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  1. Re:cpu-profiling of browser tabs on A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even better would be adjustable settings for maximum individual CPU by a tab and maximum CPU allowable to all background tabs total, and some way to whitelist tabs so that sites I want to run full tilt in the background can. Somebody can write a plug in for more granular control if you want to go full Asperger's on the settings.

    My fans do this for me and I've notice a few websites that the fans start ramping up when visited. I then monitor the temps.

  2. Video of a battery catching fire while in a purse on SLAC Uses Nobel Prize-Winning Technique To Investigate Battery Fires (stanford.edu) · · Score: 1

    Many short videos, but starts at the proper spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (an AD being viewed unpredictable).

  3. Does the missing $538 mean more a bad thing? on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's all that grabbed my attention, and I saw as a loss.

  4. Re:As a KDE user. on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Mint already has too many flavors imho -- and ones based off of ubuntu and directly off of debian as well. It's a small team, and I'd love it if they'd just focus on the Cinnamon DE and make an official Cinnamon flavor of Ubuntu (with Wayland support, too!). But, I understand they have different goals. I just think they bit off more than they can chew with all these flavors.... especially with KDE.

    Oh good it wasn't just me - I wanted to end up at KDE for Connect alone https://community.kde.org/KDEC.... It's just KDE is so configurable and me new that I'd mess it up so badly I had to remove it.

    I've landed on Cinnamon as my flavor of choice, Linux Mint is also my first, so not much experience with the others.

  5. Re:The AV software was configured as such on Kaspersky Admits To Reaping Hacking Tools From NSA Employee PC (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No surprise here.

    No, not at all.

    Many AV are set up that way, it was just bad luck for kaspersky, it was being run.

    I use Comodo firewall, it's deliberately hard to configure for the on-line support. I've used it for so long I've got it down and have disabled sending suspicious files it's way.

  6. How about we pay people to text while crossing the street? The whole point is you can't fix stupid, so let's be done with these people as soon as possible.

    https://www.youtube.com/result...

  7. Re:It's all about staying logged in on Google Launches Gmail Add-ons and Brings a Range of Business Tools To the Inbox (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Gmail supports IMAP. Use a mail client. Your phone most likely already has one.

    No It's not logging out of gmail. Android your always logged into Google. At my start screen is a blue circle in the top right saying I'm logged it.

    I read it's possible to log out but lose all Google services (I'm thinking about that one).

    I for one don't mind Google tracking, I feel it's payback for Google Earth and such. It's them or other, I just don't give it to them by using 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

    Thank you though for the advice on the blocking.

  8. It's all about staying logged in on Google Launches Gmail Add-ons and Brings a Range of Business Tools To the Inbox (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Using a computer to access Gmail, I log out after or it tracks everything google related.

    Cell phone (secondary gmail) I don't have that luxury, somehow subscribing to Youtube's FailArmy and a notification every time a new video is posted.

  9. Nuclear industry is killing Toshiba on Toshiba Forecasts $1 Billion Loss (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's an article of them pouring 4 billion into a reactor they had bankrupted on earlier. http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/1...

  10. Me thinks it's about the money on Tech Firms Seek Washington's Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Q Clearances as of 1998 cost $3,225 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. Re:Again with the Multitasking on 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for some reason Amiganauts believe the Amiga had some sort of magic multitasking secret sauce, and not just a stock 68000.

    Macs offered pre-emptive multitasking in the '80s too, but you had to shell out for A/UX to get it.

    Not magic as chips the 68000 could farm out to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I did in the late 80's what I'm doing now with windows, yet with a 50 meg hard dive and 10 megs of Sram memory.

  12. The hosts file directory is flighty on Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts it's hit or miss each time I go looking for it. The ETC directory doesn't show half of the time.

  13. Re:Bombers? on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious the strategic use of bombers on 24 hour standby, when there are enough ICBMs, including those in nuclear subs which are likely really, really close to North Korea already, to totally decimate that country. North Korea could be a smoldering ruin before the bombers would even leave US airspace (even if they were on standby). So I wonder if the bombers would simply be more "obvious" to Kim Jong or what?

    Fail Safe explains it fairly well https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    A sentence or two summary of the 90-minute movie would be useful, at least to give me a vague idea of whether it's worth that much of my time.

    Ya, I couldn't, but a try, it's about mutual destruction. The missiles may fly, but the B-52's will be in the air to clean up.

    My Dad was Air Force, every base had the SAC lights and horns, when those lit or blew they were to be in the air in an hour, everything claims 24 hours.
    SAC = Strategic Air Command

  14. Re:Again with the Multitasking on 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced (github.com) · · Score: 1

    I first encountered PC-MOS in 1991 or so. I was repairing a computer for a customer and it was installed on his machine. I asked him what it was, and he said "it's a multi-user Disk Operating system."

    "How would that work?" I wondered. There is only one keyboard and one monitor.

    Ah darn, I read Multitasking, it would only be normal.

    I had a friend who was all about Sparc stations they were a multi-user system. It wasn't working right if it didn't have network access, this well before WWW.

  15. Re:Bombers? on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious the strategic use of bombers on 24 hour standby, when there are enough ICBMs, including those in nuclear subs which are likely really, really close to North Korea already, to totally decimate that country. North Korea could be a smoldering ruin before the bombers would even leave US airspace (even if they were on standby). So I wonder if the bombers would simply be more "obvious" to Kim Jong or what?

    Fail Safe explains it fairly well https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Again with the Multitasking on 30-Year-Old Operating System 'PC-MOS/386' Finally Open Sourced (github.com) · · Score: 1

    The x86 task shared, the Amiga Multitask'd.

  17. Re: How associate ad with someone? on For Under $1,000, Mobile Ads Can Track Your Location (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I find using airplane mode when playing a game effective - I'm old school and my security now days appears paranoid to many.

    Of course after a program I go to the apps settings and force stop it or it will continue to run in the background.

  18. Re: How associate ad with someone? on For Under $1,000, Mobile Ads Can Track Your Location (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I use a hosts file began with a seed file from http://someonewhocares.org/hos... it takes a bit of work. With an Android one can't use a host file without being rooted.

    What I do is watch the traffic on my router (Asus AC66U), then use robtex.com to verify for a block. Yet this only works for local networking on Android. I find using airplane mode when playing a game effective - I'm old school and my security now days appears paranoid to many.

  19. Re:Really? on Microsoft Chastises Google Over Chrome Security (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Why it hasn't been exploited yet, I don't know. But since day one the Windows Firewall lets traffic pass without notification.
    This link claims it's for Windows Product Activation https://support.microsoft.com/... and always open. When first released it was known to pass any with a license held by microsoft.

    Takes me Autoruns, and gpedit to disable the Windows firewall and defender.

  20. Re:This explains a lot on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    this is why background checks online are very important. http://www.identitypi.com/

    Besides the spam, I don't know what your getting at.

    The summery nails me, ADHD all my life. I've had and should still have a better than top secret civilian clearance.

  21. I just updated the WiFi exploit and Adobe flash for it. They have my back covered.

  22. Not the least bit one sided on Microsoft Edge Beats Chrome and Firefox in Malware-Blocking Tests (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    computerworld is pro windows, a tangent from the IBM PC is god "cover a variety of enterprise IT topics (with a concentration on Windows, Mobile and Apple/Enterprise)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Were taking their word Edge is best as one can't prove them wrong anymore. Best most have is EICAR to test malware ability of any program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... vx.netlux.org and their database of malware was forced down very early and my source of test files.

    I take any test from computerworld as one sided, I've known the publication since my Amiga days.

  23. Re:Easy answer on Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    We are taking ALL OF THE DATA. Like in the deal.... the deal you agreed to by breathing and blinking twice while your eyes glazed over at the EULA.

    I've read the EULA from the first release of Win10. The way it read anybody you connected to (network) are free game for data mining (access anything connected to your computer). I'm now using Linux Mint with a dual boot of Win10 I am reluctant to use. If the EULA has changed it doesn't matter, it's the first one I'm going by.

  24. Robots introduced to the auto industry on We're Too Wise For Robots To Take Our Jobs, Alibaba's Jack Ma Says (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when robots were being introduced to the Auto industry? The same arguments are being used, yet this one is made me laugh.

  25. Re:This may not have been Equifax on Equifax Website Hacked Again, this Time To Redirect To Fake Flash Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Never run into this before so new to me, but centerbluray.info is being back linked to majestic.com https://www.robtex.com/dns-loo...

    https://majestic.com/reports/s... one time use (cookie)