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  1. It's almost like there's a natural attraction of certain personality types to forums like this one.

  2. Re: Perfect on Apple's 2018 iPhones Are Rumored To Not Include Headphone Dongle In the Box (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a handshake. Part of the time they are transmitting.

  3. Re:Cities should own the poles on FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Out here, the power comes in on one row of poles, and the cable, telecom, etc. all comes along on a separate row of poles. I'm not in a congested city, though.

  4. The Jefferson Starship music video in the Christmas Special rocks!

  5. They Found Their Cure:Shut Down on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    The March of Dimes was a charitable foundation to find the cure for polio. The cure has been found. But you will never end a 'foundation' when there are paying positions and a powerful fundraising mechanism in force.

    Shut it down. It was a success.

  6. Re: Huh? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Enron was the 'financial story' of a different decade.

  7. Re:Don't let the trolls get you down? on Tesla On Track To Turn a Profit This Year (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Where you live, perhaps that's a defensive way of describing 'other parts of the world.'

  8. Re: Can anyone explain why people like Server 12? on Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 killed desktop linux. Before W2K, desktop Windows was a fragile shell on top of MS-DOS. W2K came on the scene right at the point where the migration to desktop linux otherwise would have been inevitable.

  9. Re: ORLY? on Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 Retail can always be removed and reinstalled on a new PC. And it's legally transferrable. You can buy a copy even now.

  10. A Large Target to Hack, Too on HP Will Give You $10,000 To Hack Your Printer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    The last time I downloaded a Laserjet Windows Driver, I think it was about a 350MB payload.

    That's a lot of printer driver. Surely there must be tons of exploits and badly written code in that big of a turd.

  11. Re:Terraforming: No, Habitable: Yes on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Radiation can really mess up the electronics in robots.

  12. Re:Well, yeah. on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    We must be talking about muskie's rockets again. Certainly the boring company can't dig a hole to mars.

  13. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    We didn't exactly set up a base on the Moon anyway. We parked a Winnebago there long enough to say we'd visited.

  14. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The climate change impact of, adding a second moon would dwarf everything that's impacted climate change.

  15. Answering Machine on Human Bankers Are Losing To Robots as Nordea Sets a New Standard (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So if you want to bank where you can only get put on hold on a phone machine and will never talk to a human operator, this bank is your choice.

  16. Re: Sensible precautions. on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Windows 98 sux. Run Red Hat 4.3 instead.

  17. Re: Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The only reason they had an architecture to extend was because of having been a licensed second source decades ago.

    The knob polishing that AMD gets from their fanboys is amazing. As is the presumption some will make that this comment makes me an Intel fanboy.

    For pete's sake, they're not football teams. Nothing we say or do matters to the people running Intel or AMD. You're not going to get invited to the party afterwards if you're the most slavish fan in the mosh pit.

  18. Re: Teslas aren't supposed to tick on The Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Relays and solenoids are likely to activate and respond when an electrical device is powered up from an unknown state. This is slashdot. Maybe your comments belong more on yahoo news.

  19. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    What is a 'contribution to society'? That sounds like something arbitrary, and relative to the interests of whomever comes up with the scale. Frankly, it doesn't sound like something possible to measure.

  20. Re:Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    About your tagline:

    The ASR33 was upper-case only.

    Your slashdot tagline shouldn't reveal your ignorance about nerd tech.

  21. Re:Something That Actually Exists on New Richter-Like Scale Is Here To Measure Alien Signals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    For propaganda value, yes, it helps.

  22. Re: Distopian future.. on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    They mean you'll ride along on the back of the recycling truck listening to reggae, obviously.

  23. Re: Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    AMD really only has an x86 license because back in the day they were an 80286 second source. Their main thing back then were some 'bit slice' ALU processors they sold in 4 bit chunks that you could bolt together. I think I still have some stuck away in a box somewhere.

  24. Something That Actually Exists on New Richter-Like Scale Is Here To Measure Alien Signals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    The big difference is, the Richter Scale measures something that actually exists.

  25. Re: You have that backwards asshole on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder, though, about how his child and wife feel about witnessing him being killed. He was just getting his kid some candy.

    You can dehumanize him by just calling him 'asshole' but he was a father, moments earlier buying his kid some candy.