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Comment Re:Sometimes everybody involved sucks. (Score 1) 60

Musk was convicted of securities fraud and given a slap on the wrist by the SEC.

He paid 20 million dollar fine for one (admittedly very stupid) twit. I wouldn't call it a "slap on the wrist"..

He's the second richest person on the planet, worth over 100 billion dollars. That's a slap on the wrist. That's pocket change to him.

Comment This is how to disable it (Score 1) 102

Having telemetry disabled won't stop the new scheduled task from being installed. And disabling or deleting the task only works until the next firefox update, which re-enables it. This will stop it from doing that:

Firefox 75 has a new policy setting, DisableDefaultBrowserAgent, set it to 1.
There are a few ways of creating firefox policies. On my Win 7 box, I added the following registry entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]
"DisableDefaultBrowserAgent"=dword:00000001

Comment Re:Wait, seriously? (Score 1) 75

We're treating RT and ZeroHedge as legitimate sources now?

"When you cannot attack the message, attack the messenger."

CIA playbook is so transparent.

RT = Russia Today = the propaganda arm of the Russian government. Sometimes the messenger needs to be attacked.

Comment Re:A load of crap. Cloudflare is secure (Score 2) 301

I already set my DNS servers to cloudflare (1.1.1.1) when they launched their service. Now I can use it over https so no one along the network path can snoop my dns queries. If there is a faster or more private dns service, I'd like to know about it so I can switch to it.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:Only conservative Republicans affected (Score 1, Insightful) 726

It's a shift that diminishes their reach on the platform -- and it's the same one being deployed against prominent racists to limit their visibility

Considering the leader of the party (the president) is a prominent racist, and racism is a problem endemic almost exclusively to the party and its followers, I expect it's working as designed.

Comment Re:Not a Surprise (Score 1) 183

People with ADD do have atypical reactions to stimulants... it calms them down. I had serious ADHD as a kid, and taking amphetamine (dexedrine) controlled it. I mostly outgrew it, but as an adult decades later, I can drink a bunch of caffeine at night and have no trouble sleeping.

There is, however, one thing about this that's surprising--and that's that you get the same kind of effects in normal people. One of the old methods for confirming an ADD diagnosis is that you had an atypical reaction to stimulants...which Adderall and Ritalin are. To be specific, they're amphetamines...

Comment Re:Probably not confidential under California law (Score 2, Funny) 73

Secondly, California laws says it's not protected when the parties "may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded". (Note the word "may", may be overheard, not "will be overheard".

I can reasonably expect that the NSA or another agency may be listening. So I'm free to record any call then?

Comment Re:Braess' paradox Another possible reason (Score 3, Informative) 245

I RTFA and it does say it wasn't carpool lanes that were removed... 3 passengers were required to use the road at all.

So if you remove the 3-passenger requirement, capacity will not change but usage will increase, so of course it will slow down. If you change a carpool lane into a regular lane, capacity will increase, and depending on how much usage increases traffic can speed up or slow down.

Read the summary again, it's not a carpool lane, it's ALL traffic.

Whoever wrote the article needs a kick in the crotch.

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