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  1. 60/40 is exactly right. on SAS Mocked For Recommending 60% Proprietary Software, 40% Open Source (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have experimented with many mixtures of proprietary and open source software and discovered the ideal ratio when creating a document is: six pages in MS Word, four pages in Libre Office. Harmony and balance. However, it does slow down our team workflow. And making every document exactly ten pages doesn't speed things up either.

  2. Comcast is already on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    threatening to veto the bill.

  3. Re:waste of money on Strange New Social Media Trend: Licking Nintendo Switch Cartridges (macon.com) · · Score: 1

    You're licking it wrong.

  4. 75 liters is a lot. on New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But I think I can reach 100 liters in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

  5. Or, Linux has been spectacularly successful on ZDNet: Linux 'Takes The World' While Windows Dominates The Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    on any platform where you don't have to actually interact with it.

  6. Turn in your cool badge, Sweden. on Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    How quickly they morphed from a protector of citizen sharing and privacy rights into another state enforcer of MPAA dictates.

  7. "This will be the year virtual reality takes off!"

    Repeat every 10-15 years.

  8. What? The app works perfectly. on Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean a fling for YOU.

  9. They also announced on FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    they are changing their name to the Ministry of Communication.

  10. No wireless charging, on Google's Pixel 2 To Feature Improved Camera, CPU and Higher Price, Says Report (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no deal.

  11. Re:If it is so bad, why keep using it? on Comcast Remains America's Most-Hated Company, Survey Finds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Filthy yurpeens and their nanny state. Sure they may be happier, healthier, and their govt serves the citizens, but they ain't got our freedoms!

  12. Conclusion: on Rural Americans At Higher Risk From Five Leading Causes of Death: CDC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Escape rural American lifestyle as soon as you can.

  13. If it is so bad, why keep using it? on Comcast Remains America's Most-Hated Company, Survey Finds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh right, free market capitalism and competition only applies when normal suckers like you and me try to start a business, not to oligopolies and cronies who seize public spectrum, restrict access to utility poles on public land, and pour hundreds of millions into lobbying and captured politicians to protect their monopoly. Because the first rule of success in a free market system is to make sure there is no free market.

  14. "Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei" at her bedside? Are they trying to give her another heart attack?

  15. Completing your work before the battery dies on 2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    requires courage.

  16. False alarm. on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just a dead parrot.

  17. It was obvious from the user interface. on Police in UK Warn About Dating Apps After Serial Killer Conviction (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You swipe right/left on pictures of windowless vans.

  18. Next Year (TM) is the year of on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Virtual paperless Linux reality desktop*

    *Powered by cold fusion.

  19. In Soviet Russia... on LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    "The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts."

    What, you expected a punchline? You insensitive oblast!

  20. That is a moon. on Thanks To the Princess, Han Wasn't Always Solo (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    A full moon.

  21. Smells of desperation on Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fluff companies spit out to distract from the mounting evidence they are out of ideas and lost at sea.

    The more interesting retrospective will chronicle the rise and fall of Apple. They have been coasting financially on the success of the products from Jobs era. That will eventually run its course and only then will we know if they can continue to produce at the level established during Jobs tenure.

  22. Claims supported by benchmark scores: on Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Benchmark scores for Final Cut Pro:

    Macbook Pro: Greater than zero.
    Windows PC: Zero.

  23. Gawker Pays Guy Who Didn't Invent Email and on Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Married Fran Drescher.

    When did Slashdot start using madlibs for headlines?

  24. The church switched to a for-profit model on The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Yes, but... Apple is a change agent. on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    It takes courage to act impetuous for change