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argg passed out again reading horrible , poorly written, and uninteligable code.

(tax code :-)

I think i can be exempt from paying the taxes claiming that it is going to take me 20 years to read and understand them correctally. Now one could say there are professionals for that, and free IRS tax assistance. But so far I am sure no person in thier right mind has actually read it, and they dont seem to Know it well enough to be called pros.

The real solution I see would be to simplify the tax code.
Gimme 80% of all your income and assetts , or all (of that small) profit that your person or entity has aquired. Simple to the point, and is the same ammounts.

12:23 PM

Beware! Advertisers Are Tracking You via Phone's Battery Status thehackernews.com/2016/08/advertiser-location-tracker.html?m=1

Also noted that Repeated times in the tax documentation, they mention that the various tax software , which takes teams of people to keep updated, has been wrong many times.

> combination of battery life loss in seconds and battery life as a percentage offers 14 Million different combinations, potentially providing a pseudo-unique identifier for each device that can be used to pinpoint specific devices between sites they visit.

@ThatBrazilianGuy cant view that, addblocker wont allow it because of the word Advertising in the link :-)

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@JourneymanGeek kawaii!!!!!!!!! ^_^;

> The battery status API was first introduced in HTML5 and had already shipped in browsers including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera by August last year.
(...) researchers warned last year about the API’s potential threat that could turn your battery level into a "fingerprintable" tracking identifier.

12:29 PM

I think i should sue the IRS for making me blind (and the fine print) giving me hemmeroids (not like anyone is going to read that shi| standing up) , and giving me a sleep disorder. Then I will also claim i am now disabled, and deduct that.

the cat cafe is fully open here now

roar

> n 2015, researchers from Stanford University demonstrated a way to track users' locations – with up to 90 percent accuracy – by measuring the battery usage of the phone over a certain time.

@ThatBrazilianGuy thats old news

the bbc covered it last year

Hmm. I'd probably suggest giving the user notice or asking for permission whenever an app asks for access to battery data.

12:30 PM

@Dog يعتقدون اللغة العربية هي اللغة الأم. أليس هذا صحيحا؟ بالتأكيد الجميع من إنجلترا يتحدث العربية.

@Burgi Oh sorry, I forgot to pay my BBC subscription last year.

@allquixotic TERRORISM!

do you not get access to the news site for free?

@Bob what do I have to run to bring up that dialog box? I wanna see it!

Isn't BBC a TV channel?

@allquixotic winver

12:32 PM

news.bbc.co.uk

:31453962 uhm... it's a staged rollout that won't apply unless you don't have addons, and it's a rather standard automatic update

o.O

@allquixotic Congratuations—you're up to date.

that looks "genuine" :-)

12:36 PM

@Psycogeek didn't do the best job shopping it

obviously

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36961433

billgates@**gmail**.com?

yes, even gates doesn't use hotmail ;p

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lol

12:38 PM

brb rebooting with WSL enabled

Windows Subsystem for ~~Linux~~ Ubuntu

Lucky escape dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3721366/…

"300 passengers - including 24 Brits - escape when their Emirates jet crash-lands at Dubai airport after catching fire in the air and EXPLODING on landing"

GAH!

@DavidPostill I hate when British journalists use all-caps this way.

its the daily mail, it can be safely ignored @bwDraco

@DavidPostill why do you use the DM? :(

Not enabling WSL because I have MinGW tools in the PATH (and have apps that rely on them).

12:44 PM

@Burgi Because it had the up to date news about survivors, which sadly lacking on the bbc site :)

@bwDraco Please don't be so patronising. US journalists do exactly the same.

I'm talking about newspaper headlines, not magazines.

1 failure in how many deployments?

well you can use the one with the slight problem of the flames :-)

Here in the States, we generally don't have headlines where a single or a few words are in all caps.

12:49 PM

That's normal formatting.

@bwDraco < 1 min to find 2 examples ...

Most American publications either have the entire title in all caps or not (either sentence case or first letter capitalized). I have yet to see an American publication use all-caps in part of a headline for emphasis.

@bwDraco It's headlines ALL IN CAPS

@bwDraco I Find It Really Really Strange And Unnatural To Write Like This It Looks Quite Weird

12:53 PM

@bwDraco I wonder if performance is better with the Windows kernel emulating the Linux kernel ABI and therefore completely throwing out the legacy Win32 linkage? I mean, for linking, they're using ld-linux.so (the glibc dynamic linker), and resolving libraries in the ELF way, not using Win32/PE binaries.

it's kind of like what Solaris and SmartOS did with the LX brand, except that the Solaris kernel is a lot more similar to the Linux kernel (as a UNIX sibling) than the NT kernel...

@DavidPostill ...sorry. That sort of comment actually risked a flag for being offensive.

@bwDraco o.O

@DavidPostill Nationality aside, I actually find the emphasis on "EXPLODES" to be annoying in a click-baity way.

@Bob American publications, as far as I know, don't selectively capitalize words in headlines.

Then again, didn't expect much from the Mail anyway.

12:55 PM

@bwDraco What is exactly offensive? I was accurately describing the headlines.

@Bob it was the daily mail, they specialise in clickbait

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@Bob click baity in a physical newspaper?

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@DavidPostill Not you, but my own comments.

@jokerdino "click baity" as a concept

Attention-seeking.

12:56 PM

I usually see it in British publications (most often The Register).

@jokerdino *clicks on his newspaper*

@Bob yeah, the older jargon

@bwDraco flagging your own comments is hardcore

@DavidPostill smh.com.au/business/aviation/… more AU focused but seems fairly complete :P

@DavidPostill you do realise that there are no " journalists " writing that, or "The Sun" or that any of it is real :-)

12:57 PM

@allquixotic Harry Potter style newspaper maybe

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@allquixotic lolzur

@Psycogeek Are you saying it is computer generated GIGO? :)

...or at least they used to. I can't seem to find a recent article like this.

Yeah. I'm surprised that everybody updates faster than the BBC News, which still has no mention that everyone is alive.

Maybe they sent all their journalists to Rio ...

1:02 PM

Perhaps not El Reg but I kinda remember they did this in some internal links.

Australia finds $1 BEELLION to replace No-SQL DATABASE

Facebook does fling COOKIES around, but privacy is assured

@DavidPostill

> The Dubai government media office said all passengers were evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported.

@DavidPostill

bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36963112

The truth board

@Psycogeek lol

1:04 PM

that quantas flight is smoking....

@DavidPostill that's just plain disturbing

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American journalists generally wouldn't selective capitalize words in headlines, not as far as I know.

Different styles of journalism, perhaps...

@Bob It's a real kitten. Search for "herman kitten big eyes"

1:07 PM

Seems there's more sensationalism in UK papers...

@bwDraco the register isn't a newspaper

Meanwhile, I've not yet figured out which American news paper/site is considered relatively trustworthy/unbiased.

and it is slightly satrical

@Bob The New York Times is among the better newspapers around but it isn't perfect (it's a bit biased towards liberalism)

@Bob None of them. They are all owned by someone with an agenda.

1:10 PM

Pretty much every paper I've read has some degree of political bias.

They dont even spell check our paper anymore, even the people making it dont read it :-)

WSJ is a bit conservative.

@DavidPostill Usually there's a few "must avoid" (generally anything even vaguely related to News Corp). Then there's others that are fairly neutral.

Hmm. Anybody else getting please donate popups on Wikipedia?

@Bob That would be Rupert Murdoch?

I abhor the New York Post.

1:11 PM

@DavidPostill Yes.

BRB, got stuff to do.

O_O

@allquixotic You use Start10 right?

Apparently the download site for Classic Shell (Fosshub) was hijacked: reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4vwron/…

micro buster

1:31 PM

hi

Ben N

Hi!

micro buster

@BenN how are you

Ben N

Pretty good, I just woke up

micro buster

@BenN nice

do we have any new topic to talk here

> You have a knack for trading the British Pound against the Japanese Yen. You have a killer hot sauce recipe, and it’s in distribution worldwide. You just made partner at your father-in-law’s firm. Whatever the case, you’re in that elite group that doesn’t really worry about money. You have the beach house, the Bentley, and the Bulgari. And now Nvidia has a graphics card for your gaming PC: the Titan X.

lol

tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-titan-x-12gb,4700.html

Feb 26 '15 at 23:38, by DragonLord

Will save up arbitrary amounts of money :P

Let's keep working hard 😃

1:43 PM

or is that more of a "hmm?" face?

!!hmm?

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