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  1. Finger nail polish on Stealthy Google Play Apps Recorded Calls and Stole Emails (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just how often does one take a selfi? I don't trust any forward facing camera.

    I use Finger nail polish to cover it as it's almost permanent - used to use electrical tape.

  2. It's a personal preference on Ask Slashdot: Should Average Consumers Install More Than One Antivirus Program On Their System? · · Score: 1

    Saying I use Windows firewall cause it's as good as the rest, is a real common phrase. While they are unaware or forget anyone holding a certificate issued by Microsoft can pass through as if it didn't exist.

    Finding the the best AV (which is all that's needed) can't really be done anymore. I used VX.Heavens http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybk... (long gone) and found at the time NOD32 (Eset) did around 85% and the best. The test was to download, open, and move the zip file contents elsewhere, and which did what when.

    All that's available to use now is use the EICAR test file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that all AV's are capable of finding (it's hardcoded).

    I long ago quit using an AV and put all my trust in a good hosts file, reliable Firewall (old version of Comodo), and to use autoruns on occasion to find the ones that might of been missed (one's running from the temp directory) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

    If one installs Comodo anymore, autoruns can also disable all of the Geek Squad crap. But Comodo fails the leaktext https://www.grc.com/lt/leaktes... (12 year old test) and not recommended. - Creates a virtual process but it still connects.

    All that to say; your on your own - it's a personal preference.

  3. I would think many use same the password on Crooks Reused Passwords On the Dark Web So Dutch Police Took Over Their Accounts (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I do for ease of use. It's knowing when to use a unique one is the trick - to add: almost all of mine are unique.

  4. More so than yesterday on Congress Asks US Agencies For Kaspersky Lab Cyber Documents (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Format command in an autorun.ini would take out half of them.

  5. Re:Selection Bias-One sided for sure on E-Cigarettes Linked To Helping People Quit Smoking, Says Study (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that people who are using e-cigarettes are already unhappy with some aspect of smoking already. Be it cost, health, convenience, or something else, something drove them away from traditional cigarettes to e-cigs. If they were committed enough to make that change and stick with e-cigs, they may have been more likely to have had success quitting smoking in a world that e-cigs did not exist.

    So instead of a headline like "E-Cigarettes Linked to Helping People Quit Smoking", perhaps a more accurate headline would be "Committed Cigarette Quitters More Likely to Try E-Cigarettes As a Stepping Stone"

    Didn't read the article just searched it for key words, figuring is just better SPAM than most.

    I use a Top-O-Matic cigarette machine made tada TOP ($50). I purchase pipe tobacco for less than $10 for 6 oz which last me close to a month. Pipe tobacco is a weak approach as it doesn't have the "strength" of a normal cigarette.

    I have reduced smoking by well 1-2 packs a day to 10 roll my own. I could easily quit if I just wanted to, I just took the cheaper approach.

  6. I liked Paint when it first tried it on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    (one of it's first releases). If not for Photoshop I'd of used it.

    It was possible to save in a .jpg format, it tried to save as a .BMP but a bit of trickery I forget how now it was possible.

  7. I always go to Robtex.com to check on a site (maintain my hosts file) at this time there is nothing about snopes.com, other sites register just fine.

    Don't register to this site, it's a social site.

    It came back about 5 mins later - my bad. But the first time I've ever gotten a "nothing on this site"

  8. I always go to Robtex.com to check on a site (maintain my hosts file) at this time there is nothing about snopes.com, other sites register just fine.

    Don't register to this site, it's a social site.

  9. Could you please provide a credible source or two for the heated claim that "antipsychotic drugs[,] which are known to cause permanent brain damage"?

    I took it upon myself out of interest as well, it's real.

    https://www.cchrint.org/2014/1...
    don't like that one? Google: antipsychotic medications cause brain damage
    (Not my input Google helped a bit).

  10. Re:Read your Email better? on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    I was also one of the lucky ones all the way down to the space that was shortly removed. Each time someone tries to come in as me in any way I'm asked if it's ok, which I refuse, Be it XXX897@gmail or any similar form of my email address

    Google promised at the time your email would be unique and yours alone. While they took away my space (anything but a space) giving me an unlimited amount of Email addresses at the time, that has been fixed and it's one promise Google has kept and I've been keeping score.

  11. Also never open an email addressed from you on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    It's an old ploy and many open it to view the "fluke", opening it verifies it as being real and anything can happen after that.

  12. Read your Email better? on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    I was also one of the lucky ones all the way down to the space that was shortly removed. Each time someone tries to come in as me in any way I'm asked if it's ok, which I refuse, Be it XXX897@gmail or any similar form of my email address

  13. Have you read the Net Neutrality act? on Net Neutrality is Not a Pirates' Fight Anymore (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I did when it was first released and not sure if this pdf is the same one https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

    But a large majority of it covers cell phones.

  14. Re:There was no "Big Bang"... on New Sharpened Images From Hubble Telescope Contradict Post-Big Bang Theories (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    since one of the "Four Forces" (magnetism) is self-organizing; Here what is more likely to my way of thinking:

    Actually anything 300,000 years after the "big bang" is speculation. You as right as the rest.

  15. Re:Each "star-forming region" makes multiple stars on New Sharpened Images From Hubble Telescope Contradict Post-Big Bang Theories (nasa.gov) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The other thing you're confused about is the concept of "star-forming region". These are clouds of gas and dust (such as the "Pillars of creation") dense enough to allow stars to form relatively rapidly. Within such clouds, dozens or hundreds of stars form. It's not one star per region.

    Alas, we must speak of the Pillars of creation in the past tense. A super nova blew em away.
    https://www.newscientist.com/a...

  16. Re: 20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Your 1998 emails available on request? Yeah, that's what everyone here has just been dying to do, read all your 20 year old emails. Thank you SO much for the opportunity! I love wasting time reading emails from a random stranger on the internet, how did you know???m

    I expected no takers, I always try to cite a quote or article. It reduces the "prove it" replies; an old email was my only option for a citation, no matter the apparent absurdity of the offer :)

  17. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    being important we all had it within two days hot rush

    To explain we were all normal Joe's, That offering from Microsoft told me MS wanted me to have all it's OS's money not being a requirement. and my line since that time (I've still got that 4 disk set) for whatever reason...

  18. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what an email packrat, reminds me of those hoarders that fill their house from wall to wall & floor to ceiling with every piece of junk they find even if they have no use for it or just a piece of junk,

      i dont keep email longer than a week or two, when i am finished with it i delete it,

    Windows came and I started using Forte Agent at .98 and I've used nothing else, I've been using that program when or before running Win98 Or NT/W2K, and keeping my Emal for some odd reason. I have that email from 1998 and almost every one received as well as all i sent out . I can't really explain why unless it's an example of never having to install Agent other than that first time after it's pulling an Icon to the desktop (Agent installed on Drive D).

    Maybe keeping them was because of (forget hierarchy Alt.~.Microsoft.nt.misc (?) that was one fun times on Usenet, very helpful group. Just a bunch of users given a new OS and sharing tips and tricks with each other. (Microsoft sent anyone who asked NT - having a Win95 client/Outlook server/ Exchange Server/SP2 - being important we all had it within two days hot rush (I had asked many months earlier)) Nobody above the others and it was all about shareing, tricks I learned at that time I still use to this day - the who cares type: a selection isn't selected until you release the mouse key - the open a clear run command 15 paths in grab a file and drop it in the run command you will have the entire path to file (I use this one a lot and was told of it way back then.

    Whatever the reason (the above was reminiscing that hated to quit. I have them all, one would think it a huge security risk legal as well as personal if all are stolen. Not what I post or email about :) drives have been imaged by one looking to screw me :) nothing came about it.

    True facts. 1998 Email upon request, headers only if of a personal nature.

  19. Re:This must be exciting to somebody on New Google Project Lets You Collaborate On Doodles With A Neural Network (tensorflow.org) · · Score: 1

    OK I tried it and I was not exactly whelmed.

    On my cell phone all it saw was a bird, no matter the doodle.

    DUH, on the PC I see it's selectable.

  20. Re:This must be exciting to somebody on New Google Project Lets You Collaborate On Doodles With A Neural Network (tensorflow.org) · · Score: 1

    OK I tried it and I was not exactly whelmed.

    On my cell phone all it saw was a bird, no matter the doodle.

  21. Re:Serious question: on NSA 'Traffic Shaping' Can Divert US Internet Traffic For Easier Monitoring (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The US was subject to a coup d'etat in 2016, in which a hostile foreign power engaged in a massive fraud and disinformation campaign, largely using the internet, to install a sympathetic and incompetent man as president.

    The NSA claims that surveillance powers are necessary to protect the country from hostile foreign actors who wish it harm -- but they have these powers and nonetheless didn't manage to protect the US from said coup. So, if these surveillance powers are precisely to stop information-warfare skulduggery, but they don't work, maybe they aren't worth the privacy tradeoffs?

    Traffic shaping is directly against net-neutrality. I can't find the original release of the FCC net-neutrality, but I've read it. At this time traffic shaping can only be done by EDGE servers. EDGE servers can be see on the graphs of robtex.com and inputed IP addresses.

  22. Fidgets got it's maker nada on New Fidget Spinners Are Catching On Fire (newsweek.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "As the inventor of the original fidget spinner – the ubiquitous new toy that has quickly become a craze in playgrounds around the world – Catherine Hettinger should be enjoying the high life."

    "Hettinger held the patent on finger spinners for eight years, but surrendered it in 2005 because she could not afford the $400 (£310) renewal fee."
    https://www.theguardian.com/li...

  23. ... Windows for Warships?

    (Seriously, that exists)

    Anyway: despite windows XP's age Microsoft will still actively support it for organizations willing to send them a boatload of money, and the rates only go up the more time passes. But when you're talking about the operating costs of a large warship, the cost for continued xp support is only a rounding error in the total.

    I LOL'd We have an aircraft carrier running NT.
    "The data contained a zero where it shouldn't have, and when the software attempted to divide by zero, a buffer overrun occurred – crashing the entire network and causing the ship to lose control of its propulsion
    system. https://www.wired.com/1998/07/...

  24. It's not u press.princeton.edu is down on What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    From the summery link " vision of remaking the planet" http://www.isitdownrightnow.co...

  25. Re: Why would anyone report to the FBI? on Victims Aren't Reporting Ransomware Attacks, FBI Report Concludes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they have editorial standards? Of !== have, which you did twice in your parent post.

    Don't get me wrong it was a badly written piece and not complete, better off being posted to my journal.