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* Posts by ProbablyUnknown

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RIP Dyn Dynamic DNS :'( Oracle to end Dyn-asty by axing freshly gobbled services, shoving customers into its cloud

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Re: Expiry Date Never

Started using DYN back in the early 2000's and was grandfathered in as a supporter too. But really, haven't needed it for 10 years. Time to dust off the old account and see what's new.

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Das geeks hit crowdfunding target: IBM mainframes are coming home

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Re: All they need now is ..

Great story. I remember seeing tabulating machines as a child in the 60's and thinking, this is the future.

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TP-Link 'smart' router proves to be anything but smart – just like its maker: Zero-day vuln dropped after silence

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I've tried contacting TP-Link and they seem to abandon hardware in favour of consumer purchasing the next model. That doesn't work for me and really disappointed with most residential router manufactures. This nonsense needs to change or bring in legislation requiring retailers to plant a big sticker on these things saying not secure and no longer updated by manufacture.

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Google takes a page from Microsoft of old and revives browser ballot on Android

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Re: Apple too?

The devices we carry in our pockets should cloud, our better judgement. This debate shouldn't be limited to a browser, search engine and Apple is about as far from perfect as anyone else.

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Re: mostly Goolag-free

Agreed. Sure wish all the used car dealers that have found a second lease on life with web marketing and design would stop peddling every Google spyware service too. You know, the 10MB page, with 1minute load times and 400 requests.

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Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

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I wonder who'll bail them out next?

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Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

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I'm not so sure tiles was the main factor to the demise of WM. I think, the power of the use anything else, just because crowd mislead everyone in to believing Android and Apple protected our privacy, were safer and weren't greedy as the main reason and then the app gap began. History has proven, no phone is invincible to failure.

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I'm not sure what's worse. Their phone or that they've suggested using of one of the other two. I'm just about at a point of going back to landline.

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It's 2019, and from Beijing to Blighty folk are still worried about slurp-happy apps

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Re: And people look at me funny...

Sadly, most don't care what their phone, Google or Facebook does "because they've got nothing to hide" but suddenly get their panties in a bunch if their PC or tablet leaks the same information..

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And a reason why I don't use many apps. If sites demand scripts to view my personal information as a prerequisite to visit their site, I simply move on.

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Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal

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Re: Very disrespectful

Surely, you can't compare clever jokes to a total lack of decency and gross human rights violations?

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If you beat the insurmountable odds to become a scientist, capable of writing papers (not doodling with crayons) and a Trump supporter, that in and of itself would be news worthy and I'd gladly eat crow. But lets be honest for a second. Trump supporters "ain't got's the time for all that science kinda stuffs".

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Jingle bells, disk drives sell not so well from today. Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open array...

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Just a little marketing and a pre-loaded 10TB Portable Porn Drive (PPD) © may help keep their legacy dreams/drives alive.

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