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  1. Re:Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Living* on Digital Technology Can Help Reinvent Basic Education In Africa (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what we need. That's it. That's all.

    * By "Living" I mean life skills, such as cooking, cleaning, managing a budget, hygiene, etc.

    And if you can boil water and open a box of baking soda you can make crack.

  2. Re:Chrome & Safari are only browsers that matt on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    slashdot still works in w3m
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:You will bankrupt yourselves trying to keep up. on China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List (enterprisecloudnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    USA have secret weapon. Donald J. Trump. Your MIPS supercomputer will be no help.

  4. I Need Another Sweater! on More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Snow in the forecast for tonight where I'm at. Save the earth? That's up to the people with the money. They're only interested in making more. Sorry.

  5. 1. Get idea.
    2. Email P.R. guy to send it out on the wire.
    3. Tell secretary to notify accountant of another tax deduction.

  6. I thought my math was spot on Mr. Rockefeller.

  7. Re:Seems Like They Need An English Teacher on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian, I hate to take sides in your politics. Hence the 2 morons in the last twenty years. Could have meant Clinton and Obama. More likely is Bush and Trump. I'll let the reader decide. Politics is a nasty business.

  8. Re:Pet Windows Programs on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Micro$oft: We'll put the goose back in your step.

  9. One hundred million dollars is more money than I could ever comprehend. Actually one million is more than will pass through my hands through my entire existence. To Bill Gates it's a one week dividend (at 5%/yr) on his ninety billion dollars. Thanks Bill.

  10. Re:Video Link on New Samsung Video Demos Linux on Galaxy Smartphones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an android phone, but am not impressed. One fault of android is that you can't do development on it, you need a proper X86 box for the SDK. Its nice to see samsung doing something with linux. Perhaps it will lead to something more useful.

  11. Re:You can't have this on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not claiming NK can do it, NK is claiming they have the ability to launch an EMP attack. If they're bluffing someone should call them on it.

  12. Re:You can't have this on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 1

    While I tend to agree with your analysis, if you're incorrect it will be very difficult to put the toothpaste back in the tube. The longer you wait the worse the eventual outcome will be.

  13. You can't have this on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 0

    The minute NK threatened the use of an electromagnetic pulse weapon the U.S. should have dropped the hammer. You can't have an unstable communist dictator talking that way. It's going way beyond any acceptable line.

  14. Video Link on New Samsung Video Demos Linux on Galaxy Smartphones (liliputing.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the Samsung demo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:Dual license rights on What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    From this page
    https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/...
    "One of the main motivations for the usage of the GPL in FOSS is assurance that once something is released as FOSS, it will remain so permanently."
    My understanding is that means in perpetuity.
    After you go to /dev/null it's still GPL.

  16. Re:Privacy is dead for the proletariat on Ask Slashdot: Can You Convert Old iPods Into A Home Music-Streaming Solution? · · Score: 2

    Zuckerberg bought an Island for privacy, with the money he made when you unwittingly gave him your privacy.

    There, fixed it for ya!

    You spelled unwittingly wrong.

  17. Re:Seems Like They Need An English Teacher on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You could have an impressive IQ and yet if you didn't like being told what to do or working with others you might never get anywhere in life. Conversely you could be a complete moron and become President of the United States. Has been proved twice in the past twenty years.

  18. Faulty Premise on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    The article seems to speculate that Gates was ignorant when he bought the land. I would suggest that given his wealth and power he knows a few things that some of us peons don't. According to some, Arizona in 20-30 years will be too hot to inhabit and instead we'll be settling Mars. Sounds like science fiction to me. Of course many like that sort of entertainment.

  19. Re:Speaking as a fellow Canadian on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Watching any of them is painful and makes me embarrassed to be Canadian. Have you had a lobotomy or is your remote just broken?

  20. Re:The clairty's good for aspiring immigrants as w on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The good news is there's only 44 million of them.

  21. Re:The clairty's good for aspiring immigrants as w on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't think you'd like Canada, it's one of the coldest countries in the world. Australia is nice though, lots of kangaroos. Who doesn't like kangaroos?

  22. Re:Enlightened self interest on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems if you want to have a successful business these days you better know every dirty trick in the book.

  23. Speaking as a fellow Canadian on Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's good to see at least one business in Quebec made a profit. And almost nobody here watches the CBC. It's just too damn boring. Even for us.

  24. Re:Most wanted present on Here Comes the World's Biggest Shopping Spree -- Again (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "for an unspeakably sinister reason"

  25. Most wanted present on Here Comes the World's Biggest Shopping Spree -- Again (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Big seller over there are $4k anatomically correct and life like female silicone dolls because for some odd reason there's way more males than females of marrying age. It's either that or turn gay. Lot of lonely guys in China.