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Re:ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:02PM (#22270253)
Try disabling the trackpad and then just use the trackpoint.
Like Ubuntu Phone, Firefox OS, etc.
Worldwide, Apple has around a 12% marketshare for smartphones.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor

I'm trying to find information on what sections of Google/Alphabet make what revenue. How do you know that AdWords in the majority of their advertising revenue?
Re:Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:31PM (#22268417)
Phones already support wireless charging. Why remove wired charging because you don't use it? It is harder to use a phone while it is on a wireless charger vs use a wired charger.
Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:37PM (#22260029)
"Sub-par" in this context meaning significantly higher chance of dying.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/12/hospital-dea...

Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:27PM (#22259948)
If you owe a bank thousands, you have a problem; owe a bank millions, the bank has a problem. It isn't in hospitals best interest to have people go bankrupt.
Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:34PM (#22259454)
Netflix recomends a 25 Mbps download speed to watch UHD but according to some redditor it is actually at 15.6[1].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/5lc2nl/what_bitrat...

Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:30PM (#22259416)
Many popular Netflix originals have been released on Blu-Ray.
Re:Why did Vikings have 'Allah' embroidered into funeral clothes? on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:01PM (#22249971)
I'm pretty sure that depends on which "Vikings" you are talking about, Swedes vs Danes & Norwegians. Also vikings refers to people engaged in raiding, so people who were engaged in trade would not be vikings.
But more than the current amount will help crops grow better and prevent people from freezing to death in winter.
Re:Swift Crypto on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:41PM (#22228111)
That allows them to avoid the problem, but why introduce the problem in the first place? Why not use something that is intended to be used as a crypto library?
Re:Swift Crypto on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:56PM (#22227583)
Why was BoringSSL chosen as the backend? According to Google,

> Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/

Re:Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:36PM (#22226554)
He mentioned it near the end of the article. Durgod Taurus K320 TKL

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078H3WPHM

Climate is long term patterns. Weather is what is happening at a specific time. If the distinction wasn't made then someone could argue that a cold winter day disproves warming.
But is does imply that implementing specific policies to counteract what specific models predict might not be the best idea.
Are you asking about the weather in one specific year? Weather is not climate.
Why is a 1.5° maximum a target that should be aimed for? William Nordhaus says a 3.5° maximum is the optimal target. His models show that a 3.5° maximum would result in a net benefit of 30 trillion whereas a 2.5° maximum would be a detriment of 50 trillion[1]. That is to say the reduction in damage would be far less than the cost of implementing such a policy. The cost for a 1.5° maximum target would be even more severe.

[1]W. Nordhaus, “Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 333–360, Aug. 2018, doi: 10.1257/pol.20170046.

edit: This comment is currently sitting at -2. If you think a 1.5° target is optimal, you should explain why you think so rather than just down voting this post. The paper I linked to is by William Nordhaus who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2018 for his work related to the economics of climate change.

It certainly does hurt the credibility of people saying we need drastic changes now based upon the models. If the answer might change next year, then making a drastic change based upon the current projections seems foolhardy.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:29PM (#22204740)
Why not just continue using the dkms module?
Perhaps government should be made less complex.
Re:AGPL License on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:37AM (#22201957)
IMO, the goal of open source licenses is to encourage more usage of open source. If AGPL is preventing companies from using it, then it is accomplishing the opposite.
With the first method, you can use xargs to run multiple copies of grep running in parallel like he did later in the article.
Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:52AM (#22191255)
The transactions are public but the reasons for them are not. Usually ransomware victims don't publicize the fact that they were attacked. Even if they do, they additionally don't publish in which transaction they transferred the ransom. There isn't a practical to determine whether a specific transaction that a wallet received was from ransomware.
Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:48AM (#22191226)
I believe in the case of a mixer, you need a trusted third party to be the mixer.
Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:29AM (#22191154)
I think this Wired article provides a good explanation for how stolen Bitcoins should be handled.

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-blockchain-fifo-dirty-co...

Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:28AM (#22191147)
Does a mugger steal anything? You "willingly" hand them your wallet. In the cryptolocker case, it is to recover your locked file. In the mugger case, it is to not get stabbed.
Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:24AM (#22191124)
Don't pawn shops hold items because they are essentially lending money with the item as collateral. They don't sell the items right away because the person that sold them to the pawn shop has the right to repay the loan and reclaim the item within a certain period of time.
Re:Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent) on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:41PM (#22183413)
> If LinkedIn wanted to force users to sign in to view profile info

Do they not already do this? Every link I've ever seen for LinkedIn has redirected me to sign up page rather than showing me the content.

Re:Microsoft Application Inspector on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:55PM (#22171989)
The README has been updated since your comment to include:

> The tool supports scanning various programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Python, Objective-C, Go, Rudy, Powershell and more

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