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  1. Ceaseless abdominal pain and lack of energy from food really paralyze productivity or constructive thinking

  2. Re:So much skepticism on MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I've struggled some with trying to generate MIDI files from code. The encodings are a PITA but I've had more problems with understanding why my files become malformed when I increase duration beyond a few measures. Feels like I obey the spec but I've missed something basic.

  3. Re:What's an alternative to Google maps? on Some Android GPS Apps Are Just Showing Ads on Top of Google Maps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ditto Microsoft

  4. Re:Or any other encryption on Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Ultimately you need to depend on them to safeguard the decrypted plaintext as well from any threat in the context

  5. Re:'Sponsored' posts are always a death knell on Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems that any medium that people find useful for communication will eventually be dominated by spam. It's too easy to produce relative to useful content.

  6. Re:He's assuming anyone will be ALLOWED to do this on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that the existing state of the internet infrastructure has been deemed too big to fail, and that anything that threatens its stability will not be treated kindly. When ILECs started struggling during competition with CLECs as the first tech bubble came apart, the mandated leasing of line stuff to the CLECs was terminated, and I don't see anything heading in that direction at all after things stabilized. They want the big players to stay healthy.

  7. Re: No user swappable batteries! on iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They were about $7 around a year ago from Walmart

  8. Feels the same. A new driver introduced periodic stuttering in games and somehow destabilized the installer environment enough to make uninstalling the driver impossible. Had to reinstall Windows and have decided to just leave the original driver that works in place.

  9. Re:Related puzzle - explain this to me? on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I have thought about it as a blind man on a merry-go-round in deep space. The apparent force required to remain in place or Coriolis effect with radial movement is an obvious measurement of rotation. If it could be accelerated, there is only one rotational speed destination speed at which these effects will zero.

  10. Re:pen and paper on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    I've usually preferred to use manual note taking for long meetings. There's something about transcribing the thought to script that solidifies it in memory

  11. Too fragile for correction on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    Few young people are willing to be corrected about anything these days. Even if it's a factual issue about which they're wrong, they'd rather chalk it up to a "typo" or difference of opinion, thereby accepting no responsibility for ignorance, and move on with their crummy knowledge. It's a bad state of affairs as it makes learning very difficult.

  12. Re: T.his S.ucks A.lot on TSA's Precheck Registration Program Causing Longer Security Lines (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is no longer the case per the German suicide pilot. The doors are supposed to withstand an hour of entry attempts.

  13. Re:Does this give me native CLI tools or not on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is possible to eliminate the driver updates from Windows Update in 10, though buried a bit.

    http://www.askvg.com/fixing-windows-10-automatic-updates-install-problem/

  14. Re: Can We Have A Computer Monitor Now? on AMOLED Displays Are Now Cheaper To Produce Than LCD (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, they're not cheap yet but they'll get there. Really pleased with mine.

  15. Re:YouTube - mod this up! on Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying due to incorrect mod applied. Insightful

  16. Looking at her background she does at least have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Then she went to grad school for public policy. She might be on the right track for that.

  17. Agreed they're different things. I hadn't touched a modern console until a couple of years ago, used to be decent at TF in the QW days. I felt like a poorly abled fool using the controller until I played through RAGE a couple of times with no sort of aiming assist. It's still clumsy relative to KBM and I don't see cross play in FPS games working very well in the near future.

  18. Re:Not AI on Alpha Go Takes the Match, 3-0 (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Something that could choose its own problem domains and work on domains that help preserve its physical existence would be interesting.

  19. Re:Very sad on Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson Dies At 74 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Siegel died

  20. Re:ocean landing will not happen during rough seas on SpaceX's Latest Launch Successful, But Ends With a "Hard Landing" (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It reminds me a little bit of an ill-fated stunt on the ill-fated program "Stunt Junkies" where a guy wanted to jump a motorcycle from one barge to another. Caught enough of a vertical difference between the barges to barely but completely overshoot his landing ramp, landed horizontal, and broke a bunch of bones in his back. Touchy stuff on a relatively simple trajectory.

  21. He might have been saying that the phone will negotiate the connection rather than warn about it

  22. Re:why they don't listen? on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's own reliability monitor thing agrees

  23. Re:As I recall, Win 3.1 deserves its own wing on Internet Archive Brings Classic Windows 3.1 Apps To Your Browser (google.com) · · Score: 1

    There was plenty. People in HR always seemed to pick things up from bad resumes. I remember chasing KAK virus through a ton of startup options manually as an exercise and gave up on it for lack of time. A lot of the malware was more benign or experimental in those days, things like displaying a message rather than wrecking things or trying to steal information. There was more of a distinction between viruses and invited software that did things you didn't like, gator etc.

  24. Driving off the data signal on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    Driving in the boondocks past the range of your data signal can have bad results if you don't know the area. I've driven to a destination in the mountains with poor reception but perfect routing information sustained past the loss of data signal. Later when restarting the maps app the gps position was accurate with no maps or routing information available. I wasn't that familiar with the back roads but knew the general direction to the major highway. Nevertheless I made a wrong turn and had to bumble around a bit.

      Pre-saving maps for less-known regions where you might lose data is a good idea. Even if you have no routing you can figure it out from the accurate map.

  25. Re:Does it affect functionality at all? on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    When I traveled overseas last year I brought a Win8.1 laptop. The wireless adapter had severe problems with a wireless router in a home where I was staying. I could not believe how terribly slow, crunchy, and fitful it became to use the O/S at all with a flaky up/down network connection, whole doing tasks that have nothing to do directly with network access. When I would disable the wireless adapter the machine would become usable again. I could only draw the conclusion that too many connection attempts in the course of ordinary business were badly slowing down otherwise simple tasks.