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  1. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You thought you heard a scream and that someone was in danger. Yeah real hard...

    If you tried to use that excuse to break into a house you may find out how "real hard" it would actually be to make that fly in a court case.

  2. Could be either way. Point is that Defender updates have a long history of targetting KMS, maybe they just finally figured out how to get at the Office ones? Either way I imagine that if it was the updates to Office that broke KMS then MS probably wouldn't pull them for that reason, ... unless they also broke the legitimate activations.

  3. Re:6 cameras! That's awesome news! on Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S Phone Will Sport Six Cameras and Support 5G, Report Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If they can waste that much space in the phone that must mean that they have solved the problem of putting a replaceable battery in

    You're solving two different problems. The problem isn't space.

    put the charging port in a hard-to-destroy place

    The charging port is exactly where it needs to be given the accessories we have for them.

    and use enough solder to keep it in place

    It's a charging port, not a lasso to swing your phone around wildly. Seriously you broke the charging point on your phone? I thought you people were a myth. May I recommend something more rugged

    along with adding a few more plugs for SD-Cards and USB devices to attach

    You seem to have a very particular set of problems.

  4. Re:Multiple cameras is a good thing on Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S Phone Will Sport Six Cameras and Support 5G, Report Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Pearls before swine. 99.9% of mobile phone photos are taken and never viewed again. People spend too much time taking photos, not enough time enjoying the world around them.

    A problem that a) has nothing to do with the camera, and b) doesn't mean that cameras shouldn't be available when needed.

  5. 5G is another excuse to make your cell phone data plan 100% more expensive.

    And yet that didn't appear to happen when LTE was introduced, at least in most of the world.

  6. Re:Let the government collect it on 'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "collect it"? They built the damn thing. Council surveyor drawings are among the most accurate representation of street designs and addresses. Tax documents are the most accurate representation of registered businesses at each address.

    They HAVE this data.

  7. It's interesting that they call out technology companies about this, and never mention logistic companies

    How about mentioning themselves? I mean who has more accurate data on businesses and addresses that the government's own tax departments and council surveyors?

    The fact that Google needs to collect this data in the first place is a failure. It should already be available.

  8. Re:Delete spree on Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, Tumblr's way of dealing with this problem was to use an automated script to ban a wide variety of blogs with the NSFW tag, and wait for the owners to file appeals.

    Ironically Tumblr has for the past 2 years been quite anti porn in general, and it's ironic since other than SJW bullshit porn seems to be the only other major content. They have been actively pushing it into the background, restricting results on searches (you're better off searching on Google inurl:tumblr) and have for the past 2 years randomally swinging the banhammer.

    The app itself won't even let you search for porn or porn related words with some bullshit answer like: "That search was awesome but the world is not ready for it", you literally have to know the exact blog you want to add to the app beforehand.

  9. Re:And providers will do as they always have done. on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That way providers will hit the low hanging fruit first.

    So just widen the technological gap that already exists?

  10. Re:What is wrong with these people? on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Is coffee a drug?

    Yes, a performance enhancing one.

    What about pain killers?

    Obviously. But really what you're showing here is quite a bit of ignorance on the topic. "Drugs" aren't banned, rather quite specific drugs that have quite specific performance related effects are banned. And yes there are several pain killers that would show up on my drug screen on the way into work which would result in me being either not allowed either on site or being banned from undertaking certain activities.

  11. Re: They take it seriously on Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Musk is a CEO, not a high school student. He needs to grow up.

    I encourage you to actually watch the interview in question. Not only the part where he smokes pot but also the part where they discuss it a bit later. You'll find that he is far more grown up than those people who like to jump to conclusions based on soundbites and news headlines.

  12. Re:People like the smell? on Ford Patents a Way To Remove 'New Car Smell' (freep.com) · · Score: 2

    I've not heard of anyone who likes it

    You must hang out with an incredibly like-minded group. The new car smell is something that generally polarises people. There are plenty of people out there who like it. Myself included. That said it can't be good for you.

  13. Re:Lessons learned the hard way... on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a reason for that. People are fundamentally fallible, processes are designed to overcome these problems.

  14. Re:Tell me again how controlling immigration is ba on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I never get tired of hearing people say that stuff.

    Well there's an invasion coming, apparently. Or at least there was before the mid-terms. I guess they got tired and gave up.

  15. That patch broke the ribbon. There's a weird menu system that millenials don't know how to use.

  16. Were they Office related KMS issues? Or did MS just issue another Windows Defender definition update that once again reset the "ignored files" list.

    Honestly Windows tries to nuke KMS every month.

  17. Re:Because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a registered business is also a hurdle that is different in different countries.

    I have a registered business in Australia. It cost me the time it took to fill out a form, and that gave me an assigned name an business number from the tax department. Just like in Australia you need to be a registered business to get a domain name, it's a hurdle that has stopped no one.

    Funny side anecdote: every other person is their own registered business due to the tax benefits you can get from it. A classic case was to get financial assistance during university you need to prove you had a job before you got to university. One classic way of doing that was for the parents to be a registered business and actually report their kid's allowances to the tax department as "wages". I'm amazed that this was tolerated :-)

    But yes, fundamentally the problem is we're out of IPv4 addresses, we broke the internet, and no one gives a crap.

  18. Re:Better to use the dead fish as fertilizer on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling it the "One Percent" just shows you've never been on a luxury cruise. It's by-n-large a cheap all expenses and cares paid for holiday when compared to actually travelling to multiple destinations, lodging and meals.

    We do it quite frequently. We're not the One Percent. Hell I think I'm barely scraping the 60th percentile.

  19. Too bad kid, you should have known better than to trust your homework to The Cloud.

    Actually when the cloud eats everyone's homework then everyone wins, especially those not having to do the homework.

    This isn't some theoretical bullshit either. My partner's school was actively advised not to go hard on people who weren't able to do homework today, to which her reply was: Not a worry since I can't access the document with the grading table.

  20. Causality fail. The cloud has nothing to do with it. Microsoft's QA/QC practices for Windows specifically is a load of crap. They offload to insiders who run a small subset of hardware, they don't respond to many of the bugs that are picked up by them and then they push it out to see how bad the situation really is.

    The key part is though that these quality issues rarely hit the corporate world that pays dearly the cloud services. However this cloud MFA issue does hit them. I have all sorts of problems at the moment since Microsoft's MFA secures our SSO sessions throughout our company.

  21. Re:Because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I had this problem, so I pay my ISP 3eur / month more to get a business connection. I also get an additional 30mbit upload bandwidth for that.

  22. Re:Web servers at home? on Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most ISPs require a business class contract to have a server. Here that is a min of $350/mo for 50/5.

    Wow!. I agree with your first sentence. I had to switch to a business class contract to get a public facing IP address. I had the choice of paying 59EUR for a 250/10 consumer connection or ... 62EUR for a 250/40 connection with 2 IP addresses with each additional IP a few eur per month.

    You're being fleeced. But then you knew that already.

  23. Re:Should this be actionable? on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any proof of such corruption? What do we call people who assert without proof?

    Proof is something you want when a court case plays out. If you want actual proof then you should be supporting cases actually going to full trial and playing out.

  24. Re:IMNAL, but this seems right on Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If there was a crime in progress and you had something in the way of probable cause, yes.

    Not automatically it doesn't. You'll find yourself in a lengthy court case trying to prove your innocence.

  25. Re:Concorde all over again! on New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production (wtop.com) · · Score: 1

    Just have a look how well supersonic flights sold when Concorde was still active...

    Really well, even with the high ticket price. The bigger problem for the Concorde was that it couldn't service transpacific as it didn't have the required range, and it couldn't serve transcontinental USA due to not being allowed to fly over land. These new planes aim to solve both those problems.

    The last problem is a high ticket price. On select routes there's no shortage of people willing to pay extra. A Concorde flight cost more than a first class of another flight and yet offered no more luxuries than a typical business class flight. Yet they continued to sell well right up until all flights were grounded.

    The flight that crashed in 2000 like nearly all other flights was packed to capacity. Even after that crash flights were packed to capacity until the plane was grounded when cracks were identified in wings of multiple planes. The only problem with passenger numbers was that Concorde started flying again in October 2001 ... immediately after the entire airline industry saw passenger numbers plummet after September 11. It took years for the entire industry to recovery so it stands to reason that the most expensive to operate services may be the first casualties, and incidentally there were few commercial airplanes of that design vintage still operating at that time.