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  1. Care to elaborate with specific complaints?

    I have a Nexus 6 (moto, not Huwai 6P). I used google now for a long time but only for a few use cases. I now have the assistant (I spoofed a pixel XL in my build.prop file). I have seen little difference. She is a bit more chattey, but I say play muci, she plays music, I say navigate, she does, I say search for something, it happens.

  2. Re:This is getting ridiculous on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Rooted phone, using nandrod backup in TWRP or Titanium backup. Drop the encrypted 7z wherever. It is multiple GB so if necessary just have it on a couple thumbdrives for redundancy. Takes lass than an hour in your hotel before you leave.

  3. Re:Already exists on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1
    "Leave customs"

    Hah.. double hah

  4. Re:funniest bot-on-bot edits on Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
    Depending on the repricer service, updates can happen almost instantly or just several times a day. The particular one I use allows you to set MIN and MAX prices per sku. I calculat that with a fairly complex spreadsheet that bases it off of my buy price, fees, age of listing, etc. It is not always accurate, and some systems do not have that. In addition, I have hundreds of items in inventory from a few years ago, that I manually entered and neglected to record a buy price. Without that I cannot calculate Min and Max.

    Amazon also has its own MIN/MAX for items that are based of of some hidden algorithm they have. You can adjust for your listings if need be, or turn it off, but I leave it alone for the most part and it serves as a sanity check incase my repricer has a falure. It has not happened to me, but a couple of 3rd party reprice tools have had bugs setting thousands of listings down to a penny, which is why amazon implemented thier own MIN/MAX and I leave it. AZ will notify me if a listing is deactivated due to a pricing error. As long as I am reading my email I can catch it and fix the problem.

    This is not the service I use - they are too expensive for my sales volume - but this free ebook is loaded with great info: https://feedvisor.com/resource...
    You do have to sub to the newsletter, but that is what 10minute email and mailinator are for!

  5. Re:funniest bot-on-bot edits on Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's is actually not often eBay resellers. I sell on Amazon as a 3rd party reseller. I use a repricer, a bot that adjusts my prices based off of competition and rules I set. If not set right, if there are only 2 or 3sellers, one cane jack the price up, trigger the repricer to follow. The auto priced listing will get deactivated by Amazon, and if the seller isn't checking to reactivate it and fix the pricing error, the other seller can then drop price, get the preferred listing and make sales. Some reprice bots can be configured to be agressive and trigger the behavior in others.

  6. Re:Staggering disinformation on Tesla Posts Earnings Loss But Claims Model 3 Production Will Start In July (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't lie you say. What about Enron? In Teslas case the 10-k shows them operating at a loss. This is fine in the right circumstances, which I wager it is here. As opposed to other situations like Enron where all looked great - on paper.

  7. Re:I'll sleep better now on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Yes, I mostly wok in windows, due to my clients needs. Used to sysadmin various unix boxes. I also go back far enough to where it was Doss or nix directories not folders. Been doing this since 1994.

    However, folders is less syllables, easier to say, and understood by all.

  8. Re:I'll sleep better now on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
    Lets find out:

    $sudo -u god mount -t godfs /dev/trappist1p1 /mnt/p1folder
    $Error: Username:god not in sudoers file

  9. Re:The star is named Trappist-1 on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What you did there, I see it. It has some spicy yeast esters too!

  10. Listings are up. CPU ships with no cooler, and no coolers yet, but there you go, preorders of CPU and mobo are there. https://www.newegg.com/Product...

  11. Re:Kowtowing on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 0

    They are pushing a narrative. The narrative that comes verbatim out of POTUS cheeto colored mouth-hole.

  12. Re:And, I might start buying more from them again. on Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum to $35 (fortune.com) · · Score: 2
    Do you drive 20 miles to go pick up a $3 jug of milk? Probably not, but if you have a larger list, it may be worthwhile to drive to a more distant store. Most add-on items are similar. Under $10 (most under $5). It is just not feasible to ship that for free by it self. The handling costs and even the deeply discounted shipping costs Amazon recieves would eat mor than the profit on an item that small.

    It is not that hard to add items like that to your cart or a wishlist, then buy them all at once or on a larger order. All it takes is a little planning. Otherwise, local stores are good for impulse buys.

    Caveat - I run an amazon 3rd party seller business.

  13. Re:We are finally getting over on NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And this was the approach that the Obama administration was pushing for, with the very successful COTS program. There are many things I have to fault it for, but this is not one. I mean, seriously, how weird is it that Republicans are pushing for things to be run by a big government agency that does everything internal, and Democrats pushing for greater privatization and outsourcing? ;)

    For those that do not know the answer to Rei's question, the answer is: Pork Barrel
    You know, they thing the politicians of both sides have you bent over as they whisper sweet lies in your ear.

  14. Re:Disappointing? on Google Discloses An Unpatched Windows Bug (Again) (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    The correct verbiage now is as follows:

    So-called tech company releases fake news. SAD!

  15. Go back to your vault.

  16. Re:'Schizophrenia' is a normal reaction... on B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms, Study Finds (newsmax.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are ACs always make such total asses of themselves? ;)

    Maybe schizophrenia?

  17. Re:What could possibly go wrong on Ransomware Insurance Is Coming (onthewire.io) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can bet the insurance company will have digital forensics engineers on hand for any large payout. Local it will be in support, not supervisory roles.

  18. Re:It will probably be successful on Ransomware Insurance Is Coming (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. Find a good, reputable MSP. Hate to sound like an infomercial,but my small MSP firm serves small biz. For less than 70 USD per PC per month you get encrypted cloud backups with, if desired, local mirror, world class AB, web filtering, event monitoring, free virus removal, etc. All at a set fucking cost. It's a no brainier.

  19. Re:On behalf of myself... on 34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this one of your sock accounts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:Natural selection at play on 223 Stranded Whales Rescue Themselves (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If you want to se the whales on the otherhand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Hey cogent... on Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other 'Pirate' Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Do you want to retain common carrier status? Or do you want to be charged for every illegal piece of data flowing through your network? I am sure if you look hard enough you can find illegal porn, drug deals, terrorist communications, plans to commit crimes, insider trading.. etc.

  22. His girlfriend told him he was two inches bigger than her last partner. I bet he's glad his girlfriend is no longer a lesbian.

  23. Re:Methinks silly hack... on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh.... why would the sigs be equal? It is a cryptographic hash of the driver and can contain, or be used as a unique id to obtain all the info for that specific version. Also, this is between vendor versions vs MS versions, not vendor to vendor. Would not the signature be invalid if the vendor failed to update it for new versions? Shouldn't it contain a hash of the driver data to compare (which would change between versions)?

  24. Methinks silly hack... on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Um.. since most drivers are now signed/certified would the signature not have better info than a fucking date stamp to determine age/version/author/priority? By default windows requires signed drivers, so what gives? I am not a coder by day but this seems kludgy as shit.

  25. Not all crimes are prosecuted by the military. Sometimes the local or state authorities do, often with a discharge or additional military justice. I was never in the militar, but knew several in state prison that were at the time of their arrest.