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  1. Alpha software... on ReactOS 0.4.6 Released (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    For the last 19 years. When is the beta available?
    The Windows clone almost has support for Windows file sharing.

  2. So connect with WiFi over a VPN to a country they provide updates to?
    It might even work by just changing your DNS servers http://whatismyipaddress.com/s...

    I just find it hard to believe they've gone out of their way and expended time and effort (read: spent money) to block updates for specific regions for absolutely no reason.

  3. I do that on my laptop. on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 lets you swipe up from the bottom of the screen if you have a touch screen. It shows the Alt-Tab popup so you can tap on an application.
    If you don't have a touch screen you can swipe up with 4 fingers on the touch pad of a laptop if it supports 4 or more fingers.

    I don't have any older Windows version to test it on, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was introduced back in Vista.

    Way to go Apple, you've exactly copied a Windows 8 feature!

  4. Re:This is just ALT-TAB on Windows on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows Vista and 7 also had Windows+Tab for a more flashy version of Alt-tab, which seems to be missing from Windows 8.1

    Alt-Tab was in Windows 1.0. It's current form of showing the running apps you're tabbing through has been there since 3.1 way back in 1992

    Windows Vista introduced showing a preview of the actual application instead of just their icons.

  5. LG on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't LG buy WebOS years ago?
    They run it on all their smart TV's

  6. They probably also need to the get update validated by the cell networks in your country, since "it even has LTE-support"
    Another reason could be the version you have has different hardware than the ones that have been updated to Android 6. I know Samsung does it often, the same phone has two different chips in it depending on region, usually for cell network compatibility.

  7. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    If you're behind an IP address for a residential ISP, chances are everyone from IP address at the same time are in the same house.
    If any browser is tracked at the IP address for a period of time, all devices from that IP over that time period are also probably in the same house.

    If you leak any cookies/etags between a TOR session and a non-TOR session, the two can be linked as well.

    Browser fingerprinting is a lot more approximate than cookies. According to amiunique.org, I'm unique over their 400,000 fingerprints. That's not that many fingerprints though. It's graphs also list Firefox 45 as the most popular browser. Most of the uniqueness comes from the fact I use the lastest version of Chrome, which is updated automatically, hence my fingerprint changes at least every ~6 weeks when a new Chrome build comes out.

    Javascript based fingerprinting also doesn't produce a constant fingerprint. It changes even more frequently My screen resolution on my laptop changes every time I plug in another screen.
    Panopticlick fails JS fingerprinting on this browser as the fingerprint code for blocked by ABP/uBlock

  8. I spend more time interacting with applications running on an computer than the operating system.

    I don't even write code for Windows, but it doesn't get in the way of development.

  9. Apple don't need to do anything. Sorry Chuq, but Apple doesn't need to even listen to you.
    They don't even need to acknowledge your existence. You haven't worked for Apple in over 10 years.
    When you did it was as tech support and internal email systems.
    Now you're an expert on product development and marketing?

  10. Where's my Dashbot/Voder?
    "Shipping in July"
    No update since April.

  11. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    and the data about their site is not theirs?

    If you paid for a service, there should be an agreement as to what you've paid for. That's bound to include how any data is used.

  12. Get a touch screen on Why Are There So Many Knobs in Audio Software? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you can interact with your virtual knobs and sliders as you would real ones.

  13. Wait what? on VW Engineer Sentenced To 40-Month Prison Term In Diesel Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The engineer gets prosecuted for decisions signed off by the executives?

  14. Re:What's the market again? on Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah... and now you can only use Tesla trailers with your Tesla truck...

  15. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't allow access to your regular set of cookies and starts with a clean slate so you only get cookie-tracked in the single session.
    It's supposed to not use your regular cache too, so ETags don't leak but Chrome has a bug where you need to close the browser first.

  16. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    Why not? Nobody is forcing you to visit their website. They're paying for the content, servers and bandwidth. Are you paying for the service?

  17. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    Who visits pornhub without incognito mode? (don't forget to close the browser first, or ETag's can leak in to the incognito session)

  18. I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 1

    When was there an expectation of privacy in the internet?

    If you visit Site A, Site A has your browsing history of Site A. They're free to share that information with who ever they please.
    When you visit Site B, they're free to share it all too.

    If Site A and Site B both share that information with Adverting Network A, then Advertising Network A has your browsing history of Site A and Site B

    It's like rocket science, only not quite.
    More like brain surgery.

  19. Only cheap lithium batteries explode, as they don't care enough to design/test any sort of pressure release valve in case of failure.
    They burn, like diesel or petrol does. The explosion is the pressuring building up inside rupturing the casing, more like a pop. It just so happens that a bunch of the gas created is flammable, so the escaping gas can ignite in a big fireball.
    It's not an explosion though.

  20. What's the market again? on Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when did trucks sit around for extended periods of time?
    The trailers, sure.
    A lof of privately owned trucks are owned by a partnership of two or more drivers who work in shifts so the truck is on the road 90% of the time. When it's not moving, their capital investment isn't making them any money.

    Even in little old back-water NZ, where you can't actually drive 1000 miles without ending up in an ocean and drivers have strict limits as to how long they're allowed to drive each day, trucks don't sit around for hours on end. Most of them don't even wait to board a ferry between islands, they leave the trailer at the port and move on to the next job.

  21. It probably would be, if USA had the jurisdiction to arrest and prosecute people in Afghanistan.

    Afghanistan is not the 51st state.

  22. Re:They sound smarter than us on America Wasted $160 Million Trying To Get Afghanistan To Use E-Payments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried.... I don't know.... talking to your card issuer?

  23. Re:They sound smarter than us on America Wasted $160 Million Trying To Get Afghanistan To Use E-Payments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Transactions in New Zealand are verified before being accepted. Only takes a few seconds. I can even see the transaction immediately after in my mobile banking app.
    Once you know the pin, it's still pretty hard to clone a chip card. You'd need to get the private keys out of it first.

  24. Re:They sound smarter than us on America Wasted $160 Million Trying To Get Afghanistan To Use E-Payments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, at stores without internet connected terminals, you have to wait for them to dial up and connect before your transaction is verified?

    Holy shit.

  25. NFC is faster than swiping, get with the times America.