Comment Oh the Irony... (Score 1) 227
Of esports being derided by the home of DREAMHACK a Swedish org that hosts insanely large LAN Parties & E-sports events...
Comment Well it's 'blocked' in the UK.... (Score 5, Informative) 24
Meaning you can't access it via the usual means.
So google, will see no traffic from the UK to the site -> therefore the sites ranking falls. Makes sense really?
Comment Don't shout at your JBOD! (Score 2) 65
Remember: NEVER SHOUT AT YOUR JBOD!.
It's not yelling, if it's yelling?
T-Mobile, Sprint Close To Agreeing Deal Terms (reuters.com) 85
From a report: T-Mobile US is close to agreeing tentative terms on a deal to merge with peer Sprint Corp, people familiar with the matter said on Friday, a major breakthrough in efforts to merge the third and fourth largest U.S. wireless carriers. The development follows more than four months of on-and-off talks this year between T-Mobile and Sprint, and comes as the U.S. telecommunications sector seeks ways to tackle investments in 5G technology that will greatly enhance wireless data transfer speeds.
Comment Re:Yelp's days are numbered (Score 1) 61
If that's true, it's even funnier that they are scrapping the fact they produce the yellow pages in the uk, becoming a 'online only' company.
I presume this is the same company that published the yellow pages....
Comment Re:Math Fail (Score 1) 72
You all fail.
Comment But it says the patent applies to laptops too... (Score 1) 113
From the patent... : '3. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said communications device comprises one of: a hand held computer, a laptop computer and a wireless Internet access device.'
Have laptops not been detecting falling situations from far before this came along?
Comment Re:FDIC (Score 4, Insightful) 165
You missed the fact that the brokers have been hacked, time and time again, but then again banks seem to like leaving our details out anyway, so they are hardly who I'd turn to for trust worthy storage either
Comment A costly mistake... (Score 1) 228
There's no point in having a robot move bricks a human can move. Human sized bricks are human sized, because humans suck for moving something bigger.
Show me a robot that just places an entire wall in one go.
Comment Re:almost as idiotic as not backing up... (Score 1) 765
I think my sig says it all.
Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com) 80
Lenovo is canning its Vibe Pure UI Android skin in favor of the stock version of Google's mobile OS for its future smartphones, starting with the upcoming K8 Note, according to an interview from Gadgets 360 with Anuj Sharma, Lenovo India's head of marketing. From a report: Lenovo has confirmed that going forward, it will be abandoning its Vibe Pure UI Android customisation which ran on top of its recent Android smartphones in almost all markets. "What we have done in last 11 months is we looked at what we had in terms of software perspective. We have been close to the consumers and we saw what they were asking for. There was a certain trend and we have now decided to cut the Vibe Pure UI off from our phones. So you will now get the stock Android which consumers have been asking for," Sharma told Gadgets 360.
Microsoft Accidentally Released Internal Windows 10 Development Builds (theverge.com) 76
Microsoft is apologizing for mistakenly releasing some confidential and internal Windows 10 builds to the public. "Builds from some of our internal branches were accidentally released for PC and Mobile," reveals Dona Sarkar, Microsoft's head of its Windows Insiders program. "This happened because an inadvertent deployment to the engineering system that controls which builds / which rings to push out to insiders." The Verge reports: Microsoft says it quickly reverted the issue and put blocks in place to ensure these development builds didn't reach more people, but a "small portion" of Windows 10 users still received them. Worryingly, the accidental mobile build even reached retail devices outside of Microsoft's Windows Insiders testing. If Windows 10 testers installed the mobile build it forced phones into a reboot loop and bricked the device. Testers will have to recover and wipe the device using the Windows Device Recovery Tool. Windows 10 testers that installed the PC build, an internal Edge branch, will have to wait for Microsoft to publish a newer build or roll back using the recovery option in Windows 10 settings.
Comment Re:Virtual Private Raid (Score 1) 151
However the chances of your kneecaps giving way is very high.
Comment Re:Criminals hacked master key? (Score 1) 87
It's not only teamviewer. They used to use logmein too, until they stopped free accounts. There's another tool that starts w/ an S (splashtop?) idk but my mother in law just got hit w/ that one... Payed 250 to hand over the keys to her machine and then turn off her AV and firewalls have them download the free version of Norton from Comcast which interestingly didn't detect their malware, and installed malware to keep it from being turned on for anything but on demand scans. Luckily MWB found it. I'm in the process of gathering her data off that drive pre-nuke later today.
Classic "We're from Microsoft" scam, certainly not the tools fault! Could be done just as easily with any other client. Personally, I find Teamviewer to be an awesome workaround for me.
Comment Re: partial solution (Score 1) 87
yeah, and a lot of those fraudsters have already switched to other RA clients, just worked on a machine hit w/ one this weekend. (ughh, but hey, at least it wasn't ransomeware...)
