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  1. Re: No need for an extension on Chrome Extension Brings 'View Image' Button Back (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never gone to visit the page an image was originally from and found it to be an absolutely MASSIVE portfolio so it's like doing the Google Image search all over again, just with even more crud thrown into the mix?

  2. Five years later:

    "My precious snowflake was run over by a truck in reverse! Those big monstrosities are way too big to be so silent when backing up! DO SOMETHING!"

  3. Microsoft disagrees:

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

  4. I may be wrong, but I think once you(r computer on its own) upgrade to Win10, your Win7 key is listed on Microsoft's activation servers as no longer valid. Thus you might install Win7, but you can't activate it.

  5. And they prove it on Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People use adblockers because they have no trust in websites to not abuse their computers, eg. by installation of malware through the served ads. Websites so far have refused any kind of responsibility for what happens to your computer as a direct result if visiting them without an adblocker installed.

    So now Salon goes out of their way to use malware if you DO have an adblocker installed. You have to ask yourself what kind of shit is in their ads if that's their mentality. If they can get away with making a bit of money off a portion of their visitors, why not make it off ALL their visitors, adblocker or no?

  6. Re: No need for an extension on Chrome Extension Brings 'View Image' Button Back (9to5google.com) · · Score: 2

    Not always easy when the image is on an image-heavy page, so you end up having to scroll through 50 other images that all have to load in first.

    Or maybe the page Google indexed is dynamic, so by now the image that was cached on page 2 is on page 41 and you'll never find it again.

  7. Re:More than 50% of a life sentence? on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Except it's not. After 10 years you can petition to have 'life' changed to 'X years' which, as I understand it, can never be less than a total of 16 or 18 years.

  8. Re:Meanwhile Afghan men can murder for less than 2 on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The thing is that there are different kinds of bad situations.

    People who are actually running away from war and fear of death? Sure, give them a helping hand.

    People who walk all the way up through Europe to get to the country with the best financial benefits available? Send them back where they came from. You do NOT call yourself a refugee after crossing through a handful of peaceful European countries just to get to where you wanted to go.

    Sweden, unfortunately, is paralyzed with political correctness. Police officers that finally speak up about crime rates inflating out of control in muslim-heavy parts of the country are fired for subverting the public's faith in the authorities.

    https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Re:Cameras (and software) have a loong way to go on We've Reached Peak Smartphone (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I was with you until the end, but WHY does a high-end camera in the phone require better network speed? It should take a picture of what's in front of it and store that picture on the phone, period. If you want to upload it to the cloud and each picture takes twenty minutes over EDGE, that's your problem with a specific feature not related to the average image quality.

  10. Re:Executive summary on Silicon Valley Singles Are Giving Up On the Algorithms of Love (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It made me wonder if it's even possible to say the sentence "You can't hurry love." without breaking into song halfway through.

    It leads to the eternal question, though. What is love?

  11. Re:Weasel-worded ham-handed bullshit on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously going to be keeping tabs on what people have and haven't said in public for things that don't seem like they matter, eg. job or country of residence?

    What if John FORGOT that he once posted in public that he's an accountant in Austria? Can you find the thread in which he stated it when shit hits the fan?

  12. Re:Weasel-worded ham-handed bullshit on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that, but keep in mind what can count as private aspects of a person's identity.

    What happens if you ask some guy you know well how his boyfriend's doing, and it turns out he isn't officially out of the closet? Or ask someone you know is in another country if they can do a lookup on a website for you to see if it works from that country?

    'Private aspects' can be oh, so many things. Many years ago I was a regular in a chatroom with a bunch of other guys. One of these was absolutely sure no one he hadn't deliberately confided in could find out who he was.

    That is, until I pointed out to him that he'd mentioned he worked at a university, he'd mentioned stopping at a specific point on his bike ride to work, he'd mentioned the number of a specific kind of shop at the intersection his apartment sat above, and he once dropped a comment to someone about needing to travel about forty kilometers to cross the border to use a specific currency they were talking about.

    He had no idea before then how much private information he was leaking all on his own.

    These rules? They're forbidding saying "Hey John, you're in Austria now, right?"

  13. Re: Plastics! Deeeelish! on 73 Percent of Fish In the Northwestern Atlantic Have Microplastics In Their Guts · · Score: 1

    So you can't provide any links either?

  14. Re: Plastics! Deeeelish! on 73 Percent of Fish In the Northwestern Atlantic Have Microplastics In Their Guts · · Score: 1

    So you can't provide any links?

  15. Re:Plastics! Deeeelish! on 73 Percent of Fish In the Northwestern Atlantic Have Microplastics In Their Guts · · Score: 2

    And North Korea is actually called Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Doesn't make it so.

    Scientific method or faith. Those are your options. If the plastic is harmful surely there are tons of scientific tests and journals detailing the harm?

  16. Re:It is more than just distracted driving on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    My 2011 Fiat Punto has radar dynamic cruise control? AWESOME! When did they put THAT in?!

  17. Re:Don't do it around me. on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Because if enough people start having dashcams, then it's the guys who are actually at fault that get punished.

    Do you hate justice?

  18. "Shut up and put up, plebs."

  19. Re:A legit use? on A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers -- Again (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Does using software to monitor your ex-girlfriend's activity warrant a vigilante destroying the data you uploaded to a private company?

  20. I recently ordered an e-cig as a present for my mother. Since e-cigs and their fluids are linked to nicotine, the seller by law required that they needed to see ID when it was delivered. One of the options for ID was my passport.

    This wasn't even international, as I recall, but from Germany to Germany.

  21. Re:That Only Gives You Google's Thumbnail on Google To Kill Off 'View Image' Button In Search · · Score: 2

    The idea is that Getty wants you to load the page the image is on (and the ads on the page the image is on). From that page you CAN right-click -> Open in new tab.

  22. Re:Better yet... on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    I always wonder about people for whom Ctrl-S is not a natural key combo while thinking about the start of the next paragraph they're going to type.

  23. Re:They did ask... on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    So your solution to bad behavior in Windows is a workaround that helps you to NEVER UPDATE WINDOWS. Sooner or later there is going to be a security hole bad enough that you NEED to update, and then all this crud comes in anyway.

  24. Re:Ok, I give up.... on 119,000 Passports, Photo IDs of FedEx Customers Found On Unsecured Amazon Server (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because FedEx sends across borders, and a passport is a very useful international ID.

    And as the summary says, FedEx technically isn't to blame as all the data was gathered two years before they bought the company that gathered it.

  25. Re:WTF is 'perviserating' on Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Not that 'perseverating' is in my vocabulary either, but here's a screengrab of my Google search for 'perviserating'. Can you point out where it corrects the word?

    https://imgur.com/a/zXQKF

    Please do keep calling me a liar just because Google reacts differently in different countries.