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  1. Re:Lazy reporting on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It means the husband is stuck cleaning out the litter box, I would presume.

  2. Re:All you need to know if you own a cat on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And cat owners get dogs to clean up the cat puke.

    Seriously, they do a really good job of it.

  3. Re:Other way? on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We have seven cats. It's a good number. They have their whole social order arranged, and our responsibility is simply to watch.

  4. It's special paper, but since every cash register, everywhere, uses it, it's cheap and commonly available. Those narrow 'Point of sale' printers are pretty cheap, too.

    That's how things work out when it's technology that, I repeat, is used on every cash register everywhere.

  5. Re:Apple once again late with a product on Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not inferior, but perhaps a modern equivalent to the Spruce Goose.

  6. Nader stuck to his principles and opposed who he saw as a candidate who was really no better or worse than the Republican opponent.

    Assange stuck to his principles and opposed who he saw as an candidate who was really no better or worse than the Republican opponent.

    It's so disappointing that the 'Third Way' moderates took over and have now essentially destroyed the traditional Democratic party.

    The traditional Left should jettison the modern Democratic party. Bernie could be a part of that but he's very old and something fresh is needed.

  7. Re:The irony of the vulnerability... on Russian Cyberspies Blamed For US Election Hacks Are Now Targeting Macs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that edit.com is an integral part of MS-DOS. Furthermore, KDE is an integral part of Linux??

    No. Apple just pulled in some userland stuff from FreeBSD because the hoary old userland on NeXTStep was beyond being redeemable.

    Have you ever run Darwin by itself? I booted up and installed a darwin ISO years ago when it seemed like it might have been viable. Apple killed it off because it was too independent and might become viable. If NetBSD's pkgsrc collection had been ported to it, it would have been a pretty complete system. Without the greasepaint that Apple smears on it to make it OSX.

  8. Well, that depends on how you interpret it.

    The German agency could be ordering people to destroy the doll because they are 'protecting' the child from her parents.

    The parents are likely in all cases completely innocent, but that doesn't preclude a Government Agency from assuming the worst and prosecuting the parents.

  9. Re:I see why I've never heard of it on Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's layers-deep ironic irony? Isn't that sort of ironic?

  10. Re:Never heard of it... on Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on whether the comics-every-single-day are worth viewing, or just tedious.

    I've never heard of Schlock Mercenary before.

    I know what schlock is.

    Why not provide a link so we can see what sort of daily strip is provided?

  11. Re:broke on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 1

    Run a 32bit XP in a Virtual Machine, using VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems (Oracle owns it now).

    For the graphical quality that MAME games require, VirtualBox should provide the graphics quality needed. It isn't very accelerated for 'modern' XP era games.

  12. Our Digital Heritage on MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary (mame.net) · · Score: 1

    I can see the point in preserving and restoring games that people wax nostalgic about.

    But is a game that Atari never released an actual part of 'our digital heritage'?? It sounds like a footnote that nobody, ever, anywhere, would remember.

    Which is cool and all, but it's definitely not part of our digital heritage. Because it never saw the light of day.

  13. That's weird, if they can't even manage enabling left handed players. I suspect there are adaptations.

    I have encountered plenty of games, however, which have WASD hard-coded and unchangable. Games I generally only play for a few minutes.

  14. Re: How bright are these new screens? on System76 Refreshes Ubuntu Linux Laptops With Intel Kaby Lake, NVIDIA GTX 10 Series, and 4K (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you're posing.

    Here's your Mac, then!

  15. You apparently need to understand that 'creative professionals' almost exclusively use Macs.

    Except Adobe now treats Mac like the secondary platform.

    And a lot of 'creative professionals' don't work on computers at all, except for regular use of what is convenient for them.

    The whole 'Apple Creative Professional' thing is about ten years stale at this point. People are bound to cling to it as part of their identity, of course.

  16. What do you use a keyboard for?

    Seriously? There are voice interfaces, you know.

  17. Re:Wait... on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    I miss the good old days when people understood that 'government' is not just a formality entity. The Big Media is a form of government itself. It ceased being 'private property' when the big media conglomerates became publicly held corporations.

    So quit with your quaint and ignorant point-of-view that only the statutory government can censor.

  18. Re:Overused on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    He taught you to hate fascism so rigorously that you've become something of a fascist yourself about it.

    Gads, I hope he has passed on so there is no chance he could see what a fuck you are here on Slashdot.

  19. Re: Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    At Nuremberg people were put on trial for actively participating in atrocities and war crimes.

    What. The. Fuck.

    Are you that dense??

  20. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    The interesting bit is that Bezos owns the Wall Street Journal.

    So this is sort of an Amazon/Google/Disney deal.

  21. Weighted crowbars with hooks are inexpensive, and they rip the daylights out of a modern 'collision safe' car. Every pedestrian should carry a 'walking stick' that doubles as one.

  22. Re:What do you know the invisible hand acts on Utilities Vote To Close Largest Coal Plant In Western US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The world still hasn't gotten rid of slavery. It may never.

  23. Re:Bullshit on Apple Explains Why Its R&D Spending Is On the Rise (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And it will run anything you can find in the App Store.

    Whee! Does it have Angry Birds?!?

  24. Re: making thinner and more apple only service tak on Apple Explains Why Its R&D Spending Is On the Rise (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The entirety of Apples hundred billion dollar success is down to producing gadgets for consumers. And, as you seem to insist, upon abandoning the 'Pro' market. Even though Apple forces 'pros' to use their platform to create content for their gadgets.

    Now, when Apple chooses to open up and allow their iOS development tools to run on Linux or Windows machines, it won't be a problem. As it is, they're sorta shooting themselves in the foot as far as developer support.

  25. Re: Simple Answer on Apple Explains Why Its R&D Spending Is On the Rise (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They tweak the ARM design. Lots of companies tweak their own designs.