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  1. Re:No mention of party -- must be a Democrat then on Former Senate Staffer Admits To Doxxing Five Senators On Wikipedia (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It doesn't mention that Sheila Jackson Lee was a Democratic Congresswoman, only that she was a US Representative. I've never heard of her before, so I certainly wouldn't know which political party she belonged to just by seeing her name, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

  2. Re:Why the minimum I wonder on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When all you have is a SWAT team, everything looks like a huge drug-lord compound.

  3. Re:Ars Technica link... on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Absolutely. For some reason, it seems he's getting off without so much as a reprimand.

  4. Re: To study Geoengineering. on Proposal For United Nations To Study Climate-Cooling Technologies Rejected (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Wind turbines don't provide consistent energy. You can't rely on them to provide enough power when you've got a heat wave or cold snap. They're fine as a supplemental power source, but nuclear works great as a reliable source of power.

  5. Re:Just pick a damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They never did. They get up when the animals do or when the fields need taking care of. They couldn't care less what the clock says.

  6. Probably just naming companies who haven't donated on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone is probably bitter about the big tech companies that haven't donated to her campaign. What would really be more useful would be to break up the 6 companies that own all Mainstream Media. Since Bill Clinton passed the law allowing the media companies to consolidate, just a few companies now control the "trusted" news outlets.

  7. But does it work on black people? on Microsoft Brings AI-Powered Background Blurring To Skype (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Things like this are notoriously bad at picking out black people. Hopefully they've learned from past mistakes and they've trained the AI to be better.

  8. It all depends on the keyboard on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I get the best tradeoff with Thinkpad-style keyboards (minus the horrible Tx40 series!). You get the mouse nub right there at your fingertips, so you barely have to move your hands to use the mouse. You can get an affordable plastic one for around $70, which is ok. But the real nice ones are the Tex Yoda or the Tex Kodachi. The Yoda II and the Kodachi have fully programmable keys, solid aluminum base, and if you buy the kit, you can choose your own mechanical keyswitches. I've got enough extra keys on my Kodachi that I've programmed a number of common tasks as macros and it's made a huge improvement in my productivity.

  9. Just add this crazy new feature everyone demands on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I bet if they added headphone jacks again, the new phones would sell like hotcakes. Who wants to upgrade when there's a huge decrease in functionality?

  10. cover the camera on With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Many security specialists already recommend covering the camera on your laptop when you're not using it. Perhaps it's time to do that with our phones as well.

  11. Re:The Wonky Keyboard Will Be Fixed Eventually But on The New and Improved MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    The MBP kills me. What kind of "Pro" product won't let you upgrade even the memory or the hard drive? After 3 years, they'll clearly have much faster, larger NVMe SSDs that would breathe new life into the laptop. But no, they made their own custom interface, and do weird things with the very few 3rd party options on the 2015 models. Newer models won't even let you swap them out. They've ripped out all the useful ports (gig ethernet!) with just a pair of thunderbolt and usb ports and require dongles for everything else, because dongles look so professional. These are only marginally more expandable than their iPads.

  12. The new Thinkpad P52/P72 laptops support 128Gb using 4x32Gb DIMMs with their Xeon laptop chips. I'd _love_ to get my hands on one of those bad boys!

  13. 128KB? 128MB would've been good around 2003-ish.

  14. Re:U.S.A. Where everybody has guns on Gunman Shoots 4 at Middleton Software Company; Dies in Shootout With Police (madison.com) · · Score: 2

    He hired a prostitute through an online service who provided ID to prove she was 18. It sounds more like a government setup, like Assange, than a pedophile.

  15. Re:Nazis have no value to society on Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle To Police Bad Actors (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Challenging someone to a boxing match or saying you want a political duel is hardly inciting others to violence. If those are the best examples you can find, your argument is pretty weak.

  16. Except every municipal broadband attempt has been challenged and in most places they've been declared illegal. Only a few have ever been successfully deployed, and they had to fight hard to get them.

  17. Market forces on Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, but market forces only work when there's competition. They've all lobbied to prevent any real competition. I only have one choice when it comes to any real broadband. Satellite just doesn't count.

  18. Way to screw your source on Reality Winner Sentenced To More Than 5 Years For Leaking Info About Russia Hacking Attempts (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm still pissed at The Intercept. Their incompetence in handling the original documents is what blew their source. No one is going to leak to them now if they just turn around and give all the incriminating evidence to the government. They really should have known better.

  19. Re: Size... on Return of the Bubble Car? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My dream car in high school was a big snow plow. I figured if I ran a red light and someone hit me, that was their problem. Plus, I could convert the dump portion of the truck into a sweet mancave. I still want one.

  20. I pay attention to company health now on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    I've been laid off a couple times now. One caught me completely by surprise. So now I pay a lot more attention to the health of the company and just how important my job is to the company. My last job move I noticed the critical customer I was supporting was winding down their usage of our software, which would make me unneeded baggage. The time before, I noticed my manager wasn't fond of me and was unlikely to renew my contract. I've found I can make much better jumps when I'm still employed rather than needing to take the first thing that comes along that pays the bills.

  21. Now if only DDR4 prices could come down on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real killer is DDR4 memory. I can't put together a decent ESXi server without a ton of memory. To build my latest server, I had to pick Xeons that still used DDR3 memory, since I could get that at a fair price.

  22. But how can you get rid of it? on My Line Lets Colombians Call Google Assistant (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    And here I was today just googling how to get rid of the !@#$ assistant from my smart phone. Or at least get to to answer when I say, "Hey, Wiretap!"

  23. A real punishment on Florida Man Behind 100 Million Robocalls Hit With $120 Million FCC Fine (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I say, make the time fit the crime. Send him to jail. His cell has a single phone that can ring at any time, including the night. It does so, quite frequently. Each call is a recording with some bogus sales pitch. At some time during the sales pitch, which could last up to 5 minutes, a 5 digit code may or may not be given. This code can then be entered into an interface on the wall, which will deliver a food pellet. This is his only way to eat (although he can get water). He may get time in the yard, but if he misses an important call, he might miss his food.

  24. The most obvious way to determine whether or not the voice on the other end of the line is a chatbot is to specifically ask if they're a robot. If it denies that it is a robot, it totally is a robot. I don't think I've ever had a robot call and admit to being one.

  25. No middle mouse button?! on System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the heck makes a Linux laptop and leaves out the middle mouse button? I mean, come on. Know your target audience. I'll stick with Thinkpad laptops with mouse nubs and middle clicks, thank you very much.