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Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:17AM (#15275166)
The OS does it by itself. It even includes an application so you can do it yourself if you want which is called "Disk Cleanup".
In Spain, you as a website admin can be found liable for unlawful messages left by your users too. So it's not like this is unexpectedly repressive for me.

A verdict that shows so: http://www.asesoriayempresas.es/jurisprudencia/JURIDICO/1959...

Re:Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:29AM (#15269144)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's very difficult to find good laptops with 4:3 or even 16:10 screens these days. Heck, it's very difficult to find good monitors with aspect ratios other than 16:9!
Re:Energy Efficiency in Programming Languages on Saturday September 16, 2017 @10:58AM (#15264907)
Most Android apps use a handful of native code libraries which are bundled inside the apk. It's usual nowadays to only write the UI using Java and use C for the rest.
Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins on Saturday September 16, 2017 @10:11AM (#15264713)
If you can't see the difference between showing an ad and mining bitcoin using your visitors' computers without their knowledge, you deserved to lose half your visitors.
Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins on Saturday September 16, 2017 @09:09AM (#15264504)
If this included they kind of code in a big % of websites, wouldn't this make the difficulty of getting new blocks so high that it would become an inefficient way of mining?
Re:ThePirateBay.org is making users mine Bitcoins on Saturday September 16, 2017 @09:08AM (#15264499)
Zealous antivirus? More like good antivirus...
Re:There Are Only Four Billion Floats, So Test Them All (2014) on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:24PM (#15253321)
Funny he complains so much about incorrect rounding without doing any research: that's called bankers' rounding.

http://wiki.c2.com/?BankersRounding

Re:Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:25PM (#15250954)
I on the other hand enjoy having high taxes (i.e. good services) and lower wages while the US creates all the products I need and it is them who are on the brink of a civil war over inequality.
Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:54PM (#15250609)
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Re:How to Live Without Google on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:18AM (#15247174)
If you care about your privacy you won't upload your stuff to iCloud.
Re:Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:32AM (#15246543)
I mean the decentralised services of today, no need to write a snark response. THink XMPP, or Mastodon.
Re:Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:39AM (#15246295)
Decentralised services always come out years later centralised services are launched and their only raison d'etre is not having the rules of those services.