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  1. I was building modular device drivers on my Linux kernel back in the 1.2.13 days. That was a long while ago.

    It isn't a Microkernel design. I can run Minix if I want that.

  2. Re:That's nice but... on Google's 'Project Treble' Could Lead To Faster Android Updates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would pay a little bit extra for a 'smartphone' that didn't have any kind of telephone functionality, if it had somewhat enhanced 'pocket computer' functionality.

    I could buy a TracPhone for my telephone needs and spend about $100 a year for it.

  3. Re:We need standardized/open source ECUs. on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.3 Million Ram Pickups For Fatal Software Problem (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern ECUs are not based around your old rock solid M68000 chips at 20MHz and 64KB of software, they usually run at a minimum of 200MHz with a few megabytes for software because they run full-blown operating systems.

    I would think an M68000 based ECU would sport a Dragonball, probably the 68328.

    (the classic Palm Pilots, i.e. the Palm III, ran on this chip)

  4. Ask any sheep farmer what they keep a Ram on the farm for. Just to fuck the ewes.

    Whenever I see a Dodge 'Ram' on the road, I think "sheepfucker." In general usage I call any of the Dodge vehicles with the sheepfucker logo on it a "sheepfucker." In particular the burly pickup trucks whose driver is clearly compensating.

    I haven't seen a 'Sheepfucker' bumper sticker, but have toyed with the idea of creating one.

  5. On any modern Windows computer, you go to the 'start' menu to start the shutdown sequence.

    Only a troglodyte would have been still be running a computer when that meme was created (MS-DOS? CP/M?) where you just switch the power off.

  6. Re:wrong.... on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. This is another in a long series of articles that describe the absolute worst possible example of a lecture, declare "lectures" awful and/or dead, and make some exhortation about learning styles (which have zero scientific basis, except for passive/active).

    Summary: awful lectures are awful. Good lectures are good. Lectures not dead.

    It's a Wired article, for goodness sake. How could it be very relevant or informative.

    Wired isn't even a very good Mondo 2000 clone.

  7. Re:what a load of... on 'Google Is As Close To a Natural Monopoly As the Bell System Was In 1956' (promarket.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I for one, love my Chrome browser and gmail.

    Winston Smith loved Big Brother by the end of the book, too.

    A few months ago Google stopped letting me use pop.google.com for two Gmail accounts at once with my Sylpheed email client. I can still log onto the google.com web portal to read the mail on the second account.

    At that point in time I decided Google was being too controlling. I actively went out to find a robust commercial email provider who would charge me a few dollars a month for unencumbered and non-data mined email service. There are such providers out there, and it's worth it.

  8. Re: What's stopping the competition? on 'Google Is As Close To a Natural Monopoly As the Bell System Was In 1956' (promarket.org) · · Score: 1

    Your best friend doesn't write it down. There isn't a looming possibility at any time that somebody will 'take over' your best friend and now have everything personal you told him.

  9. Re:How's that for gratitude on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    After all it was Comey who got him elected.

    Actually, it was Hillary who got him elected.

    But let's pretend she was the best possible candidate the Democrats could have come up with.

    Oh, and let's go to the speech Chelsea is giving!!!

  10. Re:OMFG u have got to be kidding on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Nice 'View for the Progressive Community' website there.

    You couldn't find a Mother Jones article to link to instead??

  11. Re:OMFG u have got to be kidding on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are living in a fantasy world if you think Trump is worried about what will be revealed in an investigation of 'his ties' to Russia.

    That's the really freaky thing about how the left is treating the whole Trump/Russia deal. They're huffing on their own fumes. An investigation isn't going to find anything wrong that Trump did.

    Talk about a Democratic version of the Benghazi deal.

  12. Re:OMFG u have got to be kidding on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a stupid comparison. Both Assange and Snowden are more credible than anybody holding office in Washington DC.

    Why counterpoise the two of them in anyway or fashion?

  13. Re: How gullible are you? on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a severe leaking problem in the FBI right now. Perhaps firing Comey is part of an effort to flush out the leakers and re-establish the FBI as a law enforcement agency, and not a political truncheon.

  14. Re:How gullible are you? on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just like we needed an independent investigation into Whitewater, and Benghazi.

    Remember, also: "Better Dead than Red."

    filthy ignorant red baiters.

  15. Re:Ridiculous! So overpriced on Apple Becomes First US Company To Top $800 Billion Value (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It is really tiresome that Apple is measured on the value of their stock on Slashdot. This used to be a nerd site. Not a stock speculator's rally.

  16. Re:Kapersky? Most respected cybersecurity firms? on Officials Fear Russia Could Try To Target United States Through Kaspersky AV (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Tinfoil is damned expensive these daysl. You have to order it from scientific or industrial supply houses. All the consumer level stuff is aluminum now.

    The meme needs an update.

  17. Re:"Officials" not "People with a clue" on Officials Fear Russia Could Try To Target United States Through Kaspersky AV (go.com) · · Score: 1

    "In Soviet Russia, big prop reset button threatens you!"

  18. "It's malware we paid for with our taxes! By golly it must be good!"

  19. Re:RMS is right about *some* things on How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman (psychologytoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you have such a boner* about Stallman? Really, can you explain yourself?

    (* we know you're not an XX chromosome female, don't even try to pretend, dude. There's a lot of hot pumped testosterone motivating the way you play your comments here)

  20. Re:The reasonable man on How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman (psychologytoday.com) · · Score: 0

    George Bernard Shaw also said "Better to keep yourself clean and bright." Stallman fails on that first one.

    Only in the sense that 'clean' would be defined in a Lysol commercial. I am fairly certain if we were to investigate, we would find that Stallman lives a 'cleaner' lifestyle than the average 'antiseptic' suburbanite who works at an office, showers every day with soaps made in a modern chemical plant, etc.

    There is another sense of 'cleanness' that has to do with your diet, how you life your life without being awash with industrial chemicals, not flushing off all the symbiotic organisms that live on and within us and have evolved that way to keep us healthy.

    So go blow dry your hair and flush your mouth out with colgate, fucker.

  21. Re:GNU/Linux is factually incorrect branding on How Psychology Today Sees Richard Stallman (psychologytoday.com) · · Score: 1

    GNU software, running on the Linux kernel. Which is licensed with the GNU Public License.

    Weird, huh?

  22. That's like saying 'gib gib gib let me pull you into my detailed minutiae of issues and concerns because you're anti-gay unless you meet these bullet points.'

  23. Why are you sharing your porn collection with all of us here? Can't you jack off in privacy?

  24. Re:Who buys this crap? on The Apple Watch Outsold Every Other Wearable Last Quarter (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, these gadgets are advertised as useful for health monitoring, including the time when you are asleep.

  25. Apple has 1/4 of a trillion dollars tied up in offshore assets they cannot bring into the US to invest and/or use in their defense.

    That sounds like a ripe opportunity for somebody with deep pockets to take them over.