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  1. Re:and for those who didn't sign up? on Google's My Activity Reveals How Much It Knows About You (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ive also noticed that google has a server side auto complete history even if your not logged in. How can I see that without having to go a....b...c....d...ect?

  2. Re:Good luck with that on How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure most companies are reasonable enough to offer to repair whatever it was for 90% the cost of a new one.

    Also they claim that drop damage is actually covered by warranty. Well unless you open the xbox one to determine why it no longer reads discs.

  3. Re:Good luck with that on How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I know first hand that if you open a xbox one microsoft will refuse to repair it at any price.

  4. Re:That's amazing! on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 2

    I'm part of the 7% I have an account under a fake name
    I used to have two accounts until someone decided ikatefacebork was not my real name and Facebook demanded to see my photo id.

    Haven't had to use the other account in years the only reason I had one in the first place was to deal with companies that CBA to have their own login system.

  5. And here I thought they revealed it was snowden back in march.

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

    Well unless there happened to be another unrelated Ed_snowden@lavabit.com

  6. Re:Not Surprised on Netflix to Soon Let Users Download Videos, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix should make one as someone has already beat them to it. Its called nightshift https://www.gonightshift.com/

    Its $7mo though almost as much as the netflix sub itself

    its not cost effective for me.

  7. Re:I absolutely agree.... on 74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Their Subscription Than See Ads (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    Why did you chose a roku over any of the other streaming sticks/boxes that don't have ads on the home screen?

    I did buy a roku 3 voice but sold it shortly after I bought it because I found out it had ads.

  8. Why are felons even a thing? It appears to be a unending punishment after the agreed upon punis--errr "rehabilitation" has been completed. Are they rehabilitated or not and if not why did they let them out?

  9. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

  10. hearing protection on The US Army Is Rolling Out Superhuman Hearing to Soldiers (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically they are smart earplugs?

    Hopefully will cut down on the veterans with permanent hearing loss.

  11. Re:Verizon just poked the bear on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds about like my experience it used to run between 8-10mbps but in the last 6 months it dropped down to 4mbps or less and the connection would drop out and I would have to manually reset it.

    Swapped out all of my equipment ended up replacing my longtime router modem combo with a t1114 That fixed the need for the manual resets but it was still slow and unstable.
    So I dont know if it was the trees or if verizons towers loose range the more heavily loaded they are.

    What I ended up doing that solved my problem was finding a place in my house with a clear line of sight (no trees) to the only visible celltower from my house signal jumped from -105 to -95.

    Now it runs at 25-30mbps better than I've ever gotten at home and best of all so far it appears to be stable Its run about 2 weeks now without issue.

  12. Are the contact requests related? on TeamViewer Servers Go Down, Users Believe They Are Hacked (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I only use team viewer occasionally and I think only have one macine running with it installed.

    Anyway I setup a teamviewer account back in 2010 but I didn't end up needing it I had not recived any emails from them until this year and now i'm getting "New contact request" emails from teamviewer.

    Is this some type of overly complicated spam or what?
    who is this "ARIA-PC"?

  13. Re:Verizon just poked the bear on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    How is the signal at your house?

  14. Re:It's NOT a "third party" on US Court Says No Warrant Needed For Cellphone Location Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't bother me as much if I could get the same information about my own cellphone from verizon as the police apparently can.

    As it is if I want to be able to find my phone I have to use a 3rd party service as verizon won't go as far as telling me what country my phone is currently in.

  15. That's not necessarily a bad thing paypal regularly does anti customer things like tricking people into using their credit service, not allowing people to opt out of offers for their credit service, requiring a phone call to be removed from the service after accidentally signing up for their credit service, freezing accounts with pretty much no accountability and using whatever payment method is cheapest for them by default with no option to change the default setting.

  16. Re:Kick the TV off the Network on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 2

    Doesn't roku still have ads on its main screen?
    Or did they change their mind on that?

  17. Am I understanding that this is a dual battery system so a battery hotswap would be possible?

  18. Re:It might be coming... on Gigabit Internet With No Data Caps May Be Coming To Rural America (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Funny you mention that as I'm only about 40 miles from Lavaca, AR in Sallisaw, OK. I think our biggest limiting factor here is back haul as 2Gbps costs the city 12K/mo.
    The highest speed available here is just 50/50 for $157/mo

    And I just noticed it shows that Lavaca was the first FTTP in Arkansas and sallisaw was the first FTTP in Oklahoma.

    Funny how two states managed to both start their first fiber networks less than 50 miles apart and in roughly the same year.

  19. Re:It might be coming... on Gigabit Internet With No Data Caps May Be Coming To Rural America (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That seems rather high for a 10/5 fiber. What part of the country is that? A business 10/10 fiber connection is $55/mo here. Alhough gigabit service is not available as the whole isp only has 2Gbps of backhaul.

  20. Have you seen the ads for TV free-way?

    It's like some weird parallel universe where no one's ever seen a tv antenna before and somehow they were able to do the whole commercial without ever using the word "antenna".

  21. Re:Att uverse business on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    Afaik you just ask for a business plan and they happily charge you extra. But I don't know that for sure as I don't live close enough to town to get dsl.

  22. Re:Doesn't matter on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Call support and complain they will send a tech out.

    I've had to have them come out and work on the line at work 10 times or so in the last couple of years last time they switched me to a diffrent pair to the local hub now the connection is stable and we get 12mbps instead of 6mbps.
    Although we are on our 6th modem now.

    They've never charged us for any of the service calls but they do charge about $100 each for the modems when they are out of warranty.

  23. Att uverse business on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    So are business plans still exempt? $50/mo gets 12/1mbps uverse business here without phone.

  24. Re: Media, meet reality on TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail (deepdotweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats the key part of what I was missing as a pawn the transfer is done before hand and as a repair the transfer is done after the fact I think?

    A car has a title that must be signed over so its understandable that there would be extra paperwork to sell it if they don't come back for a repair.

    Guns (at least in oklahoma) have no registion and as far as I know a gunsmith would not need to do any extra paperwork except mark it down as abandoned in their book.

    So its still something I plan to look into a bit more as this only makes sense to me if there is additional paperwork thats required if they don't pickup their gun.

    Thanks.

  25. Re: Media, meet reality on TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail (deepdotweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah so the sign that says guns left over 30 days will be sold is just for show?