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Comment Re:We kill mice for this? (Score 1) 94

There are links between graying hair and significant health related problem in people. I can indicate that you've been very stressed and/or you are getting old.
Either of those conditions carry with them health problems. In the case aging at least, even death.
Also, torturing test subject helps relieve stress in researchers.

Comment Re:Contrast (Score 1) 118

Nothing wrong with the FLAT UI. There is a reason everyone is copying the concept, including google and the open source community.

Peer pressure?
omfglearntoplay got it right. What's wrong with it, is that it makes making out the features of the ui, like buttons, harder.
Personally I use WindowBlinds to address the issue i windows 10. Currently my desktop almost looks like a win7 desktop, transparency included.

Comment Re:It's Not All About Security (Score 1) 421

BASE64 encoding?:)
If you have local admin you can overwrite the group policies.
You run your script via the task scheduler on start, logon and whenever else you think they might try to push policies to your computer.
While it may not solve your main problem, it might at least make other things a bit more bearable.
Communications

What Lies Beneath: The First Transatlantic Communications Cables (hackaday.com) 49

szczys writes: Our global information networks are connected by many many fibre optic cables sitting on the the ocean floor. The precursor to this technology goes all the way back to 1858 when the first telegraph cable connecting North America and Europe was laid. The story of efforts to lay transatlantic cables is fascinating. First attempts were met with many failures including broken cable in the first few miles of installation, and even frying the first successful connection with 2000 volts within a month of completion. But the technology improved quickly and just a century later we laid the first voice cables that used — get this — vacuum tubes in the signal repeaters. This seems a good time to link to one of my favorite-ever pieces in Wired, about a more modern but similarly impressive cable install, as told by Neal Stephenson.
Bug

Comodo Antivirus Tech Support Feature Lets Anyone Connect To Your PC (softpedia.com) 33

An anonymous reader writes: Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has discovered that one of Comodo's tech support tools packed with many of the company's security products leaves the door open for attackers to connect with admin privileges on the user's PC. He discovered that to blame for this problem was a remote desktop tool called GeekBuddy, which Comodo was bundling with its security software. This tool either used no password, or used a simple system to create the password which tech support staff would use to connect to user PCs. Ormandy previously discovered a similar issue in Comodo software, related to the company's Chromodo browser.

Comment Re:SamKnows from the FCC (Score 1) 294

Cable? Wouldn't know about that market, since I don't watch TV.

But I do have FTTH and eight different ISP:s to chose from.
My current fiber options:
http://skb.qmarket.se/privat/b...
I live in stockholm, btw.

Google claims that "1 US Dollar equals 7.22 Swedish Krona", if you wish to do a price comparison.

There are plenty more ISP:s if you prefer ADSL. Don't know why you're so hung up on cable. There are plenty of other options.

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