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jankiehodgpodge

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    Comment #24923717

    For most people, rooting makes them less secure not more. It all depends on who you're securing against.

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    Comment #24877856

    To be honest I remember Windows Media player 9 or 10 having really good library management. Used it until I switched to GPM.

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    Comment #24820453

    As someone who doesn't use iOS often I have to agree. Changing the brightness on an iPad took me a minute because I had to work out which corner to swipe from. Such poor design.

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    Comment #24756811

    Is there any evidence for that? I know that for example women are more likely to be injured in car crashes because most car seats/interiors are designed around the average man so i…

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    Comment #24666756

    Not that I use it but Outlook in Office 365 is radically different. Has full integration with M365 groups etc.

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    Comment #24609530

    It's a part of Google one, no idea how good it is though.

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    Comment #24602630

    That functionality also allows someone to turn your oven on while you're on holiday, but worth the risk in my opinion.

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    Comment #24529356

    Most kids only experience computers through a smart phone and a collection of social media apps.

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    Comment #24376802

    Boost is a brilliant app, never use the desktop site because it's junk in comparison.

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    Comment #24329853

    Windows 10 on a core 2 duo and an SSD is still pretty quick, it just doesn't run well on HDDs.

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    Comment #24252142

    There are some good electron apps and some bad ones.

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    Comment #24251974

    You can easily enforce installations of extensions via Chrome's admin templates.

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    Comment #24095704

    I mean it's pretty easy to prove that's not true. Just stick it on a network and check the network traffic. The bandwidth required to do that would be immense anyway for basically …

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    Comment #24095674

    Because they're cheap, low powered devices.

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    Comment #23958596

    I've seen hundreds of enterprise networks and you'd be surprised how many of them have passwords in public shares, no configured firewalls or software policies and only file level …

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    Comment #23918798

    If you're deploying office anyway you simply remove teams from the config XML for the installer. Pretty simple really.

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    Comment #23911068

    Failing to mention the massive tariffs on many products.

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    Comment #23856254

    There's different rings for different customers like government and military. I imagine their updates are deployed slower.

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    Comment #23826697

    There's was also providers in the UK who's bad video compression made the picture so dark it was unwatchable.

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    Comment #23802628

    Because it would undermine trust in their system.

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    Comment #23802603

    A privacy feature on a Huawei laptop...

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    Comment #23788756

    Maybe not for hosting but I think the Active directory server at the heart of just about every company would disagree with your statement.

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    Comment #23738445

    Depends on the station. Some stations are broadcasting 32Kbit mono audio which certainly doesn't stand up to FM.

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    Comment #23670830

    Any private company in China is by default a business partner with the state. If you believe that the government doesn't coerce companies to comply with their wishes you are mistak…

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    Comment #23649386

    I'm pretty sure that's the OS itself analysing the highlighted text and offering suggestions on which app to open it with.