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  1. Re:Well,it's too late! on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong zero. It's still -29 days until the Zeroth of July

  2. Re:Can we delete "webinar"? on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    P.S. How do you pronounce RAM?

  3. Re:Can we delete "webinar"? on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a GUI not a gooey.

    A lot of early computer stuff, and especially early Internet were done by military, and they live pronouncing their acronyms - to the point that most people don't even know they are acronyms (see snafu and the origin of the brand name Jeep).

    Besides, how do you efficiently speak about acronymed things otherwise?

  4. Which internet? on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nobody talks about any other internet when they say Internet. It's a proper place name just as much as Asia.

  5. and actually knows how to use things like Twitter.

    Are you sure? He may have people for that, but I don't think it's been proven that Trump knows how to use a computer at all.

  6. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Most McDonald's restaurants are owned by franchisees. That's not their problem.

  7. Re:Nobody likes it when you round on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's CMYK. Then it might be 8 intensities for Black and 16 intensities for each color component.

  8. Re:Arduino! on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You could also install listening software on the Kindle itself with some custom firmware. That sounds a lot easier, honestly, aside from having to have a USB cable sticking out of it.

  9. Re: Number of accounts matters as well on Elderly Use More Secure Passwords Than Millennials, Says Report (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So....starting with A, B, C, D, or E?

  10. Re:Is this really healthy? on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's an odd twist. It's true that doctors blame everything on weight if you're overweight. No chance for an accurate diagnosis when there's low-hanging fruit to jump at. But that's another thing entirely from avoiding a doctor who might suggest there's some benefit and that there are fewer health problems with being lighter.

  11. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook really shouldn't be in the business of curating advertisements.

    Yes, they should. No advertising network should openly accept scams, for example.

  12. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for saving me the time of posting this.

    And I think it's because when you gain weight, you produce new fat cells. But when you lose weight, those fat cells empty out - but they are still there trying to store fat. Getting the proper metabolism back for your size depends a lot on how long you've been overweight.

  13. Re:Great. How about a matte display? on Apple To Launch Thinner, Lighter MacBook Pro Models With OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID In Fall (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy stick-on anti-glare covers for most mac screens. Chances are, though, that a new screen would be bright enough to outweigh the bad. Or get yourself some polarizing glasses to use with it.

  14. And now I realized I didn't capitalize (implodes in a rage of pedantry)

  15. If you're going to be pedantic, get it right - gibibit

  16. Re:Node JS is the new PHP, the new PHP is actually on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    You don't implement error-handling and then you blame PHP?

  17. Re:From the original article on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    Drupal and WP are both not examples of PHP being ahead of the game. Those are examples of bloat and inefficient code taken to an extreme.

  18. Re:The real question on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    I implemented b2 a while before Wordpress was well-known (or maybe even created) and it wasn't too bad. Wordpress bloated so fast that it was almost unrecognizable as based on b2 except for a few database tables with the same name.

  19. Re:Have you migrated to qbasic? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    And nobody even tried using XMLHttpRequest for anything non-XML until a while later (because who wants to parse XML client-side?). It never made sense that it was a generic caller, but had XML in the name, which is one thing that scared off a lot of would-be early adopters. It still didn't matter too much until it was supported outside of IE.

  20. And then I saw in another comment that this is a Konami game, so a lot less likely.

  21. Re:Truly Epically Dumb to Destroy It on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    US Government has over 300 million smallpox vaccines in its current stockpile, all of which were purchased after 2001.

  22. Turns out it was a Konami game anyway - I didn't look close enough.

  23. Re:No different than Disney on Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And then waiting 75 years, and turning them into a live action movie and trying to use that to renew the copyright on everything.

  24. So, it's entirely possible that Konami gave permission to Family Guy and/or Konami got the clip taken down.

    Since a gameplay video is a derivative work, it's not purely Konami's property. They might be able to issue a takedown, but they can't give Family Guy permission to use the clip as they don't own the entire copyright.

  25. If everyone hosted their own content from their own systems we wouldn't have these problems

    Yes and no. They'll either issue the DMCA notice to the hosting company or your ISP if you run your server directly. And then your whole web site goes offline.

    It's true that it's harder to scan the entire Internet vs. a monolithic video hosting service. But that's not a fundamental difference.