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  1. Re:Seems like drm should be a PLUGIN to me. on EFF Officially Appeals Tim Berners-Lee Decision On DRM In HTML (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Way to totally miss the point. The point here is whether or not the W3C will allow outside researchers to fully audit (see: break) the EME encryption without punishment from rights holders. Tim Berners-Lee bowed down to the pressure of the MPAA and other entities to not allow that, which is a shitty thing to do considering this is being presented as an Internet standard.

  2. Re: Corruption of vegatarian/vegan philosophy on Vegan Mayonnaise Company Starts Growing Its Own Meat In Labs, Says It Will Get To Stores First (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, only psychopaths kill animals for fun. Fortunately 99.999 percent of the general public do not have that major psychiatric malfunction. Ima guessing you do.

    You should try stepping outside of your metropolis "utopia" sometime. Plenty of decent country folk enjoy hunting; none of which I've encountered showed signs of being "psychopaths".

  3. Re:I've worked with man in ex-Palm on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    You are 100% correct. Until iOS 2.0 (back then, referred to as iPhone OS), there was no App Store. The only way to get 3rd party apps installed on an iPhone was to jailbreak it and use Installer.app (the predecessor to Cydia) to install things.

  4. It's too late. You've already shown your true colors, this is just pandering to keep customers.

  5. Re:Government should just drop the product. on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That'd be all good and well, if there weren't patents preventing other players from entering the market.

  6. One of my Civil Engineering prof's told us that one truck does the damage of 10,000 cars

    I second this. In south Texas a recently discovered shale formation (the Eagle Ford Shale formation) created an oil boom. This caused tons of oil-carrying trucks to just completely ruin southern portions of highway 183 to the point where it's damn near unsafe to even go the speed limit anymore.

  7. Re:Small government republicans win again! on Texas Legislature Clears Road For Uber and Lyft To Return To Austin (austinmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also worth mentioning that the "people WHO LIVE (T)HERE)" were largely duped into voting for this bullshit because the wording on the ballot was written to be intentionally extremely confusing.

  8. Having had a close-up look over the past year, I can attest that all of Texas is a shit hole

    Please spread the word to all your friends in California!

  9. Re:Bit of disinformation going on here. on Soon You'll Be Able To Build Your Own 4G Network Over Wi-Fi Frequencies (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Wifi is restricted to max 20 mW or so with an omnidirectional antenna, less if you use a directional antenna.

    Well that's just simply untrue.

  10. On top of all that, his vehicles are shit, but that's another story altogether.

    Care to elaborate on that?

  11. Re:Unintended consequences on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    And "pilots" like this are a waste of time.

    Not to mention potentially damaging to the whole idea of UBI. When this little experiment fails, people (namely politicians) in the future will point to this experiment as "proof" that it cannot be done and that we shouldn't even try...

  12. Antimatter? on Physicists Observe 'Negative Mass' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So, would this be considered antimatter?

  13. Re:But is Wayland better? on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might be interested in XRDP: http://www.xrdp.org/

    I haven't used it in a few years, but I remember really liking it.

  14. Re:But is Wayland better? on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Before criticizing Wayland and extolling X11's virtues, consider watching this talk by Daniel Stone who was formerly intimately involved with X.org and seems to know hist stuff. He makes a good case for Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

    I can't second this enough. This should be required viewing before any of the anti-Wayland people spout their bullshit rhetoric.

  15. Re: What the... on Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do what I do: run the Pi behind your TV and use one of the TV's usb ports to power it (most modern TV's have at least one USB port supplying enough power for a Pi). The advantages of this is your Pi's completely hidden, you don't have to buy another USB power adapter, and it's only powered up when the TV is on.

  16. Re:Is anyone surprised by this? on Uber's 'Hell' Program Tracked and Targeted Lyft Drivers (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about good 'ol fashioned computer fraud?

  17. Irrelevant. If you have any interaction with your init system then your media centre is outright broken and it belongs in the bin

    Not necessarily. I needed to setup an NFS mount for my to access my ROMs remotely via RetroArch, which is used entirely outside of Kodi. The old, pre-systemd way (on OpenELEC anyways), was to write an autostart.sh script that gets executed at boot time to do the mount. The problem is, in order to ensure that the NFS mount will actually get mounted at boot is to do some hacky shit like sleep for 30 seconds, which obviously increases boot time by that much.

    With systemd, I just create a unit file to do the mount for me, telling it that it depends on on the networking service first so that the mount isn't even tried until the network is up & running.

  18. Re:Nickle and dime pricing, I'm sure. on Cisco Developing Standalone Networking OS, Report Says (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    That includes your per port license fee for using IP networking

    Joke's you you! I use IPX netwo

  19. Re:John Deere has too many non farmers on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've actually noticed quite a bit of increase in the popularity of Kubota over the past decade, namely because of the price difference, but I imagine shit like this will only increase their popularity.

  20. I've witnessed this first-hand on Facebook. Some guy says something (admittedly stupid) about Obama, then an army of liberals come out of the woodwork to cyber-bully the guy, even going so far as doxxing him and contacting his place of employment to let them know about it in an attempt to get him fired. Fucking disgusting.

  21. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    This answer is correct answer.

  22. Linux os not full of innovation.
    It's full of great work, executed properly.

    See also: git

  23. Re:Dodd-Frank did nothing on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    - competent regulators were needed.

    Which the SEC has proven to be largely void of (see: Bernie Madoff). Check out the book No One Would Listen for a pretty detailed account of the SEC's incompetence on the matter.

  24. Re: Live by the cloud, on GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have my personal git repo hosted locally on my LAN, and use Dropbox as a backup source, with a nighly cronjob packing it up and gpg-encrypting it before shipping it off to Dropbox. It's been working great for 5 years now.

  25. Re:dare I say... on First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1