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  1. Re:So they are going Me Too to Comcast ? on Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Question four is whether they will sell their 'service' to people who do not have any Apple hardware. If not, the hell with them.

  2. Re:How to not get flooded on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The water has a nice way of obliging them.

  3. Re: Historic? on Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Wars collectables nationwide are saying 'Oh no! Oh no!' in their basement display cases as owners ignore them and continue to frequent Marvel movies.

  4. There isn't even a Windows installer for Safari anymore, let alone one for most of the mobile devices out there.

  5. Re:Connecting with Enthusiasts? on HardOCP Is Getting 'Mothballed' As Kyle Bennett Accepts Job At Intel (hardocp.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You said AMD in the Intel story.

    Drink!

  6. Re:People will freak out if they do on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Whoops. I guess you can play that MMO with... the people in your town.

  7. Re:Why the fuck would I even want this? on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Be careful. He might get dangerous now that you've challenged his acronyms.

  8. Re:Why the fuck would I even want this? on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily 'ads.' Google is probably thinking beyond that. Now, 'suggestive content.' That sounds scientificky and all that stuff.

  9. Re:Bandwidth on Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players · · Score: 1

    The music is all synth pop. It's entirely artificial to begin with, so the compression doesn't really affect it very much. Nobody listens to solo piano music at 96k.

  10. Re:Vote with feet on Is It Time For Apple To Acknowledge Flexgate? (macobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    But I thought Apple products had longer resale value. Like, because they last long and there is little or no unrepairable attrition.

  11. Re: No. They got at least another two years. on Is It Time For Apple To Acknowledge Flexgate? (macobserver.com) · · Score: 2

    Explain it to us. Companies sell insurance but they do it at a lost because it benefits the consumer, who always comes out ahead.

    Really?

    Really??

  12. Stallman and his friends refused to put passwords on their accounts.

  13. Re:How can you trust anyone... on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a new hobby. Your trolls are mediocre.

  14. Re:Traitors on House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The training wheels just fell off your troll chariot, dude.

  15. Shouldn't Slashdot Denizens Be Cheering? on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a mecca of open and free scientific documents.

  16. Re:Who is the bad guy here? on Uber Used Secret Spyware To Try To Crush Australian Startup GoCatch (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I am definitely more of a Vikings fan.

  17. I drive to my bank and talk to a teller.

    When I want to carry a lot of content around, I can use a little wallet of microSD cards if I wish.

    Have fun with your eyeCloud. You're safe, Apple is watching and will protect.

  18. Re: In before... on US Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Security? You think it will be connected to the open Internet?

  19. Does anybody even bother to read this crapflooding? It's just noise, to route around like dog feces on the sidewalk.

  20. Microsoft has always had security inside out. They began as a company intending to break the grip of the white-coated Computer Operators of old. Computers for everyone, no central control. Power for whomever has the hardware on their desk. This was liberating and made the surly old guard of Computer Operators upset.

    Microsoft extended their influence with their open design philosophy that any software written for their system should continue to work on later versions of their system. This sort of open design necessarily has to be permissive and let any old executable run.

    It has become a problem in the era of always connected systems. But it's really distorted historical revisionism to act like openness is a purely Microsoft 'problem.' The early UNIX hacker's culture also embraced this openness. Stallman and the early GNU hackers refused to put passwords on their accounts at MIT. Unix security in the early days was a running joke to anybody who knew.

    Still, smugness is rewarding as long as the delusion can be maintained and history ignored. Carry on.

  21. Re: Permission bits explained on Google, Microsoft Work Together For a Year To Figure Out New Type of Windows Flaw (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Tootsie rolls are all soft core. You meant to describe a Tootsie Pop, with a hard sugar-candy sucker shell over a Tootsie Roll center.

  22. Re:You're a moron Huxster on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Obviously it confuses you. So that's one who doesn't.

  23. Re: Live by the bitcoin, die by the bitcoin on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They are experts on unleashing, not defeating, ransoms.

    And that assumes they are even experts, and not script kiddies.

  24. Re:killstarter? on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I think more positive proofs can be provided, in the form of DNA samples from the grease spot where the former ransomware distributor was standing.

  25. Re: SubjectsSuck on Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a good amount of expensive that comes into effect. There a lot of people who I need to call when I have repaired the equipment they sent in. I need to communicate that their equipment is fixed and arrange payment and get it back to them. Many of them no longer answer a call from a number they don't recognize. So there is telephone tag which wastes a lot of time. It delays them getting back their equipment and my company getting paid for the repair.

    We are approaching the point where everybody refuses to answer the telephone.