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  1. Don't laugh... on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Don't laugh, but TPB was the only place could get The Young and The Restless for my lady if she missed it on TV.

    If anyone has suggestions for another place to get it, please comment.

  2. Amazing an old game on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 2


    You haven't seen NetHack until you've seen it on a retina MacBook or iMac. I nearly soiled my trousers the first time I saw "L" coming at me on such a display.

    Alien: Isolation has nothing on it.

  3. Re:Are there any good alternatives? on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again · · Score: 2


    YIFY will never get busted. Because the quality of their rips is so low, it would put anybody with properly working eyeballs and a decent TV off pirated movies for life.

    YIFY rips are great if you are used to playing Minecraft all day long.

  4. Re:It could be worse on Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords? · · Score: 1


    Simple fix: don't ever set your voicemail password.

    I went over 10 years without enabling my dreaded voicemail, some people complained but I never budged. My current Director told me to set it up about six months ago. I did and used a random integer set from random.org as the password.

    I can honestly say "I forgot my voicemail password" and let the thing fill up.

  5. Re:Where are your ancestors from? on Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2


    I had never heard of "microagression" before this article. That tumblr blog has plenty of whiny lulz, thanks!

  6. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 2


    Sounds like he just watched Prometheus.

  7. Re:Result on 16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office · · Score: 1

    As long as the weather on the island of Islay stays the same so the flavour of Laphroaig never changes, the rest doesn't matter

  8. Re:Dude, you're getting a CRAY, also error in summ on 16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office · · Score: 1

    Don't tell the UK meteorlogical Office this. The trick to getting those TFLOPs on those 480,000 6502 CPUs is that Cray benchmarked them all with nothing but NOP instructions.

  9. I was missing my MojoKid/HotHarware clickbait.
    Thanks!

  10. No thanks. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A token based system vs. direct access to my personal data and bank account? I'll take Apple Pay, thanks.

  11. Re:7 Year Old, Not Seventh Grader on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll say. I was 23 when in seventh grade.

  12. Re:Why on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1


    " Do you know how many terrorists that wanted to kill me I have come face to face with? 0.

    Remove the "I have come face to face with" and that answer will certainly not be zero.

  13. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I'm in Canada. Here's it is an iron clad arrangement. Our lawyer drew up our wills accordingly, our accountant handles our taxes accordingly. No benefit here.

  14. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    If we split up we would have to go through the same process for custody and asset disposal & disbursements. It's a legally binding thing here.

  15. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1


    The three of us walking around as a happy family is a public statement of commitment, no? When we were at Walking with Dinosaurs yesterday morning, no one questioned any papers or marital status. In fact there were thousands of people there, certainly a more truly public statement than hand-picked relatives & friends who feel compelled to show up for a plate of free food and booze.

    It would cost time and money for something none of us care about. We'd rather spend our money on winter family holidays or finish off the new kitchen or new pool deck or just put extra into our daughter's education fund (which is appreciable already).

    Not arguing, just pointing out that people have different priorities.

  16. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1


    So what you're saying is that everyone considers you married already, so effectively you are.

    In essence, yes. The key is that the government recognizes it for taxation and other family matters. In our province here in .CA in 2014 marriage would be an expense with no payoff. We'd be better off blowing that money on lottery tickets.

  17. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    Perhaps in your jurisdiction, not ours. We asked about it ages ago when we were dealing with our lawyer for our wills and our accountant for our income taxes.

  18. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    Forgot to include this link: Common Law marriage in Canada

  19. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    We're in Canada and considered common-law: there are no extra legal protections the paper offers. When we were drawing up our wills, our lawyer said as much. Our life insurance has each other as the beneficiary, our wills are the same. If we ever split up, it's off to the lawyers to divide up assets and work on custody.

    When we file our yearly taxes we check off the relevant box for 'marital status' (or whatever it asks) for common-law partnerships and do income splitting to minimize the tax hit. Our accountant said there was no difference in having the paper or not for us. My lady is a professional and known as her own name. So. if we ever did get hitched, she would keep her name. No hyphenating, etc. Fine by me.

    So what are the benefits? Neither of us see any.

  20. Re:Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1


    Tricky. It might be that right now, you both behave in a way so that the other person would marry you if you insisted on it. But after getting married, you might both stop behaving that way and then things go downhill.

    We are not acting in a 'sales mode' after 10+ years, we clicked early on and are ourselves: no lies, no masks, no illusions.

    Reading TFA was interesting as, according to that data, we are perfectly set other than the marriage question. We're both atheist, so for the religious question it doesn't apply though I guess saying "The three of us regularly go to the museum, watch sciency shows, etc." would count as attending a church. ;)

  21. Why is the paper so important? on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    My lady and I have been together over ten years, we have an eight year old daughter and are completely happy.
    I wonder how the "Couples who dated 3 years or more are 39% less likely to get divorced" extends to us if we ever got married (not that we've ever thought about it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.)

  22. Re:National Geographic on Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry · · Score: 2

    "Are you looking at saggy tribal titties again, Anon?"
    "No, mommy, I'm looking at -flip flip flip- the Aral Sea."

  23. Which kernel? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    One would hope the headline would say. Linux? OpenBSD? FreeBSD? OSX?

  24. Re:Cable Lacing on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    I can see how that would be relaxing, and I have an application at work where I may try this: cleaning up a mess of a telecom closet when I have some spare cycles to burn.

  25. Re:Cable Lacing on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    Wow... I've seen lacing over the years but never gave it a second thought until reading your link. Interesting, thanks!