on the bright side, removing ads (from webpage) is legit in germany (courts ruled so.. multiple times) http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/03/adblocking-and-whitelists-legal-rules-german-court/ so i guess if they move hq to there they'll be safe with the blocking part XD though probably not the hijacking.
you can argue whether chrome does or doesn't update itself frequently enough. i don't use chrome frequently enough to know (it's like a backup browser for me). but what i was saying is correct. whenever adobe updates flash, chrome punts out a newer version that includes the update, because flash is integrated into chrome edge does something similar, though i think via windowsupdate.. so.. automatic. eg... "Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1511
a bit below the belt if it displays ad in the same place where the original ads are. now, if it were to have the top edge of the browser (or some other edge) as some sort of permanent ad space where the ad doesn't have anything to do with any site visited that's different. (not in legal terms.. no clue about those. but conceptionally a bit more acceptable) blocking ad is good. this ain't blocking ads.
firefox doesn't update anything. npapi (the one firefox uses) and activex (ie for win7 and earlier) plugins of flash updates themselves, if you set it to update itself in the adobe flash setting manager... in the windows control panel. edge has flash baked in, like chrome. ditto ie for win 8.1 and win10 (no idea about win 8)... so those get updated when the browser updates itself. for linux (or at least mint) it'll pop up in whichever update manager you
i see brad is having fun with comments in rps. how many sites is he replying to stuff in? XD
in other news. north fantasyland courts has ordered the fruity company to unlock an iphone belonging to an alleged terrorist. what they didn't tell you is that NF agents stole the iphone off a defense minister of some western country.
what sane government would want an os deployed in gov machines that let a foreign company grab all sorts of info. don't see how it's any sort of surprise. think about it, the us itself is iffy about using foreign made hardware in their infrastructure, citing security concerns.
the problem isn't whether you use ie or not, but whether something else uses it (eg windows help files). bundling win10 stuff with security update is a really bad thing.
a comment elsewhere reminded me of the dangers of marshalling http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/03/australian-grand-prix-nico-rosberg-wins-as-fernando-alonso-survives-huge-crash/#comment-3639803 are they giving you better protection these days?
i later saw a similar report in the bbc.co.uk buried under the tech section, hence the edit. the reason i was surprised about the ads is quite simple. bbc is paid for by uk tv viewers. basically if you own a tv you have to pay a license fee. in return, the bbc does not do ads (on tv/radio at least) unless you include the ads about their own programs. and i think they don't run ads on their main site (the uk one). i'm guessing they are running ads on the international/a
bbc does ad??? (not counting their internal stuff that is) === looks like it's bbc.com not the british version? never seen ad on the british version and didn't expect there to be as bbc doesn't do ads over here.... then again. i use ad blockers
what is a phone?
go get your halo
how does the igpu + dgpu thing work anyway? i mean, for my machine (970 + 6600) it looks like the igpu is disabled when the 970 is plugged in. can't install driver for it or select it for anything.
High DPI on Windows is viable. - yeah, in windows itself XD. i was playing dawn of war 2 last stand just now (hey, freebie necron last stand dlc for the next few days!). in 1440p, my mouse cursor is so small that i lose track of it half the time. granted it's somewhat old, but it ain't the only one that doesn't have scalable gui. a quick search suggest some fury and 390 have 3 display ports. ==== battle.net has no high dpi supp
here's the weird thing about win10 driver updates.. it's somewhat random as to what it updates. i mean, it has not updated my nvidia drivers yet since nov (i get them direct from nvidia from time to time).. and certainly didn't update realtek sound drivers, even though there are far newer ones in ms catalogue. in fact, i'm not even sure what driver updates it's ever performed (for some reason the reliability report thing cuts off from last month, eve
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/microsoft-monopolise-pc-games-development-epic-games-gears-of-war http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/gears-of-war-developer-epic-games-tim-sweeney-games-industry-fight-microsoft and similar versions
eh? on a 40" (16:9) 4k screen at native resolution, half the programs out there don't follow dpi scaling and you can't see jack because everything is tiny. granted, i'm a bit weird in that i am about a metre from the monitor so i use double dpi on desktop. i'm not really sure 4k works that well in games yet without taxing the cards? though that might change with pascal and polaris. i'm playing most things at 1080 or maybe 1440. even if an old
the updates from within mint (installed months ago) is safe, right? XD
i remember seeing a spy vs spy game (apple?) many many years ago. never played it though... i think.
[quote who="cpletourneau" reply="21" id="3615912"] i should have waited to play a demo or something... wow anyone want a free game its taking up wasted space in my steam library. [/quote] refund it on steam? and since when can you give (used) steam games away??
yes, i know. which is why i said installation needs fiddling... as you supposedly need to mod the iso to install, whether from usb stick or from dvd. (is there a plain text editor for this forum? don't need all the fancy stuff that copy/paste extra bits like link/font sizes and what not) that said, we all know that the majority of (consumer) windows users get it with new machines, and only a tiny minority go around buying the os, nevermind using older versio
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9964/microsoft-to-only-support-new-processors-on-windows-10 (note.. the title of the article was edited to: Microsoft Will Not Support Upcoming Processors Except On Windows 10) not sure if it's news or completely expected. for example... installing win7 on skylake machines needs fiddling (win7 doens't support usb3, skylake doesn't natively support usb2)
probably stellaris (though never played ck2 properly really) or even xcom2 when it goes on steam sale, near x'mas maybe XD. never finished 1 it crashed far too often for me and really hated the way the aliens run a mile when uncovered
win def. heh. i had it scan once everyday as a backup scanner when i was using win7. it came bundled with vista and you can even get it for xp. it's just a very basic antimalware thing. i would bet it's a lot less intrusive than most security suites.