this crap.

  7. It's optional on EFF Accuses T-Mobile of Violating Net Neutrality With Throttled Video (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can turn it off and spend be charged and the regular rate, or watch it low bandwidth for free.

  8. El Show de Xuxa on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Maybe they will bring back "El Show de Xuxa". I know all the little kids miss that.

  9. In Germany, lights work that way on Audi's Traffic Light Information System Tells You When The Lights Are Going To Turn Green (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Germany, you will be sitting at a red light, and the yellow will also come on. It is the warning that it is about to turn green. Very much like a christmas tree. You better start moving when the light goes green, or everyone else will run you over. I can see why they are adding this to their cars.

  10. Re:Telegrams? Pony express? on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    No, CB is completely unsecure. It's also almost unused anymore and no one would think to monitor it.

  11. Just watch it happen on Fourth SpaceX Rocket Successfully Landed on A Drone Ship (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the view from the rocket as it descends and lands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Telegrams? Pony express? on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 2

    Since almost all types of communication relies on computers now, it would be hard to get away from it. Phones can be tapped. Physical mail can be intercepted and read. Shortwave radio can be intercepted. Even point to point lasers can be spied on if you really want to put in the effort. Start using CB radio. No one would expect that.

  13. Re:Gopher was a stepping stone... on The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Gopher was a step up from searching FTP servers. Using Archie to locate files on various FTP servers was a pain. Most FTP clients were not GUI, so you had to list the directories, cd down into a directory, read the READ ME to find out what the directory was for, list the files to find what you were looking for. Gopher was specifically designed to provide menus so you could understand what files were available and what they were for. The web basically did the same thing, but now you could have more than a menu to choose from. Detailed descriptions and links could be on the same page. Later when you could embed pictures too, it really took off and the pages themselves became more important than the files they linked to.

  14. When will Windows go to 11? on Microsoft Starts Testing Windows 10's Next Major Update (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear it will be 1 louder.

  15. Delays, Delays... on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I'm going to blow it up; it obstructs my view of Venus.

  16. Re:I can see my house! on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you see Russia from your house?

  17. Re:What's the C? on Ask VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Client. Video LAN Client.

  18. It was just the key for your DVD player.

  19. Why don't we just give up on writing and go back to hieroglyphics.

  20. We should call everyone on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    and let them know.

  21. Re:Kildall was a great guy, but perhaps myopic on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you could get CP/M-86 or Xenix or use nothing at all. Almost no one did. Particularly after the original PC, only Xenix had a bit of life. The PC took off with businesses, and when VisiCalc made a DOS version, it killed all those other OSs except for specialty uses. Yes, Microsoft bought the original code. They modified it to make PC-DOS 1.0, then set around completely re-writing it for later versions. Microsoft had to rush to deliver DOS to IBM, only after that did they start selling it to other companies to use on various architectures. I used to support some of the Zenith non-PC DOS boxes. They became a pain quickly since the "PC Compatible" market took off and left them in the dust. I didn't go into detail since I was only commenting on the fact that PC-DOS didn't come later.

  22. Re:is torrent still a thing? on Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Computers are a passing fad. They will go away in a few years.

  23. Ban spectators. They are the ones taking all the illegal cell phone video and posting it online.

  24. Re:Kildall was a great guy, but perhaps myopic on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The software used IBM's LAN protocols and IBM's Token Ring network equipment. IBM sold their own LAN software called IBM PC Network.

  25. Re:Kildall was a great guy, but perhaps myopic on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I was networking computers with MS DOS 3.2, 3.3 and 4.01 in the 80's. Used 3Com's 3+Share to manage the network.