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  1. Fed up! on Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> Over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you routinely switch to the latest tweets, Twitter will default you to them.

    I'm fed up of these algorithms trying to guess what I want. Just implement a setting and I will decide!

  2. Why only 30 seconds? on Imgur Launches Video · · Score: 1

    Why not remove the 30-second limitation and start competing with YouTube? The timing would be perfect with so much discontent over YouTube.

  3. He was taking into account the transaction fees.

  4. Many of these apps are designed for larger tablets not just for small screens. Many newer laptops are touch screen. I think this may be pretty useful.

  5. Re:Google Advertisement Here on Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    You can take up the trial and then cancel it 2 minutes later, you will still get the four free months.

  6. Where are the legal challenges and responses? on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly · · Score: 2

    Where has the page that shows all the takedown notices and legal challenges (and their responses) gone?

  7. The last decent Windows version was Windows 2000 on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    NT4 and Windows 2000 were fairly decent. Windows XP was just a new skin on top of Windows 2000. After that it all went downhill.

  8. Re:The total storage capacity is 620 GB. on The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' · · Score: 1

    It does seem like a lot. In 2012 someone ran a scaper on tpb to grab all of their magnet links, it came in at under 100MB compressed. Of course this didn't include the comments or the .torrent files. https://torrentfreak.com/downl... The torrent is available at https://thepiratebay.se/torren...

  9. Re:Huh? on Do Is Done · · Score: 1

    Same here! I thought this was going to be about Gnome-Do which I stopped using a long time ago in favour of Synapse.

  10. Re:Around your ass... on Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet · · Score: 2

    I agree to some extent, however, in reality, with credit cards offering cashback and other rewards, it works out costing me less to use a credit card than it would to use cash. I hate that Visa and MC are getting rich from this but by protesting and stopping use of my card while everyone else carries on, I end up subsidising their discounts. The only way I can see to get around this would be for everyone to protest together or for all merchants to implement credit card surcharges.

  11. This year.. on Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7 · · Score: 2

    Surely this will be the year of Linux on the tablet.

  12. Re:Spend 'Em!!! on Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector · · Score: 0

    The link you provided quotes £33.87 paid per gram of scrap gold. Current market rate is around £34.75 so it's not that bad at all.

  13. Re:Not a hardware company? on Microsoft's Sneak Attack On Apple: SkyDrive, Not Surface · · Score: 5, Funny

    They really don't think of the Xbox as hardware?

    No, they were thinking outside of the x box

  14. This stinks! on OpenBSD's De Raadt Slams Red Hat, Canonical Over 'Secure' Boot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This whole Microsoft / Secure Boot situation is outrageous, it should never be allowed to be implemented, linux distro's should not be having to get anything signed by Microsoft. Hopefully some judge someday will see sense and kill it and also force Microsoft to carry positive mentions of other OS's in their advertisements in a similar fashion as the Apple / Samsung tablet ruling.

  15. 20 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up on If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    Not the other way around as stated in the summary.

  16. These ads are onliy in audio calls. on Skype To Feature Giant Ads · · Score: 1

    TFA mentions that the ads are only for audio calls, not video calls. So not all that intrusive. In audio calls you can minimise the skype window or have a different window in the foreground on top of it.

  17. Re:Limited usefulness? on London Tube Stations Finally Get Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Good point. It makes me think that this will make congestion at the stations a lot worse with people staying on platforms longer to browse and upload photos etc.

  18. fail on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1
    When security measures involve trying to keep people quiet about its flaws, I think it's time to accept the security is broken! Also, this paragraph of the UK Card Associations complaint letter attempts to downplay the effectiveness of the hack, looks to me like it's just there to deter anyone considering trying it.

    Fortunately, the type of attack described in the research is difficult to undertake and is unlikely to carry a sufficient risk-reward ratio to interest genuine fraudsters. And, in the unlikely event that such an attack were to take place ... the banking industry's fraud prevention systems would be able to detect when such an attack had happened.

    Yeah right!

  19. Blowjobs included in first class on Airlines Get Billions From Unbundled Services · · Score: 1

    Ryanair's CEO has the right idea, "beds and blowjobs" in first class! (In economy you have to pay for it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfIY24BErBE

  20. Re:Penny Arcade called it on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 1

    It's also there to protect your head from knocking against the back of the plane if you don't push yourself out hard enough.

  21. Re:That's Microsoft for you on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    OK, so with software it's a bit different - 'making' them is as simple as copying the data, insofaras manufacture goes.

    thatsverywellsaid

  22. Re:But does it support Xvid? on Cheap DivX Solution For Your Entertainment Center · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Divx and Xvid offer very good results, but IMO it's almost never good enough - even spread out over 1400MB (2 CD's). Dark scenes come out poorly with a lot of obvious grey banding. Fast motion and camera pans turn out jerky and in my opinion it detracts from the overall viewing experience. If you watch the original source side by side with the compressed version the differences are blatant.

    The $249 would be better spent on a DVD Writer (especially since they are so affordable these days), several hundred blank DVDs and a copy of DVD Shrink.