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  1. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    not sure who you use, 3 years for $50 is at the pricier end of town, personally I pay $45 for 5 years. regardless even at your inflated price that is all of $17 a year for unlimited email addresses that you can route to any account anywhere at anytime and that is assuming you don't use the domains for anything else worthwhile. For something that I rely upon for so many services nowadays that is chicken feed compared to the effort of changing should my provider go tits up or my account get compromised/blocked for some reason. 2 years ago when I decided gmail sucked balls I had my mail routing to outlook.com in under an hour, should I get fed up with some change their I can reroute it to anyone else I like at zero extra cost, so I get all the benefits of whatever provider I am using without the risk of being locked into them, seems a cheap price to pay to remove the potential nightmare of an address change,

  2. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    you don't have to be at the Whim of a non ISP based one to fix the problem idiot. spend $50, buy a domain name and have mail routed to your ISP. This protects you from them being bought, going broke or you simply moving. alternatively route your mail via a webmail service (again preferably from your owned domain). being at the whim of any provider when easy technical solutions exist is moronic.

  3. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That is a double edged sword. keeping the email when sued/investigated/audited means they can get it. Many people say dumb stuff in email to family and friends that can easily be misinterpreted by a 3rd party when they are looking for something. If you are going to keep it and those items you mentioned are a fear then you need to ensure everything you say in email is something that can't be taken the wrong way.

  4. Re:20 years worth? on Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3

    I do to, but only a sadist or retard would still be tied to an ISP based email address in this day and age. can't feel any sympathy for someone that has let themselves get into such a situation.

  5. Am I missing something? on Men Are Affected By the Biological Clock As Well, Researchers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    have we stepped into a time machine or something? I thought it was common scientific knowledge that men also had biological clocks in that with age sperm numbers diminish and they slow down which directly affects the chances of a successful fertilization. this has been known for decades

  6. Re:Buy American? on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    protectionism begets retaliatory protectionism. You want to be real sure you are going to be on the winning end of that before you start such a war.

  7. Re: Fad languages don't live long on Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    so now instead of just a snail and a tortoise you have added a slug to the comparison to claim it is fast.

  8. They specified claimed a whole new art style, what is their is NOT anything new style wise at all. What I expected was something different, it was just meh!

  9. Re:Of course the callers were aware on 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I am VERY sure, there is nothing innocent about any of them, they are trained to lie their arses off. I ave led a few on when I have been called and if you ask them questions they will happily make up any lie. They are fully aware of what they are doing, they will also instantly hang up on you if you hint that you might be with the authorities or if it sounds like you know it is a scam.

  10. That was my thoughts exactly, didn't seem to be anything new or original in the style at all.

  11. Re:not so simple an equation on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    the power plant is the small part of the cost, the cost is the millions of kilometres of power lines, poles, transition stations etc etc. the majority of which will need to still be maintained and operated.

  12. web design fail on Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net · · Score: 1

    The site seems to have been designed by people in google that were told everyone loves the simplistic and crap free layout of search without understanding why they love it. what is great for a search page sucks donkey balls for a news site where you want the relevant information in your face immediately not after scrolling or clicking through links

  13. Re:Cyber specialists on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    no they don't. systems that allow family to exchange email and talk are not connected to the control systems of the ship. They are on a completely separate network

  14. Re:Is there even a word for this level of stupidit on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I googled, could not find a single exploit that applied to the isolated systems of warship. perhaps you can point at some?

  15. Re:Cyber specialists on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    This is a warship, they generally don't have internet connectivity to critical systems and any attacks would have to be performed locally. while I am sure what happens with vulnerabilities needs to be monitored an isolated system regardless of OS can be defended locally by decently knowledgeable individuals without too much effort.

  16. Re:Excellent news. on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    you need to learn to read. The EU is not complaining everyone has to be equal, they are merely saying if you have a dominant market position you can't use that to push into other markets, i.e. abuse that dominant position. It is fine to be a monopoly, it is NOT fine to abuse that position.

  17. Re:This is utterly insane on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    since when has a dominant position been dependent in the US or Europe on being a public service? Google do owe something to their customers (which is NOT YOU), it is the people they sell advertising too, you are merely their product and irrelevant to the discussion. Those buying advertising have a right not to be abused by someone that has a near monopoly on the market to the point where they have no choice to use them if they want effective advertising.

  18. Neither will ever be answering my questions!

  19. WTF? no a bug like this is NOT expected in a new architecture, such bugs can result in billions in losses, something AMD can't afford. having said that people overclocking has always been a problem when it comes to stability.

  20. Re:Ripped off by ebay -- will never use them again on eBay Will Now Price Match Amazon, Walmart and Others On Over 50,000 Items (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually Amazon did ship me a free replacement even though my package said delivered. I suspect dodgy courier or something, but regardless they could see I at the time had made quite a few regular purchases with no issues so with very little discussion they resent the item (just a few DVD's, maybe $50 in value in total). With ebay you are well and truly fucked when something like that happens.

  21. Re:How do you search multi terrabytes of source? on 32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    there isn't 32TB of source, I doubt there is even a gb. it is all just a bunch of private/alpha and prelease builds together with all the debug symbols etc.

  22. seems to Just be private/internal builds, nothing even remotely secret.

  23. Re:They did a hell of a lot more than just disable on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Freon was developed in the 1930's. you are definitely going to need a citation for that as Patents don't normally last that long.

  24. Re:They did a hell of a lot more than just disable on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    and XP still works perfectly fine as does the apps the OP is whining about. Try plugging your fridge into a power socket from a country with different voltages, try making your TV work with HDMI 2.0, try getting that smart phone to run on 4G. Microsoft isn't telling him his old shit can't run, they are saying they aren't going to make an effort to make sure new stuff supports your ancient shit, and really why should they if the OP obviously isn't even going to make a basic effort.

  25. sounds like little more than a marketting push. rarely if ever do I find ebay is the cheapest for anything (except where you can expect the real item to be substituted for a fake).