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  1. Re: Why do they need to? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    2 of the 4 KBs are not be displayed :P so it is impossible to uninstall them...

    Can anyone provide more info on this?
    Is it true? The list of KBs I know to avoid are:

    KB3022345 - Created a new Windows service called the Diagnostics Tracking service. (RETRACTED)
    KB3068708 - Update to 3022345.
    KB3075249 - Enhanced the User Account Control (UAC) feature to enable it to collect more information from the elevation prompts.
    KB3080149 - Update to 3022345/3068708.

    But it's true I tried to uninstall them and only saw 2 to uninstall and hide. I thought however that it was because some were updates/replacements of previous ones.

    KB3035583 this came out Apr 4th 2015 and when I blocked updates, it's a persistent update as you can't hide it. Can be found at Windows/System32/GWX, the information it gathered can't as it left 24 hours after it's install, unless you have a decent HOSTS file as I did.

  2. Re:PS3 Lending Library on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 1

    Mine is at least, I've met very few others with one of the first versions.

    CECHA/CECHB?

    I have a not quite as compatible CECHE model, I had to send it in for fixing earlier this year. Graphical glitches, freezes and whatnot (probably solder gone bad). It's perfectly fine now.

    CECHEO1 It quit working so I baked the motherboard, working on it outside found I was missing the very last piece -the ribbon cable to the start button; so put on hold.

    And I miss it, using Win 8.1 and VLC to take it's place in the interim, but no comparison.
    (Can't access it's UEFI, so no Linux either).

    Buying cheap used games one finds gems like Beyond Good and Evil

    Which I own, and haven't finished... There's a remastered HD version for the PS4.

    There is one puzzle of getting past predictable guards; while it took forever it remained enjoyable. I lost the backup of my first game which I managed to get a picture of the seagull first time, I could never get that picture again. Finished all but the mini games.

    Ratchet and clank for the PS2 were my favs.

  3. Re:Rituals ? on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    Did it involve human sacrifices?

    If created by the Druids almost a certainty. Reference: "MANKIND (The story of all of us)" History channel broadcast (12 episodes), Netflix

  4. Re:That's cool. on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    the map link sucks.

    would be fine if it outlined the area and placement or something.

    I checked before submitting this article myself. I'd of posted http://www.usatoday.com/story/... as my link which shows the stones that have been uncovered.

  5. Re:Sad to see them give-up on so much... on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 1

    You're idea is terrible on top of terrible. You, yourself, point out the very onbvious problem of people hacking the games stored. Add onto that the fact that every system ever has launched with only a few quality games with the rest as garbage. I mean really, almost all of a console's quality content comes out after launch. How could this ever be a solution to anything?

    Yep, Xbox was destined to follow the same demise as The GameCube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., till Halo came out.

  6. Re:PS3 Lending Library on Xbox One Launch Woes Were Preventable, Next Console Likely Digital Download Only · · Score: 1

    What pushed me towards a PS3, after decades of PC gaming, was the large "lending library" of PS3 games offered by a co-worker. I could try full games before I purchased them.

    My going forward with the PS3 was it's backwards compatibility, it plays all my old PS and PS2 games. Mine is at least, I've met very few others with one of the first versions.

    Buying cheap used games one finds gems like Beyond Good and Evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives on Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives · · Score: 0

    Who wrote the code. What explanation do they have for inserting such features in a supposedly secure storage device. Is there a more sinister explanation for this?

    Apparently never heard of MHDD http://hddguru.com/software/20... (it's grown - used to be a hobbyist site, now much more professional). I've used it to gain access to drives using default passwords, excellent tool for "talking" to your hard drives, and fixing what's wrong.

  8. Re:Plagiarize much? on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    First paragraph at Wikipedia: "AltaVista was an early web search engine founded in 1995. It was once one of the most popular search engines, but it lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo! and since then, the domain redirects to Yahoo!'s own search site.[2]"

    Second and third lines of TFA: "Founded in 1995, AltaVista was a very popular Internet search engine website. Nevertheless, AltaVista lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003. Ten years later, Yahoo! officially shut down AltaVista in July 2013 and redirected the domain name to its own search engine website."

    Hmm...

    LOL, nice catch.

  9. Re:Was Altavista... on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    My progression - Archie and gang - http://www.albany.net/allinone... which was a lot of different search engines depending upon your quest (now some sort of search engine yet still a bookmark)- AltaVista (Which was good for hacks and cracks) - Yahoo (for it's then search ability) - Google.

    Edit: something didn't look right after the submit, a double check (bookmarks) it was astalavista.box.sk not altavista which was the popular search engine at the time

  10. Re:Was Altavista... on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Yes, Altavista was better than Yahoo. I remember reading that Yahoo was a static directory, updated by humans; whereas AV had a newfangled web crawler. Anyone remember the term 'spider'? Altavista wasn't known all that well though, and it was part of my geek cred to show it to users. And usually, it found what they were looking for.

    My progression - Archie and gang - http://www.albany.net/allinone... which was a lot of different search engines depending upon your quest (now some sort of search engine yet still a bookmark)- AltaVista (Which was good for hacks and cracks) - Yahoo (for it's then search ability) - Google (it's result listings then rated by the most active web pages, and sparse look).

    If you POP3 your mail you understand just how badly Microsoft and Yahoo want to route your Email. I still have a handle used in my E-mailer Forte Agent hard coded by Microsoft live. (not off topic, they are fighting Gmail).

  11. Re:CD good for 1000 years? on Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    I've never used it, it's more of a conversation piece as they are spendy and lack storage space (4.7Gigs).

    I'm a purist, all my work is saved as .TIF's.

  12. CD good for 1000 years? on Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? · · Score: 1

    When I bought a BlueRay drive it came with a sample CD m@disk that's made to last a 1000 years.

    I've never used it, it's more of a conversation piece as they are spendy and lack storage space (4.7Gigs).

    Yet tossed out as an option with foreseeable future technological problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Teaching programming has no place in schools on Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education · · Score: 2

    Most people who learn a foreign language at school never become fluent in that language.

    Justification for my failing Latin.

  14. Teachers here are on strike over pay (US) on Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education · · Score: 0

    School started the first of the week and out came the signs and red shirts.

  15. Re:They should know better on NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I am going to suggest you try that with braided line and not mono-filament. You're going to actually want to tighten up your drag too, assuming you're spin casting.

    I would think the tether would be rather specific. To generate power from it, Piezoelectricity is the only thing that comes to mind.

  16. Re:It's simple... on Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind · · Score: 1

    Nukes are way too dangerous. There is a reason why Jimmy Carter put a presidential order with a permanent moratorium on any and all power reactor construction.

    The nuclear reactor I operated was brought back into production mode (Plutonium) during the Regan years.

    The reactor was dedicated by John F. Kennedy so built prior to 1963. A lot of modernization was under way during that time.

    At the same time 5 new plants were being built of which one was completed, the rest a financial disaster. http://www.king5.com/story/tec...

  17. Knew a person arrested for peeing in public on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 1

    As out of the way as one does, he was convicted of a sex crime.

  18. How can one post to this... on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    Half will agree, half won't and all with legitimate insight.

  19. Re:Sony created the Rootkit, nothing suprises me n on Canadian Music Industry Faces Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Records · · Score: 1

    My Bad, used a rootkit, not creating it for the first time.

  20. Sony created the Rootkit, nothing suprises me now on Canadian Music Industry Faces Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Records · · Score: 2

    Whatever their business practice.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:AUTONOMOUS CARS NOW!!! on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    I recently moved to the SF Bay Area and already got rear-ended several times!! I'm not even surprised the only accidents Google cars get into is when other cars hit them!

    Autonomous cars mandatory ASAP!

    I LoL'd. New to the SF Bay Area we we took a wrong turn ending up on the cable car rails and where we shouldn't of been. While even in a hurry to get back to where we were suppose to be, noticed we had 4 or more cars that had followed us (as lost as we were).

  22. I'm telling ya, smart money is on blow up dolls on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    and Wigs.

    See article on /. of Autonomous Cars and bombs

  23. Re:This was how smartphone unlocking was banned on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 1

    I imagine a similar revolt will take place after the new rules take effect.

    Actually as hard as it may seem, the Net Neutrality act (FCC) made it easier to root, not to unlock a phone.

    Unlocking a phone is now pretty much a gimme, I use a Trac phone and just read of the deal they made with the FCC, and a new software update to make unlocking possible.

  24. This affects almost everybody on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 1

    I use different firmware on my router, seeing as it's also has 2.4 and 5Ghz WiFi incorporated this would block my abilities to upgrade. This may be a duh statement but only after thinking a bit more on the subject, did I feel the pain.

  25. Re:How does it know on Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads · · Score: 1

    How does it know what is "important" Flash content, and what isn't?

    That's easy: Those that have paid Google and those that have not...

    While your right, the site in question is Flurry.com. All those free games you play sale your info to them (Google) who in turn combines it with info they have, selling it to advertisers for personal ads.