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  1. Mmhmmm on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    I clicked one link from google results and the rerouter froze on a google-owned domain. So yes, I tried it. I bet the javascript engine STILL freezes up on Facebook too.

  2. They illegally removed the refund button on EA's 'Star Wars' PR Disaster Finally Pushed Gamers Into Open Revolt Against Loot Boxes (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They just removed the refund button in Origin so nobody can submit a refund request. That's illegal in Germany and a couple other places.

  3. I can see this on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Not everyone has a phone and if you don't, you basically can't even get a job. Libraries have computers and wifi. Buses take you places if you don't have a card. Why don't we allow basic telephone services to people without access to one? So yeah, leave a couple around town.

  4. I use bitcoin miners to heat my apartment and my retail location. One has electric heat anyway.

  5. A little misleading on Bitcoin Drops Over $1,000 In Value Over 48 Hours (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The title is technically true but take a look at the chart and see if this is quite the devastating crash they're talking about
    https://www.coinbase.com/chart...

  6. That's not very long on IBM Raises the Bar with a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    90 microseconds before the qubits get destroyed, I assume rendering the "CPU" unusable? That's still longer than most iPhones last according to the last reliability survey.

  7. Are they stupid or something? on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just took like 2 weeks off from Uber. Time off? Bro, hit the switch from online to offline. Tada, you have time off. In fact you can take a 15 minutes break, 1 hour, 2 weeks, whatever. And minimum wage? If you're sitting there for an hour and no jobs come up, that's called not working.

  8. FFS it's two people on YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Bradbury brothers and that one creepy foreign guy. They make almost 100% of creepy content targeted at kids.

  9. So the proper way to do this is a one way transfer between servers and then disconnect each server from the internet when it's full. Then send requests over a highly restricted local network for comparisons. How they'll actually probably do this is on live, public-facing servers and just try to permissions-protect them or something stupid like that.

  10. What you should take away from this on Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    1. don't let people write code if they don't know what the hell they're doing
    2. Don't let one company run a cryptocurrency. In fact that's the entire point of cryptocurrencies.
    3. why does slashdot still require me to type br / to make a new line?

  11. We already know who made them on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Ethan Bradbury and his brother made about half of them and some creepy German guy made the other half. This is not news. The fact that Youtube STILL refuses to get rid of clones of their type of content after they both were restricted or banned definitely is news though. They're SO incompetent and clueless and lean on their idiotic and useless AI bot to find stuff like this.

  12. Reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaally? Do they really not? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Btw seriously one dog gets let out or attacks the delivery person's hand and you've got legal issues, Amazon.

  13. oh no, the hipsters on A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll have to switch to a format or media that actually has proper, accurate fidelity!

  14. Re:The Devil is in the Details on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So far it's only gotten down to about 35F overnight but in the morning I arrived and it was 72F inside the shop with everything running. So I assume it didn't drop too low overnight. We do have gas heating here which is cheaper than electrical but it costs about $15 in electrical for every $100 I make operating the miners. My normal electrical usage at the shop is $120/mo and in September it was $388 but we had the AC running 24/7 and it was 90F outside and to offset 1000W takes like 1300W minimum. So that was terribly efficient. At my apartment it costs $45 with the AC blasting all summer plus a gaming PC and in the winter with electric heat it's around $150 because it's poorly insulated. So that I assume will be almost entirely offset by the 1 mining unit.

  15. This is my surprised face. Anyway, I'm going to take a wild guess people in oppressively governed areas aren't using Macs but they probably are using Linux so this sucks. I hope it doesn't lead to any arrests or raids.

  16. I'm doing the same on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My apartment is being heated by 3x RX580's and my shop is being heat by 4 large mining rigs. Since I have to pay electric heat anyway, I might as well get some money out of it.

  17. Re:The REAL question is on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's happening right now on Youtube to my friend's account. His conservative video keeps getting demonetized and then approved over and over.

  18. They should recall the customers on BMW Recalling One Million Vehicles in North America (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You know, since BMW drivers are assholes who can't drive.

  19. They should move across from Apple HQ so they can save on postage and hand deliver the copyright infringement notices.

  20. I've set up about 100 custom Windows 10 PCs so far, all different and all manually, not imaged, and I would say that Edge freezes the first time you open it approximately 75% of the time and randomly surfing the web or trying to download a file it's 1 freeze up and crash per hour minimum. From random users' event logs it's around 5 crashes per day. I've gotten over a dozen support calls about just Edge freezing up.

  21. Well that's dumb on Colorado Taking Steps To Get Its Own Hyperloop (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    They have mountains. Just build a giant slide.

  22. MH370 huh? on How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 (hpe.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone keep reading these headlines and thinking it's the new Intel chipset?

  23. it's out of control on YouTube Is Fighting the 'Adpocalypse' With a Less Trigger-Happy Flagging System (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I run a huge channel and about 1 in 5 of my PG-rated content is being flagged. 100% of the appeals were reversed by a human, indicating the bot is wrong. It's basically random at this point. Creators are PISSED and they're moving to Twitch. Youtube needs to send snowflakebot back to its safe space and tell these marketing reps for companies whining about MAAAHH AAADDDSSS to fuck off. You don't need all advertisers, especially progressive liberal nut jobs whining about their ads being on Christian and gun channels.

  24. First of all, it's obviously the aliens from Signs. Second, I can't remember a nice quality high end desktop that had a defect rate similar to that of phones. Laptops maybe depending on brand but not desktops and certainly not custom-built ones. Considering phones cost double in some cases, this is pretty pathetic.

  25. WRONG on Toshiba Forecasts $1 Billion Loss (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It was not to make up for their nuclear power division, it was sold to make up for the over $1 billion accounting scandal