Good idea, but in practice it doesn't work because these jackasses are spoofing numbers on top of their robocalling. I've had it happen more than once that they used a number that was in my contacts list. Ever since dumbass Facebook allowed people to be searched via their security number, this has been a major issue - they are simply scripting their searches to harvest numbers and forming a matching dataset with your friends/family, and then spoofing their numbers when they dial you.

They already curate to an astonishing degree, how they haven't lost their safe harbor provision under the DMCA is a bit puzzling. Then again, maybe it's because the big content companies have decided to give them a "pass" since so much of their promotional garbage is posted there prominently.

They can and they do, at least in any nation that has serial numbers attached to their paper currency. Those fancy machines don't just count the bills and denominations, but check serial numbers and anti-forgery markers. It's exactly how they are able to put their own "marked" currency into circulation, most often with a specific person or group of persons as the target to receive that currency (think: suspected drug dealers, fraudsters, etc).

That would involve the people who currently operate Slashdot to do something other than add more advertisements and annoying shit under the navigation menu.

So, a typical Matt Binder article then (no matter where he currently is, this has been his MO).

And not just that, but the way the actual vaccine works is that it doesn't prevent you from contracting measles (or becoming a carrier, and contracting it after vaccination is more akin to getting a cold than something that can kill you outright), it stimulates your immune system in such a fashion that measles can't wreck havoc on you in the way it would if you were without the vaccine. It's one of those diseases everyone should be vaccinated for just for that reason alone, let alone the fact that it kills more people than polio ever did and is even more highly contagious (it's on a similar rating to smallpox in regard to contagion factor).

With the small problem of US forces being within easy strike range of all completed gas and oil pipelines between Syria, Iran, and Russia.

The fundamental mistake in the article is assuming reddit is a social network, it is not. It's a user-curated link aggregator with a comment section, more like Hacker News (and Slashdot) in that regard than Facebook, Instagram or the other plethora of sites out there catering to the pop culture addicts.

The owners and dev team of reddit are desperately trying to monetize it, as the redesign with spaces clearly meant for ads to fit (and attempt at adding profiles) shows. But of course they are, reddit fluctuates between the 5th and 3rd most visited site on the internet. The problem is you have a userbase that is rather hostile to being monetized in this fashion. The majority of users (even the teens and graybeards) use adblockers of some sort, and are very voiciferous about doing so, including heaping insults on site admins and the company president.

What is interesting is that enticing them with things like reddit platinum/gold/silver (that removes site ads and a few other perks) works to a point. People on mobile ignore the official app and mobile site entirely in favor of apps like Joey (made by a redditor and is free of charge/doesn't display ads, even reddit ones) and Reddit Is Fun.

This all being said, screw advertisers, and I hope we drive the valuation to 0 cents per user.

Plenty of Americans want to see good content made in Europe. Unfortunately, quite a bit of it is locked behind the stingy licensing terms of organizations like the BBC, GEMMA, and BREIN, with some popular movies, music, and shows having to be bootlegged even in this day and age because they refuse to license them outright. Oh, sure, BBC will license a few, such as Dr Who or Sherlock, but then bar things such as Cold Lazarus, Doomwatch, or Ultraviolet.

With the ongoing eruption of the volcano in Hawaii, and with recent signs of Mt St Helens possibly activating, along with the volcanoes in Japan and the Aleutians that have gone active, the CO2 reduction climate goals of the Paris Accord have already become a moot point. The volcano in Hawaii alone has already expelled enough CO2 that we'd need to increase reduction by a further 8x and extend that reduction time another 100 years.

There is one (and the only) good reason: You can attach/transfer your Windows software key to your Microsoft account and this enables you to install and activate Win10 on any newly built or upgraded system without having to deal with Microsoft's tech support line.

I've used it a few times now when replacing the internals on my wife's machine - if you replace the motherboard, cpu, etc you normally will have to get Windows reactivated manually by one of their tech support operators (not sure how many activations of this sort Home has, but retail Pro has over 1,000). By having the key associated with your Microsoft Account, when you start the machine up after replacing the hardware and logging in once via your Microsoft Account, it will automatically reactivate and be valid.

Probably the fact that in the other articles about this it specifically mentions that yes, this is what they are going to be doing, and the fact that it's the wife of the project founder spearheading the effort and made the announcement, then I would take a wild guess and say, "Oui!"

Yes, but in the case of places like California, Washington State, Alaska, etc. the entire state is riddled with fault lines (and in some cases semi-active volcanoes) to the point that geothermal tapping would be an iffy proposition as you can't actively avoid their effects even if your building is 50+ miles away from the fault.

Virginia found this out a few years back when they had an earthquake hit in an area with places that use geothermal - many of the heat pump wells were seriously damaged or outright destroyed even though they were over twenty-five miles or more from the actual fault.

I gave up on them after they never really played anything I liked, even in the genres I do like. My wife still listens to it when she's taking a shower or eating lunch at work. For my needs Spotify, Google Play Music, etc have all been a better option when on the go and at home I have a massive NAS-stored digital file (.FLAC of course) + cd + vinyl collection.

Speaking of genres, that is another thing they need to spend more time fixing the accuracy of. Every now and then even my wife comments about how poorly some songs are classified when they show up for play in the app.

Did you interact with any engineers on the Chrome team to find out if they know what is causing that behavior? I'd be interested to know. Makes me curious if it has to do with the DRM for audio and video in Chrome

One thing I've noticed in my experience - if a tab has active sounds and you haven't muted it, but you're playing a game, like say Doom, then it will 100% of the time seize control of the audio system from the game and only return control after a set period of time. If the tab is muted, this doesn't happen. If you have say, a video playing in Youtube on your second monitor, then the behavior gets even more wonky as it will overlay the audio streams from both the game and the video instead of the other mentioned behavior where it simply seizes control until it emitted the completed audio.

In this case I wish I knew a way to assign and send browser audio streams explicitly to one audio device output, say a set of headphones while keeping any other audio output attached to the primary playback device (speakers). Maybe there is, but I haven't really looked into it too closely, and the default control options in Win10 and Mint don't seem to allow for anything other than changing audio device output entirely for all audio and not individual input/output streams.