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  1. Re:Well ain't that cute on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Launched, Features Curved Display, Iris Scanner (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One really great thing about an iris scanner is that it doesn't flake out after you've washed your hands!

    Am definitely looking forward to it as I'm presently using a pattern unlock because I'm sick of the stupid fingerprint reader constantly flaking out when my skin condition changes.

  2. All I can say is... on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    All I have to say about this (yet another f_over by M$) is:

    HA! HA! HA! HA!

    LOL!

  3. Thank you for that information. I think the upside of this is that maybe it will prod people to take two-factor authentication more seriously.

    By the way, never saw 21:19 before. I love it. Reminds me of 17.1.

  4. Re:Not exactly... on LastPass Accounts Can Be 'Completely Compromised' When Users Visit Sites (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thank you for the sanity. So many derisive and uninformed posts, so much schadenfreude being shoveled out, and not enough basic factual information.

    Another thing to consider is that a lot of sites seem to be designed that you can't just autofill to login. Nowadays you have to first click a login link which causes a dropdown form to appear.

    I have to ask myself, of the say 10 most frequent sites that I use Lastpass to login to on a regular basis, could any other sites I've visited be ones attempting to maliciously impersonate those sites and steal my credentials? The likelihood is very small.

  5. Re: Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorifi on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    Your reasoning makes the assumption that improvements in medical treatment and life expectancy would not have occurred without the medical establishment, which of course is false.

    in fact that was exactly the point of my original post: Humans are intelligent enough and quite capable of medicine without the twisted medical establishment that exists. In fact it may be that without the medical establishment we would have better care.

    So long as people like you are beset by the delusion that there's no alternative to the medical establishment, then humans are doomed to be limited and stuck.

    In fact your puerile attempt to try to prove something by throwing up a graph without actually using your mind to think more seriously is exactly a symptom of the problem.

  6. Re:Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorifie on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Burn down the medical schools and start over. As a society, we need to get back in touch with the basic fundamentals of what constitutes healing and caring for one another. What the modern medical establishment has morphed into is an abomination.

    Its excellent news that more and more people are able to bypass the medical establishment in various ways and that the remaining vestiges of it have been reduced to frivolities like data entry. Hopefully it will become completely obsolete before long.

  7. Re:Exactly why is this newsworthy? on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, another vulgar, self-righteous, abusive, leftist bigot.

    Keep taking the low road.

  8. Re:Exactly why is this newsworthy? on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    So Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin aren't going to be speaking at the bakeoff event at my local elementary school either.

    No one gives a f__

    Personally I admire people willing to make a public stand in this dumbf__ political climate of intolerance and idiocy we have.

    In case you didn't know, people speaking up and sharing their ideas and beliefs makes us stronger and better. Intolerance is what makes us petty and weak.

  9. Exactly why is this newsworthy? on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. A human being, in a free country with free speech, is going to speak at a public event.

    *Why* is this news?

    Seriously, if people can't handle this without shitting their pants, *that* is the story that needs to be reported...

    The more that people crap themselves over people exercising their rights in our free country, the more appealing it makes the people they condemn seem.

    All I can say is the level of hypocrisy is truly sickening when self-righteous losers claim to ascribe to basic principles of freedom - so long as it never involves them actually having to enact it in their own conduct.

  10. Re:Translation on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Screw the oligarchy. Screw H1B. If you can't run a company in America with American staff, get out.

    The more the oligarchy pee their pants over Donald Trump, the more appealing he actually becomes to the American people who know they're being screwed massively.

  11. Excellent info /. thank you on Researchers Find Over 6,000 Compromised Redis Installations (riskbasedsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Thank you for this information. I've seen several how-to guides on setting up Redis in various environments but did not come across this stark warning in any of them!

  12. Consumer Reports = borderline scam on Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Consumer Reports AFAIAC is a borderline scam. I bought what was their top-recommended printer which was supposed to be economical with inks and it sucks through those ripoff cartridges at a ridiculous rate. And you have to get genuine cartridges because the manufacturer rigs it so only theirs work. Total scam and I will never buy a printer from Canon (nor probably HP as well) again!

  13. Yeah and then it magically gets changed back on its own.

  14. The traffic there is *appalling* every day starting at 3 p.m. and doesn't get better until almost 8 p.m. That entire area has become a logistical catastrophe and the fact that greedy developers want to keep putting shit there - like a huge sports stadium - keeps making it exponentially worse.

  15. What does Yahoo actually have left? The most frequent web real-estate must be Yahoo answers which comes up often in search query results. There are still people who never migrated away from Yahoo mail but to my knowledge most people who used it switched to Gmail years ago.

    I think one major thing that should have been done long ago was to change the name. Face it, Yahoo is a stupid name and has like zero marketing appeal, especially to the groups you would want to be reaching.

    Once when Firefox forced my address-bar query to be answered by Yahoo the result took me to a download of a popular free app that had been re-packaged with what basically amounted to malware - super-aggressive crapware which even though I selected all options to not install and to decline, still installed shit on my system. That was my impression of Yahoo and totally pissed me off about Mozilla's having baked it into Firefox.

  16. What about pr0n ads revenue? on The Pirate Bay Gets a 'Massive' $9 in Donations Per Day (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    How much per day does TPB get from all the pr0n ads?

    People probably don't donate because they know none of the revenue would go to any of the content creators.

    I still say there has to be a way people can donate each month into a fund pool of their favorite content creators and have the money distributed by weight (according to star rating) among the creators.

    In order to facilitate that, a new IDv3 field that contains a unique identifier for each artist/creator needs to exist, which can be tied to their deposit account.

  17. Reminds me of a recent jdrama on Design, Hardware, Software Errors Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting I just watched a true-story-based jdrama about the development of rockets in Japan called "Shitamachi Rocket" which blew my mind.

  18. Re:Here's a good idea on Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just install GWX Control Panel which not only disables it all, it can actively monitor in the background to prevent it ever becoming enabled again by Windows update.

  19. Re:Airblades are excellent on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I want to go to the mall tomorrow to use the restroom just to try it!

  20. AFAIK not really suitable for curly hair either on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Hair dryers also tend to wreak havoc on and are generally not recommended for curly hair. Some people use diffusers but even these mess up curly hair. I noticed none of the models in the videos had curly locks.

  21. Re:And people want to bring this bullshit to /.?! on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok but then get frikkin' quotation marks and other symbols to work properly for heaven's sake!

  22. Not the business of Unicode! on Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Unicode has no business whatsoever integrating emojis. If an independent consortium of hardware and/or software makers want to agree on a standard, interoperable set of emojis to include with their hardware/software, that is fine.

    Not only that, but many of the chosen emojis are just idiotic beyond belief. And this thing with racial variants of emojis is ridiculous.

  23. Is there any diesel vehicle that isn't bad? on Nearly All New Diesel Cars Exceed Official Pollution Limits (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Diesel everything is bad. In my city I see diesel buses and trucks all the time that spew out insane amounts of soot into the air. If you are unlucky enough to get stuck behind one while bicycling/walking/running up a hill behind one of these things, prepare to get gassed out. Even the United States Postal Service's fleet of mail trucks are diesel and spew out huge amounts of noxious gas.

    I think its time to wake up and just ditch diesel. Perhaps the only acceptable use of it is for train locomotives.

  24. Re:It doesn't matter what party you vote for on Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (usuncut.com) · · Score: 1

    You guys, I can't get into this discussion. Suffice it to say that Hilary Clinton is a scab. She flies around the country taking bribes. She represents government by bribery. In most healthy democracies around the world people like here wouldn't even be allowed to run for elected office. People resign from office in countries like Japan and Germany for even the appearance of having accepted any kind of bride or gift. Hilary Clinton, just like Barack Obama, and almost everyone in Washington is a festering cancer on America.

  25. Re:It doesn't matter what party you vote for on Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (usuncut.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump is brilliant and one of the best things to happen in American politics in at least a century.

    The fact that Clinton is running for President is de facto proof that America is a oligarchy, a government run by bribery.