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  1. Yes/No Headlines. on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Betteridge's law of headlines holds the answer yet again.

  2. Re: Given the choice on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thanks. This was what I was actually looking for. My first suspicion that something was odd was when none of the stories about this had the questions listed. They were pulling rank to defend one of their own. Given how on-point the questions from the "Youtuber" are, I am doubting it was just some Rando McCommentor.

  3. Re:"Their" inital impressions? on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Like the New Gmail UI? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not plural in this case.

    Their is a gender-neutral pronoun, singular.

    Not going into the politics of it, I'm just a writer.

  4. The best ones are when they are not allowed to hang up. I tormented a guy for 15 minutes one time. His supervisor finally got on the line, heard my singing, and hung up.

  5. Yes and no. I had an i7 960 myself, and was starting to find performance slipping on some media tasks (in my case exporting in GIMP) as well as general multitasking. I was planning an upgrade, and looked at the sky-high prices of modern intel CPUs, and decided to try AMD. Quite happy with my Rizon 1700X system I built, and I have yet to see it actually slow down at all.

    Note: the i7 960 is still in use. It got migrated down the chain of ownership to be the center of a FreeNAS box. As such I don't need the microcode upgrade for it, since no potentially hostile code runs on it.

  6. Right, but it shows a certain amount of hypocrisy in the matter of asking for vehicles to no longer have unnecessary tariffs.

    The truck tariff, or chicken-tariff, is based off events in a completely different industry, and the other tariffs imposed by the same event have all been raised, but the vehicle industry clutches to this one.

  7. Re:All of this is retarded. I do love it though. on Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The least of which being that any alien species capable of destroying our sun, or even traveling to us, would be so uninterested in *anything* we could possibly offer them as to us not being worth their time.

  8. Re:Teaching to fight back? on Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot Dog To Fight Back Against Humans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Further, these robots have no training AI in them. They aren't learning, they aren't smart, they are able to get up/recover after disruption. Sensationalism at its worst.

  9. Re:Minecraft boss on Microsoft Puts Minecraft Boss In Charge of Xbox Games (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Wither

  10. It's a "power brick." So I can only assume it is an energon cube. Hopefully that could charge their laptop.

  11. Re:Yes on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly.

    Further:
    DownThemAll
    PasslFox - the big showstopper for me
    NoScript - "but it will be out later today!" only works for so long
    Custom Tab Width
    (there are others, but those amount to what has already been mentioned)

    Until I can avoid productivity loss due to "yet another UI redesign syndrome" that Mozilla seems completely focused on imposing every other release, I will stay on FF 56.02

  12. AI on League of Legends Rank Predicts IQ, Study Finds (plos.org) · · Score: 1

    So that an AI beat a top world ranked player in 1v1 means that AI has an incredible IQ?

  13. Okay, I have to ask. You are all over this comment section like shit on a blanket, spamming youtube links, and in general claiming that everything is still fine. What's your deal?

  14. Great! That is the warranty period, of course.

  15. Re:For Those Who Don't Eat and Breathe Apple on Captain Crunch (and Steve Wozniak) Write New Book: 'Beyond the Little Blue Box' (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    That is, of course, to mention the connection between the two names.

  16. For Those Who Don't Eat and Breathe Apple on Captain Crunch (and Steve Wozniak) Write New Book: 'Beyond the Little Blue Box' (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    John Draper A.K.A. Captain Crunch

    Was it too much to ask for that the (slashdot) story—just once—mention the guy's actual name? Yes.

    Heck, the source's title uses his actual name.

  17. Re:Mobile phones on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Same!

    Only sad thing was I paid for pro features and like a few weeks later they dropped them.

  18. Re:They still don't get it on Microsoft Confirms It's Not Killing Off Paint After Outpouring of Support (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To use the Windows Store at all (even for free things), you need to log in with your Microsoft account. Once that is done, you have now matched your install of windows directly to YOU. Congrats, now you get ads and you get a screwed up log in system.

    Basically, they are fishing for ways to encourage people to sync up with their store for ads and more, paint is just the latest bait to do this.

  19. How is this news? on Amazon's Drive-Up Grocery Stores Are Now Open To the Public In Seattle (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Supermarkets have been doing online shop&collect for quite a few years here (with no cost overhead), and delivery of groceries (for free in some circumstances).

  20. Re:Replacing the open source tools and websites on Dungeons and Dragons Goes Digital (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Bwahahahahahahahah! ...

    Hahahahahahaaha!

    Wait, you're serious? Just use 5eSRD and roll20.

  21. Re:Okay then on Dungeons and Dragons Goes Digital (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are trying to place a Beholder. That will cost $1.99!

    You are trying to place a Wolf. That will cost $0.99!

    You are trying to swap back to roll20. That will cost us your wallet.

  22. Wait... on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Wait, actions have consequences?

    Most people learn this in their childhood. Mr. Pie, it was time you learned it too, and that some things you don't joke about.

  23. Re:55 million golden parachute!! on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Yahoo we are talking about. I would have done the job for 5 cents and a ball of pocket lint.

  24. Re:Tiger repellent on World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I... I really shouldn't mention this, the patent is still being approved, but I have come up with the best idea yet.

    You see, we get a solar roadway, for your roof! That's right, we put the same awesome solar panels used in solar roadways on the roof of your house, but the big advantages come in how they are deployed.

    Without the need for heavy vehicles, we don't need to coat them in thick layers of protective substances, and without a need for easily replaceable small sections, we can make larger, longer panels. And don't even get me started on how much bigger gains there will be by angling the roadway towards the sun!

    Please don't let any of this information leak onto the internet, as I said, we are sitting on this until the patents pass. Once they do, I am sure we can get many times the performance of a solar roadway from one of these solar roadway roofs!

  25. Re:Something Smells Fishy on Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    $5 says they are just rot13ing it.