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  1. Re: That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    I can't update to any later Nvidia driver because they have stopped supporting my graphics card.

  2. Re: That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    More specific on Android devices.

  3. Re: That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Lenovo or Dell aren't geek computers.

    True geeks assemble their computers from parts.

  4. Re: That was easy on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    That's even worse - imagine a forced reboot in a presentation where you are alotted 15 minutes and the reboot takes 20.

    Sorry, come back next month.

  5. Re:Where should I send MS my ISP overage bill? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    I smell a class action suit.

  6. Re:Why do they need to? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    Someone had a list of KBs to uninstall to get rid of the spyware.

  7. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    You mean the occasional snail in your salad?

    Realize that the proteins you get not only have to be proteins but also of a type that your body can benefit from. This is especially important for children.

  8. More interesting wording on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 1

    The cables, which are sometimes accidentally used in datacenters

    In my opinion there's not any specific definition on that they shouldn't be used in datacenters - they do have the advantage of protecting the tab on the RJ-45 connector pretty good and would actually be preferred over unprotected connectors.

    Overall the button placement is pretty stupid, and is probably the result of optimizing the size of the unit. So if you run a data center, then you will learn to deal with the button location.

    Realize that this problem is just annoying, there are bigger design flaws in the area of computing.

  9. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if you fail to watch your amino and mineral balance, you can have really bad things happen, such as blindness.

    I think that mental blindness appears before real blindness, often Vegans are no different from religious fanatics which also are similar to zombies.

  10. Re:Are we supposed to believe *everything* they sa on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 0

    Add to it the Vegan lobby that has changed from being militant and instead playing victims in all situations. The result is that they try to make us feel guilty for eating eggs, drinking milk and even chewing on imported fruits.

  11. Re:Microsoft, really? on Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm also worried about the later Linux kernels - how much hidden features are there in them?

    An independent review of one of the later kernels should be worth considering. However this doesn't really help against a leaking BIOS.

    If I want to be clandestine and run a reasonably secure solution with encryption I would look at designing something using an old 8-bit microprocessor.

  12. Re:Get a bear to guard your honey on Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Just look at the Microsoft monitoring items.

    But I think it will develop to some kind of trench warfare between those performing surveillance and those that will protect us against it.

  13. Re:Oh, they're a big company, on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    The first Anti-Virus company that offers tools to detect, disable and clean out these "features" will be a great winner - I'd be willing to pay for that.

  14. Re: Oh, they're a big company, on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 2

    Just report this to all the AV companies out there to get all these obnoxious things listed as unwanted applications.

  15. Re:Oh, they're a big company, on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    Aside from uninstalling the patches that starts this intrusion behavior maybe someone can create an app that sends faked data to their backend systems contaminating the data store?

    The best is if the data injected is somewhat plausible though - like everyone running the "Windows Classic" theme.

  16. Hold out a bit more on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? · · Score: 1

    I have a Nexus 9, and I'd say that even though the performance isn't bad it could be better. But maybe it's because I'm used to the performance of my desktop.

  17. Slashvertising? on Brewing Better Charts and Maps · · Score: 1

    Looks like an ad for a technology that's pretty obvious.

  18. Re:Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google .. on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Rather - Yahoo killed the decent engine and put in their own and that was the final nail in the coffin for Altavista.

    There was some crap result in the searches, but with good search statements you could get what you wanted until the Yahoo engine made it impossible.

  19. Re:HOW is slashdot not immune to this? on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    If you want to do a better job - go to http://slashdot.org/recent and up/downvote articles and you will see the true amound of junk that don't make it.

  20. Re:inertia? AltaVista was big before Google existe on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    As soon as someone figures out how to play the ranking game the rules will change. It has been played over and over again. If I remember correctly there was a hack that caused a search for "general failure" (or similar) to direct to G. W. Bush.

  21. Re:Paid placement on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    One way around that - or to get better results was to actually write good search queries. Altavista had the "NEAR" keyword which helped a lot to get relevant results.

    Not everything that makes a search result ranking higher had to do with paid results either - sometimes it was done by other means to increase page ranks.

  22. Re:A clean front page on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Bing - not even a serious competitor. Heck - even DuckDuckGo do a better job.

  23. Re:Was Altavista... on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Before Altavista there was Webcrawler. But Yahoo took over both and replaced the engines with their own crappy variants.

    Before them there was Veronica and Gopher.

  24. Re:Different Times. on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Altavista had some good features until Yahoo took over. Like the "NEAR" keyword and similar stuff for advanced searches. When Yahoo took over they killed a decent search engine and replaced it with their own that isn't any good for anything.

  25. Re:Not going to work out for them on JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model · · Score: 2

    If you think Eclipse is bad you haven't seen bad.