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  1. Re: Happy Friday From The Golden Girls! on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 1

    Sorry but your argument is nothing but a damp squid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

  2. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, it matters.

    I recommend watching the documentary "Behind The Curve" on Netflix. I watch it last night and it was a real eye-opener.

    In the last few years, Flat Earthers have gone from being a joke to something that a lot of people take very, very seriously. These people go hand-in-hand with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and creationists as part of a new wave of "Anti-Intellectualism".

    Flat Earthers want Flat Earth theory to be taught in schools. That statement alone should be enough to make you realize that this has now gone beyond a joke and is something that should be vehimintly denied. The problem is that Flat Earthers are impossible to reason with. They keep saying "there is no scientific proof for a round earth", but if you try to present any sort of proof they completely dismiss it. Some of them even tried to do their own experiments to prove the earth was flat and (surprise, surprise) the experiments instead showed that the earth was round. This then just leads them to believe that their experiment is flawed in someway. They are completely unwilling to take on board any facts that disprove the flat earth theory.

    The funny thing is, Mark Sargent (the "King" of the Flat Earthers) says that you should "question everything". Yet these people are completely unwilling to question their own theory.

  3. Re:Spay Cortana on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have turned off the "Allow apps to run in the background" setting in Windows, it stops search from working

  4. Re: Completely on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why this got posted here, I replied to a completely different post!

  5. Re: Completely on Microsoft is Separating Cortana From Search in Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Turning off the "Allow apps to run in the background" setting stops search from working

  6. Cyanogen Inc already screwed with Cyanogen Mod users.

  7. Re:You Crack Smoking Assholes on Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I thought exactly the same thing. The two things are already intertwined and there is no blurring to be done. They are trying to make a negative point where there is no point to be made.

  8. Re:Root is what matters on Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can disable any app you want in Android, even built in ones. Go into the app settings and click "Disable". This will uninstall all the updates for that app, remove it from your app drawer, and prevent it from ever running.

    The only thing it won't do is reclaim the space for the original (unpatched) app. It will still exist in the system partition, but it won't ever run until you re-enable it.

  9. Re:"In the beginning..." on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Chemical Ali was what us Brits called Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

    No, we called him Comical Ali. A play on the already monikered "Chemical Ali"

  10. Re:Microsoft haters on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Stands a good chance of being better than cygwin anyway.

    But yet they've still managed to make it worse than cygwin. My main gripe is that IO is dog slow. Trying to do a "git pull" on a relatively large repo will just hang. I've never left it long enough to find out how long it would actually take.

  11. Re:Makes SSH into Linux boxes a breeze: No more Pu on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that putty is vastly superior to the windows command prompt.

  12. Re:I'm not seeing multiple processes on Firefox 54 Arrives With Multi-Process Support For All Users (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You might have an add-on installed that causes Firefox to disable its multi-process support.

    Go to about:support and look for "Multiprocess Windows". If it says "0/1" then it is disabled and will give you the reason why. The reason will probably be something like "Disabled due to an add-on", in which case, try disabling your add-ons one-by-one until you find the culprit.

  13. An alternative view from The Register on 2B Pages On Web Now Use Google's AMP, Pages Now Load Twice As Fast (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    Kill Google AMP before it KILLS the web

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  14. None of the changes mentioned in the summary are of any interest to me. The most exciting feature of the "Creators Update" is the ability to create symlinks without elevation... Woo-hoo!

    http://www.ghacks.net/2016/12/...

  15. DDG and Bing also gives fake news result on Google's Featured Snippets Are Worse Than Fake News (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Typing the same search "presidents in the klan" into DDG also puts the same fake news result at the top (at least it's at the top if I set my location to UK. If I set it to worldwide it comes in second). Bing also puts the same story at the top. So this is not just Google's problem. It's a problem that all search vendors need to tackle collectively.

  16. Re:UK MPs exempted themselves on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Snoopers’ Charter: Only amendment politicians have submitted to controversial bill is to stop MPs being spied on" http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

  17. Re:Why are you people so worried about this? on Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". If you had nothing to hide you would be perfectly willing to wander round naked all the time and have no curtains on your windows. You'd be willing to install microphones in all the rooms in your house and let any passer-by listen in. You'd be willing to give me your online banking details. I could go on. Yes I have something to hide. We all do.

  18. Re:And Ireland can't leave the EU... on European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... because they don't have a catchy portmanteau.

    Eirexit

  19. Are there any plans to fix the DLNA / uPNP client in VLC? It's been broken for as long as I can remember. As far as I can tell there are no decent DLNA renderers on the desktop.

  20. Re:Too Little, Too Late? on Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlawing encryption will solve nothing. The terrorists are not suddenly going to say "oh shit, we have to use un-encypted protocols now!"

  21. You learn something new every day on Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain · · Score: 1

    So there are two Steve Jacksons? I always thought it was just one bloke!

  22. Re:Is it just me... on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    > So, because you like the 256 color, flat, windows 3 style icons, everyone else is just opposing change? I never said that. All I said is I like the new icons. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, however I would say that people who refuse to use Windows 10 because of the icons are completely overreacting.

  23. Is it just me... on Users Decry New Icon Look In Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    ...that thinks the new icons actually look quite nice? I will reserve judgement until I see them at the smallest size though (i.e. in "details" view).

  24. Who is Will Kibbitz? on President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars · · Score: 1

    Never heard of him!

  25. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    The problem I have with the mobile site is that my phone just can't handle it. It is slow slow as to be completely unusable. The desktop site runs fine though. Shouldn't a mobile site be more lightweight than the desktop site? It seems that reverse is actually true.