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  1. Did anyone read the actual article? on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There were two rootkits found in the laptop, meaning anyone could have connected to her laptop and do the actual hacking.

    Though still altering a grade should be easy to trace as it should leave a trail in the database logs that the actual grade was changed

  2. moon bitcoin already exists. but probably not the one you expect. link

  3. Re:Pardon my French on Ubisoft's Day-One Patch For 'The Division 2' on PS4 is 90 Gigabytes (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    well, it's the same price, and you get to have a physical backup. you get to download the same game someone with a digital copy has, so in the end you are not really getting screwed.

    i would still like to know what happened to delta patches.

  4. Re:Blocking Humanitarian Aid on Venezuela's Government Appears To be Trying To Hack Activists With Phishing Pages (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    venezuelan here. while conspiracy theories are great, the real reason Maduro doesn't want the aid it's because he would implicitly admit his government has failed and people are dying and fleeing the country. it's as easy as that.

    his regime along with chavez has been in power for 20 years. and now they blame the US sanctions (that have been for less than 2 years) for all the troubles.

  5. Re:Oh, yeah, sure, I'll get right on that on You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    read https://github.com/WOA-Project...

    it pulls the files directly from microsoft

  6. Re:"in other news" on You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    ironically that's exactly what happens on raspbian, it's a known bug and they don't fix it

  7. Re:Another US South American Coup Attempt on Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    you are an ignorant. it's easy to win an election when you jail the opposition leaders, ban them for running on hand pick the election directors that announce the results. One of the former ones is even chancellor right now

    Crisis has been since 2013. Try being in line for 3 hours just to buy a package of flour. Or try seeing prices double each 3 months (now it's less than 1 month)

  8. Remedy is worse than the disease on Firefox 69 Will Disable Adobe Flash Plugin by Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Disease: Flash.
    Can autoplay videos. Easy to workaround: block the plugin, even on a per-site basis.

    Remedy: HTML5 videos
    Can autoplay videos. Cannot be blocked. Some partial solutions include hidden config settings in browsers, and it may break sites.

  9. Re:How accurate were their past lists? on Ars Technica's 2019 'Deathwatch' List Includes Essential and 'Facebook Management' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    HTC was about to close down before Google bought them so you can count them in the dead pile

  10. not a milestone on Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    no the sum of all windows 10 releases (they have been plenty) now has more market share that the single release of windows 7? that's not a milestone.

    wake me up when a single release of windows 10 does that.

  11. is that they are probably going to lose the power efficiency advantage once they switch to chrome's engine.

    i like the idea of having a barebones light browser that just renders good webpages. kinda like the original phoenix was supposed to do

  12. Re:Windows on Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    on the other hand, a library update won't kill your 350 applications if there's a problem with it. hard drive space is kind of cheap.

  13. Re:I don't. on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    after two straight LG phones that fried themselves (nexus 5 and 5X) i said never again

  14. two months later... on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...i still miss the notification LED which seems to have been killed by every premium android phone maker. let's see what samsung does with the S10.

  15. Re:I don't. on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    it's getting really hard to buy a premium smartphone with one

  16. Re:I just don't understand how that's possible on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    i don't have much experience in this, but in theory what it could be happening is:

    1) there's an out ot bounds bug or buffer overflow in IE
    2) the exact portion of the memory being addressed contains code used by Lenovo
    3) Disabling secure boot may disable that code, thus making the problem not reproducible any more.

  17. getting worse from some time now on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    turns out that according to amazon they have never promised two day shipping when you order something. what they do is promise free two business days shipping counting from the time the item ships. an amazon rep in twitter said that to me and it actually made be think of cancelling the service.

    price hikes and the actual lose of benefits such as 20% off game preorders are going to make me think twice.

    what i would like is just a prime shipping ONLY plan for something like 50 bucks a year.

  18. ..NOT XKCD.

    WTF/m

  19. Re:Love and use FreeBSD on FreeBSD 12 Released (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    From someone that actually thought of testing FreeBSD, you have effectively convinced me NOT to. I didn't know there were such a high amount of issues for desktop use!

  20. Re:How about cell phone data? on Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    there is no such thing as unlimited, especially on cricket.

    you are either stuck with 3 Mbps service with slower speeds after 22 GB with congestion or have more speed unless congestion after 0 GB (zero)

    don't know about hotspot but maybe the 9 GB cap is on tethering only.

  21. Re:The fact that... on Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    personally for me it is worth 10 cents or maybe a little more but definitely less than a dollar, and it will stay at that value until i can use it everywhere as currency. because in my opinion if bitcoin is going to take on fiat currencies it must be able to be used for the same purpose

  22. Re:Solution is simple on Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    why did the boot argument had to be so complicated? i would have named it disable_STIBP or even disable_spectre_fix

  23. i wonder what kind of websites do you visit that still work properly with javascript disabled.

  24. Re:Why bother? (bootloop of death) on Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    bootloop for me too, and fix post warranty as well. and i got a 32GB board replacement as a bonus (mine was 16GB)

    previous LG was nexus 5 and it fried itself. no fix from LG or Google. A friend's Nexus 4 also got hosed.

    Needless to say i won't buy LG again. I like them but they don't know how to make a phone.

  25. notification LED on The Year OnePlus Started Ignoring Fans (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    also the removal of the notification LED, one of the very few distinctive features google and oneplus had, especially over the iphone.