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  1. My Moto X4 does something similar tho... the camera app will forcibly kill ALL other apps. Including the app that launched the camera! So if I want to attach a picture to a text, I click add, choose the camera, and then when I take a picture, it drops back to my launcher. And that even takes a second or two to load. So then my text is gone.

  2. Re:Time to buy a new domain name... on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Don't insurers charge red cars higher rates already? ;)

    (No, it's a myth)

  3. Re:Hilarious on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This has backfired for me a few times, especially with small businesses. "Oh you work for us?" Or my favorite was when one threatened to sue me for copyright infringement for using their name. Couldn't just walk away b/c it was a medical bill processor or something like that (I forget the details).

  4. Re:Yeah, well OK on Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    My Galaxy S7 works with NextRadio. It's rooted, but I have the standard VZW-provided OS still loaded on it.

  5. Perfect Timing on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering why I was tearing up at the end of "Bad Moms" (of all things!) last week when flying from San Diego to BWI.

  6. Re:Sounds like it's working on Amazon 'Reviewing' Its Website After It Suggested Bomb-Making Items (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    sent out yesterday in mass.

    "en masse" - unless they did it during church services, which is fine too. ;)

  7. Better than odd collections? on Amazon 'Reviewing' Its Website After It Suggested Bomb-Making Items (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Amazon thinks I now have very strange collections of things that you never need more than one of, like cable modems and whole-house dehumidifiers...

  8. Sadly, I didn't notice at first because the VM booted just fine. But apparently, it nuked the network drivers somewhere along the way. I had to reinstall; I don't know if the reinstall or the upgrade to 12.5 fixed my problem because I didn't have the 12.0 installer sitting around.

  9. Avast supposedly already has all that on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    I can text a kill code from a trusted sender, e.g. my wife's cell. They turn on a siren, wipe, etc... https://www.avast.com/en-us/an...

  10. Re:Top-loading washing machines? on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all the mold issues the front loaders had (still have?).

  11. Re:Clearly Samsung's QA department..... on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI - LG top-loaders had the same exact problem. Mine was re-flashed a few years ago. I thought it was Samsung and had a strange deja vu feeling about this whole post.

  12. Re:Isn't this years old? on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife just informed me that ours is an LG.
    So LG performed the recall for effectively the same thing a few years back.

  13. Isn't this years old? on US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a top loader, and there was some kind of recall already on it. They hooked up a handheld to it and queried some parameters to ensure it didn't need actual parts replaced. They flashed a ROM upgrade and put a sticker on the side saying it was updated and a sticker on the top warning you not to put things like raincoats in it (duh?).

  14. FB Purity on Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as F.B. Purity works, I will be on Facebook.

  15. Re:I'd be sympathetic to Rotten Tomatoes but... on Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, the term for the "dead band" is hysteresis. The more you know...

  16. I'm not even sure how long it's been since I gave a flying crap about the olympics.

    I would guess when they moved one of them out of phase with the other, so now you have one every other year. When they only happened every four years, it was more of a "big deal" because you didn't have one for so long.

  17. Re:Rhetorical... on Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey hey hey... it's "The Big Game" not "Super Bowl." Or the NFL will come after you the exact same way.

  18. I really hope this year is the year that this farce dies. Between Zika and Russia, there's a chance. Such a waste of time and money.

  19. Re:Computer setup? on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    +++ATH0

  20. Since I'm at work... on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    CentOS 7 with 4 virtual desktops. On Desktop 1 I keep my work stuff with Firefox, on D2 is my personal with Chrome to keep the logins separate. 3 and 4 are misc workspaces, like if we are running a training session I'll have ClusterSSH windows on D3 for the week.

    My monitors are Dell 24" with the left one horizontal (good for most browsing and looking at waveforms) and the right one vertical (good for coding).

    There's a physical and virtual gap between them which has a banana stand holding my headphones for when my coworkers are too distracting. ;) Screenshots look very weird.

    For work, I moved from Windows to Linux before UltraEdit was ported, so honestly I just use Kate.

    (nvidia control panel settings: Left: +0+275, Right: +2790+0 Rotate Left. That's on a sticky note because it never stays across reboots.)

  21. Re:Money from people who want to sell? on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or audio, LOL...

  22. Re:I am not sur this is an improvement on Google Is Finally Making Two-Step Verification Less Annoying (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they allow paper backups, I would assume you could still use the numbers... (disclaimer: haven't RTFA yet)

  23. Pair this with the recent problems at Reddit... :-/

  24. I can't be the only one wondering... on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article is tagged Japan because "Nihonium takes its name from the Japanese name for Japan and was the first new element discovered there, at the RIKEN lab." ( http://www.popsci.com/four-new... )