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  1. Re:This sounds like a Catch-22 on Android Nougat Won't Boot If Your Phone's Software Is Corrupt Or Has Malware (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Help! What is meaning of "teabags my wallet just for fun,". I am only a UK person with very limited USA dialect.

  2. Re:Wrong because lack of high-speed internet on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Some parts of UK do not even have 2G (about 28% of actual landmass, 9+% of population)

  3. Re:No, they won't. on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not use a smart phone. Thus I am not worried.

  4. Chinese used a man on a kite long before balloon technology, call it an early tethered air powered device broadcasting info was limited to recovery of a live body or "real broadcasting' by voice (slogan / shouting)

  5. As shooter was 'normal client' 'regular client' of the night club, perhaps it is just an outrage at someone there & the club suffers. A known effect from mental sickness. May not be anything to do with religion or sexuality but just 'they offended me, I will pay back'. The later rants may be self justification, blown up by press etc as presumed reason, actual reason we will really never know.

  6. Slept in,on and under tobacco stock on China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices (techinsider.io) · · Score: 1

    When I started work I was required to sleep in the stock room for tobacco so as to be available 24/7. UK early 1950s. Main London stores (e.g. Harrods) had staff sleep on premises until war years. P R China now at same stage.

  7. changed some machines to Linux OpenSUSE on Microsoft To End Nagging Windows 10 Upgrade Notifications In July (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to dual boot some 3 machines. The Windows 10 nagware etc (trouble to switch off their prying parts) caused me to change these machines to Linux only!

  8. Re:Somewhat off-topic: embedding video in email on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    Images as "attachments" are acceptable. However, some of us only work in pure text email.
    [For many reasons, contractual, security, transmission speeds, government enforced, revenue sensitive]
    Connections in many parts of world are sometimes very low. Embedded images in email are a 'favourite '
    of one of my work colleagues, and over inter-net fixed wire WAN this is acceptable (speeds controlled).
    In non-work situations it has proved to be a method of distribution of 'images' which can disrupt.
    I prefer image rich texts to be sent as PDF format attachments.
    Personal preferences, I know, but has saved some emergency situations with low speed facility communications.

  9. Re:Somewhat off-topic: embedding video in email on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    No Videos! email is about written communication, not entertainment.

  10. Re:Email client software? Is this still a thing? on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    Common interface. Keeping the email addresses separated but in one client as TBird does is great. I work for 4 companies each with its own email address for me and of course my own company and private emails. TBird keeps all in line. I am a fan. Just like student above, except I have been doing this on M$ and *nix boxes for a long time as I am 6 decades past student days,

  11. Re:Does anyone [still] use Thunderbird? on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    Concur! TBird works great in a mixed W$ /*Nix set up.

  12. Re:Just resting, Monthy Python style on Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting? · · Score: 1

    No smartphones are used in our company for security reasons , so its desktop Skype or nothing. (PS we do use dull text only SMS messages on phones)

  13. You actively forget some experiences! on Neural Mechanisms In Mouse Brains Indicate We Actively Forget As We Learn (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    From my limited 'unkind' interrogations by others, I know I work to actively forget what happened and erase it from the 'mind index' of learned things.

  14. and 'consumers' on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I have noticed a swing in that the youngsters ((those below 4 decades of past life) I know are replacing Windows machines with Apple products, so much that with my children and grandchildren Windows OS machines are in minority.

  15. Re:See folks? It's all about sales... on Microsoft Revises Windows 7, 8 On Skylake Cut-Off Date To 2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most 'regular' laptops (not Apple ) have hard discs you can replace. Or add to by extension. It is not just 'desktops' of floor based PC towers.

  16. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How would persons respond, if to attract attention they went back to middle ages and used 'disabled/crippled/non-normal appearance people' ; 'mentally ill people' (The Bedlam side show!); 'dancing bears' ? These are condemned nowadays, likewise all sexual attractants (male, female or other) are totally unprofessional and are actually a 'downgrading point' for company using them.

  17. Re:Key Files on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    "[The answer is, as always: "Memorize them."]"
    Umm! Age and mental decrepitude set in and just when you need it the memory does not work.
    In UK, it is possible to lodge a letter or document with your bank (annual cost about GBP £25 / USD $ 30) able to be retriever ONLY by yourself OR other nominee known to bank or your executors when you die. If areal use-able print off is possible (or store USB key and DVD/CD in envelope , then this is one secure route. Bank would need an authorised warrant from a court to disclose to others.

  18. Re:Add a test on Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? · · Score: 1

    4. Must both work with Knoppix Live Linux while having MS Windows system installed and adjusting partitions with a Gparted or similar probram.
    5 be capable of rewritting hard disc to a Linux system for permanent use.
    6 Must allow booting of a Live Linux sytem via USB memory (stick or external hard drive) or via a DVD.

  19. Re:Releasing the fixes won't make it less abandone on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? · · Score: 1

    I use emails to create and confirm multi-million projects daily including all legal terms and commercial considerations, email (and especially if a copy is sent to a public system e.g. xxx@gmail.com) can be retrieved by a court if you need to defend outside of any closed domain emails or quote and publish exchange on such as Slashdot for public record. Emails have legal validity. Think problems of Mrs Hilary Clinton in USA (I use Mrs as there are some Mr Hilary Clinton names in UK/EU).

    Also as you discovered a bug, irrespective of copyright on solving code you should report bug to present users or forum of 'project ', you can then meet or have voice phone to discuss problem, as long as you do not send a specific total draft of solution you are clear of copyright violation. (IANAL, but I draft and confirm contracts and copyright clauses daily as my paid employment).

  20. 1983 BBC micro on The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought software (on 5.5 inch floppies) over dial up internet with baud 2400 for statistics and other programs fro BBC Micro in 1983.

  21. found by Fishermen, towed to harbour by Coastguard on Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Found by HMCG is wrong. Fishermen found it, coastguard towed it in.

  22. Re:Nice summary! on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Concur.

  23. screen / battery on Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not a smart phone user , but my children are. Main failures to date are screens (drops, bumps, door closure in car; dead non-replaceable battery), if these could be repaired by any competant person e.g. partner, neighbour, local repair man, without surrendereing the phone; I see a market. Likewise a business with in-house repair to avoid external overlooking while repairing. However 5 years life seems to me to be too short. I have changed phones at 10-year interval. However we only use it for actual calls and text messages. We have never used the email function or radio or whatever. We use laptop computers to email. 90% of all my paid work is by email for clients. However as we are in our eight decade, we make be dust or recyled before the phone is upgraded.

  24. Concur. Three thrice Three times.

  25. No Wifi signal on Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? · · Score: 1

    1 I am in UK. I was 'offered' ( take it or we may disconnect you!) smart meter connection. I investigated how smart meter woul call home by landline or Wifi phone signal. It turns out the mobile phone company being used by utility does not provide a signal in my area and meter does not retune to another phone company who have a very poor but available signal in the area.
    2. Final solution copy letter to my member of parliament, copy to utility supplier. No smartphone to be installed , old fashioned one left. hand read by man during 3 monthly visit.
    3. Second problem, UK Government wants you to be able to change utility suppliers, smart meter can only work with one supplier as it is tied to their ISP, so to change utility supplier means old hand reading and a change of meter! Real mess up.No one phone company covers more than 80% of availlable households/companies by mobile phone signal. 90 % odd by different mobile phone companies which is why I use two phones to get cover at work and at home.Only the land line due to universal provision in law (like post office mail deliveries) can go to each 'registered dwelling'. This does not cover all 'business premises' who can only get landline by business agreement.