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Reported - Russian edition of the Nigerian scam; сходятся you, too, Читать!

So Amazon did accept responsibility (and replacement cost) for failing to "mark the package signature required"?

I just watched The Third Man again after many years. To me, it's still brilliant in noir-and-white.

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices - Ars Technica: Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data. . . . The vulnerability is remarkable because it made it trivial to wipe what is likely petabytes of user data. More...

Last week, I got a Samsung SSD, to replace a hard drive on a PC that had gotten flaky. I tried to use Samsung's own software to clone the old drive to the new one. About a dozen times - it never finished. (Confirming the PC's flaky-ness.) So I Googled for (free) disk-cloning software. My...

From Contractor that ruined 15M doses of J&J vaccine hiked price of another by 800%: FDA releases damning inspection report as lawmakers question ties to Trump admin. Things are not looking good for Emergent BioSolutions, the contract manufacturer that ruined 15 million doses of Johnson &...

OK, I backed off the fans' max setting to normal, but set my case fan speeds to modulate off the CPU temp. And I bought a big fan for the front of the case. I'd been using the "psensor" app to monitor the temps, but it just shows the current, min and max values, with a little graph that shows...

I tried to figure out how to use lm-sensors to detect the fan speeds, to no avail. (I admit that I'm just a ordinary Ubuntu user, not a Linux super-user.) I guess you get what you pay for; mobo manufacturers don't really support Linux, so it's up to the "community" to do so, and it's worth...

My home thermostat is set to 71° F = 21⅔°C. The "composite" temp that I believe is reporting from my graphics card is 44°C. (This is as reported by the Linux "lm-sensors" package, FWIW.)

Thanks, sedrosken. My temps are not that great, around 80°. OTOH, I'm running the World Community Grid, "all out", 24×7×16 threads×100%, helping research cancer and COVID. Despite not active overclocking, I think I'm getting a pretty good boost above the "base clock" of 3.6GHz, about 12-13%...

What kind of cooling do you have for your 3700X?

Congrats, sedrosken! I just got mine Thursday; I drove a couple of hours to the Micro Center store in Fairfax VA. Price was $279, "$50 off", with an additional $20 off for "bundling" it with a motherboard. (I'm wimping out, keeping it at default clocking for now, on the included cooler.)

Duke University says it has issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates. "Blue Devils" indeed. But they've got to fight for their right to partay!

Speaking of random, I hope any of y'all in Texas are surviving OK.

Here are a couple of articles that actually gave me some hope that The Donald won't rise from the grave to terrorize us again: ‘A total failure’: The Proud Boys now mock Trump QAnon in crisis as day of reckoning fails to materialize I wasn't going to quote from those articles, but I...

I doubt that Donald Trump will ever recant his delusion that he won the election "by a landslide". He will continue to endlessly assert that the election was "stolen", despite the many recounts, futile right-wing partisan "investigations", and baseless/evidence-less lawsuits that were laughed...

Since Trump's defeat, he has a new cash flow source - "Stop the Steal" fundraising. Just get his loyal supporters to send him their hard-earned money. Some of it may actually go to prop up his own attempts to steal the election, which have been numerous, bereft of hard evidence, and futile...

We're glad you're an ongoing thing, too!

I guess Putin and Kim Jong-un have been much better about "contributing" to the Trump "re-election (rig/steal/cheat) campaign than China.

That's Newt, working hard, like so many repugnican officials, to steal/rig/cheat the 2020 Presidential election - "the will of the people". The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, on Nov 13: said the 2020 White House...

"The Big Lie", just like

Today: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-skipped-g20-coronavirus-meeting-to-play-golf-2020-11 But he has had plenty of time this month to spew his lies, lawsuits, obstructionism, and venom about his losing the election. He's the one that's trying to rig/cheat/steal the election, without any...

But nobody has mentioned yet yesterday's big news about Rude-y: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/style/rudy-giuliani-hair.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/arts/television/late-night-rudy-giuliani-hair-dye.html “Rudy dyed his hair, but his head is challenging the results.” —...

That's a possibility, but I believe it is more likely that they would follow him blindly whatever he says or does. They subscribe to the snake oil, and all of his thousands of lies - little, big, or middle-sized. They're the Exalted Knights of the KKK, Making America White Again! They actually...

Fake News, FB! From https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/report-white-house-pressuring-cisa-to-stop-debunking-election-nonsense: While the page was vague on what rumor it was debunking here, Krebs was far more explicit on his personal Twitter account. Krebs denounced an unproven rumor...

Here's a mood on a street in the U.S.. A few quotes: An Arkansas police chief has resigned after he posted messages on a right-wing social media site that appeared to urge people to assault "Marxist" Democrats over the presidential election, the mayor said. "When this over and Trump is...

I recently received a reference to the book Commander in Cheat, by sportswriter Rick Reilly. I don't want to read the whole thing, but this review detailed some hilarious incidents. Review title/subtitle: How golf explains Trump. Seriously. “This guy cheats like a mafia accountant.”

But the repugnicans have packed the Supreme Court with lifetime appointments of right-wingnuts. Some of them may have a little actual jurisprudence experience. But from major news sources' projections in just the past few minutes, it appears that Trump is headed for his worse nightmare: He's...

Masked Bandits' Bank Break-in

Second sentence first: you assume that The Powers That Be have any interest in ending voter suppression. There are numerous counterexamples, such as various states "purging" their voter-registration lists to get rid of the "riff-raff", or closing voting locations in minority-population areas...

Trump's COVID-19 Leadership Vacuum (and fake news) continues; 2 links from ArsTechnica: White House informally endorses letting pandemic spread unchecked On background, the White House says that herd immunity plan reflects its thinking. On Monday, the White House hosted a...

New York Times Trump Tax Report, Part 2; since the NYT web site may have subscription limits/nagging, I'll include a few quotes: The Swamp That Trump Built A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to...

China joins global vaccine alliance, filling “leadership vacuum” left by Trump "China joins around 170 other countries, leaving the US and Russia on the sidelines." So Trump and his good buddy Vlad are in charge of the COVID-vaccine fake news (as well as U.S. election sabotage). But Russia...

And just as I predicted, he was helicoptered back to the White House Monday evening (Oct 5). He had tweeted that afternoon “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” Ref: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/doctors-still-evasive-on-trumps-health-as-he-leaves-hospital

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christy checked into a hospital as a precautionary measure after announcing earlier today that he had tested positive for Covid-19. (Aside from being obese, he has asthma as another risk factor.)

We won't ever know how sick Donald Trump has been; they'll release a few press releases, and videos of him "hard at work", then he'll go back to The White House in triumph and say "see, it was just a bad cold." But they transferred him to Walter Reed hospital "out of an abundance of caution."...

Hey, have you heard the news? Donnie and Modelia have the sniffles. But seriously, best wishes for their speedy recovery. We can't, in good conscience, wish them ill. Though they and their ilk wouldn't hesitate to wish us ill. The difference being that we have a conscience.

It used to be that not only conflicts of interest were to be avoided, but even the appearance of conflicts of interest. Times have changed . . . Tracking President Trump's Unprecedented Conflicts of Interest

A couple of days ago, I reviewed the above earlier responses, and decided to try reversing Chewy's recommendation, and turning on the "DNS over HTTPS" setting in FireFox. This seems to have worked, as I've been able to open the two problematic web pages mentioned in my original post several...

Oh, and have you heard this one: When somebody told Trump that hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria, he said "Well, if it's good enough for the First Lady, it's good enough for me." ;)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/trump-may-reject-fdas-stricter-regulations-for-covid-19-vaccine President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he may reject the Food and Drug Administration’s plan to issue stricter safety and efficacy standards for COVID-19 vaccines, calling the plan a...

Sorry, my memory is bad and I don't recall the details, but SR used to have it's own forum, which had problems, so this one was created and SR forum members transferred to it. Here's a link to an early thread of this forum, from January, 2002.

Review at Anandtech. Review at storagereview.com. ;) I like to pronounce NVMe as Envy Me; how about you? :) But oh, darn, I just realized that I should have posted this in the Computers/News subforum.

He claimed he was going to "drain the swamp"; instead, he's filled it with vicious alligators.

They do have the PCIE 4.0 m.2 slots, for maximum SSD performance, FWIW.

That party was in San Bernardino in SoCal. But there are a number of different fires in the SF Bay area that are contributing to the orange-sky effect.

And what if he had even taken a leadership role to try to set up national policies and procedures to deal with this grave crisis, instead of passing the buck with a comment like "it's not my problem"?

Lots of fires in Western U.S.: https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire From family in the San Francisco Bay area, the daytime skies are colored orange. E.g., on the University of California (Berkeley) campus: Since POTUS' main duty is to try to ensure his own re-election, and the...