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  1. Ironic: I need updates to work for a bit. on Samsung TV Owners Furious After Software Update Leaves Sets Unusable (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung UN32F6300 32" HDTV I use as a computer monitor only.

    The drill - After many weeks of working it will turn off then on randomly. Unplug it for 24 hours or longer, see if it will turn on if so make a dash to the update selection, if an update it normally works for a bit longer. Of course the fix of turning off all sleep times was followed.

    My old monitor is now next to it's side, as it's down again.

  2. Re: "Smart" TVs are stupid. on Samsung TV Owners Furious After Software Update Leaves Sets Unusable (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you need to let it use NTP? Don't you get the time from the TV signal?

    My ASUS Z97 Motherboard has no time setting in the BIOS (EFI) has to connect to NTP to set time.

  3. And not to steal user info on the table?? on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    You do know that GWX sent 24 hours of your computer usage to Microsoft just after it installed. I would hope they decide not to steal that type of info again.

    Yes I have the file that seriously wanted out, HOSTS file kept it in place for 7 days.

  4. We've all been to Silk Road right? on How a Tax Inspector Used Google Search To Locate the Founder of SilkRoad (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    At first I thought it TOR's front page, and can vouch for the abundance of drugs; mostly kids selling their Adderall.

  5. Must be one of those features they put a lot of time into, released when no real market is out there. 3D is dead and Samsung was of the first to drop it... https://entertainment.slashdot...

  6. Re:I hate the sound of breaking glass on Samsung Unveils Galaxy Note8 With 6.3-inch Infinity Display, Dual Rear Cameras (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    and has minimal top and bottom bezels

    Next year marks my 30th anniversary with a mobile phone. During that time I have had many - and I have dropped pretty much all of them at one time or another.

    However the only one that has broken its screen was my last (and only) bezel-free model. I do not consider this to be a coincidence.

    So in future I'll be looking for a nice thick bezel ALL THE WAY AROUND my phone. If that means I don't appear cool and trendy, then that's another bonus, too!

    I dropped my phone once and this over asphalt while I sat. It hit in the perfectly, if breaking the glass was ones intention. It hit on it's corner nicking the glass, during the months a break appeared across the screen radiating from that corner.

    I like a rubber covering around the bezel, Otterbox was mentioned above and good brand. I had one for my Xoom tablet, it was droppable but never was. I like Motorola and stick with that brand of phone, hard to find a good wrapper for it.

  7. Re:Root? Watch this space on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    >trusting your smartphone to the Chinese

    Sure thing, boss.

    It's the site I trust and see them to watching out for me. They are/host(?) LineageOS now, were CyanogenMOD, and my site to pick up new ROMS for my Xoom tablet (when TOS allowed - TIC). https://forum.xda-developers.c...

  8. Root? Watch this space on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    KingRoot https://forum.xda-developers.c...
    No spam, not a pirate site.

  9. Find my Device... on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had this ability for a long time now. I picked up a Bluetooth key-chain dongle from T-mobile, it only only started working properly at version 6.

    I can press the Key-chain dongle and find my phone, or use the phone to find my keys (with GPS location). It's very kool.

    Dongle ran just under $30, and requires Motorola Connect (play store).

  10. Pretty much standard practice now on Should Plex Stop Allowing Users To Opt Out of Data Collection? (www.plex.tv) · · Score: 1

    I'd get a new cell phone and OPT-OUT of flurry.com (Google) now Yahoo, the major one to block. That cell phone ID number being godfathered.

    Ads were stopped, now the TOS reads ads won't stop just target ads will not be presented.
    https://support.google.com/ads... adchoices mentioned will block ads if they are members but these are all cookies, blocking any cleaning out of ones browser.

    Not being rooted as most aren't, a hosts file isn't possible; outside a router.

  11. Cloudflare has supported us all - a long time now on Cloudflare is the One Tech Company Still Sticking By Neo-Nazi Websites (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Last I looked thepiratebay.org only had one ISP https://www.robtex.com/dns-loo... one of many that we have a right to.

    A post rather than a reply - an attempt at a shot out to cloudflare and a thank you for your service.

  12. Musk: AI is greater threat than North Korea on Elon Musk + AI + Microsoft = Awesome Dota 2 Player (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk has claimed that people should be more worried about Artificial Intelligence (AI) than the threat posed by North Korea. http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

  13. Wankel Engine making another show? on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a RX7 fan would go this route.

    Mazda new wankel engine patent (Mar 16)
    http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?P...

    Story on patent
    http://blog.caranddriver.com/n...

    Animation of Wankel engine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Re: Oh! Oh! oh! Me to! on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It could have been 80 Microcomputing, which came out in 1980. TRS-80 Microcomputing was another newsletter that came out once in awhile. 80 Micro was the mag that was a monthly and had the best content for the TRS-80. I still have every issue but three I lost.

    It could have been 80 Microcomputing, which came out in 1980. TRS-80 Microcomputing was another newsletter that came out once in awhile. 80 Micro was the mag that was a monthly and had the best content for the TRS-80. I still have every issue but three I lost.

    Had a contest for the best one line program? Peeking and poking took center stage, but some amazing stuff was sent in.

  15. Re: Oh! Oh! oh! Me to! on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It was Byte magazine. I still have my Model III in my basement!

    No it wasn't byte, TRS-80 something or vise-vers they contained a lot of programs to type in many with peeks and pokes. I've got them in storage as well at the TRS80 and out of reach now.

  16. Re:IMSAI 8080 on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention, the IMSAI 8080 was my first computer... :)

    My TI-85 calculator has better. Z80, one step up from the 8080 ;)

  17. Re:Consumer ready; but still mod'ed on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Upgraded 4K to 16K... WOW! :D Punched holes in floppy jackets to double-side them.

    It was the fact only programs sold by Radio Shack were available (not having but BBS's and AOL types), little avenue for what you really wanted.

  18. Re: Oh! Oh! oh! Me to! on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    TRS-80 III, cassette backup that was impossible to reload small programs. I would spend a full day typing in a basic program listed in a Magazine I forget the name of now, it taught me debugging; and the fact that no matter how perfect it looks, let someone else have a go to really make sure.

    Radio Shack wanted to sell me a 300 buad modem for $300 "I go to AOL and start printing out the news, go upstairs and have dinner when I'm done the news is almost finished printing". The clerks hardest selling point.

  19. Re:Unbelievable on Who's Profiting From The WannaCry Ransoms? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    APK hosts file generator makes me immune from such attacks. No ones gonna profit from me!

    This came my way http://i64.tinypic.com/152p9nb... (cloudfront.net of course). It was searching the number I came across many who paid a lady who knew little english.

    Me? I was running Linux Mint it crashed Flash with a segfault (buffer overflow), and let me down load a small html file that said little.

  20. Re:Not news to me on Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    besides perfumes, soaps and lotions there are many foods that cause various substances to be in skin oils and other secretions. It is much more likely you were allergic to something like that

    Can't answer just something she wore, secreted, or carried (Dem dere microbes) the entire time we were together.

    I was "allergic" to her.

    See how much shorter that was.

  21. Re:Not news to me on Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    besides perfumes, soaps and lotions there are many foods that cause various substances to be in skin oils and other secretions. It is much more likely you were allergic to something like that

    Can't answer just something she wore, secreted, or carried (Dem dere microbes) the entire time we were together.

  22. gedit has sure ticked me off on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    He says using it for this post. I have a rather large hosts file. Using gedit I sorted it alphabetically and closed it without saving. It's now sorted.

  23. Not news to me on Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I had a girlfriend I was "allergic" to. I had an itch between my fingers I couldn't get rid of it. We found later without a doubt it was her.

  24. Is this how it starts... on US Army Calls Halt On Use of Chinese-Made Drones By DJI (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    North Korea shoots off new USA hitting Missle

    The USA test anti-missile weapon July 30 http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/30/...

    China test out anti-satellite weapon Aug 2 http://freebeacon.com/national...

    Now this...

  25. Yes http://vx.netlux.org/ on The Kronos Indictment: Is it a Crime To Create and Sell Malware? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Was the first website I saw taken down of many in the future. A malware data base, taken down as it could harm other sites. https://www.google.com/search?...