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  1. Re:And This is What Mismanagement Looks Like on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that why they put spyware on their email servers too -- to succeed as you put it?

  2. Does it really? Too many will illegally fly with it, very possibly risking an incident at 35,000 ft. Is it worth that risk?

  3. Let Netgear management know on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    I encourage everyone to let Netgear management know what a great job they're doing: https://www.netgear.com/about/... AFIK, their email address format is typically Firstname.Lastname@netgear.com.

  4. Re:Solution: install open source firmware on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    Does it support all the bells and whistles of the Netgear firmware? Or at least the ones having to do with wifi configuration? Is it at least just as stable with a large number of high-bandwidth clients? Is 802.11ac supported well?

  5. Stability on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    How's the stability? Do the drivers break often or when you do package updates?

  6. Re:Realistic approach on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The real reduction in sick days witnessed by me was by beta glucans. The effect was leaps and bounds more than any effect from C 500mg x 2 and zinc 15mg x 2.

  7. EXACTLY THIS.

  8. As someone else already said, he's inherently a centrist, or non-aligned. His only god is himself. He appeal to the populist vote only to win. Now he's probably scratching his head on what to do about the recount. He has to balance his personal centrist agenda with that of the right-wing party that he's found himself in. I predict that he will come out stronger after the recount. He has called it a scam, but just wait until he "flip flops" and calls it "genius" and proof of his righteous victory.

  9. You misunderstand. His personal views are centrist. He came off as a populist only to win votes. Now that he won, he can go back to being a centrist.

  10. Realistic approach on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's realistic to take the annual quadrivalent vaccine, to take a couple of days off, and/or to work from home until the risk of contamination has passed. It's also realistic to take some vitamin C, zinc and whey protein powder daily to assist with prevention.

  11. Is balanced on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But it gets balanced out by the assholes who show up to work sick with a cold, soon contaminating their coworkers.

  12. Power to rural states and power to electors are intertwined concepts but they're not the same. Electors happen to typically vote for the popular vote of the state, but this is a matter of luck. What you wanted is a system where electors don't have a say, but the rural state does.

  13. It's only random or flip-flopping to those who don't understand it. There is a bigger picture and it's entirely predictable.

  14. Mega.nz with their 50G of zero-knowledge encrypted storage is what I use to backup my ~15G of Google account data backups. Yes, it's a pain to have to do this, but at least I have my most important data backed up.

  15. Misuse of money by states on Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it so bad to evade taxes that the state will use to fund its insane pensions and the hideous prison-judge-cop political complex especially for victimless crimes? Please let me know when the state begins to use money more wisely, and I'll be happy to pay more.

  16. Disclaimer: May terminate account arbitrarily on Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Every Google product should come with a blackbox warning: your account with all its data may be terminated arbitrarily, basically whenever a Google executive throws a tantrum. Meanwhile, the company continues to evade taxes.

  17. Wait; we have burner smartphones now? When did this happen? 1) Buy burner 2) Deal !@#$ 3) Toss burner 4) Profit!

  18. Serves him right on cURL Author Is Getting Tech Support Emails From Car Owners (daniel.haxx.se) · · Score: -1, Troll

    If the author wants to be an asshole (for wantings his email listed), then he deserves to be spammed by every mom and pop for it. What a dumbass.

  19. Re: The law of unintended consequences... on cURL Author Is Getting Tech Support Emails From Car Owners (daniel.haxx.se) · · Score: 1

    WTF does this have to do with GPL? It doesn't require an email address to be listed.

  20. Transactions and Eventual Consistency on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    At minimum, transactions and eventual consistency are two reasons why you'd want SQL over NoSQL. Personally I also think that a good SQL schema would allow for faster queries on a single host than schemaless NoSQL would on multiple hosts.

  21. Half-baked for Ubuntu on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Dell Precision 17 7000 is half-baked for Ubuntu given that it supports neither the ~4K res screen nor RAID. What a joke.

  22. Re:Hackaday's take on this: Thinkpad on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Do they have 64G RAM? If not, they're shit.

  23. Is there a single thing to protect me from cross-site tracking cookies and evercookies? How do I prevent one site's cookies from being used by another site?

  24. There are lots of gotchas when using a VPN, e.g. DNS leak. But yes, it's still better than using none.

  25. Which subnet? on Secret Backdoor in Some US Phones Sent Data To China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the subnet? What do you use to block it? Does my phone necessarily need to be rooted for me to block? Thanks.