Posts by techcafe

Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova

Re: Can anyone supply (No reward)

greed is a hell of a drug, and often supplants common sense and good judgement.

Amazon workers are in a warehouse of pain, independent report finds

smug, indeed. i'd also add condescending and judgy.

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

Netflix could simply reject Gmail accounts containing dots, or strip away the superfluous dots from Gmail addresses, like Google does.

'Fix these Windows 10 Horrors': Readers turn their guns on Redmond

Win10 Bricks my ThinkPad

well, after a lengthy download and several reboots later, the upgrade from a clean install of Windows 7 to Windows 10 seemed to go smoothly, right up to the point where i logged-on to the new Windows 10 desktop… then everything froze; no mouse or keyboard response, my ThinkPad crashed on login and everything was locked up solid. i had to kill the power to get the machine restarted. subsequent attempts produced the same result within a few moments of logging on. turns out, as i discovered, that while running Windows 10, the ThinkPad GPU overheats dramatically after a few minutes—it gets very hot in fact—then the laptop becomes unresponsive.

oh well, Windows 10 was a bust for me, so it's back to Windows 7. and that's the end of that.

Arab States make play for greater government control of the internet

well of course medieval Arab regimes want control over the internet, they are despots. the Arab states should stick to what they know: trading blood for oil

Re: Hmmmm

they just petty dictators afraid of educated people…

yeah but these medieval puppet regimes are OUR petty dictators, or petro-dictators to be more precise; so they are likely to get whatever they want, in order to suppress & control their populations.

UFOs in the '50s skies? CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'

speaking of the CIA, here's an interesting interview with former Canadian diplomat, Peter Dale Scott, talking about the 'Deep State': http://youtu.be/fMNlVhoLwTw

Google Chrome on Windows 'completely unusable', gripe users

"hammers the CPU"

try enabling 'hardware acceleration' in Chrome, then restart the browser. some tasks will be offloaded to the GPU, instead of the CPU, which may help.

Chrome's "Use hardware (GPU) acceleration when available" setting was causing problems on my ThinkPad. the GPU driver crashed occasionally, sometimes several times a day, particularly while using Chrome to watch videos on Youtube, Vimeo, etc. fortunately, the GPU driver would recover automatically after a few seconds, but the disruption was annoying to tsay the least. the crashing problems stopped after i disabled the GPU acceleration option. Chrome is also a greedy memory hog. i've seen some chrome.exe processes gobble up more than 2GB of memory, and that was just ONE TAB in the browser.

however, the latest 64bit build (version 39.0.2171.71 m) now seems stable on my machine. i've re-enabled GPU acceleration again, and no crashes so far.