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  1. What hostname/url/ip address? on Google Collects Android Users' Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I have all google services quarantined and every google domain name blocked via AdAway. I'd like to know how they were shipping this information out to see if I have it blocked. The article is devoid of technical information.

  2. Sure it does.... on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It teaches a lesson, Don't test in Production ...

  3. Re:Allo Allo on Google Allo Messaging App Launches For iOS and Android (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    What does he say? I don't know, I don't speak a word of the language!

  4. Re:Impersonation Seems Unlikely on Tesla Is Suing An Oil-Company Executive For Impersonating Elon Musk (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    One wonders what this clown would have done with the information, ...

    Lost opportunity, they could've honey-potted him with lots of fake info to get big oil going totally wrong!

  5. Re:Duct Tape: The Handyman's Secret Weapon on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The segment title "The Winter of our Discount Tent" is just classic!

  6. More people = More time and resources on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    The article seems a bit pessimistic.

    Not enough food,

    More people = more farmers

    not enough space,

    More people = more builders

    not enough medical care.

    More people = more doctors

    Hopefully: More people = more knowledge. The future is bright, don't be so glum.

  7. Which cloud? on GoPro's Next Adventure: Virtual Reality and Drones · · Score: 1

    software that will wirelessly sync up GoPro footage to the cloud

    The one it's fly through? That term doesn't generally need to be clarified when speaking of technology; but this is one of those exceptions. :-P

  8. Re:Censorship in the UK on High Court Orders UK ISPs To Block EBook Sites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now they are starting to censor books

    Strawman much?!? What a load of crap. I'm not pro-censorship but they ARE NOT CENSORING BOOKS. No more than arresting (actual Captain Phillips type) pirates is censoring free trade.

  9. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    And having cars phone home to big brother *doesn't* need infrastructure and changes?

  10. FRAMES on Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? · · Score: 1

    Don't convince them write a static html page with frames or iframes to survey monkey and call it done. Tell them it'll take a couple of weeks to test and debug and then upload it to their volunteer signup URL.

    :))

    BTW, this is the classic ROI conundrum. The work used once a year will NEVER payoff, but you just can't convince some customers of that. :/

  11. Not that awful/scary on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Good. Forks are a good way for those who disagree to still get along. Debian and Forked-ian and still share patches (outside of the init process) and stay in sync easily ... if that is what they choose to do. So we will wind up with the choice of Debian-classic or Debian-with-sprinkles. Cool.

    This reminds me of GNU Emacs and XEmacs, they disagree (or lack legal rights to make code free) on the basics but a lot of the elisp is kept in sync. Choice is G(NU)ood.

  12. Re:Hmmm ... on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not a dashboard, that's a reporting system that joins dashboarding and reporting. Dashboards are current transient data. Anytime you go back in time, that's a report. You just supported the OP's claim.

  13. In other news ... on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    A member of Putin's advisory council on human rights goes missing.

  14. Reverse Scam on TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers · · Score: 1

    Makes me want to start a reverse scamming scheme. Call people up and try and get remote access, if you succeed completely disable their internet access. Bonus points if you can burn out their network card to make the fix permanent.

  15. Re:Oh good lord. on Do Dark Matter and Dark Energy Cast Doubt On the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    Also, the evolution and make-up of stars

    Do stars evolve? Are there small genetic changes that make them more fit to reproduce? Is there "survival of the fittest" stars? Sure they get bigger, brighter, burn out, collapse, etc.... but that's its life cycle.

  16. Re: cretinous because on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: This deal is very fair and I'm happy to be a part of it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  17. Re:Repeat after me... on Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me...

    CSS3 is not a programming language. No more then HTML is.

    Not very catchy. :[

  18. Re:Headline: on Interview: Edward Stone Talks About JPL and Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Wow, tough room. :/ Where's /.'s sense of humor?

  19. Re:Two things every bubble has in common... on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 1

    3. No profit :(

  20. RTFA on Unisys Phasing Out Decades-Old Mainframe Processor For x86 · · Score: 1

    The switch to x86 processors won't affect existing Unisys customers looking to upgrade older mainframes with faster systems. x86 Dorado servers will continue to support the ClearPath OS 2200 operating system, while the Libra line will support the ClearPath MCP operating system. Both the OSes will execute tasks on Intel's Xeon server chips through a firmware layer that translates the OS code for execution on x86 chips.

  21. Private Window FTW on Facebook Lets Users Opt Out of Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    I only ever browse FB in a firefox private window with script/ad/flash block and ghostery. Then I logoff FB and close the private window. On andriod I use TinFoil for FB.

  22. Switched to Apple .. better than the other way rnd on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Apple is proud you can switch to them from Android, are they proud that their product iMessage destroys the experience the other way around? AND that it is impossible for Apple to fix their own bug? Or is that a "feature"?

  23. Cloud computing can byte me ... on ISEE-3 Satellite Is Back Under Control · · Score: 1

    This is Oort cloud computing. :-p Seriously, funny how "cloud computing" sounds like nifty nomenclature when you're earthbound. But see if from a totally different perspective and it doesn't sound so nifty anymore. Not that this satellite is greater tech than we have now, but what if we were visited by an interstellar race; what would they think of our "cloud computing"?

    And a nice non-sequitur: Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

  24. Re:Code reviewing a spreadsheet on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 1

    For non programmers modern spread sheet give the user rope, with a noose already premade and a map on where to put your head.

    Wait ... are we talking Excel or C?!?

  25. Re:Yabba dabba doo. on Efforts To Turn Elephants Into Woolly Mammoths Are Already Underway · · Score: 1

    [Flintstones] Can't wait for that mammoth burger.

    [Murphy] I'm not cookin' no $@#$ brontosaurus burgers! This ain't the $@#$ Flintstones, Gus! Look at Charlie standing over there with 3rd degree burns