Comment What? (Score 1) 87
Only 100 - that can't be. NSA is not that understaffed!
Comment Do judges understand the Internet? (Score 1) 153
There is a right to remove the reference on a search engine but the source still exists...
How many search engines are there?
Juristriction over a particular search engine is from where?
Nice try!
Comment Re:Who knows (Score 1) 218
Huh?
-Line spacing (and spacing in general) is controlled by the cozy/comfortable/compact options in the settings drop-down (the gear in the top right).
- Line spacing - run both versions in different tabs on the same browser and count the lines if you can and find the difference.
-Ctrl+clicking opens emails in a new tab just fine. As a Slashdot grumpy old man, I'd hope you know your shortcut-fu!
- Ctrl+clicking is more effort than mouse-over and right click, no other movement is needed on keyboard. As you may notice, to Ctrl+click you need both hands. Mouse-over right-click only one, therefore quicker. Any extra movement on a computer is repeated zillion times and one movement less is a zillion time less repetive movement.
Many people working on computers have neck/shoulder/upper back issues from repeated unnatural use of their bodies. Mouse-shoulder higher, trapezius assymmetric, tighter on mouse-side etc.
-"Mailboxes"? I assume you mean labels? You can select which ones show without having to click on "More" by going in the "Labels" settings page. There are a lot of controls there, even.
With label selections on html, there is one scrollbar, on the current, there is a 2nd, the process to select a label is more complex and jumpy - second scrollbar, new orientation, point mouse on 2. scrollbar, then reorient. The interface is in control, the user has to follow. With one scrollbar, the user controls more.
I feel like people, when presented with a new interface, never try to even look at it before balking off. Just a bit of actually using the interface and trying its various features can be extremely beneficial and takes only a few minutes.
Yawn....
Comment Who knows (Score 2) 218
what they're up to again...
The current Gmail interface was a step back in usability (for me).
- wider line spacing, less emails to see
- cannot click on emails to open in another tab
- mailboxes are not visible - have to be clicked on to expand
I always have a tab open with the "old" html version and get notified that I am missing out on something...
The only thing on the current version I find better is the autorefresh to show new messages.
One of my low priority projects is to get completely off Gmail - the NSL calamity...
Comment Re:And the choice is... (Score 1) 293
XP-64? Egads! WHY?
Just for the sarcastic fun of it.
Today, I loaded the W8.1 disk again, just to try if it works any better.
- did all the upgrades
- tested (VPN to work through a VMware image) and failed hopelessly
The same test and necessity works fine under with the identical VMware image under W8 and I just don't have the mutherfucking time to sort this out to get it going under W8.1.
The W8.1 was a install/upgrade from a functional W8 and so it is after May 8:
W8 unpatched
W8.1 dysfuctional
I really could kick somebodies butt for this!
Comment And the choice is... (Score 1) 293
runnig
W8 unpatched
W8.1 dysfuctional
I have them both, on 2 separate disks and like neither... Maybe going back to XP-64 would not make a difference then...
Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All 332
Ars Technica has nothing good to say about the scientific understanding (or at least public understanding) that led Portland to drain 38 million gallons of water after a teenage prankster urinated into the city's water supply. Maybe SCADA systems shouldn't be quite as high on the list of dangers, when major utilities can be quite this brittle even without a high-skill attack.
Comment Old story (Score 1) 467
How many (%) excpect to go to heaven (or equivalent, based on believe-system)?
Much higher than those puny 56 %, and millenia older as well...
Comment What works (Score 1) 342
is a fee - best a federal tax - per trade. That will put brakes on that whole nonsene but never fly with those bribed polititians, regrettably.
All that delay stuff is baloney!
Comment It's a "boys club" (Score 3, Insightful) 207
with people totally disconnected from the consequences of their actions, driven by some idea and illusion in their head doing the "right thing", not to use he term "pervert", which in fact this is coming from.....
Comment For Chrissssssake! (Score 1) 103
Who is talking? A lawyer!
Anyone getting a NSL K N O W S about it but goes to jail if s/he talks about it.
Comment Whom are the trying to kid? (Score 1) 61
With NSL's and the mandatory gag order....
Comment Harsh? (Score 1) 20
OmG - how sensitive, have your live-feeding umilical cord ripped apart...
Comment info only (Score 1) 273
This is a Snowden video interview:
http://www.isidewith.com/news/...
I don't know if that has been posted here before nor if the claim that NONE of US media have published this or if it was removed from YouTube shortly after publishing.
For what it's worth. Informative for sure, seen as it stands.
Comment Ah, (Score 2) 69
one can see those effects on freeways.
Round truck tire carcasses on the roadside.
Mysterious reason:
Rotational forces overcome structural integrity and thing goes bust.
Maybe use Hubble to zoom in on one of those smoking tires and document the event?
