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  1. Well they cracked down on this one on YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    paw patrol babies pretend to commit suicide https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I saw this one a few days ago, it was the comments that caught me and I'm sure had a lot to do with this crack down.

  2. Funny you should mention poop, Toilet Poop is a kid area mention to teach them
    https://www.youtube.com/result...

    This one has a place of it's own https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:onScroll not passive? on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    you use opera presto?

    Yep, Opera mobile Browser, set for tablet. It's preferred only because up till version 12 Opera had always been my browser.

  4. Encyclopedia Britannica VS Wikipedia on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a time Encyclopedia Britannica fought against Wikipedia. The flame wars were intense, a paid service against a free and open-source one. The outcome important and far reaching to us all.

  5. Wasn't all that easy to edit or post on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I posted a picture of the Kennewick man, a bust that sits at the entrance of the library. DRM kicked in, while fought for by Wikipedia, lost it's place under that subject.

    That entry was easy, it was a transition time, program after program was being required to make posting easier. It got to the point one needed a dedicated system just for that purpose. I haven't attempted to add or edit an entry since.

  6. Re:Why settle for being merely evil? on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    Why settle for being merely evil when you can be so much more?

    I'm surprised Google hasn't found a way to use that feature to ferret out some unmined corner of privacy.

    I've never used Chrome. It flows in the same vein as not just up and giving my info to Google, but Google is welcome to grab it elsewhere.

  7. Re:onScroll not passive? on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    The featured article claims that "All websites and web apps that did any sort of draggable UI (sliders, maps, reorderable lists, even slide-in panels)". In such web applications, if the user is performing a slide gesture, he doesn't necessarily want to make the whole document scroll just because the gesture has approached the edge of the document.

    I can't read /. with my cell phone and Opera. The sliders don't work (message filter) and the threads are unreadable.
    Not to say I don't visit, I just stick with the summaries and links from them.

  8. Won't be shuned as Internet Explorer on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 2

    I came from Dos/Amiga to Windows, the very first time I used Internet Explorer I didn't want any part of it.
    Not used to WWW I went to Microsoft.com found a game that looked decent and downloaded it (I thought). ActiveX kicked in and was installing something I hadn't looked at first, so pulled the computer power cord.

    The second time I used IE was to download Netscape.

  9. This has been addressed before, as anything that pops up anymore - The accepted approach is if you do have your pix taken, wear a mask. It's that simple. It can be as unobtrusive as the ones Google shows if you search for: nude pictures with mask and view images.

  10. The list given is to keep Windows from being hacked, the TPM chip rams it home.

    Hacked as in using Windows for free.

  11. Every post I see so far is the generic: see Windows in the title, bash Windows in comments. I mean I'm not sure anyone even read the summary, as all the comments could be made about any article about Windows. And this article doesn't have a lot to do about Windows, its mostly about secure hardware.

    Yes, yes I know most of you hate Windows, if not Microsoft as a whole, but is it necessary to remind people of this every article?

    Yes. The list given is to keep Windows from being hacked, the TPM chip rams it home.
    I have an empty TPM socket.

    For a secure windows I wait for the governments release of what to disable for secure areas, Last I've seen was for XP.

  12. Been done before on Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Long time ago in the newsgroups. Programmers came into Alt.Cracks (where their programs were cracked) and uploaded Trojans, Virus's and huge text files titled as a book of some sort. The text files were just to waste bandwidth. They read well for awhile (few sentences) then just went south, no matter where one started. I wish I'd of saved one now, the largest piece of nonsense I've come across.

  13. My dog votes for it's removal on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    He's got feeding time down, then it changes by an hour and confuses him.

  14. Re:Hell, NO! on Are You OK With Google Reading Your Data? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I've a couple of those in my hosts too (doubleclick too).

    The nice thing is that I can then see the accesses in my local web server's logs :-)

    Just for kicks, I thought I might my local web server serve up *something* depending on the request (just imagine the tracking gifs as little red dots or something).

    Linux has a program called EtherApe that's a lot of fun to watch https://www.google.com/search?...

  15. I've never had that experience with an iPhone, and I've used most models for development work, which tends to do the screwiest things to devices. Perhaps you should be using a better class of phone, if that's really a problem for you.

    Misspoke, a hard reset not a reboot.

    Right now my phone has lost showing the time out of the pocket, a hard reset or to turn off and remove the battery for awhile would fix that. Never owned an Apple phone.

  16. Re:Hell, NO! on Are You OK With Google Reading Your Data? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They can go read the newspapers instead.

    That's why I disable Javascript in the browser, however the ubiquitous spawn of urchin.js is called these days.

    Here's a random quote of this very page's source, somewhat embellished for readability, for you to see what I mean:

    function() {

            var ga = document.createElement('script');

            ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;

            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ?

                'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

            [...]

    Of course, for searches, I go to DuckDuckGo, ixquick or similar.

    They still do get too many data from me, but the less, the merrier. Hell, no.

    From my HOSTS file: 127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com and Google is my search engine of choice.

  17. Unlike most I do read Tos's/EULA's on Are You OK With Google Reading Your Data? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need to read anything to understand once I upload a file from my computer I've relinquish any sole control over it.

  18. Because APK has been spouting crazy shit for years now (Alexander Peter Kowalski/AlecStaar)
    https://arstechnica.com/civis/...
    http://www.thorschrock.com/200...

    Took awhile to understand your post, due mostly to the Novella you linked to.
    APK aka Alecstaar https://arstechnica.com/civis/... (banned again).
    Alexander Peter Kowalski post http://www.thorschrock.com/200...

    You've done given Google many of your handles.

  19. Getting at the battery doesn't look so bad. Clearly it's not supposed to be user serviceable, but it *is* serviceable without serious risk of damaging the phone.

    Your right. Sometimes one needs to hard boot a phone by removing the battery, it takes me 14 screws just to see it. https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... (Pix used by Ifixit.com). I'm not a happy camper.

  20. Re:THAT is exactly why I have a password vault. on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I use KeePass. The database (including backup copies) are encrypted. The password is in a sealed envelope inside our family safe deposit box, and both my wife and son have access.

    Good to see you have a plan. So few do.

  21. Re:Anyone want to guess on CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    what nasty thing they're doing that this is supposed to distract us from? I will never believe that our CIA does anything out of the goodness of their heart. If I saw one of them reach down to pet a puppy I'd have it checked by a bomb squad.

    For the record...

    The release came in accordance with a 2014 appropriations bill for intelligence activity that required the Director of National Intelligence to review documents obtained from the raid, and make the files it declassified from the review available to the public.

    Wednesday's document dump is the latest addition to the public collection, dubbed "bin Laden's bookshelf" by the DNI. The collection includes three previous releases since May 2015.
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/...

  22. Re:THAT is exactly why I have a password vault. on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I only have to remember the vault password. The three keys to making it work in the long run are backup, backup, and backup.

    I use Acerose password manager. It's weak spot is any back-up of the database is readable with any text editor. I've used it for so long, having many log-ins I stick with it.

  23. over the shoulder boulder holder on Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not an expressed term

  24. The snafu begins at 36:46.

    I beleive the worst thing he did, was to show Chrome could do this out of the box.

  25. Re:No shit? on Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Just hope their testers daughters or sons happen to see it. They do it for free and you can see what happens, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...