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  1. Re:This will be quickly squashed. on The US Government Wants To Permanently Legalize the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The Republican congress and the POTUS have way too many connections to big business to allow such a thing to happen.

    If this goes through it will end up being so heavily amended that it will make the situation worse rather than better. Regardless of which party's in charge.

  2. Hey I'd just be happy to have wood :D

  3. Re:Is anyone running through airports in 2017? on Scientists Discover How To Stop Luggage From Toppling On the Race Through the Airport (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think that would get you shot, nowadays.

    Well to be honest I do get an overwhelming compulsion to kill any tool I see dragging a Drag Bag

  4. Re:Or just get one that has 4 wheels on Scientists Discover How To Stop Luggage From Toppling On the Race Through the Airport (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have hundreds of cute little legs :D

  5. Re:Declining intelligence of Slashdot users on ESA Approves Gravitational-Wave Hunting Spacecraft For 2034 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 0

    I only just saw the article. I'm just concerned that the satellites will be extremely close to the sun.

  6. Re:2000s? Try 1980s. on Remember When You Called Someone and Heard a Song? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest I've never heard of ring back tones and certainly have never encountered one. If I had I'd probably just hang up.

  7. Re:Alternate Title: MS Disables Faulty AV Software on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AV vendors aren't going to let go of that teet if they find any way to avoid being forced to do so.

    That's a nice computer you have there it would be a shame if something happened to it

  8. That's OK on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned Due To Investor Pressure (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I understand there's still a vacancy at Yahoo

  9. Re:"Jobs nearby in which on Google Launches Its AI-Powered Jobs Search Engine (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Assume this thing is geolocked to the US trying it here in Europe just gives a load of Jobs Boards and links to press releases about how Google will now search for a job for you. In other words the usual trash that comes out of a google search.

  10. Something something something franchise something something something

  11. So a Fad doesn't last long on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    News at Eleven

  12. 1 Line? on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Couldn't you be bothered to write an actual summary?

  13. lol yeah right, wine doesn't even fucking work reliably on Linux

    That's precisely why they want it :) you do remember Vista don't you?

  14. Re:Minbari From Babylon 5 ? on Conch Shells Inspire Next Generation Helmets, Body Armor (rdmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You have the conch

  15. Am I the only one who read that as "Firefox's Head of Marketing bitches about how much he really, really, really likes Chrome"?

    Too funny for words

  16. Re:Obligatory XKCD on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    What has the new /. overlord got against RSS

  17. Re:I like XML better on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    Lets make this clear for everyone

    XML == W3C Standard and is based on SGML as is HTML

    JSON != W3C Standard

    Both can easily be cocked up by improper implementations

  18. Interesting that the report mentions synthetic cannabis but not organic cannabis

  19. Re:We're going to get this sooner or later on Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what marketing course teaches to you associate your client with feelings of incandescent rage.

    Hmm I suspect that's the Scam Marketing Course which would explain why politicians wan't to enable it

  20. Take 2 and call me in the morning

  21. Re:Deeper Subject on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the article was going to be about how a capital "I" and a lowercase "L" look the same in some fonts and really messes up your code. I've had it happen before... Il

    Just don't mention the Greek question mark

  22. Re:Idiots... on Could Giant Alien Structures Be Dimming a Far Away Star? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to find a place that has the same "intelligence" as here?

    I take the fact that there is no evidence that Aliens have ever visited Earth as conclusive proof that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe :D

  23. So what is going to cover base load?

    They will power it all with Cuckoo Clocks of course!

  24. Re:Frist poestt on Privacy-Focused Debian-Based Tails 3.0 Reaches RC Status (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Damn I called Heads!

  25. Windows machines in 1980? on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The first known ransomware attack was called "AIDS Trojan" that infected Windows machines back in 1989.

    Windows 3.0 didn't come out until May 1990 and nobody seriously used the earlier versions because they were crap. Also it said it infected the autoexec.bat file which is an MS DOS file not a Windows file.