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  1. Re: That's going to really tick off people on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    With headphones? As you blissfully bike along not listening to traffic noise?

  2. Re: Oh this should be good. on An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    It's a nice shinier proprietary desktop for unix-alike fans. Better than KDE was back before it became fully open source*, but encouraging the same sort of nerds to use it.

    (*early linux-era KDE was dual licensed- if you wanted to sell binaries you could pay for that license)

  3. Just for the record, a complete Objective-C toolchain was an installable package with Slackware 95, one of the Slackware distros of the Linux 1.x era. Objective C existed long before Steve Job's NeXT bought Apple.

  4. Re: Factory gated? on Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Do the cars even pass through this gate if it's on the way to the rework lot?

  5. Shouldn't he be sitting in a parking lot somewhere in a Ferrari?

  6. Re: Grand scheme of things on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'lectric cars are 19th Century.

  7. "The whole SEC seems to be chuck full of damned PEDOs."

  8. Spacely Sprockets! Whatta deal!

  9. Re:Grand scheme of things on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No! No! We need to hurry up. Because we're the zenith of existence. We can show up those dumb people from 1950! If we just stick at it we can go to the Stars. Man. The Stars.

    But we need to really really hurry. Because my battery is only at one bar now.

  10. Re:Grand scheme of things on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And Howard Hughes was Hughes Aircraft. And the Spruce Goose. Doesn't mean Hughes Aircraft couldn't continue on after he went as nutty as (incidentally) Nicko Tesla did in later life.

  11. Re: Grand scheme of things on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He's a goddamned idiot, actually. To Mars? Really? A place that makes the worst 'Climate Change' scenario look like a sunny day at the park?

    We haven't even inhabited the Marianas Trench yet. Let's stick to totally uninhabitable zones we can actually reach.

  12. Re:Slashdot being sued for false and misleading st on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the 'funding secured' lie that has Elon Musk (sounds like a Revlon perfume, doesn't it?) in trouble.

  13. Re:Energy/car industry attack dogs at it again on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dem Big Oil barons.

    My grampa told me he read in a 1971 issue of Popular Mechanics that ther wez a pill you cud put in water to turnit into 120 octane gas. But teh Big Oil barons bought the patent and shudder down!

    What won't dem bastard Big Oil barons do?!?! Sheesh!

  14. Re:Well, it isn't unexpected. on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt it very much that the goal of SEC is to destroy an American company, supported by a bunch of institutional investors.

    Quite possibly the goal is to save an American company from a crackpot founder. We don't need Tesla to become the next Tucker.

  15. Re:I got my battery replaced for $29... on Apple's Device Enrollment Program Can Leak Sensitive Data About Devices, Owners (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple needs to come out with a barbed headphone jack plug, for the True Believers who cannot yet afford a new Applephone without a headphone jack. It could be an inexpensive 'upgrade' item and I am sure there are Applephone owners who would be brave enough to push it into the hold and seal it off forever.

  16. Re:Would /. dry up if it weren't for Musk? on Panasonic Completing 3 New Cell Production Lines At Tesla's Gigafactory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Tesla planning on selling these batteries to other EV makers?

    I would think it would be Panasonic selling the batteries to other makers. Why go through a middle man?

  17. I'm thinking more about reducing the 'updates' from Huffington Post and Breitbart (but now I'm being redundant) send out.

  18. Re: gaming compared to movies on Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Back then, a lot of people thought a lot of things were hyped up. A few of them became 'big.' Anybody in hindsight can construct such a list.

  19. Re:What They Really Want on In Senate Hearing, Tech Giants Push Lawmakers For Federal Privacy Rules (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    One state may require that data be retained for at least one year so that it could be gathered for legal proceedings of future litigation while another state could require that data be kept for no more than three months.

    And that would be an excellent outcome. It would require all the online vendors to keep the absolute minimum amount of information about their customers that is possible.

    There is no need for Amazon to 'gather information' about my past purchases from them. A law that prohibited them from keeping such a record wouldn't interfere with them selling to me at all, in any way.

  20. Re: gaming compared to movies on Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of things are hyped up. Only a few end up going anywhere.

  21. Re: I much preferred Seventh Guest on Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The Residents Freak Show.

  22. Re: Puzzles on Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you just need to get some camping equipment and head out. Be careful of the permadeath, though.

  23. Re:AntennaGate again! on iPhone XS and XS Max Users Are Reporting Poor Cell and Wi-Fi Reception (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've experimented and found an excellent use case for purchasing an iPhone.

  24. Re:Lennart response on iPhone XS and XS Max Users Are Reporting Poor Cell and Wi-Fi Reception (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Huge cash-rich businesses don't just wither away. There are jackals deep within any such company itching to rip it apart.

    This kind erosion goes hand-in-hand with huge profitable success.

  25. You've branched into describing Apple desktop features. Apple doesn't stress the desktop anymore. The only essential reason to have an Apple PC is that it's the only way to develop Apple mobile device apps.