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  1. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    You don't need vacuum tubes. That's such a horrible audio myth. They glow in the dark and look nice. Aside from that, they produce more distortion, more noise, use more power, are more fragile, and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics. They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.

    I'm one of them, analog systems treat music very well, you get the full range (if recorded in analog), Digital systems use sampling, so no matter the sampling rate the unsampled is interpolated.

    They do use the power, yet supplied a good sine wave and filtered you have a very fine system, but the question of making a vacuum tube doesn't bode well for the final output quality. Nor safety procedures that need be followed such as grounding http://diyaudioprojects.com/Te... which also plays an important factor in the filtering of the output.

    I don't know the OP's skills so many considerations.

    Not arguing your points; just a different view.

  2. Re:Report as spam to Gmail? on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    rebooted and Linux Mint blocked the download :)

    It wasn't the Linux way of doing things, minecraft-installer was; not that Linux Mint blocked a site, just improper usage.

  3. Re:Report as spam to Gmail? on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If enough people do it, they'll start to get put onto gmail's spam lists....

    Being a long ago Minecraft user thought I'd give it another go, tried to download it last night and the hosts file blocked it.

    So many entries used s3.amazonaws.com I had to be more specific (like searching alphabetically through the S's) , rebooted and Linux Mint blocked the download :)

    Amazon is a tad intrusive.

    But a hosts file doesn't help with Email.

  4. Re:Use a different account for humans on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Give one email address to computers, and reserve another one just for known humans. 35k unread from assorted semi-autonomous systems? Who cares. If you actually need something in there you've got search and filters. That way human correspondence doesn't get lost in the noise.

    I used Spamhaus for that, but it's being filtered by almost everybody now.

    https://www.spamhaus.org/ it's grown, haven't seen this new page; it was simpler than the page suggest: NameToUse.HowManyEmailsAllowed.SpamhausAccount.

  5. Must shop elsewhere, and get nada on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in the same state as Amazon so shop Newegg.com due to the taxes, all of my purchases are through them. I've gotten nothing related to my purchases, and use no filters (other than what Hotmail.com and Gmail.com might provide).

  6. Re:USB headsets on USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I have had a USB Type A headset since forever, why is this news for Type C?

    Stick a Blue Tooth into it and use Skullcandy Headphones, the sound is superb.

  7. Apple slides in for the win... on USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now seen as innovative.

  8. one account all of google on Google Rebrands 'Apps for Work' To 'G Suite,' Adds New Features (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Fell for that line and logged into G Suite (aka: Apps for work) with it.

    Worked on my Google domain for a week to do what an FTP program would taken seconds to of done; only to find this site an exception to the fact.

    Said screw it and let a $10 domain run out, would of nickeled and dimed me to death in the long run anyhow.

  9. Re:Clearly Samsung's QA department..... on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    . Although I bet in this case Samsung just went too cheap on the drum material, it probably develops stress fatigue and eventually fails. These new washers spin really fast.

    There are four rods that attach to the bottom of the drum then to the top of the washer frame.
    Unbalanced one or more of the rods slip out of their top retainer.

  10. Re:Samsung's business is Booming! on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Good ole Slashdot, where every energy releasing failure is called an explosion.

    I was standing right next to it when it exploded, my first impulse was to protect my son who was near; if he had been standing closer to it... this morning on "Good Morning America".

    And from the debris it looks like it did.

  11. Re:Google shopping doesn't seem to show amazon on 55 Percent Of Online Shoppers Start Their Product Searches On Amazon (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    This makes using it an inconvenience so I never use it

    Yep, was http://froogle.com/ Many years ago Google dumped shopping, yet the site remains.

  12. Re:IoT has been a /. concern for awhile on OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
    https://slashdot.org/index2.pl...
    Slashdot
    Jul 3, 2000 - Re:How do you know? (5 points, Insightful) by Z00L00K on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:30AM attached to Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet?

    Google: IoT site:slashdot.org date:2000 - 2012

    My bad, just noticed the 2016 reply by Z00L00K , just a bad link all around.

  13. IoT has been a /. concern for awhile on OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
    https://slashdot.org/index2.pl...
    Slashdot
    Jul 3, 2000 - Re:How do you know? (5 points, Insightful) by Z00L00K on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:30AM attached to Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet?

    Google: IoT site:slashdot.org date:2000 - 2012

  14. Re:The EFF? WTF? on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This strikes me as a contravention of anti-fraud and/or anti-trust laws, and should be the subject of criminal charges filed by various States and Federal attorneys. Sure, it's about Electronic Freedoms, and I'm glad the EFF is weighing in - but dammit, they shouldn't have to do so. Legal authorities should be doing their jobs.

    HP has been doing this for so long that EFF weighing in now is questionable.

  15. Re:Back when there were no kids on my lawn... on EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    10+ Try 20+! My father still insists on using his old LaserJet 4P.

    Laughs Out Loud, I have a LaserJet 5P I still use.

  16. Killer feature #1 most businesses want - blocking Facebook.

    That's a huge chunk of a Hosts file.

  17. Not sure what you're talking about regarding "linking."

    Linking would be my signing my Gmail.com address with my Hotmail.com account
    (I forwarded my Hotmail.com account long ago to Gmail, and the save). /. is an old account and a hotmail.com address.
    Signature would also be a link, it's been well used.

  18. Well, when you claim you've just lost everything on SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It won't just be a phrase.

  19. It's skylab all over again on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Need to find my old tee shirt that had the target on it's front.

  20. Amazon, oh ya I used them once. on Amazon Says It Puts Customers First - But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn't (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    I purchased something years ago, living in Washington state as does Amazon; I was told I was being taxed as there's a chance they will be taxed. Now if they aren't taxed well they would keep the extra monies.

    Newegg.com has been my shopping area for years now and right after my Amazon purchase.

  21. Their Moto brand ain't that hot. on Google To Drop Nexus Brand Name, Move Away From Stock Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I had the Moto 3 for a few days finding it's battery was hard wired in. Sometimes you just need to pull the battery to fix an error. And it was very bare application wise, good thing not so much stuff you'll never use, bad thing as a simple bar code scanner is handy to have, and only the ones supplied by the manufacture (paid version) work well or at all.

    5 Mpix selfi (second) camera, a bit over kill on that one, but I've always liked Motorola's products. The Xoom tablet was very nice and at 10.5" the perfect size.

    My Moto3 wouldn't call out from my location and one can see the cell tower from here (not that it's the one used), and had to return it. Just before exchanging it I tried it one last time and it worked; but I didn't live in that city.

    Motorola's ToS was very specific in that any info it collected would stay with them and not shared, I LOL'd, Motorola being owned by Google.

  22. Doesn't take Foreign Hackers to change elections on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I used to subscribe to comp.risk (usenet), article after article was about the vulnerability of electronic voting.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    It's real situation that is only going to get worse.

  23. Autoruns - Windows Sysinternals on How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    It won't stop malware from being installed but it will sure show you where it's at (root-kits iffy).
    https://technet.microsoft.com/...

    If you use a Mail reader like Forte Agent: Options unhide Microsoft entries, and save resources by disabling all of MS's email sub systems (and there are many).

    It will also show any files missing (mostly Codec's),

    But well worth running (as admin) often.

    I haven't run an AV in ages, I put a lot of trust in my HOSTS file, and autoruns just to keep check.

  24. Re:Not totally true on Microsoft Lost a City Because They Used Wikipedia Data (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Thank you. Bing sounds smarter than "tricking" Google by switching to a private browser coming from the exact same IP address.

    I once had a new ISP, new IP address (my first 1pv6), and a new install of Win7.

    Trying to access my router I had two ipv6 addresses so a 50/50/ chance, I blew it and ended up on Google with one entry, all of my /. post.

    I was tracked by my MAC address (best guess).

    I prefer Google, I dislike Bing being forced to use it on Win10 which I switch to duckduckgo.

    and a massive HOSTS file.

  25. I could live without the headphone jack on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never cared for ear buds, this last week I came across Skullcandy HESH 2 blue-tooth headphones. They are so sweet, the stereo separation is excellent, loud enough for me, acts as a headset for making phone calls, as well as tell the phone what to do.

    I was told I couldn't be heard over the T.V., it was so low I could barely make it out, and they don't have a microphone.

    It will connect to two devices, I fully expect it to connect to my son's PS4 and act as a headset with microphone for games (connects to my PS3 yet the receiver takes precedence).

    They cost $80, but the store would meet or beat competitors prices, Walmart was selling them for $39 :).

    The down side is they are rather large (much like older receiver headphones) but people ignore them, and the fact they are blue-tooth they won't pull in a FM station (need the ear bud wire as an antenna).

    I've never really listened to music, now I'm changing music out on my SD card every few days.

    My phone is an unlocked Alcatel onetouch POP 3, While 5.1.1 android they have tweaked the ROM to where a it's much better version.
    The two work perfectly together, and the range apart was rather surprising.

    kheldan (above) mentioned sound problems, MX Player (phone) will speed up it it finds it needs to to keep the music even. One problem alone is every now and again if I shake my head fast (on purpose) the music can get confused where it's place is in line (at least the way it seems).