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  1. Re:Length damn it! on Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I went to two elementary schools, had 3 pets as a kid, etc. Even when I know the right one, I forget exactly how I might have filled it in, capitalized it, etc.

    Always use the first for anything that you had multiple items. Only use proper capital case and the long form of a word. You live in Fort Worth, not Ft. Worth. Or Fon du Lac not fon du lac or Fon Du Lac. Your first pet was Mister Pickles.

    Just always think, what's the most proper way of doing it. It's not hard here people.

  2. Re:Ehh maybe halfway? on Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Now that it supports extensions and has Adblock

    Sweet! So it's on par with what other browsers have had with years or in the case of Firefox, over a decade.

  3. Re:Spoofing should work by whitelist on AT&T, Apple, Google To Work On 'Robocall' Crackdown (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So have it work similar to DKIM or SPF with SMTP, just with POTS instead.

  4. Not sure what they would cost at an actual Eddie Bauer store though.

    Judging from their website, at least $25.

  5. Re: 6 megawatts of energy on America's First Offshore Wind Farm In Pictures (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The 4000GW would supposedly be the generating capacity at any given point in time, so it doesn't have a time component. The EIA as of a few years ago put the generating needs of the country at just under 1000GW during peak summer consumption.

  6. Re:Basement View on Satellite Images Can Map Poverty (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This imaging project has nothing to do with fixing poverty and everything to do with surveying real estate to find opportunities to make the rich even richer.

    Exactly. I think the rick are targeting Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi as the next hot location for a real estate boom.

  7. Re: Meh on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The only conclusion you can draw is you use more internet then I do when you're not near wifi. The only time I'm not near wifi during my normal day is the 1/2 hour-25 mile trip to or from work, or out eating lunch.

  8. Re:Meh on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a social life spending time with friends, but the rest fits me exactly. Wifi at work and home and I think I've gone over my 3GB limit once.

  9. Re:How does this contradict officials? on Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't want tons of algae growing in your pool, but there's nothing particularly dangerous about it. It reduces the ability of chlorine to sanitize the water, which still doesn't make the pools "unsafe"

    If they can't get the big stuff like algae under control, what other smaller, more harmful microorganisms are hanging around due to the lack of proper sanitation?

  10. Re:RealSense == 3D camera. on Intel's Joule is Its Most Powerful Dev Kit Yet (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    but what I think people here are missing is the important fact that it includes an integrated RealSense 3D camera

    All the announcements and spec sheets say that they "Support for the Intel RealSense cameras and libraries", not that it has a RealSense 3D camera built in. Where did you see that the camera was built in, that as you say, we're missing?

  11. Re:Do they have legal authority? on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What lawsuit? This is the label requesting the information, not a judge.

    The lawsuit that was filed in New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan Justice Joan Kenney presiding, that is linked to in the 2nd paragraph of the article with bright orange letters is what lawsuit.

  12. Re:The ensuing case will be dismissed on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Is that settled case law in Canada where not revealing a password is filed under the right to remain silent? Here in the states there have been multiple cases, under different circumstances, that go both ways regarding key disclosure laws.

  13. Re:Holy shitballs, all the sci-fi books were right on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Fastest man made object is believed to be a lowly manhole cover at the top of a nuclear test. Unofficially, it was calculated to be traveling at 45 miles per second.

    That means we've gone to over .024% the speed of light. We just need to detonate a focused nuclear bomb under the probe with a manhole cover as a blast shield, plus another 17500+ years to coast to Proxima Centauri.

  14. Re:An even more simple solution on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Good call. Every time I see an ad on Facebook I'm going to complain to the company that I saw their ad, read it, and now remember their company name. That'll show them. And in the very remote chance that they stop advertising, I'm sure the next ad that takes it's place will be happy when you do the same for them.

    There's 1 reason why advertising exists. Because it works. If it never worked, it wouldn't exist.

  15. Re:I have my own facebook workaround on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Run your DNS through your own DNS server, or a VPN/proxy that allows you to customize DNS entries.

  16. Re:There's an easy solution to this on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    m.facebook.com works without javascript, although it looks like chit.

  17. But a speaker with a digital input will be sealed

    Can you please provide an example of one of these sealed speakers with only a digital input?

  18. Re:Question on Rightscorp Threatens Every ISP in the United States (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the creator(s) of the "infringed" content see any of this money or is it all hoarded by these "rights groups"?

    The actual creators? Probably not. The musicians, authors, actors/directors, etc usually don't have deep enough pockets. The owners of the copyright (e.g. the record label, movie studio, publisher, etc), they may get a some, but it's probably a small percentage or just a fixed amount (e.g. Label A receives $10,000 in exchange for Rights Group B to go after infringes as agents of Label A. They work on kind of a contingency basis.

    The "Rights Groups" have to be careful though, lest they end up like Righthaven or Prenda Law.

  19. Re:Next up for debunking on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 2

    It's parts 1 and 3, although the reason you suggest for #1 I don't think correct. Everything he does is about increasing his brand's worth. Becoming President, he'd have to at least put his personal control of the brand into someone else's hands. Generally Presidents haven't continued to run global corporations while also running the country (although maybe that's why he offered the latter to Kasich).

    I think his inner narcissistic fuckwit wants to be president up to the point where it stops increasing his brand's worth. If he wins, and the country turns into complete shit, it becomes a liability to his brand's worth. If he doesn't get elected, he gets to leverage his loss into "the system is rigged against him" and he gets to ride it at least 4 years where he can rinse and repeat the process.

  20. Re:Who? What? on Bleeping Computer Countersues Maker of SpyHunter · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. Similar domain names have been a scam vector for so many years, if Bleep Whatever is so popular as to attract the ire of these assholes, maybe they should have been proactive years ago and bought up those domains? It's not a huge cost.

    I'm going to presume that you didn't read the actual complaint. This wasn't the competitor buying up bleepingcomputersucks.com or bleepingcomputeralternatives.com, arguably permissible domain names without causing infringement. The two domains that it explicitly mentioned in the complaint were bleepingcomputerregistryfix.com and adware.bleeping.computer.remover.getridofspywareonphone.com. Neither of those domain names would be predictable to proactively register to prevent competitors from using them. Or in the second instance, even could be registered since the 2nd level domain doesn't infringe itself. There would be a nearly infinite number of combinations of domain names and keywords that would need to be registered which definitely would have a huge cost. And both the examples I think do run foul of trademark law as they were designed to deceive legitimate trade.

  21. Re:Just a thought... on Seagate Reveals 'World's Largest' 60TB SSD (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you tell the difference between interesting bits being redacted, and the interesting bits being censored?

  22. Re:While It Sucks... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    not allow the Federal Government to intrude in State Business

    Many of the arguments that apply with federal government meddling in state business also would apply to state governments meddling in local business...especially when companies fail to deliver adequate services.

  23. Re:Whiny Fanboy... but he has a point on Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't think we have court fees awards for small claims in the US.

    It can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Check local rules. It can also matter if there was a contract that stipulates legal/collection fees are recoverable.

  24. I'm sure we'll be drinking that stuff plants supossedly crave soon enough

    Brawndo! It's got electrolytes!

  25. Local police in Canada

    "Local" police from another freakin country.

    What are you talking about? Everything in the article is clearly referring to Canadian entities with the one exception when they mention that the RCMP is the Canadian analogue to the FBI in the US.