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  1. Re:Yep - impersonation on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahm.. I have memory on the brain *parody* even!

  2. Re:Yep - impersonation on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The very first few frames of the video have a statement which reads

    Paid for in part by National Rifle Association of America with additional support form Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation. All Rights Reserved C. 2016 Share The Safety

    Seems pretty clear that this is not a parity but more of an attempt to damage both brands.

  3. Re:what a wonderful program on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is total nonsense. The only people talking about racism and sexism are liberals and democrats trying to score SJW points with their idiot base.

  4. Who cares? on Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously, why is this on the front page and items like Hilary's use of a private server to order assassinations in another nation is no where to be found?

  5. Re:Is this what they've determined we want? on OnePlus 3 Featuring 5.5-inch FHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6GB RAM Launched at $400 · · Score: 1

    Do we really need 6 GB of RAM on a phone?

    Yes, because java.

    Until Android gets something like Continuum on Windows phone, where you can dock the phone and use it like a desktop, there seems little reason to have that much RAM.

    Been there, done that, webview or deskview or whatever it was called on driod's. It sucked.

    I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price. Personally, I won't spend much more than $200 on a phone at this point. Things are changing too fast on the software side, and updates to operating systems are often not available. You basically have to get a new phone every year or two to be guaranteed having the latest OS, and spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.

    $400 is a great price for any phone, try and get anything other than a cheap ass tract-phone and you're into the 5 6 and 7 bills territory.

  6. My OPO is running cyanogen as well, however I did play around with oxygen. It's basically a derivative version of cyanogen with a different theme and less functionality. Aside from being deprived of some useful settings features I liked a lot, the OS's were nearly identical on the phone, and I've read many OP2 users switching back to cyanogenmod. Unlocking the phone was trivially simple, as well as rooting it. To this day, I still use the OPO (but seriously considering the OP3) and I can say that this has been by far, the best phone I've ever owned.

  7. Rational behind the major syntax changes in 6? on Interviews: Ask Perl Creator Larry Wall a Question · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hi Larry, As a long time perl hacker, and contributor of various modules to CPAN I'm wondering what the rational was behind the major syntax changes in perl 6? I've read various items trying to explain it, but none so far have done a very good job. Admittedly I haven't fully grasp perl 6 yet (mostly because it involves learning a new language I thought I knew well).

  8. Right. Burn the heretics, in other news, Colorado, where I live, has had one of the best ski seasons in years.

  9. Is this right?? 2' x 2' chip?

  10. Hardcore unix users... on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Like myself boot Linux directly and don't bother with the windows noise. I have a duel boot setup, which does boot windows 10, for the rare events that I actually need windows for something. Also, I'm less interested in bash support (which is already present with cygwin (and works reasonably well). Combining that with unix services for windows to allow me to mount my NFS (which by the way seems faster than the same mount on linux {drivers?}) I really want to see remote shell support. To me that would be extremely useful, and no, RDP is not what I'm asking for.

  11. Former Andy Grove? on Intel's Former CEO (and First Hire) Andy Grove Dead at 79 · · Score: 0

    Come on Tim, up your game.

  12. Re:This does not conform to my pre-conceived notio on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Soft corruption, resulting in slow walking everything in this investigation. To be honest, I'm very surprised she hasn't been indicted yet.

  13. Re:Totally justified on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This comment indicates how little you know about how our government functions. She works at the behest of POTUS as part of the executive branch, last time I checked, Obama was a democrat.

  14. Re:Totally justified on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No... She was told "No, you can't have a secure blackberry, Your boss (The President) won't authorize it" so she ``conspired'' with others to break the law to get what she wanted.

  15. Re:This negates the entire email scandal on Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, if anything this demonstrates that she's willing to do whatever she has to do, to get what she wants.

  16. Re:And my monthy electric bill... on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This isn't true, especially in a state which produces coal at next to no cost.

  17. Re:And my monthy electric bill... on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Inflation doesn't account for the nearly 40% jump in electricity and natgas prices here.

  18. Re:And my monthy electric bill... on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If only that was true. The natives here (including myself) are quite tired of the influx of Californians and New Yorkers fleeing their over taxed shit hole states, moving here, and voting for the same stupid policies which destroyed their states in the first place.

  19. And my monthy electric bill... on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has never been higher. Additionally because my state (Colorado) has decided to replace the coal plants with natural gas, increasing the price to heat my home as well.

  20. Re:What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yet if the same test were required to vote liberals scream bloody murder.

  21. No more politics on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I come here looking for tech news, and that's really it, I'm very tired of the constant political issues disguised as a science article (I'm looking at you global warming / climate change posters). There's many other sites which provide quality political discourse, theres no need for a dedicated tech site to do so.

  22. And in the mean time what's the effect of this decision? Well, we'll likely see broadband providers dump more funding into the larger population centers, leaving people still on dial up, well, still on dial up.

  23. I've seen this, and have been able to reliably reproduce the issue with mplayer, many many times.

  24. Solving `climate change' is easy... on The Top Weather/Climate Events of 2015 (wunderground.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets just adjust it away in the models.

  25. "There's no shortage of stories .... on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There's no shortage of stories of horrible treatment of women in Open Source projects. Liar.