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  1. Because Browsers on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Are designed for faster connections than yours where doing things asynchronously is much preferred (Though not it appears by the developers I tend to deal with) to synchronous.

  2. Re:Irrelevant on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    For desktop apps Clarion (From Softvelocity) has been doing that since the 1980's. Fortunately their marketing Dept Sucks so hardly anyone is aware of it.

  3. Coffee on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 2

    When the coffee machine runs out :D

  4. Re:But can they teach them to insider trade on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting for the crash when they all get hacked

  5. Re:Where do they go? on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wait until they've been recycled as firelighters

  6. Re:google should adopt this on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

    Ever thought of going into advertising :D (The last bit of the quote you missed off!)

  7. Re:chromium? on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Aha so it's a remote Bluejacking vector! Visit a website on your phone and everyone in your office gets a Bluetooth connection from "Uploading Virus" or "Vote Twunt"

  8. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Setting cars on fire, assaulting people, and breaking windows isn't "protesting."

    No that's a Saturday night out in Liverpool

  9. Re:Take a hike on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Trump was going to piss all over this shit with another executive order

  10. Re:poop also booming on Apple Sets a New Record For iPhone Sales (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Great now can they pay the €14bn taxes they owe the Irish Government?

  11. Re:Yawn... on GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly their DR Plan didn't get any form of QA. It's no good having five forms of backup/replication if non of them work!

  12. Clearly the problem is the cheque still requires Steve Jobs signature and they haven't got the right coloured (yes I'm british) crayon

  13. Re:Still optional on Google Quietly Makes 'Optional' Web DRM Mandatory In Chrome (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Chromium

  14. Can they become completely opaque when the wearer looks at something that might be deemed perilous to you?

    If I had two heads like you Zaphod I could have great fun banging them against a wall

  15. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, empirically, people are buying vinyl.

    Empirically Hipsters are buying vinyl.

  16. Ironically the No One Best Selling Toy/Game is "Cards Against Humanity" https://www.amazon.com/Best-Se...

    Am I noticing a trend here?

  17. Re:First RETARDED POST! on Amazon Updates Echo, Echo Dot To Let You Address It As 'Computer' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually I'm interested in what the feedback will be like when watching Star Trek :D

  18. Re:Wrong Book? on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking it's more like Animal Farm

  19. Re:Who's buying? on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    First we should make sure it's not the Trump administration buying these. They might be mistaken for operating manuals.

    That's what the Kremlin did pre Gorbachev

  20. Currency exchange rate! Dipshit don't get me going about VAT

  21. Erm, have you ever seen the British government?

    You are aware Bozo the Clown is our Foreign Secretary

  22. Re:Brexit will never happen on Microsoft May Halt the Expansion of a UK Datacenter Due To Brexit (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    No only the UK has to agree for Brexit to happen. A subsequent trade deal with the EU will require all 26 (See what I did there) members to agree & sign otherwise trading would take place under existing WTO rules.

  23. It's roughly 17.5% more expensive to import from outside the UK now. I don't think MS is sourcing any of the hardware from within the UK so go figure.

  24. Re:An attack, ok, but not a hack on FBI Is Probing Sundance Cyberattack That Forced Box Office To Close (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there'd been a Mathew Broderick film on. He could have confused the DDOS attack with Tick Tack Toe