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    Microsoft Updated its terms of service

    What version of Win10 is that? I still get "Sign in without a Microsoft account" (as detailed here: https://4sysops.com/archives/install-windows-10-with-a-local-account/ ) when installing Pro or Enterprise. I have not touched a MS "home" product in years.
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    warm deal?? Samsung NU8000

    I have the 75" version of this TV and while it is a decent TV, I wish I had shelled out for the Q series.. The gamma gradient from the backlight is very uneven, only really noticeable on an all white screen (like snow) but it annoys me.
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    Windows 10 Pro Has Amnesia and Wants You Buy a New Copy from the Windows Store

    On reinstall you can hit this issue as well. If that is what is happening, then it is actually an easy fix follow the instructions here and you will be able to choose Pro on install: https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-select-pro-edition-while-installing-windows-10/ I have had to do this at...
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    Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All US Employees

    The narrative that the "expanding income gap" is a huge issue, is just that: a narrative, and not truth: For the first time ever, more than 50% of the world is middle income...
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    European Parliament Passes Controversial Copyright Bill

    Well EU, it was nice to know you on the Internet, enjoy your intranet going forward. Time to start blocking access from EU IPs again for yet another reason. (or just call every website a Wiki I guess)
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    Is this SSD a goner?

    Did you try it via SATA and not through the external case? Could be the case's USB to SATA that is unhappy.
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    NEWB to RAID setup little help please

    I really doubt it would delete files out of backup that you deleted, that kind of negates the purpose of backup.
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    Meet the Professor Who Says Facial Recognition Can Tell If You’re Gay

    if you had bothered to read the article: "the algorithm was trained to distinguish the two in 81% of cases involving images of men and 74% of photographs of women. Human judges, by contrast, were able to identify the straight and gay people in 61% and 54% of cases, respectively. When the...
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    The end of Tintri?

    ~1200 total customers in 10 years.. Not worth taking on the $100,000,000 in debt. Maybe someone will snap up something after bankruptcy, but no one wants the liability. Would you pay ~$85,000 for each existing customer you have to support that won't be paying that much for support contracts...
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    NEWB to RAID setup little help please

    Incremental backups only add what has changed since the last backup, full backups would be a full copy each time.
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    NEWB to RAID setup little help please

    I would recommend leaving it in it's external enclosure and scheduling a backup job to periodically (at your comfort level) backup the data to the drive. (that way it doesn't require you remembering to do it). RAID is not backup, it is not for data retention (it sometimes accomplishes this as a...
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    The end of Tintri?

    I am running a couple at work, we are discussing options, they aren't our only storage but still sucks.
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    China Stealing US Tech

    So while this may seem unrelated, it actually helps explains this to an extent: Confucianism essentially teaches that it is morally wrong to individually profit off an idea, thus their gleeful IP theft. Their world view tells them they are doing the good, morally correct thing in doing what...
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    Tesla to Close a Dozen Solar Facilities in 9 States

    I wonder if the Solar Panel Tariffs are part of the story?
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    This Startup Got $40 Million to Build a Space Catapult

    For, sure more. Think NASA's G" simulator (that spins astronauts till they pass out from G force load) only much bigger and faster. Even if you ramp it up slowly, it's the spinning that will create the G force, not the acceleration.
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    The First Real Flying Car Is Open for Test Flights

    Hmm it would be more efficient with one larger blade turning slower, then maybe one horizontal to counter torque, and if you put it above the cabin you are less likely to walk into it.. Just a few simple suggestions, maybe even a better name: helicopter.
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    Selling my 8350 box - Best way to wipe

    https://dban.org/
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    Facebook Fined $33 Million for Failing to Help Brazilian Authorities

    I am not even sure Facebook can give the courts the data they are asking for. Isn't WhatsAPP encrypted end to end? So FB wouldn't even have a decrypted copy of the data..
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    Cloudflare Announces 1.1.1.1: The Fastest, Privacy-First Consumer DNS Service

    Did anyone read the article, it isn't about using 1.1.1.1 as your DNS server, it is about using their DNS over HTTPS client to get your DNS via an encrypted path that can't be nabbed in route. (your ISP could redirect all DNS traffic to their server and you would never know)
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    Boeing Hit by WannaCry Virus but it Caused Little Damage

    The patch for WannaCry is only is only a year old, I mean you can't expect people to patch their computers every year can you?
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper TIM Application

    So umm, no summary of findings without watching the video? How about something written for those of us at work??
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    BitchinFast 3D 2000 BungholioMarks

    That has to be an Abit - BP6 with dual Celerons - overclocked of course.
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    Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Sets a Record of 3M Concurrent Players on Steam

    All of this and no one has said what PUBG is.. Let me try guessing: Panda Underground Bus Gala Portly Unwashed Bumbling Gamers Public Urinating Behind Grandma's I guess if 3 million people play it, that means all 2 billion on the internet should know what it is magically..
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    M.2 SSD from laptop to desktop?

    Try a standard SATA port on the motherboard.. going though the Areca throws unneeded extra variables into the mix.
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    Netflix Places Limits on How Many Times You Can Download Certain Content

    Yay, way to encourage people to find a way to crack your DRM, or alternatively find a non gimped illegal copy of the movie.. It's like movie execs go to a shooting range and the first question they ask is "how do I shoot myself in the foot with this, and how often can I do that?"
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    'Sorry, I've Forgotten my Decryption Password' is Contempt of Court

    Several issues with that besides the privacy ones. Encryption is math, it's not some magic thing that only a few have access to, you can't make math illegal. So open source encryption already exists, and is already being made by many companies / projects all over the world. You are not going...
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    Gorgeous Footage Makes Me Want to Spend My Money on a Jetpack

    Same guys featured on the "White Rabbit Project" race against Tory?
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    Toshiba To Launch OLED TVs Later This Year

    Well duh, but no one makes a OLED tv smaller than 55" currently.. I'll pay the same price as a 55" for a 50" one..
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    Toshiba To Launch OLED TVs Later This Year

    50" please, some of us don't have room for larger in their homes..
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    Outgoing FCC Chief Tom Wheeler Offers Final Defense Of Net Neutrality

    You mean the WW2 Revenue act of 1942 where instead of the peacetime taxation of only the top 7% of people paying any income tax at all, instead they taxed everyone making more than $642 a year in order to pay for the war? (the only time tax was ever that high). Lovely example... Let's do WW2...
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    Outgoing FCC Chief Tom Wheeler Offers Final Defense Of Net Neutrality

    I remember when Wheeler started, the rhetoric then was that he is the cable industry insider who was going to destroy Net Neutrality.. Instead he turned out to be one of it's best champions. Taking a job like that changes a person, and he is a prime example of that...
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    @Frys : EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0 Gaming 256-Bit GDDR5 $409 AR

    True, but something to be aware of. Personally I like / recommend EVGA. Just want people to be aware of it when buying.
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    @Frys : EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0 Gaming 256-Bit GDDR5 $409 AR

    Be aware these are the ones that have the VRM overheating issue:
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    Pumpkin Lit With a 5000W Bulb

    Then don't watch his other videos, he calmly stomps out fires he starts on the carpets with his tesla coils etc.. lol
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    3D Printer For $234?

    There are tons of cheap 3d printers out there, some of them ok for messing with: https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-MP-Select-Mini-Printer/dp/B01FL49VZE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1464622763&sr=8-1&keywords=Monoprice+Select+Mini&linkCode=sl1&tag=all3dp0c-20&linkId=581b32b0aedd4fba796e308afc7d2ec4
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    Flushing Liquid Mercury Down The Toilet

    Seriously chill out, its Mercury, not Plutonium: The facts about mercury poisoning: Its (supposed) dangers and when to be really worried - Heraclitean River It exists in Nature as a raw element: Mercury (element) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And there is more Mercury in the air if you...
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    Flushing Liquid Mercury Down The Toilet

    Considering he has refined his own heavy water, runs his own gold mine, uses mercury to refine his gold on a regular basis.. I think he can clean the water himself, as he said he would in that video... Seriously spouting off about someone you don't know is dumber than you claim he is. (I've...
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    [???] use USB C monitor without USB C?

    Not likely, as USB C power levels are a lot higher than standard USB, so it'd also need a power brick at minimum, then if you weren't plugging into the correct thing you risk frying whatever you plugged it into.. Are you attmpeting connecting to a Desktop or a Laptop? If a desktop you could...
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