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  1. Re:I could care less on 'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is likely the origin - specifically, NY Jewish culture. There are several similar sarcastic phrases (e.g. "I should be so lucky") in use.

  2. Re:Windows on a chip on Ask Slashdot: Can Linux Run a GPU-Computing Application Written For Windows? · · Score: 1

    I can see why they might have renamed that.

  3. Even then, one repeating alert() box kept you from closing the browser window.

  4. Re:It's taken... how many decades? on Google Plans To Alter JavaScript Popups After Abuse From Tech Support Scammers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy for them when their entire UI is XUL and basically just HTML/JS already.

  5. On really short pages (3 or 4 comments), you can't even scroll to the bottom of the page - the ad js forces you back up. You can't read the last comment on the page without disabling JS.

  6. Badly coded legacy sites.

    These are not popups as you traditionally know them - these are like the Javascript alert() and prompt()

  7. Re:Yeah, well on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Then it has crappy speakers built-in.

    I don't want a TV on my desk. The difference in color fidelity alone is reason enough - not a lot of IPS TV's out there with a decent gamut. It's much cheaper to get a decent mid-size monitor and a set of speakers to plug into my computer's audio jack.

  8. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why aren't you accelerating beyond a crawl?

  9. Re:Yeah, well on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Any monitor DAC I've dealt with won't even output decent stereo to a set of speakers. Just sounds terrible.

  10. Re:Does it account for greedy homeowners? on New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    publicly funded streets

    Funded and built for a certain capacity and maintenance schedule. Side streets are not built for heavy traffic flow and they require more frequent maintenance if they are used that way. It's not just a homeowner issue - it's a city planning and infrastructure issue.

  11. Re:Don't blame a filesystem for your lack of backu on Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The non-analogy type.

  12. Re:Don't blame a filesystem for your lack of backu on Apple is Upgrading Millions of iOS Devices To a New Modern File System Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if you don't lose data, you still lose uptime. Backups are only one layer.

  13. Or Hawaii. Make defense expensive.

  14. This is actually why there was never a Fawlty Towers series in the US. Creator said no to more episodes.

  15. One thing you can do with literal money is exchange it for other currencies.

  16. A lot better than your chance of winning.

  17. Re:Difference with other OS-providers? on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1

    In all cases, it is supposedly better to do it in order to increase security, being supported etc.

    In Windows 7's case, it's still supported with security updates until 2020. A Windows 10 upgrade is not required in order to be eligible.

  18. Re:No sympathy for Microsoft here on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1

    2) Shutdown means shutdown, not hibernate.

    Except you're wrong. It unloads the user profile but then hibernates the rest of the RAM to disk - because it was determined to be faster to load one big RAM image than to load individual drivers one-by-one from an HDD.

  19. It is very possible that EFI went corrupt after an upgrade. I tried to recover the system and ended up losing all my data. Also, I could not reinstall Windows 7 or 10 ever again. My laptop is effectively bricked.

    Did you not have a small enough hard drive that you could re-partition your drive as MBR instead of GPT and use legacy boot instead of EFI?

  20. Re:You don't want this to upgrade on Class Action Lawsuit Launched Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrades (courthousenews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't see a lot of crucial OS-level improvements since 95 came out

    Really? You don't even want the NT kernel? Win95 was fast, but it was far from stable.

  21. Well maybe Geek Squad destroyed their data - which wouldn't have happened without the forced upgrade.

  22. Re:ChromeOS on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Or for that matter, saying "POSIX/Windows NT"

  23. Re:Yeah, well on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Your video card can output higher quality audio than your "fancy" audio card can, really.

    Doesn't matter if that stream goes to the junk DAC in your monitor.

  24. Re:Kills all old cells...eventually kills all cell on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Right. More forced replication, faster depletion of stem cells.

  25. Re:Kills all old cells...eventually kills all cell on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Killing off those cells early would bring you closer - but just make you feel better while it happens.