Posts by KH

It could turn out alright for Intel. Maybe they'll sell a whole bunch of new chips because of it. Equifax certainly picked up a lot of new credit-watching-service clients when they released leaked millions of users' data. Financially speaking, it's probably the best thing they ever did for their bottom line. Some punishment. People are dumb, and keep going back to the idiots that burned them, despite their lousy performance records. (Think TSA, for example)

Data breeches and design flaws -- the sex tapes of the business world! ;)

YES! Fine the companies that the spam is advertising for! They can claim they didn't order it, and I guess there's a REALLY SMALL chance a spammer could do an un-ordered blast just to get them fined because they hate them, but 99.99% of the time, if you get an unwanted spam (email or text), it's because the advertised company paid for the campaign. It smells like a duck, it walks like a duck, and the sh*tbag company paid for that duck to take its walk. Fine the perps! In fact, make a system where consumers can turn over spam messages and an automatically fine is generated against the advertised company! When these things cost more than they earn back, and the companies become afraid to send them out without 100% knowing the recipients want them, that's when spam will stop.

Never happen though.

"Everywhere AT&T doesn't have strong coverage yet"

Just small towns, like Houston. Everywhere I go, 1 to 2 bars. Page timeouts. I wish all the carriers would spend less $$ yelling at competitors in TV commercials about who has the best coverage, and actually spend some money actually giving us good coverage.

Forks are already out. Try Waterfox

"Will someone fork Firefox to support the old extensions? Probably"

There's already two forks of Firefox that allow the old extensions. One is based off Firefox v38, and is called Pale Moon (haven't tried), and the other is based from Firefox v53, called Waterfox. Using Waterfox right now, and it's great. All the "reporting home" stuff is stripped out (see their site for feature list: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/). Some sites that wouldn't work properly in Firefox actually work under Waterfox too! eg, Logging into Ebay frequently froze in Firefox, due to interactions with LastPass. Under Waterfox, all is great again!

If FB addition exploits a weakness in human psychology, then those of us that don't bother with it must be the only ones without psychological problems? Seems about right to me!

No removable battery = not in my pocket

Last HTC I had, I ended up having to abandon and upgrade past it, simply because the battery wouldn't hold much charge anymore. I didn't want to, but I had no choice. I vowed never again with HTC unless they change their designs to allow me to replace the battery myself (which is also handy for hard reboots when crashes go deep.) No user-replaceable battery means I won't be getting one.

Safe for me

There's no auto-run on Linux. It's a safe practice to plug in random USB sticks. Windows users get what they get.