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  1. Water jet machines on Dental Floss May Have No Medical Benefits, Says AP Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What about water jet machines like the Waterpik ones? Have there been any good studies about whether those are helpful?

  2. Not very different from a VM on Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    You could have already done this in a VM in Windows. The idea of actually running Linux applications in Windows without a VM seems nice, but actually, it integrates so poorly with normal Windows apps that you might as well be running a VM. Trying to access the same files from Windows and Ubuntu within the root file system leads to problems. You can only do that within the drives, such as /mnt/c. You cannot run Windows applications from the Linux command line or Linux applications from the Windows command line. If you want to run a desktop environment you've got two separate desktops, similar to a VM.

  3. Re:Always litigate instead of boycott on Apple Is Fighting A Secret War To Keep You From Repairing Your Phone (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems many people like Apple products so much that they're willing to put up with this kind of abuse. Apple probably takes this into account and chooses to do unpopular things to increase profit.

  4. Re:Google+ on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    On Facebook you can create lists of people, and then share with that list. You can also view posts from the list. It is similar to circles.

  5. Blocking connections probably increases attempts on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you block connections, what would have normally been one successful connection can become many connection attempts. It's also possible that retries for the same thing would use different IP addresses. Someone needs to try an experiment like this without the blocking. A log of the data being transmitted would also be interesting. A lot of that is probably encrypted, but https monitoring via wildcard certificate MITM could capture some in decrypted form.

  6. Re:based on my initial emscripten-dosbox port from on Archive.org Adds Close To 2,400 DOS Games · · Score: 2

    I am dreamlayers

    I first used this: https://git.cryptopath.org/cer...
    Only one important commit is there: https://git.cryptopath.org/cer...

    That code compiled but did not work. I made changes and got a DOS program to run. Then I decided to start with a git repository which has all the DOSBox history and re-do things in a cleaner way. These two em-dosbox-0.74 commits on Jan 5, 2014 are based on the cerial/dosbox commit mentioned earlier:
    Compile error fixes f6e0953
    Disable SDL CD and CD image support on Emscripten. 59e11b1
    For example, take a look at how CD function bodies were commented out and replaced with "return false" in the cerial commit. I used a different method, removing most CD functions and using "#ifdef EMSCRIPTEN".

    I can safely say I did most of the porting work overall, but Ismail deserves some credit. I am sorry about not saying anything in the commit messages. Don't forget to credit the DOSBox developers. The porting work is tiny compared to the overall effort invested in DOSBox.

  7. Re:Is this story for real? on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 2, Informative

    The iPhone probably stores the time in UTC, like OS X. When daylight savings time ends, that only changes the offset from UTC that is used when displaying time. The alarm was either always stored as UTC or converted to UTC so real time clock hardware can generate an interrupt to wake the phone at the appropriate time.

  8. Re:Coverage map on ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space · · Score: 2, Informative
    Inaccurate.

    That's just the coverage available on one particular website. (Other sites can have different data sources and different coverage.) Also, those rectangles just mean that there is some coverage within the rectangle. (Often, coverage is available around larger cities and a lot of the area is not covered.)

    Furthermore, AIS is sometimes used for collision avoidance, so it is used for safety.

  9. Re:ext3 on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    If you want to use get around some FAT limitations and still use FAT, there's ExFAT. However, Microsoft is selling licenses and hiding the specs behind an NDA.

  10. Re:Detect and fix DNS hijacks locally? on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 1

    I contacted them at domainnotfound@bell.ca and I was told about the NoRedirect extension for Firefox. That wasn't what I was asking for, but it is an improvement over their fake opt-out mechanism.

  11. Re:Were those disks verified? on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, verifying burns is a very good idea. However, I have encountered CD-Rs which verified okay and then went bad a few years later. One thing to consider is that verifying only shows that the data is readable. It does not show the quality of burn. So for example data might be readable, but only after a lot of error correction. In such a situation a small amount of degradation could make it unreadable. If the data is especially important, I do a PIE/PIF scan on DVDs to see the quality of the burn. I've never seen anything close to a 10% verification failure rate on CDs or DVDs. If you are getting that, something is wrong.

  12. Re:Why the outrage? on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 1

    Thanks for letting people know about riaaradar.com. Here's a link to a CBS Records search. Yep, they're part of RIAA.

  13. Re:The death of Last.fm? on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 4, Informative

    The official last.fm Scrobbler can fingerprint music. This feature analyzes the way the music sounds to help identify untagged and inaccurately tagged tracks. Presumably it only allows one to identify what music is in the file, not what file you have, so for example they shouldn't be able to tell the difference between an MP3 you ripped and encoded yourself and one that came from a release group.

  14. That's just capitallism on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Whether or not you were ever a fan, it was a sad scene.

    That's just capitalism. The sad thing is that the same thing is not happening to failed banks, insurance companies and investment companies.

  15. How lame! on Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption · · Score: 1

    "a problem that mobile phone carriers and manufacturers have been struggling with"? They're causing the problem!
    For example, my phone has a camera. Why doesn't my phone have a standard USB connector. Why didn't Bell or the manual tell me I can download photos over USB? Why isn't the cable included? (It can't be expensive.) Why am I charged for uploading photos over the air, the same amount as if I sent photos to someone? Why did Bell tell me that uploading is free and then charge me? Why is the camera such a piece of crap in terms of optical quality, JPEG artifacts and user interface?

  16. Re:Haha on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    From an economic standpoint, China seems mostly capitalist nowadays. Sure, they have a communist party but the actual way the economy works wouldn't even qualify as socialist anymore. The problem is that the government doesn't respect human rights in certain areas, not the economic system. There are lots of other capitalist countries which don't respect human rights.

  17. Re:perhaps if they paid ... on Emergency Workaround For Oracle 0-Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fact that Oracle has tens of thousands of employees points to the fact that Oracle does, in fact, offer a substantial cash incentive for finding bugs like these.

    Do you mean how they pay employees and some of those employees are involved in testing and debugging? That's not the same as paying for vulnerabilities. Do those employees get a bonus for finding vulnerabilities? What about if someone who is not an employee finds a vulnerability?

    The problem is not the money, the problem is the architecture. As long as things like Oracle are written in a massive jumble of C and other low-level, unsafe languages, they will be crawling with bugs. All the money in the world isn't going to get you to a state of zero remotely exploitable flaws.

    True, but if people got paid for reporting vulnerabilities they would be more inclined to report them to Oracle.

  18. Re:If it's hot and dry where you live... on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, recent studies have found that higher humidity speeds up decay of influenza virus particles. Here's one article at the CDC. Quote: In all these studies, the decay of virus infectivity increased rapidly at relative humidity >40%. The increased survival of influenza virus in aerosols at low relative humidity has been suggested as a factor that accounts for the seasonality of influenza

  19. Re:What does a server room on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    Actually I think that since PCBs have been outlawed transformers use flammable oils and so there could have been an explosion.

  20. Re:Ignorant firemen = single point-of-failure on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    What a troll. The generator wouldn't be set up to feed power back toward the grid. Even in just a power failure that would be unacceptable and it could kill people working on power lines.

  21. Re:Ignorant firemen = single point-of-failure on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    Probably the easiest and cheapest way to obtain carbon monoxide is to synthesize it from other more easily obtainable chemicals. One way would be mixing formic and sulfuric acid. Yes, that is dangerous.

  22. Re:Are you sure...? on Xbox 360 Power Supply Blamed for Arkansas House Fire · · Score: 3, Informative

    There should be protective devices inside which prevent a fire even in those conditions. For example simple transformer based wall warts have an overtemperature protector inside the transformer windings. I thought such protection was necessary to get UL certification.

  23. What a stupid story on Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP1 · · Score: 1
    You can an unlicensed copy of Vista for free. So what do you get by doing this? I guess the only benefit is that it can appear genuine without cracks on any computer (including ones without keys in the BIOS).

    In Canada, Vista Ultimate OEM seems cheaper than Vista Ultimate upgrade. I guess installing that might even be legal.

  24. Re:Run flat tires need TPMS on Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars · · Score: 1

    In the US, TPMS was made mandatory due to safety concerns. In fact it only has to detect major underinflation so it's not even really useful for maintaining energy efficiency. Other places are considering making TPMS mandatory due to energy efficiency reasons.

  25. Run flat tires need TPMS on Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article asks why would NHTSA choose TPMS and not run-flat technology. Run-flat tires cannot be used indefinitely while uninflated or underinflated. Generally, in such situations the sidewall supports the load, and the resulting stress on the sidewall damages it, eventually leading to failure. Furthermore, you might not be able to see that the tire isn't properly inflated. In order to prevent people from driving on underinflated run-flat tires until a catastrophic failure and possible accident, TPMS is required. Oh, and run-flat tires have other disadvantages too.