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  1. Re:You're running Linux I presume? on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 3, Informative

    No thanks. Did that for a decade and I go tired of running multiple OSs. I have nothing against Linux. I was even a system administrator for Linux for a few years looking after the servers for a government website. My preference for the desktop is the Mac and I've moved onto doing development for the iOS and Mac environment.

    That being said I do have a nice Synology NAS at home where I run my own file server, DNS, mail server, web server, and BitTorrent Sync client. It's also connected to the Internet via a VPN and all my computers on my home network use it as a proxy. I have my torrent client running on there. There are plenty of other options that can be added such as media servers. It's a really nice box and saves me from looking after another machine. All I had to do was install the drives, turn it on, and configure how I wanted the RAID set up. Yes, I paid for the convenience but I've had it 4 or 5 years and not had a problem with it, except my drives filling up.

  2. Re:The ugly side of IoT on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Or like many things they will just get used to it and accept the new way. I would hope that you are right but I don't have faith that even if people did rise up and demand change that the large corporations would listen.

  3. Why are they going after $1.4M contracts? It most cost them more than that to enter it into their accounts!

  4. Only in some countries on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Siri is set to use a female voice in some countries. In others the default is male. And in some at least you can change it.

    I think Apple is missing out by not having the ability to buy different voices like you can with certain GPS devices.

  5. Re:Unfortunate on Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A animated cartoon tire pops up in your heads up display:

    "Hi I'm Spokes! You appear to be trying to change the radio station. Would you like some help with that?"

  6. Re:340 days is not more than a year on Record-Setting Astronaut Retires from NASA (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It's bad enough that NASA keeps calling it one year in space (see second article in the summary).

  7. Oh they'll get it right. Once they have your phone number they can go out and buy a whole lot of extra information about you in order to target the ads.

  8. I think it was around 1999 when there were apps that ran on your desktop to show ads and as long as your mouse was active (moving every 15 or 30 seconds or so) then you would get paid for the ads shown. So of course it wasn't long before utilities came up that would move the pointer to simulate the mouse being moved and you could walk away from your computer for hours at a time.

  9. I'm sure that he thoroughly investigates each person to make sure that they are really a person using the services of a prostitute before posting the video.

    And how does posting a video of an alleged prostitute help them escape their life if you claim that they are a victim? Posting a video which will stay online and get them arrested will just keep them where they are. How about offering assistance to make a change in their life?

  10. Re:Why the fuck can't taxies just offer good servi on Uber CEO Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Price Fixing (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In Ottawa at least Uber came and they still haven't felt the need to offer good service. I should note that I have come across the rare good taxi driver so they do exist in Ottawa but the majority of them are more interested in their phones, for personal use, than dealing with their clients.

  11. Re:You tell your carrier about your new phone? on Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Bell and Telus use the same network.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and see below for LTE

  12. Re:Dash on Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car · · Score: 1

    This picture is from the article and looks like it's just the center monitor. I hope that there's a heads up display or something.

    https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumb...

  13. You tell your carrier about your new phone? on Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've always just bought my phone on my own because I have an inexpensive plan and put the SIM the new phone. Turn the new phone on and it just works. When I've needed a new SIM because the size changed I've just gotten a new one for the new phone and changed the SIM for my phone number on the website.

  14. Re:Haven't we all had enough of this shit? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your analogy only works if there was someone who poked you in the eye with a sharp stick. Or at least if you shot the person who poked you. In this case someone pokes you with a stick, you pull out a gun, shoot randomly into a crowd of people in the opposite direction, and then complain loudly about the ringing in your ears.

  15. Re:Whats the CIA doing this for on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So the CIA has to go out of the US do to their training too?

  16. Re:Finally, SJW's might do some good on US Won't Say How Many H-1B Workers Are Female (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy! You hire the American candidate in order to train the H-1B and then lay off the American. Duh!

  17. Re:I didn't even know MS renamed WP on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Will Bring Android Notifications To Your PC (winbeta.org) · · Score: 2

    Thank goodness because every time I saw WP I always thought WordPerfect. :)

    I still miss using it. The reveal codes feature was great as it made finding out formatting problems so easy to fix.

  18. Fire a missile into the sea on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute! What did the sea do? If the US and South Korea hold some aircraft training is North Korea going to attack the sky in retaliation?

  19. Re:Haven't we all had enough of this shit? on North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Part of the problem the US faces is that whenever it is talked about how such a bad idea the recent wars it undertook over in the Middle East all that is mentioned is the few thousand American troops lost and the money it cost the US to wage the wars. One almost never hears about the costs inflected on Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Hundreds of thousands have died and many times that number have been maimed because of those actions. Millions upon millions of lives have been ruined. And yet all we hear from the US is the problems that the wars caused for them. Maybe the country would have more good will if it showed more sympathy towards the victims of its actions instead of showing support to politicians who propose carpet bombing areas of the Middle East.

  20. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would you use gmail to do your own business on? Pay for a domain, get the domain hosted for free, and get the mail hosted for free. It's what I do. The company that hosts my mail provides up to five mail accounts and after that (or more than 5GB of storage) you have to pay. I have an NAS running a mail server at home where I store all my archived mail but then I like to keep a lot of stuff.

  21. Re:I'm sorry, but the buildings dont look good. on Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They look nice but if you actually want to have space that you can utilize then you might want another architect.

  22. Re:Telemarketer troll bot? on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't they been plugging it into Twitter for the past couple of days?

  23. Re:The poor at higher risk for everything on Preterm Births Linked To Air Pollution Cost Billions In The US (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Because low income areas don't have the political power to stop highways, manufacturing, and other sources of pollution from being built near them. Or any other undesirable development for that matter.

  24. Re:luck on Global Majority Backs a Ban On 'Dark Net,' Poll Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you download the Detailed Tables 2 file from the article it has the start of the question:

    " A part of the Internet known as the "Dark Net" is only accessible via special web browsers that allow you to surf the web anonymously. Journalists, human rights activists, dissidents and whistleblowers can use these services to rally against repression, exercise their fundamental rights to free expression and shed light upon corruption. At the same time, hackers, illegal marketplaces (eg. selling weap"

    But it's cut off there. However I do wish they would post the full questions right with their results in order to be transparent.

  25. Re:I'll take it over Comcast and a cap! on AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you are referring to lumping the banking systems of Canada and the US together but they are fairly different. The banks in Canada have much tougher regulations. Our credit cards have had chip and pin for quite a while (about a decade?) and they have had NFC chips for tap and pay for years now.