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That can be used for good: avoid embarrassment and prevent an unnecessary stop. But it can also be used for evil: cancel a valid stop that someone commanded and hope they don't not…

One would think this situation would be better documented by vendors, instead of relying on obscure incantations. But one would probably be told by Customer Services that this defe…

Gooey could use a GUI that generates the Gooey config at the press of a button.

The closest thing I can find to this story on Google is this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26019-what-to-do-when... It doesn't involve Windows as far as I can tell - they…

Thus the quotes around "relevant". I find the "relevant" ads to be so far off the mark that my head hurts.

I never understood why advertisers insist on giving me "relevant" ads. I find it better if the ads are diverse and all over the place, as I discover new things. The "relevant" ads …

I use "Should I Answer?" for this purpose. I don't have to give them my data in order to know who's calling me most of the time. It could block calls, but I don't use that feature.…

How does your setup work with a second monitor that comes and goes? Use case: I have a laptop that I take everywhere for me, but I plug into a second monitor while at work. I also …

I'm nitpicking, but is there a reason why you use the numeric signal number in Linux? On my machine "kill -SIGSTOP" works as expected, and I don't remember a time when you couldn't…

Who do I tell my brand new, bright idea about IDN attack prevention? It goes like this: Display characters that are out of range of your selected language's character set in a diff…

THANK YOU! I had the ideas used in this project in my head, but I've been putting off the work forever now. I LOVE YOU FOREVER for using transactions as the central operation rathe…

Timestamps. How do I know when the other messages I'm seeing were posted? Maybe those people have long gone and I have no idea I'm talking into thin air.

Did everybody get a takeaway shop's fan duct stuck to their wall like at my last rented flat? It took me ages to understand why I was so stressed out until one evening I noticed th…

Not sure what this means, but while I'm mining Monero on the CPU with xmr-stak the PoC is thwarted. First, the "Direct physical map offset" comes back wrong in Demo #2. Second, if …

I for one was wondering if they spoke to their Google Go (Golang) team when they named the Go edition 'Google' app 'Google Go'. There will be some very confused users when they sea…