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  1. Re:i ignored it and all invites on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Likely wasn't even a legit request. More likely the scumbags stealing contact lists with their app and spamming everybody, which they've been busted for before.

  2. Re:ALL THE TIME on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Same thing, a normal anglo name on gmail because I got an invite before it was even open. Others with or who know people with my name keep using it over and over to sign up for accounts, lists, receipts and confirmations, people sending quotes and invoices to the guessed email account. I've cancelled accounts, flights, conference appointments, published "if you received this by error" disclaimer emails on social media and showed the jerks that they touch me with their legal bullshit, and yet it still continues.

  3. Cultural credit rating in China on Before It Was Hacked, Equifax Had a Different Fear: Chinese Spying (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like China stole the technology for their own "social" credit rating, where a bad twitter can bar you from employment and your children from getting into a school.

  4. Penalties for the person who steals a movie on Apple Can Delete Purchased Movies From Your Library Without Telling You (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    When you make an unauthorized copy of a work, you are not stealing, the copyright holder still has their original, and arguably has been deprived of no income.

    What we have here, instead, is theft of a purchased product. I'm coming up with a class-action lawsuit here, with a penalty, I don't know... about $25,000 per person per movie.

  5. Re:No good reason for the change on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone later types the wrong thing, then they are as likely to be directed to a Google search with ads by the URL area being a search bar also as they are to get to a webmaster redirect.
    Next on the chopping block - bookmarks.

  6. Re:Please download it on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I already upgraded Kubuntu, the upgrade channel was already open. Very little changes on that front from 17.10. The "system settings" is surprising unified now even with KDE. For users of lesser desktop environments, 18.10 is back to X11 instead of Wayland and Unity is ditched for more standard Gnome.

    sudo do-release-upgrade -d

    Be sure to go into system settings and turn off the new telemetry. Although it is supposed to be opt-in for upgraders, my upgrade had at least crash reporting turned on.

  7. The problem is not with Bitcoin or non-fake cryptocurrency - it's with banking. A real cryptocurrency wallet that you manage yourself will never allow unauthorized individuals to randomly charge you money - you have to make every payment yourself.

  8. Re:They did ask... on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    The Creator's update or any other large update WILL put these settings back, because Microsoft completely broke the incremental update system that allowed patches to be installed on prior operating systems. These updates are now complete 2GB reinstalls of the operating system, and only the settings and user data that Microsoft cares to copy will be preserved. Set up a bunch of custom shell extensions, settings, hacked the registry to disable and block the countless tracking services and tasks? They all are right back after the OS is reinstalled from an "update".

  9. Yes this, stuff made up by people is not significant to the cosmos. Also, it seems like every other full moon is now a "SuperMoon!(tm)"

    People don't really need to be encouraged to look at either kind of eclipse though. Like meteor showers, most people aren't going to be impressed by something that isn't a fireworks show.

  10. Re:back to value on Bitcoin Starts a New Year by Tumbling, First Time Since 2015 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    There's actually no tumble at all, the story is BS. It's bounced between 13000 and 14000 several times in the last four days.

  11. Re:Will Disney become the new Netflix? on What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably will block it, considering that Republican conservatives in power might lose their right-wing spin machine to a bunch of bleeding heart liberals.

  12. A Rasberry Pi 3 can do 6GFLOPs, if you can keep it cool enough to not immediately start throttling. 6x750= 4.5TFLOPs. A single NVidia GTX 1080Ti does 4TFLOPs double-precision and 11.5TFLOPs single-precision.

    The academic interest is that this actually has 750 separate and independent CPUs and nodes, so one can see how tasks scale and bottleneck. You can't accurately virtualize all these parameters.

  13. Re: Haha what? on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides the fact that your information is wrong (unless you want to volunteer that much transaction fee), the Bitcoin whitepaper makes no claim that Bitcoin transactions are going to be cheap or free or fast, those are just promises and interpretations by early adopters and marketers. The innovation is that a network-based independent currency can be maintained with no central bank or authority - groundbreaking.

  14. Re:Musk doesn't talk about his dumps either on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    My mom doesn't talk about cryptocurrencies either, so we definitely can't rule her out either.

  15. Re:More Important than a Screenshot Button on 'See the Future Firefox Right Now' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what DOES work on the current version of Firefox? Nimbus screenshot. Captures the view, a selected areao, or the entire web page as it would be seen, and lets you save png or jpg.

  16. Re:Autocomplete compounds the problem on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    The real problem is sites and companies that allow email addresses to be put on lists and accounts with no confirmation whatsoever that the actual owner of the email address wants to receive these messages. Double-opt-in should be mandated by law.

    The worst offender to spam up my first.last@gmail is mailchimp, my name gets added to all sorts of lists, and again and again I have to go back to these fucking spammers' site to get off of them individually, and they will not block an email address from their service. The CAN-SPAM act apparently has exceptions for mailing list companies, even though it is the same company harassing me over and over. However I can sue anybody I want, and I am pretty close to making them come to court or get a default judgement against them.

    I actually had to argue back and forth by email with some bank droid in another country because she was unable to grasp the concept that I was not the person that had an account there.

  17. Re:Free certificates... on The EFF's 'Let's Encrypt' Plans Wildcard Certificates For Subdomains (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 1

    You can also go away, advertising. Anybody can get Let'sEncrypt certificates for free for their domain, that's the whole point.

  18. 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

    An "in-place reinstallation" IS what Windows 10 does when it updates anyway, since Microsoft broke the incremental update model. 2 GB of download and a complete reinstallation, along with a very poor user profile copy that loses any power-user customizations that you might have done. No wonder the update messes with stuff.

  19. Didn't expect to see this viral garbage here too on Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Next, you'll be able to transmit colors over the internet.

  20. YOU won't be able to buy information from ISPs, the mechanisms to track every move of users aren't really in place. The reason the government is so gung-ho is it allows ISPs to just sell information to the government on US customers that is otherwise prohibited by wiretap and spying law.

    The too-good-to-refuse billion tax dollar price tag the fed would be willing to pay for such data will likely come with the black rooms and data centers and real-time access they've already been using in fiber exchanges.

  21. Kubuntu on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would choose Kubuntu for its normal Windows 7-like start menu (incorporating type-search for applications, and organized submenus). The distro also has several things to get you rolling, optionally installing flash and mp3 proprietary extensions, a driver installer to get proprietary things like ATI/Nvidia and WiFi up and running. Firefox and LibreOffice are ready to go, and typing "updates" or "software" in the menu will get you more programs to install.

    In 17.04 (beta 2 from a few days ago) the awkward "K" branding has been removed from KDE plasma, giving the startup and menu a more unified feeling.

    At noob level, probably the most challenging thing is to make and use a bootable USB of the distro, and for that, the ISO plus Rufus or Unetbootin will make the flash drive, and creative pounding of function keys on boot will get your PC to start live off it.

  22. OneDrive no longer can be uninstalled. It takes admin powershell commands to evict it. There is a new "connect" feature added that can neither be removed with dism or powershell, though. There are several new services, redundant services protecting themselves with randomized names. If you had any customizations, they are toast every time Windows 10 updates, because Microsoft broke the diff updater and now reinstall the whole 4GB OS and "copy" your profile when you update, losing every customization you may have made under the hood. An absolute shit show of an OS.

  23. Re:Caution wet paint on Strange New Social Media Trend: Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges (macon.com) · · Score: 1

    The bittering agent is used in several consumer products. Probably the most pervasive is vehicle antifreeze, where bittering is mandated in a majority of states and therefore almost universal. Pop your radiator lid, dip your finger, and have a taste; it's either sweet and inviting (although maybe a bit metallic) or a putrid bitter that just lingers after you spit and swish.

  24. Re:How does Fedora compare to Ubuntu? on Fedora 25 Now Available -- Makes It Easier To Switch From Windows 10 Or Mac (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well sure, since it costs $500 per incident! https://support.microsoft.com/...

  25. Published: Monday, September 26, 2016 on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Old news, it is from almost two months ago. http://www.eenews.net/climatew...