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  1. Re:Sounds great, in theory on Mobile Giant Three Group To Block Online Advertising (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    >> people have tried to blanket block feature-xyz-of-the-internet-that-they-don't-like
    This is not people. This is ISPs. They are in control of what people see ( and they shouldn't)
    In this case it will force ad companies to switch from malware to reasonnable ad policies.

  2. Bullshit on Mobile Giant Three Group To Block Online Advertising (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    >> sites will decide to simply block users
    That won't happen.
    There's a policy for acceptable ads, defined by consensus together with adblockers and users.
    The rules are set. Either malware ad companies conform to that, or they'll die.
    And seems that they'll die sooner than they think, since there is some generic blocking from ISPs

  3. Re:Not the same as the rest of us .. on Windows 10 To Be Installed On 4 Million US Department of Defense Computers (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    People who know what they're doing install Linux. Or BSD.

  4. Re:Crypto infrastructure is too frigging hard! on What Gmail's New TLS Icon Really Means: Email Encryption Is Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Whoa. A TLS icon on the website. How cute is that ?
    Absolutely useless, though.

  5. Nope. It's where 90% of the entreprise users operate. Other users have moved to movable and mobile.

  6. Just use Linux :)

  7. NSA is launching a free landline service for worldwide Telco customers which promises to analyze millions of unwanted calls. A dedicated team at NSA will monitor calls made to all numbers, to identify suspicious patterns, which could help to filter out nuisance callers and terrorists....
    It explained that to achieve this success rate, it would be deploying enormous amounts of compute power to monitor and analyse large amounts of data in real-time.

  8. let's store the Internet on Link Rot Rx: 'Amber' Add-on For WordPress and Drupal · · Score: 1

    let's store the Internet...

  9. Re:This is excellent news on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    >> First, I've installed a telemetry blocker ....

    So you definitely experience it.
    You have to put on a kludge to block an unwanted feature. This burns your time, and you are not even sure the kludge fully works.

  10. Re:better off without it on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    >> you're still paying over 100k for the rest of the car, which is insane.
    No, it's a fair deal for amortizing the many hundreds of millions of R&D, invest, etc... you have to put in a product that is built in small quantities.

  11. Re:Negative Feedback is Important on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 2

    Yes, negative feedback is absolutely a major factor in system stability.

    But if the phase margin is too small, there will be a large overshoot at one frequency. That's what happened here between these two guys, there was an over-response induced by the feedback loop because the feedback guy was not considering he puts too much negative feedback to a guy with a big gain....

    Solution : reduce the negative feedback in the future.

  12. Re:This is excellent news on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    >> windows 10 has some dumb defaults out of the box, but otherwise the user experience is fine.
    getting spied on, and forced upgrades is what you call "user experience "?

  13. Re:This is excellent news on Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share · · Score: 1

    >> It's usable and reasonable...
    You didn't read the EULA.

  14. Re:fresh clean water? on EasyJet May Trial Hydrogen Fuel Cells For Taxiing (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    >> refill the planes' water systems
    This is bullshit anyway.
    If you drink the water, or flush it, where would you get the water from when you brake at landing ?

    >> Hydrogen Fuel Cells For Taxiing
    Fuel cells ? Inefficient.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. We are all Terrorists !! on FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again (eevblog.com) · · Score: 1

    We are all Terrorists !! Cyber Terrorists !

  16. Re:Don't use the MCP2221 on FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again (eevblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's slower.
    But Microchip does not push malware to drivers.

  17. Re:FTDI is malware on FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again (eevblog.com) · · Score: 1

    >> So, don't use their software. Problem solved.
    No, the problem is not solved. Even if you use Linux, you sell products. And your customers who use Windows will see unexpected fails once compatible or fake chips appear in the supply chain. And you can't control the supply chain.

    For my part, as a HW designer, I make sure my company will never use a FTDI product.

  18. Re:What could go wrong on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    >> 1,000 KM of solar panels to provide power for 5 million people does not sound like an experiment.
    It rather sounds like a "hidden" public funding for a hopeless shell project.

  19. FTDI is malware on FTDI Driver Breaks Hardware Again (eevblog.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    FTDI is malware.

    Use Linux.
    use MCP2221.

  20. The only smart gun is a broken gun. on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only smart gun is a broken gun.

  21. Surprising Support ??? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Guns ?

  22. Re:Excellent! on Microsoft Open Sources Edge JavaScript Code, Plans Linux Port (windows.com) · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, Linux has been ported to IE6 :)
    http://www.whaleblubber.ca/run...

  23. Re:Why would anyone tolerate this bullshit!? on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    >> web site popup advertising, malware, spyware
    Nah. That does not exist any more.
    At least if you install the two necessary extensions in your browser.

  24. Just. Use. Linux :)

  25. Re:And that's why... on Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    >> And the elsewhere site is going to somehow support itself without any revenue from ads?
    With reasonable ads: do ads locally, single picture only, and on less than 5% of the web page. No sound. No script. No tracking.