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  1. Re:Nope on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    4 digits? Your shit is way insecure. I have 12 on my Wells Fargo card PIN.

  2. Re:Nope on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "most of those are direct debit cards which is a whole other beast than the US credit cards"

    Quite often Direct Debit cards in the US are also tied to a credit account, and as such, when you swipe/insert chip, you're given the option of selecting credit or debit (and the retailer usually asks you this as well.) One card instead of many.

  3. Re:Hardy a wasteland - rich, fragile ecosystem on The Mojave Desert: Home of the New Machine Movement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm going to guess those high priced properties are near cities"

    Not even close.

    " have utilities"

    Nope.

    " As for natural resources, I'm going to guess that those are also not representative of a desert in general and is only valid for land on which a geological survey was done."

    Landsat/ASTER access is free, and you can overlay on Google Earth. Nobody needs to survey anymore, we've got satellites that do all that for us.

    What makes them so expensive is the fact they're patented land - ie you own the land AND the mineral rights underneath it. What, you thought when you bought land that you OWNED it? Nope, only the first 18-24 inches of topsoil! I can lay claim to minerals under your property and you'd have no choice but to give me right of way to those minerals.

  4. Nah, they'll get CTS from those newer shitty mechanical keyboards out.

  5. Re:The RX470 makes me want to try AMD again on AMD Extends Polaris GPU Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Laptopvideo2go should be able to show you how to modify the .ini driver file (or might even have one pre-made) so that the newer driver sets will recognize the older hardware. Do the upgrade and then install the GPU afterwards.

  6. Re:The RX470 makes me want to try AMD again on AMD Extends Polaris GPU Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    "I haven't tried AMD since the 43xx era because the 4350 I used to replace an aging 1650x could never stay stable in the game I was playing at the time"

    That was ENTIRELY your fault. The 4350 is a mobile GPU while the X1650 was a desktop-class GPU of which the GT and XT versions handily STOMPED the HD4350.

  7. Re:Hardy a wasteland - rich, fragile ecosystem on The Mojave Desert: Home of the New Machine Movement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "All deserts are wastelands--if they weren't they would have more value"

    You say that while I'm looking at desert properties worth more than a million dollars per acre. Guess what they have? Gold, platinum, gemstones, and more.

  8. Re:Somehow relevant on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Nothing else was installed, Windows Update was DISABLED, and I was on a non-admin level account.

    Right after getting The Culling installed, Windows Update is suddenly re-enabled and trying to upgrade to Windows 10. I didn't even get a chance to start loading the game before the shit started up and started downloading Windows 10.

  9. Re:Somehow relevant on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 2

    "With updates permanently disabled? I doubt it."

    That doesn't matter. If you updated Skype or installed the recent Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for a newer game (The Culling, in my specific example,) you got your security settings overwritten and changed without your permission.

    http://imgur.com/a/ERYYN - have a peep at the three screenshots I snagged after making sure I re-forced windows update back off. Took about twenty minutes of checking timestamps in the filesystem to figure out what happened, and when. In my case, it was installing the Culling, which needed a more recent MSVC++ redist install, that changed everything.

    You may think you've got updates permanently disabled - you do not if you use ANYTHING ELSE Microsoft-related.

  10. Re:How to disable BITS on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Current version of 10 still has that issue, just tested on my fiance's Win10 machine. With the Firewall off you cannot get any updates at all unless you do something like WSUS Offline Update.

  11. Re:It didn't have an off switch before on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "You'd be blocking every legitimate, non-Microsoft-affiliated service hosted on Azure"

    Cloud services are shit anyways, just another method of wrestling full control away from you.

  12. Uhh, you *DO* know how wildcards work, right? So my current set auto-filters shit like watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net (that's an actual DNS entry out of roughly 40 in my list related to microsoft.)

  13. Re:Rule of thumb: believe the man on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And it looks like those studies of yours are from the late 90s, same time frame as my source from the USDOJ.

    So, you got anything more recent to back those claims up?

  14. Re:SUCK MY BALLS on Getty Sued For $1 Billion For Selling Publicly Donated Photos (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Very apropos for her - she seems to have more testicular fortitude than most lawyers.

  15. Re:Getty screwed up on Getty Sued For $1 Billion For Selling Publicly Donated Photos (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    It wouldn't matter. Editors have re-written summaries that we've made nice and succinct, and turned them into a huge mess many times before.

  16. Re:Getty threatened her is how she found out on Getty Sued For $1 Billion For Selling Publicly Donated Photos (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "DNS records show that LCS' listed address is 605 5th Avenue South, Suite 400 Seattle, Washington, which is Getty Images' corporate address."

    Just speaking from personal experience, many times, 'corporate addresses' are some cheap-ass rent-a-virtual-office.

    You can find a Papa John's, Apple Repair Tech, Divorce Lawyer, and Games Design Company all in the same address of buildings that look very much like that of Getty Images.

  17. "First, keeping current with MS playing DNS whack-a-mole."

    Nope. Just route *.microsoft.* to 127.0.0.1 in my router settings.

    "And second, updates. You do want your OS to be patched, but that requires you to allow access to servers that belong to MS."

    Nope, that's what manual patch installation is for using WSUS Offline Update, burn to disc and install that way.

  18. Re:"Sexual mistreatment"? on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "The website explains their reasoning for not going to a court of law"

    And they've just given themselves a big shot in the foot. Jacob now has recourse to say "If these were true, why were the police never notified AS REQUIRED BY LAW?"

    Anyone who has to explain why they didn't go to the police is full of shit.

  19. Re:Hatchet jobs aside on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "I didn't go into specifics because I wasn't there"

    Then you shouldn't have opened your fucking mouth in the first fucking place.

  20. Re:Hatchet jobs aside on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "I personally know some of the people that came forward, they had no agenda other than stopping a serial sexual predator / harrasser."

    That sure as fuck isn't what I'm reading STRAIGHT FROM A SUPPOSED VICTIM'S MOUTH.

  21. Re:Rule of thumb: not so much. on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Seriously and respectfully ask some of your female friends what kind of misconduct they've experienced in the workplace."

    EXPERIENCED? THEY'RE STARTING THE MISCONDUCT HALF THE FUCKING TIME!

    Try a job in the porno industry. The women are 100x worse than men when it comes to harassment.

  22. Re:Rule of thumb: believe the man on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Twenty percent? FUCKING WRONG MORON, try more like 8%.

  23. Re: Rule of thumb: believe the man on Tor Project Confirms Sexual Misconduct By Developer Jacob Appelbaum (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So, when I lie on my back, say nothing, and the bitch climbs up on my dick, again no words spoken, I'm raping her?

    Thank you for proving that the University of Oregon is way the fuck behind the times, and stupid as shit to boot.

  24. I have full control over the Jetpack cellular modem+micro router I have attached to it.

  25. Block all of Microsoft's servers in my router. Can't bypass what you don't control.