Comment agreed, but what else? (Score 1) 5
Any decent alternatives?
slashdot, reddit and ycombinator make up 99% of my info diet, i want more variety and depth. Reddit sucks now too, they completed a$$ folked they voting system.
Comment Re: Baked-in Toolbar Crap (Score 1) 25
I agree with you.
Comment Re:Evolutionary Intent vs Random Accidents (Score 1) 262
You should check out Eva Vertes's Ted Talk, there may be more in common between different types of cancer than we think, and the solution if we ever find it may be universal.
P.S. How did the new windows 10 laptop installation go?
Comment Turn most things off (Score 1) 1
I do computer repair on the side, and recently was asked to "clean up" a windows 10 alienware laptop, (maybe 2 months old)
It was crawling, spyware, malware, telemetry. I couldnt open a command prompt, let alone a web browser.
In the interest of time, the client was okay with doing a fresh OS installation.
I created a windows 10 installation USB using the Microsoft tool, and booted into it. Cleared all of the partitions and created one big partition, minus the automatically generated 100mb windows boot area.
The installer detected the product key automatically.
While installing I selected turned every option to "off" and "skipped" everything else. This also allowed me to create a traditional login name, rather than an email address.
Once in the system I did my normal tweaks: turn off "slide" and "fade" options in Advanced System Settings. Forced explorer to show all file extensions and hidden folders, and make the task bar only collapse applications when full.
I unpinned everything from the start menu, hid a bunch of the menu links like "Music" and "Pictures", and uninstalled many of the preinstalled programs including the Office 365 Advertisement.
I also chose to use Smart PC Utilities' "PC Services Optimizer" and ninite.com to install firefox, chrome, teracopy, windirstat, 7-zip, java, foxit, and libre office.
Created a restore point and delivered the product.
Submission + - American Schools Teaching Kids to Code All Wrong 1
theodp writes: Over at Quartz, Globaloria CEO Idit Harel argues that American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong. She writes, "The light and fluffy version of computer science — which is proliferating as a superficial response to the increased need for coders in the workplace — is a phenomenon I refer to as 'pop computing.' While calling all policy makers and education leaders to consider 'computer science education for all' is a good thing, the coding culture promoted by Code.org and its library of movie-branded coding apps provide quick experiences of drag-and-drop code entertainment. This accessible attraction can be catchy, it may not lead to harder projects that deepen understanding." You mean the "first President to write a line of computer code" may not progressed much beyond moving Disney Princess Elsa forward?
Submission + - SPAM: Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots
An anonymous reader writes: In a bid to accelerate growth and reduce labor costs, Apple supplier Foxconn cut 60,000 jobs at a single factory, work that is now being completed by robots. As many as 600 companies in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Kunshan may have similar plans to automate their workforce, according to a government survey. Foxconn spokesperson Xu Yulian said, “The Foxconn factory has reduced its employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots. It has tasted success in reduction of labor costs.” He added, “More companies are likely to follow suit.”
These changes are spurred in part by a desire to reduce labor costs, but have also been made in response to an explosion at a Kunshan factory in 2014 that killed 146 people. The explosion was attributed to unsafe working conditions in the Taiwanese-owned metal polishing factory, which were recognized and documented. After the explosion, the local government pledged 2 billion yuan per year in subsidies to support companies that install industrial robots on their production lines.
These changes are spurred in part by a desire to reduce labor costs, but have also been made in response to an explosion at a Kunshan factory in 2014 that killed 146 people. The explosion was attributed to unsafe working conditions in the Taiwanese-owned metal polishing factory, which were recognized and documented. After the explosion, the local government pledged 2 billion yuan per year in subsidies to support companies that install industrial robots on their production lines.
Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 113
I dont know who down-voted you, but I agree with you.
Submission + - Schools are helping police spy on kids' social media activity (washingtonpost.com)
schwit1 writes: Schools in Florida are renewing a program that monitors theirstudents'social media activity for criminal or threatening behavior, although it has caused somecontroversy since its adoption last year.
The school system in Orange County, where Orlando is located, recentlytold the Orlando Sentinel that the program,which partners the school system with local police departments,has been successful in protecting students' safety, saying that itled to12police investigations in the past year. Theschool district says it will pay about $18,000 annually for SnapTrends, the monitoring software used tocheckstudents' activity. It's the same softwareused by police in Racine, Wis., totrackcriminal activity and joins a slew of similar social media monitoring software usedby law enforcement to keep an eye on the community.
SnapTrendscollects datafrom public posts on students'social mediaaccounts byscanning for keywords that signify cases of cyberbullying, suicide threats, or criminal activity.School security staff thencomb throughflaggedposts andalert police when they see fit. Research suggeststhat 23 percent of children and teens have been cyberbullied. Studiesconnecting social media and suicide have not shown definitive results, but there has been research that suggests that cyberbullying leads to suicide ideation more than traditional bullying.
Nowhere in the article is there a mention of parental participation in the program or parental approval in kids being monitored.
The school system in Orange County, where Orlando is located, recentlytold the Orlando Sentinel that the program,which partners the school system with local police departments,has been successful in protecting students' safety, saying that itled to12police investigations in the past year. Theschool district says it will pay about $18,000 annually for SnapTrends, the monitoring software used tocheckstudents' activity. It's the same softwareused by police in Racine, Wis., totrackcriminal activity and joins a slew of similar social media monitoring software usedby law enforcement to keep an eye on the community.
SnapTrendscollects datafrom public posts on students'social mediaaccounts byscanning for keywords that signify cases of cyberbullying, suicide threats, or criminal activity.School security staff thencomb throughflaggedposts andalert police when they see fit. Research suggeststhat 23 percent of children and teens have been cyberbullied. Studiesconnecting social media and suicide have not shown definitive results, but there has been research that suggests that cyberbullying leads to suicide ideation more than traditional bullying.
Nowhere in the article is there a mention of parental participation in the program or parental approval in kids being monitored.
Comment Re:Neither.. (Score 1) 3
The only way to be assured is by disconnecting the wires to the microphone, and all speakers. Yes, I said speakers. You can pipe the audio settings to use speakers as microphones.
Wow, i did not know that. http://hackaday.com/2007/10/27...
Submission + - Man deletes his entire company with one line of bad code (independent.co.uk)
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Marco Marsala appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, the hosting provider has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers. Marsala wrote on a Centos help forum, "I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script)." The terse "rm -rf" is so famously destructive that it has become a joke within some computing circles, but not to this guy. Can this example finally serve as a textbook example of why you need to make offsite backups that are physically removed from the systems you're archiving?
Comment Re: 100 year old survival knowledge in PDF files?? (Score 1) 272
My idea was to use micropheesh (spelling?) great way to compress large amounts of data and still readable with a makeshift projecter using a candle and a magnifying lense.
Another advantage is that you can more easily hide this library from mauraders.
another advantage is you could print information that is useful early on in larger font, and have information about advanced technology in smaller font (requiring) more sophistocated projectors
anyway thats my idea, "share alike" ;)
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