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  1. Re:Slashdot does not restrict use of dupes on Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:People use Skype? on Microsoft Won't Force You To Use the New Skype Just Yet (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Every job I have worked at uses either Skype or Jabber.

    I prefer Skype.

    For home use, though, you are probably correct.

  3. Re:Lesson: Hide the filename of pirated material on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Then how do you share it? If I download a video and what actually comes through is a zip or exe, I delete it. (I don't see this problem as much anymore but maybe I am using better indexers.)

  4. Re:Good luck with that on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's sad that they didn't think a show about a woman TimeLord would be good enough to stand on its own. Instead, they had to transgender the Doctor into a woman to try to keep the old fans plus the news ones that would be thrilled with this.

    I don't think anyone is saying the mere presence of a woman is political and subversive but it says a lot about you that you think that is the issue.

    I enjoy Blindspot, Buffy, Dollhouse, Alias, Fringe, the 100 etc. Most shows nowadays have a strong female lead.

  5. Re:Can I really hate Bill Clinton now? on BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish any of that was surprising.

    It's like the Patriot Act. Politicians always use a crisis (manufactured or not) to rip away or freedoms in the guise of protecting us.

  6. True but they all work interchangeably regardless. You might lose some proprietary bonus like the fast charging you were talking about but you still get the standard usb charge.

  7. Re:Everything should go wireless on EU Regulators To Study Need For Action on Common Mobile Phone Charger (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem I had with phones over the past 20+ years. Is the connector on the phone wearing out or getting corroded over time, this seem to force me to upgrade about 1/3 of all my phones.

    That use to be my biggest reason too. It usually happened on phones that I could swap out the battery so it wasn't a show stopper but it did force stop me from updating any firmware that required odin to flash.

  8. Re:Yes, about power connectors on EU Regulators To Study Need For Action on Common Mobile Phone Charger (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So do we force the entire industry to switch to usb-c or micro-b? And does that mean we cannot come out with new tech until all mobile operators agree and are ready to switch over?

    I cannot recall the last phone I had that used a non-standard charger. I have some wireless keyboards that use a different usb connector and that's annoying but I even see that less now.

    I agree with ShanghaiBill. The reason there is so many cords disposed of is due to them being included with every device you buy. I have a whole drawer (probably 2) filled with them. And that's a testament to the interoperability. There is almost never a need to even take the new cords out of wrapping.

    I feel like if manufacturers quit including them, we would have a different outcry here about being nickled and dimed to death and receiving products without the ability to even charge them.

  9. Re:Do they mean the cable? on EU Regulators To Study Need For Action on Common Mobile Phone Charger (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Same, especially when running a hotspot so my kids can play too on the cheapest android device I could find them that supported pokemon go :)

    I already have by external batteries charged for community day this weekend :)

  10. Re:Big gaping hole - TNEF - winmail.dat handling on Thunderbird v60.0 Email Client Released (thunderbird.net) · · Score: 1

    Is there an opensource application or protocol for that?

  11. Re:So basically nothing new since v52 on Thunderbird v60.0 Email Client Released (thunderbird.net) · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, anyone that has used Outlook expects a calender with their email client. I'm actually glad you don't have to download lighting anymore. It's been a while since I used an email client at home. That's a good change.

  12. Re:What if software just did what it was told? on Avast Pulls the Latest Version of CCleaner Following Privacy Controversy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Only get software from government agencies like the NSA. Avoid corps at all cost! You can't trust those capitalistic pigs!

  13. Re:CCleaner is only needed b/c sloppiness. on Avast Pulls the Latest Version of CCleaner Following Privacy Controversy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are on an old ssd card (like me), you want all the space you can get to hold your ridiculously sized games

  14. Re: CCleaner is only needed b/c sloppiness. on Avast Pulls the Latest Version of CCleaner Following Privacy Controversy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is windows has both the registry and a bunch of hidden files stored in various places in our user directory.

  15. Re: Incompetence, not conspiracy on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The bank only sees that money if the person who buys the house with the 50% profit uses the same bank.

    You are missing out on a key detail here, though. Most people trash and destroy their house when the bank forecloses on them. That's one of the reasons they are resold so cheap. I heard about all these "great deals" on houses when I was in the market during the housing crash. Bar none, those houses would have cost a fortune to repair.

  16. Re:So odd that the "glitch" always favors the bank on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That happened to me with Wells Fargo. Part of it was my insurance company kept resubmitting the payment. I was about 30 cents short, got hit with the overdraft fee and had the payment denied. Within a week I was at -200.

    I had a job a few weeks later, brought my paycheck to WellsFargo. They insisted on putting a two week freeze on it. I took my paycheck back and went to Security Service Federal Credit Union and never had a problem like that again.

    WellsFargo had bought the bank I had been with and was the only reason they ended up with that account. They sure loved all their fees. I'd get charged 2 dollars to talk to a rep, 50 cents to check my bank balance on a non-wells fargo atm. This was almost 20 years ago and I avoid wellsfargo whenever possible.

  17. Re: Can Wells Fargo do anything _right_? on Wells Fargo Says Hundreds of Customers Lost Homes After Computer Glitch (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    What does that have to do with Wells Fargo needing or not needing a bailout? Did you respond to the wrong post?

  18. Or worse, create a mirror-verse to try to play off that both versions are correct

  19. Re:That sounds like a bad buisness plan. on New Starbucks Partnership With Microsoft Allows Customers To Pay For Frappuccinos With Bitcoin (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't buy bitcoin so they can buy coffee... that's not bitcoin's main purpose. Bitcoin is more practical when used for large exchanges of wealth and goods.

    And paying for torrent and Usenet indexer membership

  20. Re:How about trimming the top level MOD? on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not arguing if they deserve the wage. I'm talking about the politician spouses that talk the big talk about forgoing the private sector to work in the public sector because of how much they care.

    I remember Michelle Obama talking about how she rejected private sector jobs to work in the public sector and how she did that because she cared about people more than money.

    That said, she was making over 300 grand annually in the public sector.

    https://www.factcheck.org/2009...

  21. Let me choose how to spend your money

  22. Re:How about trimming the top level MOD? on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    And politically, you get to act like you are doing something extra special. Plus most people don't know that some non-profits pay their executive staff fortunes so they get to set a noble perception that they are sacrificing their wage by avoiding the private sector.

  23. Re:meanwhile apple is a trillionaire on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    You are saying March of Dimes decision is related to Apple? Did Apple cut donations to March of Dimes?

  24. Re:Keep renting! on Easier Streaming Services Put Dent in Illegal Downloading (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can still buy the albums. This is just another choice.

    For someone like me who is musically clueless, this is a great service. No commercials and I don't have to know what I like beforehand.

  25. Re:Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It sound cold but it's true. Think of all the relationships people can't get out of because the partner threatens to hurt themselves.

    I'm in one now. I even went through the divorce but can't stop supporting her even though she was physically and emotionally abusive to me and my children because I can't seem to drop the empathy I have for her. I keep her away from my kids but it's still destructive to me and takes resources away from my family. But if I drop her, she will quit her treatments and let herself and her children (we have no shared children) rot away.