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  1. There's this famous saying that anybody can be investigated and found guilty of a felony with a few hours work.

    So obviously with the vigorous witch hunt of an 'independent counsel' all sorts of crimes can be tracked down. It worked with both the Clinton and the Trump administrations. All sorts of petty graft and crime can be uncovered, particularly if the bounds of investigation are left wide open so that irrelevant side cases can be swept into the net.

  2. Apple should have purchased VxWorks and made it into the new Mac OS, instead of being taken over by NeXT and taking on all that baggage. This was distinctly possible at the time when Apple was desperately seeking out a new OS to run on their PowerPC architecture.

    If they had done so then today they could be crowing about MacOS-run machines trundling around on Mars. Instead they've got billions of land-apes using their software to share selfies.

  3. So the guy with the new 2,700,000th Slashdot account is going to pipe up to attack Anonymous Cowards and their coordinated fascist campaign.

    You've been rather loud in the last several days, dude.

  4. Re:This story has the presumption that Apple on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    The PCB layout would not be changed to include a rogue chip. An additional module would simply be added at the right place in some glue logic on the current board. The FCC would not be notified, because obviously Apple was not notified that the 'new' glue logic chip is being placed instead of the original.

  5. Re: Democrats might be mis-reading things on Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Really? I bet if a poll was taken, you would find that a majority of Republicans would be elated if Trump's Twitter account was deleted. Dude does a lot of damage with that thing! Same for a lot of the other trash-groups who've been thrown off social media. It's a myth that normal real Republicans back the white-power trash and the nazis.

  6. Slashdot isn't owned by Dice anymore. It was bought by a set of hooligan profiteers about a year ago. Haven't you noticed little changes? It's still 'user moderated ' but there's a little flag icon to the right of each comment. The advertising is slicker and more pervasive.

  7. Re: Are you kidding me?! on Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support? · · Score: 1

    Most AMD partisans consider it one of their hobbies. A fandom. I am not an 'Intel zealot' but am fairly certain I will be called that by some of the hobbyists.

  8. Re: Spectre and Meltdown on Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support? · · Score: 1

    Drink Pepsi, not Coke!

    No! Drink RC Cola. Be a rebel!

  9. Re: SuperMicro on Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support? · · Score: 0

    You've been trolled by a crapflooder. /. really is going to shit.

  10. In Their Back Pocket on Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The big tech companies have the Democrats in their back pocket. This stuff is perfectly fine to bluster about before the elections. In fact it's good politics to make promises like this.

  11. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Seated Judges don't need to withstand sliming operations. They aren't put in that position. The Dems are just totally freaking out, because they're used to dominating at the Supreme Court.

  12. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The Republicans are likely to gain seats in the Senate in November. Meanwhile the House is likely to trash out over this, because lower houses are usually more vulnerable to rabble-like movements.

  13. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The National Review is pro-legalisation. Hell, William F. Buckley was pretty outspoken about it.

  14. Re: This is the problem with the world on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: you are left of the Democrats so find them more tolerable than the Republicans. Phrase it in whatever fancy words you choose.

  15. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    So you suggest the judiciary be made even MORE political.

  16. Re:Karma Whore or Just Stupid ? on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell those "climate deniers" at NASA

    Appeal to authority. Perhaps we should apply to the CIA for our questions about intelligence.

    Why did you link to a children's educational webpage that nasa sponsors?

  17. Re:Karma Whore or Just Stupid ? on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't have to control the process. We just need to control the people. With our placards and bullhorns. And political power we accumulate over time.

    It's always worked so well in the past. What could go wrong?

  18. Re: Sometimes current flows both ways on Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Diodes are always capacitors in a significant way. It isn't a little parasitic amount.

  19. Re: assume - ass u me on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    So whatever the 'Doctors' say is okay. Let's just roll back to, say, 1860 and go get our buckets of leeches.

    Naw, but keep taking that metformin. Your doctor gets free ball point pens from the maker of metformin, among other perks.

  20. You are sooo wrong. I mean, even fucking Hillary isn't dead.

  21. Re: The sentence fragment on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, but there is no absolute rule prohibiting you from dumping any amount of salt into a river, like there is for benzene or arsenic. Even though there does exist a minute irrelevant amount of benzene or arsenic that does not need to be forbidden.

  22. I voted for Clinton twice, then I voted for Bush twice. But at least I never voted for Obama.

  23. Stomp your foot. Say it again.

    Go ahead and pout if it makes you feel better.

  24. Re: First selfhosting copiler EVER! on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This is even more interesting. Running .NET on nearly bare metal using a NetBSD rump kernel.

  25. Re: First selfhosting copiler EVER! on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This would have been a more helpful link.