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  1. You want to know what could fund this completely? Not allowing fossil fuel to externalize the cost of cleaning the mess up.

    Do you know who benefits from 'externalized cost' with fossil fuel? We all do. In other words, none of us do. In other words, it would just fucking disrupt the economy so bad that the thug leftists with placards could probably take over the country during the turmoil.

    In other words, it's not gonna happen that way.

  2. Obama was a lecturer. Since he had no practical background in law, they assigned him to lecture on 'constitutional law.'

  3. Re:Response: on NYPD To Google: Stop Revealing the Location of Police Checkpoints (nypost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you are going 70 in a 45 zone in an area where hills block visibility ahead, I hope you have crashes that cause expensive damage to your car. No, we don't hope you are injured, but that big hunk of speeding metal needs to be taken away from you.; For all of our safety.

  4. How can anybody be the victim of a bassoon?

    I suppose if the bassoon case falls off a high shelf or something....

  5. Re:transducers are coming and going on Nest Secure Has an Unlisted, Disabled Microphone (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid, my next door neighbor and I strung a pair of wires from my window to his. We hooked a loudspeaker to the wire pair at each end. Voila, a bi-directional communications system. Either end could listen closely at the speaker to hear what was going on at the other end.

  6. drillhere.org on Nest Secure Has an Unlisted, Disabled Microphone (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just another instance of a situation that can be answered by an organization that puts up a website called 'drillhere.org'. This site contains detailed information about how and where to drill into your gadget to disable functionality you don't want.

    It would have things like:

    "To disable the microphone in a Nest Secure thermostat, drill a hole xxx deep using a #56 drill bit and angle X.X."

    Usually there's a precise way to take care of 'problems' like this hidden microphone, and people have a right to know how to fix said problems.

  7. Re:Sort of on Bitcoin is Worth Less Than the Cost To Mine It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Similar to how the people who made the real money in the 1849 California gold rush were the people who sold food and equipment to the miners.

  8. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 0

    Machine instructions are the end result of a programming language, and not themselves a programming language.

  9. Re:Remember when it was just the Religous Right? on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It turns out that the majority of the people who are pro-vaccination do not have the scientific background to do anything more than believe what the experts say, either.

    I am not against vaccination, I am just sayin.

  10. Re: One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "People who smoke should be banned from medical insurance."

    "People who skydive should be banned from medical insurance."

    "People who ride motorcycles should be required to be registered as organ donors."

    Etc. etc.

  11. You think site B is going to say 'yes, we don't mind if site A sends it's bot over here to try to log onto our user's accounts'.

    Is it a race for Site A and Site B to determine which one disables the account first? One or the other would be first, obviously.

  12. Re:The real question is on Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    When was the wake? Were you a pallbearer?

  13. Re:Further clarification - not limited on Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They didn't just revoke they keys for those apps though, they revoked the whole certificate on which all app distribution profiles were built - affecting possibly hundreds of valid internal apps as well.

    Correct. Apple once again proves they are enterprise-hostile motherfuckers.

    All other businesses considering Apple should take note.

  14. Re:Good to see on Apple Blocks Google From Running Its Internal iOS Apps (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This should demonstrate to enterprise level purchasers the peril in becoming involved with Apple, who are historically an enterprise-hostile vendor.

  15. Re:I really hope this guy get drop-kicked in the h on Lawyer Sues Apple Over FaceTime Eavesdrop Bug, Says It Let Someone Record a Sworn Testimony (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's the reason people can't have leaky Apple widgets.

    And other, ummm... nice things.

  16. It breaks my user-chrome CSS, too. The tabs are on the left side, where I like them, but the dynamic translation of table titles to ancient greek is now broken. /s

  17. Re:Even harder to compile from source? on Firefox 65 Arrives With Content Blocking Controls, and Support for WebP and AV1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Every time I install NetBSD one of the early things I do is build a copy of SeaMonkey from pkgsrc. Firefox is also easy to build, but I like the integrate 'composer' component in Seamonkey for cutting and pasting and saving web content.

  18. Re:Last time I got frustrated with Firefox on Firefox 65 Arrives With Content Blocking Controls, and Support for WebP and AV1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Google probably has a team of engineers maintaining that 'bug' so it persists with new versions.

  19. The only people with problems seem to be Apple customers. I would hesitate to say it is Slashdot's problem.

  20. Re: no one in the usa will work for $2.15/hr 60-80 on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple needs many, many custom proprietary screws. Because when they need to design something, they let 'er rip and Invent It Here.

    Also, you can't make something so un-repairable that it's disposable without changing the screws in the design every few weeks.

  21. Re: $3,000 laptop on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean he can't run an SQL server and four simultaneous virtual machines on it?

    I bought a cheap laptop this year, too. But I put a bigger drive in it and upped it to 8GB of memory. It's 'unsupported' with that amount of memory in it, but it works great.

  22. Re:Going to need on Apple Plans Netflix-Like Gaming Subscription Services, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    With Apple, it not only needs to be 'invented here.' It needs to have been 'invented here' within the last several years.

  23. Re:Win3.1 not 95 changed PC world on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apple spent many millions of dollars trying to produce an in-house operating system that had pre-emptive multitasking. The MacOS before OS X was a dismal kludge. Eventually, they gave up and let NeXT take them over and bring in a Unix clone.

  24. Re: 35 years, and not much has changed on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    One of which needs to be utilized for the charger cord. And they are USB-C connectors, because Apple prefers that people use a dongle to connect their garden-variety USB-A Flash drives. And a dongle to read their SD cards, connect their legacy scanner, etc. etc.

  25. Re:"1984" on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I remember back when the first Macintoshes with hard drives made by IBM came out and the Mac fanatics opened their cases and discovered it. This was long after IBM had ceded the PC market to the PC cloners, but to Macintosh zealots 'IBM' was still the enemy. They referred to 'IBM' computers in much the same way that Amish people refer to all non-Amish people as 'English.'