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  1. So how will you have to craft a query to get those results?

    In the past it was easy to keep safe at work, by turning on strict and if you see what you wanted at home by changing it. Now if google decides a word is explicit next thing you know you are looking at NSFW images.

    Here is a contrived situation, I am a avian biologist who wants a diagrom on sexing birds is the query "sexing boobies" explicit?

  2. Re:Censorship on Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you are helping those kids, you set your search image preference to strict filtering.

    Better idea would be to stop doing the homework for your kids.

    What people are opposing is not that it exists, but that there is now nothing lower than moderate.

  3. Re:Fuck Google and FUCK their "SafeSearch" bullshi on Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results · · Score: 1

    I meant to check out duckduckgo but if it is just a frontend to bing I will forget about that.

    Any other options available?

  4. Re:Censorship on Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results · · Score: 1

    Why?
    I remember porn when I was that age, it was tricky then loading a little bit at a time. I am sure you can imagine what kind of images that "feature" allowed people to post for laughs.

    Do your protect your kids from violence too or just sex?

  5. Re:Arrgh! Where's my 16:10 on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Proper reducing is only done to whole numbers.

    When you get to 5th grade you will find out about that.

  6. Re:Arrgh! Where's my 16:10 on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    8:5 you mean. Stupid people existing is no reason to not properly reduce a ratio/fraction.

  7. Re:Arrgh! Where's my 16:10 on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    I think you mean 8:5.

    What the hell is up with aspect ratios not being properly reduced?

  8. Re:WTFGA on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    What is a normal sized TV?

    Assuming the cost between what you think is normal and what is widely available why bother?

    Personally I am hoping those 80" 4k beasts come down in price quickly.

  9. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    Which is the only way I see apple doing well with this.

    They can sell the iPad guts hooked to a 55" display and call it iTV. So long as they leave the guts largely the same support costs are not as much of an issue.

    TVs have been such a race to the bottom that there is no money to pay for updates built into their prices.

  10. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    There are now android PCs that sit in the HDMI socket. I prefer something more akin to a regular computer so hulu and their ilk don't deny my ability to play their media because I am using a tv.

  11. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    You could go silent and hide it or, since you already have 9 computers just get a nice long HDMI cable.

  12. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 0

    He is wrong, the second sentence says even if he was correct it would not matter. It does not indicate he is correct only if he was, thus pointing out how wrong he was.

    Anonymous Cowards who can't fucking read, what else can I say.

  13. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    I totally agree and that is why I do have an HTPC.

    Some folks do not want to go through that little bit of work.

  14. Re:Not a real monitor on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    So you bought a crappy TV/Monitor, what does that have to do with it?

    But you have to manage updates, these things are for people that do not want to do that.

    I also manage them myself, but many older folks refuse to learn about anything invented after the VHS.

  15. Re:Big ugly tower on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    Don't bother, tepples will just say "most people" would be confused by an amplifier or a remote with more than 4 buttons or some other silly thing.

    If your solution is not suitable for a drooling moron he is will complain.

    If you have a smartphone, doing without mouse and keyboard even for maintenance is easy.

  16. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    Not, at all true. The panels I am speaking about are meant for use as computer monitor only.

    Even if they were TV panels, they are the vast majority of computer monitors.

  17. Re:Big ugly tower on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    There is no visible tower in my living room. Nor keyboard and mouse, and surely no TV trays. I was not aware that running updates when it asks for it was complex.

    Of course you could just buy those SmartTVs this article talks about if you are so inclined. Some of my relatives do that.

  18. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    Most Computer monitors these days max out at 1920x1080 which is the same as my TV, TVs go up to 4k. I was not aware my custom HTPC was a crap computer. Is a Core 2 quad not enough, should I go get an i7?

  19. Re:Call me dumb but on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because it would be really hard to use skype without them?

  20. Re:The end on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 1

    A modern TV is just a big computer monitor.
    Many people even have computers attached to them. For those less technically inclined I could see something like this being convenient. Why would I not want to use my nice big TV and sit in the comfort of the couch with my family while we skype with friends and relatives in other locations?

  21. Re:Rad-hardened processors? on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 2

    They don't need a bleeding edge kernel.
    On that kind of hardware you would be running 2.4 or older.

  22. Re:timeframes reveal anything? on Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back To Space · · Score: 2

    How do we know that?

    As far as we know this is a totally new craft at every launch.

  23. Re:Impossible? on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    How you live?

    When the cost of college exceeds your gross income how do you not end up with loans?

    I took loans and have paid them off, but comparing to your 1980s experience is a joke. Tuition costs have gone up far faster than inflation.

  24. Re:Impossible? on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    Because at the time that would have been a hell of a wage. $10/hour is still pretty decent in some parts of this country.

    We are talking about a college student, which means young inexperienced and unlikely to have any real skills.

    Those are averages, let see median numbers.

  25. Re:Impossible? on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    Please explain how that works out. If you work 40 hours a week you can't really go to college unless it is a joke school. Even then at $10/hour you would spend 100% of that on tuition and not be able to eat.