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  1. This was entirely preventable on Software Engineer Loses Life Savings in Quadriga Imbroglio (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart people don't trust their cryptocurrency to exchanges. They only keep what they're immediately buying or selling at the exchange and keep the rest of it offline, whether in a hardware wallet (like one of the Trezor or Ledger devices) or even in a paper wallet (such as the ones produced by bitaddress.org) stashed away in a safe place. Instead, for want of a minute and a piece of paper, the subject of TFA is out over $400k.

  2. Re:Sorry Mark Davis, that's 100% uneducated horses on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The true problem is that the definition of hate speech is so nebulous that it becomes impossible to actually define it.

    ...which is exactly how the NPCs want it, as they can wield that cudgel against their enemies--or not wield it against their allies--as they see fit, because some animals are more equal than others.

  3. Re:It was the same in the 80s on Ubisoft Apologizes for The Division 2 Email Promising a 'Real Government Shutdown' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it didn't take long at all for those jokes to start flying around back in the day.

    Why do NASA engineers drink Coke?
    Because they couldn't get 7-Up.

    Stalin on dark humor.

  4. Re:Lemme call names then on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a cash register anyway, probably with Internet connection to accept cards. Adding the ability to send an email is software

    ...and your email address. What if you'd rather they not have it? I get enough spam as it is.

  5. Re:Recurring fee for domain and hosting on Why One Tiny Island is Still a Domain Name Giant (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can set the MX record to whatever you want.

    Provided you pay the recurring fee for the domain and the email hosting.

    Not exactly a huge financial burden. My primary domain name runs me something like $12-$15 per year, and the offshore VPS that hosts my websites and email sets me back a whopping €15 (usually $17-$18) per quarter. I spent more taking my parents out to dinner recently than I spent in the past year on keeping a web-and-mail server up and running.

  6. Re:Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked at Tim's growing up (prominent Canadian coffee shop, for you internationals) and we'd throw out large amounts of food/donuts at the end of the day. These were still very much edible for at least another day. (Trust me... they were.)

    My first job was at McDonald's. The story there was pretty much the same: food that sat around too long (10 minutes for burgers, 7 minutes for fries, etc.) was "QC'd" by dumping it in a bucket, which then made its way to the trash periodically.

    One time, someone made the comment that we were throwing out so much stuff and I just had to ask, "Hey why don't these go to folks who actually need some food?" and the answer was simple; they can't risk the lawsuits if someone gets sick.

    I was told pretty much the same thing.

    Skip forward ~30 years, and now there's this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogOJwTdJJ3c

    If only this could be more widespread. Basically, excess food off the serving line is flash-frozen and stored until needed.

    (Disclaimer: I work for Catholic Charities nowadays, though not in the dining hall. My opinions are mine, not theirs.)

  7. Re:What a turd this thing is ... on WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All popular CMSs - and even many unpopular CMSs - have had security issues. The open source ones tend to get fixed super quickly.

    In this case, WordPress 5.0 was only out for about a week before 5.0.1 was released, going by the dates I installed them.

  8. Re:Pronouns are hard to translate on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    (OB Windows complaint: why doesn't the old ALT+#number shortcuts work in Windows 10? "Had" to install Norsk to be able to write the Ø)

    Works for me. Alt-0252 produces ü, for instance. The Character Map app even still shows "Keystroke: Alt+0216" in the lower right corner when I clicked on Ø (which I typed in).

    Could it be a localization difference in Windows? US keyboards don't provide any other way to enter non-ASCII characters, so if they'd taken that capability away, you'd be stuck copying and pasting from Character Map (which I still do sometimes anyway if I need a character for which I don't know the code offhand).

  9. Early-bird check-in is a scam. At this point, they oversell the early-bird check-in to the point that you can still end up late in the B section

    I've never not been in the A boarding group. Sometimes it's somewhere in the second half of the group, sometimes it's right behind priority boarding, but I've never been in the B group.

  10. First there is a $10 upgrade fee

    Until sometime in the past few months, it was $15 each way. I just found out today, when I booked Christmas travel, that it's gone up to $25.

    There's also another option. I nearly always pay for "early-bird check-in" (as they call it), but I somehow forgot to select that for a return flight a couple of years ago. I was a bit upset when I went to retrieve my boarding pass and found it was C30something. As it turns out, though, if priority boarding (something like A1 through A20) isn't sold out, you can upgrade to it at the ticket counter for $40. Not only was I out of the middle seats, I think I might even have scored one of the exit-row seats with extra legroom. w00t!

  11. Re: Does Youtube still have ads? on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With the different ad blockers I've used over the years (currently using uBlock on Chrome), I've never had YouTube ads come through on the desktop. The YouTube plugin for Kodi (probably how I watch most YouTube videos nowadays) doesn't show any ads either, despite the lack of an ad blocker in Kodi. The only place where an ad might show up is in the YouTube Android app (despite having AdGuard running), but I rarely use that.

  12. Re:Please no, Hell no... on NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know a commercial supersonic plane came, for like 30 years, and went?

    ...and it wasn't allowed to fly over land, which greatly limited its usefulness. This is about an effort to develop commercial supersonic aircraft that can fly over land without rattling windows, spooking livestock, etc.

  13. Re: Who dafuq approved this? on Feds Shut Down Self-Driving School Bus Pilot In Florida · · Score: 1

    We don't have that either.

    We did at one time. Nozzles that dispensed leaded gasoline were larger than those that dispensed unleaded. Vehicles built for unleaded fuel only had a smaller hole that wouldn't accept the larger nozzle. Even though leaded fuel hasn't been sold here for decades (think it was phased out sometime in the mid-'80s), smog-check technicians still check for the nozzle restrictor on 1975 and newer vehicles, and will fail your vehicle if it doesn't have one.

  14. Re:Females Only on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus- one man for 10 women sounds perfect numbers for humanity to be equally sexually satiated.

    It goes without saying, of course, that the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. :)

  15. Re:My current rating for NewEgg is... on Hackers Stole Customer Credit Cards in Newegg Data Breach (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This kind of explains the porn ransomware email I got a few weeks back. I changed my phone number to my new number on newegg and less than 24 hours later I got a scam email saying they had video's of me watching porn on my phone. And unless i coughed up a bucket of shekels they were going to sent it to everyone on my contact list.

    I received one of those, and another one that said they had records of me browsing some pr0n site...never mind that I don't visit websites for pr0n. At least it was a solid indication that they're basically bullshit artists looking to con the gullible. After all, if they're going to lie about your browsing habits, what are the odds they'll be any more truthful about their claims to have pwned your phone?

    A couple months back, some other scammers threatened to DDoS my website if I didn't fork over some ever-increasing amount of Bitcoin. I suspected it was an idle threat. I notified my VPS provider on the off-chance that it wasn't, but the deadline came and went with not so much as an upward blip in traffic.

  16. Re: Code of Conduct - Exact Text on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm in the camp of "ignore the politics and just use the software" at this point, but in today's 24/7 live-streamed outrage culture, it is impossible to ignore the politics. The people with an agenda won't let themselves be ignored as long as you're plugged in.

    You might not want to care, but as one wag put it, "The [SJWs] will not let you stay on the sidelines. You will be made to care."

    We're rapidly approaching the point where the only viable solution will involve shoving SJWs and other scumbags out of helicopters at altitude. Make a few examples pour encourager les autres, and maybe the others will start behaving like civilized people for a change.

  17. Re:Personally on OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    having bluetooth headphones doesn't help with connecting a phone to an older car or a stereo

    Given the location of the auxiliary-input jack in my car (it's in the center console), it made more sense to plug in a Bluetooth receiver. There's also a USB jack in there to deliver power to the receiver, so all I have to do is reach in and switch it on.

    It also reduces cable clutter at the phone, with just a USB-C plug at the bottom to keep it charged.

  18. How much do you pay for a subway ticket in your town?

    Mu.

  19. Re:It's about time! on PC Market Sees Its First Growth Quarter in Six Years (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    All those machines from 6 years ago

    If it was only six years. My work box runs on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 from 2008. It still keeps up with most things, though an OpenSCAD render yesterday took the better part of 45 minutes to complete. (Probably ought to run that same render on the Core i5 4690K at home to see how it compares.)

  20. The reason this is not possible for the vast majprity is because ISPs want to milk the 'limited IP4' adresses as much as possible. Even though I am 24/7 connected and so is everybody else that has a cable or xDSL modem, they still do not hand out fixed IPs, unless you pay a lot of money.

    Most routers support dynamic DNS. If you want your stuff accessible through a domain you control, you can create a CNAME entry on your domain that points to the dynamic-DNS hostname (so that home.example.tld gets redirected to example.dyndns.org, or whatever).

    If your ISP is using CGNAT, this won't work, but other than your cellphone and its service provider, how many are actually implementing CGNAT?

  21. Re:Here's a list of mobile phone app stores for yo on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Step 3: Install an antivirus on your Android phone. Run it before every use.

    Funny...I've never needed antivirus on my phone in the nearly five years that I've been running Android phones. I don't even have antivirus on my Windows installs, and they've never been pwned either.

  22. Odd that an editor would put "leap forward" in the title of an article about China. Was he trying to be funny?

    It's more likely he's just ignorant of history, especially if he's a more recent product of our indoc^H^H^H^H^H"education" system.

  23. Re: I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen and read, he's also wrong about Italy.

  24. Re: So weird. on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Used iPad 3s start around $100 from various eBay sellers. I picked one up a while back for use as a PDF reader, as it was the first model to ship with the "retina display." Android tablets with comparable displays were quite a bit more expensive, last time I checked. For my purposes, I didn't even need to jailbreak it; the only software I added was a WebDAV client that I use to pull files from my home server. PDFs get opened in iBooks. (I could also use it for ePub files, but I have a Kobo Glo HD for those.)

    It might be a bit behind the times for other purposes, but for what I want it to do, it was the cheapest option that worked. How often do you get to say that about anything from Apple?

  25. Re: So, we've created a monster on America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost 25 years since Eternal September. Hard to believe it.

    salfter@ultravps ~ $ ./september.pl
    Thu Sep 9039 22:46:09 PDT 1993
    salfter@ultravps ~ $