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  1. If I turn off sync notifications, onedrive, which I don't use, will stop bugging me completely?

  2. Re:LastPass on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's worth adding that Last Pass information is decrypted on the device you're using it on and not on the server. Just pick a good password for the account.

  3. ZFS and lots of redundancy on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ZFS will guard against bit rot. That's not enough. RAID isn't enough. You need redundancy outside your home or office. Cloud maybe expensive for the amount of data you have, but Amazon S3 maybe the most affordable in that range. You could get S3 for maybe $15-20 a month if you have a terabyte of data. If that's cost prohibitive, rotate external drives regularly and keep one at work. You'll lose very little data since you're archiving things.

  4. I mean, if she said no and he persisted, then that's a different story. Yeah, bad form on this idiot's part for asking her on the first day. I put it like this because I remember an employer's policy defining sexual harassment as unwanted sexual advances. My coworkers and I briefly joked "well, you have to try and fail once for it to be unwanted." We joked, yeah, but if Uber has similar language in their policy, I'd say that guy has a good defense for himself already.

  5. sour taste? on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like infection. I wonder if they even understood what they were doing.

  6. The problem is the damn things can't penetrate paper!

  7. See subject.

  8. Re: Is more education, better education . . . ? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the larger employers in my city doesn't care about education so much. They want experience. They'd take someone with 5 years experience over a fresh degree in the same field any day. That said, maybe we are seeing that the workforce says experience is what really gets the job done. Less training, more productivity, more money, and, historically, they were willing to pay bigger bucks for it.

  9. Got one of those (PI 3b) for Christmas and that's what I did with it. Works really well for NES and SNES. N64 is hit or miss and nothing works past that console, but it's a fun project. Haven't tried other brand consoles yet.

  10. Re: Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear Matthew,

    You're fired.

    Ftfy

  11. Read this same story yesterday except the source reported they're also not paying their employees. Some just got paid for the month of October.

  12. Make sense on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You dump a thousand dollars into an iPhone, how the hell can they expect you to pay $10 on a game? That's like 2 days missed at Starbucks.

    Meanwhile, console games went up about $10 and they're flying off the shelves. It's about price? Give me a fucking break.

  13. Re: Returned in a box on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    They finished destroying it for them???

  14. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And maybe those people tend to project their bad behaviors at others.

  15. Re:Space is man's hopeless romance on How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I haven't. Yes, I do like to read. We are talking about movies here, however... did you read that?

  16. Space is man's hopeless romance on How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless there is the "simple physics hack" space travel will be a royal pain in the ass when you take the planning that is involved. The energy problems, bio issues, logistics, all of it.

    Even if we overcome all of that, you'll be flying into the unknown. Think about it: you want to go see the pillars of creation a thousand light years away. There was a discussion that an explosion may have occurred or was imminent that would destroy them... a thousand years ago. So even if you found the hack tomorrow (say toasting pop tarts still in the Mylar in an upside down toaster) that lets you arrive at the pillars, or anywhere else, instantaneously, then whatever you went to see would have changed or have been long gone over the millennia. This is something sci-fi never fully discloses: hey, see that in the telescope? Let's go! Wait, where the fuck is it??

    So for an advanced civilization to find us and make contact, they'd have to have been watching for the past, what, 100 years to pick up on the noise we make or make on hell of a guess as to where we are.

    Still sounds like an adventure.

  17. You asked for it on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Would've happened with Clinton or Trump. It is the one thing the two big parties agree on. You wanted bipartisanship? There it is!

  18. Florida wanted to do the same thing after the last election. Yeah, go ahead, and send Cali into an even deeper financial crisis. Property values will crash and your currency won't be worth shit. On the east coast, look at property values of the south compared to that of the north and you'll see the south is STILL paying for trying to secede from the union. Clearly Cali has been smoking weed longer than it's been legalized.

    And quit your bitching. You all rallied behind Hillary waving signs that said "stronger together." Put your fucking money where your mouth is and heed the advice coming from that liberal-Jesus Obama when he says support the Donald. It is done. Likewise, Donald stood on stage and said he wants to be president for everyone - call him on it.

  19. "All the bad stuff about Hillary is a lie, but Trump: no arguments here."

  20. DRM ruined Myth on Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Loved using MythTV over my cable company's box. It worked so well with more features and control. Then the DRM started rolling out and I started losing channels to the point I couldn't use Myth anymore. Plus, Cox cable is rolling out "all digital cable TV which will provide a better ..." blah blah blah let us cram our dick down your throats and rent you this cable box for $5/month while the FCC twiddled their thumbs promising to stop us.

  21. Charges wouldn't do a damn thing on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Obama could simply pardon her, even before the trial. Ford did it for Nixon. It may cost her the election.

  22. Some same old news wrapped up in this on Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I was listening to the radio yesterday and they were talking about Peter Thiel paying for some of Hogan's legal fees because "even as a single-digit millionaire, Hulk Hogan does not have adequate access to the legal system." Hulk Hogan may have been unsuccessful in his litigation because his pockets, his deep pockets, still weren't deep enough to get damages he deserved.

    And fuck Gawker. Good damn riddance. If you make enough enemies, they will pool their resources and bring you down. But the only people hurt by that will be the working class. The big-wigs there will just have their egos hurt.

  23. I have money on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    When I was a kid, my dad told me how one day all you'll have to do is convince a computer you have money, and boom! You could be a millionaire.

  24. And no one will buy it either on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    These finger print readers, as anyone who has used one "on a smart phone" would know, don't do well if you have anything on your fingers at all (grease, water, gloves, etc.). This is the proverbial "magic button" people are looking forward to make their guns secure, yet, unwittingly, unusable. When you have considerable room for error, and there is plenty here, it is effectively useless. I've used a firearm when a would-be burglar attempted to enter my home and I will tell you there is no time for fuck-ups and repositioning your finger while Siri says "I'm sorry, I didn't get that." How little time am I talking about? A window shattered and I was firing before the glass hit the floor.

  25. Re: Let's ban ideas we don't like on Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, such is the mind of a millennial. Their parents tried to protect them from different ideas, thus leaving them unable to think for themselves. Fucking little twerps.